Journal Guide

The journal aims to publish original articles in the fields of clinical and experimental investigation only within the sphere of urolithiasis and its related areas of research. The journal covers all aspects of urolithiasis research including the diagnosis, epidemiology, pathogenesis, genetics, clinical biochemistry, open and non-invasive surgical intervention, nephrological investigation, chemistry and prophylaxis of the disorder. The Editor welcomes contributions on topics of interest to urologists, nephrologists, radiologists, clinical biochemists, epidemiologists, nutritionists, basic scientists and nurses working in that field.

The journal was formerly published as 'Urological Research'.

Acknowledgement: The cover image was kindly provided by Dr James E Lingeman of the Indiana University Health Physicians - Urology, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

This journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of new research results on all aspects of user modeling and user-adapted interaction. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction publishes high quality original papers contributing to these fields, including the following areas: acquisition of user and student models;conceptual models, mental models; levels of user expertise; intelligent information retrieval; adaptive hypertext and hypermedia; adaptation to the handicapped and elderly; user stereotypes; formal representation of user and student models; applications in office machines and consumer electronics; and privacy and security of information for personalization.User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction is ideal for researchers, students and industrial practitioners in human-computer interaction, the instructional sciences, artificial intelligence, and linguistics.Microsoft Academic Search: ranked 5 of 26 HCI Journals.

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany publishes research papers, review articles and short contributions of high quality from Europe, the Americas and around the world. It covers the entire field of vegetation history, exploring the development of flora and vegetation during the Holocene (and also the Pleistocene) era, and includes related subjects such as palaeoecology. The journal places interest on human impact upon the natural environment in prehistoric and medieval times. This is reflected in pollen diagrams as well as in plant macroremains from archaeological contexts. Recent topics have included vegetation, fire and climate dynamics as indicated by pollen and charcoal analysis; preliminary results from a dendroecological study of a sub-fossil pine woodland in NW Germany; the significance of low pollen accumulation rates in estimation tree population, and more. The Editor-in-Chief is Felix Bittmann, Niedersächsisches Insitut für historische Küstenforschung, Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

The journal publishes original contributions in all areas of fundamental and applied mathematics. It is the prime outlet for the findings of scientists from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of St. Petersburg State University. Articles of the journal cover the major areas of fundamental and applied mathematics. The following are the main subject headings: Mathematical Analysis: Higher Algebra and Numbers Theory: Higher Geometry: Differential Equations: Mathematical Physics: Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis: Statistical Simulation: Theoretical Cybernetics: Game Theory: Operations Research: Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, and Mathematical Problems of Mechanics and Astronomy.

Veterinary Research is an open access journal that publishes high quality and novel research and review articles focusing on all aspects of infectious diseases and host-pathogen interaction in animals.

Veterinary Research Communications publishes fully refereed research articles and topical reviews on all aspects of the veterinary sciences. The journal presents interdisciplinary articles, and well argued reviews, even if they are somewhat controversial.The journal offers an appropriate medium in which to publish new methods, newly described diseases and new pathological findings, as these are applied to animals. As it deliberately seeks a wide coverage, Veterinary Research Communications provides its readers with a means of keeping abreast of current developments in the entire field of veterinary science.