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Barriers and facilitators to extended working life : a qualitative study (2022)
Book Chapter
Edge, C., Coffey, M., Cook, P., & Weinberg, A. (2022). Barriers and facilitators to extended working life : a qualitative study. In L. Fitzgerald (Ed.), Women entrepreneurs and employment : past, present and future perspectives. New York: Nova Science Publishers

Aim: To explore employee experiences of nearing or working beyond state pensionable age, and the factors enabling and inhibit them to work for longer. Specifically, the study explored the health, social, workplace and financial barriers and facilitat... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to extended working life : a qualitative study.

Serial and mass murderers (2022)
Book Chapter
Allely, C. (2022). Serial and mass murderers. In L. Kurtz (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (Third Edition) (768-780). Academic Press (Elsevier). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820195-4.00048-0

This article will explore serial and mass murder. It will cover the literature which has investigated leakage and warning signs or red flags in mass shooters. The role of biological, or body-related, issues; narcissism; fame-seeking; the injustice co... Read More about Serial and mass murderers.

'Coming Home to "Legacy"': Marvel's Problem with History (2022)
Book Chapter
Flanagan, M. (2022). 'Coming Home to "Legacy"': Marvel's Problem with History. In D. L. Alexander, M. Goodrum, & P. Smith (Eds.), Drawing the Past: Comics and the Historical Imagination, Vol. 1. (1). Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi

Drawing Together Thinking Apart (2022)
Book Chapter
Patel, D., & McCarthy, L. (2022). Drawing Together Thinking Apart. In Empowering Methodologies in Organisational and Social Research. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429352492

Visual participatory research (VPR) methods can be used to illustrate organisational and social phenomena from different viewpoints. Reflecting on a case study into corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Gujarat, India, we show how women and men’s... Read More about Drawing Together Thinking Apart.

The lexicography of Scots (2022)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. The lexicography of Scots. In The New Cambridge Companion to the History of the English Language. Cambridge University Press (CUP). Manuscript submitted for publication

This chapter considers the history of Scots dictionaries in relation to their purposes and the dominant contemporary perceptions of the Scots language. The twenty-first century Scots Dictionary for Schools (Scots Abc) mobile phone application encoura... Read More about The lexicography of Scots.

Surveillance for early detection of high-consequence pests and pathogens (2022)
Book Chapter
Bowers, J., Malayer, J., Martínez-López, B., LaForest, J., Bargeron, C., Neeley, A., …Russo, J. (2022). Surveillance for early detection of high-consequence pests and pathogens. In K. Cardwell, & K. Bailey (Eds.), Tactical Sciences for Biosecurity in Animal and Plant Systems (120-177). Pennsylvania: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7935-0.ch005

Surveillance is one of the core activities of national organizations responsible for human, animal, or plant health, with the goal of demonstrating the absence of infection or infestation, determining the presence or distribution of infection or infe... Read More about Surveillance for early detection of high-consequence pests and pathogens.

In silico models for hepatotoxicity (2022)
Book Chapter
Ellison, C., Hewitt, M., & Przybylak, K. (2022). In silico models for hepatotoxicity. In E. Benfenati (Ed.), In Silico Methods for Predicting Drug Toxicity (2nd edition) (355-392). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1960-5_14

In this chapter, we review the state of the art of predicting human hepatotoxicity using in silico techniques. There has been significant progress in this area over the past 20 years but there are still some challenges ahead. Principally, these chall... Read More about In silico models for hepatotoxicity.

Evaluating the barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practices in smallholder coffee farming : implications for global value chains (2022)
Book Chapter
Akenroye, T., Kumar, M., Dora, M., Ihua, U., Mtonga, V., & Aju, O. (2022). Evaluating the barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practices in smallholder coffee farming : implications for global value chains. In R. Frei, S. Ibrahim, & T. Akenroye (Eds.), Africa and Sustainable Global Value Chains (117-142). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78791-2_6

Purpose: This study aims to access the perception of smallholder coffee farmers on barriers to the adoption of sustainable agriculture practices (SAPs). Methodology: Survey data were obtained through a questionnaire from 122 coffee producers in Ny... Read More about Evaluating the barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practices in smallholder coffee farming : implications for global value chains.

Engineering practices : complexity-diversity-coherence-meaningfulness (2022)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2022). Engineering practices : complexity-diversity-coherence-meaningfulness. In A. Zambroni de Souza, M. Verkerk, & P. Ribeiro (Eds.), Interdisciplinary and Social Nature of Engineering Practices (21-43). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88016-3_2

During the writing of this chapter, a landmark was passed. For the first time, the total mass of humanly created structures and products exceeded the total biomass on earth.