Political Secularism and Muslim Integration in the West
In this post, Aala Abdelgadir and Vasili Fouka discuss their recent APSR article exploring the consequences of the headscarf ban in France.…
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A double pandemic? Social isolation and mental health during the UK lockdown
There has long been concern about the effect of social isolation and loneliness on mental health. These fears have intensified as we approach a full year of COVID-19 related social distancing regulations which have fundamentally changed the social lives of many people globally.…
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A message from the German Law Journal editors for Vol. 22.1
Dear readers,It is our pleasure to bring to you this latest issue of the German Law Journal, (vol. 22 issue 1), the first of a new year that has already been highly eventful.…
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Malnutrition due to COVID-19, How big of a problem?
The Paper of the Month for January 2021 is ‘Prevalence Of Malnutrition In Covid-19 Inpatients: The Nutricov Study’ from the British Journal of Nutrition and is free to access for 1 month.…
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New fossilized burrow indicates Cretaceous underwater insects utilized similar feeding methods as modern insects
Mayflies, present in many modern freshwater streams, are often known by their mass hatches in which large numbers gain wings and fly in the air for as little as one day to procreate before dying.…
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Study reveals a wide and diverse cephalopod fauna in the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem
An extensive review of cephalopod fauna from the Northwest African Atlantic coast was performed by researchers from the University of Vigo (Spain) and the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO).…
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Keeping up with ‘Collector’: Further notes on mobile GIS data collection
New digital technologies have been a boon to archaeological field recording as attested by the growing literature on the use of mobile devices, GIS, satellite imagery, and other digital tools.…
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How do we work with the University of Cambridge? Publishing Ethics & Research Integrity
We speak to Jen Wright, Research Services Manager at Cambridge Univeristy Press, and Rhys Morgan Head of Research Policy, Governance and Integrity at the University of Cambridge, about Publishing Ethics and Research Integrity across our organisations.…
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Rix’s Expert Psychiatric Evidence
This week at London’s Central Criminal Court, or the Old Bailey as it is known, I was asked by another expert why the judges all wear black robes instead of the colourful dress of other circuit judges and why they are addressed as ‘My Lord’ or ‘My Lady’ instead of ‘Your Honour’.…
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Preventing harm related to CBT supervision
The January 2021 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “Preventing harm related to CBT supervision: a theoretical review and preliminary framework” by Derek Milne Reflecting on this review paper, I feel like making a confession.…
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Housing Justice in pandemic times
While the pandemic’s effects on health, livelihoods and economy is dominating the public debate, its effect on housing has not gained much visibility.…
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Building your own virtual dinosaur
Extinct dinosaurs are popular subjects in many CGI-animated movies, documentaries and TV shows, but how they are portrayed as living, breathing animals often depends on a lot of guesswork.…
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Ship Mounds Matter: The Viking Ship Mounds of Norway
As each generation of researchers deconstruct and unpack their own preconceptions of the world around them, it reveals new shortcomings in our understanding of the past.…
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Eight months in Fiji: how Heather’s Covid year changed her life
No one will forget last year, the “Covid year”. Most people worked – are in fact still working – from home, and many have found ingenious workarounds to enable them to carry on almost as normal.…
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New definition of sustainability overcomes flaw hampering global transformation efforts
‘Multispecies sustainability’ addresses a contradictory reductionism in the original definition by recognizing the interdependence of living beings and their wellbeing, and expanding the concept to non-human species and their needs An interdisciplinary team led by Senior Researcher Dr.…
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Revisiting retrenchment: Tracing the decision to withdraw from East of Suez
Why did the United Kingdom withdraw from its large military bases in the Arabian Peninsula and Southeast Asia during the Cold War?…
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Human Rights Defenders Versus Big Corporations: A Promising Field of Inquiry
Environmental activist and indigenous leader Berta Cáceres – who in 2015 was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize – was assassinated in Honduras one year later, in 2016, for leading a protest against a hydroelectric power dam.…
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Demography and the Economics of Religion
In the last decade or two, the economics of religion has become a full-fledged subfield in economics. Economists (and social scientists of all stripes) who study religion are interested in the many ways religion affects decision-making via politics, education, persecution, technology diffusion, violence, and much more.…
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Saving and restoring tropical forests has enormous value for the planet and the economy
The protection of tropical forests globally is indispensable for significantly increasing climate ambition in line with Paris Agreement goals as illustrated by a tremendous return on climate investment, according to our new article in the journal Global Sustainability.…
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Philo of Alexandria: My Ancient World dinner guest
I would love to have a dinner with Philo of Alexandria even though we would be more likely to disagree on most issues.…
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Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Life, and the Fifth Element
A new paper from MIT by Dr. Keith Johnson in the International Journal of Astrobiology (Cambridge University Press) connects dark matter, dark energy, life, and the Fifth Element.
