• Online public shaming: virtues and vices

  Billingham, Paul; Parr, Tom (Wiley, 2020)

  We are witnessing increasing use of the Internet, particular social media, to criticize (perceived) moral failings and misdemeanors. This phenomenon of so-called ‘online public shaming’ could provide a powerful tool for ...
• Rescuing basic equality

  Parr, Tom; Slavny, Adam (Wiley, 2019)

  In the debate on the basis of moral equality, one conclusion achieves near consensus: that we must reject all accounts that ground equality in the possession of some psychological capacity (Psychological Capacity Accounts). ...
• What’s wrong with risk?

  Parr, Tom; Slavny, Adam (Wiley, 2019)

  Imposing pure risks—risks that do not materialise into harm—is sometimes wrong. The Harm Account explains this wrongness by claiming that pure risks are harms. By contrast, The Autonomy Account claims that pure risks impede ...
• Revisiting harmless discrimination

  Parr, Tom (Springer, 2019)

  In a co-authored piece with Adam Slavny, I argued that any promising account of the wrongness of discrimination must focus not only on the harmful outcomes of discriminatory acts but also on the deliberation of the ...
• Aggregation is a context-dependent constraint on protein evolution

  Tartaglia, Gian Gaetano (Frontiers, 2021)
• Immune dysregulation and the increased risk of complications and mortality following respiratory tract infections in adults with Down dyndrome

  Dierssen Sotos, Mara (Frontiers, 2021)
• A novel CDC25A/DYRK2 regulatory switch modulates cell cycle and survival

  Usuari de càrrega (Nature Research, 2021)
• Variability of multi-omics profiles in a population-based child cohort

  Vrijheid, Martine (BioMed Central, 2021)
• Genomics and transcriptomics yields a system-level view of the biology of the pathogen Naegleria fowleri

  Usuari de càrrega (BioMed Central, 2021)
• How surprising was ISIS’ rise to power for the German intelligence community? Reconstructing estimates of likelihood prior to the fall of Mosul

  Michaels, Eva (Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  This article provides a first attempt at evaluating the performance of the German intelligence community when anticipating ISIS’ rise to power in Syria and Iraq and its reach into Europe in 2013–2014. It applies a new ...
• Do euro area institutions benefit the small member states?

  Sadeh, Tal; Rubinson, Eyal; Raskin, Yoav (Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  In recent years, the pooling of authority among the member states of the euro area has intensified, expanding the remit of the Council, Commission and ECB. While it is commonly thought that large states dominate these ...
• Latin America: stalled catching up

  Astorga Junquera, Pablo; Herranz Loncán, Alfonso (Cambridge University Press - Core, 2021)

  Latin America made considerable progress in living standards between 1870 and 2010 amid rapid modernization and structural change. However, despite these remarkable advances, the income gap between the region and the ...
• The pathogenesis of chronic spontaneous urticaria: the role of infiltrating cells

  Giménez Arnau, Anna Maria; DeMontojoye, Laurence; Asero, Riccardo; Cugno, Massimo; Kulthanan, Kanokvalai; Yanase, Yuhki; Hide, Michihiro; Kaplan, Allen P. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Chronic spontaneous urticaria is characterized by a perivascular non-necrotizing cellular infiltrate around small venules of the skin. It consists primarily of CD4(+) lymphocytes, a prominence of the T helper (Th)2 subtype ...
• ModPhred: an integrative toolkit for the analysis and storage of nanopore sequencing DNA and RNA modification data

  Pryszcz, Leszek Piotr, 1985-; Novoa, Eva Maria (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  Motivation: DNA and RNA modifications can now be identified using Nanopore sequencing. However, we currently lack a flexible software to efficiently encode, store, analyze and visualize DNA and RNA modification data. ...
• Cognitively unimpaired individuals with a low burden of Aβ pathology have a distinct CSF biomarker profile

  Milà Alomà, Marta; Shekari, Mahnaz; Salvadó, Gemma; Gispert López, Juan Domingo; Arenaza Urquijo, Eider M.; Operto, Grégory; Falcón, Carles; Vilor Tejedor, Natàlia, 1988-; Grau-Rivera, Oriol; Sala Vila, Aleix; Sánchez Benavides, Gonzalo; González de Echávarri, José Maria; Minguillón, Carolina; Suárez-Calvet, Marc; Molinuevo, José Luis; ALFA study (BioMed Central, 2021)

  Background: Understanding the changes that occur in the transitional stage between absent and overt amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology within the Alzheimer's continuum is crucial to develop therapeutic and preventive strategies. The ...
• The gender divide in issue attention

  Chaqués Bonafont, Laura; Cristancho Mantilla, Camilo (Wiley, 2021)

  This article explores the conditions under which female members of parliament (MPs) are more likely than male MPs to participate in political debates relating to a range of issues. Building on descriptive representation ...
• Racial self-interest, Max Weber and the production of racism: the strategy and propaganda of vote leave during the Brexit referendum

  Shaw, Martin (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  Shaw’s paper examines Eric Kaufmann’s idea of ‘racial self-interest’—which references Max Weber’s types of rationality in order to support ‘cordoning off’ racism from broader anti-immigration attitudes—through an analysis ...
• Making the Paris agreement: historical processes and the drivers of institutional design

  Allan, Jen Iris; Roger, Charles B.; Hale, Thomas; Bernstein, Steven; Tiberghien, Yves; Balme, Richard (SAGE Publications, 2021)

  After a decade-long search, countries finally agreed on a new climate treaty in 2015. The Paris Agreement has attracted attention both for overcoming years of gridlock and for its novel features. Here, we build on accounts ...
• Analyzing international organizations: how the concepts we use affect the answers we get

  Roger, Charles B.; Rowan, Sam (Springer, 2021)

  We explore how “international organizations” have been conceptualized and operationalized in the field of International Relations (IR), identify an important gap between the two, and demonstrate how this shapes our ...
• Understanding the well-being impact of a computer-supported collaborative learning tool: the case of PyramidApp

  Hakami, Eyad; Hernández Leo, Davinia; Amarasinghe, Ishari (Springer, 2021)

  The global efforts toward evaluating the impact of the use of data-driven technologies on humans’ well-being continue to establish societal guidelines for such systems to remain human-centric, serving humanity’s values and ...

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