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UNITAS: Unified Regime Transitions And Stability
UNITAS provides probabilistic estimates of political regime types (democracy, semi-democracy, autocracy) and transitions for 23,787 country-years from 1800 to 2017. Rather than relying on a single democracy measure or arbitrary cutoffs, UNITAS int...
Project · January 10, 2026
Looking Upstream: Applying Social Theory to the Interpretation of the Forensic Record
Publication · January 10, 2026
Genetic and cultural transformations in the prehistory of Transylvania
From the Chalcolithic to the Late Bronze Age, we analyse the genetic history of Transylvania and compare these to nearby contemporaneous Romanian sites on the Carpathian Basin.
We are interested in the following questions about Transylvania durin...
Project · January 10, 2026
BREADR - Estimating genetic relatedness for extremely low-coverage DNA samples
BREADR was developed specifically when we were analysing and writing the paper Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community.
BREADR uses a Bayesian approach to estimating genetic relatedness, and from an Eigenstrat...
Project · January 10, 2026
ChASM - A Statistically Rigorous Method for the Detection of Chromosomal Aneuploidies in Ancient DNA Studies
ChASM (Chromosomal Aneuploidy Screening Methodology) is a statistically rigorous Bayesian approach for screening data sets for autosomal and sex chromosomal aneuploidies. An associated R implementation RChASM, is available to implement this approa...
Project · January 10, 2026
The effects of operator position and superfluous brackets on student performance in simple arithmetic
Abstract
For students to advance beyond arithmetic, they must learn how to attend to the structure of math notation. This process can be challenging due to students' left-to-right computing tendencies. Brackets are used in mathematics to indicat...
Publication · January 09, 2026
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