In sub-Saharan-Africa (SSA), maize production usually occurs under low-N environments by subsistence farmers who continuously crop maize with limited or no use of N fertilizer.…
“JPP is proud to host this set of important papers, which lay out how to use state-of-the-art plasma physics science to design and engineer a fusion reactor experiment. Plasma physicists are part of a vibrant scientific community that is driven by technological advances. We are excited to be the platform chosen by the SPARC team for this set of important scientific publications. This reinforces a standard for the way in which new experiments can be proposed: in an open-access, peer-reviewed format."” – William Dorland
The possibility of generating clean energy from fusion has been a significant motivation for the study of plasma physics. The journey from early plasma confinement experiments to a fusion power plant has been arduous and more difficult than initially thought.
Fusion has long been considered the Holy Grail for sustainable power generation, and has promised to deliver clean, limitless, safe energy to the world. However, until now no fusion device has yet operated in breakeven conditions.
September’s Paper of the Month is from the Journal of Nutritional Science ‘COVID-19: the older adult and the importance of vitamin D sufficiency’ and is free to access.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for September is from BJPsych Open and is entitled ‘A psychiatrist's perspective from a COVID-19 epicentre: a personal account’ Isabella Pacchiarotti, Gerard Anmella, Giovanna Fico, Norma Verdolini and Eduard Vieta
“Since the establishment of Grand Canyon National Park in 1919, some stories have been silenced and absented; the many Native American voices that express the sacredness and cultural importance of this place from time immemorial prior to the arrival of Anglo-Americans.”…
When 43 students disappeared in the Mexican city Iguala in September 2014 during an attack of a joint group made up of local mafia and municipal police forces, a public outcry plunged the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto into crisis and decisively contributed to the defeat of his PRI party in the presidential elections.…
Current underwater vehicles are either difficult to manoeuvre making them unsuitable for sensitive work, or are extremely expensive. Gabe Weymouth and his team at the University of Southampton are designing new underwater robots based on the Plesiosaur – the dinosaur behind the legend of the Loch Ness Monster – which are much smaller, cheaper and more energy efficient.…
Welcome to our “Meet the Editors” series, where we interview the editorial team about their work and their relationship to the journal.…
I was sitting in a Beirut café reading Kundera when a blast rocked the city a few weeks ago, on August 4.…
In the current global health emergency many countries are turning in on themselves. Such a response in difficult times has not always been the case, and expertise to help has sometimes flowed in unexpected directions.…
In June 2014, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Action Front Party organised a press conference to present its new and detailed economic plan in Amman.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘How food companies use social media to influence policy debates: a framework of Australian ultra-processed food industry Twitter data’ It’s well-known that large food companies lobby governments to advance their own interests.…
Are we alone in the Universe? This fundamental question has propelled the curiosity of writers and scientists alike for hundreds of years. Although we continue to explore our solar system with spaceships and robots, other beings are unlikely to be close enough to see signals on the Earth directly. As light travels faster than any spacecraft we can build, our best chance of communication is likely through the detection of light.
The creation of robot athletes is a novel benchmark problem for techniques in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and intelligent robotics. The goal is to develop intelligent robot systems that can participate in sports events following the same rules as humans.
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Operationalising the health aspects of sustainable diets: a review’ Did you know that in Europe 25% of the chronic non-communicable diseases are attributable to unhealthy diets, and that our food production is responsible for 25% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions?…
Update: The new designs are now live for the nine journals listed below, plus an additional 40 journals since 16th November 2020.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘The University of British Columbia healthy beverage initiative: changing the beverage landscape on a large post-secondary campus’ Sugar sweetened beverages are the single-largest contributor of added sugar in the diet.…
From rotating impellers stirring air into a liquid, to a turbulent jet entering a moving flow, mixing processes are essential to almost every industrial application you can think of.…
India is a country that has many distinguished schools devoted entirely to management studies. In the early 2000s it became evident that these schools needed a conference devoted entirely to their own activities. …
The paper ‘Conservation networks: are zoos and aquariums collaborating or competing through partnerships?, published in Environmental Conservation, has been chosen as the latest addition to the Editor’s Choice Collection Like millions of people around the world, I grew up in awe of wildlife because of days up close with animals at my local zoo.…
In contemporary Iraq, there is an interesting and ever evolving interplay between non-state affiliated Shi’i seminaries, whose jurists have the authority to determine the content of Islamic law, and the state, which makes and enforces its own law. …
Until 5th October 2020, enjoy free access to Miriam Goldstein’s full article Early Judeo-Arabic Birth Narratives in the Polemical Story “Life of Jesus” (Toledot Yeshu) as published in Harvard Theological Review At some point in Late Antiquity, a scandalous polemic against Christianity emerged somewhere in the East—perhaps in Babylonia, perhaps in the Levant.…
When an object, such as an aircraft or submarine, moves through a fluid it generates a ‘wake’ behind it which can be used by monitoring tools to detect its size and position.…
After consultation with the Entomological Society of Canada’s (ESC) Publications Committee and the ESC Executive Committee, we have instituted a new co-Editor-in-Chief model for management of Canada’s flagship entomological journal, The Canadian Entomologist Following an application process, we are happy to announce that Dr.…
In July 2020, a High Court judgment in Begum v Maran was handed down where, for the first time, an English court has grappled with the controversial issue of “shipbreaking”.…
The summer issue of Legal Information Management is now available electronically from Cambridge University Press; print copies will be arriving in due course.…
How was it possible for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to become established as a major health care reform despite being highly controversial?…
The spoon-billed sandpiper, or spoonies as they’re affectionately called, are a Critically Endangered shorebird species. The best recent estimate, from 2014, was that there were only about 440 adults left in the world.…
