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Gender, Religion and Childhood: Towards a new research agenda (2021)
Book Chapter
Shillitoe, R., & Benoit, C. (2021). Gender, Religion and Childhood: Towards a new research agenda. In C. Starkey, & E. Tomalin (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In this chapter, the authors seek to begin a conversation about religion and gender in childhood by briefly outlining some of the main theoretical contributions that can underscore a thinking about the interrelations between religion, gender and chil... Read More about Gender, Religion and Childhood: Towards a new research agenda.

HVDC insulation systems: effect of voltage polarity inversion slew rate on partial discharge phenomenology and harmfulness (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naderiallaf, H., Ghosh, R., Seri, P., & Montanari, G. C. (2021, November). HVDC insulation systems: effect of voltage polarity inversion slew rate on partial discharge phenomenology and harmfulness. Presented at 22nd International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH 2021), Xi'an, China and online

The design of HVDC insulation systems has to take into account various factors which can be neglected under AC, especially the dependence of conductivity on temperature and field and the issue of electric field transient during energization and polar... Read More about HVDC insulation systems: effect of voltage polarity inversion slew rate on partial discharge phenomenology and harmfulness.

Reading of social and educational history documents through the lens of the Marxist Interpretation (2021)
Other
Kumar, A. (2021). Reading of social and educational history documents through the lens of the Marxist Interpretation

This document case study will study how historians analyse archival source material that relates to social, economic and education history. In this particular case, we will look at a nineteenth-century pamphlet written by a British parliamentarian on... Read More about Reading of social and educational history documents through the lens of the Marxist Interpretation.

Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning Data Literacy through Art (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Matuk, C., DesPortes, K., Amato, A., Silander, M., Vacca, R., Vasudevan, V., & Woods, P. J. (2021, June). Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning Data Literacy through Art. Presented at 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021, Bochum, Germany (online)

Achieving data literacy is challenging when schools narrowly focus on statistical reasoning rather than on meaning- and inference-making. Without attention to the social contexts of data, learners can fail to develop a critical stance toward data, to... Read More about Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning Data Literacy through Art.

Development of solar energy in Chile and the world (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fuentes, R., Rojas, D., Rivera, M., Riveros, J., Munoz, J., Wheeler, P., & Rohten, J. (2021, December). Development of solar energy in Chile and the world. Presented at IEEE CHILECON 2021: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON), Valparaíso, Chile and online

Chile is undoubtedly a country with potential when it comes to solar energy, but to understand this potential it is necessary to review the worldwide situation. This paper presents an analysis of the global situation and the geographic value that all... Read More about Development of solar energy in Chile and the world.

Kingdoms and Principalities (2021)
Book Chapter
Kropp, A. (2022). Kingdoms and Principalities. In T. Kaizer (Ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East (365-377). Wiley

The tetradrachm mint of Neapolis (Samaria): new attributions and the end of the phantom mint of Byblos (2021)
Journal Article
Kropp, A. (2021). The tetradrachm mint of Neapolis (Samaria): new attributions and the end of the phantom mint of Byblos. Numismatic Chronicle, 181, 115-127

This article discusses new attributions for three types of Syro-Phoenician tetradrachms of Caracalla, each depicting a different kind of altar as a mint-mark. Generally attributed to Byblos, an obverse die link now suggests that they were made at the... Read More about The tetradrachm mint of Neapolis (Samaria): new attributions and the end of the phantom mint of Byblos.

Religion and intimate life: Marriage, family, sexuality (2021)
Book Chapter
Page, S.-J. (2022). Religion and intimate life: Marriage, family, sexuality. In C. Starkey, & E. Tomalin (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society (234-248). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429466953-18

This chapter considers religion in relation to intimate life. The relationship between religion and intimate life in the UK has undergone significant change in recent years. It has focused on the relationship between religion and intimate life in the... Read More about Religion and intimate life: Marriage, family, sexuality.

