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Furniture manufacturers in the United States are major users of a variety of wood products. In the last two decades, traditional wood products, such as hardwood lumber, veneer, and plywood have been, in part, replaced by composite panel products, such as particleboard, hardboard, and medium-density fiberboard. This paper examines the uses of traditional and composite wood products by the wood household, upholstered household, and commercial furniture industries in descriptive and numerical terms. The analysis indicates that the substitution of composite products for traditional hardwood products has subsided in recent years in the household wood furniture industry but has continued in the commercial furniture industry. Strong growth in softwood lumber use has occurred in the household wood industry and the household upholstered furniture industry but not in the commercial furniture industry. Although hardwood lumber has been displaced by softwood-based composite panel products, greater relative decreases have occurred in hardwood veneer and veneer core plywood use because of composite panel substitution. Most recent market activities, however, indicate increased use of hardwood lumber in furniture production in the 1980s. South. J. Appl. For. 12(2):102-107.

The European Journal of Mineralogy (EJM) is owned by four European learning Societies (DMG, SEM, SFMC and SIMP). The journal, published under a commercial publisher, used the open access hybrid model. Early 2018, it was decided to move to full open access. In this talk, we discuss the transformation challenges and its impact. It took us two years to fully complete this transformation. Since 2020, the journal is published as gold open access by a reputable open access publisher offering very moderate APCs. The quality and attractiveness of the journal has improved considerably, namely: wider dissemination, reduction of the processing time for publication, reduction of the cost of production by more than 50%. Notwithstanding, the first nine months of 2020, the number of submissions decreased compared to previous years, but we are now back to the same submission rate as before. It means that the implementation of APCs, which was new for many authors, has only marginally affected the attractiveness of the journal. Nevertheless, in order to help authors adjusting, the current APCs rates are still below the real cost of production. The nominal cost will be reached only in a few years. The learning societies have also launched APCs waiver programs to help authors who have difficulties to pay full rates. The open access revolution of EJM is work in progress. We still have to transform the past hybrid volumes into open access formats. This will be implemented as soon as APCs generated funds fully cover the running cost of the journal. Once all EJM volumes are in open access, the cost of a paper published in EJM will be fully transparent to authors, institutions and tax payers. It will correspond exactly to the APCs paid. It was never the case in the previous hybrid system. This is a major achievement thanks to gold open access.

Historicamente, os periódicos eram editados e estavam sob a tutela, principalmente, de instituições acadêmicas e/ou científicas. Mais recentemente, editoras comerciais passaram a assumir esta atribuição, gerando custos adicionais à ciência, inclusive para se ter acesso às produções. A fim de romper com esta lógica surge, nos anos 2000, o Movimento de Acesso Aberto, que estimulou a criação de periódicos científicos de acesso aberto. Passadas quase duas décadas, o número de periódicos neste formato ultrapassa nove mil títulos, segundo o DOAJ. Considerando o papel deste tipo de periódico para a divulgação da pesquisa, o objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar se pesquisadores bolsistas de produtividade 1A do CNPq utilizam os periódicos de acesso aberto como estratégia para divulgar suas pesquisas. A análise de todos os artigos em periódicos, cadastrados na Plataforma Lattes, deste grupo seleto de pesquisadores revelou que parte significativa e crescente da produção do grupo está em periódicos de acesso aberto, sinalizando que uma fração destes notáveis atribui valor simbólico às publicações em periódicos de acesso aberto.

Since the first issue in June 2018, the journal has had steady, substantial, and transformative growth. With the completion of Volume 3, Issue 1, the journal has now published 33 articles, involving 49 different scholars affiliated with 10 different universities. We have published innovative manuscripts, such as reflective essays, community engagement portfolios, and professional profiles, as well as standard empirical articles. In addition, we have made the manuscripts available in an open access format on our website, and through the continued and gracious sponsorship of Grand Canyon University, we have published more than 50 print copies for each issue.

