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Stress, anxiety and coping (2013)
Book Chapter

This book has been written specifically to meet the needs of nursing students undertaking the common foundation programme. It aims to explain how and why sensitive, holistic and evidence-based nursing care is carried out. It is therefore relevant to... Read More about Stress, anxiety and coping.

Site-specific Performance, narrative, and social presence in multi-user virtual environments and the urban landscape (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter brings together the practice-based creative research of artists Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon, culminating in collaborative interactive installations for urban screens that investigate new forms of social and/or political narratives in... Read More about Site-specific Performance, narrative, and social presence in multi-user virtual environments and the urban landscape.

Reflexivity (2013)
Book Chapter

This Encyclopedia is the first of its kind in bringing together philosophy and the social sciences. It is not only about the philosophy of the social sciences but, going beyond that, it is also about the relationship between philosophy
and the socia... Read More about Reflexivity.

Evaluation of sampling methods for learning from imbalanced data (2013)
Book Chapter
Goel, G., Maguire, L., Li, Y., & McLoone, S. (2013). Evaluation of sampling methods for learning from imbalanced data. In D. Huang, V. Bevilacqua, J. Figueroa, & P. Premaratne (Eds.), Intelligent Computing Theories : 9th International Conference, ICIC 2013, Nanning, China, July 28-31, 2013, Proceedings (392-401). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39479-9_47

The problem of learning from imbalanced data is of critical importance in a large number of application domains and can be a bottleneck in the performance of various conventional learning methods that assume the data distribution to be balanced. The... Read More about Evaluation of sampling methods for learning from imbalanced data.

Quality of urban spaces and wellbeing (2013)
Book Chapter
Adams, M. (2013). Quality of urban spaces and wellbeing. In Wellbeing (1-21). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118539415.wbwell064

What constitutes quality in an urban context is subjective and open to interpretation. This chapter begins by looking at the ways in which definitions of quality have been applied to the urban environment. It identifies that much research has focused... Read More about Quality of urban spaces and wellbeing.

Team working (2013)
Book Chapter
Kennedy, S., & Houghton, V. (2013). Team working. In A. Worsley, T. Mann, A. Olsen, & E. Mason-Whitehead (Eds.), Key concepts in social work practice (270-275). SAGE

The activism of Black feminist theory in confronting violence against women : Interconnections, politics and practice (2013)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S. (2013). The activism of Black feminist theory in confronting violence against women : Interconnections, politics and practice. In I. Testoni, M. Wieser, A. Groterath, & M. Guglielmin (Eds.), Teaching Against Violence Reassessing the Toolbox : Teaching with Gender European Women’s Studies in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms (31-60). The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation, Utrecht & Central European University Press

This chapter uses Audre Lorde’s essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” as an analytic framework to explore an account of gender violation experienced by Patricia Hill Collins. The intention is to demonstrate that the activism of Black femini... Read More about The activism of Black feminist theory in confronting violence against women : Interconnections, politics and practice.

Communication problems in a couple (2013)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S., & Hesk, G. (2013). Communication problems in a couple. In J. Bettmann, G. Jacques, & C. Frost (Eds.), International Social Work Practice : Case Studies from a Global Context. Routledge

Equality and diversity (2013)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S. (2013). Equality and diversity. In A. Worsley, T. Mann, A. Olsen, & E. Mason-Whitehead (Eds.), Key Concepts in Social Work Practice (74-78). Sage

The concepts of equality and diversity are at the heart of Sojourner Truth’s speech delivered in 1851 at the Women's Convention on equal rights in Ohio, where baring her breasts, she asked a curious question, ‘Ain't I a woman?’. This situation has mo... Read More about Equality and diversity.