University of Lincoln

Conviction Is Not Commission: A Methodological, Conceptual, and Ethical Critique of Khoshnood et al.

Khoshnood et al. (2026) report a strong association between immigrant background and rape convictions in Sweden using nationwide register data and a matched case-control design. This commentary argues that the study suggests important descriptive evidence on conviction patterns,...

Safeguarding global terrestrial vertebrate species from future sea-level rise

Sea-level rise (SLR) threatens terrestrial biodiversity, yet its spatiotemporal and species-specific impacts remain unclear. Integrating relative SLR projections across five Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) with Area of Habitat (AOH) maps for 34,120 terrestrial vertebrate spe...

A Fine-Grained Image Dataset of Gold and Silver Artifacts from the Tomb of Prince Liangzhuang and Preliminary LoRA-Based Generation Experiments

The digital preservation of cultural heritage is evolving from static archiving towards intelligent creation. As representative examples of early Ming Dynasty gold and silver craftsmanship, the gold and silver artifacts from the Tomb of Prince Liangzhuang, with their complex craf...

Improving human performance in deepfake detection: limits of aggregation and human–AI collaboration

Abstract Given that deepfake videos are now easy to generate and increasingly high in quality, the present research investigated human detection performance and several routes to improvement. Across four experiments, participants demonstrated above-chance detection accuracy when...

Distributed signal production in entrepreneurial ecosystems: evidence from Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa

Abstract Entrepreneurial ecosystem research has established that ecosystems influence venture development through networks, institutions, and support organizations, yet it offers limited explanation of how ecosystems shape the evaluative processes through which ventures gain acce...

A Country Fails with 35.5% – Academic Freedom and the Law in South Africa: International Compliance, Comparative Trends

Abstract This Article measures to what extent academic freedom as construed in terms of international human rights law, specifically UNESCO’s Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel of 1997, is protected in South African law. It determines the...

ACTIVATE: A protocol for a randomised controlled evaluation of Thumos: A cognitive-behavioural intervention for medical students

Background Medical students experience high rates of burnout and mental health distress, with approximately half reporting burnout, one-third experiencing depression, and one-tenth having suicidal thoughts. These issues are exacerbated during clinical placements and contribute to...

Process transparency in research publication

In (tourism) scholarship, the published article is often presented as a monolithic, static output, obscuring the iterative and often messy reality of manuscript evolution. Furthermore, current editorial metadata sustains an ‘illusion of finality’, sanitising the intellectual fric...

The History and Legacy of British Colonial Looting

Abstract This historiographical review surveys the scholarship on British colonial spoils of war, outlining and critically analysing the main arguments and approaches as well as the new directions taken by recent authors. Moreover, it seizes the opportunity to take stock of what...

Italian Fluvial Sediment Transport Database: a comprehensive hub for archiving and analyzing hydrological data

Fluvial sediment transport plays a key role in geomorphological and hydrological processes, influencing river morphology, watershed and coastal sediment balances, and the environmental response to climatic and anthropogenic changes. In Italy, the availability of homogeneous and l...

Cross-Node Fault Diagnosis of Solar Insecticidal Lamp IoT Equipment for Reliable Precision Pest Monitoring Using a Diagnosability-Aware Health Baseline

Reliable solar insecticidal lamp Internet of Things (SIL-IoT) equipment underpins green pest control and precise pest monitoring. Healthy ranges of light, photovoltaic and thermal variables shift with daylight, weather, energy availability and installation conditions, while label...

A Replication Study Testing the Construct Validity and Internal Consistency Reliability of the Francis Burnout Inventory Revised Among Catholic Priests in Italy

Abstract This replication study draws on data provided by a snowball sample of 264 Catholic priests serving in Italy to test the construct validity of the operationalisation of the balanced affect conceptualisation of good work-related psychological wellbeing among clergy propose...

Functional variation in butterfly egg pore traits: The potential role of climate

Abstract Immobile eggs of terrestrial animals are exposed to variable environmental conditions. Insect egg pores, critical for gas exchange (aeropyles) and fertilisation (micropyles), are ecologically important yet understudied. While aeropyles likely adapt to climatic respirator...

Composite Indicators of Housing Market Pressures: How Well Do Single and Composite Indicators Align?

A claim made in 2020 that ‘something has gone fundamentally wrong with the housing system [in England]’ is considered using a coupling coordination-generated local authority district-based housing market ‘evaluation’ index and a Principal Components-generated alternative. It is a...

CD248/Endosialin regulates synovial fibroblast state to control coupling of inflammation and bone damage in murine models of immune‐mediated inflammatory arthritis and ageing

Objective Synovial fibroblasts directly contribute to inflammation and damage in immune‐mediated inflammatory arthritis. CD248/Endosialin is expressed by fibroblasts in the synovium, is highly upregulated during inflammation and has been proposed as a potential therapeutic target...

Disruptive shocks in global agri-food value chains: a comparative analysis of impact trajectories across 12 case studies

Agri-food value chains (AFVCs) are exposed to compound, complex climatic, geopolitical, and market shocks, yet prevailing resilience frameworks treat the impact of these disruptions as linear, sector-specific, and primarily from a technical perspective. This paper challenges such...

The development and validation of the partial denture experience questionnaire (P-DEQ): reliability and validity

Introduction This paper describes the development and preliminary validation of the Partial Denture Experience Questionnaire (P-DEQ), a new, condition-specific instrument designed to measure the multifaceted impacts of living with removable dentures. Methods The P-DEQ was develop...

The Consent to Destroy: Imperial Melancholia and the Hegemony of Fragmentation

Across the world’s most powerful states, millions actively embrace the destruction of the shared reality on which democratic life depends. Democracy does not simply collapse from without; it can be unmade from within through consent. This article introduces hegemonic fragmentatio...

The bricolage of formalisation: Organisational order under institutional multiplicity in artisanal and small-scale mining

Formalisation is often understood as the rational codification of activity and the extension of bureaucratic order into informal domains. This paper challenges that assumption by advancing a new conceptualisation of formalisation as institutional bricolage, a recursive process th...

Global Groundwater–CarbonCycling Shaped byTropical Basins and Extra-Tropical Sinks

Abstract Groundwater’s role in the global carbon cycle is poorly quantified compared to other carbon reservoirs, particularly on a global spatial scale. Here we show that the carbon stock of terrestrial groundwater is approximately equal to that stored in the modern atmosphere, a...