2019 was a bumper year for the publications of the Materials Research Society, and we are delighted to announce that all three journals included in the Journal Citation Reports significantly increased their Impact Factors, usage and website visits.…
Experimental Results is a truly innovative project for Cambridge University Press – it is the first of our journals to have an open peer review process, as well as being designed to address the positive bias and replication issues often seen with traditional journals, by providing a forum for all sound experimental findings across Science, Technology & Medicine.…
In this post Lawrie Balfour expands on her 2003 American Political Science Review article ‘Unreconstructed Democracy: W.E.B. DuBois and the Case for Reparations‘.…
As the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions put in place to attempt containment drag on, around 200,000 merchant seafarers are trapped aboard ships in violation of international law.…
Associate Professor He (Helen) North Carolina State University, answers our questions about her work and Cambridge University Press’s new journal Wearable Technologies
Higher Education from Cambridge University Press is our new online textbook website, launched in August 2020. In recent months Cambridge University Press has introduced a new set of strategies to support changing teaching and learning needs as higher education institutions prepare for a more digitally driven future in the wake of pandemic.…
Archaeologists have used maps for quite a long while, and with good reason. People, their communities, and their things are situated in places.…
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) recently referred to asymptomatic transmissions of COVID-19 as “very rare”. This raised a furious scientific debate, which led WHO to walk back its comments and clarify that people without symptoms can and do readily spread the virus.…
The manufacturing process for toothpaste involves mixing together several fluid and solid components to create the non-Newtonian polymer used to clean your teeth.…
Worldwide suicide is most common in young people, and in many places rates of self-harm and suicide are rising, especially in girls. With this in mind, we wanted to explore the characteristics of suicide in young people, including gender differences and contacts with services that could play a part in prevention.
In this blog for Data-Centric Engineering, Paul Clarke (Chief Technology Officer at Ocado) documents Ocado’s journey with building synthetic models of its business, its platforms and its underlying technologies, including the use of simulations, emulations, visualisations and digital twins.…
In this post Dean Knox, Will Lowe, and Jonathan Mummolo expand upon their APSR article ‘Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing‘ which was recently published online.…
Termites live underground in termite mounds to protect themselves from the heat of the desert, but how do they keep their mounds cool?…
Before a tornado forms the pressure drop at the centre emits a dull tone at 5-10Hz which can be detected hours before it becomes dangerous.…
For many the lockdown has been an opportunity for thought, reading and writing – perhaps while queuing to enter the supermarket, after putting the kids to sleep, or while pedalling madly on the spot.…
Juneteenth is a not-yet-national holiday that commemorates June 19th, 1865, the day Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved descendants of abducted Africans were now freed.…
My article discusses how this approach of ‘conservation by slaughter’ – as one high-profile ecologist called it – managed to gain traction.
Prehistory is all about taking the long view. But living in this maelstrom that perspective is difficult. The pandemic affects all archaeologists; from the closure of heritage sites, to furloughing staff, the added workload of rapidly devising online teaching, cancelling exhibitions, the disruption to research students because museum collections, libraries, and laboratories are closed, and fieldwork postponed.…
“I would like to be free, as a man is free. Like a man who needs to wander with his fantasies and who finds this space only in his democracy, that has the right to vote and spends his life delegating and in receiving commands has found his new freedom” (Giorgio Gaber, “la Libertà”, 1973) Delegation is a very common act in our everyday life: We delegate tasks to our colleagues in the workplace.…
In the eighteenth century, the potato was viewed by many European countries as an exotic vegetable, introduced with numerous purposes: as animal feed, as a delicacy, and as a crop suitable for peasants and farm labourers to cultivate in small gardens and allotments.
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is “Messenger RNAs with large numbers of upstream Open Reading Frames are translated via leaky scanning and reinitiation in the asexual stages of Plasmodium falciparum“ Malaria, an ancient disease, continues to infect millions of humans worldwide, with Plasmodium falciparum parasites being the causative agents of the majority of severe malaria cases and fatal outcomes.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for June is from BJPsych Bulletin and is entitled ‘The Parliamentary Scholar Scheme: a way to engage doctors in healthcare policy and politics’ by Jen Perry, Paul Lomax, Fiona Taylor, Susan Howson and Kathleen McCurdy.
