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Fano polytopes (2012)
Book Chapter
Kasprzyk, A. M., & Nill, B. (2012). Fano polytopes. In A. Rebhan, L. Katzarkov, J. Knapp, R. Rashkov, & E. Scheidegger (Eds.), Strings, gauge fields, and the geometry behind: the legacy of Maximilian Kreuzer (349-364). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814412551_0017

Fano polytopes are the convex-geometric objects corresponding to toric Fano varieties. We give a brief survey of classification results for different classes of Fano polytopes.

Risk and the imagined future: Young adults negotiating religious and sexual identities (2012)
Book Chapter
Page, S.-J., Yip, A., & Keenan, M. (2012). Risk and the imagined future: Young adults negotiating religious and sexual identities. In The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality. Farnham: Ashgate

This chapter focuses on how young adults, between the ages of 18 and 25 and living in the UK, negotiate the risks embedded in the lived present in order to construct an imagined future in relation to religion, sexuality and intimate relationships. Sp... Read More about Risk and the imagined future: Young adults negotiating religious and sexual identities.

Health-related online support communities (2012)
Book Chapter
Coulson, N. S., & Malik, S. (2012). Health-related online support communities. In Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior (671-688). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0315-8.ch057

In recent years, the Internet has provided new opportunities for individuals living with health-related problems to communicate with each other via online support communities. These communities offer many unique advantages, such as convenience, anony... Read More about Health-related online support communities.

Managing herd reproduction (2012)
Book Chapter
Hudson, C., Kerby, M., Statham, J., & Wapenaar, W. (2012). Managing herd reproduction. In Dairy herd health (73-116). CAB International

Re-thinking Herczegfalvy: the ECHR and the control of psychiatric treatment (2012)
Book Chapter
Bartlett, P. (2012). Re-thinking Herczegfalvy: the ECHR and the control of psychiatric treatment. In E. Brems (Ed.), Diversity and human rights: rewriting judgments of the ECHR (352-381). Cambridge University Press

This chapter forms part of a E Brems (ed.), Diversity and Human Rights: Rewriting Judgments of the ECHR (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming 2013), in which lawyers and academics re-write judgments of the ECHR in a number of human rights areas. This cha... Read More about Re-thinking Herczegfalvy: the ECHR and the control of psychiatric treatment.

Physical activity and cancer (2012)
Book Chapter
Blake, H., & Tennyson, R. (2012). Physical activity and cancer. In N. L. Hicks, & R. E. Warren (Eds.), Psychology of cancer. Nova Science

It is widely accepted that physical activity is important for physical functioning and well-being, and as such the promotion of active lifestyles is becoming increasingly significant in public health policy both in the UK and worldwide. Sedentary lif... Read More about Physical activity and cancer.

Evaluating different cost-benefit analysis methods for port security operations (2012)
Book Chapter
Sherman, G., Siebers, P., Menachof, D., & Aickelin, U. (2012). Evaluating different cost-benefit analysis methods for port security operations. In J. Faulin, A. A. Juan, S. E. Grasman, & M. J. Fry (Eds.), Decision making in service industries: a practical approach. CRC Press

Service industries, such as ports, are attentive to their standards, a smooth service flow and economic viability. Cost benefit analysis has proven itself as a useful tool to support this type of decision making; it has been used by businesses and go... Read More about Evaluating different cost-benefit analysis methods for port security operations.

Cellular and Viral Mechanisms of HIV-1 Transmission Mediated by Dendritic Cells (2012)
Book Chapter
Coleman, C. M., St.Gelais, C., & Wu, L. (2012). Cellular and Viral Mechanisms of HIV-1 Transmission Mediated by Dendritic Cells. . Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4433-6_4

Dendritic cells (DCs) play a key role in the initial infection and cell-to-cell transmission events that occur upon HIV-1 infection. DCs interact closely with CD4+ T cells, the main target of HIV-1 replication. HIV-1 challenged DCs and target CD4+ T... Read More about Cellular and Viral Mechanisms of HIV-1 Transmission Mediated by Dendritic Cells.

From Text to Pretext: An Ethical Turn in Curriculum Work (2012)
Book Chapter
Maheux, J., Swanson, D., & Khan, S. (2012). From Text to Pretext: An Ethical Turn in Curriculum Work. In T. C. Mason, & R. J. Helfenbein (Eds.), Ethics and International Curriculum Work: The Challenges of Culture and Context (143-172). Information Age Publishing

Introduction: mediating China-Africa (2012)
Book Chapter
Power, M., Mohan, G., & Tan-Mullins, M. (2012). Introduction: mediating China-Africa. In China's resource diplomacy in Africa: powering development?. Palgrave Macmillan

The Restoration county community: a post-conflict culture (2012)
Book Chapter
Appleby, D. (2012). The Restoration county community: a post-conflict culture. In J. Eales, & A. Hopper (Eds.), The County Community in Seventeenth-century England and Wales (100-124). University of Hertfordshire Press

Neoliberal and inclusive themes in European lifelong learning policy (2012)
Book Chapter
Holford, J., & Mohorčič Špolar, V. A. (2012). Neoliberal and inclusive themes in European lifelong learning policy. In S. Riddell, J. Markowitsch, & E. Weedon (Eds.), Lifelong learning in Europe: equity and efficiency in the balance. Policy Press

DRAFT: not for citation. This is a pre-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of a chapter published in Sheila Riddell, Jörg Markowitsch, and Elisabet Weedon, eds., Lifelong learning in Europe: Equity and efficiency in the balance, Bristol: Policy Pres... Read More about Neoliberal and inclusive themes in European lifelong learning policy.

First-past-the-post games (2012)
Book Chapter
Backhouse, R. (2012). First-past-the-post games. In J. Gibbons, & P. Nogueira (Eds.), Mathematics of program construction: 11th International Conference, MPC 2012, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2012: proceedings. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31113-0_9

Informally, a first-past-the-post game is a (probabilistic) game where the winner is the person who predicts the event that occurs first among a set of events. Examples of first-past-the-post games include so-called block and hidden patterns and the... Read More about First-past-the-post games.

Investigating the effectiveness of variance reduction techniques in manufacturing, call center and cross-docking discrete event simulation models (2012)
Book Chapter
Adewunmi, A., & Aickelin, U. (2012). Investigating the effectiveness of variance reduction techniques in manufacturing, call center and cross-docking discrete event simulation models. In S. Bangsow (Ed.), Use cases of discrete event simulation: appliance and research. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28777-0

Variance reduction techniques have been shown by others in the past to be a useful tool to reduce variance in Simulation studies. However, their application and success in the past has been mainly domain specific, with relatively little guidelines as... Read More about Investigating the effectiveness of variance reduction techniques in manufacturing, call center and cross-docking discrete event simulation models.

The dendritic cell algorithm for intrusion detection (2012)
Book Chapter
Gu, F., Greensmith, J., & Aickelin, U. (2012). The dendritic cell algorithm for intrusion detection. In P. Lio, & D. Verma (Eds.), Biologically inspired networking and sensing : algorithms and architectures. IGI Global

As one of the solutions to intrusion detection problems, Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) have shown their advantages. Unlike genetic algorithms, there is no one archetypal AIS, instead there are four major paradigms. Among them, the Dendritic Cell Al... Read More about The dendritic cell algorithm for intrusion detection.

Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development (2012)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2012). Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development. In H. K. Wright, & A. A. Abdi (Eds.), The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses (27-52). New York: Peter Lang

This chapter is a discussion in three parts and a closing argument. It begins with a discussion on development and references some of the philosophical difficulties with its Western-inspired conceptualization and ideological deployment in the African... Read More about Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development.