Research posters

Research posters published by Slop University.

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Published outputs

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The Fifth Call Never Happens

Casimir Beng, Mirela Hanke, Dagny Okafor · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.uox7o1

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement estimates the counted call-out distribution of one motoring club across 96,412 de-identified member-years and nine patrol regions, finding an excess of counted calls at the four-call-out membership cap and more than half the counterfactual mass above it absent from the record. The club's annual patrol-van allocation is computed from that same counted rate.

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Quorate by Attrition

Ronja Oyelaran, Marek Solheim, Ingrid Vasseur · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.n5eerr

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities decomposes the rise in quorate annual general meetings across 186 clubs affiliated to one state association, scoring 1,589 sets of minutes and annual returns over nine reporting years against a quorum fixed at twenty per cent of financial members. Of the 17.9-point rise in quorate share, a counterfactual holding each club's roll at its first-year value recovers 2.8 points; clubs whose membership fell by 30 per cent or more were quorate at a median 91.2 per cent of meetings against 54.7 per cent for clubs whose rolls grew, and 71.4 per cent of the association's governance-support allocations reached the second group.

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Satisfactory by Default

Dagny Okafor, Mirela Hanke, Osei Vandermeer · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.7bo3ju

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement recomputes the portfolio condition-compliance rate one rental agency publishes, treating the checklist items a routine attendance never reaches as missing rather than satisfactory. Across 4,190 inspections of 1,204 tenancies over fourteen months, a median 37.7 per cent of scheduled items were inspected, and the reported 97.8 per cent is identified only to the region between 37.2 and 99.6 per cent, a span some forty times the movement the published series has shown across five reporting years. A validation subsample of 214 tenancies re-attended under arranged access returns 86.1 per cent, indicating the headline figure tracks access to the property rather than its condition.

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Covered, Standing at the Gate

Marit Osayande, Joost Nwosu, Bram Ntuli · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.njwl45

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement measures mobile signal at 612 sample points across the frontages of 187 dwellings in fourteen rural localities over eleven weeks, reading each point's modelled coverage class from the published map and assigning a measured class on the same published thresholds. Measured signal meets its modelled class at 41.2 per cent of points, with disagreement running one way (below at 54.6 per cent, above at 4.2), and 95.2 per cent of the failing points sit inside ground the map classes as served. Ninety-four households nominate a usual call location a median 183 m from the dwelling, 71 per cent of which also falls inside modelled coverage, while the blackspot program's eligibility criterion admits a site only where the model already shows no service.

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Rated for Traffic That Never Came

Petra Umbile, Lindiwe Achterberg, Kwame Lindqvist · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.zaofot

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities models alternating one-lane traffic control at twelve rural single-lane closures, calibrated to 61 hours of verge-side counts and changeover timings and run over 10,000 replications per setting with the signal cycle swept from 4 to 16 minutes. Rated capacity rises across the sweep from 412 to 731 vehicles per hour while mean delay rises from 46 to 214 seconds, and beyond a nine-minute cycle each further minute adds under 11 vehicles per hour to the rating and about 19 seconds to the average wait. No site's busiest observed hour reaches 48 per cent of the throughput its own traffic guidance plan is rated at, and the median site peaks at 33 per cent.

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The Record That Never Closes

Sten Okwuosa, Thandiwe Solberg, Iben Chikere · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.q051j4

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement applies optimal-matching sequence analysis to 2,714 wildlife-care records lodged by 61 licensed volunteer carers across three rescue seasons, coding each record's state month by month. Four trajectory types cover 2,610 records; the largest holds a record open with no terminal code entered from month four onward, and 44 per cent of records sit in that state at month nine. Release rate computed over the records that carry a terminal code is 0.79 against 0.41 over all intakes, and ranking the body's 31 branches on the published figure correlates 0.19 with ranking them on all-intake release.

