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Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality? (2014)
Book Chapter
Harding, J., & Irving, A. (2014). Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?. In Anti-social Behaviour in Britain (155-165). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137399311_13

Historically, the visible engagement of homeless people in activities considered to be ‘anti-social’, such as drunkenness and begging, have made them the target of government action on public disorder, engendering antipathy, as much as sympathy, from... Read More about Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?.

Super Mario seriality : Nintendo’s narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry (2014)
Book Chapter

While games studies has theorised the ways in which video games convey narrative it has so far neglected the industrial circumstances that structure these narratives. Using the video game developer, publisher and hardware-manufacturer Nintendo as a c... Read More about Super Mario seriality : Nintendo’s narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry.

Introduction : the contexts of contemporary screen narratives : medium, national, institutional and technological specificities (2014)
Book Chapter
Smith, A., & Pearson, R. (2014). Introduction : the contexts of contemporary screen narratives : medium, national, institutional and technological specificities. In Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age: Exploring Screen Narratives (1-17). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388155_1

The emergence of digital modes of content creation and distribution, combined with the domestication of Internet technology and digital consumption devices, has led to the digital integration of the production and circulation of narrative content acr... Read More about Introduction : the contexts of contemporary screen narratives : medium, national, institutional and technological specificities.

Media ecology (2014)
Book Chapter

An invited entry on the concept of media ecology.

Combining semantic web technologies with evolving fuzzy classifier eClass for EHR-based phenotyping : a feasibility study (2014)
Book Chapter

In parallel to nation-wide efforts for setting up shared electronic health records (EHRs) across healthcare settings, several large-scale national and international projects are developing, validating, and deploying electronic EHR oriented phenotype... Read More about Combining semantic web technologies with evolving fuzzy classifier eClass for EHR-based phenotyping : a feasibility study.

Ontology-based information extraction and reservoir computing for topic detection from blogosphere's content : a case study about BBC backstage (2014)
Book Chapter

This research study aims at detecting topics and extracting themes(subtopics) from the blogosphere’s content while bridging the gap between the Social Web and the Semantic Web. The goal is to detect certain types of information from collections of bl... Read More about Ontology-based information extraction and reservoir computing for topic detection from blogosphere's content : a case study about BBC backstage.

Yarn to fabric : knitting (2014)
Book Chapter
Power, E. (2015). Yarn to fabric : knitting. In R. Sinclair (Ed.), Textiles and fashion : materials, design and technology (289-305). Woodhead Publishing/Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-84569-931-4.00012-X

Knitwear in recent years has gained a significant share of the global fashion market. This is accredited to the acceptability of casual dress and the versatility of the structure range that can be produced on modern knitting machinery. This chapter b... Read More about Yarn to fabric : knitting.

Italy : history (2014)
Book Chapter
Newell, J. (2014). Italy : history. In Western Europe 2015. Routledge

Process innovation in partnering : a framework for aligning organizational cultures in the Malaysian construction industry (2014)
Book Chapter
Abdul Nifa, F., & Ahmed, V. (2014). Process innovation in partnering : a framework for aligning organizational cultures in the Malaysian construction industry. In Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT), 2014 IEEE International Conference on 23-25 Sept. 2014 (442-447). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2014.6942467

Partnering has been formally introduced in the Malaysian construction industry since the year 2009 as a measure to cure the industry's many diseases. Although the Public Private Partnership Unit (3PU) and the Construction Industry Development Board (... Read More about Process innovation in partnering : a framework for aligning organizational cultures in the Malaysian construction industry.

We are all @salfordpsych : the rotation curation approach and Twitter as a learning tool in higher education (2014)
Book Chapter
Condie, J., & Cooper, A. (2014). We are all @salfordpsych : the rotation curation approach and Twitter as a learning tool in higher education. In K. Woodfield (Ed.), Social Media in Social Research : Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries. NatCen Social Research

Book summary: Social Media in Social Research: Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries, is a collection of blogs drawing together the experiences and expertise of over 50 contributors and members of the New Social Media, New Social Science? online community... Read More about We are all @salfordpsych : the rotation curation approach and Twitter as a learning tool in higher education.

Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007) (2014)
Book Chapter

‘Sidney Workman’s Epilogue’ concludes Alasdair Gray’s Old Men in Love (2006) and in so doing notes that Gray has told him that because “this novel would be his last (for he is seventy-two and in poor health) I [Workman] could be sure of having the la... Read More about Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007).