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Acute and chronic cough (2018)
Book Chapter
Morice, A. H., & Fowles, H. (2018). Acute and chronic cough. In S. Hart, & M. Greenstone (Eds.), Foundations of Respiratory Medicine (73-86). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94127-1_5

Acute cough has a considerable economic impact within the UK because of lost work days. Chronic cough is one of the most common presentations to general respiratory clinics. Cough is often seen in tandem with a wide variety of respiratory conditions... Read More about Acute and chronic cough.

Lung cancer (2018)
Book Chapter
Grundy, S., Barton, R., Campbell, A., Cowen, M., & Lind, M. (2018). Lung cancer. In S. Hart, & M. Greenstone (Eds.), Foundations of Respiratory Medicine (87-118). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94127-1_6

The accurate diagnosis, staging and management of lung cancer occupies a large part of modern adult respiratory practice. Although smoking is less prevalent, the incidence and mortality of this condition remain high, and earlier detection through scr... Read More about Lung cancer.

Wave loads on monopile-supported offshore wind turbines: Current methods and future challenges (2018)
Book Chapter
Marino, E., Mockute, A., Borri, C., & Lugni, C. (2018). Wave loads on monopile-supported offshore wind turbines: Current methods and future challenges. In H. R. Reza Karimi (Ed.), Structural Control and Fault Detection of Wind Turbine Systems (9-44). Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). https://doi.org/10.1049/PBPO117E_ch2

This chapter provides an overview of the methods recently proposed for the prediction of the wave loads on fixed-bottom wind turbines, with particular emphasis on the role of nonlinear wave contributions in the assessment of the dynamic response of t... Read More about Wave loads on monopile-supported offshore wind turbines: Current methods and future challenges.

Who is Heinz Stielke? Questions of Identity in Michael Kann’s "Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn" (2018)
Book Chapter
Ward, E. M. (2018). Who is Heinz Stielke? Questions of Identity in Michael Kann’s "Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn". In S. Ehrig, M. Thomas, & D. Zell (Eds.), The GDR today: New interdisciplinary approaches to East German history, memory and culture (43-62). Peter Lang

Michael Kann’s debut film, Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn [Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen] (1987), was supposed to signal the thematic, artistic and popular renewal of one of the core interests of East German cinema, the antifascist film. Yet upon release, the fi... Read More about Who is Heinz Stielke? Questions of Identity in Michael Kann’s "Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn".

Biorefinery Approach for Ethanol Production From Bagasse (2018)
Book Chapter
Michailos, S., & Webb, C. (2018). Biorefinery Approach for Ethanol Production From Bagasse. In R. C. Ray, & S. Ramachandran (Eds.), Bioethanol Production from Food Crops : Sustainable Sources, Interventions, and Challenges (319-342). London: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813766-6.00016-3

This chapter deals with the exploitation of bagasse within the biorefinery concept for the sustainable production of ethanol. There are currently three main process routes that can efficiently convert lignocellulosic biomass into ethanol, that is, th... Read More about Biorefinery Approach for Ethanol Production From Bagasse.

Environmental rights in marine spaces (2018)
Book Chapter
Barnes, R. (2018). Environmental rights in marine spaces. In S. Bogojevic, & R. Rayfuse (Eds.), Environmental rights in Europe and beyond. Bloomsbury Publishing

The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. (2018). The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain. In J. Craig-Norton, C. Hoffmann, & T. Kushner (Eds.), Migrant Britain (224 - 234). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315159959-26

The growth of migrant studies since the early 1970s has filled significant lacuna in the historiography of Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of transmigrant historiography in the UK has followed a very different p... Read More about The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain.

Speaking up or blowing the whistle for better, safer care (2018)
Book Chapter
Mannion, R., Davies, H., Blenkinsopp, J., McHale, J. V., Millar, R., Powell, M., & Snowden, N. (2018). Speaking up or blowing the whistle for better, safer care. In J. Tingle, C. Ó Néill, & M. Shimwell (Eds.), Global patient safety: Law, policy and practice (58-76). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315167596-5

In modern healthcare systems, not all care is as good or as safe as it could be and there is growing evidence to suggest about one in ten patients admitted to hospital may be harmed as a result of their admission. This chapter draws on some recent wo... Read More about Speaking up or blowing the whistle for better, safer care.

