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Byron's Hypochondria (2016)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2016). Byron's Hypochondria. In Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Aging and gay men (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Aging and gay men. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies (61-66)

Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law. In The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (221 - 228)

What is a (trans)gender identity? How do we measure gender identity related persecution? Does refugee law offer adequate protection to culturally diverse gender minorities? Constructions gender identity as a ‘particular social group’ in international... Read More about Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law.

Social Participation, Loneliness and Depression (2016)
Book Chapter
Burroughs, H., & Wilkie, R. (2016). Social Participation, Loneliness and Depression. In Mental Health and Older People (57-65). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29492-6_6

Retirement from paid employment and other changes in role can, for some older people, lead to a decline in social participation. A lack of social participation can cause loneliness, but the two states are not synonymous. Loneliness is emotional distr... Read More about Social Participation, Loneliness and Depression.

Anxiety and Depression in Older People: Diagnostic Challenges (2016)
Book Chapter
Chew-Graham, C. A. (2016). Anxiety and Depression in Older People: Diagnostic Challenges. In Mental Health and Older People (45-55). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29492-6_5

This chapter considers the presentation of anxiety and depression in older people and explores the challenges clinicians face in making a diagnosis in the face of multiple health problems. Depression is a major global public health threat, and by 203... Read More about Anxiety and Depression in Older People: Diagnostic Challenges.

Galactic Plane Hα Surveys: IPHAS and VPHAS+ (2016)
Book Chapter
Wright, N. J. (2016). Galactic Plane Hα Surveys: IPHAS and VPHAS+. In The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys (55-59). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_7

The optical Galactic Plane Hα surveys IPHAS and VPHAS+ are dramatically improving our understanding of Galactic stellar populations and stellar evolution by providing large samples of stars in short lived, but important, evolutionary phases, and high... Read More about Galactic Plane Hα Surveys: IPHAS and VPHAS+.

Iron Oxides in the Human Brain (2016)
Book Chapter
Collingwood, J. F., & Telling, N. D. Iron Oxides in the Human Brain. In Iron Oxides: From Nature to Applications (143-176). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527691395.ch7

The presence and formation of iron oxide in the human brain are of interest to those engaged in understanding fundamental processes of biomineralization and of iron metabolism in neurobiology and neuropathology. There is evidence for the formation of... Read More about Iron Oxides in the Human Brain.

The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation? (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation?. In The Institutionalisation of EU-US Relations: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Transatlantic Trade and Data Privacy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50221-2_4

This chapter explores the forms of governance that the EU–US PNR, TFTP, Privacy Shield and Umbrella Agreement have established in the transatlantic data space by looking at the relevant rules, procedures and institutions. It concludes that transatlan... Read More about The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation?.

Trends in Machine and Human Face Recognition (2016)
Book Chapter
Mandal, B., Lim, R. Y., Dai, P., Sayed, M. R., Li, L., & Lim, J. H. (2016). Trends in Machine and Human Face Recognition. In Advances in Face Detection and Facial Image Analysis (145-187). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25958-1_7

Face recognition (FR) is a natural and intuitive way for human beings to identify or verify or at least get familiar and interact with other members of the community. Hence, human beings expect and endeavor to develop similar competency in machine re... Read More about Trends in Machine and Human Face Recognition.