Photograph: GVI Costa Rica Increase in marine turtle predation by jaguars highlights potential conservation management dilemma A recent paper in Oryx has highlighted an interesting conservation conundrum.…
For some years there has been an unsupported belief among governments that rising costs of higher education will be accompanied by potential students behaving more like customers and choosing universities on the basis of the quality of the education that they will be paying for. …
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.…
Some may say that those of us who work in academic publishing are impractical people unused to manual labour. They may also say that office workers are cosseted and unwilling to brave the elements.…
My name is Chris Buddle – I’m an Associate Professor at McGill University, in Quebec, Canada, and the new Editor-in-Chief for The Canadian Entomologist.…
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.…
I have to admit, I held out on the Kindle for a very long time. Perhaps something of a surprise, as my current role is built in part on my voracious hunger for gadgets.…
The Amazon Kindle first became officially available in the UK in Autumn 2009. The device on offer was the second generation model, with white case and keyboard.…
The latest issue of British Journal of Music Education (BJME) introduces a new section dedicated to publishing articles by teachers and practitioners.…
To help readers analyse and assess the impact and dissemination of articles, we’ve introduced article level metrics. The stats are available in a ‘Metrics’ section, situated below the article abstract.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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.…
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.…
Maria is a smallholder farmer in rural Singida, Tanzania. We worked together for the past few years on the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP-Tz), a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention that sought to improve children’s diet. In it, farmers learned about and experimented with sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity using an integrated and participatory curriculum
From 99 faecal samples we identified 21 species of intestinal parasites – everything from common worms to various protozoa and amoebae. Overall, seven in ten monkeys harboured at least one parasite, and Guinea baboons averaged nearly three different species apiece.
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
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.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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