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Courts Without Separation of Powers: The Case of Judicial Suggestions in China (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, M. B., & Li, Z. (2023). Courts Without Separation of Powers: The Case of Judicial Suggestions in China. Harvard International Law Journal, 64(1), 203-252

Like courts everywhere else, socialist courts are tasked with settling disputes. Their decisions are backed by the force of law. But unlike courts everywhere else, socialist courts are also required to support official ideology and policies. They are... Read More about Courts Without Separation of Powers: The Case of Judicial Suggestions in China.

Resolving uncertainties in foraminifera-based relative sea-level reconstruction: a case study from southern New Zealand (2023)
Journal Article
Garrett, E., Brain, M., Hayward, B., Newnham, R., Morey, C., & Gehrels, W. (2023). Resolving uncertainties in foraminifera-based relative sea-level reconstruction: a case study from southern New Zealand. Journal of foraminiferal research, 53(1), 78-89. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.53.1.78

Since the pioneering work of David Scott and others in the 1970s and 1980s, foraminifera have been used to develop precise sea-level reconstructions from salt marshes around the world. In New Zealand, reconstructions feature rapid rates of sea-level... Read More about Resolving uncertainties in foraminifera-based relative sea-level reconstruction: a case study from southern New Zealand.

‘Eternal convivencia’: From Madrid’s Painters of Africa to the School of Tetouan (2023)
Journal Article
Hopkins, C. (2023). ‘Eternal convivencia’: From Madrid’s Painters of Africa to the School of Tetouan. World Art, 13(1), 29-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2022.2150886

The annual Pintores de África exhibitions, organised by Franco’s colonial administration in mid-twentieth-century Madrid, offered audiences a colourful feast of artistic representations of Spain’s colonial territories in Africa, and of Spain’s archit... Read More about ‘Eternal convivencia’: From Madrid’s Painters of Africa to the School of Tetouan.

The accuracy of computer-assisted surgical planning in predicting soft tissue responses after Le Fort I osteotomy: Retrospective analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Senyürek, S. A., Ajami, S., Ruggiero, F., Van de Lande, L., Caron, C. J., Schievano, S., Dunaway, D. J., Padwa, B., Koudstaal, M. J., & Borghi, A. (2023). The accuracy of computer-assisted surgical planning in predicting soft tissue responses after Le Fort I osteotomy: Retrospective analysis. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 34(1), 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1097/SCS.0000000000008970

AmiP from hyperthermophilic Thermus parvatiensis prophage is a thermoactive and ultrathermostable peptidoglycan lytic amidase (2023)
Journal Article
Jasilionis, A., Plotka, M., Wang, L., Dorawa, S., Lange, J., Watzlawick, H., van den Bergh, T., Vroling, B., Altenbuchner, J., Kaczorowska, A., Pohl, E., Kaczorowski, T., Nordberg Karlsson, E., & Freitag‐Pohl, S. (2023). AmiP from hyperthermophilic Thermus parvatiensis prophage is a thermoactive and ultrathermostable peptidoglycan lytic amidase. Protein Science, 32(3), Article e4585. https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4585

Bacteriophages encode a wide variety of cell wall disrupting enzymes that aid the viral escape in the final stages of infection. These lytic enzymes have accumulated notable interest due to their potential as novel antibacterials for infection treatm... Read More about AmiP from hyperthermophilic Thermus parvatiensis prophage is a thermoactive and ultrathermostable peptidoglycan lytic amidase.

Place and Time at Trypillia Mega-Sites: Towards a New Synthesis of Analyses and Social Theory (2023)
Journal Article
Gaydarska, B., Millard, A., Buchanan, B., & Chapman, J. (2023). Place and Time at Trypillia Mega-Sites: Towards a New Synthesis of Analyses and Social Theory. Journal of urban archaeology, 7, 115-145. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.jua.5.133453

The Trypillia mega-sites (‘TMS’) form an exceptional aspect of the broader Cucuteni–Trypillia group in the Balkan and East European Neolithic and Chalcolithic. The TMS are currently the largest sites and the earliest urban complexes in Eurasia in the... Read More about Place and Time at Trypillia Mega-Sites: Towards a New Synthesis of Analyses and Social Theory.

Regulation of epidermal proliferation and hair follicle cycling by synthetic photostable retinoid EC23 (2023)
Journal Article
Määttä, A., Nixon, R., Robinson, N., Ambler, C. A., Goncalves, K., Maltman, V., & Przyborski, S. (2023). Regulation of epidermal proliferation and hair follicle cycling by synthetic photostable retinoid EC23. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, 22(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/jocd.15629

Background Retinoid signaling is an important regulator of the epidermis and skin appendages. Therefore, synthetic retinoids have been developed for therapeutic use for skin disorders such as psoriasis and acne. Aims In previous studies, we showed ho... Read More about Regulation of epidermal proliferation and hair follicle cycling by synthetic photostable retinoid EC23.

