How did a Scottish Catholic bishop who as a young man was imprisoned for participating in the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion help his community enter mainstream political culture? By holding fast to the very principles that formed the religious basis of Jacobitism.
After some unexpected delays as some of the lesser known – and opaque – structures of EU law making came into play, there is finally a published proposal for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence from the European Commission.…
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is “Lurking in the water: testing eDNA metabarcoding as a tool for ecosystem-wide parasite detection” and is freely available for one month.…
We are pleased to announce the launch of the ‘Advances in Digital CBT’ special issue of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist.…
Canada’s international treaty obligations must not restrict Canada’s ability to honour its obligations to Indigenous peoples. However, Indigenous peoples have longstanding concerns about conflicts between Canadian trade and investment treaty commitments and these obligations, especially commitments to protect foreign investors in Canada.…
The paper ‘Adolescent Involvement in Cybergossip: Influence on Social Adjustment, Bullying and Cyberbullying’ by Cristina María García-Fernández, Miriam Moreno-Moya, Rosario Ortega-Ruiz, and Eva M.…
Lansing is an American anthropologist and complexity scientist, currently a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. His most recent book is Islands of Order (with Murray Cox), Princeton University Press.
We recently partnered with Tsinghua University on a three-day virtual event "The Voice of Chinese Scholars”.
Antarctic Science International Bursary winner Kate Winter recently co-authored a paper published by Nature Reviews on her research on subglacial lakes, which was supported by her 2018 award.…
Professor Huichan Zhao, Tsinghua University answers our questions about their work and Cambridge University Press’s new journal Wearable Technologies
In a strange meeting of worlds, the beginning of 2022 saw an international tennis championship colliding with Australia’s historical abuse of asylum seekers.…
To allege that something is a matter of human rights is to tap into a powerful, affective narrative that indexes people’s responsibilities to each other.…
In July 2021 Cambridge University Press worked with an external research agency to explore a number of key areas around researcher awareness and needs in open access (OA), impact and pain points.…
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 these journals.…
Our editorial team created this blog as part of our effort to increase the transparency about the journal. The blog is a place to explain policies and procedures and to communicate the norms and expectations that guide our work at the journal.…
Over the past decades, a growing number of countries have introduced carbon taxes to lower carbon emissions and fight climate change.…
The Cambridge South Asian Board was set up in 2017. It is one of the larger regional Cambridge librarian advisory boards and currently has 23 members, 22 of whom represent Indian institutions, with one member from Bangladesh. …
The new constitution of Mongolia was adopted on January 13, 1992. It stated that respecting and upholding human rights, freedom, and justice are crucial in Mongolia.…
Recent developments in the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted how the success of a viral variant is in large part a function of how severely it impacts its host. Too weak and the virus will fail in its “mission” to replicate.
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) belong to our bodies’ most effective weapons in the fight against distorted cells, such as cells infected by viruses or cancer cells.…
This article arose out of mounting frustration at the modern mental health system. It is a distillation of many conversations, rants, angry emails and personal ruminations. It is a psychiatrist’s scream into the abyss. However, from the abyss, many screamed back. The reaction to this article since its publication online has been surprising and heartening. A number of clinicians and patients have emailed from all over the UK (and beyond) to express their agreement and relief at a psychiatrist having ‘said it’. Patients have spoken of how much the article reflects their own experience. iBut this raises a further troubling question: if the content resonates with so many, why are services still getting it wrong? What will it take to bring about genuine culture change? One thing is clear: this requires group action and not lone voices.
The February BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Interpreter-mediated CBT – a practical implementation guide for working with spoken language interpreters” by Beverley Costa.…
In the first half of the twentieth century, locust plagues were managed by imperial governments, advised by their scientific institutions.
The last 20 years have seen the development of various numerical means of analysing compositional data based on log-ratio transformations. These have their roots in the seminal work of John Aitchison in the 1980s, primarily applied to the geological field.
“Our paper published in Experimental Results has one of the highest altimetric scores in the journal. In fact, is has the highest altimetric score of any paper I’ve published. Just because it’s a short paper (700 words) and it’s something incremental, doesn’t mean it can’t be sexy!” explained Dr. Punit Shah, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Psychology at the University of Bath.
There have been many heartfelt and thoughtful tributes to John Gerard Ruggie since his passing in September 2021. Some academics expressed their sentiments by exploring the ways in which his scholarship profoundly influenced the field of international relations, and their own path in that field.…
Guzmán’s article can be used to teach about and discuss the ways race, racism, and inequality have been—and continue to be—artificially constructed via extra-legal means and motives.
The Holy Grail of corporate finance is a theory that explains the capital structure behavior of real-world firms. It’s been 63 years since Modigliani and Miller’s (1958, MM) landmark paper and we still do not have a model that explains even the broad-brush features of observed capital structures.
This article explores the career of Iosif Lavrent’evich Mordovets who was the chief of the Soviet political police in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) for more than a decade (1944-1955). His long career as a chekist started in Ukraine in the early 1930s continuing through the Great Terror in 1937-38 into 1940-41 Romanian Bessarabia occupied by the Soviet Union.
As a music historian teaching courses about racial inequality, I try to create an environment safe for students of color and challenging for the racially privileged.…
Life on Mars is the hot topic of the decade. The NASA missions Mars Science Laboratory in Gale Crater and Mars 2020 in Jezero Crater are searching for traces of martian life. The European/Russian rover mission ExoMars 2022 will be launched in September 2022 to search for life in Oxia Planum. In fact, we have been looking for life on Mars since the 1970s when the two Viking landers touched down on the surface of the planet in 1976.
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
In January, my husband and I (Sam) took our six-year-old daughter to get a flu shot at a local pharmacy. As she became increasingly bored in the waiting room, she began to offer commentary, asking the closed door, “Doctor, when are you coming out?”…
Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
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.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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).…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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.
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 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.…
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