New journals from Springer.To be launched in March, "Review of Management Science" is designed to be a forum for innovative research from all scientific areas of business administration. The scope of the new journal encompasses, but is not limited to, accounting, banking, business strategy, corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. , entrepreneurship, financial structure and capital markets, health economics, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. management, information systems, insurance, marketing, organization, production and logistics, risk management and taxation. It will be published quarterly and an annual subscription costs $277. "Sytems and Synthetic Biology Synthetic biology has long been used to describe an approach to biology that attempts to integrate different areas of research in order to create a more holistic understanding of life. ," also to be published quarterly, is a new biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. journal that covers the collective behavior of biological interactions, with information on the connection between molecular topography and physiological responses. The field of synthetic biology combines knowledge from various disciplines, including molecular biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller , engineering, mathematics, and physics. The field's goal, and the editorial content of the journal, is to improve the understanding of natural phenomena as well as the predictability and reliability of complex cell behavior. An annual subscription costs $545. "Criminal law & Philosophy" is designed to bring together the work covering the philosophical aspects of criminal law and its connections to other subjects. Content is "eclectically inclusive" in the topics covered, Springer said, with discussion of any issue in the fields of crime, criminal law and punishment, including substantive criminal law, punishment and sentencing, penal and political punishment theories, capital punishment capital punishment, imposition of a penalty of death by the state. History Capital punishment was widely applied in ancient times; it can be found (c.1750 B.C.) in the Code of Hammurabi. , criminal justice policy, trials, alternative ways of responding to crime, the relationship between national and international criminal law, and informal responses to crime. Published quarterly, an annual subscription costs $389. |
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