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Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons
(2021)
This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the ...
Chasing the Chinese Dream
(2021)
This open access book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society since Liberation in 1949, and why poverty alleviation measures evolved from the ...
Annals of Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics
(2020)
This Open Access proceedings present a good overview of the current research landscape of industrial robots. The objective of MHI Colloquium is a successful networking at academic and management level. Thereby the colloquium ...
Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights
(2021)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices. Sex ...
Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies
(2022)
This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of ...
Mathematisches Problemlösen in der Studieneingangsphase
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die theoriebasierte Entwicklung einer semesterbegleitenden Maßnahme zur Förderung der Problemlösekompetenz von Studienanfänger:innen der Fachmathematik und des gymnasialen Lehramts, sowie ...
Chapter 6 I Would Have Gone on with the Hunger Strike, but Force-Feeding I Could Not Take
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
Artificial Intelligence Technology
(2023)
This open access book aims to give our readers a basic outline of today’s research and technology developments on artificial intelligence (AI), help them to have a general understanding of this trend, and familiarize them ...
Norms and Standards for Language Resources Protection in China
(2024)
This open-access book presents standards which were developed by the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China (PPLRC). At present, China is home to some of the world’s richest language resources. However, ...
The Future of Work
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of new forms of working and new working arrangements largely enabled by technology. The Future of Work is a projection of how work, working, workers and the workplace will ...
Integrated Diagnostics and Theranostics of Thyroid Diseases
(2023)
This open access book provides basic concepts on Integrated Diagnostics and Theranostics with special emphasis on different human thyroid diseases. Thyroid diseases are increasingly detected (incidentally in many cases) ...
Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy
(2021)
This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich ...
Evidence-based Positron Emission Tomography
(2020)
This open access book summarizes the findings of recent evidence-based articles (meta-analyses) on the use of positron emission tomography (PET) for various clinical indications. It is divided into five main sections, ...
Chapter 8 Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self
(2021)
In this paper, we discuss how phenomenology might cogently express
the way painful experiences are layered with complex intersubjective meaning. In
particular, we propose a critical conception of pain as an intricate ...
Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education: International Practice and Emerging Opportunities
(2015)
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology
(2021)
This open access book brings together a range of contributions that seek to explore the ethical issues arising from the overlap between counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies. Terrorism and our responses pose some of ...
Proof and Proving in Mathematics Education
(2012)
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Fashion Figures
(2017)
STEM careers; girls; preteen; YA; mathlete; fashionista; math; middle school
Win in Chinese Courts
(2023)
This open access book aims to provide an initial but comprehensive roadmap for the Chinese civil litigation system. It starts with some basic concepts of the Chinese judicial system (e.g., court system, case numbering, ...
The Crisis for Young People
(2017)
education; NEET; widening participation
Circularity Days 2024
(2025)
This book comprises the proceedings of the conference “Circularity Days 2024”, which took place from May 15th-16th in Wolfsburg. The conference focused on key topics such as Design for Remanufacturing, Circular Production, ...
Longer-Term Psychiatric Inpatient Care for Adolescents
(2022)
This open access book describes the theoretical underpinnings and operational aspects of delivering longer-term inpatient psychiatric care to adolescents experiencing severe, unremitting mental illness. The authorship is ...
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
(2023)
This open access collection of AI ethics case studies is the first book to present real-life case studies combined with commentaries and strategies for overcoming ethical challenges. Case studies are one of the best ways ...
Territory and Democratic Politics
(2024)
The book provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to concept of territory in the study of democratic politics. Territory plays a rather marginal role in the traditional conceptions of democracy that in many ways ...
Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
(2018)
This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid ...
The Data Shake
(2021)
This open access book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European Commission under the call “Policy-development in the age of big data: data-driven ...
Critical Points for the Organisation of Test Performance Studies in Microbiology
(2022)
This open access book in the field of plant pest detection shows a constant demand in development and improvement of fast and reliable detection tools, especially for high-priority pests. This open access book describes ...
Intangible Capital and Growth
(2022)
For several decades now, advanced economies across the globe have been undergoing a process of rapid transformation towards becoming knowledge economies. It is now widely recognized that intangible capital has been a crucial ...
Assessment of Energy-Efficient Building Details for Seismic Regions
(2022)
This open access book presents a methodology for the assessment of structural building details, taking into account the contemporary guidelines for earthquake-resistant and energy-efficient buildings. A review of structural ...
