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Public Spending: Picking up the Pieces Post COVID
The response to the COVID-19 crisis puts the spotlight on public spending and the role of the state in advanced countries: How much should governments spend – is there an “optimal” level of spending? How effective is public spending &nda…
Understanding Bias in Intelligence, Academic and Cognitive Tests
Standardized tests are one of those topics that many people have an opinion about, despite most people being uninformed. Memories of filling in bubble sheets during childhood or anxiety about college admissions tests color people’s perceptions. Addi…
Paper in Medieval England: from Pulp to Fictions
When I started to dream up my book Paper in Medieval England: from Pulp to Fictions, I wanted to find out why medieval people were interested in paper and how paper became a success story in pre-modern times. It was a project of discovery as well as deep …
Irish, American diplomacy in the 1930s
Conducting diplomacy in times of crisis has always been fraught. At the centre of practising diplomacy is making and keeping contacts and obtaining information and intelligence. The methods to achieve that are formal through official meetings, negotiation…
The 1836 Election and the modern fight for the SCOTUS
The emergence of a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court just a few weeks before the general election, and the hasty efforts to fill that seat with Judge Amy Coney Barrett, has made constitutional interpretation a live political issue once again. Opinion piec…
Memory and the English Reformation
On my first outing in July into the centre of York after the lockdown I took my brother, whom I had not seen since Christmas last year, to admire the stained-glass windows in the Minster. Like everything in the time of Covid, the familiar was newly strang…
The Business of Disability Inclusion and Ableism at Work
Ask yourself, do you believe persons with a disability have a right to work? If yes, what kind of work? At this point a lot of people will say it depends upon their abilities. If only that was true. 37.9% persons with disabilities who have completed K-12 …
“What the World Needs Now” — More Than Ever: Thriving with Social Purpose
A pandemic fueled by wishful thinking and irresponsible choices. Racial injustice exacerbated by self-serving motives that inhibit empathy and compassion. Catastrophic climate changes accelerated by a lack of commitment to the well-being of th…
Race and the 2020 Elections
As we enter the final weeks before the U.S. elections, the stakes could not be higher. Against the backdrop of a surging pandemic, the country continues to experience record unemployment, small-business closures, and other forms of economic insecurity. En…
Why do we need a second edition? An Author’s Explanation
Why would anyone write a new edition of a book that is still selling after many years? The explanations of the basic theory in the first edition are still valid, and the methods are still the ones that are most widely used. However I still felt an update …
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Total mixed ration silages based on Cactus and Gliricidia
Silage – basically fermented grass – is used widely as a feed source for animals, preserving the pasture for livestock to eat later in the year when the natural pasture is not good and retaining more nutrients than turning it into hay.…
Summertime and the Learning is Easy: The World Food Programme Nutrition and Health Summer Camps in Lebanon
October’s Paper of the Month is from the British Journal of Nutrition ‘Assessment of the World Food Programme Summer Camps in Lebanon: a model of effective interventions for vulnerable adolescents’ and is free to access.…
Framing the Future of Environmental Conservation
The paper ‘Framing conservation: ‘biodiversity’ and the values embedded in scientific language, published in Environmental Conservation, has been chosen as the latest addition to the Editor’s Choice Collection We all k…
Out of the tropics – the global spread of the rat lungworm
Parasitology are delighted that a special issue on Angiostrongylus will be published next year. In this blog post Professor Cowie from the University of Hawaiʻi gives us some insight into this parasite.…
On the Cover of HPL: Laser produced electromagnetic pulses: generation, detection and mitigation
Generation of electromagnetic waves was first demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz in 1887 and since then has become a leading subject of research, with an enormous range of applications covering radio communications, electronics, computing, radar technology an…
Quarterly Highlight: Victims’ Rights under the Second Revised Draft Treaty on Business & Human Rights
The long-awaited Second Revised Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights was published on 6 August 2020, bringing high hopes for accountability in cases of corporate human rights abuses (the Resource Centre’s unofficial summary of the latest draft …
How the pandemic encouraged our Asia team to find new ways to support our authors and customers
The first in a series of posts from our global team on how they have changed how they communicate with our authors, readers and customers during the pandemic and how virtual solutions have opened up new opportunities.
Afrophobia
When, in September 2019, the editors of the Journal of Modern African Studies invited Professor Moses Ochonu, a historian at Vanderbilt University, to write a brief on recurrent xenophobia in South Africa, we were unsettled by the apparent contradiction b…
German Law Journal: pioneering open and digital scholarship for legal research
This Open Access week, we profile the German Law Journal (GLJ), which has been a pioneer of open scholarly publishing in law since its foundation in 2000.…
Optimal areas and climate change effects on dragon fruit cultivation in Mesoamerica
Dragon fruits are nutritious and healthy; also, in addition to the edible pulp, the coloured peels are utilized in the food and cosmetic industry.…
Libraries after Lockdown: Returning to the Library
After months of remote learning for students globally, universities across the world are beginning a new method of teaching for the upcoming academic year.…
An elongate hadrosaurid forelimb with biological traces informs the biogeography of the Lambeosaurinae
For about thirty million years in the Late Cretaceous, a shallow salty seaway flooded the interior of North America. This separated eastern and western North America into different landmasses.…