April 2020

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It’s safe to eat that organic beef!

Integrating organic cropping systems with livestock production can provide multiple benefits, including improving soil carbon sequestration to help mitigate climate change challenges, and providing an additional revenue stream.…

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100% ASPIRE score for Cambridge Core

Given recent international developments our lives have quickly become even more digitally dependent than we ever though they could be, and the issue of accessibility to digital resources has never been more recognisable as we respond to the challenge of working and learning while being physically separated from our peers and shared study spaces.…

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Brazil’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Brazil’s response to the coronavirus pandemic     Elize Massard da Fonseca, São Paulo School of Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) Francisco Inácio Bastos, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)     Brazil is known for its successful control of communicable infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis (Barreto et al.…

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The History of Laser Output Power Density Growth – 60th anniversary of the laser

For the 60th Anniversary of the first laser Dieter H.H. Hoffmann Editor-in-Chief of Laser and Particle Beams discusses the history of laser output power density growth. “Today Lasers are the optimum tool to concentrate energy in space and time. Already during the 1970s it became common knowledge that lasers are an ideal tool to generate states of high energy density, eventually high enough to induce thermonuclear fusion in a small sample of matter that can be contained in a reactor vessel.“

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Q&A with Rocío Alcalá-Quintana – Editorial Board Member for 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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Libraries in Lockdown: How have they adapted?

Within a matter of weeks the structure of many of our lives has changed. Communal spaces, schools and universities have closed, jobs may have been furloughed or lost, social interaction is more restricted and there are strict guidelines on how and where we work around the globe.…

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Austria’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic – a second perspective

HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic   Austria’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic – a second perspective (read the alternative report here)   Thomas Czypionka, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna (IHS), Austria and London School of Economics, UK Miriam Reiss, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna Isabel Pham, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna   Despite its fragmented healthcare system, strong federalism and relatively poor public health capacity, Austria has so far fared surprisingly well in the current crisis.…

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Greece’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic   Greece’s response to the coronavirus pandemic   Aris Angelis1, Ilias Kyriopoulos1, Irene Papanicolas1,2, Sotiris Vandoros2,3 1 Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK 2 Harvard T.H.…

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Phenology and plant diversity drive CO2 exchange in grasslands

The article Phenology and plant functional type dominance drive COexchange in seminatural grasslands in the Pyrenees is available free for a month in the Journal of Agricultural Science Grasslands play a crucial role in climate change mitigation, since they are the most widespread terrestrial habitat in the world, storing an important amount of soil carbon.…

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How to easily apply computational methods to the identification of drugs against trypanosomatid-caused diseases

The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is Computational approaches for drug discovery against trypanosomatid-caused diseases Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) caused by trypanosomatid parasites such as American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) and leishmaniasis affect millions of people worldwide, mainly in developing countries, and consequently produce a significant health, social and economic impact.…

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The Eurasian lactase persistence variant LCT-13910 C/T is associated with vitamin D levels in individuals living at high latitude, more so than exposure to sunlight

The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for March is from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is entitled: The Eurasian lactase persistence variant LCT-13910 C/T is associated with vitamin D levels in individuals living at high latitude, more so than exposure to sunlight by Amir Moghaddam.…

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Being a nurse

In times of health adversity the nurse has always been there, and now more than ever nurses are stepping up and out of there comfort zone to provide nursing care.…

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Strategies to Address Anaemia Among Pregnant and Lactating Women in India

The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for April is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Strategies to address anaemia among pregnant and lactating women in India: a formative research study’ by Pamela A Williams, Jon Poehlman, Katelin Moran, Mariam Siddiqui, Ishu Kataria, Anna Merlyn Rego, Purnima Mehrotra and Neela Saldanha.…

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