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Paul Naish
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Executive Publisher at T&F. Publish journals. Walk dogs. ❤️ doughnuts & ice cream. #scicomm #physicalsciences #mathematics #statistics #datascience #history #science #STS
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · Sep 30
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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Editorial
Published in ASA Discoveries (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2025)
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New Release: "Real Analysis 2nd Chance – Support Project to Overcome the Transition to Advanced Mathematics" by Bertram, Rolka & Geisler about Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT) principles and student experiences with them.

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Real Analysis 2nd Chance – Support Project to Overcome the Transition to Advanced Mathematics
The transition from school to university mathematics is challenging for students in many ways. The project Real Analysis 2nd Chance is based on Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT) principles and aims at s...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Fibonacci and Egyptian Fractions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fibonacci and Egyptian Fractions
This note focuses on formulating the algorithms used by Fibonacci in Liber Abaci to decompose any fraction into a sum of unit fractions. The description in Liber Abaci is entirely rhetorical, expla...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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A Bayesian Integrative Mixed Modeling Framework for Analysis of the Multi-Site Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A Bayesian Integrative Mixed Modeling Framework for Analysis of the Multi-Site Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study
Integrating high-dimensional, heterogeneous data from multi-site cohort studies with complex hierarchical structures poses significant variable selection and prediction challenges. We extend the Ba...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Hello from DC!
January 4, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Ready for the @jointmath.bsky.social exhibition in DC!

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January 4, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Ethical Issues in the Dynamic Environment for Public-Stewardship Statistical Information www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ethical Issues in the Dynamic Environment for Public-Stewardship Statistical Information
This paper explores some ethical issues encountered by managers and others in statistical and data science organizations. It does not spell out detailed ethical requirements. Instead, it outlines ...
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January 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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@littmath.bsky.social and his fantastic question strikes again!
December 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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A Novel, Variance Component-Based Method for Detecting Brain-Behavior Associations in Neuroimaging Data

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A Novel, Variance Component-Based Method for Detecting Brain-Behavior Associations in Neuroimaging Data
The sequence kernel association test (SKAT) is a widely used and computationally efficient method in high-dimensional studies that tests for the joint effect of multiple predictors while accommodat...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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New publication: Understanding burnout and mental health challenges in health sciences students doi.org/10.1080/2993...
The exhaustion-disengagement spectrum: burnout, mental health, and academic attrition in undergraduate health science students
This study explored relationships between exhaustion and disengagement among health sciences undergraduates at the Medical University of Gdańsk, using the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI). We ass...
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December 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Complex-Valued Signal Denoising Neural Networks for Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance-Based Detection of Fentanyl

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Complex-Valued Signal Denoising Neural Networks for Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance-Based Detection of Fentanyl
In many scientific applications, measured time series are corrupted by noise or distortions. Traditional denoising techniques often fail to recover the signal of interest, particularly when the sig...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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A scaffolding design for a project-focused introductory course in inferential statistics

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A scaffolding design for a project-focused introductory course in inferential statistics
Introductory statistics courses at colleges across the country range in scope and coverage. While the American Statistical Association (ASA) recommends points of emphasis for undergraduate statisti...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Unlocking the potential of battery technologies through time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unlocking the potential of battery technologies through time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
In response to the evolving demands in energy storage, the review underscores the critical need for ongoing research in battery technology, specifically centred to indispensable role of Time-of-Fli...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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From orbits to orbitals. Early pictorializations of electron probability densities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Elephant range and population, strontium isotopes, and genetics combine to give local-scale specificity to ivory hotspot tracking www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Elephant range and population, strontium isotopes, and genetics combine to give local-scale specificity to ivory hotspot tracking
We use Sr isotopes to increase the precision of DNA-based origin estimates of wildlife products. Population information is used to develop Sr isotope Elephant Polygons that are overlaid onto the re...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Shared ancestors and the birthday problem

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Shared ancestors and the birthday problem
The celebrated birthday problem asks for the probability that in a classroom of k people, there exists at least one pair with a shared birthday; a generalization seeks the probability that in two c...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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On shapes recognition in topological data analysis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On shapes recognition in topological data analysis
This paper investigates the analysis of topological objects' shapes using tools from algebraic topology and topological data analysis (TDA). We use the multipers library to compute the multi-parame...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Preliminary Investigation of Gamma Radiation on the Chemical and Physical Characteristics of an Organic Coolant www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Preliminary Investigation of Gamma Radiation on the Chemical and Physical Characteristics of an Organic Coolant
Organic-cooled reactor concepts offer potential advantages over traditional light water reactors, including operation at elevated temperatures and reduced pressures. However, radiation-induced degr...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Momentum effects in team sports: analyzing the interplay between offense and defense in the NBA

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Momentum effects in team sports: analyzing the interplay between offense and defense in the NBA
The phenomenon of momentum in sports has been explored in various studies; however, to date, there is limited evidence regarding the interplay between offense and defense. Utilizing play-by-play da...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Alice and Bob on 𝕏: Reversal, Coupling, Renewal

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Alice and Bob on 𝕏: Reversal, Coupling, Renewal
A neat question involving coin flips surfaced on X, and generated an intensive “storm” of “social mathematics.” In a sequence of flips of a fair coin, Alice wins a point at each appearance of two c...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Editorial to the special issue ‘Nonparametric Methods in Data Science and Applications’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Editorial to the special issue ‘Nonparametric Methods in Data Science and Applications’
Published in Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2025)
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December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Kant on regulative principles in science www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Kant on regulative principles in science
This paper discusses several central features of Kant’s account of how regulative principles guide scientific inquiry. Specifically, it focuses on Kant’s views on what these regulative principles a...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Analysing the quality of real analysis lectures using a structured observation tool www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Analysing the quality of real analysis lectures using a structured observation tool
This paper reports a study investigating the quality of advanced mathematics lectures following three goals. First, we present our conceptualisation and operationalisation concerning the quality of...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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A novel responsible innovation framework in the context of a blockchain analysis platform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A novel responsible innovation framework in the context of a blockchain analysis platform
Blockchain technologies can play a core role in a wide variety of industries. Specialized tools (known by the umbrella term ‘Blockchain Analytics’) are increasingly used to search and explore block...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Understanding of the crystallographic features of icosahedral quasicrystals based on the atomic density wave model www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Understanding of the crystallographic features of icosahedral quasicrystals based on the atomic density wave model
The characteristic features of P-type and F-type icosahedral quasicrystals in alloys have been investigated both experimentally and theoretically. In addition to examining the crystallographic feat...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Robust Principal Component Analysis with Truncated Weighted Nuclear Norm and Adaptive Histogram Equalization: A Novel Method for Low-Quality Retinal Image Enhancement

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Robust Principal Component Analysis with Truncated Weighted Nuclear Norm and Adaptive Histogram Equalization: A Novel Method for Low-Quality Retinal Image Enhancement
Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) methods are widely used in data-driven applications, including biomedical imaging, where retinal images often suffer from noise and artifacts that reduce ...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM