Consumers or users? The impact of user learning about smart hybrid heat pumps on policy trajectories for heat decarbonisation by Parrish, B, Hielscher, S, Foxon, TJ

“…In the UK, smart hybrid heat pumps (SHHP) have attracted policy interest as a technology potentially offering multiple benefits for home heat decarbonisation. This paper draws on domestication theory, a perspective that frames people as users who actively learn about technologies, to analyse interviews and observations with installers and users involved in the first UK trial of SHHP. …”

Rethinking urban street experiments through Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis: from vehicles and vibrancy to virtuosos by Chan, THY

“…This paper explores intentional and spontaneous street experiments, drawing on Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis. Streets are seen as hosts to intersecting rhythms shaped by daily routines and mobility, with users as performers in rhythmic interactions. …”

The religious life of viking armies by Abrams, L

“…This paper focuses on the mobile and predatory groups of the ninth and early tenth centuries that contemporary sources called ‘armies’. To what extent did they try to recreate the religious beliefs and practice of the Scandinavian homelands? …”

The temporality of building: European and Chinese perspectives on architecture and heritage by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas, Xiao, Jing

“…In the final chapter we consider notions of time in the context of contemporary buildings in Europe and China, drawing on the earlier historical investigations and addressing globalising influences. …”
Get full text

The strategy of coercive isolation U.S. security policy by Timonthy W. Crawford

“…From this discussion we also draw several conclusions about the conditions that favour the success of coercive isolation strategies. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Home sweet homo : transnational connections in a Singaporean queer activist movement by Phua, Theng Hui

“…When the Indian Supreme Court made the landmark decision in 2018 to decriminalize consensual, homosexual acts, queer activists in Singapore sought to achieve the same by calling for the repeal of Section 377A of the penal code. …”
Get full text

Beyond national identity : Kuo Pao Kun’s contemporary theatre and an open culture by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…His deliberations on contemporary art and culture draw from older ideals of modern cultural formation and is conjoined, it may be contradictorily, with postmodernism’s rhetoric of the decentred and the multiple; but if so, this contradiction becomes an adumbration of the fraught attributes of the contemporary.…”
Get full text

‘I don’t care who joins my choir’: investigating attitudes to diversity and inclusivity in lower- and upper-voice choirs in the United Kingdom by MacGregor, E

“…However, participation in lower- and upper-voice choirs is declining due to low recruitment rates, the ageing of members, and the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we draw on the findings of a recent online survey of 907 participants in mixed-, lower-, and upper-voice choirs to examine the factors underlying these issues. …”

The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…It calls for a disavowal of the Manichean ethics by which subaltern agency is measured, and proposes instead a turn to Njabulo S. …”

Data Refusal From Below: A Framework for Understanding, Evaluating, and Envisioning Refusal as Design by Zong, Jonathan, Matias, J Nathan

“…We illustrate each facet by drawing on cases of people and collectives that have refused data systems. …”
Get full text

Meaningful eating: a new method for food design by Zampollo, Francesca

“…Osborn (1953) for example calls this initial phase of the design process, the preparation phase, defined by problem understanding and data gathering, or preparation. …”
Get full text

Exploring the Conceptual Definition of Islamic Financial Literacy from the Quran and Sunnah by Ab Rashid, Rosemaliza, Zainol, Zairani, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Mohd Taib, Hasniza, Khairol Nizam, Aini Nur Hajjar

“…The recurring financial crisis calls for increasing attention on the crucial role of financial literacy. …”
Get full text

Assessing surface seals of soils on slopes by Liu, Chenying

“…Infiltrometer tests were carried out at twelve locations at the crest, the face and the toe of a residual soil slope. Quick draw tensiometer test was also performed at the same location to provide corroboration of infiltration rate. …”
Get full text

Distributed classification with variable distributions by Quach, Vinh Thanh

“…We remove the current simplifying assumption by allowing parties to draw data from arbitrary distributions, thus formalizing a new and challenging problem of distributed classification with variable data distributions. …”
Get full text

Understanding micro costing a genomics-based diagnostic in a resource-limited setting: experiences and challenges from a Burkitt lymphoma study in sub-Saharan Africa by Ruhago, GM, Tungu, M, Morrell, L

“…This initiative is the Aggressive Infection-Related East Africa Lymphoma (AIREAL) study, which is validating a genomic sequencing of circulating tumour deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) isolated from a simple blood draw called “liquid biopsy” for diagnosis in children with suspected Burkitt lymphoma in Uganda and Tanzania. …”

Non-destructive Testing and Repair of Pipelines / by Barkanov, Evgeny N., editor 655999, Dumitrescu, Andrei, editor 656000, Parinov, Ivan A., 1956-, editor 656002

“…In turn, the book assesses the currently available technologies for reinforcement of pipelines, drawing on the experience gained by project partners, and evaluates the recovery of the carrying capacity of pipeline sections with local corrosion damage by means of analytical and numerical procedures. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Fast AES-based universal hash functions and MACs: featuring LeMac and Macs by Bariant, Augustin, Baudrin, Jules, Leurent, Gaëtan, Pernot, Clara, Perrin, Léo, Peyrin, Thomas

“…In particular, our framework not only takes into account the number of AES-round calls per message block, but also the very important role of XOR operations and the overall scheduling of the computations. …”
Get full text

Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…Where such text is of a relatively short length (no more than about a folio), we have included it in full under the label of, "postscript".⁸ Thus, our catalogue generally includes in full all the information given before the first chapter and after the final chapter title.…”

Navigating the real world: a grounded theory-based exploration of autistic adolescents identity formation in Marcelo in the real world by Yang, Shuo, Mani, Manimangai, Omar, Noritah

“…The use of grounded theory methodology enables a full examination of Marcelo's experiences and the fundamental mechanisms guiding the development of his identity. …”
Get full text

Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding by Davies, Rodrigo

“…This paper considers civic crowdfunding — the use of crowdfunding for projects that produce community or quasipublic assets — and argues that its emergence demands a fresh set of questions and approaches. The work draws on critical case studies constructed through fieldwork in the US, the UK and Brazil, and a discourse analysis of civic crowdfunding projects collected from platforms by the author. …”
Get full text