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Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation (2022)
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When we talk about AI-driven systems there is a tendency by researchers to treat people encountering them as ‘participants’ in human-machine interactions. This seems particularly true for so-called conversational AI, such as voice interfaces or chatb... Read More about Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation.

Participatory visual arts activities for people with dementia: a review (2022)
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The aims of this review were to report and summarise the effects of interventions using participatory visual arts activities in dementia research through a narrative synthesis systematic review. We searched four databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO an... Read More about Participatory visual arts activities for people with dementia: a review.

Understanding Household Water Hygiene in Resource-Limited Settings in Kenya (2022)
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Climate change means that many more people find themselves living in areas of environmental disadvantage, with water insecurity recognized as a major health issue. Local ecologies shape everyday hygiene practices in households as people respond to di... Read More about Understanding Household Water Hygiene in Resource-Limited Settings in Kenya.

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (2022)
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Black Skin, White Masks, by the experimental psychiatrist and anti-colonial militant, Franz Fanon, is regarded as a seminal text in the fields of postcolonial theory and critical race studies. Yet it has also been deeply influential on – and indeed c... Read More about Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon.

Optimising the Scanning Process: Demystifying the Dark Art of Optimising Microtomography Scan Settings (2022)
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X-ray Computed Tomography (X-ray CT) is now becoming an accessible technology to quantify soil structure metrics. However, optimising images from X-ray CT systems remains a challenging task. Understanding the influence of the wide range of settings t... Read More about Optimising the Scanning Process: Demystifying the Dark Art of Optimising Microtomography Scan Settings.

Historical Friction: Constructing Pastness in Fiction Set in Eleventh- Century England (2022)
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Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method (2022)
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Heteroglossia refers to the presence of multiple voices and views – exchanges that are central to the academic project (Bakhtin, The dialogic imagination: four essays (trans. and ed: Emerson C, Holquist M). University of Texas Press, 1981; Clarke, Cr... Read More about Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method.

Environmental Assessment of Recycling Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Composites: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities (2022)
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The increasing application of carbon fibre-reinforced polymer composites (CFRP) across different industries raises environmental concerns. It requires focussing on the end-of-life phase of the product/material. The environmental benefits of CFRP recy... Read More about Environmental Assessment of Recycling Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Composites: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities.

Human rights indicators and implementation (2022)
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The last several decades have seen many advances in the development and application of human rights indicators, which has progressed alongside the continued development of international, regional, and national human rights legal frameworks. This chap... Read More about Human rights indicators and implementation.

Thinkability: A new app for cognitive stimulation for people with dementia (2022)
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People with dementia benefit from activities that stimulate their cognition, and there is evidence that carers can benefit too. Among psychosocial interventions to help this group, cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is well established as the treatm... Read More about Thinkability: A new app for cognitive stimulation for people with dementia.

Next-Generation Phage Display to Identify Peptide Ligands of Deubiquitinases (2022)
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Phage display (PD) is a powerful method and has been extensively used to generate monoclonal antibodies and identify epitopes, mimotopes, and protein interactions. More recently, the combination of next-generation sequencing (NGS) with PD (NGPD) has... Read More about Next-Generation Phage Display to Identify Peptide Ligands of Deubiquitinases.

Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality (2022)
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This chapter explores the methodological case for reading Greek Imperial epic alongside and in conjunction with Latin epic, by revisiting one of the best-known examples, the case of the story of Phaethon in Ovid and Nonnus. Since Knox’s article, the... Read More about Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality.

Embodied AI and Musicking Robotics (2022)
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This chapter discusses a hypothesis for embodied AI and its development with music robots. It proposes a solution to the challenge: if we want AI/robots to join us inside the creative acts of music, then how do we design and develop systems that prio... Read More about Embodied AI and Musicking Robotics.

Introduction (2022)
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Simply put creative AI is the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in creative activities. This definition encompasses a broad range of pursuits, approaches, and perspectives, but for us the overall goal seems to be to enhance human creativity... Read More about Introduction.

Pore Structure-Transport Relationships in Bowland Shale (2022)
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Shale rocks are highly structurally and chemically heterogeneous, such that the pore structure-transport relationship is complex. Shales typically have porosity over many length-scales from the molecular up to macroscopic fractures. This work utilize... Read More about Pore Structure-Transport Relationships in Bowland Shale.

The Winged Bean Genome: Winged Bean—One Species Supermarket (2022)
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Climate change, population growth and increasingly homogenised diets are a threat to food security and human nutritional status. There is an urgent need to incorporate highly nutritious crops into the human diet to provide new sources of nutrition, t... Read More about The Winged Bean Genome: Winged Bean—One Species Supermarket.

Personalized medicine: manufacturing oral solid dosage forms through additive manufacturing (2022)
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Medicine is moving towards personalized treatments, where the ultimate goal is that both drug delivery devices and loaded pharmaceutica tablets can be customized to meet the specific needs of individuals. The evolution of additive manufacturing (AM)... Read More about Personalized medicine: manufacturing oral solid dosage forms through additive manufacturing.

Disability studies in education and intersectionality (2022)
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'as we carry a robe to the dawn Goddess' : luxurious textiles in Spartan and Lakedaimonian sanctuaries (2022)
Book Chapter

Word and Multiword Processing (2022)
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When we encounter linguistic input, both spoken and written, we need to identify words and multiword sequences (e.g., “spill the beans” meaning “to reveal a secret”), ascertain their meaning, and integrate them into our unfolding understanding of a s... Read More about Word and Multiword Processing.