VST ATLAS galaxy cluster catalogue I: cluster detection and mass calibration (2023)
Journal Article
Ansarinejad, B., Murphy, D., Shanks, T., & Metcalfe, N. (2023). VST ATLAS galaxy cluster catalogue I: cluster detection and mass calibration. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520(1), 1371-1389. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3815

Taking advantage of ∼4700 deg2 optical coverage of the Southern sky offered by the VST ATLAS survey, we construct a new catalogue of photometrically selected galaxy groups and clusters using the ORCA cluster detection algorithm. The catalogue contain... Read More about VST ATLAS galaxy cluster catalogue I: cluster detection and mass calibration.

Signal region combination with full and simplified likelihoods in MadAnalysis 5 (2023)
Journal Article
Alguero, G., Araz, J., Fuks, B., & Kraml, S. (2023). Signal region combination with full and simplified likelihoods in MadAnalysis 5. SciPost Physics, 14(1), Article 009. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.14.1.009

The statistical combination of disjoint signal regions in reinterpretation studies uses more of the data of an analysis and gives more robust results than the single signal region approach. We present the implementation and usage of signal region com... Read More about Signal region combination with full and simplified likelihoods in MadAnalysis 5.

Effects of Investment Experience on the Stock Investment Task: The Mediating Role of Risk Perception (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Wu, Q., Hong, P., & Tian, R. (2023). Effects of Investment Experience on the Stock Investment Task: The Mediating Role of Risk Perception. Behavioral Sciences, 13(2), Article 115. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13020115

Due to the limitations of traditional financial analysis and the non-specificity of laboratory-based gambling tasks, it is difficult for researchers to isolate the independent contributions of risk perception and initial investment experience on novi... Read More about Effects of Investment Experience on the Stock Investment Task: The Mediating Role of Risk Perception.

A fresh perspective: the impact of interns on research and culture (2023)
Book Chapter
Baguley, N., & Endersby-Marsh, H. (2023). A fresh perspective: the impact of interns on research and culture. In A. Priestner (Ed.), User Experience in Libraries: Yearbook 2023 (150-156). UXLibs

In 2019 we applied for and were appointed to new library intern posts at Durham University, partially as a result of two of our colleagues attending UXLibsV and hearing Claire Browne’s presentation ‘Internships and Ethnography: Students Researching S... Read More about A fresh perspective: the impact of interns on research and culture.

On the Ethicality of Islamic Banking’s Business Model (2023)
Journal Article
Jatmiko, W., Iqbal, A., & Ebrahim, M. S. (2024). On the Ethicality of Islamic Banking’s Business Model. British Journal of Management, 35(1), 115-136. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12703

This paper scrutinizes the ethicality of Islamic banks’ (IBs’) business model by employing the ‘objectives of Islamic law’ (Maqāsid al-Sharī’ah). This necessitates developing an ethical framework to construe two primary injunctions of Islamic finance... Read More about On the Ethicality of Islamic Banking’s Business Model.

The impact of spatially varying ice sheet basal conditions on sliding at glacial time scales (2023)
Journal Article
Gowan, E. J., Hinck, S., Niu, L., Clason, C., & Lohmann, G. (2023). The impact of spatially varying ice sheet basal conditions on sliding at glacial time scales. Journal of Glaciology, 69(276), https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.125

Spatially variable basal conditions are thought to govern how ice sheets behave at glacial time scales (>1000 years) and responsible for changes in dynamics between the core and peripheral regions of the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets. Basal... Read More about The impact of spatially varying ice sheet basal conditions on sliding at glacial time scales.

Love in the space-time of inequality: Attachment and detachment across unequal lives (2023)
Journal Article
Strong, S. (2023). Love in the space-time of inequality: Attachment and detachment across unequal lives. Sociological Review, 71(2), 370-386. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221150085

This article examines the changing experience of love at a time of deepening inequalities. Drawing on the ‘love story’ of one resident of London’s Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea—arguably the UK’s most unequal space—it builds a relational acc... Read More about Love in the space-time of inequality: Attachment and detachment across unequal lives.

Finite-Time Fault-Tolerant Formation Control for Distributed Multi-Vehicle Networks With Bearing Measurements (2023)
Journal Article
Wu, K., Hu, J., Ding, Z., & Arvin, F. (2024). Finite-Time Fault-Tolerant Formation Control for Distributed Multi-Vehicle Networks With Bearing Measurements. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 21(2), 1346-1357. https://doi.org/10.1109/tase.2023.3239748

This paper addresses a bearing-only formation tracking problem in robotic networks by considering exogenous disturbances and actuator faults. In contrast to traditional position-based coordination strategies, the bearing-only coordinated movements of... Read More about Finite-Time Fault-Tolerant Formation Control for Distributed Multi-Vehicle Networks With Bearing Measurements.

Organizational resilience and interorganizational relationships: An exploration of Chinese business service firms (2023)
Journal Article
You, J. J., & Williams, C. (2023). Organizational resilience and interorganizational relationships: An exploration of Chinese business service firms. European Management Review, 20(3), 591-609. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12558

Much research on organizational resilience has focused on the intraorganizational capacity that enables positive adjustment to disruption. Yet, when seen as open systems, organizations are highly interdependent and interconnected with many other acto... Read More about Organizational resilience and interorganizational relationships: An exploration of Chinese business service firms.