Outputs (298)

Presentation on Measuring Impact (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Adaptive (opportunity-based) age replacement strategies (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511 (2023)
Journal Article

This case study contributes to recent attempts to apply “phylomemetic” methods derived from computational biology to oral traditions, where the aim is to trace the mutation and diversification of folk narratives as they get passed on from generation... Read More about Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511.

Different types of uncertainty in multisensory perceptual decision making (2023)
Journal Article

Efficient decision-making requires accounting for sources of uncertainty (noise, or variability). Many studies have shown how the nervous system is able to account for perceptual uncertainty (noise, variability) that arises from limitations in its ow... Read More about Different types of uncertainty in multisensory perceptual decision making.

Discussion of specifying prior distributions in reliability applications (2023)
Journal Article

The paper Specifying Prior Distributions in Reliability Applications (Tian et al. (2023)) mainly provides an overview of methods for selecting noninformative prior distributions for parameters of basic lifetime distributions, as often used in reliabi... Read More about Discussion of specifying prior distributions in reliability applications.

Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use (2005)
Preprint / Working Paper

The evolution of a cultural trait may be affected by niche construction, or changes in the selective environment of that trait due to the inheritance of other cultural traits that make up a cultural background. This study investigates the evolution o... Read More about Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use.

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article

Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses c... Read More about A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates (2023)
Journal Article

Species’ life histories determine population demographics and thus the probability that introduced populations establish and spread. Life histories also influence which species are most likely to be introduced, but how such ‘introduction biases’ aris... Read More about Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates.

Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data (2023)
Journal Article

Identification and isolation of COVID-19 infected persons plays a significant role in the control of COVID-19 pandemic. A country's COVID-19 positive testing rate is useful in understanding and monitoring the disease transmission and spread for the p... Read More about Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data.

An exploration of doctoral students’ resilience and coping strategies using Grounded Theory as the analytic lens (2023)
Journal Article

Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to explore doctoral students’ perceived resilience and the coping strategies they choose to employ to overcome challenging circumstances during their studies. Background: Doctoral students often experience barriers which... Read More about An exploration of doctoral students’ resilience and coping strategies using Grounded Theory as the analytic lens.

Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450 (2023)
Journal Article

Historians have long used the archives of major institutions to shed light on medieval society, but in more recent decades the focus has turned towards the proliferation of legal documentation possessed by those lower down the social order and the in... Read More about Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450.

Enclosure Riots on the Commons: Memory and Conflict at Lytham Priory, 1200-1540 (2022)
Journal Article

Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use (2023)
Journal Article

The evolution of a cultural trait may be affected by niche construction, or changes in the selective environment of that trait due to the inheritance of other cultural traits that make up a cultural background. This study investigates the evolution o... Read More about Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use.

The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour (2023)
Journal Article

Child labour is the most common form of child abuse in the world today, with almost half of child workers employed in hazardous industries. The large-scale employment of children during the rapid industrialisation of the late 18th and early 19th cent... Read More about The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour.

Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK (2023)
Journal Article

Digital Citizenship is an emerging field of research but there is still a lack of knowledge into what works and how to implement educational practices to develop digital citizenship. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between... Read More about Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK.

Informal sector employment and the health outcomes of older workers in India (2023)
Journal Article

A large proportion of the older population in India constitutes an undeniable share of workforce after the retirement age. This stresses the need to understand the implications of working at older ages on health outcomes. The main objective of this s... Read More about Informal sector employment and the health outcomes of older workers in India.

A generalized system reliability model based on survival signature and multiple competing failure processes (2023)
Journal Article

Degradation-based system reliability analysis has been extensively conducted, but the components in a system are assumed to experience similar degradation and shock processes, neglecting actual failure mechanisms. However, multiple types of component... Read More about A generalized system reliability model based on survival signature and multiple competing failure processes.

Cumulant-Based Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Tweedie, Bar-Lev and Enis Class of Distributions (2023)
Journal Article

The class of natural exponential families (NEFs) of distributions having power variance functions (NEF-PVFs) is huge (uncountable), with enormous applications in various fields. Based on a characterization property that holds for the cumulants of the... Read More about Cumulant-Based Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Tweedie, Bar-Lev and Enis Class of Distributions.

Biodose Tools: an R shiny application for biological dosimetry (2023)
Journal Article

Introduction: In the event of a radiological accident or incident, the aim of biological dosimetry is to convert the yield of a specific biomarker of exposure to ionizing radiation into an absorbed dose. Since the 1980s, various tools have been used... Read More about Biodose Tools: an R shiny application for biological dosimetry.

Smoothed bootstrap methods for bivariate data (2023)
Journal Article

A smoothed bootstrap method is introduced for right-censored data based on the rightcensoring-A(n) assumption introduced by Coolen and Yan (2004), which is a generalization of Hill’s A(n) assumption (Hill, 1968) for right-censored data. The smoothed... Read More about Smoothed bootstrap methods for bivariate data.