Special Issue on

 How Quantification Can Enhance Life Quality

Quantification is paramount in the application of science and technology to social issues, and is often regarded as the means to ascribe “metrics to enhance the quality of life." But how? An obvious answer is: "Quantification measures facts upon which the quality of life depends." This opens a proverbial Pandora’s Box of debatable issues, questions and problems, as any such trajectories are implicitly or explicitly based upon the assumption that such qualities are, in fact quantifiable, that there is consensus upon those qualities to measure, and that quantification can directly or indirectly enhance life's quality. But, "indirectly," "enhance," "quality" are all ambiguous terms, and quantification is objective, while quality remains largely subjective. Can we objectively measure flourishing? Happiness? Loss of suffering? Success? Thus, how the objective can enhance the subjective becomes a question, if not problem of increasing importance, as society moves toward an ever more ingrained reliance upon science, technology and the metrics of objectivity.

In this special issue, we intend to invite researchers and authors to submit original research and review articles on addressing the topic of  How Quantification Can Enhance Life Quality.

Authors should read over the journal’s Author’s Guidelines carefully before submission, Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Paper Submission System.

Please kindly note that the “Special Issue’’ under your manuscript title is supposed to be specified and the research field “Special Issue — How Quantification Can Enhance Life Quality” should be chosen during your submission.

According to the following timetable:

Special Issue Editor

Guest Editor:

Prof. James Giordano, Ph.D.

Division of Integrative Physiology and Neuro ethics Studies Program,

Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

For further questions or inquiries

Please contact Editorial Assistant at

ojpp@scirp.org