Until 15th July read Christopher B. Barnett’s full article “The “Lonely Game”: Baseball, Kierkegaard, and the Spiritual Life” from Horizons, Volume 47, Issue 1 In August 2010, David Bentley Hart published a short essay entitled “The Perfect Game: The Metaphysical Meaning of Baseball.”[1]…
The animal Article of the Month for July is “Metabolic hormones, grazing behaviour, offspring physical distance and productive response of beef cow grazing at two herbage allowances” by M.…
The parliamentary tug-of-war over the ‘Responsible Business Initiative’ (RBI) has come to a preliminary end. It is now certain that the Swiss public will vote on the popular initiative, which aspires to introduce the responsibility of businesses for human rights and the environment abroad into the Swiss Federal Constitution.…
The overexploitation and pollution of natural resources and accelerating climate change are among the greatest challenges of the present. Against this backdrop, industries are more and more prone to taking sustainability aspects into account.…
The British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) has awarded the Wallace Breem Memorial Award 2020 to Lesley Dingle, from the University of Cambridge’s Squire Law Library, for her work in establishing and developing the Eminent Scholars Archive (ESA).…
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from The British Journal of Psychiatry finds that past stressors and traumatic events increase vulnerability to mental illnesses, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD).
The difficult climate of contemporary academia (research exercises, managerialism, limited funding, etc) can be especially harsh for early career scholars. This is even more true in these extraordinary times of academic social distancing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which they are forced to work from home without their friends, colleagues and supervisors.…
Last year This time last year, the British & Irish Assocation of Law Librarians (BIALL) met on the south coast of England for its annual conference in the setting of the Bournemouth International Centre to celebrate 50 years since the establishment of the Association in 1969.…
The COVID-19 crisis is an unprecedented one in terms of its reach and pervasiveness, and it exposed the vulnerabilities of the global social, political, and economic system. That said, its impact on countries has been uneven and this unevenness depended heavily on the position countries were in immediately prior to the crisis. In Turkey, the key issue of youth un/employment emerged as one of the long-lasting ones since it was a major challenge before the crisis. Policy-making emerged as another key issue as the ability to generate long-term planning escaped Turkey and countries alike for a while. Regardless of when we will get past the pandemic, the post-COVID-19 world will be an extremely difficult one.
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Paul Thomas and JP Lewis; “Executive Creep in Canadian Provincial Legislatures”. Please give us a nutshell summary of your nominated article, “Executive Creep in Canadian Provincial Legislatures”.…
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Eric Helleiner; “Conservative Economic Nationalism and the National Policy: Rae, Buchanan and Early Canadian Protectionist Thought.”…
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Luc Turgeon, Antoine Bilodeau, Stephen E. White and Ailsa Henderson; “A Tale of Two Liberalisms?…
Last year the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) celebrated its 50th anniversary. A year on and the feature article in the spring 2020 issue of Legal Information Management (LIM) marks 50 years since the journal was launched in 1970.…
South Texas is a hyperdiverse region with wide variations in landscapes and native species. But that diversity is being threatened by invasive, exotic grasses.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Awareness of marketing for high fat, salt, or sugar (HSFF) foods, and the association with higher weekly consumption among adolescents: A rejoinder to the UK Government’s consultations on marketing regulation’.…
Supporting the mental health and well-being of staff and students is a priority of libraries and institutions around the world, however the coronavirus pandemic has meant an even greater focus on providing support and solutions.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘More to Offer than Books: Stakeholder Perceptions of a Public Library-Based Meal Program’
The Gilded Age itself, and the progressive policies it led to, have made capitalism bearable for most who live under it.
A decade of EBA Over the last 10 years the Cambridge University Press Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) model has evolved into the simplest and most cost-effective approach to acquire ebooks in a fact-based way.…
The gentle purr of the turtle dove Streptopelia turtur was once a common sound of summer across Europe. But sadly, like many migratory birds that winter in Africa and breed in Europe, this species has suffered enormous population declines.…
This is the third blog in a series in which we ask libraries around the world about their sustainability policies and experiences.…
June’s Paper of the Month is from the British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled: ‘Dietary approach to stop hypertension (DASH) diet and associated socioeconomic inequalities in the United Kingdom’ by Linia Patel, Gianfranco Alicandro and Carlo La Vecchia.…
We live in an age of great political fortunes. It is hardly the first. During the 1860s and 1870s, party politics was an enticing way for the ambitious to get rich quick.
Pity me, pitiable in many ways, I who am crying out, weeping like a girl, and no one can say he saw this man do such a thing before, but though racked with torments I never would lament!…
The importance of functional traits to explain ecological processes in natural or artificial plant communities has become a major topic as reflected in the continuously growing trait databases (e.g.…
When Kathryn Clancy and colleagues published the results of their SAFE survey, many of us who conduct field research were not surprised by the numbers.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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”.…
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.…
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.…
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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