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Insanity Constructs (2017)
Book Chapter
Wondemaghen, M. (2017). Insanity Constructs. In M. D. White (Ed.), The Insanity Defense: Multidisciplinary Views on its History, Trends, and Controversies (133-152). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO

Measuring Wellbeing in an Age of Austerity (2017)
Book Chapter
Lee, S. (2017). Measuring Wellbeing in an Age of Austerity. In C. Coron, & L. Dalingwater (Eds.), Wellbeing: Challenging the Anglo-Saxon Hegemony (81-93). Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle

The authors of this volume set out to find whether there are any specific cultural features of the Anglo-American notion of wellbeing or whether there is a specific model. Among the wealth of literature on wellbeing over the last few years, a number... Read More about Measuring Wellbeing in an Age of Austerity.

Neoliberalism, New Labour and the Welfare State (2017)
Book Chapter
Beech, M. (2017). Neoliberalism, New Labour and the Welfare State. In R. E. Backhouse, B. W. Bateman, T. Nishizawa, & D. Plehwe (Eds.), Liberalism and the Welfare State: Economists & arguments for the Welfare State (118-130). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780190676681.003.0007

This chapter argues that the New Labour governments (1997–2010) were not a political project wholly based on neoliberal assumptions, as the “majority view” in the scholarship asserts. In the area of welfare policy New Labour adopted a modified social... Read More about Neoliberalism, New Labour and the Welfare State.

Dialogue and Beyond: Communication and Interaction in Ensemble Performance (2017)
Book Chapter
King, E., & Gritten, A. (2017). Dialogue and Beyond: Communication and Interaction in Ensemble Performance. In J. Rink, H. Gaunt, & A. Williamon (Eds.), Musicians in the Making: Pathways to Creative Performance (306-321). Oxford University Press: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199346677.001.0001

This chapter explores the nature of dialogue in ensemble music performance, interrogating the ways in which ‘communication’ and ‘interaction’ occur in the context of rehearsal and live performance of western art music. An expanded conceptual model is... Read More about Dialogue and Beyond: Communication and Interaction in Ensemble Performance.

Putting some iron back in the Iron Age: a case study from the UK (2017)
Book Chapter
Halkon, P. (2017). Putting some iron back in the Iron Age: a case study from the UK. In I. Montero Ruiz, & A. Perea (Eds.), Archaeometallurgy in Europe IV (205-214). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

2015 marks the bi-centenary of the beginning of the excavations on the Iron Age cemetery at Arras near Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, which gave its name to the Arras Culture. Here the first chariot burials in the UK were discovered, containing iro... Read More about Putting some iron back in the Iron Age: a case study from the UK.

Researching difficult-to-reach and vulnerable groups using grounded theory methods (2017)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, L. (2017). Researching difficult-to-reach and vulnerable groups using grounded theory methods. In SAGE Research Methods: Cases. Part 2. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473992160

This case study describes a research project that used grounded theory methods. The aim of this research was to develop new knowledge about how parents experience their offspring’s problematic drug use. Unstructured interviews were used during the da... Read More about Researching difficult-to-reach and vulnerable groups using grounded theory methods.

Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation (2017)
Book Chapter
Wall, R., & Hallett, C. E. (2017). Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation. In T. Schlich (Ed.), The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery (153-174). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95260-1_8

Nurses played an essential role in the major developments in surgery between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. This chapter focuses on the Anglo-American world, weaving in original research with a historiographical review. Three str... Read More about Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation.

Isotopic signatures (2017)
Book Chapter
Dean, J. R., Leng, M. J., & Mackay, A. W. (2018). Isotopic signatures. In Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, v.1 (197-203). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.10023-0

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Isotopes record human influence on the Earth System, providing evidence for the Anthropocene. Lead and sulfur isotopes detail pollution histories going back millennia. Carbon and nitrogen isotopes show substa... Read More about Isotopic signatures.

Evaluating how system health assessment can trigger anticipatory action for resilience (2017)
Book Chapter
Lowe, D., Oliver, P., Midgley, G., & Yearworth, M. (2018). Evaluating how system health assessment can trigger anticipatory action for resilience. In A. M. Madni, B. Boehm, R. G. Ghanem, D. Erwin, & M. J. Wheaton (Eds.), Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research (765-776). Cham.: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62217-0_53

© Springer International Publishing AG 2018. All rights are reserved. In 2014, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory developed and implemented a novel approach to assess the system by which the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence delivers infr... Read More about Evaluating how system health assessment can trigger anticipatory action for resilience.

A critical analysis of the theoretical construction and empirical measurement of cognitive load (2017)
Book Chapter
Martin, S. (2017). A critical analysis of the theoretical construction and empirical measurement of cognitive load. In R. Z. Zheng (Ed.), Cognitive load measurement and application: A theoretical framework for meaningful research and practice (29-44). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315296258-3

The application of cognitive load theory has been at the forefront of work in cognition and learning for some time. Cognitive load theory seeks to explain how and why some material is more difficult to learn and is based on the proposition that the h... Read More about A critical analysis of the theoretical construction and empirical measurement of cognitive load.

Urban energy transitions through innovations in green building (2017)
Book Chapter
Preller, B., Schulz, C., & Affolderbach, J. (2017). Urban energy transitions through innovations in green building. In A. König, & J. Ravetz (Eds.), Sustainability Science (218-233). Oxon: Routledge

Recent debates on climate change have increasingly focused on cities as a strategic spatial scale to implementss climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Within this context, green building and the way the built environment interfaces wit... Read More about Urban energy transitions through innovations in green building.

Capturing the dynamics of cellular automata, for the generation of synthetic persian music, using conditional restricted Boltzmann machines (2017)
Book Chapter
Davis, D. N., & Arshi, S. (2017). Capturing the dynamics of cellular automata, for the generation of synthetic persian music, using conditional restricted Boltzmann machines. In Artificial Intelligence XXXIV; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (72-86). Cambridge, UK: Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71078-5_6

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. In this paper the generative and feature extracting powers of the family of Boltzmann Machines are employed in an algorithmic music composition system. Liquid Persian Music (LPM) system is an audio generat... Read More about Capturing the dynamics of cellular automata, for the generation of synthetic persian music, using conditional restricted Boltzmann machines.

Cozarinsky's La guerre d'un seul homme and musical categories : (Re)-framing Pfitzner, Strauss, Schreker, and Schoenberg cinematically (2017)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2018). Cozarinsky's La guerre d'un seul homme and musical categories : (Re)-framing Pfitzner, Strauss, Schreker, and Schoenberg cinematically. In N. Attfield, & B. Winters (Eds.), Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear. Abingdon: Routledge

The framing of music, especially that of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is bound up not only with the effects of the two World Wars that (dis)figured the period but also with the discourse on musical value and identity within whic... Read More about Cozarinsky's La guerre d'un seul homme and musical categories : (Re)-framing Pfitzner, Strauss, Schreker, and Schoenberg cinematically.

Forecasting the return volatility of energy prices: A GARCH-MIDAS approach (2017)
Book Chapter
Salisu, A. A., & Swaray, R. (in press). Forecasting the return volatility of energy prices: A GARCH-MIDAS approach. In S. Goutte, & D. K. Nguyen (Eds.), Handbook of energy finance: Theories, practices and simulations. World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/11213

This chapter offers an extension to the literature on energy prices by forecasting the return volatility of these prices using the GARCH-MIDAS approach. In addition to the realized volatility, it also evaluates the predictability of relevant macroeco... Read More about Forecasting the return volatility of energy prices: A GARCH-MIDAS approach.