Understanding the basic science of our brain’s endogenous cannabinoid chemistry–the natural marijuana-like chemistry that regulates the brain’s other neurotransmitters—is the critical and essential foundation needed to understand cannabis.
Until 25th May 2020 enjoy free access to Jon Whitman’s full article Fable and Fact: Judging the Language of Scripture (Judges 9:8–15) from Antiquity to Modernity, published by Harvard Theological Review in Volume 113, Issue 2.…
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.…
Cet article est une traduction réalisée avec l’aide de Pauline Hoerner de l’article de blog suivant : All Eyes on France – French Vigilance Law First Enforcement Cases (2/2) The Challenges Ahead, publié au Business and Human Rights Journal Blog en janvier 2020.…
Cet article est une traduction réalisée avec l’aide de Pauline Hoerner de l’article de blog suivant : All Eyes on France – French Vigilance Law First Enforcement Cases (1/2) Current Cases and Trends publié au Business and Human Rights Journal Blog en janvier 2020.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
We humans are funny things, with social norms prescribing action in all kinds of different contexts—norms about how long to hold eye contact, how to defecate, how to use land.
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.…
Referencing his article in vol.5, no.1 of the European Journal of International Security, Matthew Ford explores the roles of science and technology in warfare.…
By David K. Werho, MD (@DWerho) – Associate Editor, Social Media Cardiology in the Young (@CardiologyYoung) In their recently published article in Cardiology in the Young, titled “Challenges and lessons learned from the Pediatric Heart Network Normal Echocardiogram Database study,” (Truong, Dongngan, et al.…
Late last month, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) revoked its ban on imports from a Malaysian rubber gloves manufacturer accused of engaging in forced labour.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
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.…
The US Government’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is re-evaluating its policies and practices for public access to federally funded scholarly publications, data and code.…
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.“
Professor Dario Farina, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, answers our questions about his work and Cambridge University Press’s new journal Wearable Technologies.
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Mexico’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Gabriel Moreno-Esparza Northumbria University Mexico was the epicentre of the A/H1N1 influenza (swine flu) pandemic of 2009.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Kerala’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Hafiz Shahul Kerala’s model of healthcare is well known globally for producing good health at low cost.…
This article reviews the differing approaches to scientific publishing of Joseph Banks and Georg Forster, following James Cook’s 1775 2nd voyage of exploration.
The past years have seen a growing interest in the role of businesses in the protection of human rights and the environment.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
“Staying Here may be our only option during the current pandemic, but it would be too simple to declare this the only right answer for all time.”…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
The global pandemic Covid-19 has turned the world upside down. Although it is not nearly over, it has already taught all of us: businesses, States and civil society, lessons beyond the outbreak to correct market failures and reshape the global economy to be more inclusive and less of a pollutant.…
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.…
The animal article of the month for May is “Effect of altering ruminal pH by dietary buffer supplementation on methane emissions from sheep fed forage rape” by Sun et al.…
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.…
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.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Norway’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Terje P. Hagen and Bjørn Hofmann The first COVID-19 infected patient was identified on February 26 and was a female returning from China.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic China’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Xiaolin Wei Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada xiaolin.wei@utoronto.ca…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
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.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
The article Phenology and plant functional type dominance drive CO2 exchange 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.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has appealed for human rights to be front and centre of the coordinated international response to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
Behind every “grand challenge” there are 1000 “micro challenges” that need to be solved first. Digital technologies and services have become a normal part of everyday archaeological practice.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
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.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
Clearly, a 1-year-old man is young. Moreover, if someone is young at a given time, he is also young 1 second later—youth doesn’t vanish in 1 second.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
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.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
The first United States (US) human trials of a coronavirus vaccine began in March. These trials are being conducted by a research organisation in Seattle. …
A wild animal displaced from its natural environment enters into contact with other animals in a crowded market. It becomes the vector of a virus, previously unknown to the human body, which is later passed on to humans and starts spreading from person to person.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Denmark’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic The first Danish COVID-19 patient was diagnosed on February 27.…
Quick fire Q&A with new EiC for NRR
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.…
This post was originally published as part of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Update which can be accessed here.…
Special Issue on Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations Esteemed readers, dear friends, Corona is dominating our lives.…
In a world that is currently experiencing drastic disruption, responsible sharing of new research at an early stage is ever more important.…
Referencing their article in Volume 5, Number 1 of the European Journal of International Security, Soul Park and Kimberly Peh explore the nuances of North Korea’s nuclear diplomacy.…
International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife and World Health Day 2020 provides a wonderful opportunity to raise the profile of nurses and midwives.…
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.…
The global pandemic has shaken up our societies and global economy. It will run deep in every society worldwide for months and years to come.…
When I reflect on the theme for World Health Day 2020, I realise how far nurses and midwives have come in the past 50 years.…
Should Facebook users be treated equally? In late 2018, Mark Zuckerberg announced the creation of the Facebook Oversight Board (FOB), a purportedly independent global body that would adjudicate hard cases of content moderation on the platform.…
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 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.…
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.…
Long before Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, or Kamala Harris became the first woman vice president and launched her own presidential bid in 2024, another woman set her sights on the White House, at a time when women couldn’t even vote.…
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.…
Plenty has been written about the dog. Slobbery, goofy, embarrassingly friendly, with… well, everyone. Dogs are prominently featured in historic accounts and paintings, loaded down with ingratiating platitudes like “man’s best friend”.…
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.…
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.
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.…
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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