Publications
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Theorie und Ideengeschichte der Steuergerechtigkeit
(2019)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation stellt der Autor die Evolution der Steuergerechtigkeitsideen und -prinzipien in einen historischen Zusammenhang und ordnet diese in größere Strukturen ein, um so ein geschlossenes Bild der ...
Programming for Computations - Python: A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python
(2016)
Numerical simulations; programming; Python
Divorce in Europe
(2020)
This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs ...
Collective Actions in Europe
(2019)
This open access book offers an analytical presentation of how Europe has created its own version of collective actions. In the last three decades, Europe has seen a remarkable proliferation of collective action legislation, ...
European Traditions in Didactics of Mathematics
(2019)
This open access book discusses several didactic traditions in mathematics education in countries across Europe, including France, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, the Czech and Slovakian Republics, and the Scandinavian ...
Inquiry-Based Learning - Undergraduate Research
(2019)
This open access book provides a systematic overview of experiences with Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) and undergraduate research (UR) in German universities, covering both research universities (Universitäten) and universities ...
Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe
(2019)
This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on ...
Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria
(2018)
Based on a case study on the former Austrian Federal Asylum Agency, the book provides sociological insights on state action in the administration of asylum in a European context. It offers a novel perspective on public ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 24th International Conference, TACAS 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings, Part I
(2018)
authentication; computer science; computer software selection and evaluation; cryptography; data privacy; formal logic; formal methods; formal specification; internet; privacy; program compilers; programming ...
Women and Violence
(2015)
This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume contributes to ...
Equitable Research Partnerships
(2019)
This open access book offers insights into the development of the ground-breaking Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings (GCC) and the San Code of Research Ethics. Using a new, intuitive moral framework ...
The Huawei and Snowden Questions: Can Electronic Equipment from Untrusted Vendors be Verified? Can an Untrusted Vendor Build Trust into Electronic Equipment?
(2018)
cyber security; IT management; computer science; computer engineering; digital vulnerability
The Ethical Spirit of EU Law
(2019)
This open access book seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) law, a context in which we can observe a trend towards increasing references to the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’. This aspect is all the ...
Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
(2019)
This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new ...
70 Years of Levothyroxine
(2021)
This open access book presents the history, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of levothyroxine, discussing its role in the thyroid pathophysiology of patients of various ages and during pregnancy. It also describes the ...
Rainfall Infiltration in Unsaturated Soil Slope Failure
(2023)
This is an open access book. The aim of this book is to provide a thorough grounding in rainfall-induced landslides from three aspects: the coupling effect of hydraulic and mechanic; the analytical, numerical, and physical ...
Accelerator-Driven System at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
(2021)
This open access book is a unique compilation of experimental benchmark analyses of the accelerator-driven system (ADS) at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA) on the most recent advances in the development of ...
Adaptive Urban Transformation
(2023)
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. ...
The European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Textbook for Nurses
(2018)
Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant; Nursing care; Haemato-oncology nursing; Paediatric transplant nursing; Apheresis
Education in China and the World
(2025)
This open access book is the second edition of Education in China and the World: Achievements and Contemporary Issues. It builds upon the commitment to provide a comprehensive analysis on education in China to a global ...
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding
(2017)
peacebuilding; multilateralism; diplomacy; United Nations
Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Crises
(2025)
This open access book studies disability inclusion in humanitarian crises. It addresses the challenges of recognizing and including persons with disabilities and indicates the degree to which disability is being mainstreamed ...
Software for Exascale Computing - SPPEXA 2016-2019
(2020)
This open access book summarizes the research done and results obtained in the second funding phase of the Priority Program 1648 "Software for Exascale Computing" (SPPEXA) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) presented ...
Corporate Data Quality
(2016)
Innovation/Technology Management; e-Commerce/e-business; Business Process Management; e-Business/e-Commerce
River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads
(2017)
Human Rights; Human Geography; Ethics; Sustainable Development; Anthropology; Development Economics
Governing the Sustainable Development Goals
(2022)
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, ...
Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies in Animal Production Systems, Preparedness, Response and Recovery
(2021)
This Open Access volume explains how major nuclear and radiological emergencies (NREs) can have implications at local, national and international level. The response to NREs requires a competent decision-making structure, ...
Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
(2020)
This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats ...
Subject-Oriented Business Process Management
(2012)
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Management of Computing and Information Systems
Railway Ecology
(2017)
carbon footprint; environmental impacts of railways; transportation; wildlife; landscape; planning; engineering; efficiency; sustainability; biodiversity; animal casualties on rails
Digitale Medien und Nachhaltigkeit
(2022)
Wie nutzen Individuen, Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Unternehmen digitale Medien, um zu einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft beizutragen? Die Autorin rekonstruiert in dieser Open-Access-Publikation die sozial-ökologischen ...
Post Un-Lock
(2023)
This open access book builds a framework that holds together numerous open issues in territorial planning: from the understanding of territorial, landscape, environmental and climatic dynamics to the analysis of local ...
Small Electric Vehicles
(2021)
This edited open access book gives a comprehensive overview of small and lightweight electric three- and four-wheel vehicles with an international scope. The present status of small electric vehicle (SEV) technologies, the ...
Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms
(2021)
This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when ...
Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds
(2015)
Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Ecology; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
Local Tax Benefits at a Distance
(2021)
This book discusses the concepts, types, models, and patterns of Japan’s Hometown Tax Donation Payment system, to provide a clear picture of this newly developed unique and innovative fund-raising tool used by municipalities. ...
Comprehensive Utilization of Magnesium Slag by Pidgeon Process
(2021)
This open access book introduces the magnesium resources in the world and the layout of this industry, the harmless handling/recycling of magnesium slag, and the process of magnesium silicothermic reduction (Pidgeon process) ...
Die explorative Tympanoskopie mit Obliteration des runden/ovalen Fensters in der Behandlung des Hörsturzes
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch unternimmt der Autor den Versuch, auf das Therapieverfahren der explorativen Tympanoskopie mit Obliteration des/r runden/ovalen Fensters mit autologem Bindegewebe näher einzugehen und es in seiner ...
Brain Development and the Law
(2025)
This open access book is the first to offer a systematic overview of the different methods for assessing brain development and a comparative review of how such assessments have already influenced the law. Lawmakers prefer ...
A Philosophy of Israel Education
(2016)
Philosophy of Education; Religion and Society; Philosophy of Religion; Judaism