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Nothing is different but everything’s changed (2009)
Book Chapter
Hall, M. (2009). Nothing is different but everything’s changed. In D. L. Featherman, M. Hall, & M. Krislov (Eds.), The next twenty-five years : affirmative action in higher education in the United States and South Africa. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Revealing memories from darkness (2009)
Book Chapter
Hall, M. (2009). Revealing memories from darkness. In P. P. A. Funari, A. Zarankin, & M. A. Salerno (Eds.), Memories from darkness : archaeology of repression and resistance in Latin America (177-185). New York: Springer

New Subjectivities: Capitalist, Colonial Subject and Archaeologist. Review of "Capitalism in Colonial Contexts". Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, January 2008 (2009)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (2009). New Subjectivities: Capitalist, Colonial Subject and Archaeologist. Review of "Capitalism in Colonial Contexts". Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, January 2008. Archaeologies, 5(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-008-9086-4

The sub-discipline of Historical Archaeology continues to push out its borders from its origins as the archaeology of British colonial settlement in North America. This review article evaluates the contribution of a set of papers presented at the Soc... Read More about New Subjectivities: Capitalist, Colonial Subject and Archaeologist. Review of "Capitalism in Colonial Contexts". Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, January 2008.

New knowledge and the university (2009)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (2009). New knowledge and the university. Anthropology Southern Africa, 32(1/2), 69-76

What forms of knowledge have legitimacy in the contemporary university? By using Actor-Network Theory to unravel the strands in a recent dispute about access to skeletons from a burial ground in Cape Town. This paper shows how circulating systems of... Read More about New knowledge and the university.

A web-based visual spatial co-location patterns' mining prototype system (SCPMiner) (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Wang, L., Bao, Y., Lu, J., & Yip, Y. (2008, September). A web-based visual spatial co-location patterns' mining prototype system (SCPMiner). Presented at International Conference on Cyberworlds 2008, Hangzhou, China

Visual spatial data mining is an effective way to discover knowledge from huge amounts of spatial data. The systematic study and development of visual spatial data mining techniques will facilitate the promotion and use of spatial data mining as a to... Read More about A web-based visual spatial co-location patterns' mining prototype system (SCPMiner).

A review of medical image annotation (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Zhang, Z., Lu, J., & Yip, Y. (2008, September). A review of medical image annotation. Presented at 14th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC '08), St. John’s Building, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University

More ways to gain status (2008)
Journal Article
Morris, H. (2008). More ways to gain status. Times higher education supplement, 26

When the credit crunch hits public-sector spending decisions in a year or so and the Government seeks to make good recent shortfalls in corporate investment in research and development, it seems likely that public-sector money will be more tightly fo... Read More about More ways to gain status.

Information skills through electronic environments: considerations, pitfalls and benefits (2008)
Book Chapter
Smart, M., & Hunt, C. (2008). Information skills through electronic environments: considerations, pitfalls and benefits. In P. Brophy, J. Craven, & M. Markland (Eds.), Libraries without walls 7 (105-113). London: Facet

The increasing availability of resources in electronic format has obvious benefits for distance learners in particular but, in order to maximise those benefits, library induction and ongoing support are essential. The use of virtual classroom sessio... Read More about Information skills through electronic environments: considerations, pitfalls and benefits.

Shaping progress (2008)
Journal Article
Power, E. (2008). Shaping progress. Knitting international, 114(1358), 34-35

With the introduction of CMS flatbed machines, combining shape, texture, and color patterning became a cost effective, commercially viable method. Shaped knitwear began to expand from the luxury sector into mass fashion markets. Other benefits includ... Read More about Shaping progress.

A framework for understanding information systems development (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding information systems development. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (224-264). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch006

Chapter 6: This chapter explores how Dooyeweerd’s philosophy might help us understand the challenges and issues in ISD as they are seen from an everyday perspective. The information system that is developed includes both the technical artefact or sy... Read More about A framework for understanding information systems development.

A framework for understanding human use of computers (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding human use of computers. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (120-173). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch004

Chapter 4: This chapter seeks to open it up further and explore how Dooyeweerd’s philosophy can be used to understand human use of computers (HUC) by exposing some of the challenges and issues therein and enable us to formulate a framework for unders... Read More about A framework for understanding human use of computers.

Some portions of Dooyeweerd's positive philosophy (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). Some portions of Dooyeweerd's positive philosophy. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (62-118). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch003

Chapter 3: This chapter explains some portions of Dooyeweerd’s positive philosophy which author has found useful in understanding IS. It covers Dooyeweerd’s theory of modal spheres (aspects), his theory of things, his theory of knowing, experience an... Read More about Some portions of Dooyeweerd's positive philosophy.

A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (309-337). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch008

Information technology (IT) deeply influences the way we live, our assumptions, aspirations, expectations, habits -- our very life-and-world-views (LWVs). It has become an environment in which we live and work, a kind of ecology in which modern life... Read More about A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology.

A new security architecture for SIP based P2P computer networks (2008)
Journal Article
Yongfeng, H., Tang, S., & Yip, Y. (2008). A new security architecture for SIP based P2P computer networks. Journal of Accounting, Taxation and Performance Evaluation, 2(1),

Many applications are transferred from C/S (Client/Server) mode to P2P (Peer-to-Peer) mode such as VoIP (Voice over IP). This paper presents a new security architecture, i.e. a trustworthy authentication algorithm of peers, for Session Initialize Pro... Read More about A new security architecture for SIP based P2P computer networks.

Framework to design new model of E-journals (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Abubaker, A., Lu, J., & Yip, Y. (2008, January). Framework to design new model of E-journals. Presented at Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers' Conference 2008: CEARC'08, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield

Scientific journals are offered in many forms, some available in both print \& electronic form \& some in electronic forms only. E-journal have had opportunity to provide new features by taking advantages from the online environment. These features s... Read More about Framework to design new model of E-journals.