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Nearly for half a century women's advancement in the workplace has been in a debate. Women's under-represented in higher education institutions and universities across the globe, and especially in the most powerful or influential posts, is well established. Despite gender equality commitments and women's educational attainment, still, they are underrepresented. Regions and countries may vary in term of culture, achievements and development, but barriers for women's representation in academia are surprisingly similar in many regions. It is found that there are several barriers which women might be experiencing in academia ranging from personal, organizational to societal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nearly for half a century women's advancement in the workplace has been in a debate. Women's under-represented in higher education institutions and universities across the globe, and especially in the most powerful or influential posts, is well established. Despite gender equality commitments and women's educational attainment, still, they are underrepresented. Regions and countries may vary in term of culture, achievements and development, but barriers for women's underrepresentation in academia are surprisingly similar in many regions. It is found that there are several barriers which women might be experiencing in academia ranging from personal, organizational to societal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), in the form of classification systems, thesauri, lexical databases, ontologies, gazetteers, and taxonomies, more than ever play a crucial role in digital information management and applications generally. Special issues on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) have been published in Journal of Digital Information in 2001 (https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/issue/view/8) [[1]] and 2004 (https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/issue/view/20) [[2]], the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia in 2006 (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tham20/12/1) [[3]], the International Journal of Digital Libraries in 2016 (https://link.springer.com/journal/799/17/1/page/1) [[4]], and a KOS review article in 2004 [[5]]. To this purpose, an open dataset of bibliographic information has been created that combines 123 publications from European and U.S. NKOS workshops and 4 NKOS special journal issues. [Extracted from the article]

The aim of this study is to determine the content of total iron (TFe), heme iron (HeFe), zinc (Zn), and copper (Cu) in different cuts of meat and viscera from rabbit. Five young New Zealand rabbits were used in the study. Samples in triplicate were obtained from three meat cuts (foreleg, hind leg, and loin) and from main viscera. TFe, Zn, and Cu concentrations from samples were determined by wet acid digestion followed by atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS), while HeFe was determined by acid extraction followed by AAS. Mean TFe, HeFe, Zn, and Cu in meat was 0.83 ± 0.09, 0.56 ± 0.11, 0.95 ± 0.35, and 0.08 ± 0.01 mg/100 g, respectively. TFe content was less than 1 mg/100 g in all meat cuts. Sixty-seven percent of iron content was HeFe. The cut of meat with highest Zn concentrations was the foreleg with 1.33 ± 0.12 mg/100 g. Cu content was low for all meat cuts. TFe, HeFe, Zn, and Cu content in viscera varied greatly. The spleen was the organ with the highest TFe and Zn concentrations (82.79 ± 9.22 mg/100 g and 3.49 ± 0.63 mg/100 g, respectively). Nevertheless, the lungs had the highest concentration of HeFe (5.79 ± 0.90 mg/100 g), accounting for 91% of the total iron. The liver had the highest Cu content (3.89 ± 0.89 mg/100 g). Rabbit meat has low TFe concentration, similar to that of poultry, and most of the iron is HeFe. The amount of minerals in viscera closely depends on their function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text gives an overview of the work of the author and his working group telos over the past 20 years and sketches the main focus of this work, i.e., creating technologies for distributed scientific resources and their intelligent retrieval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A correction is presented to the article "Barriers to women's representation in academic excellence and positions of power" which was published in the previous issue of the periodical.