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A survey of MAC protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (2008)
Book Chapter
Papanastasiou, S., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Charissis, V. (2008). A survey of MAC protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. In G. Ming, Y. Pan, & P. Fan (Eds.), Advances in Wireless Networks: Performance Modelling, Analysis and Enhancement. Nova Science Publishers

Book abstract: This book is dedicated to review important developments and results, explore recent state-of-the-art research and discuss new strategies for performance modelling, analysis and enhancement of wireless networks.

An evaluation of prototype VR medical training environment: applied surgical anatomy training for malignant breast disease (2008)
Book Chapter
Ward, B. M., Charissis, V., Rowley, D., Anderson, P., & Brady, L. (2008). An evaluation of prototype VR medical training environment: applied surgical anatomy training for malignant breast disease. In Ebook: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 16 (500-505). IOS Press

This paper presents an enquiry into the suitability of Virtual Reality (VR) technology as the principal training method for applied surgical anatomy. In this work we present the development of a prototype VR medical training environment and the evalu... Read More about An evaluation of prototype VR medical training environment: applied surgical anatomy training for malignant breast disease.

R. H. Tawney. (2008)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2007). R. H. Tawney. In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 271-272. Macmillan Reference USA

Ethical messages: R H. Tawney confronts the information age. (2008)
Book Chapter
Duff, A., & Melville, R. (2008). Ethical messages: R H. Tawney confronts the information age. In R. Keeble (Ed.), Communication Ethics Today, 125-133. Troubador Publishing

This chapter sets ethical thinker R H Tawney in context as a dissident son of the British establishment. We explore the roots of his politics in philosophical idealism and religious socialism, before translating his famous critiques of acquisitivenes... Read More about Ethical messages: R H. Tawney confronts the information age..

This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature. (2008)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2008). This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature. In A. Gąsiorek, & D. Moore (Eds.), Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations (201-216). Rodopi

This chapter argues that the novels of Ford's Parade's End tetralogy occupy a significant place in the development of "disenchanted" fiction about the First World War. The values of Ernest Raymond's patriotic Tell England are contrasted with those of... Read More about This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature..