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The Effects of Media Portrayals of Teachers and Teaching

https://davku.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d799142a08fc070ce7bacb8db02a87fc.pdf

Tags: Education, education on screen, Film, Katherine Pittaway, perceptions of teaching, student, student expectations, teacher relationships, teacher representations, teachers, television

Truth Decays: Using Ancient Athenian democracy to learn more about modern politics.

Truth Decays BlogMy URSS project looked at the solutions Ancient Athenian Democracy can offer modern politics. Barack Obama said that we currently face a truth decay, where the truth does not matter anymore. My project examined the solutions, and…

Tags: Athens, Classics, Democracy, Politics, Truth

Bounding the Number of Linear Solutions to Diophantine Equations in an Application to PDEs

https://davku.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/6aeb7c02a0a7b67fec3391712d6cbf24.pdf

Tags: diophantine, equations, PDEs, Strichartz estimates

Finding Slim Parameters for Observed Site-Frequency Spectrum

https://davku.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/54e7234a2352da8d321b1d7ed04408e1.pdf

In this project we use the Approximate Bayesian Computation - Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm to identify parameters of a SLiM model to explain our data
set of the observed site-frequency spectrum.

Tags: ABC-MCMC, Adaptive tolerance algorithm