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Health Psychology in Cyberspace (2013)
Book Chapter
Coulson, N. (2013). Health Psychology in Cyberspace. In M. Forshaw, & D. Sheffield (Eds.), Health Psychology in Action (50-57). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119943280.ch5

© 2013 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter begins by tracing the author's interest in health psychology right back to his undergraduate days at the University of St Andrews, and then provides a brief note on his PhD research.... Read More about Health Psychology in Cyberspace.

Decision making and decision support within new product development (2013)
Book Chapter
MacCarthy, B. L., & Pasley, R. (2013). Decision making and decision support within new product development. In E. Nikoi, & K. Boateng (Eds.), Collaborative Communication Processes and Decision Making in Organizations (258-279). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4478-6.ch014

© 2014 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. There is an extensive literature on new product and process development (NPD). However, the analysis of decision-making and decision support requirements in this area is less well researched. The authors dis... Read More about Decision making and decision support within new product development.

Mucedorus (2013)
Book Chapter
Kirwan, P. (2013). Mucedorus. In A. Kesson, & E. Smith (Eds.), The Elizabethan top ten: defining print popularity in early modern England. Routledge

The field of digital technology research (2013)
Book Chapter
Crook, C. (2013). The field of digital technology research. In S. Price, C. Jewitt, & B. Brown (Eds.), The Sage handbook of digital technology research. Sage

Artificial Immune Systems (2013)
Book Chapter
Aickelin, U., Dasgupta, D., & Gu, F. (2014). Artificial Immune Systems. In E. Burke, & G. Kendall (Eds.), Search methodologies: introductory tutorials in optimization and decision support techniques. 2nd edition (187-211). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6940-7_7

The biological immune system is a robust, complex, adaptive system that defends the body from foreign pathogens. It is able to categorize all cells (or molecules) within the body as self or nonself substances. It does this with the help of a distribu... Read More about Artificial Immune Systems.

Learning to argue in mathematics: effects of heuristic worked examples and CSCL scripts on transactive argumentation (2013)
Book Chapter
Vogel, F., Reichersdorfer, E., Kollar, I., Ufer, S., Reiss, K., & Fischer, F. (2013). Learning to argue in mathematics: effects of heuristic worked examples and CSCL scripts on transactive argumentation. In To See the World and a Grain of Sand: Learning across Level of Space, Time, and Scale: CSCL 2013 Conference Proceedings Volume 1 – Full Papers & Symposia. International Society of the Learning Sciences

A previous study has shown that both CSCL scripts and heuristic worked examples implemented in a CSCL environment were effective to fostering students' acquisition of argumentation skills in the context of mathematical proof tasks (Kollar, et al. 201... Read More about Learning to argue in mathematics: effects of heuristic worked examples and CSCL scripts on transactive argumentation.

Psychological and social factors influencing patients' treatment selection for localised prostate cancer (2013)
Book Chapter
Robles, L. A., Chou, S., Cole, O. J., Hamid, A., Griffiths, A., & Vedhara, K. (2013). Psychological and social factors influencing patients' treatment selection for localised prostate cancer. In G. Hamilton (Ed.), Advances in prostate cancer. Intech. https://doi.org/10.5772/52641

Chapter 3. Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men in the United Kingdom (UK). A quarter of all new cases of cancer diagnosed in men are prostate cancers. In 2009, over 40,000 cases of prostate cancer were reported in the UK and m... Read More about Psychological and social factors influencing patients' treatment selection for localised prostate cancer.

Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil (2013)
Book Chapter
Collins, J. Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil. In Intimacy and Inequality: female histories and feminist readings of manumission and motherhood in Brazilian slave society (Bahia 1830-1888). Liverpool University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Margarida Ignácio de Medeiros was one of up to twelve million enslaved Africans brought to Brazil. She did not, however, remain enslaved all her life. Margarida’s trajectory from enslavement to freedom was typical of many enslaved African women labou... Read More about Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil.

User requirements for image-guided navigation in spinal surgery (2013)
Book Chapter
Craven, M. P., Pecchia, L., & Martin, J. L. (2013). User requirements for image-guided navigation in spinal surgery. In M. Long (Ed.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, May 26-31 2012, Beijing, China. Springer

Advances in image-guided technology have resulted in a number of technologies to support surgeons in the identification of tissue and the tracking and navigation of surgical instruments in spinal surgery. There are various existing and proposed syste... Read More about User requirements for image-guided navigation in spinal surgery.

Ištar and the motif of the cosmological warrior: Assurbanipal’s adaptation of Enuma elish (2013)
Book Chapter
Crouch, C. (2013). Ištar and the motif of the cosmological warrior: Assurbanipal’s adaptation of Enuma elish. In ‘Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela’: prophecy in Israel, Assyria and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian period. Eisenbrauns

Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal are well known to scholars of ancient Near Eastern prophecy, thanks to their affinity for prophecy and the prophetic goddess Ištar in particular, which resulted in the preservation of oracular material in a manner not atte... Read More about Ištar and the motif of the cosmological warrior: Assurbanipal’s adaptation of Enuma elish.

Teacher quality in the twenty first century: new lives, old truths (2013)
Book Chapter
Day, C. (2013). Teacher quality in the twenty first century: new lives, old truths. In X. Zhu, & K. Zeichner (Eds.), Preparing teachers for the 21st century. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36970-4_2

This chapter is based upon a keynote address to the first global teacher education summit, organised by Beijing Normal University in 2011, in which research across the world about influences which affect teachers' sense of professional identity, capa... Read More about Teacher quality in the twenty first century: new lives, old truths.