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The World Bank's Business Ready Project: The Labor Topic, ILO Standards and the Role and Impact of Labour Regulation (2025)
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Lee, S., & McCann, D. The World Bank's Business Ready Project: The Labor Topic, ILO Standards and the Role and Impact of Labour Regulation

The World Bank's new Business Ready (B-READY) project replaces the controversial Doing Business index in assessing global business and investment environments and is intended to galvanise legal reform in countries across the world. The project is dri... Read More about The World Bank's Business Ready Project: The Labor Topic, ILO Standards and the Role and Impact of Labour Regulation.

Unifying Subicular Function: A Predictive Map Approach. (2024)
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Bennett, L., de Cothi, W., Muessig, L., Rodrigues, F. R., Cacucci, F., Wills, T. J., Sun, Y., Giocomo, L. M., Lever, C., Poulter, S., & Barry, C. (in press). Unifying Subicular Function: A Predictive Map Approach

The successor representation has emerged as a powerful model for understanding mammalian navigation and memory; explaining the spatial coding properties of hippocampal place cells and entorhinal grid cells. However, the diverse spatial responses of s... Read More about Unifying Subicular Function: A Predictive Map Approach..

Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals (2024)
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Scheller, M., Tünnermann, J., Fredriksson, K., Fang, H., & Sui, J. (2024). Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals

Efficiently processing self-related information is critical for cognition, yet the earliest mechanisms enabling this self-prioritization remain unclear. By combining a temporal order judgement task with computational modelling based on the Theory of... Read More about Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals.

Impact-evaluation study of a school leadership development programme in Rwanda - Inception Report, VVOB – Education for Development (2024)
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Nguyen, D., See, B. H., Do, H., Kirezi, J. C., Pieck, L., & Peeraer, J. (2024). Impact-evaluation study of a school leadership development programme in Rwanda - Inception Report, VVOB – Education for Development

School leadership plays a critical role in securing equity and excellence in schools. School leaders influence the quality of teaching and learning in their schools through multiple pathways, including promoting teacher development, creating safe env... Read More about Impact-evaluation study of a school leadership development programme in Rwanda - Inception Report, VVOB – Education for Development.

New imaging tools reveal live cellular collagen secretion, fibril dynamics and network organisation (2024)
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Kent, O., Casey, E. R., Brown, M., Bell, S., Ehrman, M., Flagler, M., Määttä, A., Benham, A. M., & Hawkins, T. J. (2024). New imaging tools reveal live cellular collagen secretion, fibril dynamics and network organisation

Although light microscopy has been used to examine the early trafficking of collagen within the cell, much of our understanding of the detailed organisation of cell deposited collagen is from static electron microscopy studies. To understand the dyna... Read More about New imaging tools reveal live cellular collagen secretion, fibril dynamics and network organisation.

Improving Responses to Hate Relationships Final Report (2024)
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Donovan, C., Clayton, J., MacDonald, S., Long, C., Dutt, A., & Jain, V. Improving Responses to Hate Relationships Final Report

The research team have been working with the Hate Crime Advocacy Service (HCAS) at Connected Voice Advocacy since 2019. The HCAS is funded by the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office so whilst it is based in Newcastle it provides a serv... Read More about Improving Responses to Hate Relationships Final Report.

Structure ofEscherichia coliDNA gyrase with chirally wrapped DNA supports ratchet-and-pawl mechanism for an ATP-powered supercoiling motor (2024)
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Michalczyk, E., Pabiś, M., Heddle, J., & Ghilarov, D. (in press). Structure ofEscherichia coliDNA gyrase with chirally wrapped DNA supports ratchet-and-pawl mechanism for an ATP-powered supercoiling motor

Gyrase is essential for replication and transcription in bacteria, and as such is an important target for antibiotics including fluoroquinolones. Gyrase is a molecular machine that channels the energy of ATP hydrolysis into negative supercoiling of D... Read More about Structure ofEscherichia coliDNA gyrase with chirally wrapped DNA supports ratchet-and-pawl mechanism for an ATP-powered supercoiling motor.

Amici Curiae in Support of Appellant and Urging Reversal in the Case of Stephen Thaler v. U. S. Copyright Office in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Case No. 23-5233) (2024) (2024)
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Yaniski-Ravid, S., Chen, G., Guttentag, A., Lessig, L., & Mason, C. Amici Curiae in Support of Appellant and Urging Reversal in the Case of Stephen Thaler v. U. S. Copyright Office in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Case No. 23-5233) (2024). Independent; self-organised co-authorship

Empirical Asset Pricing Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence (2024)
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Demirbaga, U., & Xu, Y. Empirical Asset Pricing Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence

This paper applies explainable artificial intelligence in empirical asset pricing to explain the reasoning behind stock return predictions made by various complex machine learning models. We use two state-of-the-art explainable AI methods, LIME and S... Read More about Empirical Asset Pricing Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence.

Let’s get together and make change: Towards a Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework (2023)
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Brown, C., Cilliers, J., Cairns, L., Barros, P., Milić, P., Katsidzira, R. S., & Fambasayi, R. (2023). Let’s get together and make change: Towards a Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework

Children live in cities and local communities, implying that they have proximity to the local government rather than the national government. The interaction of children with their governments happens at the local level. And, children experience the... Read More about Let’s get together and make change: Towards a Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework.

Performing the Protection of Civilians Mandate: Experiences of African Military Peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Federal Republic of Somalia (2023)
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Bakonyi, J., Flaspöler, A., Lugano, G., & Thill, M. (2023). Performing the Protection of Civilians Mandate: Experiences of African Military Peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Federal Republic of Somalia

The Protection of Civilians (PoC) became a central norm in international peacekeeping and often rationalizes the use of force in peace interventions. The successes, failures and ambiguities of the PoC mandate implementation were critically explored i... Read More about Performing the Protection of Civilians Mandate: Experiences of African Military Peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Federal Republic of Somalia.

Migration and Trust: Evidence on Assimilation from Internal Migrants (2023)
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Marino Fages, D. Migration and Trust: Evidence on Assimilation from Internal Migrants

I study whether internal migrants assimilate culturally to the locals. Investigating this question with observational data has been challenging because it requires disentangling assimilation from sorting and because data on immigrants before migratin... Read More about Migration and Trust: Evidence on Assimilation from Internal Migrants.

Large sample properties of GMM estimators under second-order identification (2023)
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Kruiniger, H. Large sample properties of GMM estimators under second-order identification

Dovonon and Hall (Journal of Econometrics, 2018) proposed a limiting distribution theory for GMM estimators for a p - dimensional globally identified parameter vector {\phi} when local identification conditions fail at first-order but hold at second-... Read More about Large sample properties of GMM estimators under second-order identification.