Cambridge Core BlogCambridge Academic’s Digital History
When you consider that Cambridge University Press has been in operation for over 400 years, digital innovation may seem like a flash in our publishing pan.…
Archive for January 2015
A provisional consensus clinical and research definition for Agitation in cognitive disorders
The January International Psychogeriatrics Article of the Month is entitled ‘Agitation in cognitive disorders: International Psychogeriatric Association provisional consensus clinical and research definition’ by Jeffrey Cummings, Jacobo Mintzer, Henry Brodaty, Mary Sano et al.…
BJHS Themes – subject of inaugural issue is announced
I’m delighted to be able to announce that the subject of the inaugural issue of the new open access, edited-collection journal of the BSHS, called BJHS Themes, will be: “Intersections: Science and Technology in Twentieth Century China and India” The special issue editors will be Jahnavi Phalkey (King’s College London) and Tong Lam (University of Toronto) In the open competition held to select the issues of BJHS Themes, proposals are judged according to standards of focus, originality, timeliness, and breadth of appeal to readers.…
Results from the EXPOSE-R Mission
Adapted from the Introduction to the EXPOSE-R Mission Special Issue in the International Journal of Astrobiology by Dr Gerda Horneck and Corinna Panitz.…
Common mental disorders prevalent in UK military « King’s College London
Symptoms of anxiety and depression appear to be twice as frequent in the UK military as in the general working population, according to research carried out at the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), King’s College London and published in Psychological Medicine.…
The Great War at 100: studies on the periphery of Empire
Published at the end of the 1914 commemoration year, Itinerario’s most recent special issue sheds light on colonial volunteerism and recruitment in the British Empire during the Great War.…
Opportunist road users? Orangutans on the logging roads of Borneo
Opportunistic Behaviour May Show Resilience to Changes in Habitat An international team of scientists has found evidence that orangutans may be opportunistically choosing to walk on the ground.…
A looming danger…
This paper reports on four paediatric patients who presented with a loom band associated foreign body in the nose over a 7-day period at a district general hospital in Scotland.…
How to measure mood in nutrition research
The January Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Nutrition Research Reviews and is entitled “’How to Measure Mood in Nutrition Research”.…
Why responsible and ethical business is high on CUP’s agenda for 2015
Recent well-publicised cases of corporate wrongdoing have placed ethical business firmly on the public agenda. Not surprisingly academic scholarship in this area is growing, with business ethics and corporate social responsibility taught as core modules by thousands of business schools worldwide as well as featuring on philosophy, law and IR courses.…
Government’s flagship Welfare-to-Work scheme – failing the ‘harder to help’ by design?
The Work Programme is Government’s flagship welfare-to-work initiative and uses non-state providers to support long-term unemployed people into paid employment under a payment by results funding regime.…
Advances in proteomics for animal and food sciences
Proteomic analysis has developed rapidly over the last decade but applications of this technology in animal science have been notably absent, which is surprising considering that the main objective of livestock farming is the production of edible protein whether from poultry, beef, swine, dairy products or aquaculture.