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Biodiversity conservation: Future challenges
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This chapter examines the implications of multilateralism (section 36.1), the need for policy harmonisation at the international and national level (section 36.2), the influence of north-south dynamics in biodiversity conservation (section 36.3), the... Read More about Biodiversity conservation: Future challenges.

Homelessness in the fiction of Kevin Brooks
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A chapter on homelessness in the fiction of YA writer Kevin Brooks. Initially based on a paper given at The Child and the Book conference in Aveiro, Portugal.

Contemporary landscapes and buildings of motorway service areas
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Motorway Service Areas (MSAs) or Highway Rest Areas provide an essential 24–hour, 365–day service for road traffic users, presenting them with somewhere to rest, relax and recharge. The range of provisions MSAs offer, such as truck and car parking, t... Read More about Contemporary landscapes and buildings of motorway service areas.

What is hindering adaptation to climate change in the English suburbs, and what would help facilitate action?
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Climate change makes many challenges on suburban areas. This chapter focuses on one of the multiple problematics of climate change: the challenge of overheating. Reporting on evidence from the EPSRC-funded SNACC project (EP/G061289/1), the chapter... Read More about What is hindering adaptation to climate change in the English suburbs, and what would help facilitate action?.

Designing for lifelong learning
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Property level flood protection: Technical insights of a new safety flood door
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Governments acknowledge that many buildings cannot be protected from flooding by large-scale flood defence schemes and, therefore, property level flood protection is considered part of an integrated flood risk strategy, requiring homeowners to should... Read More about Property level flood protection: Technical insights of a new safety flood door.

Introduction to environmental regulation and practice in the UK and Europe
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Overview of the regulatory landscape; the development and evolution of industrial regulation in the UK; Policy perspectives on the EU and UK approach to regulation; the emergence of 'better regulation' with illustrations from pioneering initiatives o... Read More about Introduction to environmental regulation and practice in the UK and Europe.

Violence prevention in a global context: Progress and priorities for moving forward
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Measuring rock hardness in the field
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A short field guide to rock surface hardness measurements

Competency recommendations for advancing nursing informatics in the next decade: International survey results
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In 2015, the IMIA-NISIG Student Working group developed and distributed an international survey on current and future trends in nursing informatics, focused on the perspectives of nurse informaticians. The survey was translated into six languages and... Read More about Competency recommendations for advancing nursing informatics in the next decade: International survey results.

Nursing competencies for multiple modalities of connected health technologies
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An overview of the rapid and diverse number developments in health information technologies (HIT) in recent years are described in this chapter and the move towards more integrated and connected health is described. The evolution of HIT is described... Read More about Nursing competencies for multiple modalities of connected health technologies.

Transnational organized crime: The strange career of an American concept
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Risk management and the magical arts: Rituals of risk calculation in the banking industry
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Factors for the design of novel property–level flood resilient products: The Dado Wallboard
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Community-level flood protection cannot guarantee property owners are free from flood risk and, hence, it is the responsibility of property owners themselves to take appropriate action to ensure their properties are suitably protected by flood resist... Read More about Factors for the design of novel property–level flood resilient products: The Dado Wallboard.

Molecular mechanisms conferring resistance/sensitivity to glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis
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Resistance to glucocorticoid induced apoptosis in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) has been attributed to several different processes and pathways including predominance of certain GR isoforms with reduced transcriptional activity, either due to a... Read More about Molecular mechanisms conferring resistance/sensitivity to glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis.

What do you want to make today
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Commissioned essay for the collaborative AHRC-funded project Transforming Artists’ Books, between Tate, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the British Library, July 2012.

http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/transf... Read More about What do you want to make today.

The experience of the industrial temporal object
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In Technics and Time 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise, Bernard Stiegler elaborates his notion of the industrial temporal object in order to characterise the nature of modern industrially produced media forms. This essay will examine Stie... Read More about The experience of the industrial temporal object.

Psychological factors affecting flood coping strategies
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There is an acknowledged need to improve the resilience of those at risk of flooding in areas of the UK. Studies of disaster preparedness worldwide indicate raising awareness of a hazard does not necessarily engender action. In the UK the majority of... Read More about Psychological factors affecting flood coping strategies.

"Three times is enemy action" – flood experiences and flood perceptions
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In the context of anticipated climate change, particularly the frequency and intensity of rainfall events likely to affect the UK in future, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the ways in which people perceive, and therefore respond... Read More about "Three times is enemy action" – flood experiences and flood perceptions.

Artists’ books in the digital age
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Within the last 15 years there has been a rapid growth in artist book production. In part this has been due to increased awareness of the book as an art object which in turn influences teaching practice in art schools, but I believe it is also largel... Read More about Artists’ books in the digital age.