The following is a Q&A held with Professor Detlef Lohse after he was presented with the 2012 Batchelor Prize at the International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2012 Q: What was it that attracted you to Fluid Mechanics research initially, and is it the same thing that motivates you now?…
Infectious diseases, caused by parasitic organisms of one sort or another, are perpetually on the move, never more so than now in this era of global interconnectivity through rapid travel and extensive human interrelationships through trade and social interactions.…
Cambridge University Press has reduced its carbon emissions by 15% over two years, achieving re-certification to the Carbon Trust standard for 2012 for its UK operations.…
The number of critically endangered Long-billed Vultures in Pakistan is beginning to recover, thanks to a ban on the use of diclofenac, a veterinary drug that is toxic to vultures, according to a new study by The Peregrine Fund.…
It’s an interesting fact that, although writing for work every day and editing papers all the time, when faced with a blog post about myself, I was initially a bit stumped!…
The October 2012 issue of Oryx – The International Journal of Conservation, contains a collection of articles examining marine conservation in Aceh, Indonesia.…
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.…
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.…
Cases of facial paralysis in air travellers, without relevant prior medical conditions, are believed to be rare, but researchers say they are also under-reported.…
Targeted health support is necessary for people with lower IQs following new research from UCL, published in Psychological Medicine, which shows that they are unhappier and more likely to have poorer health than people with higher IQs.…
How has oil shaped American Culture? How do we explain the dominance of oil capitalism in American society? How has oil impacted on media, film, propaganda and art in the past 150 years?…
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.…
For the third year in succession, a team from Cambridge University Press, including a group of Cambridge Journals staff, took part in the London to Cambridge Cycle Ride, raising money for Fauna & Flora International (FFI) for whom we publish Oryx – the International Journal of Conservation.…
Cambridge University Press is delighted to be launching two new open access (OA) journals in Mathematics, Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma.…
As the nature vs nurture battle continues to rage, a special issue of Twin Research and Human Genetics offers new insights to the debate, with a special issue dedicated to the Genetics of brain structure and function.…
Image: Dr George Murray Levick’s observations of Adélie penguins were recorded in his notebook. Photograph: R Kossow/Natural History Museum In 1910 Dr.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
The status of the world’s seabirds has deteriorated rapidly over recent decades and several species and many populations are now perilously close to extinction.…
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.…
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.…
Cambridge University Press has announced that it will become the new home of The Canadian Entomologist from January 2012. “One of the best publishers in the business will now be marketing, publishing and distributing one of the oldest and most respected Entomological journals in the world – it’s a match made in Entomological heaven.”…
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