Durham University

The invisible pass: asynchronous e-learning and the enforcement of neurotypical identity performance in neurodivergent adults

Purpose Digital learning environments are increasingly framed as flexible and inclusive, yet the identity work required of neurodivergent learners within these spaces remains largely unexamined. This paper argues that asynchronous e-learning platforms, by eliminating interpersona...

Industry Signals and the Dynamics of Stock Market Predictability

ABSTRACT We investigate whether industry portfolios contain information that forecasts aggregate stock market returns. Earlier research reports evidence of their usefulness as predictors, yet later studies find weaker and unstable effects. Using updated U.S. data, we confirm that...

FLOWERING LOCUS C orthologues with expression maxima in seeds are associated with an effect of vernalisation intensity on seed size Brassica napus

Abstract Warming during seed development can have negative impacts on seed size and crop yield across many species. Given the fact that there is substantial maternal control of seed size, it is also possible that temperature earlier in the growth cycle can affect crop physiology....

Whose Emotional Intelligence Counts? Behaviour, Competence and the Organisational Interpretation of Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence (EI) has become a defining feature of leadership development, recruitment and performance management. We argue, however, that as EI has become embedded within organisational practice, its assessment has gradually shifted from recognising emotional capabilit...

The influence of employees' entrepreneurial socio-cognitive traits and the country-level institutional context on employees' entrepreneurial behavior

Purpose This study seeks to identify the individual- and country-level factors that influence employees' entrepreneurial behavior (EEB) by examining the direct effects of entrepreneurial socio-cognitive traits on EEB and the moderating influence of country-level institutional fac...

The transformation of global labour relations in the Trump era: some expected and unexpected effects

Purpose Against the background that Labour Relations around the world is affected by politics and in particular by the trade policy of the Trump administration, this viewpoint paper aims to discuss the implications for international business. This paper will explain how labour re...

Galaxy luminosity functions from far-UV to submillimetre at z = 0 in the COLIBRE simulations

Abstract We present predictions from the colibre cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation for the present-day galaxy luminosity functions (LFs) at wavelengths ranging from the far-ultraviolet (FUV) to the submillimetre. The simulations are post-processed with t...

Complicity without Collective Guilt: Aquinas and the Abuse Crisis

Abstract When people speak of the Church’s complicity in the abuse crisis, they usually mean particular things that particular officeholders did or failed to do. I. Th. Eschmann’s study of Aquinas’s Scriptum is widely read as ruling out any Thomist account of collective ecclesial...

Convergence Analysis of Controlled Particle Systems Arising in Deep Learning: From Finite to Infinite Sample Size

Abstract This paper deals with a class of neural SDEs and studies the limiting behavior of the associated sampled optimal control problems as the sample size grows to infinity. The neural SDEs with N samples can be linked to the N -particle systems with centralized control. We an...

Calculation of Field-line Slippage Rates in Coronal Simulations

Abstract We present the universal Slippage calculator ( USlip ), an extension of the universal Fieldline Tracer ( UFiT ), which computes magnetic field line slippage rates from an input magnetic field defined on a structured grid. The slippage rate provides a local, physically gr...

Sovereign Credit Ratings and Corporate Environmental Performance: The Moderating Role of Voice and Accountability

ABSTRACT Governments and corporations can capitalise on improvements in Sovereign Credit Ratings (SCRs) by promoting environmentally friendly policies and developing infrastructure to achieve sustainable economic growth. Alternatively, they may choose to follow a ‘race to the bot...

Robust, partially alive particle Metropolis-Hastings via The Frankenfilter

When a hidden Markov model permits the conditional likelihood of an observation given the hidden process to be zero, all particle simulations from one observation time to the next could produce zeros. If so, the filtering distribution cannot be estimated and the estimated paramet...

Performance-measurement systems as actors and boundary objects: a sociomaterial perspective to the provision of prison services

The paper explores the performance-measurement systems (PMSs) used in the provision of prison services (and their non-human agent role) to reflect on: the role PMSs play in inter-organisational relationships; the boundary objects that connect human and non-human actors across int...

New Schmidt hammer exposure‐age dating calibrations for the Last Glacial Termination in NW Scotland: Development and application to undated Torridon Group sandstone surfaces in Wester Ross

ABSTRACT An understanding of the terrestrial extent, retreat dynamics and climate–glacier coupling of ice masses during the Last Glacial Termination (LGT, ~18–11 ka) is often limited by a fragmentary geomorphological record and is dependent on precise, accurate and robust dating...

New insights into the $$b\rightarrow c \bar{u}q$$ puzzle through Top–Bottom synergies

Abstract Anomalies in the non-leptonic $$\bar{B}^0\rightarrow D^{(*)+}K^{(*)-}$$ B ¯ 0 → D ( ∗ ) + K ( ∗ ) - and $$\bar{B}^0_s\rightarrow D^{(*)+}_s\pi ^-$$ B ¯ s 0 → D s ( ∗ ) + π - decays may be an indication of physics beyond the Standard Model, but the large deviations requir...

Ancient DNA reveals early use of melons in China’s Song dynasty

Abstract Melon ( Cucumis melo L.) domestication is thought to have occurred independently once in Northeast Africa and twice in India, but archaeobotanical seed remains point to a possible additional domestication in China. Because Cucumis seeds are difficult to diagnose morpholo...

The return of politically embedded commerce: Chinese MNEs in an age of geopolitical fragmentation

Purpose This study comments on how the fragmentation of liberal globalisation and the resurgence of geopolitical rivalry, industrial policy and economic security concerns may be reshaping the organisation of international business. It argues that these developments may increase t...

Technology and the future of qualitative data analysis

The entanglement between technology and methodology in qualitative research has largely been overlooked in management and organization studies (MOS). In this paper, we rectify this inattention, proposing that the way we analyze qualitative data be viewed as a socio-technical prac...

Slow stellar halo rotation as a signature of disc flips and GES-like mergers

Abstract The stellar halo of the Milky Way (MW) exhibits a weak net prograde rotational signal (vφ ≲ 25 km s−1), yet its origin remains unexplained. To investigate this, we use the Auriga cosmological simulation suite of MW-mass haloes to probe the rotation of stellar haloes over...

On a Rankin–Selberg integral of three Hermitian cusp forms

Abstract Let $$K = \mathbb {Q}(i)$$ K = Q ( i ) . We study the Petersson inner product of a Hermitian Eisenstein series of Siegel type on the unitary group $$U_{5}(K)$$ U 5 ( K ) , diagonally-restricted on $$U_2(K)\times U_2(K)\times U_1(K)$$ U 2 ( K ) × U 2 ( K ) × U 1 ( K ) , a...