Shetland and the Runic Diaspora
(2023)
Book Chapter
All Outputs (2069)
Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en (2023)
Book Chapter
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.
Does it Really Matter How Different We Are? Ancestry Distances and Income in the United States (2023)
Book Chapter
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
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
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)
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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
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
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)
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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
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
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)
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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)
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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
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)
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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.
Physician teach thyself: pedagogy aimed at today’s aspiring doctors (2023)
Book Chapter
Queer Art as Masquerading: Displaying Queer Art in Contemporary China (2023)
Book Chapter
This chapter discusses some of the ways in which queer art is displayed in contemporary China, where the public expression and circulation of queerness is prohibited. The government ban on queer content does not mean that queer art does not exist in... Read More about Queer Art as Masquerading: Displaying Queer Art in Contemporary China.
The Copyright Contracts of Tomorrow: A British Point of View (2023)
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Using Sustainable Development Goals for making CSR a part of the firm’s DNA (2023)
Book Chapter
Businesses wishing to make a positive impact face challenges related to the creation and dissemination of knowledge on their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts. The challenges are twofold: First, they need to make responsibility part of th... Read More about Using Sustainable Development Goals for making CSR a part of the firm’s DNA.