December 5th is World Soil Day. Recommended by the International Union of Soil Sciences in 2002, the establishment of World Soil Day was led by the Kingdom of Thailand as part of the Global Soil Partnership—it was formally adopted by the UN General Assembly after endorsement by the FAO in December 2013.…
The December BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “‘Flashforward’ mental imagery in adolescents: exploring developmental differences and associations with mental health” by Alex Lau-Zhu, James Stacey, Daisy Gibson, Carmen Chan and Myra Cooper Current CBT interventions are often thought to rely on “verbal thinking” yet much of our mental lives is also shaped by mental images – imagining visual scenes, sounds, smells, etc.…
The December 2024 edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features a moving piece by a psychiatrist, poet and pianist about loss and the healing quality of poetry and music.
We are delighted to announce that the new front cover image for Parasitology 2025 features the protist Trypanosoma cruzi, photograph taken by Ramiro Tomasina & Carlos Robello. This parasite is responsible for American trypanosomiasis or Chagas Disease in South America. It infects a wide range of mammalian hosts by stercorarian transmission from contaminated faeces of Reduviid bugs.
A Conversation with the Guest Editors of the Hegel Bulletin Themed Issue, Daniel James and Franz Knappik
2024 JFM-Flow China Symposium: from fundamentals to applied mechanics, was an a landmark event co-hosted by the School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering at Beihang University, Beijing and arttended by 160 local experts and 3000 online viewers in China.
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
We are delighted to announce that the new front cover image for Parasitology 2025 features the protist Trypanosoma cruzi, photograph taken by Ramiro Tomasina & Carlos Robello. This parasite is responsible for American trypanosomiasis or Chagas Disease in South America. It infects a wide range of mammalian hosts by stercorarian transmission from contaminated faeces of Reduviid bugs.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Farmers and land-managers looking to reduce their herbicide applications now have another promising option via machine-vision technology. That’s the summary from a recently published research article in Weed Technology, a journal of the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA).
Karen is a first name, in fact, it’s my first name, but online, “Karen” has evolved to mean so much more than just a name.…
We are delighted to launch Computational Humanities Research. The journal offers a new venue for cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of computational methods and the humanities. We are excited to build this new scholarly conversation together with scholars from around the world and to reach a global audience through Gold Open Access.
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
Child care workers, preschool educators, teachers, speech and language professionals, pediatricians – they all frequently meet up with children who grow up with several languages.…
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