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A Fast Inference Framework for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation Tasks Using Deep Learning Framework (2022)
Book Chapter
Yang, S., & Li, Y. (2022). A Fast Inference Framework for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation Tasks Using Deep Learning Framework. In C. H. Chen (Ed.), Computational Intelligence and Image Processing in Medical Applications (157-174). World Scientific Pub

Deep neural network powered semantic segmentation implementation has great advantages of providing accurate object detection using pixel-based classification; however, when this technique is applied within resource-constrained platforms, such as mobi... Read More about A Fast Inference Framework for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation Tasks Using Deep Learning Framework.

Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective (2022)
Book Chapter
Garavan, T., O’Brien, F., Power, C., Matthews-Smith, G., & Buckley, J. (2022). Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective. In P. Holland, T. Bartram, T. Garavan, & K. Grant (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Work

In this chapter, we propose that EETPs should be understood as a lifelong dynamic process and highlight how entrepreneur knowledge, skills and abilities develop across the lifespan (Bohlmann et al., 2017; Brieger et al., 2021). A lifespan theory pers... Read More about Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective.

Nanotechnology-Based Treatment Strategies for the Removal of Antibiotics and Their By-Products from Wastewater (2022)
Book Chapter
Pachamal, N., Dharmarajan, R., Sundaram, S. S., & Rajendran, S. (2022). Nanotechnology-Based Treatment Strategies for the Removal of Antibiotics and Their By-Products from Wastewater. In P. Chakraborty, & D. Snow (Eds.), Legacy and Emerging Contaminants i

Antibiotic resistance has become a serious issue throughout the world due to its inappropriate use and overdosing in pharmaceutical therapies and veterinary and agricultural applications. The cause of increasing antibiotic resistance is the slow and... Read More about Nanotechnology-Based Treatment Strategies for the Removal of Antibiotics and Their By-Products from Wastewater.

Cyber Threats in the Healthcare Sector and Countermeasures (2022)
Book Chapter
Ahmed, M. M., Maglaras, L., & Ferrag, M. A. (2022). Cyber Threats in the Healthcare Sector and Countermeasures. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Research Anthology on Securing Medical Systems and Records. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6311-6.ch0

Healthcare is one of the most targeted industries by cybercriminals. The healthcare sector is far behind in cybersecurity as compared to other organizations. The vulnerabilities in the system open the door for cybercriminals to exploit it and get una... Read More about Cyber Threats in the Healthcare Sector and Countermeasures.

The Nature and Role of Visitor Attraction (2022)
Book Chapter
Leask, A. (2022). The Nature and Role of Visitor Attraction. In A. Fyall, B. Garrod, A. Leask, & S. Wanhill (Eds.), Managing Visitor Attractions. (3rd). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003041948-2

Visitor attractions play a vital role in the development and success of tourism destination. The aim of this chapter is first to define the terms ‘visitor attraction’ and ‘tourism destination’, showing how they are distinct yet increasingly overlappi... Read More about The Nature and Role of Visitor Attraction.

Gamified Learning in Higher Education: An Instructional Design Method to Improve Engagement (2022)
Book Chapter
Garden, C., & Rivera, E. (2022). Gamified Learning in Higher Education: An Instructional Design Method to Improve Engagement. In O. Bernardes, V. Amorim, & A. Carrizo Moreira (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Influence and Effectiveness of Gamification

Gamification and Design Thinking can be thought of as part of Instructional Design (ID) in the Higher Education (HE) context. Each of these fields has much to learn from the others. For example, although there is a lack of agreed method to gamify lea... Read More about Gamified Learning in Higher Education: An Instructional Design Method to Improve Engagement.

Interpretation at heritage sites: Culloden Battlefield, UK (2022)
Book Chapter
Urquhart, E. (2022). Interpretation at heritage sites: Culloden Battlefield, UK. In A. Fyall, B. Garrod, A. Leask, & S. Wanhill (Eds.), Managing Visitor Attractions. (3rd edn). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003041948-28

This chapter presents a case study that explores heritage interpretation within the context of Culloden Battlefield, UK. The case will initially consider the challenges and issues inherent to the interpretation of sensitive heritage before exploring... Read More about Interpretation at heritage sites: Culloden Battlefield, UK.

Biosurfactant Production by Mycolic Acid-Containing Actinobacteria (2022)
Book Chapter
Stainsby, F. M., Hodar, J., & Vaughan, H. (2022). Biosurfactant Production by Mycolic Acid-Containing Actinobacteria. In W. N. Hozzein (Ed.), Actinobacteria - Diversity, Applications and Medical Aspects. London: InTech. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.

The Actinobacteria produce an array of valuable metabolites including biosurfactants which are gaining increased attention in the biotechnology industries as they are multifunctional, biorenewable and generally superior to chemically synthesized comp... Read More about Biosurfactant Production by Mycolic Acid-Containing Actinobacteria.

