Yay! Paper finally published that is the result of ~10 years of on and off work.
Then after writing and revision, the thesis was published in 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/159593
I posted it as a preprint, https://dx.doi.org/10.31224/osf.io/N7AJQ
Submitted to a journal and the reviews said it needed some experimental validation. Which is a fair criticism.
There it stagnated for a while because I wasn't really too motivated to publish anything from my thesis. However, I finally gave in to my advisor's request to publish in about 2017 and wrote up the paper.