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The horror genre and aspects of Native American Indian literature (2018)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2018). The horror genre and aspects of Native American Indian literature. In K. Corstorphine, & L. Kremmel (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (45-60). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97406-4_4

Porter offers a fascinating exploration of the limitations of genre in relation to certain horror literature produced by authors who identify as American Indian. She explores the horror genre as a context within which the Native dispossession foundat... Read More about The horror genre and aspects of Native American Indian literature.

Unsung heroism?: showbusiness and social action in Britain’s military wives choir(s) (2018)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2018). Unsung heroism?: showbusiness and social action in Britain’s military wives choir(s). In V. Kitchen, & J. G. Mathers (Eds.), Heroism and Global Politics (122-146). Routledge

In 2011, the BBC documentary The Choir visited military bases in Devon to film with wives and partners of British servicemen who had been deployed to Afghanistan. Amid a growing convergence between popular entertainment, popular militarism, and ‘Reme... Read More about Unsung heroism?: showbusiness and social action in Britain’s military wives choir(s).

In Situ Studies of the Solidification Dynamics of Metal Alloys (2018)
Book Chapter
Mi, J. (2018). In Situ Studies of the Solidification Dynamics of Metal Alloys. In D. G. Eskin, & J. Mi (Eds.), Solidification Processing of Metallic Alloys Under External Fields (19-74). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94842-3_2

© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Since the 1990s, tens of 3rd generation synchrotron X-ray facilities have been built around the world and made available for research in almost all scientific disciplines. The high brilliance, high coherence an... Read More about In Situ Studies of the Solidification Dynamics of Metal Alloys.

Pulse External Fields Processing of Metal Alloys (2018)
Book Chapter
Mi, J. (2018). Pulse External Fields Processing of Metal Alloys. In D. G. Eskin, & J. Mi (Eds.), Solidification Processing of Metallic Alloys Under External Fields (243-275). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94842-3_7

© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Research and applications of electromagnetic processing of materials began in the 1930s. In those early days, electromagnetic induction was the main technique and it was used for heating or melting metal alloys... Read More about Pulse External Fields Processing of Metal Alloys.

The estuarine quality paradox concept (2018)
Book Chapter
Elliott, M., & Quintino, V. (2019). The estuarine quality paradox concept. In B. Fath (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Ecology, v.1 (78-85). (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11054-1

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Estuaries have long been regarded as environmentally naturally stressed areas because of the high degree of variability in their physico-chemical characteristics, for example, oxygen, temperature, and salinity in the water column... Read More about The estuarine quality paradox concept.

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