Concern for heavy metal ion water pollution: Their strategic detection and removal opportunities (2022)
Book Chapter
Velusamy, S., Roy, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2022). Concern for heavy metal ion water pollution: Their strategic detection and removal opportunities. In M. Kumar, S. Mohapatra, & K. Acharya (Eds.), Contaminants of Emerging Concerns and Reigning

Unsatisfactory insubstantial infrastructure and restricted management systems increase the possibility of water stress and may lead to a predictable water crisis in many locations. The water stress arises due to massive urbanisation and industrialisa... Read More about Concern for heavy metal ion water pollution: Their strategic detection and removal opportunities.

Artificial Intelligence: Practical and Ethical Challenges (2022)
Book Chapter
Rice, S., & Maglaras, L. (2022). Artificial Intelligence: Practical and Ethical Challenges. In M. Ahmed, S. Rabiul Islam, A. Anwar, N. Moustafa, & A. Khan Pathan (Eds.), Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (59-71). Springer. https://do

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) is used everywhere in daily life from speech recognition on our phones, targeted marketing strategies & face recognition without the majority of society even realising it. The power of technology a... Read More about Artificial Intelligence: Practical and Ethical Challenges.

Lifelong Learning Machines: Towards Developing Optimisation Systems That Continually Learn (2022)
Book Chapter
Hart, E. (2022). Lifelong Learning Machines: Towards Developing Optimisation Systems That Continually Learn. In A. E. Smith (Ed.), Women in Computational Intelligence: Key Advances and Perspectives on Emerging Topics (187-203). Springer. https://doi.org/1

Standard approaches to developing optimisation algorithms tend to involve selecting an algorithm and tuning it to work well on a large set of problem instances from the domain of interest. Once deployed, the algorithm remains static, failing to impro... Read More about Lifelong Learning Machines: Towards Developing Optimisation Systems That Continually Learn.

Scotland (2022)
Book Chapter
Morrison, K., & Graham, H. (2022). Scotland. In F. Dünkel, S. Harrendorf, & D. van Zyl Smit (Eds.), The Impact of COVID-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy. London: Routledge

The COVID-19 pandemic has been disruptive and halting in its impact on Scottish justice. This chapter offers an overview of how the pandemic has affected Scottish prisons and how authorities and decision-makers have responded. In giving an emerging a... Read More about Scotland.

Vivid Stories: Oral histories, collective memory and constructing Scottish jazz pasts within the contemporary scene (2022)
Book Chapter
Maclean, D. (in press). Vivid Stories: Oral histories, collective memory and constructing Scottish jazz pasts within the contemporary scene. In Á. Havas, B. Johnson, & D. Horn (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. Routledge

This chapter draws on the production and content of the Scottish Jazz Archive (SJA) oral histories collection alongside interviews from a PLACE (Scottish Government) funded research project focused on the contemporary jazz scene in Scotland. We consi... Read More about Vivid Stories: Oral histories, collective memory and constructing Scottish jazz pasts within the contemporary scene.

Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism (2022)
Book Chapter
Wairuri, K. (2022). Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism. In J. Bach (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa (354-366). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426957-34

This chapter seeks to understand the designation of Kenya as a competitive authoritarian state through an examination of the use of the state police to, as it were, police politics. The use of state security apparatuses to enhance the capacity of the... Read More about Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism.

The Real Housewives of Ipswich: London Road, and the Relationship between Verbatim Theatre and Structured Reality Television (2022)
Book Chapter
Soto-Morettini, D. (2022). The Real Housewives of Ipswich: London Road, and the Relationship between Verbatim Theatre and Structured Reality Television. In S. Homan (Ed.), Playing with Reality: Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What Is Ther

Verbatim Theatre and structured ‘reality television’ are rarely compared. But should they be? Constructed from the ‘real’, and relying on our faith that what we are watching is authentic, how do these forms differ? Why do we seem to bring a differ... Read More about The Real Housewives of Ipswich: London Road, and the Relationship between Verbatim Theatre and Structured Reality Television.

Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle (2022)
Book Chapter
Thomas, S., White, C., Dougall, N., & Heyman, I. (2022). Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle. In I. Bartkowiak-Théron, J. Clover, D. Martin, R. Southby, & N. Crofts (Eds.), Law enforcement and public health: Partners for Community Safet

Commonly, in the course of their duties, the police will come into contact with people who have a lived experience of mental illness. It is acknowledged that these contacts can and do happen for a wide variety of reasons and in a broad range of circu... Read More about Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle.

Manufacturing A Biogenic Built Environment (2022)
Book Chapter
Hairstans, R. Manufacturing A Biogenic Built Environment. In Timber Industry Yearbook 2022 (77-81). Buckinghamshire: BM TRADA

Robert Hairstans discusses the Biogenic Built Environment Framework: collaborative projects where research, innovation, commercialisation and education work in concert.

A national approach: Foregrounding programme leadership in Scotland (2022)
Book Chapter
Caddell, M., Ellis, S., Haddow, C., & Davis, K. (2022). A national approach: Foregrounding programme leadership in Scotland. In J. Lawrence, S. Morón-García, & R. Senior (Eds.), Supporting Course and Programme Leaders in Higher Education: Practical Wisd

This chapter explores programme leadership in a collaborative, multi-institutional context arguing cross-institutional connection offers programme leaders (PLs) opportunities for greater depth of learning and opportunities to build networks and platf... Read More about A national approach: Foregrounding programme leadership in Scotland.