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Smart contracts and payment in UK construction: the legal framework. (2022)
Book Chapter
CHRISTIE, D.S. and MANTE, J. 2022. Smart contracts and payment in UK construction: the legal framework. In Dounas, T. and Lombardi, D. (eds.) Blockchain for construction. Singapore: Springer [online], pages 167-184. Available from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3759-0_9

This chapter critically evaluates the way in which the existing United Kingdom (UK) construction payment regime will function with – and assist – payment mechanisms which utilise smart contracts. Blockchain is one of several new developments in the i... Read More about Smart contracts and payment in UK construction: the legal framework..

The promise of blockchain for the construction industry: a governance lens. (2022)
Book Chapter
HUNHEVICZ, J., DOUNAS, T. and HALL, D.M. 2022. The promise of blockchain for the construction industry: a governance lens. In Dounas, T. and Lombardi, D. (eds.) Blockchain for construction. Singapore: Springer [online], pages 5-33. Available from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3759-0_2

This chapter outlines the promise of blockchain for the construction industry. Blockchain is an opportunity to create novel forms of economic coordination toward better collaboration within and across the built asset life cycle phases. Ongoing resear... Read More about The promise of blockchain for the construction industry: a governance lens..

Decentralised autonomous organisations for the AEC and design industries. (2022)
Book Chapter
LOMBARDI, D. and DOUNAS, T. 2022. Decentralised autonomous organisations for the AEC and design industries. In Dounas, T. and Lombardi, D. (eds.) Blockchain for construction. Singapore: Springer [online], pages 35-45. Available from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3759-0_3

The chapter presents the concept of Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) and discusses what the current and possible applications are in relation to the AEC, design and design-linked industries. The chapter first introduces theoretical aspects... Read More about Decentralised autonomous organisations for the AEC and design industries..

Collective digital factories for buildings: stigmergic collaboration through cryptoeconomics. (2022)
Book Chapter
DOUNAS, T., LOMBARDI, D. and JABI, W. 2022. Collective digital factories for buildings: stigmergic collaboration through cryptoeconomics. In Dounas, T. and Lombardi, D. (eds.) Blockchain for construction. Singapore: Springer [online], pages 207-228. Available from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3759-0_11

The chapter describes conceptually how a blockchain (BC), through smart contracts (SC) and tokenisation, can act as a stigmergic information layer for the creation of collective digital factories in construction. The chapter focuses on the orchestrat... Read More about Collective digital factories for buildings: stigmergic collaboration through cryptoeconomics..

Blockchain technologies in construction. (2022)
Book Chapter
DOUNAS, T. and LOMBARDI, D. 2022. Blockchain technologies in construction. In Dounas, T. and Lombardi, D. (eds.) Blockchain for construction. Singapore: Springer [online], pages 1-4. Available from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3759-0_1

The purpose of this volume is to inform the reader on the state of affairs of a new subset of construction informatics, Blockchain (B) and Decentralized Ledger Technologies (DLT)s. The initial motivation for writing and editing this volume was that w... Read More about Blockchain technologies in construction..

Urban and architectural ambiences' complexities in the nineteenth-century colonial markets: the case of the Saharan city of Biskra, Algeria. (2022)
Book Chapter
BENNADJI, A., BELAKEHAL, A., SEDDIKI, M. and TABET AOUL, K. 2023. Urban and architectural ambiences' complexities in the nineteenth-century colonial markets: the case of the Saharan city of Biskra, Algeria. In Hamza, N. (ed.) Architecture and urban transformation of historical markets: cases from the Middle East and North Africa. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 5, pages 67-78. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003143208-7

In Algeria, the adoption of colonial markets (halles) highlights how various environmental parameters created a distinctive architecture in which daylight, ventilation, and acoustics were centrally based on sensorial relationships. Using thematic con... Read More about Urban and architectural ambiences' complexities in the nineteenth-century colonial markets: the case of the Saharan city of Biskra, Algeria..

