Pawel Blaszczyk, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Tomasz Blaszczyk, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland Nicoletta Bova, University of Molise, Italy Angelo Camillo, Woodbury University, USA Junjun Cheng, Fudan University, China Mihaela Herciu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania Svetlana Holt, Woodbury University, USA John E. Karayan, Woodbury University, USA Andreas Kornelakis, University of Sussex, UK Jorma Larimo, University of Vaasa, Finland Joan Marques, Woodbury University, USA Huu Le Nguyen, University of Vaasa, Finland Claudia Ogrean, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania Oleksiy Osiyevskyy, Northeastern University, USA Loredana Di Pietro, University of Molise, Italy Manuela Presutti, University of Bologna, Italy Yong Su, Fudan University, China Francesca Di Virgilio, University of Molise, Italy Horen Voskeritsian, University of the West of England, UK Ho Yin Wong, Deakin University, Australia Zhan Wu, The University of Sydney, Australia M. Amin Zargarzadeh, University of Calgary, Canada