Many of us are discovering that working at home for a long stretch can be difficult. Staying productive and motivated is a challenge, and it is not always easy to find a routine to keep things running smoothly.…
amfori is a global business association bringing together over 2,400 retailers, brands and associations from more than 40 countries. Our membership contains organizations of all sizes and sectors with a combined turnover of more than one trillion euros.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for March is from BJPsych Open and is entitled ‘Social gradients in the receipt of medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and young people in Sheffield’ by Samuel Nunn.
In recent years, a progressive development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for Decision Support Systems (DSS) has taken place in the field of service and resource management.…
In the context of corporate accountability and remedy, the inequality of arms is an oft-cited concern. A corporate opponent is likely to have more financial resources, organization and access to relevant information in the pursuit and course of conflict resolution.…
Individuals, workers, communities, are all exposed to harm, and yet they are on the periphery of transnational regulation, even when they are its critical object.…
In recent years, there has been a considerable increase in attention paid to the benefits and pitfalls of using non-State-based grievance mechanisms as an avenue to seek remedy for business-related human rights abuse. …
There is a good deal of discussion these days about a change of paradigm in the prevailing business model of most companies.…
Associate Professor Panos Artemiadis, University of Delaware, Newark DE, answers our questions about his work and Cambridge University Press’s new journal Wearable Technologies.
The editors of Contemporary European History are delighted to announce the results of the 2019 CEH Prize, which was set up to encourage, recognize and promote high-quality research among postgraduate and early career scholars.…
About the author: Edward B. Barbier is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics, Colorado State University and a Senior Scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability.…
Experience in several states across Europe shows that the individual sense of whether COVID-19 represents an emergency situation that requires drastic, temporary, behavioral changes and social distancing (#stayathome) appears to differ starkly and, to a certain extent, is dependent on cultural patterns of socializing.…
Climate change is a key factor contributing to the likely extinction of the Greek Meadow Viper, a new study has found. …
As the world rushes to counter the continued spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), inevitably human rights will be put at odds with the protection of public health.…
In this case study, Sebastian Karcher and Diana Kapiszewski talk about their experience posting their research on APSA Preprints, the first partner area on our new early and open research platform Cambridge Open Engage.…
Many millions of homeowners use backyard feeders to attract birds, but researchers say there may be one downside to this popular hobby. …
As COVID-19 sweeps around the world, even initially recalcitrant governments are taking drastic action. This consists, in part, of protection for businesses, workers, homeowners and renters who may unable to meet their financial commitments and/or basic needs.…
An exciting new series has just appeared in Cambridge Elements focusing on Environmental Humanities, a new trans-disciplinary complex of approaches that reexamine our species’ history in light of the drastic climate changes that may end the Holocene period in which homo sapiens has flourished.…
This situation has developed further and there is an updated message available here. We are experiencing delays and disruption to some deliveries of our printed journals at different stages of the supply chain, due to the impact of the Covid-19 virus.…
Onna van den Broek & Adam William Chalmers “The 2019 David P. Baron Award has been awarded to Adam William Chalmers and Onna Malou van den Broek for their article “Financial volatility and public scrutiny as institutional determinants of financial industry firms’ CSR” (Volume 21, Issue 2)” The 2007 global financial crisis substantially changed the nature of the relationship between financial industry firms and society.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Associations between taste preferences and chronic diseases: a population-based exploratory study in China’ Authors: Hanqi Li, Peng Jia & Teng Fei discuss their research below.…
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.…
With the rising threat of the coronavirus COVID-19 and the recent advice from governments around the world, many people have found themselves facing the prospect of working from home for an extended period, possibly for the first time in their careers.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, on her visit to Italy in January 2020, outlined the issue of ‘caporalato’ as one of the main priorities of the Italian agricultural sector.…
The paper ‘The conservation value of forest fragments in the increasingly agrarian landscape of Sumatra’ has been chosen by the Editor-in-Chief as the latest addition to the EC Perspectives Collection The rainforests in Sumatra are among the most biodiverse places in the world, but they face considerable anthropogenic pressure.…
On January 27, 2017, one week after his inauguration, President Trump signed the “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” executive order which indefinitely suspends the resettlement of Syrian refugees, temporarily bans people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S.…
It’s on everybody’s lips – Covid-19, more commonly referred to as the Coronavirus! Perhaps, like me, you have been glued to the media networks, social media channels and other news outlets trying to understand the scale and scope of one of the biggest surprise pandemics of our times.…
Rogue Waves occur when a larger wave appears in a group of smaller waves. In some circumstances these can lead to an exaggerated ‘Spike Wave’, or a crashing wave resembling the Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.…
Following civil society organisations’ tireless efforts in Palestine and around the world, the UN Office of the High Commissioner fulfilled the mandate entrusted to it by the Human Rights Council in 2016 by recently publishing a list of 112 companies associated with Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).…
Alice of ‘wonderland’ and ‘looking glass’ fame is a creation of mathematician Charles Dodgson, better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll.…
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for January is from The British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled: ‘Maternal dietary selenium intake is associated with increased gestational length and decreased risk of preterm delivery’ by Malin Barman, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Staffan Nilsson & Margaretha Haugen, Thomas Lundh, Gerald F.…