When catching prey underwater snakes use two main techniques: the frontal strike and the lateral strike. By studying real snakes in the lab at ESPCI/MNHN, Marion Segall was able to recreate the setup using a 3D-printed snake head and laser visualisation techniques, which allowed for the forces involved in each strike to be measured.…
It has been nine months since the “normal” has been disrupted with the emergence of a novel coronavirus and while we continue to be in the clasp of the COVID-19 pandemic the “new normal” has not ossified yet.…
The September 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled ‘Practitioner Review: Health Anxiety in Children and Young People in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic’ by Andy Haig-Ferguson, Kate Cooper, Emma Cartwright, Maria Loades and Jo Daniels.…
A paper recently-published in Bird Conservation International detailing the results of undercover pharmacy surveys highlighted the ongoing risk to South Asia’s vultures of the continued availability of diclofenac.…
Complaints about off-target movement of dicamba, 2,4-D and other synthetic auxin herbicides persist, despite the introduction of reduced-volatility formulations. One indicator: a survey shows that 30 percent of Nebraska growers believe injury to susceptible soybean crops is caused by off-target movement of dicamba applied to corn.…
The animal Article of the Month for October is “Mycotoxin-contaminated diets and an adsorbent affect the performance of Nellore bulls finished in feedlots” by L.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Demonstration gardens improve agricultural production, food security and preschool child diets in subsistence farming communities in Panama’.…
Family meals promote healthy eating habits, increased well-being and improved academic outcomes among children and adolescents. Despite these benefits, families typically eat together less as children age and become busy with after school jobs and activities.…
The sparrow-sized European storm petrel is the smallest seabird in the Atlantic, nesting only on the most remote islands, around the coasts of north-west Europe.…
September 13th is the 50th anniversary of the seminal Milton Friedman article from The New York Times Magazine, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.”…
What began in Sicily with a protest against Bourbon rule soon morphed into a European event with the fall of Louis-Philippe in Paris in February... This article explores how the Wallachians attempted to weather the revolutionary storm and balance the sometimes-competing interests of nation, empire, and Europe.
The EU has recently committed itself to spending €1 trillion over the next 10 years as part of a Green New Deal and devoted 30% of the €2 trillion corona recovery package to climate change measures as a last attempt of leadership to avert a global catastrophic climate crisis.…
One of the many crises the world faces today is the climate emergency. Greenhouse gas emissions are destabilizing the global climate, and mitigating this change requires ambitious economic plans to which polluters need to comply.…
Modern day crustaceans, including lobster, shrimp, crayfish, and crabs, are perhaps most familiar from our dinner plates. They, along with less familiar forms such as isopods (your garden pillbugs), belong to the huge living group Eumalacostraca, which includes some tens of thousands of species.…
As the initial epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent success in containing it, China’s response to the pandemic has drawn worldwide attention.…
A dress that looks black and blue to one person looks white and gold to someone else. Where one person hears ‘Yanni,’ another hears ‘Laurel’. A bucket of tepid water feels hot to cold hands but cold to hot hands.
While the coordination of business activities through interpersonal ties and networks has been researched in management and organization studies, using informal networks for managing and organizing in an international context is a rather new research field.…
Since the August 4th explosion in Beirut, I have been unable to write. Honestly, I have been incapable of communicating much beyond anger and sorrow for my friends and colleagues affected.…
In August, Higher Education from Cambridge University Press fully launched offering high-quality textbooks and learning resources with key functionality for institutions across the globe.…
A paper just published online in the journal Bird Conservation International details pharmacy surveys carried out in India, Nepal and Bangladesh from 2012 to 2017, two to six years after diclofenac had been banned so, legally speaking, we shouldn’t have been offered this drug at all.
The Early Jurassic meat-eating dinosaur Dilophosaurus wetherilli is a common figure of many dinosaur movies, books, art, and toys. The distinctive two crests on its head, for which Dilophosaurus owes its name, are unique among dinosaurs and make the animal fascinating to the fossil enthusiast and paleontologist alike.…
For most UK children it has been over 5 months since they were last in school. For the vast majority of children and families, returning to school over the next week or two is likely to be a positive experience; an opportunity to reconnect with their peers and feel a sense of routine and normality after what has been a turbulent few months.…
Since the beta launch of Higher Education from Cambridge University Press in June we have received positive feedback, including about the new HTML reading experience, the powerful search tool and the new Examination Copy request form.…
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is Conquering Switzerland: emergence of Angiostrongylus vasorum over three decades and rapid regional increase in the fox population contrasts with the stable prevalence of lungworms Did you know that foxes can harbour a heartworm which can cause respiratory problems or bleeding in your dog?…
‘Generative resilience’ distinctively involves the imagination of the new in response to the unimagined – indeed a difficult operation, calling for particular forms of thinking, not only for particular structures.…
Dear Esteemed Readers, For some of us the academic year has already started, for some of us it is right around the corner; some will teach online, some will teach in person, some will do both; some will have the freedom of a sabbatical, and regret travel restrictions, some are in the middle of the application process to enter academia; wherever you are, whatever your mode of teaching or research will be, whatever position you are in professionally, the latest issue of the German Law Journal is there for all of you and offers some great and maybe distracting reading (something almost everyone is probably grateful for in these extraordinary times).…
Researchers have discovered the first fossil of a Jurassic dinosaur from the Isle of Eigg in Scotland. The limb bone is thought to belong to a stegosaurian dinosaur, like Stegosaurus.…
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.
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.…
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.…
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
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.…
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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