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Polyelectrolyte-modified cowpea mosaic virus for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles (2013)
Book Chapter
Aljabali, A. A. A., & Evans, D. J. (2014). Polyelectrolyte-modified cowpea mosaic virus for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles. In Methods in Molecular Biology; Virus Hybrids as Nanomaterials (97-103). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-751-8_7

Polyelectrolyte surface-modified cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) can be used for the templated synthesis of narrowly dispersed gold nanoparticles. Cationic polyelectrolyte, poly(allylamine) hydrochloride, is electrostatically bound to the external surface... Read More about Polyelectrolyte-modified cowpea mosaic virus for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles.

Templated mineralization by charge-modified cowpea mosaic virus (2013)
Book Chapter
Aljabali, A. A. A., & Evans, D. J. (2014). Templated mineralization by charge-modified cowpea mosaic virus. In Methods in Molecular Biology; Virus Hybrids as Nanomaterials (89-95). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-751-8_6

Templated mineralization of virus particles provides routes to narrowly dispersed nanoparticles that are not readily prepared by other means. The templated mineralization of metal or metal oxide on the external surface of wild-type cowpea mosaic viru... Read More about Templated mineralization by charge-modified cowpea mosaic virus.

"Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier (2013)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2013). "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier. In K. Hadjiafxendi, & T. Zakreski (Eds.), Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century. Artistry and Industry in Britain (227-242). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574561

The chapter considers the career of Thomas Henry Huxley's artist daughter Marian Collier, and what it tells us about the 'invisibility' of Victorian women artists: some shared themes of which are reflected in Ella Hepworth Dixons  1894 novel, 'The St... Read More about "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier.

Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns (2013)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2013). Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns. In W. Maley, & R. Loughnane (Eds.), Celtic Shakespeare : The Bard and the Borderers (169-183). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571096-11

Heroism is a key characteristic of Cymbeline’s Britons, and it played a crucial role also in the construction of Britain in the period of the play’s composition, although it is an ethos we tend today to associate more with Henry Frederick than with h... Read More about Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns.

ICT Tools for Professional Development (2013)
Book Chapter
Jones, S.-L., & Younie, S. (2013). ICT Tools for Professional Development. In M. Leask, & N. Pachler (Eds.), Learning to Teach Using ICT in the Secondary School (40-54). (3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203124208

This chapter covers key considerations in the use of ICT tools for the continual professional development of teachers. Both professional development and ICT tools are first defined before looking at specific tools. The use of ePortfolios is discussed... Read More about ICT Tools for Professional Development.

The themes of affirmation and illusion in The birth of tragedy and beyond (2013)
Book Chapter
Came, D. (2013). The themes of affirmation and illusion in The birth of tragedy and beyond. In The Oxford handbook of Nietzsche. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199534647.013.0010

The main theme of Nietzsche’s first published work, The Birth of Tragedy (BT, 1872), is that the affirmation of life requires ‘illusion’ which allows us to cope with the ‘insight into the horrible truth’ of our condition. This article argues that Nie... Read More about The themes of affirmation and illusion in The birth of tragedy and beyond.

'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson (2013)
Book Chapter
Weston, D. (2013). 'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson. In N. Alexander, & D. Cooper (Eds.), Poetry & geography: Space & place in post-war poetry (105-119). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846318641.003.0008

Ciaran Carson is increasingly recognised as a poet of place, of the city, and specifically of Belfast. However, Carson's work is also permeated by the Northern Irish Troubles in thoroughgoing ways. This essay elucidates the ways in which his poetry o... Read More about 'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson.

Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of modernity (2013)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2016). Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of modernity. In J. Cañizares-Esguerra, M. D. Childs, & J. Sidbury (Eds.), The Black urban Atlantic in the age of the slave trade : the early modern Americas (122-144). University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208139

Copyright © 2013 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur is one of the key delineators of the American national character, a man whose Letters from an American Farmer has a canonical status in early Ame... Read More about Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of modernity.

Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening (2013)
Book Chapter
Prior, H. (2013). Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening. In E. King, & H. M. Prior (Eds.), Music and familiarity: listening, musicology and performance. Routledge

The origins of this work, as in much research, lie in a personal experience. My first exposure to a selection of Schoenberg’s piano works (which happened to be through a recording) had resulted in an ambivalent response, but upon hearing the same rec... Read More about Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening.

Groove as Familiarity with Time (2013)
Book Chapter
Oliver, R. (2013). Groove as Familiarity with Time. In E. King, & H. M. Prior (Eds.), Music and Familiarity : Listening, Musicology and Performance (239 - 252). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596600

The chapter explores the instrumentalist’s relationship with musical time, arguing that the capacity for groove in solo performance depends upon the musician’s familiarity with stylistically nuanced conceptions of pulse. Much research dealing with gr... Read More about Groove as Familiarity with Time.

Politics of digital development: Informatization and governance in China (2013)
Book Chapter
Dai, X. (2013). Politics of digital development: Informatization and governance in China. In G. Youngs (Ed.), Digital world: connectivity, creativity and rights (34-51). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203767061

The much-debated rise of the post-war Japanese economy, described as a ‘miracle’, followed by the emergence of other Asian tigers such as South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong in the 1980s and onward, served as empirical evidence supporting th... Read More about Politics of digital development: Informatization and governance in China.

Social familiarity: styles of interaction in chamber ensemble rehearsal (2013)
Book Chapter
King, E. (2013). Social familiarity: styles of interaction in chamber ensemble rehearsal. In Music and familiarity: listening, musicology and performance (253 - 270). Ashgate

When two or more musicians first play together in a music ensemble, they begin a process of familiarization as they get to know each other both musically and socially. There is a complex network of issues to consider in this process as ensemble music... Read More about Social familiarity: styles of interaction in chamber ensemble rehearsal.

Gravity wave turbulence in a large flume (2013)
Book Chapter
Bedard, R., Nazarenko, S., & Lukaschuk, S. (2013). Gravity wave turbulence in a large flume. In Advances in Wave Turbulence (187 - 237). World Scientific

We overview past and new experimental results on gravity wave turbulence obtained at The Deep flume facility in Hull. The relatively large size of this flume, 12m × 6m × 1.5m, allows us to study the pure gravity waves without being concerned with mod... Read More about Gravity wave turbulence in a large flume.

Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South (2013)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2013). Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South. In B. Ward, M. Bone, & W. A. Link (Eds.), The American South and the Atlantic world (129-148). University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813044378.003.0007

This historiographical chapter argues that, for all its many achievements, Atlantic History’s early modern fixation has exacerbated an unhelpful division between American colonial historians, who have been increasingly committed to Atlanto-centric pe... Read More about Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South.