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This international journal is dedicated to the rapid publication of high quality papers on the important subjects of wear and friction, together with papers on closely related aspects of lubrication, contact phenomena or surface characterization.The scope includes all aspects of physics, chemistry, materials science and mechanical engineering which relate directly to the subjects of wear and friction; papers may approach the subject from a fundamental or technological viewpoint.Thorough refereeing of all papers, in accordance with normal procedures for international journals in science and engineering, and with a specific focus on the novelty and signficance of the work presented, ensures that Wear is an international forum of high quality for multidisciplinary communications on topics which include:• The fundamental understanding of wear and frictional phenomena, including nanometre and atomic scale aspects of tribology;• Interactions between chemical processes (e.g. corrosion) and wear, and chemical aspects of lubrication (e.g. boundary lubrication);• Design and materials selection for the control of wear and friction;• Tribology of natural biological and artificial implanted materials;• Contact phenomena in the context of friction and wear;• New materials and their tribological behaviour;• Wear and friction in cutting and forming processes;• Lubricants and mechanisms of lubrication in the context of wear and friction control;• Topics in surface physics and chemistry related to wear and friction.The following types of manuscripts on all topics within the scope of the journal are welcomed:• Full-length papers containing original research work.• Short Communications giving a complete description of a limited investigation.• Reviews (with the prior approval of the Editor-in-Chief).

Weather and Climate Extremes provides academics, decision makers, international development agencies, nongovernmental organizations and civil society with publications on different aspects of research in weather and climate extremes, monitoring and early warning systems, assessment of vulnerability and impacts, developing and implementing intervention policies, effective risk management and adaptation practices to address local and regional needs and circumstances, engagement of local communities in the adoption of these practices to cope with extremes, and information and communication strategies. The journal encourages the submission of original research papers, comprehensive review articles, and short communications which address the following:Weather and Climate Extremes•Types of extremes •Quality and quantity of data and data analysis •Frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and timing of extreme events •Observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremesResearch Approaches•Atmospheric science (processes and modeling) •Short- and medium-range forecasts of weather extremes •Seasonal forecasts of climate extremes •Monitoring and early warning systems •Modelling impacts of weather and climate extremes •Statistical aspects of extremesVulnerability and Impacts of Weather and Climate Extremes•Natural physical environment •Human systems eg., coastal settlements, mountain settlements, urbanization etc., •Ecosystems •Temporal and spatial dynamics of exposure and vulnerability •Observed and projected impacts in different socio-economic sectorsManaging Weather and Climate Extremes•Traditional knowledge •Preparedness planning •Risk Management •Information and communication strategies •Policies and practices for adaptation to weather and climate extremes •Resilience to adverse impacts of extremes •Issues and opportunities at the local, national and international levels •Technological innovations and improved practices •Reducing societal vulnerability to weather and climate extremes •Case Studies

The primary aim of WOMAN is to help raise awareness of clinicians and other healthcare professionals, for example, midwives, nurses, and psychologists, and promote the integration of psychosomatic research into clinical practice in order to avoid reductionist approaches concentrating on purely somatic issues. The challenges faced by women in the 21st century require an innovative approach to health and disease taking both a biographical and a social dimension into account. Adequate psychosomatic therapy means personalised medicine.

This multidisciplinary journal serves as a link between clinical application and psychosomatic research in gynaecology and obstetrics. It also addresses a wide array of other medical disciplines related to women`s health and diseases, ranging from neuroscience to internal medicine.

WOMAN endeavours to provide a forum where clinicians and researchers, therapists and sociologists and other healthcare professionals can exchange views. Furthermore, it shall make creative scientific approaches a subject of discussion, extending from reproductive medicine to geriatrics, from pregnancy related issues to oncology, from operative gynaecology to psychology, from sexual medicine to gynaecological endocrinology, from epidemiology to ethics.

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Keywords: gynaecology, obstetrics, health and disease in women, psychosomatic research in gynaecology and obstetrics, psychosomatic therapy, women`s health and diseases, reproductive medicine, geriatrics, pregnancy related issues, oncology, operative gynaecology, psychology, sexual medicine, gynaecological endocrinology.

