This paper summarizes the main areas of research within TA Weinberg, namely an investigation into code review ability and personality; an investigation into code comprehension and personality; and an investigation into the results from an online programming competition and personality. With regard to code review, it was discovered that there is a relationship between code review ability and per...

Oxidative stress (an overproduction of reactive oxygen species in relation to defense mechanisms) may restrict investment in life history traits, such as growth, reproduction, lifespan, and the production of sexual signals to attract mates. The constraint on sexual signaling by oxidative stress is of particular interest because it has been proposed as a mechanism ensuring that only good-quality...

Explaining the long-term coexistence of many species in a complex ecosystem has been an important topic in both ALife and ecology for several decades. Neutral and niche theories have been developed in parallel to explain ecological patterns of coexistence. Among the niche theories, trade-offs between species seem to play important roles in the mechanism of most models proposed so far. One of th...

This essay explains how spatial structuring among competitive agents in an agent-based model leads to all kinds of behavioural patterns that are not represented in the behavioural rules of the agents. These phenomena resemble those observed in the real world, and thus, the model provides us with explanations and hypotheses that are more parsimonious than those of the conventional ‘top-down’, ra...