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The Role of Data in Enhancing the Governance of Police Stops in Europe (2023)
Book Chapter
Aston, E., Lennon, G., Mouhanna, C., & Connolly, J. (2023). The Role of Data in Enhancing the Governance of Police Stops in Europe. In E. Aston, S. De Kimpe, J. Fazekas, G. Lennon, & M. Rowe (Eds.), Governing Police Stops Across Europe (197-233). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41363-6_7

In this chapter, we consider some key aspects of data, transparency and accountability of police stops. What practices exist across Europe in relation to the recording of police stops and public availability of data? We explore what is meant by data... Read More about The Role of Data in Enhancing the Governance of Police Stops in Europe.

Early Printing along the IJssel: Contextualising Deventer’s Success as a Centre of Incunabula Production (2023)
Book Chapter
Cooijmans-Keizer, L. (2023). Early Printing along the IJssel: Contextualising Deventer’s Success as a Centre of Incunabula Production. In A. Hagan (Ed.), Spotlights on Incunabula (11-30). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004681378_003

During the latter half of the fifteenth century, the city of Deventer occupied a singular position within the northern Low Countries. As a thriving riverside centre of commercial, ecclesiastical, and scholarly endeavour, it attracted merchants, missi... Read More about Early Printing along the IJssel: Contextualising Deventer’s Success as a Centre of Incunabula Production.

Music in Colour (2023)
Book Chapter
Carmichael, D. (2023). Music in Colour. In R. Sholl (Ed.), Messiaen in Context (240-247). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768290

This chapter provides a neuropsychological account of Messiaen’s well-known sound-to-colour synaesthesia. It offers an overview of the perceptual, cognitive, and neurological mechanisms underlying the condition, with reference to Messiaen’s own exper... Read More about Music in Colour.

Exploring the Role of Worker Co-operatives in the Co-creation of Meaningful Work (2023)
Book Chapter
Langmead, K., & Webster, A. (2023). Exploring the Role of Worker Co-operatives in the Co-creation of Meaningful Work. In J. Manley, A. Webster, & O. Kuznetsova (Eds.), Co-operation and Co-operatives in 21st-Century Europe (60-77). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529226430.ch004

This chapter argues that, by compelling workers to act in the interests of owners, customers and shareholders, work in hierarchical capitalist organizations frequently disconnects workers from their core values and from the communities in which they... Read More about Exploring the Role of Worker Co-operatives in the Co-creation of Meaningful Work.

A Generative Neural Network for Improving Metamorphic Malware Detection in IoT Mobile Devices (2023)
Book Chapter
Turnbull, L., Tan, Z., & Babaagba, K. O. (2024). A Generative Neural Network for Improving Metamorphic Malware Detection in IoT Mobile Devices. In A. Ismail Awad, A. Ahmad, K.-K. Raymond Choo, & S. Hakak (Eds.), Internet of Things Security and Privacy: Practical and Management Perspectives (24-53). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003199410-2

There has been an upsurge in malicious attacks in recent years, impacting computer systems and networks. More and more novel malware families aimed at information assets were launched daily over the past year. A particularly threatening malicious gro... Read More about A Generative Neural Network for Improving Metamorphic Malware Detection in IoT Mobile Devices.

Future Tense - The Challenge of Imagining Alternative Futures (2023)
Book Chapter
Smyth, M. (2023). Future Tense - The Challenge of Imagining Alternative Futures. In Designing in Coexistence – Reflections on Systemic Change (77-88). Croatian Architects’ Association

So why is it so difficult to imagine futures? Not the futures set in galaxies far far away, but the ones connected to the present that lie tantalisingly just beyond the horizon. Futures still tethered to variants of today’s infrastructure. This essay... Read More about Future Tense - The Challenge of Imagining Alternative Futures.

Italy: Post-1990 Policies and Trends at Europe's Southern Border (2023)
Book Chapter
Paynter, E., & Soliman, F. (2023). Italy: Post-1990 Policies and Trends at Europe's Southern Border. In A. Vila-Freyer, & I. Sirkeci (Eds.), Global Atlas of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (161-176). Transnational Press London

This chapter focuses on how Italy’s position as a key port of entry for migrants reaching Europe has influenced shifts in trends and policy, including external border governance, as well as asylum protocols and reception and detention policies. We si... Read More about Italy: Post-1990 Policies and Trends at Europe's Southern Border.

Intrusion Detection Systems Using Machine Learning (2023)
Book Chapter
Taylor, W., Hussain, A., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Ahmad, J. (2024). Intrusion Detection Systems Using Machine Learning. In W. Boulila, J. Ahmad, A. Koubaa, M. Driss, & I. Riadh Farah (Eds.), Decision Making and Security Risk Management for IoT Environments (75-98). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47590-0_5

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) have developed and evolved over time to form an important component in network security. The aim of an intrusion detection system is to successfully detect intrusions within a network and to trigger alerts to system... Read More about Intrusion Detection Systems Using Machine Learning.