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A laboratory sequence is described that is suitable for upper-level biochemistry or molecular biology laboratories that combines project-based and traditional laboratory experiments. In the project-based sequence, the individual laboratory experiments are thematically linked and aim to show how a bacterial antibiotic sensing noncoding RNA (the ykkCD riboswitch) recognizes its target antibiotic, tetracycline. The novelty of the curriculum lies in its extensive coverage of bioinformatics as well as its focus on synthesis, purification, and functional studies of a biologically active RNA. Further advantage of the curriculum is that the model system, the ykkCD riboswitch, regulates expression of a gene that is involved in bacterial antibiotic resistance. Hence, the project makes this important issue part of the undergraduate biochemistry curriculum. The curriculum is available in Open Access format as part of a biochemistry laboratory manual by Gerczei and Pattison. This manuscript summarizes the curriculum and provides suggestions to the instructor regarding its implementation.

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One of the most pressing and timely scientific questions concerns the evolution of man. In 1970, Karl Pribram delivered the James Arthur Lecture at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His lecture, "What Makes Man Human," was one of the most eloquent and brilliant syntheses of this problem ever made. The Journal is proud to publish this Lecture for the first time in an open access format that will make its insights available widely to a new generation of students and investigators. Accompanying the lecture is a new commentary written by Prof. Pribram, and four additional commentaries from prominent investigators who were invited to consider the question from their own perspectives. Together, these articles provide a scholarly, yet accessible, snapshot of different approaches to the study of human evolution in 2006.

The demand for reproducible research is on the rise in disciplines concerned with data analysis and computational methods. Therefore, we reviewed current recommendations for reproducible research and translated them into criteria for assessing the reproducibility of articles in the field of geographic information science (GIScience). Using this criteria, we assessed a sample of GIScience studies from the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) conference series, and we collected feedback about the assessment from the study authors. Results from the author feedback indicate that although authors support the concept of performing reproducible research, the incentives for doing this in practice are too small. Therefore, we propose concrete actions for individual researchers and the GIScience conference series to improve transparency and reproducibility. For example, to support researchers in producing reproducible work, the GIScience conference series could offer awards and paper badges, provide author guidelines for computational research, and publish articles in Open Access formats.

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Bilgi, kamu örgütleri açısından gerçekten önemli midir? Kamu yöneticilerinin tamamına yakını bu soruya evet yanıtını verecektir. Lakin etkin ve verimli bir biçimde kullanılan yazılı kurumsal hafızaya sahip bir kamu kurumu görebilmek neredeyse imkansız. Bu araştırma kapsamında Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu'nda (TÜİK) yürütülen vaka çalışmasında da tespit edildiği üzere; kamu kurumlarında üst yönetici desteği ve uygun bilgi ve iletişim teknolojileri araçları sağlansa dahi sanal ortamda çalışan etkin ve verimli bir Çevrimiçi Örtük Bilgi Paylaşım (ÇÖBP) sistemi tesis edilebilmesi mümkün olamayabilmektedir. Her ne kadar örgütsel ÇÖBP stratejileri büyük oranda üst yöneticiler tarafından şekillendirilse dahi, bu stratejilerin başarıya ulaşması esas itibari ile çalışanların ÇÖBP davranışlarına bağlıdır.Nitel araştırma yöntemleri kullanılarak TÜİK'de yürütülen bu araştırmada sadece kurum üst yöneticileri değil aynı zamanda yönetici pozisyonunda olmayan 50 çalışandan da sırası ile derinlemesine mülakat ve yarı yapılandırılmış mülakat yöntemi ile veri toplanmıştır. Araştırma bulgularına göre TÜİK ÇÖBP platformu ağırlıklı olarak genç ve yüksek eğitimli kamu görevlilerince kullanılmıştır. Diğer yandan TÜİK'te ÇÖBP etkileyen toplam on altı faktör tespit edilmiştir. Bu faktörlerin dokuz tanesi hem yönetici hem de çalışanlar tarafından farklı derecelerde önemli olarak nitelendirilmiştir. Araştırma bulguları ayrıca ÇÖBP başarısı hususunda yöneticilerin çalışanları, çalışanların ise yöneticileri daha fazla sorumluluk sahibi olarak gördüklerine işaret etmektedir. Bu araştırma, Türk kamu sektöründe ÇÖBP faktörlerinin yönetici ve çalışan bakış açılarından ayrı ayrı aydınlatıldığı ilk çalışmalardan birisi olması hasebi ile önem arz etmektedir.

