BABCP: Opting into a sustainable future
How practical changes can result in significant environmental gains.
How practical changes can result in significant environmental gains.
Sward composition and management play a major role in the quantity and quality of herbage grown on farms in temperate regions. While best practices for both livestock grazing and ensiled forage production are well documented in this regard, less is known about the optimum composition and management of swards used in frequent cutting systems.
Happy birthday! Advances in Archaeological Practice: A Journal of the Society for American Archaeology turns ten this year. You might not think that the birth of a journal is that big of a deal and certainly doesn’t warrant recognition a decade later.…
Scouting fields for weeds in person can be a time-consuming process. UAVs and other remote sensing tools may soon be able to automate the process, though.…
Beginning with volume 43 (2022), the cover of Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE) features art inspired by or reflective of topics within the scope of the journal and their impact on patients, healthcare personnel and society.…
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.…
Until 5 years ago, if asked my profession, I’d have said I’m a scientist engaged in basic biomedical research to combat viral diseases.…
The article contributes, instead, to new writings about ‘popular individualism’ in this period, showing how large scale political movements around ‘the individual’ reshaped cultural and social life.
The Roman Catholic Church has, in most historical and theological analyses, had a rather hostile relationship to liberal modernity, despite the fact that the church helped to produce the modern world and the thought patterns that continue to govern it.
My article argues that various segments of Dutch society, at one time or another, preferred fleeting acts of solidarity to open protests and active resistance against the Nazis.
Why should we take institutions into consideration when exploring the politics of policy making in different geographies? As two researchers working on public policies in a country with a statist policy style, we observe a particular type of policy entrepreneur, time and again, driving major policy reforms in diverse policy sectors.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for March is ‘People’s experiences of distress and psychosocial care following a terrorist attack: interviews with survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017‘ and the blog is written by author John Stancombe published by BJPsych Open.…
Welcome to our “Meet the Editors” series, where we interview the editorial team about their work and their relationship to the journal. In this post we meet Dr Lisa Ranford-Cartwright, Editor for Parasitology
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is “Immunochemotherapy for visceral leishmaniasis: combinatorial action of Miltefosine plus LBSapMPL vaccine improves adaptative Th1 immune response with control of splenic parasitism in experimental hamster model” and is freely available for one month. …
In 1978, an internal report by the Securitate, the Romanian political police, openly blamed the National Office for Tourism-Carpathians (ONT-Carpathians), the state agency in charge of running tourism, of ‘commercialism’.
It’s sometimes assumed that colonial war crimes were the product of fascism, but I discuss some atrocities of the Liberal era and the military culture that helped to produce them.
Anemia or low hemoglobin concentration in the blood is a serious public health problem, affecting one-fourth of the global population. Children under five years of age carry the highest toll of this burden. Approximately 145 thousand children die per year worldwide due to nutritional deficiencies including iron-deficiency anemia. Therefore, wiping out of anemia can save avoidable child deaths.
The Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has resulted in serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.…
Cambridge University Press are delighted to be supporting and celebrating International Women’s Day 2022. We are actively working to #BreakTheBias by calling out gender bias, discrimination and stereotyping to forge a diverse, equitable and inclusive world.…
Water is a basic subsistence need for all forms of life, but its supply is limited. Therefore, increasing water conservation efforts worldwide is essential and particularly under the current increasing warming.…
Myers’s work excavates how the subjective shock of the end of a long-standing model of the organized industrial workplace in Italy manifested as a disruption of people’s sense of temporal continuity.
Feminist perspectives on inequalities have been long been eclipsed from discussions on business and human rights (BHR). When efforts have been made to put a ‘gender lens’ on business and human rights, these have often been underpinned by neoliberal thinking and the related ‘business case’ for gender equality that merely seeks to insert women into existing markets and labour relations.…
This article contributes to the project of expressing the meaning of the kingdom of God by drawing on the practical and theoretical work of the Zapatistas as a theological mediation.
When The Global Pandemic started two years ago, Cambridge University Press was quick to react with a number of extraordinary initiatives that supported not only the goal to work towards eradicating the virus, but also our mission to advance learning, research and knowledge worldwide. …
Fighting the enemies of Fascist Italy was a major concern for Benito Mussolini’s regime not only within the peninsular borders but also within the colonial administration. This was especially true in the colonial territories that constitute present-day Libya at the time of Fascist rule, where the Duce government established a branch of the Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State based in Rome, having an analogous composition and goal.
The 2014 killing by police of unarmed African American Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri ignited the Black Lives Matter (BLM) social movement.…
One of our editorial team’s most important objectives is to increase the substantive, methodological and representational diversity of the journal. When we became editors, we pledged to broaden the range of research topics published in the journal.…
For more than a year now, on every weekday at noon, academics at Boğaziçi University gather in the main courtyard for a silent vigil turning their backs against the Rector’s Building carrying posters demanding the removal of the appointed rector and his appointees, the reinstitution of rectorate elections and the annulment of arbitrary decisions such as the opening of new programs.…
Since the beginning of 2022, Turkey has witnessed an unexpected strike wave. The strike by couriers at Trendyol, an e-commerce platform bought by Alibaba in 2018, has attracted the most public attention.…
We live in an era of absence. Lockdowns, quarantines, hospitals, and face masks: fear of contamination disappears the body from public space and discourse.…