My article thus focuses on transformations in the main metaphors in ancient to late medieval titles of Chinese medical books used to convey to potential readers their ‘learning-by-the-book’ contents.
Launching the National Institute Economic Review at 62 years old! We are, of course, still living in the grip of a Covid pandemic that is neither well understood nor under control.…
Though multiple national health organizations recommend against giving toddler milk – a nutrient-fortified drink for children ages 12 months to 3 years that often contains added sugars – to young children, a new study suggests Latino families may be at particularly high risk for purchasing the product.…
On 1 January 2021 the ‘Regulation (EU) 2017/821 laying down supply chain due diligence obligations for Union importers of tin, tantalum and tungsten, their ores, and gold (3TGs) originating from conflict-affected and high-risk areas’ (CAHRAs) came into force.…
In The Nature of Intelligence and Its Development in Childhood, I seek to make one big point and a number of subsidiary ones.…
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” So wrote the biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky, reflecting the central role of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection for understanding life.…
About the Mahony Neumann Room Prize This prize, for outstanding contributions to the Australian Mathematical Society’s research publications, is fittingly named after the founding editors of those journals.…
Oncoming Associate Editor Lorenzo Masia Institut für Technische Informatik (ZITI) answers our questions about their work and Wearable Technologies, the first journal dedicated to publishing original research, review articles and industrial developments related to wearable devices.
The February BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “Cognitive Therapy for Moral Injury in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” by Hannah Murray and Anke Ehlers Media images of healthcare professionals overwhelmed and exhausted by a relentless torrent of seriously ill and dying patients have filled our screens over recent weeks.…
Launched in 2020, Quantitative Plant Biology is an open access journal, co-published by Cambridge University Press and The John Innes Centre with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum for high quality research on ground-breaking discoveries and predictions in quantitative plant science.…
The Journal of Dairy Research Editor’s Choice Article is “Influence of nutrient availability on in vitro growth of major bovine mastitis pathogens” by by Remo Stürmlin et al.…
Lin Foxhall chats to Cambridge about her new editorship and hopes for the Journal's future.
Parasitology has just released a Special Issue from the 6th International Workshop on Angiostrongylus and Angiostrongyliasis, Hilo, Hawai’i , USA, January, 2020 When a parasite is given the common name “rat lungworm” you know it is going to be a particularly unpleasant one.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: The role of income and neighbourhood poverty in the association between the 2009 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) food package change and child obesity among WIC-participating children in Los Angeles County, 2003–2016.…
Bark and ambrosia beetles are among the most important pests of forest and shade trees, and substantial basic and applied research has been devoted to the development of effective tools and tactics for their management.…
The shift to home-working for those in developing countries without access to low-cost and widely embedded domestic broadband networks, was potentially catastrophic.
Boğaziçi University Protests and State Homophobia in Turkey
The paper ‘Effects of different barley grain preservation techniques on intake, growth and carcase traits of finishing dairy bulls fed grass silage-based rations, published in the Journal of Agricultural Science, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight.…
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is Agranulocytosis leads to intestinal Echinococcus multilocularis oncosphere invasion and hepatic metacestode development in naturally resistant Wistar rats Let me introduce you to a tiny tapeworm that is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere: Echinococcus multilocularis.…
This is a transcribed conversation between two of the four authors of a new article in Advances in Archaeological Practice on why and how to revise introductory archaeology courses to better shape the discipline.…
Sci-fi traditionally concentrates on high-tech aliens, such as those in "Independence Day". But could real extra-terrestrial technology be more like Star Wars' stone-age Ewoks, than the interplanetary travellers of Close Encounters?
PEN’s 1927 charter encapsulated both the tensions between and the interrelatedness of nationalism and internationalism which permeated the political and cultural spheres in the interwar period.
How does a country project a certain image of itself? What place have the advertising professions had in the history of cultural diplomacy? How have small countries attempted to attract the attention of foreign publics? Our research seeks to answer these questions, and the Swedish national pavilions at the world’s fairs in Brussels 1935, Paris 1937 and New York 1939 provide a very rich case study.
Stefan problems are a special type of partial differential boundary value problems, introduced around 1890 by the Slovenian physicist Josef Stefan [1].…
Associate Professor, Mehmet İsmet Can Dede, İzmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey answers our questions about his work and the journal Robotica.
The RCPsych Article of the Month for January is from The British Journal of Psychiatry (BJPsych) and is entitled ‘Antipsychotic and antidepressant prescribing for 704 297 children and young people with and without intellectual disabilities: record linkage study’ by Angela Henderson, Deborah Kinnear, Michael Fleming et al.