Women and Birth publishes on all matters that affect women and birth, from pre-conceptual counselling, through pregnancy, birth, and the first six weeks postnatal. All papers accepted will draw from and contribute to the relevant contemporary research, policy and/or theoretical literature. We seek research papers, quality assurances papers (with ethical approval) discussion papers, clinical practice papers, case studies and original literature reviews.Our women-centred focus is inclusive of the foetus and the newborn, both well and ill, and covers both normal and abnormal pregnancies and births. The journal seeks papers on midwifery practice, theory, research, education and leadership. Topics may include where appropriate neonatal nursing, child and family health, women's health and lactation consultancy. Papers from academics and health professionals from fields outside of midwifery are encouraged. We seek papers on reproductive physiology and neurophysiology where the links to the childbearing woman and her baby are made explicit. We also seek relevant papers on natural and complementary therapies, local, national and international policy, management, politics, economics, societal and cultural issues as they affect childbearing women and their families. Articles are double-blind peer-reviewed by experts in the field of the submitted work. The journal is indexed in PubMed, Index medicus (Medline), SCOPUS, and CINAHL.To purchase books on Midwifery or to browse our comprehensive range of Midwifery titles, please visit us at shop.elsevier.com.au.Shop.elsevier.com.au/Midwifery

Women's Health Issues (WHI) is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly, multidisciplinary journal that publishes research and review manuscripts related to women's health care and policy. As the official journal of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, it is dedicated to improving the health and health care of all women throughout the lifespan and in diverse communities. The journal seeks to inform health services researchers, health care and public health professionals, social scientists, policymakers, and others concerned with women's health.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

Women's Studies International Forum (formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly, established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate.The journal seeks to critique and reconceptualize existing knowledge, to examine and re-evaluate the manner in which knowledge is produced and distributed, and to assess the implications this has for women's lives.We seek contributions from people, individually or collectively, from different countries and different backgrounds, who are engaged in feminist research inside or outside formal educational institutions. We welcome a variety of approaches and resources through the whole range of disciplines: papers geared toward action-oriented research as well as those which address theoretical methodological issues; and we encourage historical reassessments of the lives and works of women. We urge all contributors both to acknowledge the cultural and social specifics of their particular approach, and to draw out these issues in their articles.We also invite conference reports and announcements, calls for papers, notices of new publications and reports, contacts, etc., sent in by individuals or groups in the international feminist community.

The World Allergy Organization Journal (WAO Journal) (www.WAOJournal.org) provides a dynamic platform for the exchange of perspectives and knowledge among researchers and practitioners from all regions of the world. It is the official publication of the highly regarded World Allergy Organization, the only global umbrella organization for national and regional allergology and clinical immunology societies. The WAO Journal offers readers information that is extending our understanding of pathogenesis and disease function, and new approaches for evaluation of allergic disease and outcomes concerning treatments and interventions. Encompassing both translational research and clinical issues, the WAO Journal is dedicated to providing compelling articles and up-to-date science for readers, and faster publication and worldwide recognition for contributors. Individual and In-Training subscribers receive fully searchable online access to articles from Volume 1 to the present at www.WAOJournal.org8212;now available on a powerful new website! This best-in-class website platform uses Web 2.0 functionality to provide an enhanced online experience through such features as: saved searches, personal article collections, easy image downloads to PowerPoint, and more.Individual subscribers: Please contact LWW Customer Service (1-800-638-3030) to order this online journal.Institutional subscribers: Online subscriptions are available via Ovid. For more information and to request pricing for an online journal subscription, please contact the Regional Ovid Sales Office closest to you.Members of current WAO Member Societies receive free access to the World Allergy Organization Journal. Go to www.WorldAllergy.org. Click Members Only then WAO Journal.

World Development is a multi-disciplinary monthly journal of development studies. It seeks to explore ways of improving standards of living, and the human condition generally, by examining potential solutions to problems such as: poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, disease, lack of shelter, environmental degradation, inadequate scientific and technological resources, trade and payments imbalances, international debt, gender and ethnic discrimination, militarism and civil conflict, and lack of popular participation in economic and political life.Contributions offer constructive ideas and analysis, and highlight the lessons to be learned from the experiences of different nations, societies, and economies. World Development recognizes 'development' as a process of change involving nations, economies, political alliances, institutions, groups, and individuals. Development processes occur in different ways and at all levels: inside the family, the firm and the farm; locally, provincially, nationally, and globally. Our goal is to learn from one another, regardless of nation, culture, income, academic discipline, profession or ideology. We hope to set a modest example of enduring global cooperation through maintaining an international dialogue and dismantling barriers to communication.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

World Development Perspectives is a multi-disciplinary journal of international development. It seeks to explore ways of improving human well-being by examining the performance and impact of interventions designed to address issues related to: poverty alleviation, public health and malnutrition, agricultural production, natural resource governance, globalization and transnational processes, technological progress, gender and social discrimination, and participation in economic and political life. Above all, we are particularly interested in the role of historical, legal, social, economic, political, biophysical, and/or ecological contexts in shaping development processes and outcomes.

