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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 15h

On general extension fields for the classical groups in differential Galois theory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On general extension fields for the classical groups in differential Galois theory

Let G be one of the classical groups of Lie rank l. We make a similar construction of a general extension field in differential Galois theory for G as E. Noether did in classical Galois theory for ...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 20h

Supervariate biomineral gels: stable liquidus minerals for fusion under biocompatible conditions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Supervariate biomineral gels: stable liquidus minerals for fusion under biocompatible conditions

Biomineralization, the process by which organisms create mineralised structures in aqueous environments, has captivated researchers. In our prior work, we have identified the “supervariate” biomine...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 20h

Opening Editorial: NANO VIEWS

@tandfresearch.bsky.social #nanotechnology #nanoparticle #nanomaterials

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Published in Nano Views (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2025)

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 20h

Pandemic Visions: Contested Trustworthiness and Implementation of Alternative COVID-19 Testing at Seoul National University www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 1d

Handling Missingness, Failures, and Non-Convergence in Simulation Studies: A Review of Current Practices and Recommendations

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Handling Missingness, Failures, and Non-Convergence in Simulation Studies: A Review of Current Practices and Recommendations

Simulation studies are commonly used in methodological research for the empirical evaluation of data analysis methods. They generate artificial datasets under specified mechanisms and compare the p...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 2d

Toward Explainable Data and Sports Analytics: A Case Study on Pass Completion Prediction in American Football

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Toward Explainable Data and Sports Analytics: A Case Study on Pass Completion Prediction in American Football

The sports analytics industry has seen a rapid influx of data, driving widespread adoption of machine learning for predictive analytics. However, this shift has often sidelined conceptual understan...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 1d

Truth but not science? George Berkeley and the politics of mathematical authority in the Analyst Controversy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Truth but not science? George Berkeley and the politics of mathematical authority in the Analyst Controversy

This article reframes the Analyst Controversy, incited by George Berkeley’s incendiary tract The Analyst: A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician (1734), as not merely a debate about Newt...

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Mathematics in Medical and Life Sciences @mmls-journal.bsky.social · 5d

We are excited to announce a special issue call on Open Source Software and Code in Mathematical Biology, open until 1st March 2026.
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Taylor and Francis are currently supporting a 100% waiver for all submissions.

Open Source Software and Code in Mathematical Biology

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 1d

Generalized separation of collections of sets www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Generalized separation of collections of sets

We show that the existing generalized separation statements including the conventional extremal principle and its extensions differ in the ways norms on product spaces are defined. We prove a gener...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 2d

On rational contractions in perturbed metric spaces www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On rational contractions in perturbed metric spaces

This paper aims to extend the Banach contraction principle using rational expressions in perturbed metric spaces. To illustrate the novelty and applicability of the results, several examples and an...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 2d

Toward Explainable Data and Sports Analytics: A Case Study on Pass Completion Prediction in American Football

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Toward Explainable Data and Sports Analytics: A Case Study on Pass Completion Prediction in American Football

The sports analytics industry has seen a rapid influx of data, driving widespread adoption of machine learning for predictive analytics. However, this shift has often sidelined conceptual understan...

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Joy Zhang @joyzhang.bsky.social · 14d

Is the Global South a hotbed for scandalous ‘firsts’? 🌍
My open-access Journal of Responsible Innovation article explores cases in #India, #China & #Mexico to show how epistemic injustice shapes #RRI—and why ethical governance must enable epistemic socialisation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scandalous ‘firsts’ from the Global South? The entanglement between epistemic injustice and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

This paper examines the critical role of epistemic injustice in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), particularly through the lens of reproductive medicine scandals in the Global South. It un...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 2d

Dynamic Linear Models for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology with Missing Values: an Application to Covid-19 Surveillance

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#epidemiology #data #water #covid19
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Dynamic Linear Models for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology with Missing Values: an Application to Covid-19 Surveillance

We argue for the usage of dynamic linear models (DLMs) for pre-processing and modeling of wastewater data used for surveillance of population infectious disease levels. Unlike other existing models...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 4d

Implementation of the ICH E9 (R1) addendum in vaccine efficacy studies: the hypothetical and principal stratum strategies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....?

Implementation of the ICH E9 (R1) addendum in vaccine efficacy studies: the hypothetical and principal stratum strategies

Over the past decades, the primary interest in vaccine efficacy evaluation has mostly been on the effect observed in trial participants complying with the protocol requirements (per protocol analys...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 4d

Beware the Two-Goal Lead: The Truth Behind the Legend of the Most Dangerous Lead in Soccer

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Beware the Two-Goal Lead: The Truth Behind the Legend of the Most Dangerous Lead in Soccer

Contrary to common sense, two-goal leads are often said to the be the most dangerous in soccer. Legend has it that once teams go up by two they become complacent, making it all too likely that thei...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 5d

Call for Papers in Special Issue on Open Source Software and Code in Mathematical Biology

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 5d

Rewinding the byte trail of the White Whale

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 5d

The politics of restless motion: water governance and state formation in Colombia’s upper Cauca basin, 1910–1940 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The politics of restless motion: water governance and state formation in Colombia’s upper Cauca basin, 1910–1940

This article examines the early emergence of volume-based modes of water governance in southwestern Colombia. Rooted in hydrological science, volume and flow became central to the state’s efforts t...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 5d

A Nonlinear Hierarchical Time Series Approach to Citywide Trend Assessment of Viruses, Hot Spot Signals, and Right-Sizing System www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Nonlinear Hierarchical Time Series Approach to Citywide Trend Assessment of Viruses, Hot Spot Signals, and Right-Sizing System

Wastewater surveillance has proven to be a cost-effective cornerstone in public health, offering vital insights into a spectrum of community health issues, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 6d

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ChatGPT tested on 2,000-year-old maths puzzle, uncovering how it ‘thinks’

AI chatbot’s thought process is ‘like a learner or scholar’, researchers say

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 8d

ASA Discoveries - new journal from the American Statistical Association and published by Taylor & Francis. Now online!

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Check out the opening Editorial!
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 8d

Check out the Aims and Scope!

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Learn about ASA Discoveries

Learn about ASA Discoveries aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 8d

ASA Discoveries - new journal from the American Statistical Association and published by Taylor & Francis. Now online!

@amstatnews.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Check out the opening Editorial!
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Editorial

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Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 12d

Another multivariate change point paper from Mena Whalen, Greg Matthew’s and I now live at Journal of Applied Statistics. Fun little application of the method for identifying eras in baseball history.

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Empirical determination of baseball eras: multivariate change point analysis in major league baseball

We use multivariate change point analysis methods to identify not only mean shifts but also changes in variance across a wide array of statistical time series. Our primary objective is to empirical...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 9d

Generating Trees and Fibonacci Polyominoes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Generating Trees and Fibonacci Polyominoes

We study a new class of polyominoes, called p-Fibonacci polyominoes, defined using p-Fibonacci words. We enumerate these polyominoes by applying generating functions to capture geometric parameters...

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