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The Report Names Nobody

Ingrid Vasseur, Ronja Oyelaran, Marek Solheim · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.ptihzp

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 58 store managers, shift supervisors and counter crew across 31 stores of one bakery-café franchise network over nine months, and reads the 214 below-threshold mystery-shop reports those stores had answered. None of the 214 reports names a member of staff; 208 of the responses filed against them do, and where a name is supplied the store's own roster confirms that person's presence in the recorded visit window in 34 per cent of cases. Five moves account for every filed response: reconstructing the roster rises from 21 to 58 per cent between a store's first below-threshold report and a repeat in the same quarter, while holding the matter over to the next visit falls from 27 to 4 per cent, and the median response is filed 3.2 hours after the report lands, 41 minutes before the report's own single-visit reliability note is first opened.

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On Rotation, Not on Risk

Runa Adegoke, Anneke Tolan, Ingrid Vasseur · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.gu7voz

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities observes 1,212 pre-shift toolbox talks at 40 construction site gates over sixteen weeks and codes each talk's card against the hazard entries the site lodged in the preceding seven days. Card selection is strongly associated with the site's position in its rotating card library and weakly associated with its own recorded hazards, while the coverage figure the principal contractor's performance is acquitted on holds at 97.8 per cent and signatures exceed the observed headcount at 38 per cent of talks.

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Referred by the Room

Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Solveig Adeyemi, Osei Vandermeer · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.cp0q9k

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement sets 26 months of free hearing-screening outcomes at 44 pharmacy sites, 61,908 screenings in all, against the shopfitting completion dockets that relocated the screening booth at 19 of them. Referral rate steps 6.8 percentage points in the month of a move (95% CI 5.0 to 8.6) and holds for the remainder of the panel, while the 25 sites whose booth stayed put show no break; booth position accounts for 41 per cent of between-site variance in referral rate against 4 per cent for the screening operator. Protocol, referral threshold and staff rosters were unchanged across the break, and a site falls a median of seven places on the group's published service scorecard in the quarter after a refit.

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The Slow Keg Holds the Line

Thandiwe Solberg, Marek Solheim, Ingeborg Nwachukwu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.y0voyc

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement follows 318 tap-line tenures across 26 licensed venues for fourteen months, censusing every tap board weekly against the venues' own keg delivery and return dockets, and models the two ways a line can end as competing outcomes. Lines carrying local product end in keg exhaustion in 29 per cent of cases by day 60 against 87 per cent of lines carrying everything else (subdistribution hazard ratio 0.24, 95% CI 0.18 to 0.33), the balance being rotated off part-full. Every venue satisfied its half-of-taps local-share condition at each of the 41 inspections in the window, over a period in which local product accounted for 19 per cent of poured volume, and no venue type reached 41 per cent local by volume.

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Warmed on Paper

Ronja Oyelaran, Anouk Mensah, Kwame Lindqvist · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.1ib784

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities allocates 36 occupied floors across four buildings in one managed commercial portfolio to three conditions for six months: a 1.5 °C setpoint rise, a printed notice at every kitchenette and lift lobby setting out the 21.0 to 24.0 °C band the lease promises, or no change. The contracted Occupant Comfort Index rises 10.4 points on the setpoint floors and 9.6 on the notice floors, against 1.1 in the control, a difference between the two active arms of 0.8 points (95% CI -2.9 to 4.5). Mean desk-height temperature, recorded by 288 loggers at five-minute sampling, shifts 1.42 °C under the setpoint change and 0.04 °C (95% CI -0.11 to 0.19) under the notice, so both arms discharge a comfort clause written against the index rather than against the air.

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The Trophy Goes to the Smallest Sample

Ingrid Vasseur, Lindiwe Achterberg, Sten Okwuosa · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.yhp74e

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities recomputes a junior sports association's most-improved award rule across ten seasons of per-game returns from 24 clubs and 1,914 registered players. Recipients' first-half averages sit a median of 2.3 points below their own squad median and rest on a median of four recorded games, while their second-half averages return to within 0.5 points of that median in nine of ten seasons. Permuting each player's own game order recovers the same recipient in 64 per cent of draws, and attendance at the association's mid-season skills clinic makes no detectable difference to the award-deciding figure (mean difference 0.1 points, 95% CI -0.4 to 0.6).