We welcome contributions that offer constructive ideas and analysis, and highlight the lessons to be learned from the experiences of different nations, societies, and economies. World Development Perspectives recognizes 'development' as a process of change at and across multiple scales, involving a diverse range of actors at each scale. Keeping in mind this diversity, our objective is to build a rigorous understanding of the interactions between the relevant contextual factors and specific development interventions in explaining development outcomes. We aspire to create a forum that brings together development researchers, practitioners, and administrators from all domains, disciplines, and geographies.

World Neurosurgery is the Official Journal of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.The journal's mission is to:Create a principal international information conduit for establishing modernity of neurosurgical practice for the global community through contemporary and innovative journalistic communication technologies and channels.Serve as a forum for scientific, clinical, educational, social, cultural, economic, and political ideas and issues for global neurosurgery.Act as a primary intellectual catalyst for the field.Enhance and move toward complete global communication related to all aspects of current and future neurosurgical practice, research, and progress.Topics to be addressed in World Neurosurgery include: education, economics, research, politics, culture, clinical science, laboratory, science, sociology, technology and operative techniques.

The aim of World Patent Information is to provide a worldwide forum for the exchange of information between people working professionally in the field of Industrial Property information and documentation and to promote the widest possible use of the associated literature.Regular features include: papers concerned with all aspects of Industrial Property information and documentation; new regulations pertinent to Industrial Property information and documentation; short reports on relevant meetings and conferences; bibliographies, together with book and literature reviews.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.comIn 2002, Elsevier launched Library Connect, a new initiative bringing together many of Elsevier's library-focused efforts. For more information about this initiative and to read or subscribe to the complimentary Library Connect Newsletter, please visit Library Connect

This unique international technical magazine is devoted to the selection, application, installation and maintenance of pumps and pumping machinery, components and ancillary equipment. The journal provides purchasers and users of pumps, seals, valves and motors with an authoritative source of practical and technical information.World Pumps includes feature articles from pump users and manufacturers, news of product developments and applications, case studies of pumping problems, business news and financial reports, exhibition coverage, annual directories of worldwide pump and seal manufacturers, monthly product finder service.

Wound Medicine is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and cross-professional journal focusing on clinical, scientific and health economics aspects in the prevention, management and reimbursement in wound care. The journal aims to meet the information need of wound care specialists and service providers by publishing papers on clinical service modeling, service delivery modeling and financial modeling for different reimbursement systems. Submissions are encouraged from leading international experts including those who have a keen interest in wound care management from a health economics perspective, and those involved directly in the care of patients with wounds. In addition, submissions are welcome which advance the translation of science into clinical practice/application to improve outcomes and the patient experience with an emphasis on both health improvement and economic benefits.Topics covered will also include clinical research and its impact on the treatment of wounds. This will facilitate the development of standards and enhancement of guidelines and enable further modification of practice benefiting health care professionals in and beyond Europe as well as the development of international consensus findings.Topics published include:Wound Management:Tools for daily practiceEarly interventionDressingsCare pathwaysOngoing research and developmentService Delivery Modeling:TelemedicineDisease Management CentersManagement and optimum organizational structure to maximize changes in practiceFinancial Modeling:Reimbursement modeling accommodating scientific developments and advances in technologyOptimal validated care pathway based reimbursementEducation in Wound Management:Competencies based self-learningIndustry partnership-based education and trainingWound Medicine accepts the following article types:Original research papersReview articlesSelected conference papersWound Medicine aims to:Advance the translation of science into the clinical practice to improve the patient experience.Put emphasis on both health improvement and economic benefits.Facilitate the development of standards and enhancement of guidelines benefitting health care professionals in and beyond Europe.Function as a strong instrument for interdisciplinary and cross-professional cooperation welcoming submissions from affiliated clinical fields.An international editorial board and reviewers guarantee a timely quality review of your paper within four to six weeks after submission.

This annual covers all aspects of hand surgery by presenting material published throughout the year from journals around the world. Coverage includes

• skeletal trauma and reconstructive techniques
• soft tissue trauma, reconstruction and flap coverage
• ligament and tendon reconstruction
• vascular injury and microsurgery

The Year Book of Hand and Upper Limb Surgery is published annually in September.