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A semantic representation of the knowledge management enablers domain: The aKMEOnt ontology (2017)
Book Chapter
Sabri, M., Odeh, M., & Saad, M. (2017). A semantic representation of the knowledge management enablers domain: The aKMEOnt ontology. In F. Marimon, M. Mas-Machuca, J. Berbegal-Mirabent, & R. Bastida (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management ECKM 2017

Knowledge management is a significant driver for any enterprise development and evolution as it is engaged with planning, implementing, controlling, monitoring and improving enterprise’s processes and systems. However, organisations are still at a di... Read More about A semantic representation of the knowledge management enablers domain: The aKMEOnt ontology.

Will the Head of Engineering please stand Up? The under-representation of women in engineering (2017)
Book Chapter
Durbin, S., lopes, A., & Warren, S. (2017). Will the Head of Engineering please stand Up? The under-representation of women in engineering. In K. Broadbent, G. Healy, & G. Strachan (Eds.), Gender and the Professions (169-184). London: Routledge

This chapter examines a highly gender segregated area of employment for women – engineering – a profession where this segregation begins at school, continues through to the workplace and is underpinned by gender stereotypical views of what constitute... Read More about Will the Head of Engineering please stand Up? The under-representation of women in engineering.

Career transition (2017)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C., & Davis, M. (2017). Career transition. In J. Taylor (Ed.), Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology. Champaign, Illinois, USA: Human Kinetics

Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology is a comprehensive resource that offers both students and professionals the opportunity to hone their skills to help their clients, starting with the initial consultation and lasting through a long-term relation... Read More about Career transition.

A model of how features of construction projects influence accident occurrence (2017)
Book Chapter
Manu, P. (2017). A model of how features of construction projects influence accident occurrence. In F. Emuze, & J. Smallwood (Eds.), Valuing People in Construction (41-58). Abingdon: Routledge

This book chapter in "Valuing People in Construction" (edited by Emuze, F. and Smallwood, J.) presents a study which sought empirical verification of a model of how construction project features (CPFs) influence accident occurrence. A qualitative str... Read More about A model of how features of construction projects influence accident occurrence.

Profiling health and safety risk associated with construction projects at the pre-construction stage (2017)
Book Chapter
Manu, P. (2017). Profiling health and safety risk associated with construction projects at the pre-construction stage. In F. Emuze, & J. Smallwood (Eds.), Valuing People in Construction. Abingdon: Routledge

This book chapter in "Valuing People in Construction" (edited by Emuze, F. and Smallwood, J.) presents an assessment of the degree of H&S risk associated with construction project features (CPFs) and the subsequent development of a simple tool (nickn... Read More about Profiling health and safety risk associated with construction projects at the pre-construction stage.

Heterodox economics and theories of interactive agency (2017)
Book Chapter
Wrenn, M. (2017). Heterodox economics and theories of interactive agency. In T. Jo, L. Chester, & C. D’Ippoliti (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics. Routledge

Agency is power—the power to act and the power to choose, the power to imagine, and the power to understand, engage, and manipulate the surrounding biological and social environment. Mainstream economics defines agency in terms of methodological indi... Read More about Heterodox economics and theories of interactive agency.

Data collection for a better understanding of what causes flood damage – Experiences with telephone surveys (2017)
Book Chapter
Kreibich, H., Thieken, A., Muller, M., & Lamond, J. (2017). Data collection for a better understanding of what causes flood damage – Experiences with telephone surveys. In D. Molinari, S. Menoni, & F. Ballio (Eds.), Practical Flood Damage Data Collection, Storage and Analysis: New Insights from Research and Practice. Wiley/American Geophysical Union

Starting after the severe flood event of August 2002, computer‐aided telephone interviews (CATI) have repeatedly been used in Germany to remotely collect large standardized data sets on flood losses and possible influencing factors by questioning aff... Read More about Data collection for a better understanding of what causes flood damage – Experiences with telephone surveys.

Trade unions and Euroscepticism: The crisis of 'social Europe' (2017)
Book Chapter
Mathers, A., Milner, S., & Taylor, G. (2017). Trade unions and Euroscepticism: The crisis of 'social Europe'. In N. Startin, & S. Underwood (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Euroscepticism. Routledge

A contribution to the debate over Euroscepticism in relation to civil society associations.