“He’s Not from Our Tribe!”: Jewish and Kabardian Identities in the Post-Soviet Russian Space(s) of Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness (Tesnota, 2017) (2021)
Journal Article
MCGINITY-PEEBLES, A. (2021). “He’s Not from Our Tribe!”: Jewish and Kabardian Identities in the Post-Soviet Russian Space(s) of Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness (Tesnota, 2017). Slavic and East European Journal, 65(4), 681-700

Closeness (Tesnota, dir. Kantemir Balagov, 2017), is a striking example of contemporary Russian cinema due to its sustained focus on two groups of ethnic “others” (Jews and Kabardians) living in one of the poorest and most conflict-ridden areas of Ru... Read More about “He’s Not from Our Tribe!”: Jewish and Kabardian Identities in the Post-Soviet Russian Space(s) of Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness (Tesnota, 2017).

Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice (2021)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T., Benoit, C., & Shillitoe, R. (2021). Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 23, 8-28. https://doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v23i0.54

This article builds on Worldview-A Multidisciplinary Report (Benoit, Hutchings and Shillitoe, 2020), a publication commissioned by the RE Council of England and Wales to outline the academic history of the study of worldviews. We focus on three parti... Read More about Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice.

Towards Blockchain-based Ride-sharing Systems (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vazquez, E., & Landa-Silva, D. (2021, February). Towards Blockchain-based Ride-sharing Systems. Presented at International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, Online

Blockchain technology has been used in finance, health care, supply chain, and transport, with the main goals of improving security and eliminating the need for a third party to manage transactions in the system. In blockchain, smart contracts are us... Read More about Towards Blockchain-based Ride-sharing Systems.

The experience of apathy in dementia: A qualitative study (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baber, W., Chang, C. Y. M., Yates, J., & Dening, T. The experience of apathy in dementia: A qualitative study

Background
The presence of apathy is associated with less favourable outcomes in dementia, including more rapid functional and cognitive decline, greater disease severity and increased mortality. We aimed to explore and gain an understanding into ho... Read More about The experience of apathy in dementia: A qualitative study.

The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards] (2021)
Journal Article
Prestes, E., Houghtaling, M. A., Goncalves, P. J., Fabiano, N., Ulgen, O., Fiorini, S. R., Murahwi, Z., Olszewska, J. I., & Haidegger, T. (2021). The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards]. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 28(4), 120-124. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2021.3117414

In the complex and rapidly evolving fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, the elaboration of ethical concerns, considerations, and requirements helps elucidate the nature of technology’s reach and impact on society where there is a leg... Read More about The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards].

Facile one-step synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic activity of a WC/ferroelectric nanocomposite (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, M., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Thangamuthu, M., Yue, Y., Yan, Z., Feng, J., Zhang, D., Zhang, H., Guan, S., Titirici, M.-M., Abrahams, I., Tang, J., Zhang, Z., Dunn, S., & Yan, H. (2021). Facile one-step synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic activity of a WC/ferroelectric nanocomposite. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9(40), 2693–23298. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ta04131b

The development of noble-metal-free co-catalysts is seen as a viable strategy for improving the performance of semiconductor photocatalysts. Although the photocatalytic efficiency of ferroelectrics is typically low, it can be enhanced through the inc... Read More about Facile one-step synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic activity of a WC/ferroelectric nanocomposite.

The Curse of Similarity: When and How Similarity Induces Persuasion Reactance (2021)
Journal Article
Suntong, Q. I., Dai, X., Ching Canice Kwan, M., & Wyer, R. S. (2021). The Curse of Similarity: When and How Similarity Induces Persuasion Reactance. Advances in Consumer Research, 49, 273-274

Salesperson-customer similarity can positively or negatively affect persuasiveness. Consumers more likely to take a recommendation from a dissimilar (vs. similar) salesperson when purchasing a familiar product, but the reverse is true when purchasing... Read More about The Curse of Similarity: When and How Similarity Induces Persuasion Reactance.

(Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swanson, D. M., & le Roux, K. (2021, September). (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education. Presented at Eleventh International Mathematics Education and Society Conference, Austria

Contemporary discourse about the ‘opening’/‘closing’ of schools and what is ‘inside’/‘outside’ the curriculum potentially exacerbates existing inequities in mathematics education. This paper explores how different spatial imaginaries might advance or... Read More about (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education.