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Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation (2022)
Book Chapter
Reeves, S., & Porcheron, M. (2022). Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation. In W. Housley, A. Edwards, R. Beneito-Montagut, & R. Fitzgerald (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society. SAGE Publications

When we talk about AI-driven systems there is a tendency by researchers to treat people encountering them as ‘participants’ in human-machine interactions. This seems particularly true for so-called conversational AI, such as voice interfaces or chatb... Read More about Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation.

Understanding Household Water Hygiene in Resource-Limited Settings in Kenya (2022)
Book Chapter
Robinson, J., Majiwa, H., & Howland, O. (2022). Understanding Household Water Hygiene in Resource-Limited Settings in Kenya. . InTech. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108231

Climate change means that many more people find themselves living in areas of environmental disadvantage, with water insecurity recognized as a major health issue. Local ecologies shape everyday hygiene practices in households as people respond to di... Read More about Understanding Household Water Hygiene in Resource-Limited Settings in Kenya.

Participatory visual arts activities for people with dementia: a review (2022)
Book Chapter
Barroso, A. C., Rai, H. K., Sousa, L., Orrell, M., & Schneider, J. (2022). Participatory visual arts activities for people with dementia: a review. In M. Orrell, D. Oliveira, O. McDermott, F. R. Verhey, F. C. Dassen, & R. Dröes (Eds.), Improving the Lives of People with Dementia through Technology: Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology (100-126). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289005-11

The aims of this review were to report and summarise the effects of interventions using participatory visual arts activities in dementia research through a narrative synthesis systematic review. We searched four databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO an... Read More about Participatory visual arts activities for people with dementia: a review.

Optimising the Scanning Process: Demystifying the Dark Art of Optimising Microtomography Scan Settings (2022)
Book Chapter
Sturrock, C. J. (2022). Optimising the Scanning Process: Demystifying the Dark Art of Optimising Microtomography Scan Settings. In S. Jon Mooney, I. M. Young, R. J. Heck, & S. Peth (Eds.), X-ray Imaging of the Soil Porous Architecture (39-55). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12176-0_4

X-ray Computed Tomography (X-ray CT) is now becoming an accessible technology to quantify soil structure metrics. However, optimising images from X-ray CT systems remains a challenging task. Understanding the influence of the wide range of settings t... Read More about Optimising the Scanning Process: Demystifying the Dark Art of Optimising Microtomography Scan Settings.

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (2022)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2022). Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon. In The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies (1-19). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9_34-1

Black Skin, White Masks, by the experimental psychiatrist and anti-colonial militant, Franz Fanon, is regarded as a seminal text in the fields of postcolonial theory and critical race studies. Yet it has also been deeply influential on – and indeed c... Read More about Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon.

Environmental Assessment of Recycling Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Composites: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities (2022)
Book Chapter
Meiirbekov, A., Amantayeva, A., Tokbolat, S., Suleimen, A., Sarfraz, S., & Shehab, E. (2023). Environmental Assessment of Recycling Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Composites: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities. In R. Vaira Vignesh, R. Padmanaban, & M. Govindaraju (Eds.), Advances in Processing of Lightweight Metal Alloys and Composites: Microstructural Characterization and Property Correlation (25-49). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7146-4_2

The increasing application of carbon fibre-reinforced polymer composites (CFRP) across different industries raises environmental concerns. It requires focussing on the end-of-life phase of the product/material. The environmental benefits of CFRP recy... Read More about Environmental Assessment of Recycling Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Composites: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities.

Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method (2022)
Book Chapter
Herrity, K., Schmidt, B. E., & Warr, J. (2022). Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method. In M. Dodge, & R. Faria (Eds.), . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18401-7_8

Heteroglossia refers to the presence of multiple voices and views – exchanges that are central to the academic project (Bakhtin, The dialogic imagination: four essays (trans. and ed: Emerson C, Holquist M). University of Texas Press, 1981; Clarke, Cr... Read More about Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method.

Human rights indicators and implementation (2022)
Book Chapter
Landman, T., & Schwarz, K. (2022). Human rights indicators and implementation. In R. Murray, & D. Long (Eds.), Research Handbook on Implementation of Human Rights in Practice (309-326). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372283.00026

The last several decades have seen many advances in the development and application of human rights indicators, which has progressed alongside the continued development of international, regional, and national human rights legal frameworks. This chap... Read More about Human rights indicators and implementation.

