2019

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Leading on Open

Open research aims to offer significant benefits for researchers, authors, institutions, funders, governments and society as a whole by providing greater access to research, data and methodologies.…

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Time for TIVA

Propofol target controlled infusion (TCI) was developed over 25 years ago. At this time, propofol was expensive, remifentanil hadn’t been launched and the technique seemed relatively complicated compared with the more traditional inhalational techniques that had served us quite well for more than a hundred years.…

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A mental health crisis in Lesbos

The RCPsych Article of the Month for December is from BJPsych International and is entitled ‘Headaches in Moria: a reflection on mental healthcare in the refugee camp population of Lesbos' by Tom Nutting.

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The Aeronautical Journal and the ICAS Congress

The Aeronautical Journal is unusual in ‘covering all aspects of aerospace’. This is something of a rarity nowadays, with conferences and journals aiming to attract high-profile experts by maximising specialist content – more ‘bang for the buck’, as the expression goes.…

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Food Studies and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

The kind of research and development in commercial food products that began in this era has clearly shaped our world today, not just in the products that we expect to see on market shelves but in our continual anticipation that there will be new products soon and that they will be improvements on the old ones...

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Rosetting revisited: exploring the evidence for host red blood cell receptors in malaria parasite rosetting

The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is Rosetting revisited: a critical look at the evidence for host erythrocyte receptors in Plasmodium falciparum rosetting Malaria claims the lives of almost half a million people worldwide every year, and millions more suffer the consequences of severe disease, including coma and severe anaemia.…

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On the Cover of HPL: Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide

An international team of scientific experts has gathered to examine the current status of ultra-high-powered lasers around the world and look to the future to predict what the next generation of laser systems will offer. The culmination of their work is a major review paper ‘Petawatt and Exawatt Class Lasers Worldwide’, which looks at the historical context of this technology, its current and future use, and direction.

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Meet Zygote’s Editor-in-Chief: Q&A with Brian Dale

Brian Dale is a British reproductive scientist living in Sorrento, Italy. He is the owner and Director of the Centre for Assisted Fertilization with offices in both Naples and Rome as well as being Director of London Fertility Associates Ltd in London.…

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EDUCAUSE – Conference Report

We sent the winner of this year’s Innovation in Librarianship Award, Breanne Kirsch, to EDUCAUSE in Chicago. Bree kindly agreed to write up a recap of the conference for CUP: Attending EDUCAUSE was a wonderful experience.…

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To Decide or Not to Decide- That is the Question

The Mental Capacity Act was always meant to be an enabling piece of legislation, providing carers, health and social care professionals, a legal umbrella to support what they have been doing for years when supporting individuals who lack capacity to make such decisions for themselves.

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The White Ant’s Burden

My article explores the different meanings of termites, or white ants, for the British empire in India... and shows how South Asians in the 19th and 20th centuries themselves internalised the British imperial rhetoric of white ants to pursue their own distinct political agendas.

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Tim Godfray retires from the Booksellers Association

On Wednesday 30th October, the London Library (a most appropriate venue) was filled with the chatter – and, no doubt, some more serious conversations – of 250 eminent and very diverse representatives of the bookselling and publishing industries, some from overseas, to celebrate the life’s work and achievements of Tim Godfray, who is standing down from his role as Chief Executive of the Booksellers Association after 47 years working at the BA, most of them as its CEO. …

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Why submit a Registered Report?

I was first approached about editing at Evolutionary Human Sciences (EHS) at the EHBEA meeting in Pecs, Hungary. I’d recently started submitting my own Registered Reports (RRs) and was enthusiastic about helping to spread what I was finding to be an incredibly valuable new format for doing and reporting science.…

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European Psychiatry: Embracing the Open Future

European Psychiatry is the official journal of the European Psychiatric Association. Launched in 1986 by Patrice Boyer, Julien-Daniel Guelfi and Yves Lecrubier, European Psychiatry has achieved a dynamic presence in the field by publishing cutting-edge clinical and biological research, by disseminating key policy and guidance documents and by stimulating and fostering debate amongst all stakeholders in mental health and neuroscience.…

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Announcing – Wearable Technologies

Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce a major new open access journal, Wearable Technologies, the first journal dedicated to publishing original research and industrial developments related to wearable devices.

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Journals Update 2019/2020

The upcoming year sees exciting change for Cambridge University Press’s journals line-up. In this blog post is a preview of brand new launch titles, titles that are switching to a fully Open Access model, and changes to how the Journal of Fluid Mechanics is published.…

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Colostrum provision to dairy calves

The animal article of the month for November is “Transfer of passive immunity in dairy calves: the effectiveness of providing a supplementary colostrum meal in addition to nursing from the dam” by Lora et al.…

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New journal to explore the “mysterious ecosystem” in our guts

A new open access journal from Cambridge University Press, published in partnership with The Nutrition Society, will explore the vital interaction between people and the complex community of microorganisms that live in our digestive systems The journal, Gut Microbiome, will look at the factors that influence this gut microbiota and how they in turn affect our health and development.…

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‘Great things are done when (Wo)Men & Mountains meet’. Cécile Morette and the Les Houches Summer School for Theoretical Physics (1951-1972)

This article explores the history of what was surely one of the strongest elements of that social apparatus, and one of the most innovative: the first and most effective ‘crash course’ in theoretical physics, the Les Houches School of Theoretical Physics, a summer school founded in 1951 by the young Cécile Morette (1922-1971), in a small alpine village.

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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.7

Dear Friends of the German Law Journal!  As we have mentioned more often than you probably like to hear, 2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of the German Law Journal (yes, the twentieth anniversary, did we mention that?),…

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What’s the beef with beef?

It’s fair to say that beef is getting a bad press at the moment. Hundreds of column inches have been dedicated to the argument that – whichever way you slice it – beef is bad for the planet.…

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