2020

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On the Cover of HPL: Ultra-broadband near-infrared NOPAs based on the nonlinear crystals BiBO and YCOB

Ultrashort and broadband laser sources are formidable tools for a wide range of scientific areas. In the field of ultrafast science, laser pulses lasting only a few optical cycles are used to generate secondary sources employed in probing matter at atomic scales. Such sources are also widely adopted in applications in ultrafast spectroscopy, pump-probe in chemistry, and optical coherence tomography among many other fields.

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Using CBT in Low and Middle Income countries

The December 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “Culturally adapted trauma-focused CBT-based guided self-help (CatCBT GSH) for female victims of domestic violence in Pakistan: feasibility randomized controlled trial” by Madeeha Latif, M.…

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Text and data mining on Cambridge Core

At Cambridge University Press, we believe that text and data mining is a powerful research tool with incredible potential. The use of machines and algorithms allow for analysis of information at scales, scopes, and levels of complexity that have previously been impossible to achieve.…

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Art and character: My Ancient Greek dinner guest

In discussing the interconnections of action and character (ethos) in tragedy, Aristotle praises the Greek painter Polygnotos for his “fine depiction of character” (Poetics 1450a27), contrasting his work with that of Zeuxis, who, famous for his realism, does not depict character.…

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Lysis and his life: My Ancient Greek dinner guest

Visiting museums has been difficult this year, so it is with even greater longing that I often think these days of what is, to me, one of the most moving objects to have survived from antiquity: the gravestone of ‘Lysis, son of Democrates, of the deme Aexone’ (to cite the inscription), dating from around 350 BC and preserved in the Museum of Piraeus.…

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Mapping Business and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe

Central and Eastern Europe has often been forgotten from business and human rights discourse. Unjustifiably so. Whereas some European countries have been the front-runners in developments in business and human rights standards, several challenges, including systematic business-related human rights abuses, have been prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).…

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Announcing the launch of Environmental Data Science

Environmental Data Science: a new open access venue for the transformative potential of AI and data science in addressing environmental challenges It’s my pleasure to announce the launch of Environmental Data Science, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the potential of artificial intelligence and data science to enhance our understanding of the environment and to address climate change. …

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The Political Theory of American Populism

The study of the late nineteenth-century American Populist movement has long been one of the liveliest fields in American historiography. This stature definitely is fitting for one of the most formidable social movements in American history – and an uncomfortable outlier to today’s anti-populist consensus.

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Bringing the Past to (Virtual) Life through Digital History Research and Pedagogy

The Mitford and Launditch Hundred House of Industry, now the Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum, presents the historian with major opportunities for (re)imagining the past. Our digital modelling necessitated pulling off the mask it currently wears as a museum, stripping away the residue of its time as a twentieth-century Old Age Home, and uncovering the architectural and functional changes that turned it into a Union Workhouse of the New Poor Law period, after 1834.

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Creating a healthier food environment in Singapore: Analysis

Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Identifying implementation gaps and priorities for the Singapore government to improve food environment policies:  perspectives from a local expert panel’ In March 2018 we invited a panel of 20 national experts in public health nutrition or chronic disease prevention to evaluate the actions of the Singapore’s governments in creating healthier food environments.…

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Understanding the Mexica

Articles in Ancient Mesoamerica offer insights about the Mexican highlands before, during, and after the Mexica took control of it. In only a couple hundred years, they created an empire that stretched from coast to coast in ancient Mesoamerica.…

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Health care in a post-growth world

COVID-19 has placed the world on an economic rollercoaster unlike anything seen for generations.  As the reality that COVID-19 and its effects will likely be with us for years to come, people and societies around the world long for a “return to normal”. …

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The paradox of defence diplomacy in Southeast Asia

Drawing on their article for the European Journal of International Security, Jun Yan Chang and Nicole Jenne discuss ‘The paradox of defence diplomacy in Southeast Asia’ Defence diplomacy is usually promoted as a cooperative activity between the armed forces and related infrastructure of different states to build trust and confidence between said states.…

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Why remember the fifth of November?

It shows that the king did not share the interpretation of the Gunpowder plot and the purposes of thanksgiving which were propounded by parliament and by generations of English preachers and writers... as further justification for anti-catholic beliefs and policies.

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Framing the Future of Environmental Conservation

The paper ‘Framing conservation: ‘biodiversity’ and the values embedded in scientific language, published in Environmental Conservation, has been chosen as the latest addition to the Editor’s Choice Collection We all know that political groups are very thoughtful about how they frame the issues that matter to them.…

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Afrophobia

When, in September 2019, the editors of the Journal of Modern African Studies invited Professor Moses Ochonu, a historian at Vanderbilt University, to write a brief on recurrent xenophobia in South Africa, we were unsettled by the apparent contradiction between repeated attacks on individuals from other African countries, and the idea of Ubuntu, a philosophical insistence on Afro-human solidarity championed most vigorously within the South African academy.

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Listening to our authors

How our author surveys have helped to improve our publishing processes Since August 2018 our Author care team have sent email surveys to our book authors asking for both the likelihood they would recommend publishing with Cambridge University Press to a friend or colleague, and what their reasons were for this answer.…

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APSR Editorial Report – Fall 2020

Prior to the beginning of our tenure, we set out a vision statement for the APSR revolving around six principles. One of these principles is editorial transparency, specifically as it refers to sharing with our community information about our editorial workflow and characteristics of our authors, reviewers, and readership during our tenure.…

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Hegel in Kyoto

Why is there something rather than nothing? The fact of existence cannot be explained by an appeal to any beings, since this would assume what it wants to prove.…

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Practicing Remote Science

COVID-19 related travel restrictions and social distancing protocols have precluded many archaeological field projects in the past six months. And while conferences and meetings can be taken to the virtual realm, the challenges facing those of us whose work is founded on field-based research are becoming readily apparent.…

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Remote Delivery of CBT Training, Clinical Supervision and Services: In Times of Crisis or Business As Usual

The October 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Remote delivery of CBT training, clinical supervision and services: in times of crisis or business as usual” by Paul Cromarty, Dominic Gallagher and Julianne Watson.…

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September Updates from the Library Marketing Team

Welcome to September’s Library Newsletter featuring upcoming events, noteworthy new products and launches within the library community. New Journals Homepage design Over the last year, the Cambridge Core team have been working on new designs for our journal content landing pages.Following…

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