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Learning the Quality of Dispatch Heuristics Generated by Automated Programming (2018)
Book Chapter
Parkes, A. J., Beglou, N., & Ozcan, E. (2019). Learning the Quality of Dispatch Heuristics Generated by Automated Programming. In Learning and Intelligent Optimization (154-158). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05348-2_13

One of the challenges within the area of optimisation, and AI in general, is to be able to support the automated creation of the heuristics that are often needed within effective algorithms. Such an example of automated programming may be performed b... Read More about Learning the Quality of Dispatch Heuristics Generated by Automated Programming.

Towards a cloud-based analytics framework for assembly systems (2018)
Book Chapter
Terrazas, G., de Silva, L., & Ratchev, S. (2018). Towards a cloud-based analytics framework for assembly systems. In S. Ratchev (Ed.), Precision assembly in the digital age: 8th IFIP WG5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2108, Chamonix, France, January 14-16, 2018: revised selected papers, 134-141. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05931-6_13

Advanced digitalization together with the rise of cloud technologies is a key enabler for a fundamental paradigm shift known as Industry 4.0 which pro-poses the integration of the new generation of ICT solutions for the monitoring, adaptation, simula... Read More about Towards a cloud-based analytics framework for assembly systems.

Overview: Human Rights (2018)
Book Chapter
Sargeant, C. (2018). Overview: Human Rights. In The UK Supreme Court Yearbook, Volume 6 - Legal Year 2014-2015Appellate Press

Cross-Border Film Adaptation and Life of Pi (2018)
Book Chapter
Roberts, G. (2018). Cross-Border Film Adaptation and Life of Pi. In Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel, 225-242. McGill-Queen's University Press

'Frontier Climbing' in the Wild, Wild East (2018)
Book Chapter
Bott, E. (2018). 'Frontier Climbing' in the Wild, Wild East. In H. Saul, & E. Waterton (Eds.), Affective Geographies of Transformation, Exploration and Adventure: Rethinking FrontiersTaylor & Francis

This chapter explores certain tensions in the often contradictory and always subjective notions of 'adventures' and 'frontiers' in overlapping dimensions through the context of rock-climbing tourism in Li Ming in remote southern China. It also explor... Read More about 'Frontier Climbing' in the Wild, Wild East.

Negotiating meaning in multiple communities of practice: reconciliation and dis-identification in the identity work of headteachers leaving Anglican primary schools (2018)
Book Chapter
Whiteoak, D., & Thomson, P. (2018). Negotiating meaning in multiple communities of practice: reconciliation and dis-identification in the identity work of headteachers leaving Anglican primary schools. In R. McGinity, S. J. Courtney, & H. M. Gunter (Eds.), Educational Leadership: Theorising Professional Practice in Neoliberal Times. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge

Understanding why headteachers leave their posts and leave headship before retirement is crucial to limit the haemorrhaging of headteachers from the system. We utilise the communities of practice framework to examine the identity work of Anglican hea... Read More about Negotiating meaning in multiple communities of practice: reconciliation and dis-identification in the identity work of headteachers leaving Anglican primary schools.

A Prolegomenon to the Coming Paradigm: The Return of Scientia (2018)
Book Chapter
Cunningham, C. (2018). A Prolegomenon to the Coming Paradigm: The Return of Scientia. In ????????????? ???? ??????? (Darwin's Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong). Biblieysko-Bogoslavskiy Instytut Swiatogo Apostola Andrieja (BBI)

The Communist Party (2018)
Book Chapter
Phelps, C. (2018). The Communist Party. In I. Takayoshi (Ed.), American Literature in Transition: The 1930s (421-435). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108563895.023

In the Great Depression, numerous American writers and intellectuals were attracted to the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). This chapter provides an institutional analysis of that political-literary experience, arguing that i... Read More about The Communist Party.

Standardized method for the study of antibody neutralization of HCV pseudoparticles (HCVpp) (2018)
Book Chapter
Bailey, J. R., Urbanowicz, R. A., Ball, J. K., Law, M., & Foung, S. K. H. (2019). Standardized method for the study of antibody neutralization of HCV pseudoparticles (HCVpp). In M. Law (Ed.), Hepatitis C Virus Protocols (441-450). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8976-8_30

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) pseudoparticles (HCVpp) are generated by cotransfection of HCV envelope (E1 and E2) genes along with a retroviral packaging/reporter construct into HEK293T cells. Enveloped particles bearing HCV E1E2 proteins on their surface... Read More about Standardized method for the study of antibody neutralization of HCV pseudoparticles (HCVpp).

Cloning and analysis of authentic patient-derived HCV E1/E2 glycoproteins (2018)
Book Chapter
Urbanowicz, R. A., Ball, J. K., & Tarr, A. W. (2019). Cloning and analysis of authentic patient-derived HCV E1/E2 glycoproteins. In M. Law (Ed.), Hepatitis C Virus Protocols, 275-294. Springer Publishing Company. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-8976-8_19

Experimental characterization of the properties of authentic viruses circulating in infected individuals presents a problem when investigating RNA viruses with error-prone polymerases. The hepatitis C virus provides an extreme example of RNA virus ge... Read More about Cloning and analysis of authentic patient-derived HCV E1/E2 glycoproteins.

InFusion cloning for the generation of biologically relevant HCV chimeric molecular clones (2018)
Book Chapter
King, B., Urbanowicz, R., Tarr, A. W., Ball, J. K., & McClure, C. P. (2019). InFusion cloning for the generation of biologically relevant HCV chimeric molecular clones. In M. Law (Ed.), Hepatitis C Virus Protocols (93-104). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8976-8_6

This chapter describes how to generate chimeric molecular cassettes that are ready to receive PCR-amplified E1/E2 genes using new DNA cloning technology. The method is divided into three sections: (1) generation of a ΔCore-NS2 cassette based upon the... Read More about InFusion cloning for the generation of biologically relevant HCV chimeric molecular clones.

The Role of Discourse Analysis in Researching Severe Labour Exploitation (2018)
Book Chapter
Caruana, R. (2018). The Role of Discourse Analysis in Researching Severe Labour Exploitation. In G. LeBaron (Ed.), Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy, Methodological Challenges and AdvancesOxford University Press

Investigating severe forms of labour exploitation presents a series of particular methodological challenges to researchers in the field, including access to respondents, credibility of data, reliability of measures, researcher ethics and the practica... Read More about The Role of Discourse Analysis in Researching Severe Labour Exploitation.

Confronting Bias in NGO Research on Modern Slavery (2018)
Book Chapter
Okyere, S. (2018). Confronting Bias in NGO Research on Modern Slavery. In G. LeBaron (Ed.), Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy: Methodological Challenges and Advances (94-110). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266472.003.0006

This chapter explores the extent to which efforts to attain more reliable, comprehensive data and knowledge on forced labour could be impeded by a lack of critical reflexivity in the use of mainstream conventional definitional and conceptual framewor... Read More about Confronting Bias in NGO Research on Modern Slavery.

The message or the bottle? Community, associationism and adult learning as “part of the process of social change” (2018)
Book Chapter
Clancy, S. (2018). The message or the bottle? Community, associationism and adult learning as “part of the process of social change”. In E. Boeren, & . N. James (Eds.), Being an adult learner in austere times : exploring the contexts of higher and community education (47-70). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97208-4_3

Raymond Williams argued that the “the impulse to adult education” was never solely focused on “remedying deficit, making up for inadequate educational resources in the wider society” (Williams, 1983, in McIlroy and Westwood (Eds), 1993, p. 257). Nor... Read More about The message or the bottle? Community, associationism and adult learning as “part of the process of social change”.