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Vimeo killed the video star : Burial and the user-generated music video (2017)
Book Chapter
music video. In D. Cookney, K. Fairclough, M. Goddard, & G. Arnold (Eds.), Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media (255-267). New York: Bloomsbury Academic

This chapter looks at how user generated content on sites such as Vimeo and Youtube has responded to and further facilitated the practice of ‘facelessness’ employed by, electronic music producer, Burial. For a notoriously media-shy producer who is sy... Read More about Vimeo killed the video star : Burial and the user-generated music video.

Moving the music : dance, action, and embodied identity (2017)
Book Chapter
Slee, S. (2017). Moving the music : dance, action, and embodied identity. In G. Arnold, D. Cookney, K. Fairclough, & M. Goddard (Eds.), Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media (147-162). Bloomsbury Academic Press

Discourse on music videos widely views and examines the image within the video, along with the visual animation and consumption of music. Yet music videos often incorporate dance, movement and embodied action as fundamental, constituent elements, exp... Read More about Moving the music : dance, action, and embodied identity.

The scientist-practitioner and the reflective practitioner (2017)
Book Chapter
Amos, I., & Hanley, T. (2017). The scientist-practitioner and the reflective practitioner. In V. Galbraith (Ed.), Topics in Applied Psychology: Counselling Psychology. Routledge

This chapter explores two models that have been identified as appropriate for the training and ongoing practice and professional development of counselling psychology practitioners and researchers. These are the scientist-practitioner model and the r... Read More about The scientist-practitioner and the reflective practitioner.

Venezuela, Corrections in (2017)
Book Chapter
Pérez Santiago, N., & Birkbeck, C. (2017). Venezuela, Corrections in. In The Encyclopedia of Corrections (1041-1048). Beverly Hills, California: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118845387.wbeoc189

The correctional system of Venezuela is best understood as a system of internment. The inmate population doubled between 2008 and 2015, and overcrowding is at 270%. Remand and sentenced inmates are usually not segregated and most centers are in a ver... Read More about Venezuela, Corrections in.

"Description" (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). "Description". In R. Graham (Ed.), How to Write A Short Story (And Think About It). Palgrave Macmillan

Writers have been creating virtual realities since before computers were even dreamed of. Good fiction conjures an alternative world, gives you a window into someone else’s life, takes you somewhere other. Above all, it’s convincing. Effective descri... Read More about "Description".

Culture and mental health (2017)
Book Chapter
Allen, S., & Sharples, N. (2018). Culture and mental health. In K. Holland (Ed.), Cultural Awareness in Nursing & Health Care : an introductory text (3rd edition) (165-190). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315381992

This chapter focuses on the following issues: concepts of normality and abnormality, transcultural psychiatry; culture-bound syndromes; cultural competency skills for mental health practitioners; culture in care and treatment; intercultural communica... Read More about Culture and mental health.

Alexandria’s cultural landscapes : historical parks between originality and deterioration (2017)
Book Chapter
Heysham, N. (2017). Alexandria’s cultural landscapes : historical parks between originality and deterioration. In G. Rodriguez, C. Brebbia, & D. Almorza (Eds.), Coastal Cities and Their Sustainable Future II (73-83). WIT Press. https://doi.org/10.2495/CC170081

Alexandria is one of the largest cities in Egypt in terms of population and urban density, second only
to Cairo. Since its origination in the 300s BC, it has been one of the biggest metropolises in the ancient
world, culturally, intellectually, pol... Read More about Alexandria’s cultural landscapes : historical parks between originality and deterioration.

A distributed joint sentiment and topic modeling using spark for big opinion mining (2017)
Book Chapter
Zahedi, E., Saraee, M., & Baniasadi, Z. (2017). A distributed joint sentiment and topic modeling using spark for big opinion mining. In Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2017 (1475-1480). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IranianCEE.2017.7985276

Opinion data are produced rapidly by a large and uncontrolled number of opinion holders in different domains (public, business, politic and etc). The volume, variety and velocity of such data requires an opinion mining model to be also adopted with t... Read More about A distributed joint sentiment and topic modeling using spark for big opinion mining.

Methodological framework and design process for applying evolutionary simulation to musical interactions (2017)
Book Chapter
Choi, I. (2017). Methodological framework and design process for applying evolutionary simulation to musical interactions. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME 2017). MUME

This paper focuses on a methodological framework where the creative design process evolves through iterative cycles. The design process undertakes a complex network of tasks for integrating two domain models: dynamical simulation and musical interact... Read More about Methodological framework and design process for applying evolutionary simulation to musical interactions.

