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Durham Research Online (DRO) is the University’s Open Access repository for publications. The primary purpose of DRO is to provide open access to publications authored by staff and students affiliated with Durham University.

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‘Creatures of elsewhere’: Nicholas Royle’s Quilt and the inhuman novel (2025)
Journal Article
Booth, N. (2025). ‘Creatures of elsewhere’: Nicholas Royle’s Quilt and the inhuman novel. Textual Practice, 39(4), 535-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2025.2488195

This paper focuses on the ‘creatures of elsewhere' of Nicholas Royle's first novel, Quilt (2010), primarily the fever of stingrays that preoccupies the novel's narrator. I read the disturbing power of these animals as manifold: the rays elicit and el... Read More about ‘Creatures of elsewhere’: Nicholas Royle’s Quilt and the inhuman novel.

Israel and the Politics of Intelligence Failure on 7 October (2025)
Journal Article
Jones, C., & Geist Pinfold, R. (2025). Israel and the Politics of Intelligence Failure on 7 October. The RUSI Journal, 170(3), 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2025.2487510

This article examines Israel’s intelligence failures and successes in its ongoing conflict with Hamas. It distinguishes between occasional (intelligence assessments) and causal factors (structural and political inputs). Critically, it illustrates tha... Read More about Israel and the Politics of Intelligence Failure on 7 October.

RAAR: A TCP-friendly Congestion Control Mechanism of Transporting Multimedia Traffic in Internet. (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hu, Y., Zhang, G., & Tu, W. (2002, March). RAAR: A TCP-friendly Congestion Control Mechanism of Transporting Multimedia Traffic in Internet. Presented at The ICS Program of Workshop on Computer Networks, Taiwan

This paper proposes a unicast mechanism of Rate Adaption At Receivers called RAAR. It can be used to transport multimedia traffic. UDP and TCP dominate in current Internet. Neither TCP nor UDP can be used by multimedia traffic, because the TCP reduce... Read More about RAAR: A TCP-friendly Congestion Control Mechanism of Transporting Multimedia Traffic in Internet..