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Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories
(2022)
This Open Access book illustrates the power of stories to illuminate ethical concerns that arise in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for ...
Adaptive Peacebuilding
(2023)
This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle ...
Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context
(2023)
This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book assesses rigorously and ...
Proceedings of the 2020 DigitalFUTURES
(2021)
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2020 DigitalFUTURES—The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020). The book focuses on novel techniques for ...
Transforming Entrepreneurship Education
(2023)
This open access book provides selected teaching approaches, supporting methods, concrete examples of curricula as well as extracurricular teaching formats, which are predominantly tailored to both African and German ...
Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018)
Sustainable agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa; Agricultural economics; Climate change economics; Agricultural productivity; Modern technology adoption by farmers; Agricultural sustainability; Bioenergy Crop Adoption; ...
Numerical Simulation of Pulsed Plasma Thruster
(2025)
This is an open access book. It is valuable in gaining an understanding of the working mechanism of pulsed plasma thrusters. It facilitates the evaluation of the thruster's working characteristics and propulsive performance, ...
(Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam
(2023)
This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively ...
Making Healthcare Safe
(2021)
This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably ...
GeoHumanities and Health
(2020)
This volume brings together research in the GeoHumanities from various intellectual perspectives to illustrate the benefits of humanities-inspired approaches in understanding and confronting historically entrenched and ...
Symbiotic Interaction: 5th International Workshop, Symbiotic 2016, Padua, Italy, September 29–30, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
(2017)
human-computer interaction; machine learning; cyber-physical systems
Positive Tipping Points Towards Sustainability
(2024)
This open access book provides the first comprehensive review of the state of the art of social tipping points applied to energy systems from a social interdisciplinary perspective. It does so by presenting a novel theory ...
Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand
(2023)
Through an inter-subjective lens, this open access book investigates the initial labour market integration experiences of these migrants, refugees or asylum seekers, who are characterised by different biographies and ...
Suffrage, Capital, and Welfare
(2024)
This open access book examines disenfranchisement and voting barriers in ten self-governing and aspiring liberal democracies worldwide, before and after the introduction of so-called universal suffrage. Focusing on economic ...
Ribosome Biogenesis
(2022)
This Open Access volume provides comprehensive reviews and describes the latest techniques to study eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis. For more than 50 years ribosomes are a major research topic. Our knowledge about ribosome ...
Modernization with Chinese Characteristics and Great Power
(2023)
This open access book expounds in detail on the profound meaning and main characteristics of modernization with Chinese characteristics. This was done utilizing tools of historical investigation and fact-based research on ...
Ray Tracing Gems
(2019)
This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rendering in real time. With the announcement of new ray tracing APIs and hardware to support them, developers can easily create real-time applications with ray tracing as ...
Chapter 2 Pathogenesis
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...
Altern im Wandel: Zwei Jahrzehnte Deutscher Alterssurvey (DEAS)
(2017)
demography
Chapter 4 Delivering Post-Mortem Harm: Cutting the 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 ...
Chapter 4 Delivering Post-Mortem Harm: Cutting the 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 ...
Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change
(2014)
Climate Change; Nature Conservation; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Applied Ecology
Objective Information Theory
(2023)
Objective Information Theory (OIT) is proposed to represent and compute the information in a large-scale complex information system with big data in this monograph. To formally analyze, design, develop, and evaluate the ...
Computing Characterizations of Drugs for Ion Channels and Receptors Using Markov Models
(2016)
Computational Science and Engineering; Biomedicine general; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics
Vergleichsweise menschlich?: Ambulante Sanktionen als Alternative zur Freiheitsentziehung aus europäischer Perspektive
(2015)
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general; Social Work; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Criminal Law
Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming Processes
(2024)
This open access book comprises selected papers presented at the NUMIFORM 2023conference, where recent developments, innovations and advances in numerical methods for material forming and shaping through plastic deformation ...
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 2 Issue 1, 2023
(2023)
This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the ...
Augmented Reality for Engineering Graphics
(2024)
This open access book offers a timely snapshot of Augmented Reality (AR) technology, with an emphasis on its application within the mechanical and manufacturing engineering domains, for both educational and industrial ...
Energy and Sustainable Futures: Proceedings of the 3rd ICESF, 2022
(2023)
This is an open access book. This book contains research papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Futures (ICESF), which took place at Coventry University, UK, in 2022. The ICESF is ...
Creating Resilient Futures
(2022)
This open access edited volume critically examines a coherence building opportunity between Climate Change Adaptation, the Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas through presenting best practice ...
Risky Play
(2023)
This open access book brings together current childhood research and contemporary ethical theory to draw attention to how children depend upon a scope of action for risky play for their mental and physical development. In ...
Das ethische Mandat von Pflegekammern
(2024)
In den letzten Jahren errichteten einige deutsche Bundesländer Pflegekammern, die Selbstverwaltungsorgane der Pflege, andere sind auf dem Weg dahin. Ethik ist ein normativ gesetzter Kammerbaustein. Allerdings ist bis heute ...
Akzeptanz multimodaler Mobilität
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch knüpft an aktuelle Themen zur Transformation der Alltagsmobilität an. Es leistet einen Beitrag zur Frage, wie und wann Menschen ihre Mobilität multimodal gestalten, also verschiedene Verkehrsmittel ...
Klinische Entscheidungsfindung mit Künstlicher Intelligenz
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-essential schafft Orientierung, wenn Künstliche Intelligenz im klinischen Alltag eingesetzt wird. Die Herausforderungen werden anhand zweier Beispiele aus dem Bereich der Nephrologie erläutert, die ...
Living with Nature, Cherishing Language
(2024)
This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of ...
Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change
(2014)
Climate Change; Nature Conservation; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Applied Ecology
Living with Nature, Cherishing Language
(2024)
This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of ...
Adaptive Dynamic Programming
(2024)
This open access book focuses on the practical application of Adaptive Dynamic Programming (ADP) in chemotherapy drug delivery, taking into account clinical variables and real-time data. ADP's ability to adapt to changing ...
Preparing for Life in a Digital Age: The IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study International Report
(2014)
Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Computers and Education; International and Comparative Education
Chapter Appendix
(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 ...