St Andrews Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Indigenous record keeping and hacienda culture in the Andes : modern khipu accounting on the Island of the Sun, Bolivia
(2021-08-01) - Journal articleHow did khipus-knotted cords that encode information-function within the economic systems of the postcolonial Andes? Best known as the method by which the Incas recorded administrative data, khipu use continued into the ... -
Raising the level : orangutans solve the floating peanut task without visual feedback
(2021-10-16) - Journal articleChimpanzees and orangutans are able to generate innovative behaviors to solve complicated physical problems. For example, when presented with an out-of-reach peanut at the bottom of a vertical tube (Floating Peanut Task-FPT), ... -
The density of sets containing large similar copies of finite sets
(2021-05-26) - Journal articleWe prove that if E⊆Rd (d≥2) is a Lebesgue-measurable set with density larger than n−2n−1, then E contains similar copies of every n-point set P at all sufficiently large scales. Moreover, 'sufficiently large' can be taken ... -
Red deer exhibit spatial and temporal responses to hiking activity
(2021-10-08) - Journal articleOutdoor recreation has the potential to impact the spatial and temporal distribution of animals. We explore interactions between red deer Cervus elaphus and hikers along a popular hiking path in the Scottish Highlands. We ... -
Modeling the emergence of phenotypic heterogeneity in vascularized tumors
(2021) - Journal articleWe present a mathematical study of the emergence of phenotypic heterogeneity in vascularized tumors. Our study is based on formal asymptotic analysis and numerical simulations of a system of nonlocal parabolic equations ...