Framework for detecting APTs based on steps analysis and correlation. (2022)
Book Chapter
EKE, H.N., PETROVSKI, A., AHRIZ, H. and AL-KADRI, M.O. 2022. Framework for detecting APTs based on steps analysis and correlation. In Abbaszadeh, M. and Zemouche, A. (eds.) Security and resilience in cyber-physical systems: detection, estimation and control. Cham: Springer [online], chapter 6, pages 119-147. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97166-3_6

An advanced persistent threatAdvanced persistent threat, (APTAPT), is an attack that uses multiple attack behavior to penetrate a system, achieve specifically targeted and highly valuable goals within a system. This type of attack has presented an in... Read More about Framework for detecting APTs based on steps analysis and correlation..

One size fits all? The problems of offering ethical guidance to everyone. (2022)
Book Chapter
SPICKER, P. 2023 One size fits all? The problems of offering ethical guidance to everyone. In Iphofen, R. and O'Mathuna, D. (eds.) Ethical evidence and policymaking: interdisciplinary and international research. Bristol: Policy press [online], chapter 2, pages 40-55. Available from: https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447363972-005

The conventional wisdom of research ethics has developed from the Nuremberg Code and related guidance about medical research. Complaints about ethical review bodies often reflect the application of rules designed for a quite different kind of researc... Read More about One size fits all? The problems of offering ethical guidance to everyone..

Ethical research in public policy. (2022)
Book Chapter
SPICKER, P. 2023. Ethical research in public policy. In Iphofen, R. and O'Mathuna, D. (eds.) Ethical evidence and policymaking: interdisciplinary and international research. Bristol: Policy press [online], chapter 7, pages 139-150. Available from: https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447363972-010

Public policy research is research for a purpose, guided by a distinctive range of normative considerations. The values are the values of public service; the work is generally done in the public domain; and the research is an intrinsic part of the de... Read More about Ethical research in public policy..

Post-COVID-19 and African agenda for a green recovery: lessons from the European Union and the United States of America. (2022)
Book Chapter
ASEKOMEH, A., AZUBUIKE, S.I. and GERSHON, O. 2022. Post-COVID-19 and African agenda for a green recovery: lessons from the European Union and the United States of America. In Osabuohein, E., Odularu, G., Ufua, D. and Osabohein, R. (eds.). COVID-19 in the African continent: sustainable development and socioeconomic shocks. Bingley: Emerald [online], pages 309-322. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-686-620221028

The concept of a ‘green new deal’ for Africa will provide a joined-up approach to managing the impact of extreme climatic events. In this regard, the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) green deal arrangements offer Africa lessons to consi... Read More about Post-COVID-19 and African agenda for a green recovery: lessons from the European Union and the United States of America..

Tackling climate change in Africa through corporate social responsibility. (2022)
Book Chapter
LIEDONG, T.A., AJIDE, O.E. and OSOBAJO, O.A. 2022. Tackling climate change in Africa through corporate social responsibility. In Idemudia, U., Tuokuu, F.X.D. and Liedong, T.A. (eds.) Business and sustainable development in Africa: medicine or placebo? London: Routledge [online], pages 118-139. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003038078-7

Africa is the world's most vulnerable region to climate change despite being the least contributor to carbon emissions and global warming. This chapter discusses the challenges climate change poses to African countries, including the adverse effects... Read More about Tackling climate change in Africa through corporate social responsibility..

Making politics: engaged social tactics. (2022)
Book Chapter
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. 2022. Making politics: engaged social tactics. In burrough, x. and Walgren, J. (eds.) Art as social practice: technologies for change. New York: Routledge [online], chapter 10, pages 126-136. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169109-13

In this interview, Joseph DeLappe describes a lineage of works and circumstances that led to a series of community-based and crowdsourced projects to encourage participation and creative critical action with participants, volunteers, and collaborator... Read More about Making politics: engaged social tactics..

A comparative study of deep-learning models for COVID-19 diagnosis based on X-ray images. (2022)
Book Chapter
SIDDIQUI, S., HOSSAIN, E., FERDOUS, R., ARIFEEN, M., RAHMAN, W., MASUM, S., HOPGOOD, A., GOOD, A. and GEGOV, A. 2022. A comparative study of deep-learning models for COVID-19 diagnosis based on X-ray images. In Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C., Littlewood, J.R. and Balas, M.M. (eds.) Smart and sustainable technology for resilient cities and communities. Singapore: Springer [online], pages 163-174. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9101-0_12

Background: The rise of COVID-19 has caused immeasurable loss to public health globally. The world has faced a severe shortage of the gold standard testing kit known as reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The accuracy of RT-PCR... Read More about A comparative study of deep-learning models for COVID-19 diagnosis based on X-ray images..

