Technologies of indecision and ambiguity
Referencing his article in the latest issue of the European Journal of International Security (EIS), Rune Saugmann writes on ‘military techno-vision’.…
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Battling Glyphosate-Resistant Kochia: Research shows sugarbeet growers must think beyond herbicides
Kochia has become one of the most problematic weeds in the U.S. – now resistant to at least four herbicide sites of action.…
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Inside the DMZ: Exploring Militarized Masculinities Through Visual Autoethnography
Referencing his article in the latest issue of the European Journal of International Security, Professor Roland Bleiker examines how everyday aesthetic sensibilities can open up new ways of thinking about security dilemmas.…
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Lost in Revision: Gender Symbolism in Vision 3 and Similitude 9 of the Shepherd of Hermas
Until 30th November 2019 get FREE access to Lora Walsh’s full article ‘Lost in Revision: Gender Symbolism in Vision 3 and Similitude 9 of the Shepherd of Hermas’ from Harvard Theological Review, Volume 112, Issue 4 If you’re a writer, how long do you spend in the revision stage?…
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Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy in History
This special issue of Business History Review uses medieval, 19th century and 20th century examples to show that the union of entrepreneurship and philanthropy has a long history.
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Focus on Neurodiversity: How can employment practices be transformed to be inclusive for all individuals?
The last decade has seen a remarkable opening of new job opportunities for people who are neurodiverse – a subset of the general population that historically has experienced un- and underemployment rates as high as 85–90%.…
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Closing the yield gap: Why localised analysis matters
The population in Central America is rising rapidly, but staple crop production seems unable to keep up with increasing food demand.…
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Watch: Simulating turbulence over canopies to improve air quality
By improving our understanding of turbulent flow over canopies we can design better cities to improve air quality. This is just one of the applications of the work of Alfredo Pinelli, a professor at City University of London working on Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of turbulence.…
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The ‘ideal’ diplomat: the role of Irish women at the League of Nations and United Nations, 1923-76
Using the League of Nations and United Nations as case studies, my article identifies the women involved in Irish diplomacy and the roles they undertook between 1923 and 1976.
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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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Watch: Building Squid and Octopus Robots for Underwater Exploration
Current underwater vehicles are rigid in structure which limits their suitability for many tasks required for ocean exploration. Francesco Giorgio-Serchi is working with a team at the University of Southampton to design new robots based on squids and octopuses that are made entirely from silicone.…
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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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From ‘nice girls’ to ‘cool girls’: Teenage sexuality in mid-twentieth-century England
Drawing upon original oral histories and reflective testimonies collected as part of the Mass Observation Project, my article explores the ways in which teenage girls’ friendship groups and extended network of classmates and peers shaped their sexual lives.
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New Open Access future for Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences from 2020
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences (EPS) is an international, peer-reviewed journal established in 1992 by Michele Tansella. It was originally intended to promote the use of an epidemiological approach to the study of all aspects related to the promotion of mental health, and to the prevention and treatment of mental disorders.…
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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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Watch: Why shaking your head will NOT remove water from your ear
Removing water from your ear canal by shaking requires an acceleration 10 times that of gravity according to research from Sunny Jung at Virginia Tech (now Cornell).…
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The challenges of openness, transparency and impact in a data-driven world
Data science is a broad, interdisciplinary field being that in the UK is being shaped by the activities of the Turing Institute.…
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Why do some psychiatrists thrive and not others?
The RCPsych Article of the Month for October is from BJPsych Bulletin and is entitled ‘Personal resilience in psychiatrists: systematic review’ by Ranjita Howard, Catherine Kirkley and Nicola Baylis.
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Making the roadmap public: Cambridge Open Engage
We’re making the roadmap for Cambridge Open Engage public. Here’s the explanation for why we’re doing this: What is Cambridge Open Engage?…
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Is Extinction Rebellion the answer to our prayers?
