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Generic shape grammars for mass customization of ceramic tableware (2015)
Book Chapter
Castro e Costa, E., & Duarte, J. P. (2015). Generic shape grammars for mass customization of ceramic tableware. In Design Computing and Cognition '14 (437-454). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14956-1_25

Research is currently being developed on mass customization of ceramic tableware. The objective of this research is to allow end users to personalize their tableware sets, namely to determine the shape of its elements. The implementation of mass cust... Read More about Generic shape grammars for mass customization of ceramic tableware.

“Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans (2015)
Book Chapter
Pettit, H. (2015). “Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans. In F. A. Gerges (Ed.), Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings (523-546). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137530868_22

On July 12, 2013, two days into the holy month of Ramadan, I received an invitation to break the fast with Kareem and Islam, two 19-year-old middle-class Egyptians living near downtown Cairo. With both about to commence public university courses, the... Read More about “Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans.

'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology (2015)
Book Chapter
Swanson, G. (2015). 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology. In A. Harris, & T. Jones (Eds.), Love and Romance in Britain, 1918 - 1970 (161-187). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328632

The interwar period is commonly figured as a period of cultural pessimism and uncertainty, as the traumatic wound to hope brought about by of the Great War was translated into an intellectual climate characterized by Richard Overy as a ‘morbid age’.... Read More about 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology.

The politics of redeployment: Malleable technologies and the localisation of anticipatory calculation (2015)
Book Chapter
O'Grady, N. (2015). The politics of redeployment: Malleable technologies and the localisation of anticipatory calculation. In L. Amoore, & V. Piotukh (Eds.), Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in an Age of Big Data (104-121). London: Routledge

This book chapter is a contribution to the book Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in an Age of Big Data. The chapter examines processes through which commercially available credit checking software has been acquired and customized by the UK Fire... Read More about The politics of redeployment: Malleable technologies and the localisation of anticipatory calculation.

Ambient literature: Writing probability (2015)
Book Chapter
Dovey, J. (2016). Ambient literature: Writing probability. In J. D. Bolter, L. Díaz, M. Søndergaard, M. Engberg, & U. Ekman (Eds.), Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter explores what might happen when data aspires to literary form. It presents examples of conventional psycho geographic literature of place to consider what kinds of literary forms are being remediated in pervasive media systems, before tu... Read More about Ambient literature: Writing probability.

Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern? (2015)
Book Chapter
De Laurentis, C., Hodson, M., Marvin, S., & Thompson, M. (2015). Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern?. In Retrofitting Cities: Priorities, Governance and Experimentation (18). London: Routledge

This chapter focuses the manner in which changing UK policies and priorities touch down and are reconstituted in two UK city-regions: Greater Manchester and Cardiff city-region and it is structured as follows. First, it briefly considers how national... Read More about Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern?.

Green infrastructure and urban water management (2015)
Book Chapter
Everett, G., Lamond, J., & Lawson, E. (2015). Green infrastructure and urban water management. In D. Sinnett, S. Burgess, & N. Smith (Eds.), Handbook on Green Infrastructure: Planning, Design and Implementation (50-66). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

This chapter will first outline the many challenges water poses in modern society, considering the increasing frequency and severity of flooding and droughts as inevitable outcomes of potential climate change and increasing impermeable ground-cover t... Read More about Green infrastructure and urban water management.

HSA queuing model (2015)
Book Chapter
Gaster, B., Howes, L., & Hower, D. (2015). HSA queuing model. In W. Hwu (Ed.), Heterogeneous System Architecture: Practical Applications for Industry. Morgan Kaufmann

HSA is a system architecture design for modern computing, integrating CPUs, GPUs, and other accelerators into a single shared memory system. To enable low-latency dispatch between different agents (devices) HSA provides architected queues, which enab... Read More about HSA queuing model.

HSA memory model (2015)
Book Chapter
Gaster, B., Howes, L., & Hower, D. (2015). HSA memory model. In W. Hwu (Ed.), Heterogeneous System Architecture: Practical Applications for Industry. Morgan Kaufmann

The HSA architecture has adopted a variant of the HRF-Relaxed memory model, which allows memory accesses to be controlled via fine grain scopes. This chapter introduces the HSA memory consistency model, how programmers can control memory visibility,... Read More about HSA memory model.

Ensuring green infrastructure for all (2015)
Book Chapter
Greed, C. (2015). Ensuring green infrastructure for all. In S. Burgess, N. Smith, & D. Sinnett (Eds.), Handbook on Green Infrastructure: Planning, Design and Implementation. Edward Elgar

The influences of neighbourhood design and quality on residents’ use of public open space (2015)
Book Chapter
Sinnett, D., Williams, K., Lindsay, M., & Dair, C. (2015). The influences of neighbourhood design and quality on residents’ use of public open space. In N. Smith, S. Burgess, & D. Sinnett (Eds.), Handbook on Green Infrastructure: Planning, Design and Implementation (260-280). Edward Elgar

Good quality public open space (POS) is now an essential component of neighbourhood planning and design. The impact of the quality, design and maintenance of POS on their use has been documented. However, the role that the surrounding neighbourhood m... Read More about The influences of neighbourhood design and quality on residents’ use of public open space.

Green infrastructure and biodiversity in the city: Principles and design (2015)
Book Chapter
Sinnett, D. (2015). Green infrastructure and biodiversity in the city: Principles and design. In D. Sinnett, N. Smith, & S. Burgess (Eds.), Handbook on Green Infrastructure: Planning, Design and Implementation (87-101). Edward Elgar

Globally urbanisation is posing a significant threat to biodiversity. Yet, human health and well-being depend on ecosystem services, which in turn are largely dependent on biodiversity. Despite a range of initiatives and mechanisms to promote nature... Read More about Green infrastructure and biodiversity in the city: Principles and design.

The future of green infrastructure (2015)
Book Chapter
Moffat, A. J., Sinnett, D., Smith, N., & Burgess, S. (2015). The future of green infrastructure. In N. Smith, S. Burgess, & D. Sinnett (Eds.), Handbook on Green Infrastructure: Planning, Design and Implementation (445-464). Edward Elgar

From its origins in nineteenth-century parks green, infrastructure has been an ever-evolving component of cities. This chapter makes some observations based on a number of key trends in society and emerging patterns of green infrastructure provision... Read More about The future of green infrastructure.

Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection (2015)
Book Chapter
Honeychurch, K. C. (2016). Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection. In C. Banks, R. Mortimer, & S. McIntosh (Eds.), Electrochemistry: Volume 13 (1-20). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781782620273-00001

This review describes developments in the design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection. The design and relative merits of both series and parallel electrode systems are examined. The application of liquid chromatography du... Read More about Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection.

Travel writing: Reception and readership (2015)
Book Chapter
Jarvis, R. (2015). Travel writing: Reception and readership. In C. Thompson (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (89-98). London and New York: Routledge