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The Role of Quality Improvement in Sustaining Healthcare During Crisis (2023)
Book Chapter
Dawson, A., Burgess, N., & Latuszynska, A. (2023). The Role of Quality Improvement in Sustaining Healthcare During Crisis. In N. Burgess, & G. Currie (Eds.), Shaping High Quality, Affordable and Equitable Healthcare. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24212-0_11

In this chapter we illustrate how a quality improvement (QI) programme established in the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, supported the sustainability of healthcare delivery in five English hospitals during the crisis. Using qualitative data ac... Read More about The Role of Quality Improvement in Sustaining Healthcare During Crisis.

Unified Patent Court and International Law (2023)
Book Chapter
Van der Ploeg, K. P. (2023). Unified Patent Court and International Law. In D. Matthews, & P. Torremans (Eds.), European Patent Law: The Unified Patent Court and the European Patent Convention. De Gruyter

Regulation 542/2014 on jurisdiction (2023)
Book Chapter
TORREMANS, P. (2023). Regulation 542/2014 on jurisdiction. In European patent Law: The Unified Patent Court and The European Patent Convention (185-196). De Gruyter

Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Cui, Z. (2023). Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en. In U. Böckler, J. Lazarus, & A. Weltz-Rombach (Eds.), Radical Film, Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil (223-227). K. Verlag

Cui Zi’en (b. 1958 in Harbin, China) is one of the best-known queer filmmakers, writers and activists in the Chinese-speaking world. He was the first ‘out’ gay public persona in post-Mao China, coming out on state television in 2000. He has made abou... Read More about Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en.

Shetland and the Runic Diaspora (2023)
Book Chapter
Jesch, J. (2023). Shetland and the Runic Diaspora. In R. Foster, & C. Cooijmans (Eds.), History, Landscape, and Language in the Northern Isles and Caithness: A'm Grippit Dis Laand’. A Gedenkschrift for Doreen Waugh. Brepols Publishers

Does it Really Matter How Different We Are? Ancestry Distances and Income in the United States (2023)
Book Chapter
Rueda, V. (2023). Does it Really Matter How Different We Are? Ancestry Distances and Income in the United States. In R. Sauer (Ed.), World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration : Volume 3: Types of Migrants and Economies: A Global Perspective. World Scientific

Do ancestry differences at the local level have persistent effects on economic success inside the United States? Using data from the American Community Survey, and genetic and cultural measures of ancestry distance from the recent literature, this ar... Read More about Does it Really Matter How Different We Are? Ancestry Distances and Income in the United States.

Building Information Modelling Implementation in the UK Construction Industry: A Commercial Perspective (2023)
Book Chapter
Davies, D., & Tokbolat, S. (2023). Building Information Modelling Implementation in the UK Construction Industry: A Commercial Perspective. In E. Noroozinejad Farsangi, M. Noori, T. T. Yang, P. B. Lourenço, P. Gardoni, I. Takewaki, …S. Li (Eds.), Automation in Construction toward Resilience: Robotics, Smart Materials and Intelligent Systems (111-137). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003325246-7

This piece of research was undertaken to investigate the commercially related aspects of Building Information Modelling (BIM) within the UK construction industry, highlighting the effectiveness and increases in efficiencies that can be gained by the... Read More about Building Information Modelling Implementation in the UK Construction Industry: A Commercial Perspective.

The passive revolution in English school reform : Hegemony from above (2023)
Book Chapter
Stevenson, H. (2023). The passive revolution in English school reform : Hegemony from above. In Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas (101-125). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429505102-5

In this chapter, we analyse education reform in England over a period of more than half a century. Progressive advance in the post-war years posed a serious threat to the status and stability of dominant groups, so there has taken place a sustained e... Read More about The passive revolution in English school reform : Hegemony from above.

Challenging the neoliberal restructuring of public education : Union renewal and counter-hegemony from below (2023)
Book Chapter
Stevenson, H. (2023). Challenging the neoliberal restructuring of public education : Union renewal and counter-hegemony from below. In Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci The Organising of Ideas (126-148). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429505102-6

In this chapter, the experience of Europe’s largest education union, the UK’s National Education Union (NEU), is explored as an exercise in union renewal focused on developing a counter-hegemonic response to the neoliberal restructuring of the Englis... Read More about Challenging the neoliberal restructuring of public education : Union renewal and counter-hegemony from below.

Postdigital Nature 2.0 (2023)
Book Chapter
Price, C. (2023). Postdigital Nature 2.0. In P. Jandrić (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35469-4_16-1

Postdigital nature is the consumption and prosumption of nature through postdigital technologies. Individuals are increasingly co-creating with nature as postdigital technologies become more prevalent. Where interactions with nature used to be betwee... Read More about Postdigital Nature 2.0.

