University of York

York-Tank: A Degradation-Aware and Difficulty-Stratified Stereo Dataset for Underwater Visual SLAM

Coupled visual degradations in underwater recordings make it difficult to relate simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) performance changes to specific factors and their severity. We present York-Tank, which is a controlled stereo dataset combining dominant-factor sequence...

Big Five Personality Traits and Subjective Perceptions of Adulthood

Abstract Adulthood is often inferred from age and milestones such as marriage, parenthood, and career. This study tested whether perceptions of adulthood – subjective adult status and perceived importance of markers of adulthood – are associated with personality traits in a UK sa...

Asymptotic linear dependence and ellipse statistics for multivariate two-sample homogeneity test

Statistical depth, which measures the center-outward rank of a given sample with respect to its underlying distribution, has become a popular and powerful tool in nonparametric inference. In this paper, we investigate the use of statistical depth in multivariate two-sample proble...

DNA methylation is associated with transcriptional variability and transposon-driven trans-regulation under drought in wheat landraces

Abstract Background Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is essential for food security, but increasingly frequent droughts threaten yields. While wheat’s transcriptional responses to drought are well characterised, DNA methylation’s role remains poorly understood. Wheat landrace pane...

Collaboration in action: Protocol development across the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network

Collaboration and multidisciplinary approaches are key factors in the advancement of scientific research. This Backstory introduces the guiding philosophy and the collaborative nature of the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network (NMGN) and serves to set the foundation for the conte...

Speculating on Speculation? Thinking Within and Beyond the Mortgage Present a Reply to the Comments on ‘Envisioning Mortgage Futures’

This piece replies to some fine scholarship from the five commentators who have taken up the pen in response to our focus article. We take up four themes running through the commentaries: the novelty of the imagined future, the politics of prediction, the social life of the score...

A short note on differential equations and on Geometry

A short note on differential equations. We add some lines of interest about Some topics in Geometry.

Short Communication on Email Management Systems

We present the opportunity to Manage Emails with More in-depth Computing Systems. Many options and examples are of interest.

Envisioning Mortgage Futures

This paper explores how open banking and algorithmic profiling are reshaping mortgage lending in the UK. Drawing on interviews with lenders, brokers, technology developers and borrowers, it examines how transaction data, behavioural analytics and predictive modelling are being us...

Violin duets in instrumental teaching, performance and music-making in the UK

Abstract The violin duet has long occupied a relevant place within instrumental pedagogy, forming part of the canon of the major historic violin schools and included in recent syllabi of some music performance graded examinations. Scholarship has identified numerous pedagogical b...

Short Communication on Objects Found on Road

We have found some Objects on Road in Montreal City. Some Remarks are made.

Symbiosis on Acid

This article examines the relationship between Gaian ecology and psychedelic experience in the fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin and the work of ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna. Both authors use psychedelics to open perspectives on symbiosis as a model for more equitable...

Distinct Modes of Quantum Information Transfer in Power–Law Long-Range Spin Networks

We identify different regimes of quantum state transfer in long-range coupled spin-12 systems, where naturally occurring power–law interactions enable rapid, high-fidelity transfer with minimal engineering. Across a broad range of interaction profiles, from effectively nearest-ne...

Semantic Interference From First- and Second-Language Maskers During Speech-on-Speech Listening

PURPOSE: Broad linguistic properties of masker speech (e.g., phonological and prosodic familiarity) have been shown to affect target speech transcription during speech-on-speech listening. However, it is unclear whether the semantic content of the masker impacts listening accurac...

Bloom-Blueprinted Multiple-Choice Assessment in First-Year Chemistry: Item Performance, Attainment, and Student Perceptions

Abstract Chemistry departments increasingly require summative assessments that are scalable, reliable, and capable of evaluating more than factual recall. This study examines an assessment transition from traditional Short-Answer Questions (SAQs) to Bloom-blueprinted Multiple-Cho...

Characteristics of monotonic sheaths near a wall with grazing magnetic incidence

Abstract We consider a magnetised plasma in contact with an absorbing planar wall, where the angle α between the magnetic field and the wall is small, α ≪ 1 (in radians), and the plasma is uniform in the directions tangential to the wall. The finite ratio γ of the characteristic...

Valuation of life-insurance contracts with multiple benefits under stochastic mortality: A QP-Rule framework in light of COVID-19

This paper examines the valuation of a life insurance contract combining a Guaranteed Minimum Income Benefit (GMIB), a surrender benefit, and a death benefit under stochastic mortality and financial risks. Building on the established QP-rule valuation approach and a hybrid financ...

Improving patient-reported outcome measure scoring in shoulder trials

Aims Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) underpin orthopaedic trials by capturing pain and function from the patient’s perspective. Traditionally, PROMs such as the Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) are scored using classical test theory (CTT), which assumes equal item contributi...

Angular momentum drives proton-rich nucleosynthesis in hyperaccreting neutron stars in common envelopes

Abstract Interacting binaries, especially for massive star systems, produce a wide range of exotic systems including X-ray binaries and merging neutron star systems. In the rapid expansion as a star moves off the main sequence (core hydrogen exhaustion), the star can engulf its c...

Registering A Company [Some Countries of Interest]

We are investigating how to register a company. Many options and countries are of interest (some examples are given).