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Antioxidant Hydroxytyrosol-Based Polyacrylate with Antimicrobial and Antiadhesive Activity Versus Staphylococcus Epidermidis (2015)
Book Chapter
Crisante, F., Taresco, V., Donelli, G., Vuotto, C., Martinelli, A., D’Ilario, L., …Piozzi, A. (2015). Antioxidant Hydroxytyrosol-Based Polyacrylate with Antimicrobial and Antiadhesive Activity Versus Staphylococcus Epidermidis. In Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health. Volume 2 (25-36). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2015_5013

The accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in microbial biofilms has been recently recognized to play a role in promoting antibiotic resistance in biofilm-growing bacteria. ROS are also over-produced when a medical device is implanted and they... Read More about Antioxidant Hydroxytyrosol-Based Polyacrylate with Antimicrobial and Antiadhesive Activity Versus Staphylococcus Epidermidis.

Strategic engagement and librarians (2015)
Book Chapter
Smyth, N. (2015). Strategic engagement and librarians. In S. J. Rayner, & R. E. Lyons (Eds.), The academic book of the future. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137595775_9

The future of the academic book is a strategic engagement issue for librarians. Books might not be stored in or purchased for university libraries; they might not even exist in a physical form. How will academic books be organised and accessed in the... Read More about Strategic engagement and librarians.

Acidalius on Tacitus (2015)
Book Chapter
Malloch, S. (2015). Acidalius on Tacitus. In R. Hunter, & S. Oakley (Eds.), Latin literature and its transmission. Cambridge University Press

Whistleblowing without borders: the risks and rewards of transnational whistleblowing networks (2015)
Book Chapter
Hyde, R., & Savage, A. (2015). Whistleblowing without borders: the risks and rewards of transnational whistleblowing networks. In D. Lewis, & W. Vandekerckhove (Eds.), Developments in whistleblowing research 2015. International Whistleblowing Research Network

Cross-border disclosures by whistleblowers are of increasing importance. The regulatory regime is unclear, both with regard to employment protection and with regard to ensuring that the information reaches those able to best respond to the disclosure... Read More about Whistleblowing without borders: the risks and rewards of transnational whistleblowing networks.

Art History and Intellectual History (2015)
Book Chapter
Lorenz, K. (2015). Art History and Intellectual History. In R. Whatmore, & B. Young (Eds.), A companion to intellectual history (184-200). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118508091.ch14

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter provides an overview of the history of the study of art from the eighteenth century to the present, with particular emphasis on the perception of art history as an academic discipline... Read More about Art History and Intellectual History.

Arts-based approaches to research with children: living with mess (2015)
Book Chapter
Parry, B. (2015). Arts-based approaches to research with children: living with mess. In D. Yamada-Rice, & E. Stirling (Eds.), Visual methods with children and young people: academics and visual industries in dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402295

After the emergence of a distinct sociology of childhood, methodological approaches to research with children have been particularly concerned to work ethically and meaningfully with them. In this volume, Elizabeth Wood (Chapter 9) takes us beyond th... Read More about Arts-based approaches to research with children: living with mess.

Dead-lines: teachers’ bureaucratic habitus and disciplinary writing in three South African schools (2015)
Book Chapter
Dixon, K., & Dornbrack, J. (2016). Dead-lines: teachers’ bureaucratic habitus and disciplinary writing in three South African schools. In G. Enriquez, E. Johnson, S. Kontovourki, & C. A. Mallozzi (Eds.), Literacies, Learning, and the Body: Putting Theory and Research into Pedagogical Practice. Routledge

Imagine that you are a sixteen-year-old girl who goes to school in a township in Cape Town, South Africa. Your school is in a high poverty area where crime and gangsterism are rife. You are late again, so you wait outside the locked school gate until... Read More about Dead-lines: teachers’ bureaucratic habitus and disciplinary writing in three South African schools.

Designing with membranes (2015)
Book Chapter
Beccarelli, P. (2015). Designing with membranes. In A. Zanelli, L. Spinelli, C. Monticelli, & P. Pedrali (Eds.), Lightweight landscape: enhancing design through minimal mass structures (19-27). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21665-2_2

This contribution offers an introduction to membrane structures and the experimental approach which has characterised this building system since its origins. In particular, the chapter offers an overview of the design approach currently adopted for t... Read More about Designing with membranes.

Austria's post-Holocaust Jewish community: a subaltern counterpublic between the ethics and morality of memory (2015)
Book Chapter
Karner, C. (2015). Austria's post-Holocaust Jewish community: a subaltern counterpublic between the ethics and morality of memory. In D. Popescu, & T. Schult (Eds.), Revisiting Holocaust representation in the post-witness era. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137530424_16

In The Ethics of Memory, Avishai Margalit argues that memory and ethics are features of the ‘thick relations’ that bind ‘families, clans, tribes, religious communities and nations’ internally. This he contrasts to the ‘thin relations’ that connect hu... Read More about Austria's post-Holocaust Jewish community: a subaltern counterpublic between the ethics and morality of memory.

The co-creation of locally useful knowledge by business schools (2015)
Book Chapter
Mosey, S., Kirkham, P., & Binks, M. (2015). The co-creation of locally useful knowledge by business schools. In D. B. Audretsch, A. N. Link, & M. Walshok (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of local competitiveness. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199993307.013.18

In the UK, Business Schools are being exhorted by government to engage with local organizations to enhance their competitiveness. However, a historical legacy of providing courses for international students and a research focus upon multi-national fi... Read More about The co-creation of locally useful knowledge by business schools.

The Role of Radical Reflexivity In Academics' meaning making of career development (2015)
Book Chapter
Mills, S., & Lee, A. (2015). The Role of Radical Reflexivity In Academics' meaning making of career development. In Realising Critical HRD: Stories of Reflecting, Voicing, and Enacting Critical Practice (90-112). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This chapter explores the role of “radical reflexivity” in the way academics make meaning of their career development (CD) choices and prospects within the contested power relationships of higher education (HE). The wider pervading managerialist acad... Read More about The Role of Radical Reflexivity In Academics' meaning making of career development.

Towards a multiscale scheme for nonlinear dynamic analysis of masonry structures with damage (2015)
Book Chapter
Triantafyllou, S. P., & Chatzi, E. N. (2015). Towards a multiscale scheme for nonlinear dynamic analysis of masonry structures with damage. In I. N. Psycharis, S. J. Pantazopoulou, & M. Papadrakakis (Eds.), Seismic Assessment, Behavior and Retrofit of Heritage Buildings and Monuments. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16130-3_7

In this work, a three dimensional multiscale formulation is presented for the analysis of masonry structures based on the multiscale finite element formulation. The method is developed within the framework of the Enhanced Multiscale Finite Element Me... Read More about Towards a multiscale scheme for nonlinear dynamic analysis of masonry structures with damage.

The British idea of Italy in the age of Turner (2015)
Book Chapter
Laven, D. (2015). The British idea of Italy in the age of Turner. In D. B. Brown (Ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours. Tate Research Publication