University of Oxford

Late Soviet Intellectual Cult(ure): Merab Mamardashvili’s Strategy of Self‐Presentation

Abstract This article analyzes Merab Konstantinovich Mamardashvili’s philosophical strategy in the context of late and post‐Soviet intellectual culture. It focuses on How I Understand Philosophy (1990), a collection of Mamardashvili’s works and interviews that had a significant i...

Tryptoline stereoprobe elaboration identifies inhibitors of the GRPEL1–HSPA9 complex

Abstract Activity-based protein profiling has identified hundreds of human proteins from diverse classes that react at cysteine residues with stereochemically defined electrophilic compounds (stereoprobes). The structure–activity relationships underlying these stereoprobe–protein...

AI can persuade people to take political actions

There is substantial concern about the ability of advanced AI to influence people’s behavior. A rapidly growing body of research has found that AI can produce large persuasive effects on people’s attitudes, but whether AI can persuade people to take consequential real-world actio...

A 4200-hour HyperFlash and ÉCLAT campaign on the hyperactive FRB 20240114A: constraining energetics with the most brilliant bursts

Abstract Hyperactive repeaters provide a unique window into the evolving environments and energy budgets of fast radio burst (FRB) sources, though they may not be representative of the FRB population in general. High-cadence observations are key to capturing the rarest and most e...

Assessment of the Quality of Media Reporting of the Suicide of a British Female Television Celebrity

Abstract: Background: International media guidelines aim to promote responsible reporting of suicide, acknowledging the influence of sensationalist press coverage on population suicide rates. Studies investigating guideline adherence have focused on reporting of male celebrity su...

Particle systems and McKean–Vlasov dynamics with singular interaction through local times

We study a system of reflected Brownian motions on the positive half-line in which each particle has a drift toward the origin determined by the local times at the origin of all the particles. If this local time drift is too strong, such systems exhibit a breakdown in their solut...

The economic burden of hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic literature review

Abstract Background Quantifying the economic burden of disease is vital for informing healthcare resource allocation and priority setting particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where the incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is rising among the region’s predominantly yo...

A splitting theorem for manifolds with a convex boundary component and applications

We prove a warped product splitting theorem for manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below, in the spirit of Croke–Kleiner [Duke Math. J. 67 (1992)]. Instead of assuming that one boundary component is compact and mean-convex, we require it to be parabolic and convex. We then de...

The genome sequence of the banded centipede, Lithobius variegatus Leach, 1814

We present a genome assembly from a female specimen of Lithobius variegatus (banded centipede; Arthropoda; Chilopoda; Lithobiomorpha; Lithobiidae). The assembly contains two haplotypes with total lengths of 1,766.49 megabases and 1,768.00 megabases. Most of haplotype 1 (97.68%) i...

Frequency of plastic occurrence varies across phylogeny but not ecology in seabirds

Seabirds are especially vulnerable to ingesting plastic pollution. However, we have a limited understanding of which traits might increase their risk of plastic ingestion. Here, we use a dataset of seabird plastic occurrence records (93 281 birds from 240 species) to investigate...

Seabirds and native vegetation drive ecosystem processes that support atoll island resilience

Ecosystem restoration is expected to enhance ecosystem resilience to climate change, but few empirical and mechanistic demonstrations of such assertions exist. Here, we explore this topic for tropical atoll systems, combining science on nutrient subsidies and geo-ecological funct...

Quantified Structure–Performance Relationships for Fe(III)K(I) Heterodinuclear Catalysts in Cyclohexene Oxide/CO2 Ring-Opening Copolymerization

Abstract Catalyst design and understanding are improved by quantified structure–performance relationships, but these are underutilized in polymerization catalysis. In epoxide/carbon dioxide ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP), an important route to make polymers from bio- and w...

Weight Loss and Long-Term Weight Trajectories After a Structured Nutritional and Behavioral Intervention: A Large Real-World Cohort Study

Background/Objectives: Achieving and maintaining intentional weight loss is a major challenge in routine clinical practice, and real-world evidence is limited. Methods: This retrospective cohort study evaluated initial weight loss in 56,093 adults from a total of 126,659 who comm...

Poor in station, rich in learning: educator and freemason Johann Georg Schwarz and social mobility in eighteenth-century Russia

Abstract The article offers a new account of the life and career of Johann Georg Schwarz, a German intellectual who rose to prominence in the Russian Empire during the 1780s. Appointed professor at Moscow University, Schwarz played a central role in introducing Russian Freemasons...

Genetic evidence for the psychosis continuum: polygenic score analysis

Background The psychosis continuum conceptualises psychotic phenomena as existing on a spectrum from subclinical experiences to psychotic disorders. Despite epidemiological and clinical evidence in support of this model, few studies have examined polygenic liability across the se...

Seismological Constraints on Subduction and Suture Zone Architecture in the Central African Copperbelt

Summary Central Africa marks a major collisional zone of the Pan-African Orogeny, involving convergence of the Congo and Kalahari plates during Gondwana assembly (~600–500 Ma). This collision formed the Lufilian Belt and one of the world’s most significant metallogenic provinces—...

Limits of harmonic functions on $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$

We give an example of a sequence of positive harmonic functions on \mathbb{Z}^{d} , d\geq 2 , that converges pointwise to a non-harmonic function.

Deep learning reveals ecological decoupling and rate heterogeneity in Hymenoptera wing evolution

Quantifying biomorphological evolution and integrating phenotypic data into large-scale ecological and evolutionary studies are often limited by the scalability, subjectivity, and poor interpretability of existing methods. We introduce HAIKA (Hierarchical Attention-based Interpre...

Reforming Institutional Design for Fairness: Evictions from Toronto Community Housing, 2002–2014

Abstract This article examines institutional safeguards for fairness in rent-arrears evictions from the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC). It reconstructs the reform sequence that led to the adoption of a novel—possibly unique—institutional mechanism: the Office of the...

New Heegaard Floer slice genus and clasp number bounds

We define several concordance invariants using knot Floer homology, which give improvements over known slice genus and clasp number bounds from Heegaard Floer homology. We also prove that the involutive correction terms of Hendricks and Manolescu give both a slice genus and a cla...