Dada and the absurd: pedagogies of art and survival. (2022)
Book Chapter
DOUGLAS, A. 2022. Dada and the absurd: pedagogies of art and survival. In T. Ingold (Ed.), Knowing from the inside: cross-disciplinary experiments with matters of pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 9, pages 189-211. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350217171.ch-009

In the early 1970s Allan Kaprow, artist, theorist and educator, wrote three essays entitled The Education of the Un-artist I, II and III. From the late 1950s Kaprow had been instrumental in the development of what he called 'Happenings' and was part... Read More about Dada and the absurd: pedagogies of art and survival..

The Scottish Innovative Student Award (SISA): preparing students to tackle wicked problems. [Book chapter] (2022)
Book Chapter
DAVIDSON, A., BREMNER, P. and PERKINS, J. 2022. The Scottish Innovative Student Award (SISA): preparing students to tackle wicked problems. In Norton, S. and Penaluna, A. (eds.) 3 Es for wicked problems: employability, enterprise and entrepreneurship: solving wicked problems. York: Advance HE [online], pages 41-47. Available from: https://bit.ly/3sm0rYF

This case study presents the Scottish Innovative Student Award (SISA), which aims to recognise students' high-level skills development within existing academic modules, as well as providing an opportunity for students to confront problems in new ways... Read More about The Scottish Innovative Student Award (SISA): preparing students to tackle wicked problems. [Book chapter].

Abstract police organisations: distantiation, decontextualisation and digitalisation. (2022)
Book Chapter
TERPSTRA, J., SALET, R. and FYFE, N.R. 2022. Abstract police organisations: distantiation, decontextualisation and digitalisation. In Verhage, A., Easton, M. and de Kimpe, S. (eds.) Policing in smart societies: reflections on the abstract police. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online], pages 9-26. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83685-6_2

Over the past years, police organisations in many Western European countries have witnessed a range of important changes. To gain a better understanding of these changes, a new ideal-typical concept was introduced: the abstract police. Both in their... Read More about Abstract police organisations: distantiation, decontextualisation and digitalisation..

The accommodation of precursor crimes within extradition. (2022)
Book Chapter
ARNELL, P. 2022. The accommodation of precursor crimes within extradition. In Walker, C., Llobet Anglí, M. and Meliá, M.C. (eds.) Precursor crimes of terrorism: the criminalisation of terrorism risk in comparative perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing [online], chapter 16, pages 240-253. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976329.00025

Extradition is the formal legal process whereby accused and convicted persons are transferred from one state or territory to another. It has a considerable pedigree and contains some common features. Several of these features have evolved in the late... Read More about The accommodation of precursor crimes within extradition..

Género y derechos humanos. (2021)
Book Chapter
SÁNCHEZ MERA, S. 2021. Género y derechos humanos. In Lecciones de derecho internacional de los derechos humanos. Santiago del Estero, Argentina; Universidad Católica de Santiago del Estero (USCE) [online], pages 139-176. Available from: http://www.ucse.edu.ar/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/libro-original_derechos_humanos_20210910.pdf

Nowadays it is common to hear and talk about gender, gender violence, ideology of gender, gender perspective, among others, however, it is sometimes not clear what we mean when we talk about "gender". Originally the concept comes from psychology and... Read More about Género y derechos humanos..

The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues. (2021)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2021. The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues. In Watson, A. (ed.) Demarco 2020. Dundee: Laura Leuzzi, pages 40-41.

In his memoirs Richard Demarco has often stressed the importance of his Italian upbringing. His maternal grandmother being from Barga in Tuscany, his grandfather from Picinisco near Frosinone, by virtue of his origins he is the embodiment of the quin... Read More about The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues..

Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest. (2021)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2021. Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest. In Schor, G. (ed.) Feministische Avantgarde: Kunst der 1970er-Jahre. Vienna: Sammlung Verbund; Munich: Prestel Germany, volume 2, pages 178-181.

In her art, Elaine Shemilt uses the image of the body to powerfully illustrate her exploration of identity, and her problematization and questioning of the representation and objectification of women. Her work challenges society as a whole and the ar... Read More about Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest..