Publications
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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 ...
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 ...
The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks
(2017)
biodiversity; conservation; ecosystems
Chapter 2 Communicative Self-Harm: War, NHS and Social Work
(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 ...
Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Real and Complex Domains
(2022)
This book explores topics in multivariate statistical analysis, relevant in the real and complex domains. It utilizes simplified and unified notations to render the complex subject matter both accessible and enjoyable, ...
The Ethical Spirit of EU Values
(2022)
This open access book, summarising the research conducted at this Jean Monnet Chair, seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) values. EU integration began at the economic level; human rights were only ...
The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes
(2020)
This open access volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of ...
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 ...
Chapter Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Measured Cerebral Blood Flow from Spontaneous Oxygenation Changes in Neonatal Brain Injury
(2020)
Neonates with hypoxic-ischaemic (HI) brain injury were monitored
using a broadband near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) system in the neonatal intensive
care unit. The aim of this work is to use the NIRS cerebral oxygenation ...
Formalization of Banking Supervision
(2022)
This open access book is the first attempt to elaborate the formalization phase of banking supervision in eight developed countries—USA, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and UK. This innovative study ...
Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice
(2023)
This Open Access book builds on the experiences of one of the largest European projects in the domain of responsible Research and Innovation: NewHoRRIzon. It highlights the potential of and opportunity in responsible R&I ...
Data Privacy and Trust in Cloud Computing
(2021)
This open access book brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines including psychology, law, IS, and computer science on data privacy and trust in the cloud. Cloud technology has fueled rapid, dramatic technological ...
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 ...
IUTAM: A Short History
(2016)
Mechanics
Rice Improvement
(2021)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. By 2050, human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. The demand for increased food production needs to be met from ever reducing resources of land, water and other ...
Dissecting 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 ...
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 ...
Digital gestützte Lehre
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch versammelt Arbeiten, die im Rahmen von New Normal entstanden sind. New Normal - das ist ein vom Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst und der Vereinigung der Bayerischen Wirtschaft ...
Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century
(2017)
water policy; water governance; water management; environmental law; environmental sciences; international relations
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods
(2021)
This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through ...