Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments (2018)
Book Chapter
Dias, N., Amaratunga, D., Keraminiyage, K., & Haigh, R. (2018). Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments. In P. Gardoni (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (808-825). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315142074

Today, urban design plays a key role in the creation of sustainable urban environments in terms of the “triple bottom line,” that encompasses the three dimensions of life–economics; social and environmental sustainability.
Even though urban design... Read More about Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments.

Modelling and simulation for the joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of production systems (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Zahedi-Hosseini, F. (2018, December). Modelling and simulation for the joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of production systems. Presented at Winter Simulation Conference 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden

Simulation methodologies are developed to model the joint optimization of preventive maintenance and spare parts inventory for a specific industrial plant under different production configurations. First, spare parts provisioning for a single-line sy... Read More about Modelling and simulation for the joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of production systems.

Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law (2018)
Book Chapter
Sandro, P. (2018). Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law. In J. Hage, P. Westerman, & S. Kirste (Eds.), Legal Validity and Soft Law (99-123). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77522-7_5

Following Kelsen’s influential theory of law, the concept of validity has been used in the literature to refer to different properties of law (such as existence, membership, bindingness, and more) and so it is inherently ambiguous. More importantly,... Read More about Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law.

The disturbance of images (2018)
Book Chapter
Vivian, P. (2018). The disturbance of images. In E. McInnes, & D. Schaub (Eds.), What Happened? Re-presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries (68-81). Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004385931_006

This study explores the appropriation of images, their fracture and unmaking in relation to the practice of collage. It attempts to identify a means of articulating the relationship of trauma occurring within an image, a trauma that results from the... Read More about The disturbance of images.

Virtual ecosystems & video games (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Ali, U. (2018, November). Virtual ecosystems & video games. Presented at CIEEM Autumn Conference 2018 - Advances in Ecological Restoration and Habitat Creation, Glasgow, UK

Excavating the Wear Flint Glass Works, Lisburn Terrace, Sunderland (2018)
Journal Article
Gregory, R., Dungworth, D., Wild, C., & Miller, I. (2018). Excavating the Wear Flint Glass Works, Lisburn Terrace, Sunderland. Archaeologia Aeliana, 47, 271-305

In 2011, an open-area excavation was undertaken on the site of the Wear Flint Glass Works, Sunderland. This glassworks operated throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and was initially engaged in the production of pressed-glass vesse... Read More about Excavating the Wear Flint Glass Works, Lisburn Terrace, Sunderland.

Defiant Confrontation (2018)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2018). Defiant Confrontation. In H. Reckitt (Ed.), Art of Feminism : Images That Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017. San Francisco, USA: Chronicle Books / Tate Publishing, London

An in-depth discussion of the 1988 exhibition, "Along the Lines of Resistance", at Rochdale Art Gallery, and artist Chila Kumari Burman's diptych "Convenience, Not Love", 1985. Themes discussed include South Asian migration to Britain, feminist exhib... Read More about Defiant Confrontation.

Machine learning and DSP algorithms for screening of possible osteoporosis using electronic stethoscopes (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Scanlan, J., Li, F., Umnova, O., Rakoczy, G., & Lövey, N. (2018, October). Machine learning and DSP algorithms for screening of possible osteoporosis using electronic stethoscopes. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Imaging, Signal Processing (ICBSP 2018), Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy

Osteoporosis is a prevalent but asymptomatic condition that affects a large population of the elderly, resulting in a high risk of fracture. Several methods have been developed and are available in general hospitals to indirectly assess the bone qual... Read More about Machine learning and DSP algorithms for screening of possible osteoporosis using electronic stethoscopes.

Making postdramatic theatre : a handbook of devising exercises (2018)
Other
Crossley, T., & Woods, N. (2018). Making postdramatic theatre : a handbook of devising exercises. London

Making Postdramatic Theatre is a workshop handbook for tutors teaching postdramatic practice and for students and makers devising their own performance work. It extends the range of workshop manuals on devised theatre that are currently on the market... Read More about Making postdramatic theatre : a handbook of devising exercises.

Liberalism, lack and living the dream : re-considering youth, consumer sovereignty and the attractions of night-time leisure in Magaluf (2018)
Journal Article
Ellis, A., Briggs, D., Winlow, S., Silva Esquinas, A., Cordero Verdugo, R., & Ramiro Perez Suarez, J. (2018). Liberalism, lack and living the dream : re-considering youth, consumer sovereignty and the attractions of night-time leisure in Magaluf. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2(2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.6446

Much of the academic literature on alcohol-based leisure focuses on the pleasures of hedonism and youthful cultural exploration in environments free from the prescriptions, pressures and routines of everyday life. In this article – in which we presen... Read More about Liberalism, lack and living the dream : re-considering youth, consumer sovereignty and the attractions of night-time leisure in Magaluf.

