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Migrant urbanism in gulf citie: S a reality without vision? (2020)
Book Chapter
Wiedmann, F. (2020). Migrant urbanism in gulf citie: S a reality without vision?. In M. Kamrava (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics (99-111). London: Routledge

To a large extent recent urbanization in the Gulf region has been shaped by the distinctive roles of local governance and extensive international migration. New models of governance, such as urban entrepreneurialism and various forms of public-privat... Read More about Migrant urbanism in gulf citie: S a reality without vision?.

State of the art in logics for verification of resource-bounded multi-agent systems (2020)
Book Chapter
Alechina, N., & Logan, B. (2020). State of the art in logics for verification of resource-bounded multi-agent systems. In A. Blass, P. Cégielski, N. Dershowitz, M. Droste, & B. Finkbeiner (Eds.), Fields of Logic and Computation III: Essays Dedicated to Yuri Gurevich on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (9-29). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48006-6_2

Approaches to the verification of multi-agent systems are typically based on games or transition systems defined in terms of states and actions. However such approaches often ignore a key aspect of multi-agent systems, namely that the agents’ actions... Read More about State of the art in logics for verification of resource-bounded multi-agent systems.

Sermons and Preaching (2020)
Book Chapter
Appleby, D. (2020). Sermons and Preaching. In J. Coffey (Ed.), The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198702238.001.0001

Preaching has always been central to the dissenting Protestant tradition. The fact that sermons were a crucial means of mass communication ensured that ‘hotter Protestants’ would be locked in a perpetual struggle with the ecclesiastical and political... Read More about Sermons and Preaching.

The Function of Seven Transmembrane Receptors in the Cardiovascular System and Their Role in the Development of Cardiomyopathy (2020)
Book Chapter
Kubale, V., Prozorowska, E., Glocová, K., Slater, L., & Rutland, C. (2020). The Function of Seven Transmembrane Receptors in the Cardiovascular System and Their Role in the Development of Cardiomyopathy. In D. Gaze (Ed.), . United Kingdom: IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.92628

The G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs, also called seven-transmembrane receptor, 7TMRs, or heptahelical receptor) are a conserved family of seven transmembrane receptors which are essential not only in the healthy heart and blood vessels but also in... Read More about The Function of Seven Transmembrane Receptors in the Cardiovascular System and Their Role in the Development of Cardiomyopathy.

Adrian Zuckerman's New Evidence Scholarship (2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, P. (2020). Adrian Zuckerman's New Evidence Scholarship. In R. Assy, & A. Higgins (Eds.), Principles, Procedure and Justice: Essays in Honour of Adrian Zuckerman (59-87). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050 (2020)
Book Chapter
Loveluck, C. (2020). Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050. In I. Gaskell, & S. A. Carter (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture (491-512). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341764.013.31

This contribution uses material culture, textual sources and associated social practices to explore how cycles of time and memory influenced the development of coastal societies and their expressions of identity in northwest Europe, between c. 500 an... Read More about Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050.

Poverty and Children’s Rights (2020)
Book Chapter
Nolan, A. (2020). Poverty and Children’s Rights. In J. Todres, & S. M. King (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law (404-425). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190097608.013.21

This chapter addresses the ever-deepening relationship between child poverty and child rights. In doing so, it takes as its central focus the best known and most important child rights instrument, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). T... Read More about Poverty and Children’s Rights.

Musical Portraits of St Guthlac (2020)
Book Chapter
Parkes, H. (2020). Musical Portraits of St Guthlac. In Guthlac: Crowland's Saint (277-297). Donington: Shaun Tyas

Support Vector Regression for Multi-objective Parameter Estimation of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems (2020)
Book Chapter
Ahmadieh Khanesar, M., & Branson, D. (2020). Support Vector Regression for Multi-objective Parameter Estimation of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems. In Soft Computing for Problem Solving 2019: Proceedings of SocProS 2019, Volume 1 (97-108). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3290-0_8

© 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. This paper presents a support vector regression-based multi-objective parameter estimation method for interval type-2 fuzzy systems, which deals with prediction interval rather than its crisp output value. S... Read More about Support Vector Regression for Multi-objective Parameter Estimation of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems.

The Three Ages of Utmost Good Faith (2020)
Book Chapter
Bennett, H. (2020). The Three Ages of Utmost Good Faith. In S. Watterson, & C. Mitchell (Eds.), The World of Maritime and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Francis Rose. Bloomsbury Publishing

The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names (2020)
Book Chapter
Carroll, J., & Baker, J. (2020). The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names. In L. Alexander James, & L. Ryan (Eds.), Land of the English Kin: Studies of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Barbara Yorke (112–153). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004421899

Bede famously traced the origins of the Anglo-Saxons back to three of the strongest Germanic “tribes”: They came from three very powerful Germanic tribes [de tribus Germaniae populis fortioribus], the Saxons [Saxonibus], Angles [Anglis], and Jute... Read More about The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names.

One child policy, China (2020)
Book Chapter
Xu, Y., & Woodyer, T. (2020). One child policy, China. In D. T. Cook (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529714388.n426

China’s one-child policy is renowned as the most aggressive and comprehensive population policy in the world. Introduced in China in 1979 at a time of high labour surplus, unemployment, and poverty, the policy sought to minimise the negative effects... Read More about One child policy, China.

Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes (2020)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2020). Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes. In A. Shihadeh, & J. Thiele (Eds.), Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ashʿarism East and West (195-230). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426610_009

Modern research on theological production in the early Mamlūk sultanate of Egypt and Syria has focused primarily on the prolific Ḥanbalī theologians Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350).2 This does not mean, however, th... Read More about Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes.

Youth inclusion and cultural diversity (2020)
Book Chapter
Pàmies, J., & D’Angelo, A. (2020). Youth inclusion and cultural diversity. In X. Úcar, P. Soler-Masó, & A. Planas-Lladó (Eds.), Working with young people: a social pedagogy perspective from Europe and Latin America (217-232). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190937768.003.0014

This chapter discusses a range of theoretical and practical issues concerning processes of inclusion of young people from “culturally diverse” backgrounds. It first presents some of the main available indicators of young people’s exclusion and review... Read More about Youth inclusion and cultural diversity.

Roots or Flowers? Take a Guess (2020)
Book Chapter
Ajmera, I., Stekel, D., Band, L., & Hodgman, C. (2020). Roots or Flowers? Take a Guess. In F. Matthäus, S. Matthäus, S. Harris, & T. Hillen (Eds.), The Art of Theoretical Biology (66-67). Springer

Phosphorus is a growth-limiting nutrient for plants. The use of phosphate (Pi) fertiliser is unsustainable because its stocks are non-renew-able and the run-off of surplus fertiliser damages the environment.