Trong những năm gần đây, mặc dù lĩnh vực KHXH&NV của Việt Nam mới đang ở giai đoạn đầu của quá trình hội nhập về công bố quốc tế và xuất bản học thuật, nhưng các con số thống kê được vẫn rất đáng khích lệ.

Urban air pollution is clearly a constantly growing problem and the high level of urban air pollution has been shown to pose a significant risk to city dwellers. It is necessary to have low-cost sensors for data collection, ready data source allowing normal citizen to access to and gain information, and have prospect solutions (e.g. autonomous vehicle) for air pollution reduction in the city. The aim of the study is to illustrate the drivers behind the use of low-cost sensors and to review the performance of sensors. In addition, autonomous vehicle is expected to reduce pollution; therefore, the paper analyzes the benefits and adoption of autonomous vehicles in the future. The challenges and outlook for both low-cost sensor deployment and the adoption of self-driving vehicle will also be discussed. A literature review is used to obtain these aims. The study indicates that the main driver of low-cost sensor is to provide high-density spatiotemporal pollution data, assisting in creating emission inventories of pollutants and detecting pollution hotspots without capital investments. A number of performance aspects considered include the coefficients of determination (R2), variance (CV), repeatability, reproducibly and stability of the sensor. Self-driving vehicle is promising in the change of travel patterns and having impacts on the health of society. Technology and economic challenges, the willingness to use the sensor and the autonomous policy approach are the major challenges. In terms of the outlook, standard guidelines and the calibration methods for low-cost sensors, energy consumption savings and policy supporting for autonomous vehicle should be further investigated.

The article is devoted to cross-cultural issues of virtual business communication. The urgency of this research is in finding out the causes of failures in virtual business communication between Russian and Vietnamese business partners. In the aspect of intercultural communication, national stereotypes of communicative behavior (hereinafter NSCB) that impede the effective business communication of Russian and Vietnamese speakers have been identified. In the aspect of virtual communication, based on linguistic and cultural analysis, the specifics of electronic business letters in Russian, English and Vietnamese is revealed. The results of the study indicated the following reasons of failures in virtual intercultural business communication: lack of direct interactions between business partners – speakers of different languages; representation of communicative intentions in written form; peculiarities in NSCBs, reflected in the national language; cultural differences in NSCBs of business partners; each language has its own means of verbalizing the communicative intentions associated with the NSCBs of the native speaker of that language. The study resulted in distinguishing the types of speech and etiquette violation in virtual business communication between Russian and Vietnamese partners, which might help in lessening communicative misunderstanding and achieving extra-linguistic goals of communication.

Ngay đầu năm 2020, Taylor & Francis đã công bố bản hợp đồng bom tấn mới: F1000 Research. Trước đó đăng ngày 12-01-2020 trên EASE Vietnam SciComm System: https://sc.sshpa.com/post/5605.

Để thực sự hiểu và đánh giá được sự tiến bộ của quá trình bình duyệt khoa học, điều đầu tiên cần làm là dành một chút thời gian để nhìn lại quá trình phát triển và thay đổi liên tục của bình duyệt trong xuất bản học thuật. Trong bài viết A brief history of peer review blog trên F1000Research Blog, tác giả Yousuf Al-Mousawi đã quay ngược thời gian và tìm về những dấu mốc chính trong lịch sử của quá trình bình duyệt.