Popping a champagne cork reveals propulsive dynamics
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Tünde Fülöp and Per Helander win 2024 Hannes Alfvén Prize
"As two Swedish plasma physicists, we are keenly aware of the legacy of Hannes Alfvén. Following in his footsteps, we would like to pass on the passion for plasma physics to future generations. By highlighting our work, this prize makes it easier to do that." - Tünde Fülöp and Per Helander
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Mapping evidence-based interventions to the care of unaccompanied minor refugees using a group formulation approach
The January BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BCP) and is entitled Mapping evidence-based interventions to the care of unaccompanied minor refugees using a group formulation approach by Veronika Dobler, Judith Nestler, Maren Konzelmann and Helen Kennerley ‘Stop the boats’ slogans dominate current headlines.…
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Introducing a new series, Elements in Emergency Neurosurgery
We are delighted to announce the release of “Elements in Emergency Neurosurgery” which is an exciting new publication intended for trainees and practitioners all over the world working in Neurosurgery, Neurology, Emergency Medicine, and Critical Care.…
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Long-term Risks and Future Generations
There is a strong presentism bias in current modes of governance. A high-velocity, short-term culture dominates our political, financial, social and cultural systems, to the point of systematically lacking concern for future generations and the risks they face.…
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Traditional Knowledge Protection: Leveraging Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adoption in WIPO-IGC Negotiations 2024
Traditional knowledge (TK) is loosely defined as knowledge, skills and know-how held and passed down intergenerationally by a community of people, including indigenous peoples, forming an important part of the community’s spiritual identity or cultural way of life.…
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Is it really true that the older and thinner you are, the better? Older people need to be alert to sarcopenia
There is a Chinese proverb that says, "It's hard to buy old people being thin with money." We previously thought that for older people, thinness is a sign of health. However, scientific research shows that this view is incorrect.
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Ancient saddle and stirrup discoveries highlight the impact of Mongolian steppe cultures in innovation of riding technology
If you’ve gotten on a horse in the 21st (or even 20th) century, your experience probably went something like this: you placed one foot in a stirrup, heaving yourself into a large, rigid saddle that helped secure your seat.…
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Teaching with Advances in Archaeological Practice
Advances has been one of my favorite journals since the first issue appeared in my email inbox a little over 10 years ago.…
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William Petty’s survey of Ireland and the role of natural history in the development of statistics
William Petty (1623-1687) is well known as a pioneer of political economy and statistics. He has been often celebrated as an ingenious thinker who was among the first to grasp that certain information, like data on different categories of landowners or the number of births and deaths, could be used to describe trends and tendencies occurring on the level of what he called the ‘political body’ – or what we would nowadays call ‘population phenomena’.…
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The special relationship between mistletoe, birds and mathematics
How does mistletoe grow? How does mistletoe spread? And, curiously, how does this link to the latest mathematical research?
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We Were In The Pits, But At Least There Was Company
In March 2017, a medical doctor ordered his driver to stop on the Third Mainland Bridge, came down from his car and jumped into the Lagos Lagoon. Traditional media platforms and social media buzzed with this tragic news. It was not the usual fare: that cocktail of pernicious poverty, drug use, and wanton criminality; this was a gentleman. It unveiled a severe concern about that taboo subject, mental health.
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Single Major Gene Controlling S-Metolachlor Resistance Identified in a Central Illinois Waterhemp Population
Recently published research in the journal Weed Science provides new mechanistic insights into S-metolachlor resistance in waterhemp.
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Microbial Biomineralization: the goals, challenges, and emerging research with Lucian Staicu
Introducing industry-leading Guest Editor: Lucian Staicu Geo-Bio Interfaces journal invites Guest Editor Lucian Staicu into the spotlight, where we gain a valuable insight into the field.…
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Revolutionary Airship Design: The Dawn of Multi-lobed Hybrid Airships
A ground-breaking aviation evolution is underway, reshaping our approach to airship design. We're entering an era where multi-lobed hybrid airships promise to revolutionize both civil and defence applications.
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Greyhounds of Late Iron Age Sweden
In Late Iron Age Scandinavia, roughly 500-1100 CE, increasing numbers of people started going to the grave with animal companions. As a general rule, the higher a person’s station in society, the more animals they were likely to take with them, and in a higher diversity of species.…
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What Does Performance Theory Take from Sociology?
We usually narrate the origin of performance studies by foregrounding idiosyncratic mid-20th-century thinkers—Erving Goffman, Kenneth Burke, and J.L. Austin, among others—who in different ways refurbished the old idea of the theatrum mundi.…
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How reliable are parasites as biological markers for squid stock assessment?
