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A case study on the use of meditation techniques to develop mindfulness in MBA supply chain management students (2018)
Book Chapter
Kelly, S., Marshall, D., McCarthy, L., & Pugh, J. (2018). A case study on the use of meditation techniques to develop mindfulness in MBA supply chain management students. In The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment (1095-1113). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62163-0_42

An increased focus on spirituality and mindfulness in the management education literature has resulted in calls for greater empirical work of a nontraditional nature. Therefore, this research looks to contribute to this growing body of literature by... Read More about A case study on the use of meditation techniques to develop mindfulness in MBA supply chain management students.

Exploring guerilla gardening : gauging public views on the grassoots activity (2018)
Book Chapter
Hardman, M., Larkham, P., & Adams, D. (2018). Exploring guerilla gardening : gauging public views on the grassoots activity. In C. Tornaghi, & C. Certoma (Eds.), Urban Gardening as Politics (148-166). London, UK: Routledge/CRC Press (Taylor & Francis)

There is a noteworthy gap in recent research on the growing activity of guerrilla gardening. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a voice to those who dwell or work close to sites which have been colonized by guerrilla gardeners. It explores per... Read More about Exploring guerilla gardening : gauging public views on the grassoots activity.

Survival model with doubly interval-censored data and time-dependent covariates (2018)
Book Chapter
Kiani, K., & Arasan, J. (2018). Survival model with doubly interval-censored data and time-dependent covariates. In Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science. Newswood Limited

In this paper a survival model with doubly interval censored (DIC) data and time dependent covariate is discussed. DIC data usually arise in follow-up studies where the lifetime, T = W − V is the elapsed time between two related events, the first eve... Read More about Survival model with doubly interval-censored data and time-dependent covariates.

Stylistics : studying literary and everyday style in English (2018)
Book Chapter
McIntyre, D., & Price, H. (2018). Stylistics : studying literary and everyday style in English. In A. Hewings, P. Seargeant, & S. Pihlaja (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies (327-344). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351001724-23

Stylistics is often defined as the linguistic study of style in language. Style arises from motivated choice and choices have consequences. Stylistic analysis necessitates both linguistic description and an assessment of the interpretative consequenc... Read More about Stylistics : studying literary and everyday style in English.

German-speaking refugee women architects before the Second World War (2018)
Book Chapter
Poppelreuter, T. (2018). German-speaking refugee women architects before the Second World War. In H. Seražin, E. Garda, & C. Franchini (Eds.), Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018) : Toward a New Perception and Reception (697-705). ZRC Publishing House

In Germany and Austria women began to enter the architectural profession in the late 19th century and by the late 1930s some women architects had found working opportunities. After Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933, discrimination and anti-Semit... Read More about German-speaking refugee women architects before the Second World War.

A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector (2018)
Book Chapter
Ravasan, A., & Mansouri, T. (2018). A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector. In Intelligent systems : concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications (1050-1067). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5643-5.ch044

Data mining has a tremendous contribution for researchers to extract the hidden knowledge and information which have been inherited in the raw data. This study has proposed a brand new and practical fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) based weighte... Read More about A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector.

ICNP® in nursing documentation – when expectations meet reality (2018)
Book Chapter
Østensen, E., Bragstad, L., Hardiker, N., & Hellesø, R. (2018). ICNP® in nursing documentation – when expectations meet reality. In A. Rotegård, D. Skiba, S. Barbosa, & A. Davalos Alcázar (Eds.), Nursing Informatics 2018 (235-235). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-872-3-235

The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) terminology was in 2016 implemented in three Norwegian municipalities through the introduction of five standardized care plans in the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system. This poste... Read More about ICNP® in nursing documentation – when expectations meet reality.

Learning theory for personal and professional development (2018)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J., & Warburton, T. (2018). Learning theory for personal and professional development. In A. Darvill, M. Stephens, & J. Leigh (Eds.), Transition to Nursing Practice : from student to registered nurse (97-115). SAGE Publishing

Chapter Aims - After reading this chapter you will be able to: Discuss the relevance of understanding how you learn to transition Explain key learning theories relating to transition and your learning journey Understand your learning pr... Read More about Learning theory for personal and professional development.

Identifying and developing clinical leadership in relation to transition (2018)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J., & Chadwick, A. (2018). Identifying and developing clinical leadership in relation to transition. In A. Darvill, M. Stephens, & J. Leigh (Eds.), Transition to Nursing Practice : from student to registered nurse (116-133). SAGE Publishing

Aims of the chapter - After reading this chapter you will be able to: Describe the differences between leadership and management and their relevance to transition Examine what is meant by clinical leadership Explore the NHS Healthcare Leade... Read More about Identifying and developing clinical leadership in relation to transition.

