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Using CBT in Low and Middle Income countries

The December 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “Culturally adapted trauma-focused CBT-based guided self-help (CatCBT GSH) for female victims of domestic violence in Pakistan: feasibility randomized controlled trial” by Madeeha Latif, M.…

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The Political Theory of American Populism

The study of the late nineteenth-century American Populist movement has long been one of the liveliest fields in American historiography. This stature definitely is fitting for one of the most formidable social movements in American history – and an uncomfortable outlier to today’s anti-populist consensus.

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Framing the Future of Environmental Conservation

The paper ‘Framing conservation: ‘biodiversity’ and the values embedded in scientific language, published in Environmental Conservation, has been chosen as the latest addition to the Editor’s Choice Collection We all know that political groups are very thoughtful about how they frame the issues that matter to them.…

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Afrophobia

When, in September 2019, the editors of the Journal of Modern African Studies invited Professor Moses Ochonu, a historian at Vanderbilt University, to write a brief on recurrent xenophobia in South Africa, we were unsettled by the apparent contradiction between repeated attacks on individuals from other African countries, and the idea of Ubuntu, a philosophical insistence on Afro-human solidarity championed most vigorously within the South African academy.

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Practicing Remote Science

COVID-19 related travel restrictions and social distancing protocols have precluded many archaeological field projects in the past six months. And while conferences and meetings can be taken to the virtual realm, the challenges facing those of us whose work is founded on field-based research are becoming readily apparent.…

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Remote Delivery of CBT Training, Clinical Supervision and Services: In Times of Crisis or Business As Usual

The October 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Remote delivery of CBT training, clinical supervision and services: in times of crisis or business as usual” by Paul Cromarty, Dominic Gallagher and Julianne Watson.…

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What Lurked in the Intestines of Our Renaissance Ancestors?

The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is A comparative study of parasites in three latrines from Medieval and Renaissance Brussels, Belgium (14th–17th centuries) In modern times intestinal parasites such as protozoa that cause dysentery and multicellular helminths (worms) are largely a problem for people in low-income countries in the tropics where sanitation and food safety are poor.…

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Robot Athletes and Entertainers

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.

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Are zoos and aquariums collaborating or competing through partnerships?

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.…

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Health Anxiety In Children and Young People During The COVID-19 Pandemic

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.…

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Honey, I Shrunk the Philosophers

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.

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Introducing QRB Discovery

On the 51st anniversary of Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics (QRB) and on my 4th year as Editor-in-Chief, it is with pleasure that I announce the new open access journal, QRB Discovery from Cambridge University Press that will provide an outlet for exciting new discoveries in the burgeoning field of biophysics.…

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How To Treat Social Anxiety Remotely

The August 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Treating social anxiety disorder remotely with cognitive therapy” by Emma Warnock-Parkes, Jennifer Wild, Graham R.…

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The Last of the Moderns

Adalet Ağaoğlu, one of the most prominent authors of modern Turkish literature, passed away at the age of 91 leaving behind a literary legacy that will be difficult to match for years to come.…

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