Publications

On the Attitudinal Consequences of Being Mindful

Publication ID: pub.1083413687

Publication date: 01/02/2017

Keywords: Adult; Affect; Attitude; Emotions; Female; Humans; Judgment; Male; Mindfulness; Young Adult

A series of studies examined whether mindfulness is associated with the experience of attitudinal ambivalence. Studies 1A and 1B found that mindful individuals expressed greater comfort holding ambivalent views and reported feeling ambivalent less often. More mindful individuals also responded more positively to feelings of uncertainty (as assessed in Study 1B). Study 2 replicated these […]

A deforestation-induced tipping point for the South American monsoon system

Publication ID: pub.1074192835

Publication date: 25/01/2017

Keywords: Amazon Forest; Computer Simulation; Conservation of Natural Resources; Models, Theoretical; Rain; Seasons; South America; Tropical Climate

The Amazon rainforest has been proposed as a tipping element of the earth system, with the possibility of a dieback of the entire ecosystem due to deforestation only of parts of the rainforest. Possible physical mechanisms behind such a transition are still subject to ongoing debates. Here, we use a specifically designed model to analyse […]

Carbon sequestration in an expanded lake system during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event

Publication ID: pub.1009052340

Publication date: 16/01/2017

Keywords: Carbon Sequestration; China; Early Jurassic Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event; Fluvial Nutrient Supply; Global Carbon Cycle; Karoo-Ferrar Volcanism; Lacustrine Black Shales; Lake System; Sichuan Basin

The Early Jurassic Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (∼183 Ma) was marked by marine anoxia–euxinia and globally significant organic-matter burial, accompanied by a major global carbon-cycle perturbation probably linked to Karoo–Ferrar volcanism. Although the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event is well studied in the marine realm, accompanying climatic and environmental change on the continents is poorly understood. Here, […]

Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

Publication ID: pub.1000253746

Publication date: 16/01/2017

Keywords: Atmosphere; Carbon Cycle; Carbon Dioxide; Cell Respiration; Ecosystem; Global; Machine Learning; Photosynthesis; Temperature; Water

A study of how temperature and water availability fluctuations affect the carbon balance of land ecosystems reveals different controls on local and global scales, implying that spatial climate covariation drives the global carbon cycle response.

Locating ethics in data science: responsibility and accountability in global and distributed knowledge production systems

Publication ID: pub.1010938816

Publication date: 28/12/2016

Keywords: Global; Information Science; Internationality; Knowledge; Social Responsibility; UK

The distributed and global nature of data science creates challenges for evaluating the quality, import and potential impact of the data and knowledge claims being produced. This has significant consequences for the management and oversight of responsibilities and accountabilities in data science. In particular, it makes it difficult to determine who is responsible for what […]

Widening requirements capture with soft methods: an investigation of hybrid M&S studies in health care

Publication ID: pub.1039875776

Publication date: 21/12/2016

Keywords: Health Systems; Qualitative System Dynamics; Simulation; Soft Systems; Soft Systems Methodology

A simulation study consists of several stages: problem formulation, model implementation, verification and validation, experimentation and output data analysis. The application of multiple techniques in the model implementation stage is referred to as hybrid simulation, which we distinguish in this paper from a hybrid M&S study, the latter referring to studies that apply methods and […]