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Amabie goes viral: the monstrous mercreature returns to battle the Gothic Covid-19
(2020-12-10)
This essay focusses on yōkai, Amabie, a mer-monster from Japan’s Edo Period (1603–1868), who is being revived to ward off the Covid-19 virus in 2020. I argue that our understanding of crises is enhanced via the hybrid ...
Football must not forget its inclusive responsibilities in the rush to get fans back into stadiums
(2020-12-09)
It is imperative that the English Premier League and the Football League clubs consider disabled supporters when planning for the return of fans in stadiums. While it is understandable that the English football clubs are ...
Endogenous fibrinolysis - relevance to clinical thrombosis risk assessment
(2020-12-09)
The development of an obstructive luminal thrombus is pathological and considered a failure of endogenous fibrinolysis. The consequences may be fatal, or result in lasting downstream organ damage. Therefore, assessment of ...
A Multimodal User Interface for an Assistive Robotic Shopping Cart
(2020-12-08)
This paper presents the research and development of the prototype of the assistive mobile information robot (AMIR). The main features of the presented prototype are voice and gesture-based interfaces with Russian speech ...
Critical perspectives on resilience
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)
This chapter aims to contribute to the critical discussion of the concept of resilience and its pertinence and usefulness to contexts of socioeconomic hardship. Starting from an approach that contrasts the poverty studies ...
Socio-economic practices of households coping with hardship
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)
Top-down responses to major shocks have been of major interest to social scientists and they contributed to our understanding of restructuring, transformation and development. Research into socio-economic practices of ...
Silicon builds resilience in strawberry plants against both strawberry powdery mildew Podosphaera aphanis and two-spotted spider mites Tetranychus urticae
(2020-12-08)
Silicon is found in all plants and the accumulation of silicon can improve plant tolerance to biotic stress. Strawberry powdery mildew (Podosphaera aphanis) and two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) are both ...
Design and field campaign validation of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle and optical particle counter
(2020-12-07)
Small unmanned aircraft (SUA) have the potential to be used as platforms for the measurement of atmospheric particulates. The use of an SUA platform for these measurements provides benefits such as high manoeuvrability, ...
Goal-directed Empowerment: combining Intrinsic Motivation and Task-oriented Behaviour
(2020-12-07)
Empowerment is an information-theoretic measure representing the capacity of an agent to affect its environment. It quantifies its ability to inject information in the environment via its actions and to recapture this ...
Design and field campaign validation of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle and optical particle counter
(2020-12-07)
Small unmanned aircraft (SUA) have the potential to be used as platforms for the measurement of atmospheric particulates. The use of an SUA platform for these measurements provides benefits such as high manoeuvrability, ...