Throngs of young (and not so young) people refusing to pretend that the human race is not in the most serious crisis it has ever faced.…
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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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Librarian Perspectives: Professor Katsunori Iino, University of Bukkyo, Japan
An interview with Professor Katsunori Iino, Library Specialist, the University of Bukkyo, Japan Q: You have an unusual job title, at least to Western eyes.…
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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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The Materials Research Society Congratulates the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 winners
Copyright © Nobel Media 2019. Illustration: Niklas Elmeh Congratulations to John B. Goodenough, The University of Texas at Austin, M.…
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Meet the Editors: Q&A with Professor Stephen Phillips MBE, Editor-in-Chief of Parasitology
Welcome to our “Meet the Editors” series, where we interview the editorial team about their work and their relationship to the journal.…
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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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How do China-US rivalry and de-globalization affect Chinese business?
The international context of business has shifted markedly in recent years, with globalization under US hegemony giving way to the twin forces of de-globalization and a growing Sino-American rivalry.…
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Islam and the Middle East – an article collection from Renaissance Quarterly
The editors of Renaissance Quarterly are pleased to provide free access to the following selection of articles relating to Islam and the Middle East during the Early Modern period.
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Low intelligence linked to suicide risk later in life
People with low emotional control and low scores on intelligence tests in adolescence run a higher risk of suicide later in life.…
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Ognjen awarded MRS Bulletin Postdoctoral Publication Prize
MRS Bulletin is pleased to announce that Ognjen Ilic has been selected to receive the 2019 MRS Bulletin Postdoctoral Publication Prize.
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African Presidents Have a History Too
Whenever an African president is elected, re-elected, leaves power or dies in office, the almost unlimited scope of presidential power in African countries is, once again, on the agenda.…
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Crowdfunding an Open Access book
At Cambridge, we’re committed to creating Open Access publications and we’re keen to experiment and explore all options for making this happen.…
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Quarterly Highlight: The Lengthy Journey towards a Treaty on Business & Human Rights
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.…
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The Meaning and Telos of Israel’s Election: An Interfaith Response to N.T. Wright’s Reading of Paul
Until 5th November 2019, get free access to Joel Kaminsky and Mark Reasoner’s full article ‘The Meaning and Telos of Israel’s Election: An Interfaith Response to N.T.…
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Bank Identity: Banks, ID Cards, and the Emergence of a Financial Identification Society in Sweden
Today almost every adult in Sweden has a digital BankID, issued by banks for the purpose of ensuring safe payments. However, a BankID is also a pre¬requisite for contacts with for example municipal schools, and the public healthcare system.…
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The deeper meaning of the Ukrainian scandal
Before we know if the impeachment attempt of President Trump will go anywhere, the American voters seem to face the choice of two presidential hopefuls, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, both accused of exercising undue influence over the judiciary in another country, Ukraine.…
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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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Tyrolean stigmata in England: the voyage of the supernatural in the nineteenth century
Two young women in villages less than ten miles apart drew international attention from devout Catholics and sensation seekers.
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Product co-creation: together we can build something wonderful
Co-creation is not a new idea. For years companies have been seeking advice from their customers about how they can improve their products and services, either by asking directly, by quietly listening, or by learning from data.…
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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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Development of a diet quality score reflecting the 2017 French dietary guidelines
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for October is from the British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Programme National Nutrition Santé – guidelines score 2 (PNNS-GS2): development and validation of a diet quality score reflecting the 2017 French dietary guidelines’
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
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.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
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.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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How a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention improved women’s mental health
Maria is a smallholder farmer in rural Singida, Tanzania. We worked together for the past few years on the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP-Tz), a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention that sought to improve children’s diet. In it, farmers learned about and experimented with sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity using an integrated and participatory curriculum
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What wild monkeys in The Gambia can teach us about intestinal parasites (and why it matters to us)
From 99 faecal samples we identified 21 species of intestinal parasites – everything from common worms to various protozoa and amoebae. Overall, seven in ten monkeys harboured at least one parasite, and Guinea baboons averaged nearly three different species apiece.
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How did Down syndrome get its name?
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
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).…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
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.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
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.…
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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Medieval Ethiopia, ‘Antiquity’, and African Archaeology
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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Experimenting with tablet-making
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.
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