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Reinforcement learning for business modeling. (2014)
Book Chapter
OLIVEIRA, F.S. 2014. Reinforcement learning for business modeling. In Wang, J. (ed.) Encyclopedia of business analytics and optimization. Hershey: IGI Global [online], chapter 181, pages 2010-2019. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch181

This chapter summarizes the reinforcement learning theory, emphasizing its relationship with dynamic programming (reinforcement learning algorithms may replace dynamic programming when a full model of the environment is not available) and analysing i... Read More about Reinforcement learning for business modeling..

Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen. (2014)
Book Chapter
DIACK, L. and JOSEPH, S. 2014. Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen. In Barr, H., Helme, M., and D'Avray, L. (eds.) Review of interprofessional education in the United Kingdom. Fareham: CAIPE, pages 105-115.

The development of Interprofessional Education (IPE) in Aberdeen during the last 20 years has had a distinctive Scottish focus as the health and social care agenda in north of the border has become increasingly different from that in England. Since 1... Read More about Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen..

Inequality and deliberative democracy. (2014)
Book Chapter
MCLAVERTY, P. 2014. Inequality and deliberative democracy. In Elstub, S. and McLaverty, P. (eds.) Deliberative democracy: issues and cases. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press [online], chapter 2, pages 34-49. Available from: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-deliberative-democracy.html

Deliberative Democracy is the darling of democratic theory and political theory more generally, and generates international interest. In this book a number of leading democratic theorists address the key issues that surround the theory and practice o... Read More about Inequality and deliberative democracy..

The European Commission's relations with interest organisations: master of the information universe. (2014)
Book Chapter
GREENWOOD, J. 2014. The European Commission's relations with interest organisations: master of the information universe. In Blom, T. and Vanhoonacker, S. (eds.) The Politics of Information: the case of the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan [online], pages 111-126. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325419_8

The relationships between European institutions and interest organizations differ from those of comparable administrations in the extent of reliance upon them for both output and input legitimacy. The European Commission’s roles on policy formulation... Read More about The European Commission's relations with interest organisations: master of the information universe..

Improvisation and embodied knowledge: three artistic projects between life, art and research. (2013)
Book Chapter
DOUGLAS, A. and COESSENS, K. 2013. Improvisation and embodied knowledge: three artistic projects between life, art and research. In Frisk, H. and Östersjö, S. (eds.) (Re)thinking improvisation: artistic explorations and conceptual writing. Malmö: Lund University, Malmö Academy of Music, pages 29-41.

In life there exists no script. The primacy of experience in the form of 'trying out' or improvisation, a moving from an indefinable and undifferentiated state to feeling our way by creating a direction. In art, improvisation is differently nuanced.... Read More about Improvisation and embodied knowledge: three artistic projects between life, art and research..

Introducing Universal Credit. (2013)
Book Chapter
SPICKER, P. 2013. Introducing Universal Credit. In Ramia, G., Farnsworth, K. and Irving, Z. Social policy review 25: analysis and debate in social policy. Bristol: Policy Press [online], pages 1-16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447312741.003.0001

In this chapter, author Paul Spicker interrogates the government's introduction of Universal Credit, a controversial scheme designed to unify various means-tested benefits for people of working age. The scheme brings together six existing benefits: i... Read More about Introducing Universal Credit..

Designing engagement: the new edge. (2013)
Book Chapter
MACDONALD, S. 2013. Designing engagement: the new edge. In Jokela, T., Coutts, G., Härkönen, E., and Huhmarniemi, M. (eds.) Cool: applied visual arts in the North. Rovaniemi: University of Lapland. Faculty of Art and Design, pages 54-67.

The participatory principle, though bred in late twentieth century countercultural politics, is an emerging trend in social policy and also the arts where it is associated with audience involvement that goes beyond passive consumption. This parallels... Read More about Designing engagement: the new edge..

Den Nicht-Ort gibt es nicht: Handke and the spirit of place in 'Versuch über den Stillen Ort'. (2013)
Book Chapter
HALSALL, R. 2013. Den Nicht-Ort gibt es nicht: Handke and the spirit of place in 'Versuch über den Stillen Ort'. In Lützeler, P.M., McGlothlin, E. and Kapczynski, J. (eds.) Gegenwartsliteratur: ein germanistischen Jahrbuch: a German studies yearbook, 12/2013. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, pages 139-164.

