University of Sussex

Cosmological Constraints from Full-scale Clustering and Galaxy–Galaxy Lensing with DESI DR1

Abstract We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy–galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1. Our analysis includes four samples drawn from the Bright Galaxy Survey (B...

How will AI affect theorizing in management research?

Abstract As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools is becoming increasingly common in all aspects of research, there is a growing debate as to how and how much such tools will influence theorizing as well. In this viewpoint article, I discuss three plausible scenarios that...

From co-existence to collaboration: The need to move towards an inclusive (pluricultural) scabies management approach in Debre Elias (Ethiopia)

Several large scabies outbreaks have occurred in the Amhara region of Ethiopia since 2015, and biomedical interventions focused on mass drug administration are often deployed to contain the disease. However, there is a persistent scabies incidence in the Amhara region. To underst...

Dilaton physics from asymptotic freedom

The dilaton is investigated from first principles within an asymptotically free Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory in three dimensions. In the limit of many fermion flavours, the theory features a finite line of strongly interacting fixed points. At its endpoint, a dilaton arises as the m...

MAPT mutations are associated with rDNA transcriptional hyperactivation and nucleolar stress in cellular models

Abstract Tau is traditionally known for its role in microtubule stabilisation, with its pathological aggregation central to tauopathies such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Recent evidence suggests that tau also plays important nuclear and nucleolar...

Linking centromere stretch to SAC signaling in mammalian oocytes with insights from modified kinetochore model

Abstract The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) monitors kinetochore-microtubule interactions to ensure accurate chromosome segregation. In mitosis, investigation of its silencing at anaphase centers on whether attachment or tension is the key signal, while in meiosis for mammalia...

Synthetic capital: Fossil entanglements and the promise of overcoming scarcity

The future of fossil capital is dictated not only by electrification but also by its relationship to what we refer to as ‘synthetic capital’. Synthetic capital captures the use of hydrocarbons as the material basis for the production and circulation of synthetics in all their var...

Distinct Modes of Quantum Information Transfer in Power–Law Long-Range Spin Networks

We identify different regimes of quantum state transfer in long-range coupled spin-12 systems, where naturally occurring power–law interactions enable rapid, high-fidelity transfer with minimal engineering. Across a broad range of interaction profiles, from effectively nearest-ne...

Words against walls: Prisoners’ letters, lay penology and exceptional confinement

This article argues that exceptional detention functions as an epistemic regime that governs punishment by restricting prisoners’ capacity to interpret, communicate and contest the conditions and justification of their confinement. Drawing on letters written by political prisoner...

Serological and transcriptomic response of African fruit bats to immune challenge with recombinant vaccines expressing Ebola or Nipah virus antigens

Abstract Bats are hosts to diverse zoonotic viruses which can cause high case fatality rates in humans. Since detecting viruses in bats is difficult, antibodies are often used for surveillance, though their significance remains unclear in the absence of in vivo immunological stud...

Impact of Pesticides on Vertebrates

Pesticides are widely used in agricultural systems globally, and wild vertebrates are commonly exposed to them in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. This review synthesizes current knowledge on pesticide classes, environmental fate, exposure pathways, and their effects acro...

Protocol: Systematic mapping of recent global research on health system financing using machine learning

Health systems worldwide are facing critical pressures that threaten access to and quality of healthcare, with profound long-term social and economic consequences. In high-income countries, population ageing and declining health sector budgets are already leading to deteriorating...

Unmuting Practice (UNMUTE): a dialogic approach to decolonising practice education

Unmuting Practice is a dialogic approach to decolonising practice education: the supervised placements, or practicum, through which students learn in social work settings, and the teaching that surrounds them. It asks what can mute knowledge, voice and action in a learning space,...

Efficiently emulating distribution functions in gigaparsec volumes for varying cosmological parameters

Abstract We present a new method for emulating the halo mass function (HMF) and other distribution functions in large effective volumes, down to low halo masses, whilst simultaneously modifying large ranges of parameters, for a fraction of the cost of traditional periodic cosmolo...

Public opposition to protest online: A qualitative content analysis of YouTube comments on UK climate activism videos

Abstract Public discourse plays a crucial role in shaping the success of social movements. While research has explored public support for collective action, less attention has been paid to active opposition and delegitimization strategies. This study investigates the discursive c...

Compulsory education, life trajectories, and intergenerational mobility: evidence from Mexico’s 1993 schooling reform

• Mexico’s 1993 reform raised educational attainment; effects were three times larger for Indigenous than the national average. • Using a regression discontinuity design, the paper identifies causal effects of schooling across multiple life domains. • Schooling reduced fertility,...

Supplier development and buyer’s relative relationship value – a dyadic examination in an emerging market

Purpose Fierce competition in many industries has prompted buying firms to participate in supplier development by sharing information (SDI) and by improving suppliers’ capabilities (SDC). Building upon transaction cost theory and social exchange theory, this study aims to examine...

Beyond techno-economic assessments: A comparative political economy framework for assessing national carbon dioxide removal (CDR) deployment

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has become a contested yet critical component of net-zero strategies despite its deployment consistently lagging corporate and government ambitions. This article develops and applies a comparative political economy framework to assess national CDR dep...

Probing EFT breakdown in the tails of $$W^+ W^-$$ observables

Abstract We test clipping effective field theory (EFT) simulations as a method of ensuring EFT validity. The procedure imposes that, at the level of the simulation, the invariant mass of a $$W^+W^-$$ W + W - pair $$M_{WW}$$ M WW is less than the new physics scale $$\Lambda $$ Λ ....

An ecological systems perspective on supporting beginning teachers in small schools in England

This study employs Ecological Systems Theory to understand how small school ecosystems influence the development of beginning teachers. It explores the role of individuals and of the school ecosystem in six small schools supporting the induction and professional development for b...