Oxygen – a critical, but overlooked, nutrient
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for March is from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is entitled 'Oxygen – the forgotten nutrient'. Author: Paul Trayhurn.
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for March is from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is entitled 'Oxygen – the forgotten nutrient'. Author: Paul Trayhurn.
Dr Rachel Heinrichsmeier from King’s College London reports on a practice used by older women in her research in a hair-salon.…
Quantum materials have exotic physical properties that arise from quantum mechanical or topological properties of their electrons. These materials display novel surface properties, magnetic effects, and optical properties, and are expected to lead to, for example, qubits with enhanced coherence times and sensors with unprecedented accuracy.
We are delighted to announce to Clara Santato, Polytechnique Montréal, has been awarded the 2018 MRS Communications Lecture.
The Journal of Materials Research Paper of the Year recognizes excellence in advancing materials knowledge through written scholarship. The 2017 JMR Paper of the Year has been awarded to Arvind Kalidindi and Christopher A.…
Professor Andrew Van de Ven looks forward to his new role as Deputy Editor for Engaged Indigenous Scholarship at Management and Organizational Review Professor Andrew Van de Ven (University of Minnesota) has joined Management and Organization Review as Deputy Editor for Engaged Indigenous Scholarship. …
This text is taken from the Editor’s Foreward by Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Modern American history has long been a field of great vibrancy, but one without a “big tent” journal devoted to its particular themes, challenges, and concerns.…
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a digital text, available on the web at orlando.cambridge.org.…
Senior Library Sales Manager Stephanie Kaelin participated in a panel at the 2018 ER&L meeting in Austin, Texas, entitled “Publisher Platforms and NISO’s PIE-J: Working together to improve e-journal access”.…
In the United Kingdom and across the European Union, Brexit continues to be the key social, political and economic issue of the day.…
This post by Andrew Judge and Tomas Maltby first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in May 2017. It is based on his article from the second volume of European Journal of International Security.…
En esta ocasión tenemos 2×1 de entrevista. Nuestras preguntas las respondieron un par de bibliotecarios Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, en la ciudad de Querétaro, ubicada a 218 kilómetros al noroeste de la capital mexicana.…
This time around we interviewed two librarians from Querétaro, Mexico, a city located 218 kilometers to the northeast of Mexico City.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: Coca-Cola – a model of transparency in research partnerships? A network analysis of Coca-Cola’s research funding (2008–2016) Authors: Paulo M Serôdio, Martin McKee and David Stuckler discuss their research below.
Forest elephants are found to occupy timber concession forests in Cameroon within areas currently deemed ‘unlikely’ by IUCN, according to a scientific study published in Oryx —The International Journal of Conservation.…
The materials community is just beginning to utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in the research process, and it is already clear that this represents a potentially game changing method to accelerate materials development.
Imagine a Japan that was not allied with the United States in the postwar period. Would it have grown as fast as it did?…
Biodiversity hotspots and gradients are a striking feature across the globe today. While the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient is the best known of these biodiversity patterns, strong gradients in species richness also exist in relation to topography and habitat heterogeneity.…
In honour of Women's History Month 2018, we are sharing highlights throughout March, written by and about inspirational women. In the following blog post, Katherine West Scheil discusses the contributions of Anne Hathaway.
The animal article of the month for April is ‘Incubation and hatch management: consequences for bone mineralization in Cobb 500 meat chickens‘ Following two field observations of newly hatched chicks that had soft bones and were having difficulty standing, we wanted to find out what causes soft bones and, what could be done to prevent this from occurring in the future. …
Malnourished children under two in rural Malawi whose mothers were trained in diet diversity, hygiene and food safety have shown significant improvements of their nutrition and health in just three weeks. The study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition and lead by ICRISAT scientist, S. Anitha, demonstrates the rapid impact a properly designed nutrition education intervention can have.
The study “The future of Earth’s oceans: consequences of subduction initiation in the Atlantic and implications for supercontinent formation” by João Duarte et al.,…
Nothing, absolutely nothing. Ok, I admit that is something of an exaggeration, but traditional grammar teaching in schools has certainly done almost nothing to improve writing.…
Hydrogen is one of the most valuable energy carriers and a clean and renewable energy supply. Electrolysis of water, that is, water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen gases under an electrical bias, offers a near-term and long-term solution for the production of hydrogen gas as fuel and for chemical products with large-scale capability.
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a digital text, available on the web at orlando.cambridge.org.…
This post by Ian Hurd first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in March 2017. It is based on his article from the second volume of European Journal of International Security.…
We still don’t know how psychiatric drugs work. We still don’t know whether psychiatric drugs work by correcting an underlying brain abnormality or act by modifying normal brain processes.…
My book, Framed: Media and the Coverage of Race in Canadian Politics, is wake-up call for those who think that race does not matter in Canada.…
Manu Paranjape, author of The Theory and Applications of Instanton Calculations, discusses the science behind Stephen Hawking’s recent interview on Star Talk.…
The editorial perspective For any journal article you write, your first readers will be the journal’s editorial staff and peer reviewers, aside from any colleagues who see your work while you are still working on it.…
This is an English translation of the Editorial to Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales Volume 72 – Issue 2. This issue of the Annales contains a thematic dossier dedicated to the Anthropocene, a concept currently enjoying undeniable scientific and public success.…
We are delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Business and Politics in 2018. In the past year, we’ve published a number of outstanding articles on topics as diverse as financial regulation, dark money in elections, additive manufacturing, the oil industry behavior in Nigeria, the impact of data completion for development, and corporate social responsibility in India.…
The reader perspective Scientists and social scientists read an average of 22 journal articles a month, according to a Nature survey on how much scientists are reading, and most would struggle to find the time to read any more.…
I don’t know that Jane Austen is the first author to come to mind in relation to International Women’s Day: one is perhaps more likely to think of notorious firebrands from Mary Wollstonecraft to Arundhati Roy, whereas Austen is stuck with a relatively sedate reputation. But Austen has more in common with Wollstonecraft than many readers imagine.