Striking a balance? Comparative and international political economy in times of crisis (2017)
Book Chapter
Walzenbach, G., & Mulé, R. (2017). Striking a balance? Comparative and international political economy in times of crisis. In E. Baroncelli, & R. Mulé (Eds.), The Political Economy of Crisis and Change in the New Global Context (63-96). Milan: Egea

Distinctive institutional organizations of capitalism explain why strong international economic pressures towards convergence have as yet not created a single model for the domestic political economy.

Afrofuturism in the new wave era (2017)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. Afrofuturism in the new wave era. In G. Canavan, & E. C. Link (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

This chapter provides a critical overview of the development of afrofuturism and black sf in the 1960s and 1970s across a range of media: mainstream fiction, popular music, film, comics, prose sf.

The case for an ethical black box (2017)
Book Chapter
Winfield, A. F., & Jirotka, M. (2017). The case for an ethical black box. In Y. Gao (Ed.), Towards Autonomous Robot Systems (1-12). Springer

This paper proposes that robots and autonomous systems should be equipped with the equivalent of a Flight Data Recorder to continuously record sensor and relevant internal status data. We call this an ethical black box. We argue that an ethical black... Read More about The case for an ethical black box.

Feather-inspired sensor for stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles in turbulent conditions (2017)
Book Chapter
Kouppas, C., Pearson, M. J., Dean, P., & Anderson, S. (2017). Feather-inspired sensor for stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles in turbulent conditions. In M. Mangan, M. Cutkosky, A. Mura, P. Verschure, T. Prescott, & N. Lepora (Eds.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (230-241). Springer link

Stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in turbulent conditions is a challenging problem. Typical methods of stabilization do not use feedforward information about the airflow disturbances but only UAV attitude feedback signals, e.g. from an iner... Read More about Feather-inspired sensor for stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles in turbulent conditions.

Thematic analysis (2017)
Book Chapter
Terry, G., Hayfield, N., Clarke, V., & Braun, V. (2017). Thematic analysis. In C. Willig, & W. Stainton Rogers (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology (17-37). (2nd). London: SAGE Publications

Colour printing techniques and new developments in colour printing (2017)
Book Chapter
Parraman, C. (2017). Colour printing techniques and new developments in colour printing. In J. Best (Ed.), Colour design: Theories and application (589-618). London: Woodhead Publishing Ltd

Invited chapter in the book Colour Design: Theories and Applications. In PART 3 COLOUR, DESIGN AND COLORATION this chapter covers: - Hardcopy colour: analogue versus digital - Colour theory in relation to printing - Overview of halftoning and... Read More about Colour printing techniques and new developments in colour printing.

A preference-based application framework for resource-bounded context-aware agents (2017)
Book Chapter
Uddin, I., & Rakib, A. (2017). A preference-based application framework for resource-bounded context-aware agents. In K. J. Kim, & N. Joukov (Eds.), Mobile and Wireless Technologies 2017 (187-196). Springer

Context-awareness is an essential component of mobile and pervasive computing. It refers to the concept that an application understands its context, reason about its current situation, and provide relevant information and/or services to the users. On... Read More about A preference-based application framework for resource-bounded context-aware agents.

Providing a framework for understanding statelessness (2017)
Book Chapter
Cole, P., Bloom, T., & Tonkiss, K. (2017). Providing a framework for understanding statelessness. In P. Cole, T. Bloom, & K. Tonkiss (Eds.), Understanding Statelessness (1-14). London and New York: Routledge

This is an introduction to the book Understanding Statelessness, setting the collection in the context of the current theoretical and political landscape.

Insider theory and the construction of statelessness (2017)
Book Chapter
Cole, P. (2017). Insider theory and the construction of statelessness. In P. Cole, T. Bloom, & K. Tonkiss (Eds.), Understanding Statelessness (255-266). London and New York: Routledge

In this chapter I adopt a 'radically theoretical' perspective to expose and interrogate the assumptions about the political systems in which we live which sit at the heart of political theory and to problematize these from the perspective of stateles... Read More about Insider theory and the construction of statelessness.

An investigation into the use of solar power in cloud computing environment (2017)
Book Chapter
Ogunshile, E. K. A. (2017). An investigation into the use of solar power in cloud computing environment. In D. Ferguson, V. Méndez Muñoz, J. Cardoso, M. Helfert, & C. Pahl (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (755-766). Porto, Portugal: Scitepress. https://doi.org/10.5220/0006380107550766

Cisco predict that by 2019, 86% of computing workloads will be carried out within a cloud computing environment. This is leading to the dramatically increasing need for data centre expansion which in turn is consuming more and more of the world’s nat... Read More about An investigation into the use of solar power in cloud computing environment.