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Modern Slavery as a Threat to Forests: Reviewing the Links between Modern Slavery, Deforestation, and Potential Solutions (2021)
Book Chapter
JACKSON, B. (2021). Modern Slavery as a Threat to Forests: Reviewing the Links between Modern Slavery, Deforestation, and Potential Solutions. In J. A. Daniels (Ed.), Advances in Environmental Research. Volume 84. Nova Science Publishers. https://doi.org/10.52305/GQSU4556

Modern slavery is a growing concern within the developmental space. There are an estimated 40.3 million people subjected to experiences of modern slavery according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), with 15-30% of those being linked to e... Read More about Modern Slavery as a Threat to Forests: Reviewing the Links between Modern Slavery, Deforestation, and Potential Solutions.

Evolving journalism norms: objective, interpretive and fact-checking journalism (2021)
Book Chapter
Birks, J. (2021). Evolving journalism norms: objective, interpretive and fact-checking journalism. In The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter will first query the various constructions of ‘bad’ audience responses to information and argumentation, and suggest an approach that neither expects too much of news audiences (and inevitably finds them wanting) nor patronizes them (and... Read More about Evolving journalism norms: objective, interpretive and fact-checking journalism.

Genetics of Asthma: Insights From Genome Wide Association Studies (2021)
Book Chapter
Cooper, R. M., Bingham, K., Portelli, M. A., & Sayers, I. (2022). Genetics of Asthma: Insights From Genome Wide Association Studies. In Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine (308-325). (Second Edition). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102723-3.00155-4

Asthma is a heterogeneous respiratory disease that can be influenced by genetic and environmental factors leading to disease susceptibility and progression. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of asthma have yielded replicated findings and identif... Read More about Genetics of Asthma: Insights From Genome Wide Association Studies.

The Prehistoric Agrarian Management Pattern in the Volcanic Landscape of the Campanian Plain, Southern Italy (2021)
Book Chapter
Saccoccio, F. (2021). The Prehistoric Agrarian Management Pattern in the Volcanic Landscape of the Campanian Plain, Southern Italy. In S. Arnoldussen, R. Johnston, & M. Løvschal (Eds.), Europe's Early Fieldscapes : Archaeologies of Prehistoric Land Allotment (209-224). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71652-3_14

This chapter discusses patterns of prehistoric agrarian management in the Campanian Plain, southern Italy, in particular along the course of the rivers Clanis/Regi Lagni and Sebeto and in the area of Naples. The region was affected by volcanic activi... Read More about The Prehistoric Agrarian Management Pattern in the Volcanic Landscape of the Campanian Plain, Southern Italy.

Extracellular vesicles, tumor growth, and the metastatic process (2021)
Book Chapter
Wesson, F., Brown, T. J., & James, V. (2022). Extracellular vesicles, tumor growth, and the metastatic process. In D. Heymann (Ed.), Bone Cancer: Bone Sarcomas and Bone Metastases - From Bench to Bedside (275-284). (3rd). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821666-8.00058-X

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) form an important part of cell-to-cell communication, with roles in both health and disease. Within the cancer setting, this heterogenous population of extracellular messengers can have both pro- and antitumorigenic prope... Read More about Extracellular vesicles, tumor growth, and the metastatic process.

Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911 (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911. In G. Fisher, & D. Robinson (Eds.), Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine. London: Anthem Press

Sardinians in Cyprus, Cypriots in Sardinia? The state of the question (2021)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2021). Sardinians in Cyprus, Cypriots in Sardinia? The state of the question. In Contatti culturali e scambi commerciali della Sardegna nuragica: la rotta meridionale (Sardegna, Sicilia, Creta, Cipro): Atti del IV festival della Civiltà Nuragica (Orroli, Cagliari) / Cultural contacts and trade in Nuragic Sardinia: the southern route (Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus): Proceedings of the Fourth Festival of the Nuragic Civilization (Orroli, Cagliari). Cagliari, Italy: Arkadia Editore

This, the closing chapter in the volume, reviews our evidence for direct contacts between Cyprus and Sardinia in the Nuragic Bronze Age in the light of the new evidence presented at the Fourth Festival of the Nuragic Civilization (Orroli, Cagliari).... Read More about Sardinians in Cyprus, Cypriots in Sardinia? The state of the question.