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for February is from Proceedings of the Nutrition Society ‘Nutrition and gut health: the impact of specific dietary components – it’s not just five-a-day’ by Jonathan M Rhodes.…
Star-nosed moles are able to smell underwater by quickly exhaling and re-inhaling air bubbles as they search for prey. The bubbles are trapped close to the moles nostrils by a ring of tiny pink tentacles, which gives rise to the name ‘star-nosed’.…
Journals play a key role in the creation and preservation of the academic record. But do we still need them? There is an ongoing discussion in the community about whether all publicly funded research articles must be made freely available on publication, as a pre-final version (the accepted manuscript) if not the final published version.…
In the past few years there have been a range of national legislation and proposed legislation seeking to create corporate accountability for the human rights impacts of their activities.…
The animal article of the month for April is “LIFE BEEF CARBON: a common framework for quantifying grass and corn based beef farms’ carbon footprints” by O’Brien et al.…
The hashtag #primariessowhite has been trending in reference to the all-white, mostly male candidate pool for the Democratic presidential nomination. Little discussed is the fact that the demographics of the potential candidates is the result of institutional processes and procedures that artificially inflate the importance of white, middle class voters and suppress the political influence of racial and ethnic minorities by making harder for candidates of color to secure nominations and win offices.…
In honour of International Women’s Day, we have launched a dedicated collection of articles from Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.…
In honour of International Women’s Day, we have launched a dedicated collection of articles from Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.…
In honour of International Women’s Day, we have launched a dedicated collection of articles from Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.…
The mass extinctions at the end of the Ordovician took out up to 60% of marine genera – the second-most devastating extinction event of the Phanerozoic and the end of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE).…
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.…
This month, we’re approaching the launch of direct submission to Cambridge Open Engage, our new early research platform. As well as working with researchers to build the site over the last several months, a key piece of work has been designing our policies and procedures for moderating content.…
The article Visceral organ growth patterns in Saanen goats is available free for a month in the Journal of Agricultural Science Goat body composition and nutritional requirements are affected by many factors, such as animal developmental stage and hormonal differences between sexes, among others.…
International Women’s Day 2020 falls on Sunday, 8th March this year. In the run up to this date, each week day we’ll be highlighting one woman whose accomplishments in science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics not only elevated their fields but also took us one step closer to a gender-equal world.…
Welcome to our “Meet the Editors” series, where we interview the editorial team about their work and their relationship to the journal.…
Experimental Results is an open access journal providing a forum for findings that disclose the small incremental steps vitally important to experimental research; experiments and findings which have so far remained hidden.…
The effect of β-carotene supplementation on total mortality in male smokers depends on the smoking background and on the levels of vitamin C and E intakes according to a study published in Journal of Nutrition Science, read the article here.…
Policy is often depicted as prescription –a set of rules by which services and functions are carried out in the public sphere.…
Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (CJDA) contains over 1.2 million articles in over 450 journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.…
The paper ‘Wildlife Insights: A Platform to Maximize the Potential of Camera Trap and Other Passive Sensor Wildlife Data for the Planet’ has been chosen by the Editor-in-Chief as the latest addition to the EC Perspectives Collection I became a conservation biologist because of my passion for wildlife.…
Among the many narratives about political ramifications of racial and ethnic demographic change in the United States over the last several decades, the potential of Latinx population growth to shift the nature of politics in the states, and even the calculus of Presidential campaigns, gained prominence as Latinx population growth seemed concentrated in what were long considered Republican strongholds.…
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.…
Esteemed readers, dear friends, Wherever you are in these exceptional times, we hope that you and your loved ones are safe.…
A new Public Health Nutrition study, has found that when unhealthy food and drink brands sponsor kids’ sport programs parents are more likely to recognise, choose and view these brands in a positive light.
The Cambridge Academic Panels are recruiting academics to join their five customer panels’ librarian, student, higher education, academic and Cambridge Open Engage.…
Resistance to antibiotics has been declared a global health emergency – and it’s not just humans who are impacted by this public health crisis.…
'On collaboration and a new analysis of Sappho' - Patricia Rosenmeyer and Giuliana Ragusa describe their research, 'A DELICATE BRIDEGROOM: HABROSUNĒ IN SAPPHO, FR. 115V'.
Marlis Schweitzer, Editor of Theatre Survey, discusses the journal's bold new look.
Women’s History Month begins on 1 March 2020 and in recognition the Orlando textbase will be freely accessible without subscription for the entire month.…
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.…
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 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.…
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.…
Although the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic now feels like a distant memory, the political consequences of that period remain a critical lens through which we can understand voter behaviour in times of crisis.…
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
Welcome to our “Meet the Editors” series, where we interview the editorial team about their work and their relationship to the journal.…
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.
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.…
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.…
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.
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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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