Biochemia Medica appoints the new Editor-in-Chief

It is my great honor and pleasure to be appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biochemia Medica. I thank the Journal Editorial Board and Executive Board of the Croatian Society of Medi-cal Biochemists for giving me such a wonderful opportunity. I also wish to express my special thanks to prof. Elizabeta Topic and prof. Dubravka Cvoriscec. Throughout the last six years du-ring their distinguished service as Editors-in-Chief of Biochemia Medica, this Journal has made an unprecedented progress. Their vision, commitment and professionalism have led the editorial team of this Journal on its way, continuously striving to increase its quality. Being an Editor of a scientific journal is highly responsible and demanding role. Thank you both for what you have done for this Journal, for having knowledge and courage to manage the change of the journal content, editorial policy, content and design, for implementing technological improvements, for involving younger colleagues and giving them a chance to learn from you and work in such a stimulating atmosphere. The net result of your tremendous efforts is recogni-zed by scientists and colleagues not only in Croatia, but also internationally. We are receiving more and more submissions over time. The quality of submissions and papers published is increasing as well as the number of web site visits, citations and downloads. Last year the Journal has even got its first impact factor. Maintaining this trend in such a competitive environment will therefore be my biggest challenge. I hope I will be able to manage and catalyze further improvements in the quality of this Journal, by producing the highest-quality publications, promoting the journal and making its way into some of the most prestigious bibliographic databases. This advancement would not have been possible without the shared commitment and collaborati-ve efforts of many individuals: editorial board members, reviewers, authors and readers. I warmly invite you all to continue supporting our work in the following years

GTTC Future of Ground Testing Meta-Analysis of 20 Documents

National research, development, test, and evaluation ground testing capabilities in the United States are at risk. There is a lack of vision and consensus on what is and will be needed, contributing to a significant threat that ground test capabilities may not be able to meet the national security and industrial needs of the future. To support future decisions, the AIAA Ground Testing Technical Committees (GTTC) Future of Ground Test (FoGT) Working Group selected and reviewed 20 seminal documents related to the application and direction of ground testing. Each document was reviewed, with the content main points collected and organized into sections in the form of a gap analysis current state, future state, major challenges/gaps, and recommendations. This paper includes key findings and selected commentary by an editing team

Asynchronous spiking neurons, the natural key to exploit temporal sparsity

Inference of Deep Neural Networks for stream signal (Video/Audio) processing in edge devices is still challenging. Unlike the most state of the art inference engines which are efficient for static signals, our brain is optimized for real-time dynamic signal processing. We believe one important feature of the brain (asynchronous state-full processing) is the key to its excellence in this domain. In this work, we show how asynchronous processing with state-full neurons allows exploitation of the existing sparsity in natural signals. This paper explains three different types of sparsity and proposes an inference algorithm which exploits all types of sparsities in the execution of already trained networks. Our experiments in three different applications (Handwritten digit recognition, Autonomous Steering and Hand-Gesture recognition) show that this model of inference reduces the number of required operations for sparse input data by a factor of one to two orders of magnitudes. Additionally, due to fully asynchronous processing this type of inference can be run on fully distributed and scalable neuromorphic hardware platforms

Expanding transnational networks : the impact of internal conflict on the feminist press in Dokumente der Frauen (1899–1902) and Neues Frauenleben (1902–17)

This article examines the interpersonal tensions between co-editors Auguste Fickert (1855–1910) and Marie Lang (1858–1934) to show how internal editorial conflict can stimulate transnational editorial relations. By placing the disagreement within the larger context of the international women’s movement at the turn of the century, I argue that Fickert’s vision on women’s organizations differed from Lang’s: Fickert fostered the transnational role of the periodical press, whereas Lang invested in a local approach. Although conflict has been considered a constitutive aspect of the periodical press, it has not been examined before in light of German feminist periodicals, such as Dokumente der Frauen (1899–1902), which Fickert co-edited for some time with Lang and Rosa Mayreder (1858–1938) and Neues Frauenleben (1902–17), of which she was the sole editor from 1902 to 1910. This article traces Fickert’s transnational collaborations. More specifically, it takes her connection to Finnish-born female editor Maikki Friberg (1861–1927) as a case in point to demonstrate how her personal and professional relationship with Friberg resonates through the pages of Dokumente and increasingly so, Neues Frauenleben. I will show how Fickert’s new periodical, Neues Frauenleben, benefited from her collaboration with Friberg especially, and resulted in a myriad of transnational connections that were mainly — but not only — Nordic. By taking the periodical as a locus of personal and professional conflict and collaboration, this article thus shed light on an under-researched link between female editorship and transnationality