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Design of Heuristic Algorithms for Hard Optimization
(2023)
This open access book demonstrates all the steps required to design heuristic algorithms for difficult optimization. The classic problem of the travelling salesman is used as a common thread to illustrate all the techniques ...
R&D Management Practices and Innovation: Evidence from a Firm Survey
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a detailed account of firms’ research and development (R&D) management practices, and whether and how R&D management practices are associated with the success and the nature (explorative or ...
Die rechtlichen Herausforderungen der Echtzeitüberweisung
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch behandelt umfassend die rechtlichen Grundlagen der im Jahr 2017 eingeführten Echtzeitüberweisung (SEPA Instant Payment). Der Autor stellt wiederholt Inkonsistenzen zwischen dem europarechtlich ...
Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System
(2021)
This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system. We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this ...
Atlas of Fallen Dust in Kuwait
(2021)
This open access book serves as an atlas of deposited dust and dust storms in Kuwait in relation to local and global regions. It features a wealth of maps and images of dust storm trajectories in the region, together with ...
Young Adults and Active Citizenship
(2021)
This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means ...
Making Sense of Immigrant Work Integration
(2022)
This open access book explores the wicked problem of immigrant work integration, with specific examples from Canada. Bringing together a variety of disciplinary perspectives, it discusses immigrant work integration as a ...
Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0
(2020)
This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material ...
Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Nordic Countries
(2025)
This open access book compiles the latest research on continuous cover forestry in boreal forests, highlighting both the need for additional information and the exciting possibilities that this method presents. Experts in ...
Reading Success in the Primary Years
(2020)
This open access book describes the Reading Success project, in which a 5-step, assessment-to- intervention process, based on the Simple View of Reading, was used within a primary school setting in Australia to better ...
Co-Creation for Academic Enhancement in Higher Education
(2025)
This open access book focuses on ongoing practices around co-creation at universities, exploring their impact on academic and non-academic activities and making suggestions for realistic changes based on the lessons learned. ...
The Cloud-to-Thing Continuum
(2020)
The Internet of Things offers massive societal and economic opportunities while at the same time significant challenges, not least the delivery and management of the technical infrastructure underpinning it, the deluge of ...
Trade Union Cooperation in Europe
(2020)
This open access book discusses transnational trade union cooperation in Europe – its forms, focuses, conditions, and obstacles. It provides an overview of existing trade union cooperation and includes detailed analyses ...
Chapter 7 The Long Carry
(2018)
For First World War stretcher bearers, wartime landscapes had a direct impact on the work they undertook. Trenches, shell holes, mud and sand all presented challenges to their ability to carry wounded men swiftly and safely ...
A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK
(2016)
nuclear medicine; history of medicine
Knowledge for Governance
(2020)
This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well ...
Photonic Neural Networks with Spatiotemporal Dynamics
(2024)
This open access book presents an overview of recent advances in photonic neural networks with spatiotemporal dynamics. The computing and implementation paradigms presented in this book are outcomes of interdisciplinary ...
Nonlinear Acoustics
(2024)
This open access book is an introductory text on the theory of nonlinear acoustics authored by experts on their respective topics. It is written at a level appropriate for a graduate course on nonlinear acoustics, and it ...
Politische Bildung für die digitale Öffentlichkeit
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband setzen sich Autor*innen aus unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen mit der Auswirkung einer digitalisierten Öffentlichkeit für die Politische Bildung auseinander. Sie erörtern, wie sich die Formen ...
Zur Soziologie der Software
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch stehen Software und ihre Rolle für das Soziale im Mittelpunkt. Die Arbeit stellt Grundprobleme und Lösungsansätze einer Soziologie der Software vor und skizziert damit eine soziologische Perspektive ...
Freshwater Inflows to Texas Bays and Estuaries
(2025)
Estuaries are defined by mixing of river and sea water, thus freshwater inflow is a key driver of estuary ecosystem structure and function. While there is much concern about water quality, there is much less about water ...
The Governance of Insurance Undertakings
(2022)
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the ...
Contracting and Safety
(2022)
This open access book examines the increase in outsourcing, contracting and subcontracting as ways of organising work. It explores the impact of these employment arrangements on public safety, particularly when they are ...
Queering Asylum in Europe
(2021)
This two-volume open-access book offers a theoretically and empirically-grounded portrayal of the experiences of people claiming international protection in Europe on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity ...
Expert Consensus in Science
(2025)
This Open Access book shows how expert consensus pervades all areas of science. It explores, in particular, the role of consensus in establishing scientific truth, in guiding professional practice and policy and agreeing ...
Radical Solutions and Open Science
(2020)
This open access book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. The book introduces the reader into Open Access, Open Technology, Open Data, Open Research results, Open Licensing, Open ...
Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
(2022)
This is an open access book. It is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the interlinkages ...
The Handbook of Marriage in the Arab World
(2024)
This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage in the Arab world. Adopting a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, it ...