Future Space-Transport-System Components under High Thermal and Mechanical Loads
(2021)
This open access book presents the findings of Collaborative Research Center Transregio 40 (TRR40), initiated in July 2008 and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Gathering innovative design concepts for thrust ...
On the path to AI
(2020)
This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has ...
Logistische Regression
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch gibt eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die logistische Regression. Ausgehend von Grundkenntnissen der linearen Regression wird diese zuerst als zweistufiges Modell interpretiert, was den ...
Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility
(2020)
"This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that ...
Building an Inclusive, Green and Low-Carbon Economy
(2023)
This open access book introduces the major environmental green development issues from six major themes carbon neutrality, nature-based solution, watershed management and climate adaptation, BRI green development, sustainable ...
Die Ausübung mitgliedschaftlicher Kapitalgesellschafterrechte durch eine Erbengemeinschaft
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, wie die Erbengemeinschaft die Mitgliedschaftsrechte in einer Kapitalgesellschaft ausübt und ob das Recht die Erben dabei als einen einzelnen Gesellschafter oder als eine Vielheit ...
Event Analytics across Languages and Communities
(2025)
This open access book presents interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral research results fostering event analytics across languages and communities. It is based on the CLEOPATRA International Training Network, which explored ...
Equity Policies in Global Higher Education
(2022)
This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation ...
Supercomputing Frontiers
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Asian Conference Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2022, which took place in Singapore in March 2022. The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully ...
Designing Sustainability for All
(2021)
This open access book introduces design for Sustainable Product-Service Systems (S.PSS) and for Sustainable Distributed Economies (S.DE). These are introduced as technical and operative tools for the development of a new ...
Building the Infrastructure for Cloud Security
(2014)
Computer science
S-BPM in the Production Industry: A Stakeholder Approach
(2017)
business process management; software
Influences of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Studies
(2021)
This open access book identifies the multiple ways that IEA’s studies of civic and citizenship education have contributed to national and international educational discourse, research, policymaking, and practice. The IEA ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2022, which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2022. XP is the premier agile software development ...
Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis
(2025)
This open access book provides a fresh perspective on analysis and synthesis across several areas of inquiry. The two operations form a primary basis of modern laboratory science, ranging from the spectrographic analysis ...
Process Mining Handbook
(2022)
This is an open access book. This book comprises all the single courses given as part of the First Summer School on Process Mining, PMSS 2022, which was held in Aachen, Germany, during July 4-8, 2022. This volume contains ...
Advancing Human Assessment: The Methodological, Psychological and Policy Contributions of ETS
(2017)
Educational Testing Service (ETS); large-scale assessment; policy research; psychometrics; admissions tests
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge
(2021)
This open access book addresses three themes which have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric operationalization of these concept; and (3) ...
Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in September 2020. ...
Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin
(2015)
Earth System Sciences; Atmospheric Sciences; Baltic Sea; Environmental Impacts; Regional Climate Change; Regional Climate Projections
Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015
(2017)
economics; productivity; consumption; value; income; expenditure
Stable Isotopes to Trace Migratory Birds and to Identify Harmful Diseases: An Introductory Guide
(2016)
Animal Ecology; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
Digital Transformations in Nordic Higher Education
(2023)
This open access book expands the scholarly and policy debates surrounding digital transformation in higher education. The authors adopt a pluralistic conceptual framework which uncovers three analytical elements – contexts, ...
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Signaling in Neuroprotection
(2018)
Alzheimer’s disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Nicotine; Transporter; Glia
Studies in Global Animal Law
(2020)
This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made ...
Mathematical Modeling of the Human Brain
(2022)
This open access book bridges common tools in medical imaging and neuroscience with the numerical solution of brain modelling PDEs. The connection between these areas is established through the use of two existing tools, ...
Robotics, AI, and Humanity
(2021)
This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance ...
Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance
(2013)
Political Science, general; Social Policy; Business Ethics; Non-Profit Enterprises/Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainable Development
The Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education: Intellectual and attitudinal challenges
(2015)
mathematics; education; curriculum
Emerging Technologies
(2022)
This monograph investigates a multitude of emerging technologies including 3D printing, 5G, blockchain, and many more to assess their potential for use to further humanity’s shared goal of sustainable development. Through ...
Governance for Drought Resilience
(2016)
Climate Change Management and Policy; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management