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The Effects of Monetary Policy in the United Kingdom: New Evidence From SONIA Market Responses

ABSTRACT This paper constructs a new measure of the UK monetary policy instrument (MPI) using daily changes in the sterling overnight index average (SONIA) around Bank of England policy events from June 1997 to August 2025. The instrument explicitly accounts for pre‐event informa...

Harnessing the Joys and Mitigating the Risks of Doing Co-Research: Reflections on a Study With Survivors of Sexual Violence

Background This article is by lived experience co-researchers and an academic research team. Co-research involves those with lived experience of a topic under investigation. It is an increasingly popular participatory, beneficial form of co-production that improves the integrity...

A Shallow‐Marine Ecosystem Before Initial Tibetan Plateau Uplift

Abstract The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau profoundly influences global atmospheric circulation, sediment transport, and biodiversity, but its pre‐uplift marine paleoenvironment remains poorly understood. Here we report the first discovery of an in situ benthic fossil assemblage...

From ‘Responsible’ to ‘Sustainable’: A Contingent Analysis of Responsible Entrepreneurship and Product Innovation Performance in an Emerging Economy

ABSTRACT While debate on responsible entrepreneurial activities for sustainable development is burgeoning, studies examining whether small and medium‐sized firms (SMEs) can benefit from responsible entrepreneurship remain underexplored. In this study, we draw on stakeholder theor...

Water quality dynamics following re-wetting of agriculturally drained peatlands: A mesocosm experiment

Peatland rewetting is an effective restoration strategy to reduce carbon losses, halt soil subsidence and restore ecosystem functioning. However, rewetting drained and degraded peatlands may release stored nutrients and potentially toxic elements into surface waters, raising conc...

Cloud Cybersecurity for Research Engineers

The availability of large datasets and breakthroughs in machine learning have had a profound impact on how modern science is conducted. Once the preserve of computer science, large-scale compute has become a universal requirement across research fields from astrophysics to zoolog...

Hybrid Five-Dimensional Gravity with a Constrained Vector

We study a one-boundary five-dimensional Einstein–AdS construction coupled to one additional bulk carrier, a Maxwell field whose normalisable zero mode is subject to a unit-timelike constraint and nonlinear interaction on the observer boundary. The reduced boundary theory lies in...

Hybrid Five-Dimensional Gravity with a Constrained Vector

We study a one-boundary five-dimensional Einstein–AdS construction coupled to one additional bulk carrier, a Maxwell field whose normalisable zero mode is subject to a unit-timelike constraint and nonlinear interaction on the observer boundary. The reduced boundary theory lies in...

Narrativity in ethics

Abstract I develop in this essay a dialectical thesis: there is something right about both a narrative and an anti-narrative view of ethics, and to get things right, we need to discard something in both; to learn something from both; and to move beyond both.

Hybrid 5D Gravity (H5DG): A Step Towards Unification

This record contains the complete sixteen-paper corpus of Hybrid 5D Gravity (H5DG), assembled as a single ordered reference edition. H5DG investigates how far a single-boundary five-dimensional braneworld can provide a unified framework for gravitational phenomenology, from the S...

Hybrid 5D Gravity (H5DG): A Step Towards Unification

Hybrid 5D Gravity (H5DG) is a fourteen-paper theory of gravity and gravitational unification that investigates whether a deliberately constrained five-dimensional braneworld can connect relativistic gravity, galactic dynamics, gravitational lensing, a collisionless dark sector, p...

Estimating enteric fever seroincidence in rural western Cambodia: Findings from a population-based cross-sectional serosurvey

Background: Enteric fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi, remains an important cause of febrile illness in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). However, the exact burden is difficult to estimate due to limitations in diagnosis and surveillance.Met...

Exploring tensions in co-creating a proposal for floodplain meadows research

This paper explores tensions between the theory and practice of science communication, comparing longstanding concerns about 'top-down' privilege and the hegemonic dominance of academic perspectives in science-society interactions, with the idealism of 'bottom-up' emergence and o...

Role of English and digital technology in inclusion in Asian higher education: Reflections from students and teachers

With the internationalization of higher education (HE) in recent decades, there has been a growing trend to use English as a medium of instruction even in non-anglophone countries. Additionally, HE globally has witnessed a growing trend to use technology for pedagogical purposes....

UK'37 is unaffected by IODP repository conditions

The alkenone palaeothermometer is one of the principal methods by which past sea surface temperatures are reconstructed on Cenozoic timescales. Alkenone temperatures, produced from the UK’37 ratio of C37:2 and C37:3 alkenones, have been generated in hundreds of studies, many usin...

Decoding complex gold mineralization in the Pitangui Greenstone Belt, Brazil: overprinting systems revealed by pyrite trace elements and sulfur isotopes

Tracing the sources of metals and sulfur in orogenic gold deposits remains debated due to the diversity of these systems. This study constrains the origin and evolution of mineralizing fluids through trace element and sulfur isotope (δ34S) analyses of pyrite from the Papagaios go...

Experimental constraints on the differentiation of CM-like planetary embryos

This study investigates the onset of differentiation of hydrous (ice-bearing) planetary embryos in the early Solar System. To do so, we conducted high-pressure (1 GPa) melting experiments on a CM2 chondrite (MCY12002) across a temperature range of 1050-1400°C, with durations vary...

A Comparative Assessment of Homeschooling Experiences, Practices, Support, and Arithmetical Attainments in Greece and the UK

This preliminary study aims to compare homeschooling in Greece and the UK in terms of experiences, arithmetical attainments, parental motivations, implementation practices, and support structures. For this purpose, we employed a multiple case study design, enrolling a total of fi...

Does the AMPD1 C34T Polymorphism Influence Physical Performance in Elite Athletes?

Background/Objectives: Adenosine monophosphate deaminase deficiency has been implicated in impaired exercise capacity. We examined whether the AMPD1 C34T (rs17602729) genotype was associated with athlete status and performance in distance runners (DR) and rugby union (RU) athlete...

Antimicrobial resistance in Ecuador, 2000–2024: a systematic review within a One Health framework

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In Ecuador, AMR research has expanded during the last two decades, but evidence remains fragmented and largely restricted to the human health sector. We system...