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Phosphate Glass Fibres and Their Composites (2016)
Book Chapter
Hossain, K. M. Z., Felfel, R. M., Grant, D. M., & Ahmed, I. (2016). Phosphate Glass Fibres and Their Composites. In A. R. Boccaccini, D. S. Brauer, & L. Hupa (Eds.), Bioactive Glasses: Fundamentals, Technology and Applications (257-285). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781782622017-00257

An overview of the research conducted utilising phosphate glass fibres (PGFs), their manufacturing processes and utilisation potential for biomedical applications is presented in this chapter. Phosphate glasses of varying compositions in the form of... Read More about Phosphate Glass Fibres and Their Composites.

Developing agent-based simulation models for social systems engineering studies: A novel framework and its application to modelling peacebuilding activities (2016)
Book Chapter
Siebers, P.-O., Figueredo, G. P., Hirono, M., & Skatova, A. (2016). Developing agent-based simulation models for social systems engineering studies: A novel framework and its application to modelling peacebuilding activities. In C. Garcia-Diaz, & C. Olaya (Eds.), Social systems engineering: the design of complexity (133-156). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118974414.ch7

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. When looking for a ‘what-if’ analysis tool to support social systems engineering studies, agent-based modelling and simulation should be the method of choice. It is a well-established method for studying human-centric... Read More about Developing agent-based simulation models for social systems engineering studies: A novel framework and its application to modelling peacebuilding activities.

Homeric and/or hymns: some fifteenth-century approaches (2016)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2016). Homeric and/or hymns: some fifteenth-century approaches. In A. Faulkner, A. Vergados, & A. Schwab (Eds.), The reception of the Homeric hymns (277-300). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198728788.001.0001

Discusses the manuscripts of the Homeric Hymns as evidence for how they were read in the fifteenth century, and particular allusions made to them in the works of Francesco Filelfo and Michael Marullus.

Solving the randomly generated university examination timetabling problem through Domain Transformation Approach (DTA) (2016)
Book Chapter
Nor Abdul Rahim, S. K., Bargiela, A., & Qu, R. (2016). Solving the randomly generated university examination timetabling problem through Domain Transformation Approach (DTA). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Statistics (iCMS 2015): bridging research endeavo. Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2772-7_8

Amongst the wide-ranging areas of the timetabling problems, educational timetabling was reported as one of the most studied and researched areas in the timetabling literature. In this paper, our focus is the university examination timetabling. Despit... Read More about Solving the randomly generated university examination timetabling problem through Domain Transformation Approach (DTA).

Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality (2016)
Book Chapter
Page, S.-J. (2016). Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality. In L. Gemzöe, M.-L. Keinänen, & A. Maddrell (Eds.), Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion: European Perspectives (131-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42598-6_6

Equality has become an important concept within secular-liberal societies (Perrons 2005), with white, secular Western women interpellated as quintessentially embodying this equality (Gill and Scharff 2011; McRobbie 2011; Nayak and Kehily 2008). For r... Read More about Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality.

Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms (2016)
Book Chapter
Harrison, A. (2016). Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms. In D. Head (Ed.), Cambridge history of the English short story (84-99). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711712.006

© Cambridge University Press 2016. Oral and traditional story forms - from fable, myth, fairy tale and folk tale to religious parable - underwrote the nature and purpose of the short story from its earliest incarnations, offering powerful narrative m... Read More about Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms.

The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the introduction and reception of a sacred tree (2016)
Book Chapter
Watkins, C. (2016). The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the introduction and reception of a sacred tree. In M. Guest, & M. M. Le Mon (Eds.), Death, life and laughter: essays on religion in honour of Douglas Davies. Routledge

Douglas Davies (1988: 33-34) argued in his paper on ‘evocative symbolism’ that trees had a practical symbolism that derived ‘both literally and metaphorically’ from their being living entities ‘spanning many generations’. He saw trees as ‘historical... Read More about The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the introduction and reception of a sacred tree.

Lawmaking (2016)
Book Chapter
White, N. D. (2016). Lawmaking. In J. K. Cogan, I. Hurd, & I. Johnstone (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations. Oxford University Press

Virtually every important question of public policy today involves an international organization. From trade to intellectual property to health policy and beyond, governments interact with international organizations in almost everything they do. Inc... Read More about Lawmaking.

Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham (2016)
Book Chapter
Karner, C., & Parker, D. (2016). Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham. In M. Guest, & M. Middlemiss Le Mon (Eds.), Death, life and laughter: essays on religion in honour of Douglas Davies. Routledge

In 2010 lampposts topped by surveillance cameras appeared in parts of Birmingham, Britain’s second largest city. Unannounced, strategically placed at traffic intersections and along main roads, the cameras initially caused bemusement. The camera syst... Read More about Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham.

On the physical and operational rationality of data-driven models for suspended sediment prediction in rivers (2016)
Book Chapter
Mount, N., Abrahart, R., & Dawson, C. (2016). On the physical and operational rationality of data-driven models for suspended sediment prediction in rivers. River System Analysis and Management (31-46). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1472-7_3

Suspended sediment remains an important variable for prediction in river studies. Knowledge of suspended sediment concentration or load at different downstream locations within a channel allows the temporal and spatial patterns of catchment sediment... Read More about On the physical and operational rationality of data-driven models for suspended sediment prediction in rivers.

Affording states a margin of appreciation: comparing the European Court of Human rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2016)
Book Chapter
McGoldrick, D. (2016). Affording states a margin of appreciation: comparing the European Court of Human rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. In C. M. Buckley, A. Donald, & P. Leach (Eds.), Towards Convergence in International Human Rights Law. Brill

We live in an era of proliferating international legal domains and institutions, not least in the human rights field. For some, normative pluralism within human rights is inevitable, and even desirable. Others view it as a threat to the integrity and... Read More about Affording states a margin of appreciation: comparing the European Court of Human rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

The effect of organizational performance feedback on team attention focus (2016)
Book Chapter
Lucas, G. J. M., Zijlmans, M. H. M., Meeus, M. T. H., & Blettner, D. P. (2016). The effect of organizational performance feedback on team attention focus. In K. J. Sund, R. J. Galavan, & A. S. Huff (Eds.), Uncertainty and Strategic Decision Making (171-190). Emerald

In this chapter, we present a theory on how organizational performance feedback influences individual decision-maker cognitions and thereby changes a team’s attention focus in terms of strategy. We argue that when performance compares unfavorably to... Read More about The effect of organizational performance feedback on team attention focus.