Care of older people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups (2017)
Book Chapter
Collier, E., & Conhye, P. (2017). Care of older people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. In K. Holland (Ed.), Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care (151-164). London: Routledge

A book chapter on cultural awareness in health and social care.

'We don’t rely on benefits' : challenging mainstream narratives towards Roma migrants in the UK (2017)
Book Chapter
Martin, P., Scullion, L., & Brown, P. (2017). 'We don’t rely on benefits' : challenging mainstream narratives towards Roma migrants in the UK. In J. Hudson, C. Needham, & E. Heins (Eds.), Social Policy Review 29 : Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2017 (199-217). UK: Policy Press at the University of Bristol

One of the prevailing and persistent political and public discourses surrounding immigration suggests that easy access to welfare benefits and public services is a major reason why the UK is a destination of choice for migrants (Page 2009; Anderson 2... Read More about 'We don’t rely on benefits' : challenging mainstream narratives towards Roma migrants in the UK.

Digital cultural participation in Malta (2017)
Book Chapter
Sant, T. (2017). Digital cultural participation in Malta. In Perspectives on Cultural Heritage in Malta (45-56). Malta: Arts Council Malta

I discussed participation levels and types in digital culture within a Maltese context on two previous occasions; both were published in books. The first of these was a chapter I contributed to Exploring the Maltese Media Landscape (2009) edited by J... Read More about Digital cultural participation in Malta.

Pro-industry policies, sustainability, and industrial growth (2017)
Book Chapter
Ali, A., & Alpaslan, B. (2017). Pro-industry policies, sustainability, and industrial growth. In M. Yülek (Ed.), Industrial Policy and Sustainable Growth (1-23). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3964-5_8-2

This study examines how pro-industry policies and environmental sustainability relate to industrial growth in countries with varying environmental records using a large panel dataset on 104 developing and developed countries over the period 2002–2012... Read More about Pro-industry policies, sustainability, and industrial growth.

Training "on the fly" to improve the performance of speaker recognition in noisy environments (2017)
Book Chapter
Al-Noori, A., Duncan, P., & Li, F. (2017). Training "on the fly" to improve the performance of speaker recognition in noisy environments. In Proceedings: 2017 AES International Conference on Audio Forensics. Audio Engineering Society

Reliability of Speaker Recognition (SR) is crucial for critical applications, especially in adverse acoustic
conditions. Ambient noises and their variations represent a significant challenge for such applications. In this
paper, a new technique is... Read More about Training "on the fly" to improve the performance of speaker recognition in noisy environments.

Georg Simmel : interactionist before symbolic interactionism? (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, G. (2017). Georg Simmel : interactionist before symbolic interactionism?. In M. Jacobsen (Ed.), The Interactionist Imagination: Studying Meaning, Situation and Micro-Social Order (41-70). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58184-6_2

Georg Simmel was the first great figure in sociology’s classical tradition to set out a distinctive conception of society not as a supra-individual structure but as a series of enabling and constraining interactions and associations among human being... Read More about Georg Simmel : interactionist before symbolic interactionism?.

Effects of occupational health and safety assessment series (OHSAS) standard: A study on core competencies building and organizational learning (2017)
Book Chapter
Kwegyir-Afful, E., Kwegyir-Afful, E., Addo-Tenkorang, R., & Kantola, J. (2017). Effects of occupational health and safety assessment series (OHSAS) standard: A study on core competencies building and organizational learning. In J. Kantola, T. Barath, & S. Nazir (Eds.), Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership (395-405). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_38

Promoting the human factor of every organization is an important component that needs to be continuously up held to build employee competencies. Ultimately, this strengthens the competitiveness and sustainability of the operations within the organiza... Read More about Effects of occupational health and safety assessment series (OHSAS) standard: A study on core competencies building and organizational learning.

Obesity: Maternal (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, D., Furber, C., & Mills, T. (2017). Obesity: Maternal. In J. L. Buttriss, A. A. Welch, J. M. Kearney, & S. A. Lanham-New (Eds.), Public Health Nutrition (195 - 204). (Second). The Nutrition Society

Confronting the roots of violent behaviour (2017)
Book Chapter
Ellis, A. (2017). Confronting the roots of violent behaviour. In R. Atkinson, L. McKenzie, & S. Winlow (Eds.), Building Better Societies (55-66). Bristol: Policy