This book is one of three bibliographies self-published in print format under a Creative Commons license. The scheme here is the same as one of Bailey's other works that was previously reviewed, Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access 1. As outlined in the previous review, Bailey compiles bibliographies on various aspects of scholarly publishing in the digital age, publishes them in open-access format on his website, and offers print versions of the bibliographies at a reasonable price. Bibliographies do not make good reading: what readers really want is to have an anthology and to read those sections of most interest. While anthologies are constrained by copyright permission and cost, bibliographies have their own genius, and Bailey's related genius is in working in an area of librarianship that is mystifying to most in the field.

It is a great honor and humbling experience for me to assume my position as the tenth editor of the Quarterly or Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ), the flagship journal of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). First, I would like to thank my predecessor, Dan Riffe, who served JMCQ for the past fourteen years, for his mentorship when I was associate editor for the journal, and for his tremendous help during the transition. With my team of associate editors, David Atkin, Hong Cheng, Carolyn Kitch, Wilson Lowrey, and book review editor, Ron Rodgers, and the support of the AEJMC Publications Committee, I hope we can take JMCQ to a new height in this highly competitive academic journal publishing landscape with a plethora of communication journals, either in open access or subscription formats. Our new editorial advisory board members, who are accomplished scholars from across the globe, will add more international perspectives in our review process and help further globalize the impact of the journal with more geographical, institutional, and ethnic diversity.Print and Online PresencesI began my official term as the new editor by asking our readers and media scholars about their views of the journal through a readership survey. I am thankful to the 1,142 respondents who participated in the survey. The survey results revealed that among AEJMC member respondents, only 18.4% JMCQ exclusively online, while 69% either the print issue or both print and online versions. Based on the survey data, an article on the concern of journal impact factor and how media scholars' attributes affected the rating of JMCQ is included in this issue for our readers' reference.I would like to cultivate a regular reading habit of our print issue readers by our new regular features in each issue and let them know what to anticipate in every issue (see the new features of the journal below). AEJMC members will receive an electronic Table of Contents with links to article abstracts for every upcoming issue of JMCQ. To increase our online presence and fully utilize the JMCQ website and other social media, we will disseminate all accepted submissions as fast as we can as OnlineFirst articles on the JMCQ website at http://jmcq.sagepub.com/ and tweet about them on my official JMCQ Twitter account @LouisaHaJMCQ. Our JMCQ readers and authors who are on Twitter are strongly encouraged to follow it and retweet the postings. In addition, JMCQ website users will be able to find our read and cited articles based on our Hitwise online data and find answers to our most commonly asked questions.New Features of JMCQ1. Review essays by senior scholarsThere are several new regular features in JMCQ, beginning this issue. There will be a regular review essay of a major theoretical or methodological topic written by senior scholars in every issue. These essays are commissioned and blind-refereed by two or three senior scholars in the field. As a leader in the field, we hope to provide standards, best practices, and state-of-the-art reviews on these topics as a crash course for junior scholars and a refresher course for senior scholars. The first review essay this year is former associate editor and current editorial board member JeffSmith's review of media history articles. The choice is deliberate. JMCQ values both quantitative and qualitative research. Because of the change to American Psychological Association (APA) style, some may think JMCQ is discouraging qualitative or historical research. Jeff's essay helps both history researchers and nonhistory researchers to understand the contemporary implication of historical research and explains the standards for high-quality historical research for publication in our journal.2. Virtual theme collectionsThe second important new feature is our virtual theme collections of past JMCQ articles online. JMCQ, with its ninety years of history and as a prestigious flagship journal, has contributed many important pieces of scholarship on a wide variety of areas for our field. …

CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology (PSP) was launched in September 2012 and, since then, has published at least one new article every week on average. As a result, the journal has now already reached the milestone of publishing its 100th manuscript,1 which is a rare achievement for a new Open Access journal to reach in such a short period of time. Clearly, the success of PSP demonstrates the tremendous growth of the disciplines of pharmacometrics and systems pharmacology and the need for a journal dedicated to these growing areas of science. Approximately half of the publications have been original research articles. In addition, PSP has published Reviews, Tutorials, Perspectives, Commentaries, Book Reviews, and Editorials (see refs 2,3,4,5,6,7 for examples from each category). Broadly speaking, the content of PSP to date represents a balanced mix between pharmacometrics and systems pharmacology-/physiology-based pharmacokinetics (PBPK). One of the aims of the journal is to facilitate the integration of pharmacometrics and systems pharmacology, and the first examples of the application of such a combined approach in drug development have been published.8 Tutorials were established as a new article type at the launch of PSP and have been a remarkable success, based on the very positive feedback from our readers and the impressive download statistics. To date, eight tutorials have been published (http://www.nature.com/psp/tutorials/index.html), providing practical hands-on introductions to a variety of modeling and simulation methodologies and tools. The Open Access and online format of the journal provides an excellent platform for the free and efficient dissemination of this material to researchers and students worldwide, and over time, the journal should grow into a comprehensive and authoritative educational resource. Tutorials are typically accompanied by example data sets and model codes, enabling the reader to work through the case studies in a “hands-on” manner. We plan to build on this success and have already commissioned a series of new Tutorials for publication in 2014; moreover, we are continuously looking for input on new ideas. Additionally, PSP just released its first podcast, PSPod, which features an interview with Dr Diane Mould discussing the three Tutorials she coauthored with Dr Richard Upton on basic concepts in population modeling, simulation, and model-based drug development (http://www.nature.com/psp/podcast/index.html). PSPod will be a quarterly feature of PSP that will delve into the advances in quantitative methods as applied in pharmacology, physiology, and therapeutics in humans; the next scheduled topics are “Diabetes” and “PBPK.” The quality and the efficiency of peer review are crucial aspects to the success of a journal, and the ~50 distinguished international members of our Editorial Board (http://www.nature.com/psp/editors.html) play a pivotal role in this process. The online nature of PSP provides unique opportunities to communicate Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology science in new and more effective ways to our readers. For example, our aim is that every article is accompanied by readily downloadable model codes to allow readers to replicate the key modeling and simulation steps described in the manuscript. Over time, this collection of example codes should grow into a unique, freely available library of a wide variety of Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology models. Another example illustrating how we strive to serve our readers by utilizing the online features of PSP is the recent introduction of so-called Themed Virtual Issues, which are continuously updated collections of all articles on specific topics, such as Tutorials, Diabetes, Cancer, and PBPK (see e.g., http://www.nature.com/psp/diabetes/index.html). We are committed to building on the successful launch of PSP and to helping it grow further as the leading journal and online publication platform for developing and bridging the disciplines of Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology. We hope that this will not only stimulate scientific and methodological innovation but also contribute to broader application and better integration of model-based approaches in drug discovery and development. As mentioned before,9 the ultimate measure of success of these efforts will be a demonstrable increase in the impact of integrated Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology approaches on pharmaceutical innovation and the delivery of new medicines to patients in areas of high medical need.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the SVLK Timber Legality and Verification System, FSC Chain of Custody, PEFC Sustainable Forest Management for wood and wood-based products on the competitiveness of the wood industry in Central Java. This research was conducted in several companies that process wood or use wood as the main material in Central Java with a total of 300 respondents. The respondents of this study are wood industry employees as top management, managers and staff who have been implementing SVLK, FSC, PEFC for at least 2 years. The background of this study is due to the lack of PEFC, FSC and SVLK research on the wood industry in Indonesia's Central Java province. Data collection was carried out by distributing electronic questionnaires online during January 2020 and analyzing data processing using Structural Equation Model (SEM) and Linear Structural Model (LISREL) software version 8.70. The analysis shows that the application of SVLK, FSC Chain of Custody, PEFC Sustainable Forest Management significantly and positively affects the company's competitiveness such as increased customer satisfaction, increased sales and decreased customer complaints.