This post by Cristina G. Stefan first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in February 2017. It is based on his article from the second volume of European Journal of International Security.…
Brazil, Latin America’s largest country in size and population, is known for its diversity in social and cultural matters. This also holds true for labour in both historical and current contexts.…
This International Women's Month, we are putting the spotlight on female playwrights in America. Read the following blog by Cambridge University Press author Christopher Bigsby to find out why this is the opportune moment for celebrating these talented female writers.
Today genetically engineered, glyphosate-resistant crops are often singled out as a major contributor in the evolution of herbicide-resistant weeds. But a new data analysis featured in the journal Weed Science shows it may be time to revisit that common assumption.…
In honour of International Women’s Day 2018, we are sharing highlights throughout March, written by and about inspirational female academics. In this blogpost, we share the first part of a paper written by Judith A Whitworth for Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics, an open access journal.…
Tad Schmaltz touches upon the important place of women in the history of philosophy and introduces a new special series by the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CELEBRATE WOMEN IN ACADEMIA FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY In celebration of International Women’s Day (8 March), Cambridge University Press (the Press) has made a collection of inspirational work written by, or about, leading academics and pioneers such as Marie Curie, Margaret Atwood and Angela Merkel, available to read for free online.…
On March 8th, all over the world, we celebrate the International Women’s Day. This important day was initiated by socialist women in the beginning of the 20th century, and in 1975 was adopted by the UN “to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities”.…
The latest Paper of the Month from Parasitology is ‘Genetic diversity of Blastocystis in non-primate animals’ by Emma L. Betts, Eleni Gentekaki, Adele Thomasz, et al.…
This virtual special issue highlights some of the exciting directions that scholarship on the Cold War in Latin America has taken over the last decade.…
The study published in Oryx–The International Journal of Conservation indicates that increasing livestock numbers to supply the global market of cashmere have a negative impact on snow leopard’s wild prey, the Siberian ibex, and could undermine the long-term viability of the snow leopard itself.…
The Society for American Archaeology’s paper of the month for March comes from American Antiquity and is entitled: ‘Choosing a Path to the Ancient World in a Modern Market: The Reality of Faculty Jobs in Archaeology’.…
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for February is from the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and is entitled “Characterising the muscle anabolic potential of dairy, meat and plant-based protein sources in older adults”
The animal article of the month for March is ‘Invited review: resource allocation mismatch as pathway to disproportionate growth in farm animals – prerequisite for a disturbed health‘ Resources are nutrients and energy which must be properly used during growth and development, and later on for performance.…
Based on an article in English Today Pop music surpasses national and linguistic boundaries. It creates a marketplace of various linguistic resources that artists use in their music performances to create their pop personas.…
Think back to your childhood. What did you take with you when you went to school? Many of us would have set off with a backpack brimming with notebooks, erasers, a ruler, pens, pencils and perhaps a handful of sweets to enjoy when the teacher wasn’t looking.…
In celebration of International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, we have collated a list of 17 of the world’s most prominent women in mathematics.…
Depictions of colonized African peoples from Southwest Africa (DSWA, present-day Namibia), Germany’s first overseas colony, were prevalent throughout the German metropole at the turn of the twentieth century.…
Compared to new mothers, the mental health of new fathers has been overlooked. Yet one in ten men experience mental health problems during their partner’s pregnancy. New research published in BJPsych Open by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) sheds light on these neglected problems.
This post by John Owen first appeared on the ejis.eu blog in February 2016. It is based on his article from the inaugural issue of European Journal of International Security.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: 'Consumption of ultra-processed foods and body fat during childhood and adolescence: a systematic review' Authors: Caroline Santos Costa, Bianca Del-Ponte, Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção and Iná Silva Santos.
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a digital text, available on the web at orlando.cambridge.org.…
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for January is from the British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled “Effects of prenatal n-3 fatty acid supplementation on offspring resolvins at birth and 12 years of age: a double blind, randomized controlled clinical trial”.
When the first targets for the National Ignition Campaign (NIC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) were built to be fielded on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the late 2000’s, the assemblies were handcrafted, meticulously measured, and carefully tested. The resulting assemblies were literally one-of-a-kind and fairly fragile pieces of art, as well as fully functional high energy density physics targets. They were true engineering marvels.
Women held an extraordinary position in Aztec society. Through their connection to the earth through childbirth, they were believed to wield primal forces which gave them both access to awesome power and the potential for catastrophic disruption.…