Northeast Catholic College

Abstract This short coda discusses scholarship on the history of the immortal soul in early Christianity. The early modern period saw an increased awareness of the importance of Greek philosophy to understanding the New Testament and the early church fathers. In confessional warfare, many suggested a chief cause of historical heresies was the mixing of theology and pagan philosophy begun by the fathers. Utilising emerging contextualist approaches to the history of Christianity, in which the scriptures and the writings of the church fathers were treated as artefacts of past cultures, scholars suggested that early Christians, to facilitate their attempts to convert, used pagan philosophical vocabulary liberally, even going so far as to incorporate into their theologies what were originally pagan ideas. The pre-existence of the soul was one of these plagiarised ideas. It was thus not a great step for critics of the immortality of the soul to suggest that this doctrine might be blemished by the same unsavoury history.

Abstract As the diversity of exoplanets continues to grow, it is important to revisit assumptions about habitability and classical HZ definitions. In this work, we introduce an expanded ’temperate’ zone, defined by instellation fluxes between 0.1 < S/S⊕ < 5, thus encompassing a broader range of potentially habitable worlds. We also introduce the TEMPOS survey, which aims to produce a catalogue of precise radii for temperate planets orbiting M dwarfs with Teff ≤ 3400 K. This work reports the discovery and characterisation of two planets in this temperate regime orbiting mid-type M dwarfs: TOI-6716 b, a Rb = 0.98 ± 0.07 R⊕ planet orbiting its M4 host star (R⋆ = 0.231 ± 0.015R ⊙, M⋆ = 0.223 ± 0.011 M ⊙, Teff = 3110 ± 80 K) with a period $P=4.7185898^{+0.0000054}_{-0.0000041}\, \mathrm{d}$ , and TOI-7384 b, a Rb = 3.56 ± 0.21 R⊕ planet orbiting an M4 (R⋆ = 0.319 ± 0.018R ⊙, M⋆ = 0.318 ± 0.016 M ⊙, Teff = 3185 ± 75 K) star every $P=6.2340258^{+0.0000034}_{-0.0000036}\, \mathrm{d}$ . The radii of TOI-6716 b and TOI-7384 b have precisions of 6.8 % and 5.9 % respectively. We validate these planets with multi-band ground-based photometric observations, high-resolution imaging and statistical analyses. We find these planets to have instellation fluxes close to the inner (hotter) edge of the temperate zone, with Sb = 4.4 ± 1.1 S⊕ and Sb = 4.9 ± 1.1 S⊕ for TOI-6716 b and TOI-7384 b respectively. Also, with a predicted TSM similar to the TRAPPIST-1 planets, TOI-6716 b is likely to be a good rocky-world JWST target, should it have retained its atmosphere.

Abstract Migrant children are increasingly exposed to criminal-like measures in immigration systems, as well as immigration consequences for criminal offending. The growing intersection between criminal and immigration law has been referred to as a process of “crimmigration”, a key feature of which is the decoupling of the punitive characteristics of criminal law from its traditional rights-based guarantees. In the context of children this includes rights set out in Article 40 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Drawing on Australia as an example, this article argues that the blurring of criminal and immigration measures by States necessitates a reconceptualisation of certain rights traditionally limited to criminal justice contexts. It further calls for a broader challenge to the common siloing of children’s rights discourse in the fields of crime and immigration, given the growing intersections between these areas in practice.

Design of modular, transferable protein assemblies hasbroad applicabilityand in structural biology could help with the ever-troublesome crystallizationbottleneck, including finding robustly behaved protein crystals forrapidly characterizing ligands or drug candidates or generating multiplepolymorphs to illuminate diverse conformations. Nanobodies as crystallizationchaperones are well-established but still unreliable, as we show here.Instead, we show an exemplar of how robust crystallization behaviorcan be engineered by exploring many combinations (>200) of nanobodysurface mutations over several iterations. Critically, what neededtesting was crystallization and diffraction quality, since target–nanobodybinding affinity is decoupled from crystallizability enhancement.Our study yielded multiple polymorphs, all mediated by the same interface,with dramatically improved resolution and diffraction reliabilityfor some mutants; we thus name them ‘Gluebodies’ (Gbs).We further demonstrate that these Gb mutations do transfer to someother targets, both for achieving robust crystallization in alternativepacking forms and for establishing the ability to crystallize a keyearly stage readout. Since the Gb interface is evidently a favoredinteraction, it may be broadly applicable for modular assembly; morespecifically, this work suggests that Gbs should be routinely attemptedfor crystallization whenever nanobodies are available.

ABSTRACT Planetary systems orbiting close binaries are valuable testing grounds for planet formation and migration models. More detections with good mass measurements are needed. We present a new planet discovered during the BEBOP survey for circumbinary exoplanets using radial velocities. We use data taken with the SOPHIE spectrograph at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence, and perform a spectroscopic analysis to obtain high precision radial velocities. This planet is the first radial velocity detection of a previously unknown circumbinary system. The planet has a mass of 0.56 $\rm M_{Jup}$ and orbits its host binary in 550 d with an eccentricity of 0.25. Compared to most of the previously known circumbinary planets, BEBOP-3b has a long period (relative to the binary) and a high eccentricity. There also is a candidate outer planet with a $\sim 1400$ d orbital period. We test the stability of potential further candidate signals inside the orbit of BEBOP-3b, and demonstrate that there are stable orbital solutions for planets near the instability region which is where the Kepler circumbinary planets are located. We also use our data to obtain independent dynamical masses for the two stellar components of the eclipsing binary using high resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy, and compare those results to a more traditional approach, finding them compatible with one another.