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Iconographic Research Poetry
(2024)
This open access book introduces readers to the craft of writing iconographic research poetry in a way that is scholarly, yet playful. By tracing the historical foundations of concrete and iconographic poetry, as well as ...
Programming for Computations - MATLAB/Octave
(2016)
Computational Science and Engineering; Numerical Analysis;
The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque
(2020)
This open access book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), which had continued for over 30 years, but which ...
Cybersecurity in Poland
(2022)
This open access book explores the legal aspects of cybersecurity in Poland. The authors are not limited to the framework created by the NCSA (National Cybersecurity System Act – this act was the first attempt to create a ...
Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Potentially Polluting Wrecks
(2024)
This open access volume focuses on the environmental hazards and cultural significance of Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPWs), and how mitigation efforts have assisted in documenting and preserving the history of these ...
Error-Correction Coding and Decoding
(2017)
Coding; Communications; Engineering; Networks; Information Theory; Algorithms
Doktor Faustus (ver-)stimmen
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch widmet sich Anna Maria Olivari der Forschungslücke der Vertonung von Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus. Sie untersucht ein Korpus von 13 unterschiedlichen Kompositionen aus dem Bereich der Neuen Musik ...
Chapter 4 AVATAR Therapy for Refractory Auditory Hallucinations
(2016)
AVATAR therapy is part of a new and exciting wave of therapies which adopt an explicitly
relational and dialogic approach to working with the distressing voices. To understand
the AVATAR approach, it is important to ...
Statistical Foundations of Actuarial Learning and its Applications
(2023)
This open access book discusses the statistical modeling of insurance problems, a process which comprises data collection, data analysis and statistical model building to forecast insured events that may happen in the ...
Chapter Functional Annotation of Rare Genetic Variants
(2015)
Genome-wide association studies have successfully identified a growing number of
common variants that robustly associate with a wide range of complex diseases and
phenotypes. In the majority of cases though, the variants ...
Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements
(2023)
This open access book brings into dialogue emerging and seasoned migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Violent conflicts, social unrest, ...
Gestresste Eltern
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch setzt sich mit der übergeordneten Forschungsfrage auseinander, für welche Dimensionen subjektiven elterlichen Wohlbefindens das Kind eine Rolle spielt. Anhand eines systematischen Gangs durch den ...
Chapter Conclusion
(2015)
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This ...
Consensus or Conflict?
(2021)
This open access book brings together leading international scholars and policy-makers to explore the challenges and dilemmas of globalization and governance in an era increasingly defined by economic crises, widespread ...
Tourism and ICTs: Advances in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability
(2024)
This open-access book presents the best research papers from the XIV International Congress on Tourism and Information and Communications Technologies (TURITEC2023), held in Málaga, Spain from 19 to 20 October 2023. The ...
Measurement Across the Sciences
(2023)
This open access book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics, engineering, education, and psychology. It addresses ...
Chapter 7 He that Hath an Ill-Name Is Half-Hanged: The Anatomical Legacy of the Criminal Corpse
(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 ...
Empty Innovation
(2023)
Innovation is generally viewed as something inherently good, a source of progress and prosperity in our society. But innovation can also have negative, unintended, and wasteful effects, if policies are misdirected and ...
Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Europe
(2017)
entrepreneurship; innovation; Horizon 2020; capital gains; taxation; income; rights; R&D policy; technology; commercialization; financing; investment
Brain and Human Body Modeling 2020
(2021)
This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modeling in an effort to advance neurology, cancer treatment, and radio-frequency studies including regulatory, safety, and wireless communication ...
Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos
(2023)
This open access book is a collection of articles based on presentations from the 2020 Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference that gives an overview of conference outcomes. The vision of the conference has ...
Urban Agriculture in Public Space
(2024)
This open access book discusses urban agriculture initiatives integrated in public space of dense inner-city neighbourhoods, thereby ensuring its accessibility for large and diverse segments of urban populations. It ...
Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals
(2023)
This open access book addresses the growing trend in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) research named collaborative knowledge building in which researchers and ECEC personnel collaborate. This kind of ...
Water Resources in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin: Impact of Climate Change and Human Interventions
(2024)
This open access book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the current state of knowledge covering climate change, surface water change, arsenic pollution, water utilization, water-food-energy nexus, water related ...
Loneliness in Europe
(2024)
This open-access volume accompanies the microdata release of the EU Loneliness Survey. Loneliness, often referred to as the ‘epidemic of the 21st century’, has emerged as a grave public health concern. For years, a lack ...
The Transformation of the Liberal International Order
(2024)
This open access book aims to emphasize the potential for Japan, Europe and Indo-Pacific countries including the US to respond to shared domestic and international challenges on finding joint ways to uphold and develop the ...
The New Politics of Numbers
(2022)
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers ...
The Illiberal Public Sphere
(2024)
This open access book provides the first systematic analysis of the role of the media in the rise of illiberalism, based on an original theoretical framework and extensive empirical research in Eastern Europe – a region ...
Principles of Mechanics
(2019)
This open access textbook takes the reader step-by-step through the concepts of mechanics in a clear and detailed manner. Mechanics is considered to be the core of physics, where a deep understanding of the concepts is ...
Global Elite Migrations
(2024)
This open access book explores the lives and careers of migrating artists with the purpose to understand how they make use of their migrant-networks and how this process interacts with decisions they make about immigration ...
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2020.* The 17 full papers and ...
Transformation and Development
(2020)
This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, political and economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical ...
New Vision 2050: A Platinum Society
(2018)
Sustainability; Climate change; Saturation; Leading country in resolving societal problems; Resource self-sufficiency; Urban mines; Renewable energy; Human-nature symbiosis; Aging society; Longevity; Lifelong ...
The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
(2019)
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three ...
Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake
(2015)
Effects of Radiation / Radiation Protection
Chapter 3 The Gibbet in the Landscape
(2015)
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh ...
Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences
(2022)
This open access book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist transformation. It explores the vulnerabilities that arise for female citizens from the ...
World Class Universities
(2020)
This open access book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current ...
Evidenzbasierter Fledermausschutz in Windkraftvorhaben
(2020)
Die Energieproduktion aus Windkraft ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Energiewende in Deutschland. Seit Jahren zeigen jedoch Untersuchungen, dass vor allem Fledermäuse und Großvögel vielfach durch Kollisionen an ...
Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa
(2023)
This Open Access book explores the multifaceted nature of agricultural and rural development in Asia and examines the extent to which the Asian experience is being replicated in contemporary Africa. This volume compiles ...