Fake News in Social Media: Fake News Themes and Intentional Deception in the News and on Social Media (2023)
Book Chapter
Idrees, H., Dashtipour, K., Hussain, T., & Gogate, M. (2024). Fake News in Social Media: Fake News Themes and Intentional Deception in the News and on Social Media. In W. Boulila, J. Ahmad, A. Koubaa, M. Driss, & I. Riadh Farah (Eds.), Decision Making and Security Risk Management for IoT Environments (219-229). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47590-0_11

From the start of the twenty-first century, online views and clicks have only increased. Within the last twenty years that has embedded through the use of social media. Within the last ten years news can spread on social media before it is shown on t... Read More about Fake News in Social Media: Fake News Themes and Intentional Deception in the News and on Social Media.

People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond (2023)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2023). People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond. In B. D. Kelly, & M. Donnelly (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law (166-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003226413

‘Learning disability’ is currently included in the statutory definition of ‘mental disorder’ used by Scottish capacity and mental health legislation, along with mental illness and personality disorder. This raises the general Convention on the Rights... Read More about People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond.

While Not Having the Last Word … (2023)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2024). While Not Having the Last Word …. In C. Owens (Ed.), Studying Lacan’s Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (166-179). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003450795-8

This chapter traces the final session of Lacan’s Seminar VII where he draws many of the key strands of the seminar together as close as he can to a conclusion. The insights of the seminar are, however, such that the very thinking through of ethics th... Read More about While Not Having the Last Word ….

Witch City's ‘Haunted Happenings’: Managing Authenticity and Edutainment in Salem, Massachusetts (2023)
Book Chapter
Stewart, H., Todd, L., & Ali-Knight, J. (2023). Witch City's ‘Haunted Happenings’: Managing Authenticity and Edutainment in Salem, Massachusetts. In G. Rossetti, B. Wyatt, & J. Ali-Knight (Eds.), Festivals and Edutainment (26-40). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003305415-4

The infamous Salem Witch Trials resulted in the deaths of 20 innocent Puritans accused of witchcraft in 1692. Today, Salem, Massachusetts, has positioned itself as a modern-day Halloween Town where a ‘Disneyfied’ interpretation of its tragic history... Read More about Witch City's ‘Haunted Happenings’: Managing Authenticity and Edutainment in Salem, Massachusetts.

Hip-hop in Scotland: a footnote in the history of popular music? (2023)
Book Chapter
Hook, D. (2023). Hip-hop in Scotland: a footnote in the history of popular music?. In S. Frith, M. Cloonan, & J. Williamson (Eds.), Made in Scotland: Studies in popular music. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247470-15

This chapter explores Scottish hip-hop’s contribution to Scotland’s musical, lyrical and cultural identity. Simultaneously global and local, hip-hop creates opportunities to witness the hybridisation of local culture with new global perspectives and... Read More about Hip-hop in Scotland: a footnote in the history of popular music?.

Use and operational safety (2023)
Book Chapter
Reed, N., Charisis, V., & Cowper, S. (2023). Use and operational safety. In D. Ventriglia, & M. Kahl (Eds.), FISITA Intelligent Safety White Paper – The Safety of Electro-Mobility: Expert considerations on the Safety of an Electric Vehicle from concept through end of life (107-111). FISITA

Whether you are an individual buying your first car or replacing an existing vehicle, or if you are a fleet manager making vehicle purchase decisions on behalf of a company, the acquisition of a car is usually a highly significant purchase. Increasi... Read More about Use and operational safety.

Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals (2023)
Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Matouq, M. (2023). Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals. In W. Leal Filho, N. Aguilar-Rivera, B. Borsari, P. R. de Brito, & B. Andrade Guerra (Eds.), SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region (971-998). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16017-2_70

The identified 169 targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) refer to agriculture and smallholder farmers’ contributions toward eliminating human hunger globally between 2015 and 2030. Notwithstanding the potential of smallholder farming, t... Read More about Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals.

Agroecology as Catalyst for Smallholder Farming Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: Caribbean Region (2023)
Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Matouq, M. (2023). Agroecology as Catalyst for Smallholder Farming Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: Caribbean Region. In W. L. Filho, N. Aguilar-Rivera, B. Borsari, P. R. de Brito, & B. Andrade Guerra (Eds.), SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region (405-427). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16017-2_112

Agriculture production emits approximately 29% of greenhouse gases, contributing to climatic changes. These changes increase pests and disease outbreaks according to the frequency and severity of droughts and floods, which results in crop failures an... Read More about Agroecology as Catalyst for Smallholder Farming Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: Caribbean Region.

Experiences of Design for Disability in Collaborating with Students and Industries (2023)
Book Chapter
Harris, N., & Vasantha, G. Experiences of Design for Disability in Collaborating with Students and Industries. In Future of Design Education: InFuSED23. Springer

This chapter looks at the design and engineering of products to assist people with disability. It looks at the process that companies, disability organisations and universities employ to help develop aids and products that solve various needs. Althou... Read More about Experiences of Design for Disability in Collaborating with Students and Industries.