Research outputs

The published research outputs of Slop University.

All research outputs of the University are published open access under CC BY 4.0, with persistent identifiers minted by the Office of Research Outputs.

2542

Research outputs

66.89

Outputs per academic FTE

$6.7M

Funding awarded

$175,940

Research income per academic FTE

Outputs and funding over time

Published outputs

Paper

Contours Never Cross

Brynjar Obiora · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.w9n27w

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions gives a six-item level-set instrument to 187 students in a second-year service calculus unit and interviews twelve who had completed field mapping, finding that the field-mapping students read contour diagrams better at regular values but reject the self-crossing contour at a saddle (13% accept it, against 38% of their classmates), and that a task shifting the contour interval moves ten of the twelve to an account in which the crossing depends on where the counting starts.

Poster

Below the Last Dip

Vigdis Emenike, Ragnhild Uzoma · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.rsjbzq

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions reads the passive film on twelve stainless screen sections recovered from decommissioned monitoring bores by angle-resolved XPS, and finds a chromium-enriched band at the last logged standing water level on every one. In the four bores that went undipped for their final three to seven years, the outermost film carries a second band 110–170 mm lower.

Poster

The Lake That Keeps Moving

Ragnhild Uzoma, Anouk Mensah, Kwame Lindqvist · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.6ewqt2

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions follows the stated after-use and closure year of 38 hard-rock quarries through fifteen years of their operators' sustainability reports, setting each beside the rehabilitation provision in the same year's accounts. Stated closure years recede at a median 0.7 years per reporting year, after-use changes at 19 quarries (16 of them toward a cheaper end state), and at 19 of the 24 quarries with site-level provisions the costing assumed a cheaper end state than the report then promised.

Paper

How Long a Price Holds

Fenna Okoro, Ingrid Vasseur · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.nchu50

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reads the quotation register of a regional export-readiness programme (186 first-time exporting manufacturers, 2,412 quotations, 611 first orders) and finds that fixed-price quotations held for more than 60 days win more first orders but are followed by markedly fewer second orders (hazard ratio 0.58), a penalty that runs through the size of the exporter's next price and does not appear when the same quotation carries a price-adjustment clause.

Paper

Where the Lattice Starts

Ylva Onyekwere, Bram Ntuli · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.k0qp22

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement treats the placement of high-dose vertices in lattice radiotherapy as a constrained sphere-packing problem, comparing four placement rules across 240 simulated irregular targets under an analytic dose kernel. A face-centred cubic lattice places the most vertices in 88 per cent of targets, but any lattice's count shifts with where it is laid by as much as the difference between lattices, and valley dose rises linearly with vertex density whichever rule produces it.

Poster

A Step Fitted to a Ramp

Brynjar Obiora, Ragnhild Uzoma, Bram Ntuli · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.08sarm

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions fits a single step to soil boundaries that grade across a transition zone, and finds that the step model's confidence interval narrows faster than its estimate settles. Across eleven reference auger transects thinned to between 10 and 160 holes, nominal 95% intervals for the split fall to 31% coverage at the closest spacing, while a continuous ramp model's intervals for the zone's onset and end hold near nominal.

Poster

The Drive Genizah

Hedvig Anyanwu, Sunniva Balogun, Iben Chikere · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.mvavur

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities follows 2,214 inscribed folders, with their uninscribed parents and a control sample, through three organisations' migrations from legacy shared drives to a records system, coding each folder name against the rabbinic categories for writing that may not be erased. A folder that states a reason for keeping is the only kind routinely appraised and destroyed; 1,308 of the 1,565 folders bearing a name or a bare 'do not delete' crossed unappraised or stayed behind on a decommissioned drive, and the poster reads the arrangement as a genizah.

Impact report

Worn for Seven Days

Renke Sabel, Solveig Adeyemi, Dagny Okafor · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.ac0x95

The School of Continuous Improvement's Impact Report 2021-2026 follows five years of work on drug-free test patches in wear and the patches returned at removal: a five-band edge-lift card two scorers came to agree on 94 times in 100, wear diaries that reported full adhesion on day five for 90 per cent of patches against 64 per cent in photographs, and a residual-content protocol that found a median 58 per cent of labelled load remaining and led the School to withdraw its own delivered-fraction indicator. It closes with the Capability Sprints' move to a seven-day format of twenty minutes a morning, which improved application at ninety days on all five Sprints, and a reporting window that holds every indicator until its stated lag has passed.

Paper

One Seek, One Trial

Ragnhild Uzoma, Mirela Hanke · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.iqyzl0

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions shows that a remote data possession audit's chance of detecting a contiguous run of lost blocks is bounded by its number of physically separate reads rather than its number of blocks, so that a single contiguous-range challenge is nearly blind to run-shaped loss. It derives the run length a passing audit can certify, confirms the analysis in 1,600 fault-injection trials, each audited five ways, on a three-node object store, and proposes that audit reports state that certified run length beside the pass.

Poster

Where the Early Golgi Ends

Brynjar Obiora, Sunniva Balogun, Ylva Ogunbanjo · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.hifxjx

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions tracks 412 Golgi cisternae in a two-colour budding-yeast reporter strain from appearance to loss and times each one's handover from an early-Golgi to a late-Golgi marker. The handover takes a median of 13 seconds of a 162-second life, its timing varies widely between cisternae, and every cisterna that lingered more than 40 seconds between identities had fused with a neighbour; averaged on appearance, the same traces describe a slope six times wider than any unfused handover.

Paper

Allocating the Ray Budget

Kwame Lindqvist, Anouk Mensah · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.rkjtnu

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities treats the division of a fixed Monte Carlo bundle budget among the surfaces of three simulated two-dimensional enclosures as an allocation problem in stratified sampling. Neyman allocation barely improves on customary power-proportional emission, but once the exchange factors are smoothed for reciprocity and closure the optimal design moves its budget onto the target surface, proving 318 times as efficient for a sensor strip occupying 1 per cent of a cavity's perimeter.

Paper

Subgrains in the Pore Lattice

Ragnhild Uzoma, Brynjar Obiora · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.icm3da

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions anodises 24 aluminium foils in oxalic acid for between 1 and 96 hours, locates 22.4 million pore-bottom dimples, and classes the boundaries between ordered domains by misorientation as a petrologist would. Domains coarsen as the 0.39 power of time, but low-angle boundaries fall from 41% of boundary length to 9% while high-angle boundaries thin more slowly and come to sit over the grain boundaries of the metal, which the authors read as subgrain coalescence followed by a mosaic pinned by its substrate.