2012

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New CJO User Guides

There’s more to Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) than meets the eye. Did you know that can set up alerts to notify you when a new article is published in your subject or journal of choice?…

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Every Town Should Have One? Emergency Food Banking in the UK.

Research into food banking highlights the importance of rights-based approaches to food experiences in the UK. Research published in the Journal of Social Policy explores the rise of the UK’s first national scale food banking initiative and discusses the importance of food rights for providing social policy makers and researchers with a framework for approaching food issues.…

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New study reveals more inspiring reasons to serve veggies at dinner

PARSIPPANY, NJ (November 14, 2012) – Parents may have some new motivations to serve their kids vegetables. A new study, funded in part by Pinnacle Foods’ Birds Eye brand and published in Public Health Nutrition, found that adding vegetables to the plate led to more positive evaluations of both the main entrée and the cook.…

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Medical History – Highlights of a Decade podcasts #2

Adding voices to papers…Medical History‘s second podcast is now available online Medical History’s  2nd podcast is an engaging interview with Mark Jackson in which he discusses his paper ‘“Divine Stramonium”: The Rise and Fall of Smoking for Asthma.…

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Older adults who are frail more likely to be food insufficient

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A national study of older Americans shows those who have limited mobility and low physical activity – scientifically categorized as “frail” – are five times more likely to report that they often don’t have enough to eat, defined as “food insufficiency,” than older adults who were not frail.…

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Barriers to managing diabetes

The Booth et al. study of recently diagnosed patients with diabetes and the health professionals involved in their care highlighted barriers to lifestyle management in six main areas.…

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BJHS – 50 years and counting…

An anniversary is a good time to pause and take stock. The British Journal for the History of Science has been publishing papers for fifty years, and its proud parent, the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), the national learned society for the specialty, has been leading reflections as well as celebrations.…

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A Peaceful Europe?

As the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the EU for six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe, Contemporary European History’s editor Holger Nehring revisits the journal’s special issue on‘ A Peaceful Europe?…

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New CJO Mobile developments explained

We first developed our mobile site (CJOm) to act as an optimised alternative to Cambridge Journals Online (CJO). Streamlining the design in order to speed up access, and simplifying the functionality to offer a fast, effective service allowed users to easily search for and view articles on a mobile device.…

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100+ years of APSA research to join the CJO Digital Archive

More than a century’s worth of political science research and insight from the American Political Science Association (APSA) is being added to the Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) Digital Archive with the first additions of seminal political journals the American Political Science Review (APSR) and PS: Political Science and Politics (PS).…

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The great China English puzzle

The most recent issue of English Today (28/3) is a special issue on the topic of ‘English in China today’. It includes ten articles dealing with different aspects of the spread of English and the uses of English in contemporary China, with contributions from leading Chinese academics as well as commentators from outside the country.…

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Sneak Peek: Some upcoming papers in The Canadian Entomologist « ESC-SEC Blog

Sneak Peek: Some upcoming papers in The Canadian Entomologist Posted by Morgan Jackson on September 3, 2012 in Academic, Research, The Canadian Entomologist (Journal) By Chris Buddle, Editor-in-Chief, The Canadian Entomologist ———————– As Editor-in-Chief for The Canadian Entomologist, I have the privilege of knowing what papers will be appearing in our journal in the future… in this post, without saying too much, I wanted to give you a ‘sneak peek’ of what to expect in the future.…

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2011 Brumfit Award prize runner up Rebecca Sachs provides an overview of her thesis

2011 Brumfit Award prize runner up Rebecca Sachs provides an overview of her thesis, which was praised for the high quality of its content and presentation Individual differences and the effectiveness of visual feedback on reflexive binding in L2 Japanese In the field of second language acquisition, one of the ultimate goals of research into aptitude-treatment interactions is for language educators (and software developers) to be better able to tailor instruction to the needs and abilities of language learners.…

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Medical History – Highlights of a Decade podcasts #1

Adding voices to papers…introducing Medical History’s first podcast. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, the editor of Medical History,  has invited some of his highly-respected colleagues to record short interviews discussing papers they have previously published in the journal. …

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Financial lessons from history…

“Study the past if you would divine the future.” Advised Confucious Stefano Battilossi, the Editor of Financial History Review, actively encourages the same position in his editorial initiative ‘”The Past Mirror: surveys, notes and debates”.…

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Frequent cooking will help you live longer

A new study published in Public Health Nutrition links frequent cooking to a longer life. In advanced economies, households generally cook less than half of their meals leading to an increased concern among nutrition policy makers that fewer meals are being cooked at home.…

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Why we need a World Energy Health Organisation

The global energy outlook today easily matches the toughest challenges of the 1970’s oil crises. We face growing energy demands from developing nations, higher projected electricity use in developed countries, unprecedented pressure on global oil supplies, an uncomfortable dependence in Western Europe on Russian gas and an on-going debate about emissions and pollution caused by growing energy use.…

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Kindle Part 4: 5 things you didn’t know you could do on your Kindle

With the different models available and decreasing prices, more and more people seem to be purchasing Amazon Kindles. I noticed from conversations on social media however that some features of the Kindle I love are unknown to other Kindle owners, so I’m sharing a few tips about the way I use my Kindle (a third generation Kindle with keyboard and 3G access) that you might not know about.…

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Kindle Part 3: CJO-to-Kindle

The latest CJO release includes a method for readers to send articles direct to their Kindles. If you look closely at a full text article on CJO, you may notice we’ve introduced a new, rather unassuming little link.…

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LJIL marks 25 years

On Friday 30 March 2012, Leiden Journal of International Law celebrated its 25th anniversary at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) in Washington DC.…

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60 Years of ICLQ

On the eve of the Annual Conference of the American Society of International Law is an opportunity to reflect upon another bastion of international legal scholarship: the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, which has been published for 60 years.…

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Israel Law Review – new to Cambridge in 2012

We are pleased to announce that from 2012 Cambridge University Press will be publishing the Israel Law Review. Focusing on law in times of tension and conflict, over more than 40 years the Review has become a leading publication in the field of human rights, public law and international law.   On behalf of the Review‘s Editorial team, Professor Yuval Shany said “My colleagues and I, at Hebrew University, are pleased and proud to associate the Israel Law Review – the oldest and most established Israeli publication in English on legal issues – with Cambridge University Press.

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Call for Papers: Politics, science and policy of reference points for resource management

Environmental Conservation is one of the longest-standing, most highly-cited of the interdisciplinary environmental science journals. It includes research papers, reports, comments, subject reviews, and book reviews addressing environmental policy, practice, and natural and social science of environmental concern at the global level, informed by rigorous local level case studies.…

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Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association and Cambridge University Press launch new Open Access journal

The Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce the launch of the APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing – a groundbreaking new Open Access journal that will serve as an international forum for signal and information processing researchers across a broad spectrum of research, ranging from traditional modalities of signal processing to emerging areas where either (i) processing reaches higher semantic levels (e.g.…

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Launching CJO Mobile

Ever since the first academic journals went online back in 1996, our readers, and our librarian colleagues who enable access, have expected us to keep up with the pace of changing technology.…

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