Expatriates und freiwilliges Engagement in der Schweiz
(2021)
Mario Störkle untersucht in diesem Open-Access-Buch das freiwillige Engagement von Expatriates in der Schweiz. Sein Untersuchungsraum ist dabei der Kanton Zug. Ein Kanton, dessen gesellschaftliches Leben in den letzten ...
Multifunctional Ceramic Filter Systems for Metal Melt Filtration
(2024)
This open access book covers novel techniques and materials for removing inclusions in metallic melts, resulting in significant improvements to the purity, quality, and materials properties of the cast metal product. It ...
The Pandemic of Argumentation
(2022)
This open access book addresses communicative aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the epidemic of misinformation from the perspective of argumentation theory. Argumentation theory is uniquely placed to ...
Japan’s Peacekeeping at a Crossroads
(2022)
This open access book examines why Japan discontinued its quarter-century history of troop contribution to UN Peacekeeping Operations (1992–2017). Japan had deployed its troops as UN peacekeepers since 1992, albeit under ...
Cinematic Histospheres
(2021)
In this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the “sphere” of a cinematically modelled, physically experienceable historical world. His ...
New Metropolitan Perspectives
(2020)
This open access book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and ...
Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
(2015)
Development Economics; Economic Policy; Social Policy; Climate Change Management and Policy
Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing
(2023)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in research and applications of Foundation Models and is intended for readers familiar with basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts. ...
AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City: Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition
(2016)
Development Economics, Atmospheric Protection / Air Quality Control / Air Pollution, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Group Theory and Generalizations, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Public Support for the Euro
(2022)
The long-term sustainability of the euro and the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) depends heavily on their ability to attract widespread public support. The support shown for the euro throughout its first two decades has ...
Games Without Frontiers?
(2021)
This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and ...
Nuclear Law
(2022)
This open access book traces the journey of nuclear law: its origins, how it has developed, where it is now, and where it is headed. As a discipline, this highly specialized body of law makes it possible for us to benefit ...
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself ...
Internal Crowdsourcing in Companies
(2021)
This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, ...
Mathematics Teacher Education in the Andean Region and Paraguay
(2018)
*THIS BOOK WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK* This book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, from which comparative ...
Advances in Automotive Production Technology – Towards Software-Defined Manufacturing and Resilient Supply Chains
(2023)
This volume of the series ARENA2036 compiles the outcome of the 2nd Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2022). The peer-reviewed contributions in this book are arranged thematically in three parts and cover ...
The Seine River Basin
(2021)
This open access book reviews the water-agro-food and socio-eco-system of the Seine River basin (76,000 km2), and offers a historical perspective on the river’s long-term contamination. The Seine basin is inhabited by circa ...
Subjektunabhängige, analytische Unternehmensethik
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet Florian Fuchs den historischen Diskurs um eine Integration ethischer Fragestellungen in die betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung. Vor dem Hintergrund einer bisher fehlenden originären ...
The South Texas Health Status Review: A Health Disparities Roadmap
(2013)
Public Health; Epidemiology; Demography
Regional Geological Survey of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, Zhejiang Province in China
(2020)
This Open Access book introduces readers to the regional geology of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, the area between China's northern Zhejiang Province and southern Anhui Province and explores the strata, magmatic rocks and ...
Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia
(2022)
This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan. Asia is one of the regions ...
Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering
(2022)
This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first ...
Ray Tracing Gems II
(2021)
"The digital version of this book is available now for free – with the print version following very soon!
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy ...
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 ...
Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry
(2021)
This Open Access book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, Otto Stern launched the revolutionary molecular beam technique. This technique made it ...
The Cold War in the Classroom
(2019)
Education; Teaching; Education—History; Communication; Russia—History; Europe, Eastern—History; Historiography
Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean
(2017)
*THIS BOOK WILL SOON BECOME AVAILABLE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK* This book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, ...
Interdisciplinary Nutritional Management and Care for Older Adults
(2021)
This open access book aims to primarily support nurses as leaders and champions of multimodal, Interdisciplinary nutrition care for older adults. A structured approach to fundamentals of nutrition care across Interdisciplinary ...
Handbuch Außenpolitik Österreichs
(2023)
Das Handbuch ist vollständig als Open Access Publikation verfügbar. Dieses Handbuch bietet eine umfassende Analyse der Außenpolitik Österreichs in der Zweiten Republik. Es behandelt die Rahmenbedingungen, Akteure und ...
Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion
(2023)
This open access edited volume shines new light on the history of propaganda and persuasion during the Nordic welfare epoch. A common analytical framework is developed that highlights transnational and transmedial perspectives ...
Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism
(2017)
healthcare; politics; poverty; aid; development; Africa
Access to Online Resources: A Guide for the Modern Librarian
(2018)
access management; online resources; library technology; access protocols; identity management; authentication; authorisation; troubleshooting; SAML