Publications
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Urinary Stents
(2022)
This open access book provides a concise overview of a range of aspects related to urinary stents. Sections within the work cover clinical and recent technological advancements in the field. Chapters feature detailed ...
Rethinking Nordic Courts
(2021)
This open access book examines whether a distinctly Nordic procedural or court culture exists and what the hallmarks of that culture are. Do Nordic courts and court proceedings share a distinct set of ideas and values that ...
Feature Models
(2024)
This open access book provides a basic introduction to feature modelling and analysis as well as to the integration of AI methods with feature modelling. It is intended as an introduction for researchers and practitioners ...
Obstructions in Security-Aware Business Processes
(2022)
This Open Access book explores the dilemma-like stalemate between security and regulatory compliance in business processes on the one hand and business continuity and governance on the other. The growing number of regulations, ...
Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516
(2020)
This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and ...
Entity Alignment
(2023)
This open access book systematically investigates the topic of entity alignment, which aims to detect equivalent entities that are located in different knowledge graphs. Entity alignment represents an essential step in ...
xxAI - Beyond Explainable AI
(2022)
This is an open access book. Statistical machine learning (ML) has triggered a renaissance of artificial intelligence (AI). While the most successful ML models, including Deep Neural Networks (DNN), have developed better ...
R.J. Rummel: An Assessment of His Many Contributions
(2017)
genocide; democracy; libertarianism; peace; Cold War
The European Higher Education Area: Between Critical Reflections and Future Policies
(2015)
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
Protest-Aktivist*innen der Umweltschutz-Bewegung im Netz und auf der Straße
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht mit Fokus auf einzelne Bürger*innen fallspezifisch und empirisch den Handlungs- und Wirkungszusammenhang von Straßenprotest und Online-Aktivismus im Bereich der Umweltschutz-Bewegung. ...
Mirrored Spaces
(2024)
This open access book critically examines discussions on digitalisation and individual opportunities for socio-economic advancement. Contrary to the prevailing narratives of “digital empowerment” and opportunities for every ...
Deutsch als Zweitsprache: Alphabetisierung für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene
(2018)
Migrationspädagogik; Zweitsprache; Deutschkurs; Alphabetisierung; Alphabetisierungskurs; Geflüchtete; Flüchtlinge; Migranten; Schlauwerkstatt; Schlauschule; Deutsch als Zweitsprache; Deutsch als Fremdsprache; ...
Proceedings of PIANC Smart Rivers 2022
(2023)
This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 10th PIANC Smart Rivers Conference (Smart Rivers 2022). The work focuses on novel techniques for inland waterways and navigation structures. The contents make valuable ...
Human-Nature Interactions
(2022)
This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in ...
Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting
(2019)
This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art ...
Akzeptanzkommunikation in der Energie- und Rohstoffwirtschaft
(2023)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation untersucht die Akzeptanz der sächsischen Bevölkerung gegenüber Energie- und Rohstoffvorhaben sowie die Eignung von Kommunikationsmaßnahmen zur Verbesserung des Akzeptanzniveaus. Die Bürger:innen ...
The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract
(2024)
This open access book focuses on the energy sector and will make a significant contribution to its continued evolution. For many years, the energy sector has been missing a raison d’etre and now finally there are increased ...
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
(2019)
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking ...
Personalized Hip and Knee Joint Replacement
(2020)
This open access book describes and illustrates the surgical techniques, implants, and technologies used for the purpose of personalized implantation of hip and knee components. This new and flourishing treatment philosophy ...
Judicial Governance and Democracy in Europe
(2023)
This is an Open Access book. Amid the growing debate about models of judicial governance and their relationship to democratic quality, this book offers a systematic and empirical study of this relationship. The book thereby ...
Mobilities of Knowledge
(2017)
Human Geography; Sociology of Education; Anthropology; Migration
Autonomes Fahren
(2015)
Automotive Engineering; Robotics and Automation; Community and Environmental Psychology; Commercial Law
Skills in Rheumatology
(2021)
This Open Access book presents practical approaches to managing patients affected by various rheumatological diseases, allowing readers to gain a better understanding of the various clinical expressions and problems ...
Chapter 1 Early Twentieth-Century Self-Harm: Cut Throats, General and Mental Medicine
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Limits to the European Union’s Normative Power in a Post-conflict Society: EULEX and Peacebuilding in Kosovo
(2018)
Peacebuilding; EULEX; Kosovo; European Union; Conflict prevention; Normative power; Post-conflict; IECEU
Automated Reasoning
(2024)
Infotext (nur auf Basis des Vorgängers): This two-volume set of LNAI 14739-14740 constitute the proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2024, held in Nancy, France, during July ...
The Geology of Kuwait
(2023)
This open access book contains a set of chapters covering all aspects of geosciences related to Kuwait and adjacent regions, including Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states. It covers basic information about the ...
Chapter Acknowledgements
(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 ...
Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms
(2021)
This open access book shares the experiences of Tropical Legumes III (TLIII) project in facilitating access to seed of improved legume varieties to smallholder farmers through innovation platforms. It highlights practices ...
The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition
(2020)
The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in low-carbon technologies. The large-scale shift to low-carbon energy is ...
Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012
(2019)
This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment ...
Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2023)
This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team’s inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption ...
Formal Methods
(2025)
The open access book set LNCS 14933 + 14934 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2024, which took place in Milan, Italy, in September 2024. The 51 full and 4 short ...
Partizipative Forschung
(2020)
Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband bietet eine fundierte Grundlage für den Einstieg in die partizipative Forschung allgemein und in die Partizipative Gesundheitsforschung. Es werden Forschungsansätze und Methoden für die Erhebung ...
Marine Mammals
(2023)
This highly-readable Open Access textbook provides basic background information about marine mammals and anthropogenic impacts on them. The book includes inspiring exercises for education school programs in natural sciences. ...
Chapter 4 Self-Harm as a Result of Domestic Distress
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Bayesian Methods in the Search for MH370
(2016)
Probability theory
Postdigital Participation in Education
(2023)
This open access book examines the interrelations and correlations of the postdigital condition and its relationship to education, with a particular focus on participation. Contributions reflect on how educational institutions ...
The Fundamentals of People Analytics
(2023)
This open access book prepares current and aspiring analytics professionals to effectively address this need by curating key concepts spanning the entire analytics lifecycle, along with step-by-step instructions for their ...
Design Ethnography
(2021)
This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards ...