Book review : Handbook of European social policy and The Routledge international handbook to welfare state systems by Ginsburg, Norman

“…Book reviews of: - Handbook of European social policy / edited by Patricia Kennett and Noemi Lendvai-Bainton (Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2017), 458 pages, £160 (hardback), ISBN: 9781783476459 - The Routledge international handbook to welfare state systems / edited by Christian Aspalter (London : Routledge, 2017), 498 pages, £175 (hardback), ISBN: 9781472449306 There was a moment about 25 years ago when Social Europe and the European Social Model seemed to be within touching distance of becoming reality. …”

Aspects of problem-based learning : implications for library collaboration in learning and teaching by Foley, Anne

“…The principles of Information Literacy (IL) recognize the information literate person as possessing the ability to recognise when specific information is needed, the ability to locate and critically evaluate that information and the ability to communicate it effectively and ethically. …”
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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency financial time series by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…In brief, we find evidence that a lower degree of integration is associated with lower data frequencies. In particular, when the data are collected every 10 minutes there are several cases with values of d strictly smaller than 1, implying mean-reverting behaviour. …”
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Price Discovery and Trade Fragmentation in a Multi-Market Environment: Evidence from the MTS System by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…Analysing price data on daily transactions for 107 bonds over a period of twenty-seven months, we find a greater degree of price leadership of the dominant market when our measures (as opposed to the traditional price discovery metrics) are used. …”
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Centile estimation for a proportion response variable by Hossain, Abu, Rigby, Robert A., Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios, Enea, Marco

“…This paper introduces two general models for computing centiles when the response variable Y can take values between 0 and 1, inclusive of 0 or 1. …”
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Challenges and constraints in designing a localisation module for a multilingual cohort by Baños-Piñero, Rocío, Toto, Piero

“…The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the challenges that may arise when designing a module in localization at postgraduate level for a multilingual cohort. …”
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Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Its Diaspora: The Persistence of Tradition by MacRaild, Donald, Hughes, Kyle

“…It traces the development of Ribbonism from its origins in the Defender movement of the 1790s until the latter part of the century when the remnants of the Ribbon tradition found solace in the quasi-constitutional affinities of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. …”

Cultural journeys in higher education: student voices and narratives by Bamford, Jan, Pollard, Lucie

“…The need to negotiate differing cultural scripts and adapting to the new cultural landscape when students arrive at university are just a few of the experiences addressed within this important text. …”

Gäfgen : opening the door to a reassessment of Article 3 violations? by Avetisyan, Grigor

“…At the time of the applicant’s arrest, the police believed the boy to still be alive. When the applicant did not disclose the boy’s whereabouts, the local deputy chief of police instructed the interrogating officer to tell the applicant that he would suffer pain unless he disclosed the boy’s location. …”
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Tales of the Olympic city: memory, narrative and the built environment by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…Three key themes are identified when interpreting the memories associated with the Park and its built structures, namely: treatment of the area’s displaced past, memorializing the Games, and with memory legacy. …”
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Framing the future: sustainability, legacy and the 2012 London Games by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) adopted ‘environment’ as a third pillar of Olympism at its centenary meeting in Paris in 1994, it was partly reacting to an environmentalist lobby critical of the growing scale and impact of the Games. …”
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Europeanisation as de-politicisation, crisis as re-politicisation: the case of Greek foreign policy during the Eurozone crisis by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…It proposes a conceptualisation of Europeanisation as de-politicisation and argues that national foreign policy in the EU under crisis has been re-politicised, i.e. it is increasingly contested among electorates while elites are becoming more conscious of the legitimacy deficits created when national policymaking is exercised primarily via EU institutions. …”
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Europarties in the neighbourhood: how transnational party politics bind Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans to the EU by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…The findings carry implications for the theory and practice of EU relations with its neighbourhood at a time when prospects for further enlargement appear significantly weakened.…”
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An IPA study of transgenerational trauma in the third generation of holocaust survivors by Sherman, Antonia

“…It is suggested that clinicians working with individuals in the UK who have grandparents that experienced the holocaust, take these familial experiences into consideration when conducting therapeutic interventions.…”
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Health visitors' lived experiences supporting women with perinatal mental health problems by Duku, Elizabeth Modupe, Lusher, Joanne, Banbury, Samantha

“…This review synthesised qualitative and mixed-methods research from eight countries to provide a current understanding of how health visitors make sense of their experiences when supporting perinatal mental health problems. …”

MOHOA considering the curious case of the Satyagraha House, Johannesburg: a curatorial critique by McKay, Harriet

“…What can this hybrid museum and guesthouse space offer to advance dialogue around the heritage of modern Africa, which will allow alternatives to the ‘traditional’ museum to emerge? Equally, when innovative modes of presenting heritage arise as a result of initiatives from outside the country, the need to pay due diligence to local memory and understanding is considered here as being of paramount importance. …”
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Critical junctures of securitisation: the case of the AK Party in Turkey by Sandal, Nukhet, Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…In this study, we advance a theory of tripartite securitization marked by critical junctures that shed light on how authoritarian actors establish a sense of security for themselves when they govern. Using elite interviews with actors from Turkey’s different political parties, we argue that the three major steps towards authoritarianism in Turkey involved restructuring core institutions and ‘cleansing’ them of the perceived hostile elements; doubling down on securitising existing internal and external ‘enemy’ identities; and securitising rivals that cannot be co-opted in the political process. …”

A maturity capability framework for security operation center by Taqafi, Issam, Maleh, Yassine, Ouazzane, Karim

“…This will serve as a roadmap for IT auditors and security experts when they evaluate the maturity of a security operation center in terms of safeguarding the assets of the company, its partners, and its clients.…”
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Modelling and simulation of Zener diode noise in the time domain by Brinson, Mike

“…This approach is not practical when applied to randomly generated noise. Today, through on-going improvements to freely available circuit simulation tools, SPICE noise generation has moved to a new level. …”
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The possibilities of disruption: serendipity, accidents and impasse driven search by Ross, Wendy

“…The feeling of impasse, when problem-solvers are stuck and unable to find a solution, is also explored as an important generative state for creativity. …”
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