by Iliyah | Jun 6, 2018 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Business, Economics & Finance, Engineering & Computer Science, Medical & Health Sciences
Dr Rens van de Schoot – Statistical Methods for Small Data Researchers are heavily reliant on statistical techniques that are based on large sample sizes. Therefore, attempts to gain useful information from small samples can often lead to biased, or incorrect...
by Iliyah | May 23, 2018 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Engineering & Computer Science
Dr Floris Roelofsen – Inquisitive Semantics: A New Mathematical Framework for Analysing Linguistic Meaning Semantics is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning in human languages. Dr Floris Roelofsen, Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and...
by Iliyah | May 23, 2018 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Engineering & Computer Science
Professor Gerhard Heyer | Dr Michael Richter – Models for Understanding Language Languages are filled with unexplored quirks that can be attributed to more than their mere design. The way we use words has an interdependent relationship with the rules of that...
by Iliyah | May 22, 2018 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Medical & Health Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor Stephen Maren – Learning to Forget – Extinguishing Fearful Memories We often hear how impairments in learning can have a negative impact on peoples’ lives but what about problems with forgetting? The inability to forget the association between everyday...
by Iliyah | Apr 4, 2018 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Dr Simon Friederich – A Rare Universe? The Multiverse Debate Through the Lens of Philosophy How did we get here? How could a universe with such simple physical laws have created something as complex as us? These questions are so fundamental that even after...
by Iliyah | Mar 27, 2018 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Medical & Health Sciences
Dr Francesca Dominici – Life-Saving Data: How Breathing ‘Safe’ Air Can Kill Air pollution can have serious health impacts. However, until now, the link between air pollution and death had not been comprehensively shown in the US, especially for rural areas and...
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