As modern Greeks undertake to reconstruct the Parthenon, largely using stone material from the site’s ruins, a question naturally arises: How did ancient Greeks construct massive temples and other buildings — lifting and placing one heavy block at a time, and up multiple rows in a wall — without modern advanced machinery?…
This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
A few years ago, I opted to take on the overwhelming task of organizing and digitizing the records associated with the legacy collections at the Natural History Museum of Utah.…
Surveys taken 11 years apart show a 13 per cent improvement in the quality of foods consumed by Canadian children during school hours, a new study published in Public Health Nutrition has found.
When trying to choose the science and the scientists that shaped the 20th century, many think about nuclear energy and the near mythical names of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, or perhaps about the revolution caused by molecular biology and the almost magical DNA and its 1953 discovery by James Watson and Francis Crick.…
A study conducted at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, and published in the British Journal of Nutrition demonstrates benefits of green banana biomass consumption in subjects with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes.
How are dandelion seeds able to travel distances of over 150km across oceans, with only small feathery bristles and the power of the wind?…
The experiments that students first encounter at college or university can be real passion-killers, consisting of time-worn experiments, supplied with detailed and prescriptive instructions leading to predictable and uninspiring outcomes. When students become truly active in their pursuit of learning they become immersed in processes and practices core to science and engineering.
The paper: “Ancient parasitic DNA reveals Toxascaris leonina presence in Final Pleistocene of South America“ is freely available for a month.…
This special issue aims to advance the quality, diversity and understanding of qualitative research methods in management in the context of emerging markets (EMs).…
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for August is from Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and is entitled ‘Different physiological mechanisms underlie an adverse cardiovascular disease risk profile in men and women’.
Citrus fruits contain small pockets of liquid which burst upon contact releasing a jet of strong smelling oil into the air.…
Beyond its theoretical contribution, this work also has signi cant practical impact. It provides new and important insight into how to adapt and optimize the performance of compressed sensing in practical applications. It introduces a new generation of sampling strategies based on multilevel random sampling which are both theoretically optimal and outperform previous state-of-the-art approaches in practice. It has led to new approaches in MRI, NMR, uorescence microscopy and helium atom scattering which offer signi cant performance gains.
In the year 1781 the problem of optimal transport was first formally discussed by the French mathematician Gaspard Monge. The major point in this field is the task of transforming a probability measure into another one in the way that consumes least energy.…
It’s no surprise to any internet user that the way we communicate is rapidly changing. For example, in the distant past, we learned the news of the world by reading a few paragraphs of tiny text in hard copies of newspapers.…
Air-tables create a thin film of air capable of supporting objects and causing them to levitate. By adding grooves to the table or the object, Professor John Hinch at the University of Cambridge was able to control the objects motion and describe the resultant acceleration in terms of a simple scaling relationship involving gravity and the aspect ratio.…
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is ‘Parasitological research in the molecular age‘ by Christian Selbach, Fátima Jorge, Eddy Dowle & Robert Poulin Technological developments often provide new tools for scientific advances.…
Our article investigates the provenance and significance of the manuscript, showing how its content reveals that Locke is commenting on a book by Sir Charles Wolseley (1629/30-1714) called Liberty of conscience, the magistrates interest (1668), as a way of asking whether Catholics can be tolerated.
I was obviously intrigued to be part of this team [of authors], as there was no question in my mind that Ali [Niknejad] and Gernot [Hueber] will be doing a great job in terms of organizing an effort to create the first book on millimeter-wave circuits for 5G applications
Using the surface tension of water and a hydrophobic coating on their legs, many insects are able to walk on water.…
Due to the range of size, density, and resolution demands associated with industrial X-ray radiography, there is not a source that is “one-size fits all”... Altering the source characteristics to deliver what is needed requires continued study. This publication explores the X-ray emission from spatially constrained targets compared to standard foil targets. The research results are published in High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Volume 7, No. 2, 2019 (Armstrong, C. D. , et al. Bremsstrahlung emission from high power laser interactions with constrained targets for industrial radiography.)
The animal article of the month for September is 'Invited review: Application of meta-omics to understand the dynamic nature of the rumen microbiome and how it responds to diet in ruminants' Demand for meat and milk is predicted to double by 2050 and meeting this increased demand represents a “grand challenge for humanity”. Ruminants are among the most widely adapted livestock on earth, inhabiting outdoor environments from the arctic to the tropics.
Freezing bubbles are not only beautiful, but also demonstrate incredibly complex physics. Here, Professor Jonathan Boreyko explains how bubbles freeze with examples of slow motion videos filmed in his laboratory at Virginia Tech.…
On July 16, 2019, the UN open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (the “Working Group”) published a revised draft of a binding treaty on business and human rights.…
Measuring the forces present in an avalanche using light. Amalia Thomas from the University of Cambridge explains how to measure the forces between colliding particles in an avalanche based on their photo-elastic response and refractive index.
