February 2020

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animal Special Issue: Ruminant Physiology

On behalf of the organizing committee of the XIIIth International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology (ISRP) we are pleased to announce the special issue of animal with 18 review papers which highlighted the different sections of this symposium.…

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The unexpected interplay among humans, elephants and worms

The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is Strongylid infection varies with age, sex, movement and social factors in wild African elephants Thankfully new knowledge was gleaned from the instances when I army-crawled up to fresh dung in undrivable areas, or wrestled once again to neatly put the chronic diarrhea of R8.00 (more affectionately known as T.…

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Cambridge Open Engage – a new platform to advance your research

Cambridge Open Engage is the new early research platform from Cambridge University Press. It is designed to provide researchers with space to connect and collaborate with their communities, disseminate early research, including conference posters, data, as well as other types of open content such as grey literature and make preprints more discoverable.…

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One year of Elements!

Cambridge University Press celebrates the first anniversary of one of their latest concepts in academic publishing, Elements  Last month, Cambridge Elements, the short-format publishing program turned one.…

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Corporate Capture and Solidarity during Occupation: The Case of the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Corporate capture, ‘the means by which an economic elite undermine the realization of human rights and the environment by exerting undue influence over domestic and international decision-makers and public institutions,’ is a concept developed by ESCR-Net to understand the extent and mechanisms of corporate influence being exerted over State and international bodies in the modern neoliberal age.…

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Arguing about sets

Sets are ubiquitous and familiar: children get acquainted with sets of objects surrounding them very early on; secondary school students typically encounter sets of natural numbers and sets of real numbers in their maths curriculum. …

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Shame and the medical identity

The RCPsych Article of the Month for February is from BJPsych Bulletin and is entitled ‘Addressing shame: what role does shame play in the formation of a modern medical professional identity?’ by Sandy Miles. 

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Q&A with Steven Gilmour, Editorial Board Member of Experimental Results, Mathematics, Statistics & Probability Section

This is the latest of an ongoing series of interviews with people involved with our new Open Access journal, Experimental Results – a forum for short research papers from experimental disciplines across Science, Technology and Medicine, providing authors with an outlet for rapid publication of small chunks of research findings with maximum visibility.…

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Adventures in English Syntax – an author’s perspective

Adventures in English Syntax – the author’s perspective Robert Freidin, Princeton University, New Jersey   The seed for this book was planted almost 60 years ago when my 10th grade English teacher taught us the elements of English sentence structure: prepositional phrases and relative clauses; finite vs.…

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No Safe Space: Neoliberalism and the Production of Violence in the Lives of Central American Migrants

Central American migration is not a new phenomenon. While the contexts causing people to leave the region, primarily the Northern Triangle, have changed over time, they remain interconnected in that the historical “push factors” for migration out of Central America laid the foundations for the migratory flows we are seeing now.…

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The Case for Illegal Immigration

On 4th February Donald Trump delivered what may be his last State of the Union. He is facing a tough election later in the year and it comes as no surprise that his address was chock full of themes to get his base frothing at the mouth, among which was illegal immigration.…

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Watch: Tracking Beetles using the Sound of their Wings

The Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle is an invasive species that if left alone would decimate citrus crops across California. To prevent this from happening, John Allen and his team at the University of Hawai’i have been working to hunt the insects down before they are able to reach the West Coast of the USA.…

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Q&A with Melissa Birkett, Reviewing Editor of Experimental Results, Psychology & Psychiatry Section

This is the latest of an ongoing series of interviews with people involved with our new Open Access journal, Experimental Results – a forum for short research papers from experimental disciplines across Science, Technology and Medicine, providing authors with an outlet for rapid publication of small chunks of research findings with maximum visibility.…

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Free access to coronavirus research

The outbreak of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China and its subsequent spread has been declared a Global Health Emergency. In response, the Press has made a collection of over 70 relevant book chapters and journal articles freely available on its website.…

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