Research papers

Research papers published by Slop University.

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Paper

How Many Kinds of Backyard Hen-Keeping Does a Shire Recognise?

Petra Umbile, Verity Marris, Marek Solheim · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.xr31ca

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities validates a four-tier compliance taxonomy for backyard hen-keeping against 412 shire-enrolled properties, finding substantial inter-rater reliability and an ablation in which the taxonomy's most punitively treated criterion, rooster presence, contributes least to its discriminative power. The same taxonomy determines eligibility for a shire's bundled Backyard Sustainability Rebate, and properties reclassified into its top two tiers lose the rebate's water-tank, compost, and solar components alongside the hens.

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Measuring Bin Night

Sten Okwuosa, Thandiwe Solberg, Joost Nwosu · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.3cs0pf

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a waste-services contractor's pilot of a four-level Kerbside Capability Maturity Model, self-attested annually by 2,140 households and checked against a blind independent audit of 312. Self-attested maturity climbs every year; the audited subsample does not, and the contamination-tag rate of households exempted from further audit after reaching the top tier rises more than twice as fast as a matched panel still subject to spot checks.

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Who Actually Presses the Override?

Ronja Oyelaran, Verity Marris, Ingeborg Nwachukwu · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.g717og

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 34 team leaders and 51 shift staff across 21 sites of a national retail and logistics chain about a flexible-work platform's manager-override button, introduced to grant requests its auto-approval rules would otherwise decline. Once an efficiency score folding override frequency into each team leader's quarterly review became visible on dashboards, override use fell by roughly three-quarters and stayed down regardless of whether the score named team leaders publicly or only to HR.

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Sounds Good

Anouk Mensah, Ingrid Vasseur, Verity Marris · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.zt4g8f

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports CHIPACT, a sidecar that treats every suggested-reply chip in a weekend-plans group chat as a recorded speech act. Across 36 chats and 214 events, two commissive chips came to dominate the log, typed RSVPs plated nothing, and an optional ageing rule moved mean cover by 0.4 percent. University-sponsored weekend events at the field sites now plate from the chip log, with no ordinary override.

Paper

Under the Car-Park Portal

Torun Ezeigwe, Thandiwe Solberg, Marit Osayande · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.isgntw

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a staggered-adoption equivalence trial of hanging height bars at 38 shopping-centre car-park portals. Soffit contacts differ by +0.04 per 1,000 entries (95% CI -0.31 to +0.39) against a pre-registered margin of 0.5, reverse-outs do not rise, and three bar types do not separate. The School writes a Height-Bar Freeze into the Master of Applied Measurement's placement rules: bars already in place may neither be added to nor taken down, and a host that still reports the bar as a roof-damage control is ineligible for the following intake.

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TVI

Kwame Lindqvist, Runa Adegoke, Mirela Hanke · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.qr4p2h

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 22 of 31 traders on a strip mall's shared small-business insurance policy about the counting rituals they have adopted since a Till-Variance Index began setting their premiums directly. Set against an independent cash-handling audit, the index explains under five percent of the variance in traders' actual cash-handling risk.

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The Committee Ratified It Three Days Later

Anouk Mensah, Anneke Tolan, Thandiwe Solberg · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.l2iugc

A paper from the Schools of Emergent Priorities and Continuous Improvement follows one suburban contract bridge club's director-override log across a full pennant season, finding a residual "director's discretion" category triples in the eight weeks before the club's annual grading cutoff and concentrates among pairs sitting within one rung of a promotion threshold. Tracing one contested override from the table through to a committee ratification recorded three days later, the case has prompted the club's district association to require every director override to be entered in a published register and independently ratified within a fortnight.

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Accurate, Once Filmed

Joost Nwosu, Dagny Okafor, Torun Ezeigwe · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.fgy2ah

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement pre-registers a direct replication of an earlier Calibration Maturity Index null finding inside a 34-outlet quick-service franchise, applying the identical five-level rubric and independent-validation design to 118 calibration sessions. Attained level predicts panel-rescored accuracy this time (r = .41), a relationship traced to outlets' tenure under a brand-compliance camera the original site did not share, and the franchise has already made the camera mandatory network-wide.

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Weighed, Not Waved

Marit Osayande, Torun Ezeigwe, Mirela Hanke · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.ame93j

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement describes a tap-and-weight circulation ledger for the shared workroom stapler: a passive NFC tag on each stapler and a load-cell dock on each of fourteen workroom shelves log a confirmed return only when the tag and the measured weight agree. Across an eleven-week deployment the ledger recorded 5,214 confirmed circulation events, held 5.8% of taps pending a second attempt under the weight check, and returned indistinguishable confirmation latency whether or not a dock's status LED was enabled. Campus Services has since adopted logged non-return beyond 48 hours as the sole basis for suspending a staff card's stationery-cupboard access for the remainder of term, with no manual override.

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Next in Name Only

Verity Marris, Marek Solheim, Ronja Oyelaran · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.wpl7bq

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities matches fourteen months of a suburban genealogy society's flagged-priority corkboard postings against its own resolution register, finding no relationship between the ancestor line a member currently has flagged and the line that member actually resolves. The Society responded not by retiring the board but by making a currently flagged priority the sole condition for booking its shared archive-access session.

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CLIME

Kwame Lindqvist, Ronja Oyelaran, Runa Adegoke · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.xbzk0h

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities pre-registers a direct replication of the University's learner-logbook finding on fourteen foyer Have-Your-Say boards, fails to recover the original decline (rate ratio 0.94 against a predicted 0.25), and reports one regional council's Community Engagement Unit configuring CLIME to peel extras overnight so each exhibition's published count holds at the statutory minimum of forty.

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Measuring the Substitute

Iben Chikere, Kwame Lindqvist, Renke Sabel · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.jqwglj

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement reports a nine-week photographic census of 1,148 trolley coin-lock occupancies across a strip-mall precinct, resolving the population into a stable four-mode distribution of genuine coins, novelty tokens, hardware substitutes, and propped-open locks. The University's Grounds and Amenities Committee has since adopted the plurality substitute as binding specification for its own visitor car-park trolley bays.