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Improving gender balance: An action guide for secondary schools (2017)
Other
Earnshaw, H. (2017). Improving gender balance: An action guide for secondary schools

Young people receive and absorb gender stereotyped messages about what they can and cannot do as a girl or as a boy from a very early age. TV, film and social media all tend to perpetuate the notion of distinct female and male behaviours and attribut... Read More about Improving gender balance: An action guide for secondary schools.

Improving gender balance: An action guide for primary schools (2017)
Other
Earnshaw, H. (2017). Improving gender balance: An action guide for primary schools

Children receive and absorb gender stereotyped messages about what they can and cannot do as a girl or as a boy from a very early age. For example, toy manufacturers often market more aggressive toys to boys and more passive toys to girls, constructi... Read More about Improving gender balance: An action guide for primary schools.

Glucose prediction data analytics for diabetic patients monitoring (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huzooree, G., Khedo, K. K., & Joonas, N. (2017, July). Glucose prediction data analytics for diabetic patients monitoring. Presented at 2017 1st International Conference on Next Generation Computing Applications (NextComp), Mauritius

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is one of the leading health complication around the world causing national economic burden and low quality of life. This increases the need to focus on prevention and early detection to improve the management and treatment of... Read More about Glucose prediction data analytics for diabetic patients monitoring.

Towards Next-Generation Lip-Reading Driven Hearing-Aids: A preliminary Prototype Demo (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adeel, A., Gogate, M., & Hussain, A. (2017, August). Towards Next-Generation Lip-Reading Driven Hearing-Aids: A preliminary Prototype Demo. Presented at 1st International Workshop on Challenges in Hearing Assistive Technology (CHAT 2017), Stockholm, Sweden

Speech enhancement aims to enhance the perceived speech quality and intelligibility in the presence of noise. Classical speech enhancement methods are mainly based on audio only processing which often perform poorly in adverse conditions, where overw... Read More about Towards Next-Generation Lip-Reading Driven Hearing-Aids: A preliminary Prototype Demo.

Regulation of the EU Insurance Market. Impact of the Lamfalussy Structure on EU Insurance Acts (2017)
Journal Article
Kunertová, T. (2017). Regulation of the EU Insurance Market. Impact of the Lamfalussy Structure on EU Insurance Acts. The Lawyer Quarterly, 7(2),

Financial services represent a highly regulated area under the law of the European Union. Insurance industry is not an exception. Day by day Member States, insurers and as a consequence consumers as well, have to deal with an avalanche of coming byla... Read More about Regulation of the EU Insurance Market. Impact of the Lamfalussy Structure on EU Insurance Acts.

Bauhaus: El mito de la modernidad (2017)
Digital Artefact
Stutterheim, K., & Bolbrinker, N. (2017). Bauhaus: El mito de la modernidad. [Film]

Es un documental sobre la escuela de arte o diseño, probablemente más conocida de la modernidad. Sus productos “estilo Bauhaus” responden a un diseño estilizado, funcional y moderno. Los profesores que recorrieron sus aulas recibieron reconocimiento... Read More about Bauhaus: El mito de la modernidad.

Women centred care: Diversity of women and approach to perinatal risks (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacVicar, S. (2017, December). Women centred care: Diversity of women and approach to perinatal risks. Presented at HESAV Midwifery Conference and exchange visit, Lausanne, Switzerland

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The BURCHAK corpus: A challenge data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., Mills, G., & Lemon, O. J. (2017, April). The BURCHAK corpus: A challenge data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings. Presented at The Sixth Workshop on Vision and Language, Valencia, Spain

We motivate and describe a new freely available human-human dialogue data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings through ostensive definition by a tutor to a learner. The data has been collected using a novel, character-by-ch... Read More about The BURCHAK corpus: A challenge data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings.

Alana: Social dialogue using an ensemble model and a ranker trained on user feedback (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papaioannou, I., Curry, A. C., Part, J. L., Shalyminov, I., Xu, X., Yu, Y., Dušek, O., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2017, December). Alana: Social dialogue using an ensemble model and a ranker trained on user feedback. Presented at Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 1

We describe our Alexa prize system (called ‘Alana’) which consists of an ensemble of bots, combining rule-based and machine learning systems, and using a contextual ranking mechanism to choose system responses. This paper reports on the version of th... Read More about Alana: Social dialogue using an ensemble model and a ranker trained on user feedback.