“The faculty and staff at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) have a great tradition of meeting at a remote location to discuss new research directions for our center. It was during one of these meetings in Sausalito, CA (December 2013) that the vision for “xG” was born; see the figure below. To explain the origin of this figure, as a wireless research center, we are always looking at the world of wireless communication and trying to guess (and hopefully set) the research agenda in the right direction. We were compelled by a vision that involved the use of very high frequencies (mm-wave frequencies) to allow hundreds if not thousands of antennas to be integrated into small basestations (or access points) that formed a directional wireless mesh network, obviating the need for a fiber backhaul.”
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: 'Are our diets getting healthier and more sustainable? Insights from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition – Netherlands (EPIC-NL) cohort'
The brazil nut effect describes the movement of large particles to the top of a container after shaking. The same effect also occurs in avalanches where large blocks of ice and rocks are seen on the surface, and in a box of cereal where the large pieces migrate to the top and the smaller dusty particles remain at the bottom.
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for July is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Effects of a multipronged beverage intervention on young children’s beverage intake and weight: a cluster-randomized pilot study’.
In every thought, reason depends on the imagination to represent, envision, combine, create, and produce. Yet the imagination remains an incidental concept at best in standard philosophical discourse.…
Imagine a business culture that could exist—but doesn’t (at least, not yet). If you could design that culture, what would it look like?…
The killing of Solomon Tekah, an 18 year-old Ethiopian-Israeli, shot to death by a police officer, led to mass demonstrations. Young Israelis of Ethiopian descent voiced their frustrations and anger with what they described as racism and police brutality.…
Five-time Olympic Biathlon Skiing Champion Martin Fourcade enlisted the help of two scientists - Caroline Cohen and Christophe Clanet at Ecole Polytechnique - to help to decide the best type of wax to use on his skis in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Here's how they did it...
This post is part one of the first in a symposium that the BHRJ blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
Due to globalization, organizations are increasingly operating in multicultural and multinational contexts. In 21st century, the metaphor of a ‘flat world’ comprehensively represents the contemporary business world.…
It’s hard to imagine our life without digital technology – at the click of a mouse or touch of a screen, the world is at our fingertips – that is, if you can control a mouse… and see the screen… and hear the audio – in other words, if you don’t have a disability of some sort.…
Around the world, policy-makers are confronted with various challenges originating from climate change, urbanisation, population growth, as well as technological and economic change.…
Female musicians from the northern islands of Vanuatu use the water surface as an instrument to create a variety of unique sounds – slap, plunge, plow – which they accompany with singing.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight ‘Assessing general public and policy influencer support for healthy public policies to promote healthy eating at the population level in two Canadian provinces’.
This post is part one of the first in a symposium that the BHRJ blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
Women's empowerment is now an established feature of the debate at the WTO. Over the years, the WTO has worked to further strengthen the role of trade in empowering women; to assess the impact of international trade on women's economic development; to make trade as inclusive as possible and thus to contribute to the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Corporate codes have increased extensively over the last three decades, significantly, as a response to the legal requirements that were developed in response to financial and business scandals.…
Vortex ring collisions are incredibly beautiful and also incredibly complex. Ryan McKeown of Harvard University explains his amazing experiments visualising colliding vortex rings and their transition to turbulence.…
Indonesia is the only country in Southeast Asia to be a member of the G20 and, in the first quarter of 2019, was recorded as having the third-largest economic growth among the G20 countries, which was 5.07 percent.…
This year’s Academic Book Trade Conference was held at the Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth, on 9th – 10th May. …
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.…
Have you taken a direct-to-consumer ancestry test and had an unexpected or shocking result? Perhaps your ancestors were from a different part of the globe than you expected, or you found a long-lost relative.…
Evolution has shaped women’s ovulatory cycles to be characterised by complex recurring physiological processes of changing hormones and organ tissue. However, these changes often bring about unwanted aspects – be it premenstrual symptoms such as mood swings, feeling bloated or anxious, menstrual pain, or – still way too often – menstrual shame.…
Introduction In his National Day Message 2024 delivered on 8 August, the Prime Minister of Singapore Lawrence Wong referred to the current status of Singapore: “[W]e transformed Singapore into a first-world success story…As a developed economy, we cannot expect to grow as rapidly as before…59 years ago, we were a third-world nation with paltry means whether to earn a living or to defend ourselves.”…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Denmark’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic The first Danish COVID-19 patient was diagnosed on February 27.…
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.
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
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.…
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
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