Handkes concern with place has been seen as a search for a utopia, characteristic of a writer who has allegedly become increasingly weltfremd. This essay examines Handkes most recent work, Versuch Über den Stillen Ort, in the light of this critique.... Read More about Den Nicht-Ort gibt es nicht: Handke and the spirit of place in 'Versuch über den Stillen Ort'..

Voluntary simplicity. (2013)
Book Chapter
MCDONALD, S. 2013. Voluntary simplicity. In Parker, M., Cheney, G., Fournier, V. and Land, C. (eds.) The Routledge companion to alternative organization. Abingdon: Routledge, chapter 14, pages 210-235.

Etzioni describes voluntary simplifiers (VS) as people who choose, 'out of free will - rather than by being coerced by poverty, government austerity programs, or being imprisoned - to limit expenditures on consumer goods and services, and to cultivat... Read More about Voluntary simplicity..

The asset replacement problem state of the art. (2013)
Book Chapter
ANSARIPOOR, A.H., OLIVEIRA, F.S. and LIRET, A. 2013. The asset replacement problem state of the art. In Owusu, G., O'Brien, P., McCall, J. and Doherty, N.F. (eds.) Transforming field and service operations: methodologies for successful technology-driven business transformation. Berlin: Springer [online], chapter 14, pages 213-233. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-44970-3_14

This book chapter outlines the different modelling approaches for realising sustainable operations of asset replacement and studying the impact of the economic life, the repair-cost limit and comprehensive cost minimisation models. In particular it a... Read More about The asset replacement problem state of the art..

Drawing and the score. (2013)
Book Chapter
DOUGLAS, A. 2013. Drawing and the score. In De Assis, P., Brooks, W. and Coessens, K. Sound and score: essays on sound, score and notation. Orpheus Institute series. Leuven: Leuven University Press [online], chapter 14, pages 206-217. Available from: https://lup.be/collections/series-orpheus-institute-series/products/100421

Traditionally a score in Western classical music has ensured the music’s presentation and replication to an audience. Drawings as blueprints in architecture/engineering ensure that designs are translated into real structures in ways that are more or... Read More about Drawing and the score..

Building a supportive culure for sustained organisational learning in public sectors. (2013)
Book Chapter
SENARATNE, S. and VICTORIA, M.F. 2014. Building a supportive culure for sustained organisational learning in public sectors. In Al-Bastaki, Y. and Shajera, A. (eds.) Building a competitive public sector with knowledge management strategy. Hershey, PA: ICI Global [online], chapter 5, pages 118-134. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4434-2

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an approach to build a supportive organisational culture for sustained organisational learning in public sectors. Changing culture is not an easy task. It involves an in-depth understanding about culture and... Read More about Building a supportive culure for sustained organisational learning in public sectors..

In search of sustainable policing? Creating a national police force in Scotland. (2013)
Book Chapter
FYFE, N.R. and SCOTT, K.B. 2013. In search of sustainable policing? Creating a national police force in Scotland. In Fyfe, N.R., Terpstra, J. and Tops, P. (eds.) Centralizing forces? Comparative perspectives on contemporary police reform in northern and western Europe. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing [online], chapter 7, pages 119-135. Available from: https://www.boomdenhaag.nl/en/webshop/centralizing-forces

Reform and policing have become familiar companions in the UK over the past couple of decades, even if the nature, scope and pace of this reform have evolved differently in the three main jurisdictions. Ever since the Sheehy Inquiry (Home Office, 199... Read More about In search of sustainable policing? Creating a national police force in Scotland..

Introduction: a 'transformative moment in policing'. (2013)
Book Chapter
TERPSTRA, J. and FYFE, N.R. 2013. Introduction: a 'transformative moment in policing'. In Fyfe, N.R., Terpstra, J. and Tops, P. (eds.) Centralizing forces? Comparative perspectives on contemporary police reform in northern and western Europe. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing [online], chapter 1, pages 1-22. Available from: https://www.boomdenhaag.nl/en/webshop/centralizing-forces

There is a long tradition of claims regarding the transformation of policing and of radical change in systems of crime control. While the authors do not want to fall into the trap of overexaggerating the degree of change, the reforms to the structure... Read More about Introduction: a 'transformative moment in policing'..

Claims-makers versus counter claims-makers: new sites of civic conflict in the construction and contestation of moral panic narratives through online newspaper discussion-threads. (2013)
Book Chapter
MORRISON, J. 2013. Claims-makers versus counter claims-makers: new sites of civic conflict in the construction and contestation of moral panic narratives through online newspaper discussion-threads. In Scullion, R., Gerodimos, R., Jackson, D. and Lilleker, D. (eds.) The media, political participation and empowerment. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 11, pages 142-157. Available from: https://www.routledge.com/The-Media-Political-Participation-and-Empowerment/Scullion-Gerodimos-Jackson-Lilleker/p/book/9780415633499

Technological, cultural and economic forces are transforming political communication, posing challenges and opportunities for politicians and media organisations, while at the same time many governments and civil society express concerns about the ex... Read More about Claims-makers versus counter claims-makers: new sites of civic conflict in the construction and contestation of moral panic narratives through online newspaper discussion-threads..

Communications and cosmopolitanism. (2012)
Book Chapter
HALSALL, R. 2012. Communications and cosmopolitanism. In Prince, M. (ed.) Consumer cosmopolitanism in the age of globalization. New York: Business Expert Press [online], chapter 7, pages 163-186. Available from: https://www.businessexpertpress.com/books/consumer-cosmopolitanism-age-globalization/

The view that certain media, in their technological form, open up possibilities which foster or create a form of cosmopolitanism amongst their users or consumers finds its origin in the media theory of Marshall McLuhan.

Intercultural competence in global collaboration courses in computer engineering. (2012)
Book Chapter
BERNALD, H., CAJANDER, A., DANIELS, M., KULTUR, C., LOFSTROM, A., MCDERMOTT, R. and RUSSELL-DAG, L. 2012. Intercultural competence in global collaboration courses in computer engineering. In Schmorrow, D.D. and Nicholson, D.M. (eds.) Advances in design for cross-cultural activies: Part I. Boca Raton: CRC Press [online], chapter 35, pages 351-361. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1201/b12316-42

With the rapid and ever expanding globalization of the workforce, international collaborations are becoming part of everyday life for people of many professions. Intercultural competence has therefore become one of the central professional competenci... Read More about Intercultural competence in global collaboration courses in computer engineering..

Laboratory methods of body composition analysis. (2012)
Book Chapter
ROLLAND, C. 2012. Laboratory methods of body composition analysis. In Stewart, A.D. and Sutton, L. (eds.) Body composition in sport, exercise and health. Abingdon: Routledge, chapter 2, pages 20-41.

In the initial stages of body composition analysis, cadavers were analysed and later used as a criterion method for validating developing methods which could be used in live subjects. Cadavers have been analysed chemically and anatomically. The chemi... Read More about Laboratory methods of body composition analysis..

Web 2.0 for eParticipation: transformational tweeting or devaluation of democracy? (2012)
Book Chapter
TAIT, E. 2012. Web 2.0 for eParticipation: transformational tweeting or devaluation of democracy? In Kloby, K. and D'Agostino, M.J. (eds.) Citizen 2.0: public and governmental interaction through web 2.0 technolgies. Hershey, PA: IGI Global [online], chapter 12, pages 224-249. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0318-9.ch012

Recent developments in social media allow people to communicate and share information instantly and have led to speculation about the potential for increased citizen participation in decision making. However, as with other developments in ICT, social... Read More about Web 2.0 for eParticipation: transformational tweeting or devaluation of democracy?.

Electronic theses and dissertations: promoting 'hidden' research. (2011)
Book Chapter
COPELAND, S. 2011. Electronic theses and dissertations: promoting 'hidden' research. In Rikowski, R. (ed.) Digitisation perspectives. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, pages 103-113.

Since the 1990s an increasing number of higher education institutions and research-related organisations have been encouraging the submission of theses and dissertations in electronic format. The transition from print theses and dissertations to ETDs... Read More about Electronic theses and dissertations: promoting 'hidden' research..