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.

Published outputs

Poster

Registered, Not Standing

Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Joost Nwosu, Sten Okwuosa · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.jnd61t

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits 197 apiaries drawn stratified by declared size from one state's hive register, counting boxes on site between February and June 2026. Standing hives come to 68.8 per cent of registered hives (5,730 against 8,334), the shortfall widening from 23.2 per cent at apiaries declaring 50 or more hives to 55.4 per cent at those declaring one to four, and 16.2 per cent of audited sites hold a current registration with no standing hive. Recalculated against the counted population, the program's annual surveillance reaches 78 per cent confidence of detecting a notifiable pest at 1 per cent design prevalence, against the 95 per cent its plan reports.

Paper

Witnessed, and Otherwise Unchanged

Ingrid Vasseur, Petra Umbile, Marek Solheim, Kwame Lindqvist · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.zjm0s2

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities follows the six classes of statutory declaration handled by one state administrative agency across 72 months and 1.34 million lodgements, one of which moved to an unwitnessed online lodgement in month 37 while the other five retained the witnessing requirement as concurrent controls. The estimated level change in materially incorrect declarations subsequently identified is 0.14 per 10,000 (95% CI -0.61 to 0.89) and the slope change -0.004 per month, with equivalence supported against a pre-specified margin of 1.0 per 10,000 and eleven alternative specifications spanning 0.24. Over the same window documents witnessed per staffed session at nine signing stations fell 40.7 per cent with the roster unchanged, and the honorary Justice of the Peace scheme's next annual return recorded that fall as unmet demand for accessible witnessing capacity.

Paper

Everyone Already Has the Code

Thandiwe Solberg, Sten Okwuosa, Ingeborg Nwachukwu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.64irsz

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews the 38 cleaners, maintenance contractors and property managers who open the front-gate lockboxes at 41 short-stay properties under one letting franchise's access-assurance standard. No participant states the between-guest code rotation requirement unprompted and recognition of the standard's four remaining provisions stays below half once the clauses are read aloud, while every participant can produce a current code from at least one location outside the system of record; 27 describe the digits themselves as recording which office last held the listing.

Poster

Correct at Noon

Lindiwe Achterberg, Anouk Mensah, Runa Adegoke · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.xhc4gw

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities plays the four signals a district siren system carries to 384 residents of eleven country towns and asks them to name each one. The weekly noon test is identified by 91.4 per cent; the emergency alert by 37.8, the all clear by 30.6 and the brigade turn-out call by 22.7, with alert and all clear not reliably separated (d' = 0.14). Longer residence improves identification of the test alone.

Ad

The Book Only Knows The Plan

August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.ddnmk4

A marketing poster for the School of Emergent Priorities takes the steel register box at the head of a bush walking track --- its ruled book of names, party sizes and intended routes, its pencil on a string --- and stakes the panel on a standing the University awards itself on the Strategic Drift Survey, the School's annual measure of the distance between stated and enacted priorities. Developed for the landscape display panels in matched daylight and evening versions.

Poster

One Count, Sixty-Three Appraisals

Bram Ntuli, Renke Sabel, Osei Vandermeer · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.ukpo5u

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement re-runs sixty-three dog-waste dispenser appraisals lodged under one shire's capital-works threshold across seven years, harmonising them into a single twenty-year model at the shire's stated 7 per cent real discount rate. Central benefit-cost ratios cluster at a median of 1.34 (IQR 1.08 to 1.71), but the clustering is inherited rather than estimated: sixty-one of the sixty-three files carry forward the same bag-uptake figure, counted over one fortnight at a single park in 2019. One-at-a-time sensitivity moves the ratio from 0.41 to 4.62 on that parameter alone and across the approval threshold on no other, while mean appraisal preparation cost at the shire's own charge-out rate is $3,410 against a mean installed asset cost of $2,180.

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The Score Rose. The Collection Shrank.

August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.j5bzpi

A marketing poster for the School of Emergent Priorities compresses the published finding of "Documented by Subtraction" --- that coverage scores at volunteer-run local museums rise before an accreditation review largely through what is disposed of rather than what is catalogued --- into a single portrait signage panel. A country history shed carries crowded lower shelves against emptied upper ones, with the study title and its DOI in place of a course list, in matched daylight and evening versions.