Modeling of portable fuel cells (2018)
Book Chapter
Ismail, M. S., Ingham, D. B., & Pourkashanian, M. (2018). Modeling of portable fuel cells. In P. Ferreira-Aparicio, & A. M. Chaparro (Eds.), Portable Hydrogen Energy Systems : Fuel Cells and Storage Fundamentals and Applications (51-66). London: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813128-2.00004-8

The mathematical formulation of the models of the air-breathing polymer-electrolyte-membrane (PEM) fuel cells is similar to that of the conventional PEM fuel cells. The only difference between the two formulations lies in how the boundary conditions... Read More about Modeling of portable fuel cells.

'New' Jews in Scotland since 1945 (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. J., & McCarthy, A. (2018). 'New' Jews in Scotland since 1945. In T. M. Devine, & A. McCarthy (Eds.), New Scots: Scotland's Immigrant Communities since 1945. Edinburgh University Press

Assaying Rho GTPase–dependent processes in Dictyostelium discoideum (2018)
Book Chapter
Marinovic, M., Xiong, H., Rivero Crespo, F., & Weber, I. (2018). Assaying Rho GTPase–dependent processes in Dictyostelium discoideum. In F. Rivero (Ed.), Rho GTPases: Methods and Protocols (371-392). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8612-5_25

The model organism D. discoideum is well-suited to investigate basic questions of molecular and cell biology, particularly those related to the structure, regulation and dynamics of the cytoskeleton, signal transduction, cell-cell adhesion and develo... Read More about Assaying Rho GTPase–dependent processes in Dictyostelium discoideum.

Methods to study the roles of Rho GTPases in platelet function (2018)
Book Chapter
Rivero, F., & Calaminus, S. (2018). Methods to study the roles of Rho GTPases in platelet function. In F. Rivero (Ed.), Rho GTPases: Methods and Protocols (199-217). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8612-5_14

Platelets are a critical cell for prevention of bleeding. Part of the response to the formation of the thrombus is the activation of the actin cytoskeleton, with an inability to effectively activate the cytoskeleton linked to thrombus formation defec... Read More about Methods to study the roles of Rho GTPases in platelet function.

Restorative justice and the therapeutic tradition: Looking into the future (2018)
Book Chapter
Johnstone, G. (2018). Restorative justice and the therapeutic tradition: Looking into the future. In Routledge International Handbook of Restorative Justice (395-408). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315613512

If asked to explain the essence of restorative justice in one or two sentences, many advocates and practitioners might employ Nils Christie’s formula about the state and its actors stealing conflicts which belong to crime victims and offenders and ex... Read More about Restorative justice and the therapeutic tradition: Looking into the future.

The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. J. (2018). The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain. In J. Craig-Norton, C. Hoffman, & T. Kushner (Eds.), Migrant Britain: Histories and Historiographies: Essays in Honour of Colin Holmes (224-234). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315159959

The growth of migrant studies since the early 1970s has filled significant lacuna in the historiography of Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of transmigrant historiography in the UK has followed a very different p... Read More about The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain.

Remembering protest (2018)
Book Chapter
Griffin, C. J., & McDonagh, B. (2018). Remembering protest. In C. J. Griffin, & B. McDonagh (Eds.), Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500 : Memory, Materiality and the Landscape (1-23). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74243-4_1

This book is about protest and the multiple and contested ways it is remembered, about the work protest memories do and the uses of the past in the (historical) present. While several chapters speak to the present en passant, it is not a study of the... Read More about Remembering protest.

Landscape, memory and protest in the midlands rising of 1607 (2018)
Book Chapter
McDonagh, B., & Rodda, J. (2018). Landscape, memory and protest in the midlands rising of 1607. In C. J. Griffin, & B. McDonagh (Eds.), Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500 (53-79). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74243-4_3

In the early summer of 1607, a large group of perhaps as many as a thousand men, women and children assembled at Newton (Northamptonshire) and began digging up hedges. The hedges surrounded enclosures recently put in place by the local landowner, Tho... Read More about Landscape, memory and protest in the midlands rising of 1607.