This final report summarises the work undertaken within the project entitled, ‘The formation and occurrence of haloacetic acids in drinking water’, funded by the EPSRC (EP/D502411/1), the Drinking Water Inspectorate and Anglian Water, during the period of October 2005 to March 2009. The project was also supported by Severn Trent Water, United Utilities and Scottish Water, who provided advice an...

Our results indicate that increasing temperatures will be devastating for the melanic mosquitofish population, resulting in extinction within 1000 years. Despite these findings, our simulations also indicate that if the temperature stabilizes before the melanic mosquitofish becomes extinct the melanic population will also stabilize near the frequencies present at the time the temperature stabil...

Sometimes humans have a need for storing long sequences of information in memory. Several experiments show that grouping the items in the sequence helps storing the sequence in auditory short-term memory. One architecture used by connectionist cognitive researchers when representing and processing sequences is Recursive Auto-Associative Memory. One of the aspects of it is that its capacity for ...

This paper extends Imbens and Manski’s (2004) analysis of confidence intervals for interval identified parameters. For their final result, Imbens and Manski implicitly assume superefficient estimation of a nuisance parameter. This appears to have gone unnoticed before, and it limits the result’s applicability. I re-analyze the problem both with assumptions that merely weaken the superefficiency...

Emotional memories are vivid and lasting but not necessarily accurate. Under some conditions, emotion even increases people’s susceptibility to false memories. This review addresses when and why emotion leaves people vulnerable to misremembering events. Recent research suggests that pregoal emotions—those experienced before goal attainment or failure (e.g., hope, fear)—narrow the scope of peopl...