ResearchPod

‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers’ – King Henry’s speech to rouse his troops before the Battle of Agincourt is one of the most famous in Shakespeare. But what does ‘Henry V’ tell us about theories of war in Elizabethan England?

Professor Anne-Marie Walkowicz of Ohio’s Central State University in the USA argues that the play explores the just war tradition – the counsel rulers should seek before engaging in military action – and class conflict.

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Read the original article : https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35564-6_14

What happens when CEOs are shielded by employment and severance agreements? Researchers from Singapore Management University, University of Hong Kong, Boston College, and led by Dr. Xia Chen put forward this critical question.  

The study investigates how CEO contractual protection impacts corporate debt contracting. With insights from a comprehensive analysis of loans from major publicly traded companies, the team explore how these protections can influence CEO behavior, risk-taking, and the financial terms imposed by debt holders.

Read the original research: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbfa.12664

As part of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, or COST Action, Working Group 2 of the COSY network focuses on developing efficient methods for describing the motion of molecules in confined systems.

Their work covers four key areas, ranging from toxic gas separation to tumour biomarker detection.

Find out more about the COSY COST Action network on cost-cosy.eu 

Read the original research:

• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sstr.202400147
• https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CP04295A
• https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c02494
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2023.122828
• https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0146680
• https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2024.2341106
• https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202205198

CBD has emerged as a non-psychoactive agent in cannabis, stimulating a boom of boutique cannabis products into the medicinal and adult use markets .

The innovative CannaMetrix EC50 Array™  offers a solution to traditional chemical methods of testing cannabis potency, which often fall short in accurately capturing the complex interactions between cannabinoids and the human body.

Find more at  https://cannametrix.org/

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The global business landscape has undergone a profound transformation in recent decades. As sustainability, energy transition, and climate change have taken center stage, the need for a paradigm shift in strategic management has become increasingly apparent.
 
Jean Garner Stead and Edward Stead from East Tennessee State University argue that traditional strategic management models, particularly the Porterian models, are no longer sufficient in the face of modern challenges. They emphasize the necessity of a revolution in strategic management to a higher level that incorporates a spiritual dimension to address the pressing issues of our time.

Read more in Research Features

Read the original research: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06014-5_4

Traumatic brain injury remains a major cause of disability and death worldwide, and timely detection of the injury could lead to early intervention and save lives.

Professor Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer at the University of Birmingham, UK, has developed a novel handheld device that helps detect and classify brain injury by scanning the back of the eyes.

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Read the original research: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg5431

Barcodes and QR codes have become ubiquitous sights in our current information age.

Soorya Annadurai, an independent researcher and software engineer at Microsoft in the USA, has developed a solution for these situations: audible barcodes, or ‘AuraCodes’, enabling the encoding and decoding of digital information through the medium of sound.

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Read the original research: doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3758-5_9

In an age of academies and free schools, secondary schools in England have never had more freedom over their admissions rules. But how do they decide who gets in and who doesn’t? And does it really matter?

These are the issues explored in this podcast, featuring Professor Simon Burges (Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol) and Dr Ellen Greaves (Honorary Research Associate at the University of Bristol). 

Discussing their research, Simon and Ellen shed light on the complexities of England’s secondary school admissions rules today and show that fairer admissions criteria could have a huge impact – on children, families and our whole society.

Learn more: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/secondary-school-admissions/

In conflict zones, businesses are widely seen as a positive force that promotes peace.

Dr Jay Joseph at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and colleagues have studied micro and small enterprises, identifying their often contradictory impact on a conflict zone.

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Read the original research: doi.org/10.1177/00076503221084638

It is believed that being more porous in nature will enable universities to create a talent pool of graduates with en entrepreneurial mindset and access to the very latest thinking, technology and innovation.

But is this enough to stem the tide of talent leaving Malaysia for opportunities elsewhere?

Featuring Professor Datuk Dr Paul Chan (HELP University), Professor Veronica Hope-Hailey and Professor Brian Squire (University of Bristol Business School)

Find out more about the 'Open for Business' podcast series.