The Great Academic Purge in Turkey
The Turkish government continues to rule by decree in the aftermath of the declaration of a state of emergency (Olağanüstü Hal) following the coup attempt on July 15, 2016.…
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Beyond Appearances: A Comparison Between the French and Italian Fashion Industries.
In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how the prêt-à-porter industry in France and the ready-to-wear industry in Italy evolved from their beginnings to their growth stages during the 20th century.…
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In an Era of Digital Disruptions, Ethics Can’t Be an Afterthought – Part 1
Ethics Right From the Start The end of the year 2021 brought an extraordinary announcement that a technological genie was being shoved back into its bottle: Facebook (now: Meta) stopped using the facial-recognition software that allows it to automatically detect and tag people in photos and videos.…
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Unlocking Literacy on World Book Day
Frederick Douglass said: “Once you learn to read you will be free.” On this World Book Day (7 March, 2024) Cambridge hopes to help spark that enquiry.…
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Restless nights when sick: ectoparasite infections alter rest-activity cycles of diurnal fish hosts
Circadian rhythms are timekeeping mechanisms responsible for the cyclic repetition of metabolic, behavioural and psychological processes in all living organisms, typically over a 24-hour period.
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Ancient Maya Inequality – Compact Section
How unequal were ancient Maya societies and what lessons can we learn from them about our own unequal world? Modern inequality metrics often focus on monetary wealth and financial statements, but other methods exist and inequality can manifest itself in multiple forms.…
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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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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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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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