Refining and testing the diagnostic accuracy of an assessment tool (PAT-POPS) to predict admission and discharge of children and young people who attend an emergency department : protocol for an observational study (2018)
Journal Article
observational study. BMC Pediatrics, 18(303), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1268-7

Background: Increasing attendances by children (aged 0–16 years) to United Kingdom Emergency Departments (EDs) challenges patient safety within the National Health Service (NHS) with health professionals required to make complex judgements on whether... Read More about Refining and testing the diagnostic accuracy of an assessment tool (PAT-POPS) to predict admission and discharge of children and young people who attend an emergency department : protocol for an observational study.

Virtual landscapes : a practice-based exploration of natural environment design (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Ali, U. (2018, August). Virtual landscapes : a practice-based exploration of natural environment design. Presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018, Cardiff, Wales

This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for virtual natural environment (VNE) design in computer and video games. By applying a practice-based research methodology, and a methodological ‘bricolage’, combining reflective practice, pa... Read More about Virtual landscapes : a practice-based exploration of natural environment design.

The agency and value of remakes : the television-to-film adaptation (2018)
Book Chapter
Longden, K. (2018). The agency and value of remakes : the television-to-film adaptation. In L. Raw (Ed.), Adapted From The Original: Essay on the Value and Values of Works Remade for a New Medium (15-20). USA: McFarland

Britain's cold war : culture, modernity and the Soviet threat (2018)
Book
Barnett, N. (2018). Britain's cold war : culture, modernity and the Soviet threat. London: I. B. Tauris

Graduate careers in context : research, policy and practice (2018)
Book
(2018). C. Burke, & F. Christie (Eds.), Graduate careers in context : research, policy and practice. Abingdon, UK: Routledge

In a world where there are increasing concerns about graduate underemployment and likely career trajectories, it is not surprising that there is a significant body of literature examining graduate careers in post-industrial societies. However, it has... Read More about Graduate careers in context : research, policy and practice.

Landscape & games (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Ali, U. (2018, June). Landscape & games. Presented at Introduction to Gaming for Landscape and Software Workshop, Manchester, England

Computer and video gaming technologies, including virtual and augmented realities, have become far more accessible in recent years and their range of applications has widened dramatically. The relevance and potential of interactive and immersive thre... Read More about Landscape & games.

Against nature : the metaphysics of information systems (2018)
Book
Kreps, D. (2018). Against nature : the metaphysics of information systems. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351233828

Against Nature – Chapter Abstracts

Chapter 1. A Transdisciplinary Approach
In this short book you will find philosophy – metaphysical and political - economics, critical theory, complexity theory, ecology, sociology, journalism, and much else... Read More about Against nature : the metaphysics of information systems.

China whispers : the symbolic, economic, and political presence of China in contemporary American science fiction film (2018)
Journal Article
Longden, K. (2018). China whispers : the symbolic, economic, and political presence of China in contemporary American science fiction film. Open Cultural Studies, 2(1), 151-161. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0014

China has long been present in Western science fiction, but largely through notions of Orientalism
and depictions as the 'Yellow Peril'. However, with China's new ascendancy and modernization over the
last 15 years, along with its investment and co... Read More about China whispers : the symbolic, economic, and political presence of China in contemporary American science fiction film.

A view from Northeast Europe : the Baltic States and the Russian regime (2018)
Journal Article
Corum, J. (2018). A view from Northeast Europe : the Baltic States and the Russian regime. South Central Review, 35(1), 127-146. https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2018.0007

The article discusses the position of the Baltic States in regards to their relations with the Putin Regime and how the Putin regime has taken an increasingly hostile stance towards the three Baltic States.

How new nursing roles affect accountability and delegation (2018)
Journal Article
Kendall, N. (2018). How new nursing roles affect accountability and delegation. Nursing Times, 114(4), 45-47

With the emergence of healthcare support staff, the boundaries of the role of registered nurses have been blurred. Often healthcare workers are now allocated tasks that were once the responsibility of qualified nurses. With this change comes a greate... Read More about How new nursing roles affect accountability and delegation.