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Pre-solar grains from novae and "Born-again giants" (2024)
Book Chapter
Evans, A., & Gehrz, R. (2024). Pre-solar grains from novae and "Born-again giants". In Presolar grains in extra-terrestrial materials. Elsevier

We review the properties of dust formed during classical nova eruptions and the Very Late Thermal Pulses (VLTPs) that occur during the later stages of post-Asymptotic Giant Branch evolution of low-mass stars. In both cases, carbon and hydrocarbon dus... Read More about Pre-solar grains from novae and "Born-again giants".

Socratic Questionnaires (2024)
Book Chapter
Hansen, N., Francis, K., & Greening, H. (in press). Socratic Questionnaires. In Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy. (Vol. 5). Oxford University Press

When experimental participants are given the chance to reflect and revise their initial judgments in a dynamic conversational context, do their responses to philosophical scenarios differ from responses to those same scenarios presented in a traditio... Read More about Socratic Questionnaires.

Socratic Questionnaires (2024)
Book Chapter
Hansen, N., Francis, K., & Greening, H. (2024). Socratic Questionnaires. In Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (331-374). (5). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198918905.003.0014

When experimental participants are given the chance to reflect and revise their initial judgments in a dynamic conversational context, do their responses to philosophical scenarios differ from responses to those same scenarios presented in a traditio... Read More about Socratic Questionnaires.

Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene (2024)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. (2024). Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene. In Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds (3-15). London: Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53491-1_1

My objective in this chapter is to develop a Freudian-Heideggerian understanding of the concept of utopia that conceives of the impulse to imagine ideal societies in terms of a modern tendency to both think about possible futures and create new world... Read More about Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene.

What do RCTs tell us, and could they tell us more? Looking within and beyond the study sample (2024)
Book Chapter
Sim, J., Lancaster, G., & Lewis, M. (2024). What do RCTs tell us, and could they tell us more? Looking within and beyond the study sample. In A Medical Educator's Guide to Thinking Critically about Randomised Controlled Trials: Deconstructing the "Gold Standard" (109-144). Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25859-6_5

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are generally regarded as the gold-standard method to answer questions of treatment effectiveness. Carefully designed and rigorously implemented, they can provide unbiased estimates of average treatment effectivene... Read More about What do RCTs tell us, and could they tell us more? Looking within and beyond the study sample.

The Novel (2024)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2024). The Novel. In J. Hone, & P. Rogers (Eds.), Jonathan Swift in Context (190-198). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of political pamphlets, satirical verses, sermons, and o... Read More about The Novel.

‘Male homoerotic relations in history’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (in press). ‘Male homoerotic relations in history’. In M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, & M. Kuefler (Eds.), The Cambridge World History of Sexualities (252 - 272). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895996.013

This chapter explores male homoerotic desire, whether idealised, romanticised, visualised or physically enacted. Male homoerotic practices and relations have sometimes been structured around notions of difference between two males who were thought to... Read More about ‘Male homoerotic relations in history’.

Labour diversification by households 2008–2013 (2024)
Book Chapter
Khan, R., & Morrissey, O. (2024). Labour diversification by households 2008–2013. In Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development: A Firm and Household Perspective (127-146). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192885746.003.0007

This chapter uses three waves of Tanzanian National Panel Surveys (2008/09, 2010/11, and 2012/13) to construct a panel from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household welfare measur... Read More about Labour diversification by households 2008–2013.

Assemblies and the Courts (2024)
Book Chapter
Cammiss, S., Doherty, B., & Hayes, G. (2024). Assemblies and the Courts. In The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197674871.013.26

To what extent is the protest trial a threat or an opportunity to protesters? This chapter argues that it is both. Trials potentially provide a site of resistance and the means for ongoing struggle and contestation, while simultaneously threatening t... Read More about Assemblies and the Courts.