Thinkability: A new app for cognitive stimulation for people with dementia (2022)
Book Chapter
Rai, H. K., Schneider, J., & Orrell, M. (2022). Thinkability: A new app for cognitive stimulation for people with dementia. In M. Orrell, D. Oliveira, O. McDermott, F. R. Verhey, F. C. Dassen, & R. Dröes (Eds.), Improving the Lives of People with Dementia through Technology: Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology (86-99). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289005-10

People with dementia benefit from activities that stimulate their cognition, and there is evidence that carers can benefit too. Among psychosocial interventions to help this group, cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is well established as the treatm... Read More about Thinkability: A new app for cognitive stimulation for people with dementia.

Next-Generation Phage Display to Identify Peptide Ligands of Deubiquitinases (2022)
Book Chapter
Spiliotopoulos, A., Maurer, S. K., Tsoumpeli, M. T., Bonfante, J. A. F., Owen, J. P., Gough, K. C., & Dreveny, I. (2023). Next-Generation Phage Display to Identify Peptide Ligands of Deubiquitinases. In J. Maupin-Furlow, & M. J. Edelmann (Eds.), Deubiquitinases: Methods and Protocols (189-218). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2803-4_12

Phage display (PD) is a powerful method and has been extensively used to generate monoclonal antibodies and identify epitopes, mimotopes, and protein interactions. More recently, the combination of next-generation sequencing (NGS) with PD (NGPD) has... Read More about Next-Generation Phage Display to Identify Peptide Ligands of Deubiquitinases.

Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality (2022)
Book Chapter
LOVATT, H. (2022). Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality. In K. Carvounis, S. Papaioannou, & G. Scafoglio (Eds.), Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition (179-206). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791907-009

This chapter explores the methodological case for reading Greek Imperial epic alongside and in conjunction with Latin epic, by revisiting one of the best-known examples, the case of the story of Phaethon in Ovid and Nonnus. Since Knox’s article, the... Read More about Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality.

Embodied AI and Musicking Robotics (2022)
Book Chapter
Vear, C. (2022). Embodied AI and Musicking Robotics. In C. Vear, & F. Poltronieri (Eds.), The Language of Creative AI: Practices, Aesthetics and Structures (113-135). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10960-7_7

This chapter discusses a hypothesis for embodied AI and its development with music robots. It proposes a solution to the challenge: if we want AI/robots to join us inside the creative acts of music, then how do we design and develop systems that prio... Read More about Embodied AI and Musicking Robotics.

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
VEAR, C., & Poltronieri, F. (2022). Introduction. In C. Vear, & . F. Poltronieri (Eds.), The Language of Creative AI: Practices, Aesthetics and Structures (xvii-xix). Cambridge: Springer

Simply put creative AI is the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in creative activities. This definition encompasses a broad range of pursuits, approaches, and perspectives, but for us the overall goal seems to be to enhance human creativity... Read More about Introduction.

The Winged Bean Genome: Winged Bean—One Species Supermarket (2022)
Book Chapter
Tsoutsoura, N., Chong, Y. T., Ho, W. K., Chai, H. H., Tanzi, A. S., Salazar-Licea, L., …Mayes, S. (2022). The Winged Bean Genome: Winged Bean—One Species Supermarket. In M. A. Chapman (Ed.), Underutilised Crop Genomes (315-336). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_17

Climate change, population growth and increasingly homogenised diets are a threat to food security and human nutritional status. There is an urgent need to incorporate highly nutritious crops into the human diet to provide new sources of nutrition, t... Read More about The Winged Bean Genome: Winged Bean—One Species Supermarket.

Pore Structure-Transport Relationships in Bowland Shale (2022)
Book Chapter
Pitcher, E. G., Fletcher, R. S., Large, D. J., & Rigby, S. P. (2023). Pore Structure-Transport Relationships in Bowland Shale. In The Bowland Shale Formation, UK: Processes and Resources. Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp534-2021-97

Shale rocks are highly structurally and chemically heterogeneous, such that the pore structure-transport relationship is complex. Shales typically have porosity over many length-scales from the molecular up to macroscopic fractures. This work utilize... Read More about Pore Structure-Transport Relationships in Bowland Shale.

Personalized medicine: manufacturing oral solid dosage forms through additive manufacturing (2022)
Book Chapter
He, Y., Inês Evangelista Barreiros, M., & Cader, H. (2023). Personalized medicine: manufacturing oral solid dosage forms through additive manufacturing. In K. Zhou (Ed.), Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Functionalities and Applications (113-150). Cham: Springer

Medicine is moving towards personalized treatments, where the ultimate goal is that both drug delivery devices and loaded pharmaceutica tablets can be customized to meet the specific needs of individuals. The evolution of additive manufacturing (AM)... Read More about Personalized medicine: manufacturing oral solid dosage forms through additive manufacturing.