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Basic Modeling and Theory of Creep of Metallic Materials
(2024)
This open access book features an in-depth exploration of the intricate creep behavior exhibited by metallic materials, with a specific focus on elucidating the underlying mechanical properties governing their response at ...
Cultural Adaptation in Chinese Mental Health Translation
(2024)
This open access book demonstrates the necessity, feasibility, and effectiveness of cultural adaptation in the translation of mental health scales into Chinese. It illustrates the key principles of culturally effective ...
Advances in Discrete Differential Geometry
(2016)
Differential Geometry
Chapter Preface
(2016)
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room ...
Talent Development in European Higher Education: Honors Programs in the Benelux, Nordic and German-Speaking Countries
(2015)
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Connectomics of the Brain
(2016)
Neurosciences, Neurology
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 ...
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 ...
Staging Interspaces in Contemporary British Theatre
(2024)
This open access book considers how relationships to place and spatial ecologies more broadly are becoming redefined in light of intersecting climate, health, identity and care crises. Through an interdisciplinary, ...
Green Recovery with Resilience and High Quality Development
(2023)
This open access book is based on the research outputs of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) in 2021. It covers major topics of Chinese and international attention regarding ...
Biological Invasions in South Africa
(2020)
This open access volume presents a comprehensive account of all aspects of biological invasions in South Africa, where research has been conducted over more than three decades, and where bold initiatives have been implemented ...
Human and Organisational Factors
(2020)
This open access book addresses several questions regarding the implementation of human and organisational factors (HOF) so that recent improvements in industrial safety can be built upon. It addresses sources of frustration ...
Chapter 19 Max Ritvo’s Precision Poetry
(2020)
This essay reads Max Ritvo’s poetry through a chronology of precision biomedicine: imaging, diagnosis, and treatment. Ritvo’s construction of a patient-consumer avatar in his poetry reflects his position at a biomedical ...
GDPR and Biobanking
(2021)
This open access book focuses on the discrepancies in biobank research regulations that are among the most significant hurdles to effective research collaboration. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has established ...
Messung von Ressourceneffizienz mit der ESSENZ-Methode
(2016)
Natural resources
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) ...
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) ...
Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance
(2024)
This open-access book explores the security dynamics amid the polarization, shifting borders, and liquid governance that define the Zeitenwende era in Europe's eastern neighbourhood and Central Asia. Presenting various ...
The Crisis for Young People
(2017)
education; NEET; widening participation
Race, Capital, and Equity in Higher Education
(2024)
This open access book examines the structural and cultural factors that explain the persistence of an attainment gap between white and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students in UK universities. So-called ‘deficit’ ...
Biological Invasions in South Africa
(2020)
This open access volume presents a comprehensive account of all aspects of biological invasions in South Africa, where research has been conducted over more than three decades, and where bold initiatives have been implemented ...
Endeavoring for China’s Environment and Development Transformation
(2024)
This is an open access book. CCICED has been woven into the fabric of China’s environmental development for the past 30 years—the length of an entire generation. It is also consistent with the most rapid modernization shift ...
Unlocking Artificial Intelligence
(2024)
This open access book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current machine learning research and its exploitation in various application areas. It has become apparent that the deep integration of artificial intelligence ...
Analysis of Reaction-Diffusion Models with the Taxis Mechanism
(2022)
This open access book deals with a rich variety of taxis-type cross-diffusive equations. Particularly, it intends to show the key role played by quasi-energy inequality in the derivation of some necessary a priori estimates. ...
Chapter Developing a Model to Simulate the Effect of Hypothermia on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
(2020)
Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a significant cause of death and neurological disability in newborns. Therapeutic hypothermia at 33.5 °C is one of the most common treatments in HIE and generally improves outcome; ...
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 ...
Humane Autonomous Technology
(2024)
This open access book takes a human-focused multidisciplinary look at the ways in which autonomous technology shapes experience, affecting human lives and ways of working in settings ranging from the arts, design, and ...
Computer and Information Sciences
(2016)
Information Systems and Communication Service; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Probability and Statistics in Computer ...
Corporate Data Quality
(2016)
Innovation/Technology Management; e-Commerce/e-business; Business Process Management; e-Business/e-Commerce
Sustainable Business
(2023)
This open access book is a compact guide to the development of sustainable business, which has become the central concept in discussions about the future development of humanity and planet earth. It provides basic terminology ...
Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance
(2024)
This open-access book explores the security dynamics amid the polarization, shifting borders, and liquid governance that define the Zeitenwende era in Europe's eastern neighbourhood and Central Asia. Presenting various ...
Process Mining Workshops
(2023)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Workshops held at the 4th International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2022, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during October ...
Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash
(2020)
This open access book shares impact stories – testimonies from various value chain actors who have been part of the Tropical Legumes (TL) projects, over the past twelve years. The Tropical Legumes projects led by ICRISAT ...
Process Mining Workshops
(2023)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Workshops held at the 4th International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2022, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during October ...
Bio-based Building Skin
(2019)
This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ application in building facades, and offers ideas for new designs and novel solutions. It features a ...
Bio-based Building Skin
(2019)
This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ application in building facades, and offers ideas for new designs and novel solutions. It features a ...
IAEA Atlas of Cardiac PET/CT
(2022)
This open access book presents a wide portfolio of examples of positron emission tomography coupled with computer tomography (PET/CT) studies in various cardiac conditions in order to provide a rationale for the implementation ...
IAEA Atlas of Cardiac PET/CT
(2022)
This open access book presents a wide portfolio of examples of positron emission tomography coupled with computer tomography (PET/CT) studies in various cardiac conditions in order to provide a rationale for the implementation ...
Rangeland Systems: Processes, Management and Challenges
(2017)
environmental management; environmental law; ecojustice; ecology
The New Production of Expert Knowledge
(2024)
This Open Access book offers a novel perspective on the role of quantification in the making of education utopias through an analysis of expert knowledge and its producers. Drawing on empirical findings from the European ...
High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World
(2017)
Pyrenees; nature conservation; species distribution; lakes; forests
Alltägliche Lebenssituation sprachbeeinträchtigter Kinder
(2023)
Dieses Buch setzt sich mit alltäglicher Lebenssituation als Gegenstand pädagogischer Sprachdiagnostik auseinander und ist im Diskurs über Diagnostik und Förderung sprachlich-kommunikativer Kompetenzen zu verorten. Es wurde ...
Advances in Discrete Differential Geometry
(2016)
Differential Geometry
Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities
(2016)
water resources; hydrology; sustainable development; urban planning
Human and Organisational Factors
(2020)
This open access book addresses several questions regarding the implementation of human and organisational factors (HOF) so that recent improvements in industrial safety can be built upon. It addresses sources of frustration ...
Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education: Experience and Lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders
(2013)
Environmental Management; Business Ethics; Environmental Science and Engineering; Science Education; Non-Profit Enterprises/Corporate Social Responsibility
Cultural Adaptation in Chinese Mental Health Translation
(2024)
This open access book demonstrates the necessity, feasibility, and effectiveness of cultural adaptation in the translation of mental health scales into Chinese. It illustrates the key principles of culturally effective ...
Special Topics in Information Technology
(2021)
This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology ...
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. ...
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. ...
De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period
(2020)
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this ...
Solving PDEs in Python: The FEniCS Tutorial I
(2017)
computer science; algorithms; visualization; software; programming
Migration in South America
(2022)
This open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks ...
Railway Ecology
(2017)
carbon footprint; environmental impacts of railways; transportation; wildlife; landscape; planning; engineering; efficiency; sustainability; biodiversity; animal casualties on rails
Jesuit and English Experiences at the Mughal Court, c. 1580–1615
(2022)
This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India Company (EIC) at the Mughal ...
Causality in Policy Studies
(2023)
This volume provides a methodological toolbox for conducting policy research. Recognizing that policy research spans various academic disciplines, each of which takes a different view on causality, the volume introduces a ...
Good Citizenship for the Next Generation
(2021)
This Open Access book presents an international group of scholars seeking to understand how youth from different cultures relate to modern multidimensional concepts of citizenship, and the roles that education and society ...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025
(2017)
Landslide Science; International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; Landslide Hazard Assessment; Landslide Dynamics; Landslide Risk Reduction
Nachhaltigkeit in Umwelt, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
(2017)
Knowledge - Discourse; Sociology of Culture; Water and Health; Economic Systems