Transitioning into parenthood is a joyful yet often overwhelming life event. Helping parents feel more confident during this time is important for their well–being and for healthy child development.
It was a grey, overcast day, and the steady rain outside seemed to reflect my own sense of unease as I walked through the dimly lit corridor into the main hall of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Having recently relocated to this new country, every step felt like a mix of excitement and discomfort as I tried to adjust to the unfamiliar. I stopped beneath Sophie Cave's Expression installation
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Roberto Valli, Yannick I. Pengl, Carl Müller-Crepon, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Luc Girardin about their open access article, The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe.…
Prof.-Dr. Shijun Liao – Shanghai Jiao Tong University has recently been appointed as an editorial board member of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. To celebrate, Shijun Liao participated in a Q&A with the Journal.
Join Social Policy and Society for their VIII annual journal event, where leading experts in social policy will share insights and research across diverse policy areas, including employment, housing, pensions, family, tax and social policy and climate justice.…
An interview series with authors Hajnal, Hutchings and Lee Authored by three of the USA’s most well-known scholars on American politics, this undergraduate textbook argues that racial considerations are today-and have always been since the nation’s founding-central to understanding America’s political system writ large.…
In our study published in BJPsych International, we explored the prevalence and predictors of occupational burnout among first-year medical residents in Oman, with a particular focus on the role of trait emotional intelligence.
Since last year, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems has published two additional papers related to bees and pollinator health and are celebrating World Bee Day with an update to their World Bee Day Collection.
Plenty has been written about the dog. Slobbery, goofy, embarrassingly friendly, with… well, everyone. Dogs are prominently featured in historic accounts and paintings, loaded down with ingratiating platitudes like “man’s best friend”.…
An interview series with authors Hajnal, Hutchings and Lee Authored by three of the USA’s most well-known scholars on American politics, this undergraduate textbook argues that racial considerations are today-and have always been since the nation’s founding-central to understanding America’s political system writ large.…
JFM Rapids is a well-established section in JFM that continues to provide a highly visible venue for short, high-quality, articles addressing timely research challenges of broad interest. The Rapids editors have selected the most interesting recent articles to inspire and motivate your submission.
Nearly every scientist or engineer today needs to learn to program, but very few want to learn to program. Scientists and engineers code to live; they don’t live to code.…
A major research focus of the Institute of Propulsion Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is increasing engine compressor efficiency. In this context, the intermediate compressor duct (ICD), which connects the low-pressure compressor (LPC) with the high-pressure compressor (HPC) in a civil jet engine is of eminent significance.
I remember when Volume 1, Issue 1 of Advances in Archaeological Practice (AAP) was published in 2013. I was a graduate student at the time, undertaking dissertation research on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in the archaeological data collection process.…
The “difficult” woman is a popular trope. This paradigm is particularly pervasive in Hollywood. At a time when the studio system expected actresses to be agreeable, quiet, and deferential, several Golden Age icons were saddled with the label by studios, directors, or co-stars.…
Early modern globalisation—particularly maritime expansion and the discovery of the southern hemisphere—posed significant challenges to the traditional framework of astrology inherited from Ptolemaic cosmology.…
An interview series with authors Hajnal, Hutchings and Lee Authored by three of the USA’s most well-known scholars on American politics, this undergraduate textbook argues that racial considerations are today-and have always been since the nation’s founding-central to understanding America’s political system writ large.…
Elephant grass [Cenchrus purpureus (Schum.) Morrone] is an outstanding forage crop widely used in tropical regions due to its high biomass yield and climatic adaptability. However, considerable variability exists among cultivars, making it essential to understand how the management of genotypes with differing in stem elongation potential can impact forage accumulation and quality for ruminants
Today’s critics of populism often place their trust in political elites, expecting mainstream politicians to respect American democratic institutions. But in my latest work, Elitism versus Populism, I directly test whether today’s politicians are any more likely to support fair political competition than members of the public.…
Unhealthy diets are a major contributor to poor health worldwide, driving rising rates of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In response, many governments have introduced policies to improve the environments in which people make everyday food choices—such as regulating child-directed food marketing, taxing ultra-processed products, or enhancing the nutritional quality of school meals.
In this paper, “Off-Board Aerodynamic Measurements of Small-UAVs in Glide Flight Using Motion Tracking,” the effectiveness of using motion capture technology for aerodynamic testing of sUAVs is explored.
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When we wrote the blog post for the 1000th Element celebrations in 2023, we could not have imagined that a mere two years later we’d be celebrating the 2000th title in the series!…
Business Analytics, a new textbook from author and professor Richard Huntsinger is uniquely designed for both the business-oriented and data science-oriented student.…
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
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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.…
Maria is a smallholder farmer in rural Singida, Tanzania. We worked together for the past few years on the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP-Tz), a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention that sought to improve children’s diet. In it, farmers learned about and experimented with sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity using an integrated and participatory curriculum
In an era of shrinking research budgets and political pressure to justify public investment, federally funded digital archives in archaeology are delivering measurable, lasting benefits to scholars, land managers, Indigenous communities, and the public.…
In the May 1991 issue of PMLA, then editor John W. Kronik begins his “Editor’s Note” by announcing that the current volume of the journal “has elicited strong responses, praise as well as reproof, even before the year is out” (393).…
Many eco-scholars today have lamented our current tendency to soft denial. We acknowledge major environmental concerns such as climate change while continuing to go about our lives as if they don’t exist.…
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).…
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.…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
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