In search of lost purpose : the dream life of digital (2018)
Book Chapter
Ochu, E. (2018). In search of lost purpose : the dream life of digital. In C. Costa, & J. Condie (Eds.), Doing Research In and On the Digital : Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry (170-188). Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

Beyond making the findings discoverable and accessible to non-academics, how else might the cultural legacy of digital science projects be broadened when they are finished? How might the before and afterlives of these projects be experienced, by whom... Read More about In search of lost purpose : the dream life of digital.

Exploring breast cancer bloggers’ lived experiences of ‘survivorship’ : the ethics of gaining access, analysing discourse and fulfilling academic requirements (2018)
Book Chapter
Ure, C. (2018). Exploring breast cancer bloggers’ lived experiences of ‘survivorship’ : the ethics of gaining access, analysing discourse and fulfilling academic requirements. In C. Costa, & J. Condie (Eds.), Doing Research In and On the Digital : research methods across fields of inquiry (66-82). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315561622-5

This chapter reflects on the ethical challenges arising from a study, carried out for an MSc-level dissertation, which used personal blogs written by women living with and beyond breast cancer. It explores how women blogged about their experiences of... Read More about Exploring breast cancer bloggers’ lived experiences of ‘survivorship’ : the ethics of gaining access, analysing discourse and fulfilling academic requirements.

A novel approach for establishing design criteria for refugees' shelters (2018)
Book Chapter
Abumaradan, R., & Trillo, C. (2018). A novel approach for establishing design criteria for refugees' shelters. In New Metropolitan Perspectives (422-432). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92099-3_48

There is currently growing interest amongst the international community of policy makers about finding solutions for accommodating refugees, who currently concentrate mainly in countries located in the MENA region such as Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Palestin... Read More about A novel approach for establishing design criteria for refugees' shelters.

An SME-driven approach to adopting measures of flood resilience : a UK-based perspective (2018)
Book Chapter
Ingirige, B., & Wedawatta, G. (2018). An SME-driven approach to adopting measures of flood resilience : a UK-based perspective. In S. Amir (Ed.), The Sociotechnical Constitution of Resilience : A New Perspective on Governing Risk and Disaster (245-264). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8509-3

This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe disruption. Catastrophic even... Read More about An SME-driven approach to adopting measures of flood resilience : a UK-based perspective.

Ethical practice for the playwork practitioner (2018)
Book Chapter
Stonehouse, D. (2018). Ethical practice for the playwork practitioner. In F. Brown, & M. Wragg (Eds.), Play and Playwork: Notes and Reflections in a Time of Austerity. London: Routledge

This paper discusses the importance of ethics for play and playwork practitioners as the sector and work force move towards becoming a recognised profession within the United Kingdom. Exactly what is meant by the term ethics is defined, before moving... Read More about Ethical practice for the playwork practitioner.

Japan : fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (2018)
Book Chapter
Hernandez Perez, M. (2018). Japan : fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In M. Freeman, & W. Proctor (Eds.), Global convergence cultures : transmedia Earth (175-191). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315188478-11

The chapter aims to examine the concept of transmediality (or cross-mediality) in relation to institutional communication in Japan. To do this, it examines several case studies within the current Japanese society, with special attention to crisis com... Read More about Japan : fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Streamlining a design, manufacture, and fitting workflow within a UK fit-out SME : a BIM implementation case study (2018)
Book Chapter
Underwood, J., Shelbourn, M., Fleming, A., Heywood, J., & Roberts, I. (2018). Streamlining a design, manufacture, and fitting workflow within a UK fit-out SME : a BIM implementation case study. In B. Kumar (Ed.), Contemporary Strategies and Approaches in 3-D Information Modeling (242-266). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5625-1.ch010

A 30-month project is presented that is enabled through a knowledge transfer partnership government-funded initiative between the University of Salford and Links FF&E – a design, manufacture, and fit-out SME in the UK. The project is aiming to implem... Read More about Streamlining a design, manufacture, and fitting workflow within a UK fit-out SME : a BIM implementation case study.

Leveraging machine learning techniques for Windows ransomware network traffic detection (2018)
Book Chapter
Alhawi, O., Baldwin, J., & Dehghantanha, A. (2018). Leveraging machine learning techniques for Windows ransomware network traffic detection. In A. Dehghantanha, M. Conti, & T. Dargahi (Eds.), Cyber Threat Intelligence (93-106). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73951-9_5

Ransomware has become a significant global threat with the ransomware-as-a-service model enabling easy availability and deployment, and the potential for high revenues creating a viable criminal business model. Individuals, private companies or publi... Read More about Leveraging machine learning techniques for Windows ransomware network traffic detection.