Low-income mothers may feminize their children in the womb by adjusting their hormones, whereas high-income mothers may masculinize their children, a major study based on finger length, led by a Swansea University expert, has found.…
My article tells the story of how Germany and Poland cooperated on a common summer camp exchange for each other’s borderland children from Upper Silesia between 1924 and 1939.
most of the core practices of modern cultural diplomacy emerged in a period of desperate military and economic danger: the period between the world wars that E. H. Carr famously called ‘the twenty years’ crisis’.
For this post, we asked Dr. Jamil Scott to speak with Dr. Tabitha Bonilla and Dr. Alvin Tillery about their APSR article, “Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement?…
Recently, Nestle decided to end the relationship between its Kit Kat brand of chocolates and Fairtrade, a UK based labelling organisation.…
The Paper of the Month for February 2021 is ‘Is ergothioneine a ‘longevity vitamin’ limited in the American diet?‘ from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is free to access for 1 month..…
Doomsday undone. Artificial wombs, cryopreserved embryos and AI could allow civilizations and ecosystems to survive on post-Apocalypse worlds and exoplanets
We’ll be introducing the Editorial Board of new open access journal Biological Imaging, beginning this series we have Professor Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia who is an Executive Editor for the journal and head of the Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering Department at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.…
At the end of the first volume for Experimental Results, we take a look back at the journal’s first year of publication.…
Before I became a citizen of the United States, all of my immigration documentation referred to me as an “alien.” My green card was an “alien registration card” and my ninedigit immigration registration number was my “alien number.”…
The pursue for high peak power is driven by the uncharted territory of knowledge that this may unlock, from basic science to applied one. The optical path towards these phenomenal powers may be one of the natural ones when we observe the critical role that the light is playing in the universe.
Recent policy campaign Personal tragedies, public crisis led by Autistica, the UK’s leading autism medical research charity, emphasises that investigating rates and causes of premature mortality in autistic people is of paramount importance.
Anxiety symptoms can be debilitating. They create barriers to daily living through overwhelming feelings of worry, fear, and arousal in everyday situations.…
Classical Review welcomes new Reviews Editor Greta Hawes
The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ values and behaviours, Courage, Innovation, Respect, Collaboration, Learning and Excellence combine into the CIRCLE acronym. In the list under Excellence, a link takes you to core values for psychiatrists. One of those is humility.
I sat on a Zoom call with a psychologist from Edinburgh. My mental state, not my autistic son's, was in question.
The July 2023 edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features an article by Dr Olasunkanmi Onifade, Oral Medicine Consultant, Nigeria.
The October edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features a short blog by Motswana visual artist, Sedireng Mothibatsela, who writes about a crucial moment in her artistic development which coincides with her parent’s separation. It is a moving piece about how visual arts intersects with trauma and healing. I can recall the afternoon that changed how I create. I was 12 years old and in my last year of primary school and the looming high school years ahead presented many questions about how I wanted to proceed with my art. I had painted a watercolour still life and I was bored with it. Although my art received praise from my family and peers, my handling of watercolour was juvenile at best. I needed more; technically and conceptually. It was then that I began to question the art making process. Like most young artists in primary school we were simply taught that “good art is pretty art.”
The July edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International –features a short interview with Nora Awolowo, a Nigerian film director whose documentary film Baby Blues: Trials of Childbirth is a 74-minute-long exposé about maternal mental health in Nigeria.…
The Akan people of Ghana, like many other collectivist cultures, have deeply engrained concepts of interdependence and support for each other. These concepts have been passed on for generations in the Adinkra symbols. Each symbol possesses an intrinsic meaning and represents virtues, values or beliefs critical to the Akan experience of life.
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.
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.
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
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.
As Douwe Truijens and Marcel Hanegraaff have recently remarked (Truijens and Hanegraaff 2023), interest groups can play a very large role at the implementation stage of the policy cycle, potentially even reversing decisions made earlier in the cycle.…
With 2023 on the horizon, and the landscape of academic publishing in flux, Cambridge University Press spoke to the Editors of the SAA’s journals to find out what topics and questions are currently front of mind – for archaeologists, researchers and publishers alike.…
When a "nightmare dressed like a daydream" meets "mad, bad, and dangerous to know..."
Today is the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, the original tortured poet, and the release of @taylorswift13's new album.
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Congratulations to Michael Byers, Aaron Boley and Ignacio Cofone who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize.
The award, for the best public policy book by a Canadian, will be announced in May.
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'We are aware that infusion fluids can both save and hurt patients'.
Find out about modern Fluid Therapy in this week's featured author blog by Professor Robert Hahn
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