VOILA: An optimised dialogue system for interactively learning visually-grounded word meanings (demonstration system) (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2017, August). VOILA: An optimised dialogue system for interactively learning visually-grounded word meanings (demonstration system). Presented at 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Saarbrücken, Germany

We present VOILA: an optimised, multi-modal dialogue agent for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings from a human user. VOILA is: (1) able to learn new visual categories interactively from users from scratch; (2) trained on real hum... Read More about VOILA: An optimised dialogue system for interactively learning visually-grounded word meanings (demonstration system).

Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grubenmann, T., Dell'Aglio, D., Bernstein, A., Moor, D., & Seuken, S. (2017, October). Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It?. Presented at DeSemWeb 2017: Decentralizing the Semantic Web, Vienna

Fueled by enthusiasm of volunteers, government subsidies, and open data legislation, the Web of Data (WoD) has enjoyed a phenomenal growth. Commercial data, however, has been stuck in proprietary silos, as the monetization strategy for sharing data i... Read More about Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It?.

Fundamentals of Project Management: Former MAN471 Module - International Business School Suzhou (2017)
Other
Berberich, R. (2017). Fundamentals of Project Management: Former MAN471 Module - International Business School Suzhou. [Teaching resource]

Introduction to Organization and Management: Former MAN105 Module -International Business School Suzhou (2017)
Other
Berberich, R. (2017). Introduction to Organization and Management: Former MAN105 Module -International Business School Suzhou. [Teaching resource]

Shared Value in SMEs: Evidence from Europe (2017)
Book
Berberich, R. (2017). Shared Value in SMEs: Evidence from Europe. Independently published

Master Thesis in Strategic Project Management concerning 'Shared Value in SMEs'. Shared Value, as a new concept in CSR aims to offer a route to social responsibility that not only 'does good' but is also financially beneficial for the originator.

Creating Shared Value and Increasing Project Success by Stakeholder Collaboration: A Case in European Manufacturing (2017)
Book Chapter
Berberich, R. (2017). Creating Shared Value and Increasing Project Success by Stakeholder Collaboration: A Case in European Manufacturing. In M. A. Camilleri (Ed.), CSR 2.0 and the New Era of Corporate Citizenship. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1842-6.ch006

This chapter introduces the idea of accessing new resources by collaborative interaction with stakeholders to optimize the value chain and product development process. It is acknowledged that Creating Shared Value (CSV) could be a value driver by rev... Read More about Creating Shared Value and Increasing Project Success by Stakeholder Collaboration: A Case in European Manufacturing.

Nanette Norris, ed., Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914–1918 (2017)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2017). Nanette Norris, ed., Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914–1918. Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 4(3), 193-197

Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2017). Introduction. In The Island of Doctor Moreau & Other Stories (x-xxvii). Wordsworth Editions

Project sanitarium: playing tuberculosis to its end game (2017)
Journal Article
Donald, I., Meyer, K. A., Brengman, J., Gillespie, S. H., & Bowness, R. (2017). Project sanitarium: playing tuberculosis to its end game. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 29, 599--617. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-017-9145-1

Interdisciplinary and collaborative projects between industry and academia provide exceptional opportunities for learning. Project Sanitarium is a serious game for Windows PC and Tablet which aims to embed learning about tuberculosis (TB) through the... Read More about Project sanitarium: playing tuberculosis to its end game.

The gamification of cybersecurity training (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coull, N., Donald, I., Ferguson, I., Keane, E., Mitchell, T., Smith, O. V., Stevenson, E., & Tomkins, P. (2017, June). The gamification of cybersecurity training. Presented at 11th International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment 2017

Due to the rapidly and continued evolving nature of technology, there is a constant need to update police officers{\textquoteright} training in cyber security to ensure that the UK continues to be a secure place to live and do business. Rather than d... Read More about The gamification of cybersecurity training.

Photovoltaics fundamentals, technology and application (2017)
Book Chapter
Messenger, R., Goswami, D. Y., Upadhyaya, H. M., Sundaram, S., Ivaturi, A., Buecheler, S., & Tiwari, A. N. (2017). Photovoltaics fundamentals, technology and application. In D. Yogi Goswami, & F. Kreith (Eds.), Energy Conversion (765-850). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315374192-20

Photovoltaic (PV) conversion is the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity with no intervening heat engine. This chapter briefly reviews the physics of PV electrical generation, followed by a discussion of the PV system design process. The PV... Read More about Photovoltaics fundamentals, technology and application.