Assessing the Impact of Membership Turnover on Constituent Views of the European Parliament (2021)
Book Chapter
Daniel, W., & Metzger, S. (2021). Assessing the Impact of Membership Turnover on Constituent Views of the European Parliament. In J. A. Scherpereel (Ed.), Personnel Turnover and the Legitimacy of the EU (35-58). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60052-5_2

This chapter examines the attitudinal dimension of input legitimacy in the EU. It investigates the relationship between personnel turnover in the European Parliament (EP) and citizens’ attitudes toward the EP since the start of direct elections in 19... Read More about Assessing the Impact of Membership Turnover on Constituent Views of the European Parliament.

Assessing the impact of lockdown due to COVID-19 on the electricity consumption of a housing development in the UK (2021)
Book Chapter
Tubelo, R., Naghiyev, E., Gillot, M., Rodrigues, L., & Shipman, R. (2021). Assessing the impact of lockdown due to COVID-19 on the electricity consumption of a housing development in the UK. In J. R. Littlewood, R. J. Howlett, & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2021 (45-55). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6269-0_4

In March 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) government ruled that householders must stay home as a response to the COVID-19 outbreak to help flatten the curve of the epidemic and reduce the exponential growth of the virus. Commercial activities, workplace... Read More about Assessing the impact of lockdown due to COVID-19 on the electricity consumption of a housing development in the UK.

Crack Self-healing in Asphalt as a Flow Process (2021)
Book Chapter
Grossegger, D., Garcia, A., & Airey, G. (2022). Crack Self-healing in Asphalt as a Flow Process. In Proceedings of the RILEM International Symposium on Bituminous Materials (489-495). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46455-4_62

Asphalt has the ability to restore diminished properties caused by damage. This ability is known as self-healing and in case of asphalt it is conferred upon by the competent bitumen. Bitumen is a viscoelastic liquid and has self-healing abilities due... Read More about Crack Self-healing in Asphalt as a Flow Process.

Fare rame: quadro di sintesi su siti e strutture produttive della metallurgia primaria protostorica del Trentino (2021)
Book Chapter
Bellintani, P., Silvestri, E., Bassetti, M., Cappellozza, N., Degasperi, N., Nicolis, F., …Pearce, M. (2021). Fare rame: quadro di sintesi su siti e strutture produttive della metallurgia primaria protostorica del Trentino. In P. Bellintani, & E. Silvestri (Eds.), Fare Rame: La metallurgia primaria della tarda età del Bronzo in Trentino: nuovi scavi e stato dell’arte della ricerca sul campo (269-326). Provincia autonoma di Trento

198 “smelting sites”, dedicated to the processing of copper minerals (mixed sulphides mostly with chalcopyrite) are recorded in eastern Trentino. In general, they are located at altitudes of between 1000 and 1800 m a.s.l.. They are traditionally date... Read More about Fare rame: quadro di sintesi su siti e strutture produttive della metallurgia primaria protostorica del Trentino.

L’inizio della seconda fase della coltivazione del rame nel Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol (2021)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M., Bellintani, P., & Nicolis, F. (2021). L’inizio della seconda fase della coltivazione del rame nel Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol. In P. Bellintani, & E. Silvestri (Eds.), Fare Rame: La metallurgia primaria della tarda età del Bronzo in Trentino: nuovi scavi e stato dell’arte della ricerca sul campo (187-198). Provincia autonoma di Trento

This paper examines our evidence for the date of the beginning of the second phase of copper production in the south-eastern Alps. Lead isotope analysis evidence for artefacts from North Germany and Scandinavia shows the presence in that area of obje... Read More about L’inizio della seconda fase della coltivazione del rame nel Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol.

The Hybrid Account of Personal Persistence (2021)
Book Chapter
Curtis, B., & Noonan, H. (2021). The Hybrid Account of Personal Persistence. In J. Noller (Ed.), The unity of a person : philosophical perspectives. Routledge

In this paper we argue that persons should be defined as being things that are sometimes capable of first-person thought. We then defend an account (the Hybrid Account) of their persistence conditions. According to it psychological continuity and bio... Read More about The Hybrid Account of Personal Persistence.

From Idents to Influencers: The promotional screen industries (2021)
Book Chapter
Grainge, P. (2021). From Idents to Influencers: The promotional screen industries. In The Routledge Companion to Media Industries (363-371). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429275340-36

This chapter examines the role of the promotional screen industries, a fluid configuration of companies, agencies, and intermediaries that produce audiovisual marketing content for media and consumer brands, corporations, universities, governments, c... Read More about From Idents to Influencers: The promotional screen industries.