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Conversations with Authors: Group Specific Measures and Novel Designs to Mitigate Gender-Based Violence in India
Once again, a brutal rape case that occurred in India in September 2020 has captured headlines and stunned the world. In Hathra, Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit (an oppressed caste), woman was gang-raped by several dominant caste men; she succumbed to her injuries two weeks after the attack.…
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The International Symposium on Smart Aircraft – A Special Issue
The Aeronautical Journal January 2021 Vol 125 No 1283 The Aerospace Education Forum was held in Manchester in July 2019, organised in collaboration with the Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), a C9 League (China’s Ivy League) university and the University of Manchester Aerospace Research Institute (UMARI).…
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Does Foreign Electoral Interference Violate International Law?
Interference in democratic decision-making processes carried out by outside powers is anything but a novel phenomenon. Especially during the period of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union almost routinely meddled with elections in foreign countries, with varying degrees of subversion and coercion.…
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The China Quarterly at 60: A Special Anniversary Issue
Founded in 1960, The China Quarterly is on the eve of entering its seventh decade of publishing world-class research on China.…
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The Fantastic of the Everyday: Re-Forming Definitions of Cinematic Parables with Paul Ricoeur
Until 6th February 2021 enjoy free access to Joel Mayward’s full paper on The Fantastic of the Everyday: Re-Forming Definitions of Cinematic Parables with Paul Ricoeur, published in Horizons, Volume 47 Issue 2 Ricoeur states that parables potentially contain several theologies, so revisiting these films may generate fresh theological insights and meanings.…
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Resituating our view of disease in past populations
It’s hard to find a positive contribution from Covid-19, isn’t it? I’ll suggest one. It has re-situated our appreciation for the importance of disease in past populations.…
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Favorinus: My Ancient Roman dinner guest
I probably should be naming some mighty and mysterious genius, one of the great philosophers I study or a mostly-lost tragic poet, but it would feel wrong somehow.…
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Is physical distancing worth it, given its tremendous costs to the economy?
The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was declared a pandemic by the WHO in March 2020. Around this time, many states and local governments in the United States declared states of emergencies and adopted policies aimed at reducing the frequency of physical contacts between people—social or physical distancing measures—in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus.…
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Rapport Management – an alternative to Unconscious Bias Training
In recent years, numerous organisations have been implementing unconscious bias training, with the aim of enhancing diversity and inclusion. This has become particularly important in view of the Black Lives Matter movement.…
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Will frost-resistant weeds benefit from climate change?
The paper ‘Relative success of frost-resistant variants of Avena fatua: a field experiment, published in the Journal of Agricultural Science, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight.…
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Three Things You Can do to Make Your Data Tables More Visual
Tables are different from graphs and charts. Charts are meant to present a quick, visual representation of data. But tables are drill-downs, an outlay of all the data down to their exact values or estimates.…
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How to make every Meeting great – through Nudging
By now, you have probably heard of “Nudging”, the inexpensive approach from behavioral economics to change behavior through subtle modifications of processes and infrastructures.…
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Regulating the revolving door
In July 2016, European citizens were told that Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission, was leaving office to join the famous American investment bank, Goldman Sachs.…
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Creating a Curation Community of Practice in Archaeology: A Resolution for the New Year
As 2020—finally—comes to a close, the new year stretches out in front of us, full of possibilities. The long tradition of New Year’s resolutions offers each of us an opportunity to commit ourselves to learning more about curation, collections management, and the lifecycle of the collections we create through our work.…
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
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.…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
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.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
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.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
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.…
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How a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention improved women’s mental health
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
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What wild monkeys in The Gambia can teach us about intestinal parasites (and why it matters to us)
From 99 faecal samples we identified 21 species of intestinal parasites – everything from common worms to various protozoa and amoebae. Overall, seven in ten monkeys harboured at least one parasite, and Guinea baboons averaged nearly three different species apiece.
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How did Down syndrome get its name?
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.…
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
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).…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
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.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
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.…
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
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Medieval Ethiopia, ‘Antiquity’, and African Archaeology
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.
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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Experimenting with tablet-making
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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