New voices: multicultural short stories
Book Chapter
Ward, A. (2016). New voices: multicultural short stories. In D. Head (Ed.), The Cambridge companion to the British and Irish short story. Cambridge University Press
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International division of labor
Book Chapter
Lim, K. F. International division of labor. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. L. Kobayashi, & R. Marston (Eds.), International encyclopedia of geography: people, the earth, environment, and technology. Wiley-BlackwellInternational division of labor refers to a conception of economic production as intrinsically transnational; of the interdependence between economic production and geographically-differentiated labor power in the first instance. ‘Old’ and ‘new’ vers... Read More about International division of labor.
Labor market
Book Chapter
Lim, K. F. Labor market. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. L. Kobayashi, & R. Marston (Eds.), International encyclopedia of geography: people, the earth, environment, and technology. Wiley-BlackwellLabor markets are socially-constructed entities that facilitate the buying and selling of labor power. They are effectively political-geographic institutions, governed predominantly by state regulations that apply within specific territorial boundari... Read More about Labor market.
Regulation/deregulation
Book Chapter
Lim, K. F. Regulation/deregulation. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. L. Kobayashi, & R. Marston (Eds.), International encyclopedia of geography: people, the earth, environment, and technology. Wiley BlackwellEconomic regulation is dynamically entwined with deregulation. Contrary to the logic of market fundamentalism, producers and/or consumers do not always benefit from deregulation. Rational-choice theories of regulation have not impacted economic-geogr... Read More about Regulation/deregulation.
Aid and taxation
Book Chapter
Morrissey, O., & Torrance, S. Aid and taxation. In B. M. Arvin, & B. Lew (Eds.), Handbook on the economics of foreign aid. Edward Elgar
The toponymy of communal activity: Anglo-Saxon assembly sites and their functions
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Baker, J. The toponymy of communal activity: Anglo-Saxon assembly sites and their functions. In J. Tort I Donada (Ed.), Els noms en la vida quotidiana. Actes del XXIV Congrés Internacional d’ICOS sobre Ciències Onomàstiques. ICOSThe paper builds on earlier discussion of the multiple functions of medieval judicial assembly sites, providing a comprehensive evaluation of relevant English hundred-names, and making reference to associated microtoponymy. While religious, military,... Read More about The toponymy of communal activity: Anglo-Saxon assembly sites and their functions.
What’s special about the ethical challenges of studying disorders with altered brain activity?
Book Chapter
Cassaday, H. J. What’s special about the ethical challenges of studying disorders with altered brain activity?. In G. Lee, J. Illes, & F. Ohl (Eds.), Ethical issues in behavioral neuroscience. Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2014_333Where there is no viable alternative, studies of neuronal activity are conducted on animals. The use of animals, particularly for invasive studies of the brain, raises a number of ethical issues. Practical or normative ethics are enforced by legislat... Read More about What’s special about the ethical challenges of studying disorders with altered brain activity?.
Anti-vice lives: peopling the archives of prostitution in interwar India
Book Chapter
Legg, S. Anti-vice lives: peopling the archives of prostitution in interwar India. In H. Fischer-Tine, R. Kramm-Masaoka, & J. Pliley (Eds.), Fighting drink, drugs, and ‘immorality’: global anti-vice activism, c. 1890-1950. Cambridge University Press
German writers remember 9/11: Katharina Hacker’s "The Have-Nots"
Book Chapter
Meyer, F. (2014). German writers remember 9/11: Katharina Hacker’s "The Have-Nots". In L. Bond, & J. Rapson (Eds.), The transcultural turn: interrogating memory between and beyond borders. Walter de Gruyter
James Buchanan and the secession crisis
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Ashworth, J. James Buchanan and the secession crisis. In J. H. Silbey (Ed.), A companion to the Antebellum Presidents, 1837-1861. Wiley-BlackwellAn account of the actions, motives, successes and failure of President James Buchanan as he confronted the collapse of the American nation in 1860-1861
Safe drinking water for expanding cities
Book Chapter
Jinmin, W. (2013). Safe drinking water for expanding cities. In Successful examples of scientific practices in urban sustainable development. UNDPThe rapid urbanization and industrialization since 1978 have posed some serious environmental challenges for sustainable development in China, with pollution and water shortages ranking among the most pressing issues. Although China is rich in water... Read More about Safe drinking water for expanding cities.
Can background baroque music help to improve the memorability of graphical passwords?