We investigate parasite guilds within and between squid cohorts. 318 squids were examined for metazoan parasites in the Patagonian continental shelf.
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The Facade of Self-Determination Driving the “Khalistan” Referendum
Introduction On 10th September 2023, hundreds of Sikhs lined up in the town of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada to cast their vote towards the “Khalistan” Referendum, a voting exercise that is being organised across several countries by the US-based Sikhs for Justice (SfJ) organisation seeking to create an independent Sikh homeland in northern India called Khalistan.…
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The Pleistocene footprints are younger than we thought
The date when the first Homo sapiens arrived in the Americas has been a subject of investigation and speculation for decades.…
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From nightmares to sweet dreams
Daniel Kay, Editor in Chief of Research Directions: Sleep Psychology, reveals how a bad dream experience in childhood led to a fascinating career in sleep science “When I was a child,” recalls Daniel Kay, “I had a recurring nightmare that proved to be one of the most impactful experiences of my life.…
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The commonality of being a researcher
A year after the launch of the Cambridge Prisms series, Publisher Jessica Jones reflects on the journals’ shared values of community, collaboration and equity When we initially discussed the concept of the Cambridge Prisms, and what we hoped they would achieve, we fell into the trap of trying to compare different groups of researchers with diverse expertise and focuses.…
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Language and Cognition welcomes new Editor-in-Chief
The journal Language and Cognition is pleased to welcome a new Editor-in-Chief, Stefan Hartmann, from 2024. L&C is grateful to departing Editor-in-Chief Bodo Winter for many years of service to the journal.…
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At the crossroads of history and digital humanities
A common narrative around digital humanities paints it as a realm of ease where pressing a button magically generates statistical insights but does not contribute to serious scholarship.…
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Applied Psycholinguistics welcomes new Editor
The journal Applied Psycholinguistics is pleased to welcome a new Editor, Melissa Baese-Berk, from January 2024. The new Editor shares some thoughts about the history and future of the journal below.…
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Archaeogaming in Advances in Archaeological Practice
“Archaeogaming” occupies the intersection between archaeology and video games and treats these examples of contemporary material culture as artifacts, sites, and landscapes (Reinhard 2018).…
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From Zero to Parasitic Hero; Ancylostoma ceylanicum’s Breaking Point in Mice
The hookworm A. ceylanicum doesn't infect mice but does to other animals. We hypothesized that the immune system is the deciding factor for hookworm infections.
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Not the Emotion, but its Regulation: A Study on Depression and Anxiety in Public Healthcare System
The paper ‘Variables Associated with Emotional Symptom Severity in Primary Care Patients: The Usefulness of a Logistic Regression Equation to Help Clinical Assessment and Treatment Decisions’ by Ángel Aguilera-Martín, Mario Gálvez-Lara, Roger Muñoz-Navarro, César González-Blanch, Paloma Ruiz-Rodríguez, Antonio Cano-Videl and Juan Antonio Moriana, published in The Spanish Journal of Psychology, has been chosen as the Editor’s Choice Article for December 2023.…
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Smiles That Change Everything: How Facial Emotions Shift Attractiveness Perceptions of Masculinity
In support of Mariana Carrito and colleague’s article, When he smiles: Attractiveness preferences for male faces expressing emotions. Facial attractiveness has long been a subject of curiosity and study, with scientists attempting to unravel the complex factors that influence our perception of beauty.…
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Mariama Bâ’s “Memories of Lagos”
The appearance of a new text by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ is cause for celebration. And appropriately enough, “Festac .…
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GOOD ART IS (NOT) PRETTY ART
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.”
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The Things We Don’t Know How to Say About Challenging Behaviour
I sat on a Zoom call with a psychologist from Edinburgh. My mental state, not my autistic son's, was in question.
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MAKING BABY BLUES – INTERVIEW WITH FILM DIRECTOR, NORA AWOLOWO
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.…
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Akoma Ntoaso: On Adinkra Symbols or, Bidding Farewell: On Adinkra Symbols
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.
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Ayinla Omowura visits the dentist
The July 2023 edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features an article by Dr Olasunkanmi Onifade, Oral Medicine Consultant, Nigeria.
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Humility
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.
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The impact of parasite infection of 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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The impact of parasite infection of 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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Institutional Legacies and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Spending Decisions: The Case of the Freedmen’s Bureau
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.”…
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Austerity and Young People’s Political Attitudes in the U.K.
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.…
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On time or with a delay? Transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic in relation to subsidiarity check
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.…
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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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Border clashes: the distributive politics of professional liberalisation in Greece
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.…
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Academic publishing in 2023: what’s front of mind for archaeologists?
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.…
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