Mineral supplements in Aging (2023)
Book Chapter
Welham, S., Rose, P., Coneyworth, L., Avery, A., & Kirk, C. (in press). Mineral supplements in Aging. In Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Ageing: Part V, Anti-ageing Interventions. Switzerland: Springer

With advancing age, achievement of dietary adequacy for all nutrients is increasingly difficult and this is particularly so for minerals. Various factors impede mineral acquisition and absorption including reduced appetite, depressed gastric acid pro... Read More about Mineral supplements in Aging.

Private international law issues of moral rights (2023)
Book Chapter
Torremans, P. (2023). Private international law issues of moral rights. In Y. Gendreau (Ed.), Research handbook on Intellectual Property and Moral Rights (355-368). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904871.00031

In this chapter I will look at moral rights from a private international law perspective. Rather than look at the scope and exact content of moral rights I will look at issues of jurisdiction and choice of law. It is important to note that from a pri... Read More about Private international law issues of moral rights.

Mapping Polyclonal Antibody Responses to Infection Using Next-Generation Phage Display (2023)
Book Chapter
Tsoumpeli, M. T., Varghese, A., Owen, J. P., Maddison, B. C., Daly, J. M., & Gough, K. C. (2023). Mapping Polyclonal Antibody Responses to Infection Using Next-Generation Phage Display. In M. Hust, & T. S. Lim (Eds.), Phage Display (467-487). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3381-6_25

Peptide phage display has historically been used to epitope map monoclonal antibodies. More recently, by coupling this method with next-generation sequencing (so-called next-generation phage display, NGPD) to mass screen peptide binding events, the m... Read More about Mapping Polyclonal Antibody Responses to Infection Using Next-Generation Phage Display.

11 Evaluating the current state of digitalisation of the UK construction industry (2023)
Book Chapter
Bousfield, L., Tokbolat, S., & Demian, P. (2023). 11 Evaluating the current state of digitalisation of the UK construction industry. In M. Noori, F. Yuan, & E. Noroozinejad Farsangi (Eds.), Data-Centric Structural Health Monitoring: Mechanical, Aerospace and Complex Infrastructure Systems (237-258). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791426-011

Due to the significant role of the construction industry in terms of the impact on economies and the environment, digitalisation of this sphere deserves special attention. This study aims to evaluate the state of digitalisation of the UK construction... Read More about 11 Evaluating the current state of digitalisation of the UK construction industry.

Perception and neurocognitive aging (2023)
Book Chapter
Allen, H. (in press). Perception and neurocognitive aging. In Encyclopedia of the Human Brain. (2). Elsevier

There are sensory changes and decline in all senses, although people are often more aware of the changes in vision and hearing than those in touch, smell and taste. In the first part of this article, I will summarize and discuss these changes. In the... Read More about Perception and neurocognitive aging.

Brown bears in burials and entertainment in later prehistoric to modern Britain (c. 2400 BC – AD 1900s) (2023)
Book Chapter
O'Regan, H. (2023). Brown bears in burials and entertainment in later prehistoric to modern Britain (c. 2400 BC – AD 1900s). In O. Grimm (Ed.), Bear and Human Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship from Past to Recent Times, with Emphasis on Northern Europe. Volume 1 (187-208). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TANE-EB.5.134334

The brown bear, Ursus arctos, was a native British mammal, but is now extinct. This chapter briefly explores the history of the native brown bear before turning to the anthropogenic evidence for bears in prehistoric and later Britain. There are two m... Read More about Brown bears in burials and entertainment in later prehistoric to modern Britain (c. 2400 BC – AD 1900s).

Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (in press). Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction. In Routledge Encyclopaedia in Chinese Studies

This article examines queer literature in Mainland China from classical texts to contemporary Internet literature and fan fiction. Queer literature is broadly defined here as literary texts depicting non-heteronormative genders, sexualities and desir... Read More about Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction.

The Route to Artificial Phenomenology; ‘Attunement to the World’ and Representationalism of Affective States (2023)
Book Chapter
Farina, L. (2023). The Route to Artificial Phenomenology; ‘Attunement to the World’ and Representationalism of Affective States. In C. Misselhorn, T. Poljanšek, T. Störzinger, & M. Klein (Eds.), Emotional Machines: Perspectives from Affective Computing and Emotional Human-Machine Interaction (111-132). Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37641-3_5

According to dominant views in affective computing, artificial systems e.g. robots and algorithms cannot experience emotion because they lack the phenomenological aspect associated with emotional experience. In this paper I suggest that if we wish to... Read More about The Route to Artificial Phenomenology; ‘Attunement to the World’ and Representationalism of Affective States.