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Gao, H., Chang, X., Ren, Z., Aickelin, U., & Wang, L. Can background baroque music help to improve the memorability of graphical passwords?. In A. Campilho, & M. Kamel (Eds.), Image analysis and recognition: 7th international conference, ICIAR 2010, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 21-23, 2010: proceedings. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13775-4_38Graphical passwords have been proposed as an alternative to alphanumeric passwords with their advantages in usability and security. However,they still tend to follow predictable patterns that are easier for attackers to exploit,probably due to users’... Read More about Can background baroque music help to improve the memorability of graphical passwords?.
The transfer of evolved artificial immune system behaviours between small and large scale robotic platforms
Book Chapter
Whitbrook, A., Aickelin, U., & Garibaldi, J. M. The transfer of evolved artificial immune system behaviours between small and large scale robotic platforms. In P. Collet, N. Monmarché, P. Legrand, M. Schoenauer, & E. Lutton (Eds.), Artificial evolution: 9th International Conference = Evolution Artificielle, EA 2009: Strasbourg, France, October 26-28, 2009: revised selected papers. SpringerThis paper demonstrates that a set of behaviours evolved in
simulation on a miniature robot (epuck) can be transferred to a much larger scale platform (a virtual Pioneer P3-DX) that also differs in shape, sensor type, sensor configuration and progra... Read More about The transfer of evolved artificial immune system behaviours between small and large scale robotic platforms.
System dynamics modelling of the processes involving the maintenance of the naive T cell repertoire
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Figueredo, G. P., Aickelin, U., & Whitbrook, A. System dynamics modelling of the processes involving the maintenance of the naive T cell repertoire. In Proceedings of the 9th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2009), Nottingham, UK. Intelligent Modelling & Analysis (IMA)The study of immune system aging, i.e. immunosenescence, is a relatively new research topic. It deals with understanding the processes of immuno-degradation that indicate signs of functionality loss possibly leading to death. Even though it is not po... Read More about System dynamics modelling of the processes involving the maintenance of the naive T cell repertoire.
Error estimation and adaptive mesh refinement for aerodynamic flows
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Hartmann, R., & Houston, P. Error estimation and adaptive mesh refinement for aerodynamic flows. In H. Deconinck (Ed.), Proceedings of the 36THCFD/Adigma course on HP-adaptive and HP-multigrid methods. Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode Saint Genese, Belgium: von Karman Institute for Fluid DynamicsThis lecture course covers the theory of so-called duality-based a posteriori error estimation of DG finite element methods. In particular, we formulate consistent and adjoint consistent DG methods for the numerical approximation of both the compress... Read More about Error estimation and adaptive mesh refinement for aerodynamic flows.
Optimisation of a crossdocking distribution centre simulation model
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Adewunmi, A., & Aickelin, U. Optimisation of a crossdocking distribution centre simulation model. In Proceedings of the 2008 International Simulation Multi-conference. The Society For Modeling and Simulation International (SCS)This paper reports on continuing research into the
modelling of an order picking process within a
Crossdocking distribution centre using Simulation
Optimisation. The aim of this project is to optimise a
discrete event simulation model and to unde... Read More about Optimisation of a crossdocking distribution centre simulation model.
Gender and European Welfare States
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Pascall, G. Gender and European Welfare States. In P. Abrahamson, & C. Aspalter (Eds.), Understanding European Social Policy. CasaVerde Publishing
An idiotypic immune network as a short-term learning architecture for mobile robots
Book Chapter
Whitbrook, A., Aickelin, U., & Garibaldi, J. M. An idiotypic immune network as a short-term learning architecture for mobile robots. In P. Bentley, D. Lee, & S. Jung (Eds.), Artificial immune systems: 7th international conference, ICARIS 2008, Phuket, Thailand, August 10-13, 2008: proceedings. SpringerA combined Short-Term Learning (STL) and Long-Term Learning (LTL) approach to solving mobile robot navigation problems is presented and tested in both real and simulated environments. The LTL consists of rapid simulations
that use a Genetic Algorith... Read More about An idiotypic immune network as a short-term learning architecture for mobile robots.
Young people with learning disabilities who sexually abuse: understanding, identifying and responding from within generic education and welfare services
Book Chapter
Fyson, R. Young people with learning disabilities who sexually abuse: understanding, identifying and responding from within generic education and welfare services. In M. C. Calder (Ed.), Working with children and young people who sexually abuse: Taking the field forward. Russell House PublishingThis chapter will start by providing an overview of current knowledge about young people with learning disabilities who sexually abuse. Research cited will, unless otherwise indicated, be limited to UK studies since international variations in the de... Read More about Young people with learning disabilities who sexually abuse: understanding, identifying and responding from within generic education and welfare services.
Health and Health Policy
Book Chapter
Pascall, G. Health and Health Policy. In J. Baldock, N. Manning, & S. Vickerstaff (Eds.), Social Policy: Third Edition. Oxford University Press