Poster

In Range, Twice a Day

Solveig Adeyemi, Iben Chikere, Thandiwe Solberg · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.0iyy8f

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement sets 12,914 handwritten fridge-temperature entries against 2.13 million readings from calibrated loggers on the same appliances, across 88 food premises over twelve weeks. The two records agree in the middle of the range and part at its edges (mean difference -0.6 °C, limits of agreement -4.1 to +2.9 °C); 71.6 per cent of written entries are exactly 3 or 4 °C, and of 2,417 logged excursions at or above 5 °C lasting thirty minutes or more, 39 coincide with an out-of-range entry. Mean written and mean logged temperature are weakly associated across premises (r = 0.24), and all 88 met the risk classification's records criterion at their most recent inspection.

Paper

Everyone Else's Accidents

Fenna Okoro, Ronja Oyelaran, Dagny Okafor, Verity Marris · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.69uloo

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities transcribes 412 conditions-of-entry signs at council sites across 19 member councils of one state's local government mutual liability scheme, segments them into 4,187 clause instances against a 61-class taxonomy (two coders, Krippendorff's alpha 0.86), and traces each instance to the scheme's template bulletins and to the de-identified claims digest circulated to members. 78.4 per cent of clauses reproduce a template revision and 3.9 per cent are site-authored; template vintage accounts for 0.61 of between-site variance in clause content against 0.004 for the site's own incident history, and the odds of a clause given a matching local incident are 1.06 (95% CI 0.81 to 1.38). Clause classes enter the template a median 12 months after a claim of that class appears elsewhere in the membership, and the signage-currency discount 17 of 19 councils hold is unassociated with their incident rates.

Poster

Bought for the Tray

Osei Vandermeer, Dagny Okafor, Mirela Hanke · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.nofq8m

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement estimates what a Friday-night meat raffle is bought for, from 7,344 forced choices made by 612 ticket buyers across 24 licensed clubs over fourteen consecutive draws, fitted as a mixed logit with correlated random coefficients. Tray composition and ticket price carry the model: marginal willingness to pay for a named local beneficiary is $0.11 per $2 ticket (95% CI −$0.04 to $0.26) and $0.04 for the contribution sum printed on the ticket, against $1.84 for premium cuts in the tray, and 61.4 per cent of buyers hold a beneficiary coefficient indistinguishable from zero. The community character the club's gaming-machine levy offset is certified against is the one attribute the transaction does not price.

Poster

Off the End of the Funnel

Verity Marris, Anneke Tolan, Ronja Oyelaran · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.6n4y42

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities recovers the finishers absent from the published results of seven volunteer-run free 5 km events, across 1,822 event mornings and six years, by hand-reconciling retained paper finish-order sheets against the token logs at four of the events. 12.9 per cent of finishers never reach the published results, and the loss is ordered by experience: 31.4 per cent of those on their first event against 4.1 per cent of those on their twentieth or later. The published median finish time falls 2 min 46 s across the six years; reweighted by inverse probability of reconciliation, the improvement is 11 seconds (95% CI 64 s faster to 42 s slower). The council's renewal condition is met in five of the six years on the published series and in none on the reweighted one.

Paper

Nine Ways to Count a Main Street

Torun Ezeigwe, Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Joost Nwosu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.67ay7v

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reads the method statements attached to 78 acquitted grants from one state regional-events fund, deriving a nine-class frame for how funded committees count a crowd (two coders, Krippendorff's alpha 0.84), and runs a common protocol alongside the committee's own count at 41 of those events: instantaneous fixed-point counts of a bounded area at twenty-minute intervals with a turnover model, two observers per event (ICC 0.96). The acquitted figure exceeded the protocol estimate at 35 of the 41 events, by a median factor of 1.88 (IQR 1.14 to 2.51, range 0.58 to 5.12), and counting method accounts for 88.1 per cent of the variance in the log ratio against 3.1 per cent for event size. Cost per attendee spans $2.48 to $8.20 across methods as published and $5.82 to $7.78 recomputed on the protocol count; 14 of the 41 events cross the fund's renewal threshold when the ranking is recomputed, and three of the four ranked most efficient fall below the median.