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Anal Incontinence
(2023)
This open access book describes the latest advances in the anal incontinence diagnostic and therapeutic processes. Anal incontinence is a devastating condition heavily impacting on the patients’ lives. Those suffering from ...
Migrations in the Mediterranean
(2024)
This open access Regional Reader describes population movement circulating within the Mediterranean area, for any reason or from any region, be them European, African, Asian or originating from any of the Mediterranean ...
Die Mindestbesteuerung multinationaler Konzerne
(2024)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch behandelt die globale Mindeststeuer für Großkonzerne, auf die sich im Herbst 2021 137 Staaten verständigt haben, die als Mitglieder im Inclusive Framework (IF) on BEPS von G20/OECD an der Reform des ...
The Advocacy Coalition Framework
(2025)
This open access book provides an updated and integrated analysis of the Advocacy Coalition Framework, more than thirty years after its conception. First devised in the 1980s to help explain change within public policy ...
Sustainable Earnings in a Resilient Economic System
(2024)
In a world where global finance must align with the green transition, this Open Access book challenges established economic thinking. It argues for a shift from individualism to group-focused economic theory and policy, ...
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
(2018)
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the ...
The Future of Africa
(2021)
This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical ...
Phygital Intelligence
(2024)
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2023 DigitalFUTURES — The 5nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2023). The work focuses on novel techniques for ...
Security Infrastructure Technology for Integrated Utilization of Big Data
(2020)
This open access book describes the technologies needed to construct a secure big data infrastructure that connects data owners, analytical institutions, and user institutions in a circle of trust. It begins by discussing ...
Towards a Systemic Theory of Irregular Migration
(2020)
This open access book provides an alternative theoretical framework of irregular migration that allows to overcome many of the contradictions and theoretical impasses displayed by the majority of approaches in current ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2018)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 10980 and 10981 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018. The 52 full and 13 ...
Künstliche Intelligenz in öffentlichen Verwaltungen
(2023)
Dieses Buch – eine Open-Access-Publikation mit freiem Online-Zugang – bietet eine verständliche und kompakte Einführung in die Nutzung von KI-Systemen in öffentlichen Verwaltungen. Es beantwortet folgende Fragen: Was ...
A Roadmap for Plant Genome Editing
(2024)
This open access book is an update of genome editing techniques applied to a range of plants. We discuss the latest techniques and applications to cereals, roots and tubers, oilseed crops, fruit and forest trees, vegetables, ...
Transaction Cost Management
(2014)
All organizations, institutions, business processes, markets and strategies have one aim in common: the reduction of transaction costs. This aim is pursued relentlessly in practice, and has been perceived to bring about ...
How Can we Use Simulation to Improve Competencies in Nursing?
(2023)
This open access book offers an overview of theories related to simulation and describes different simulation areas within nursing. It illustrates how simulation may be used in different levels in professional education. ...
The Institutions of Programmatic Action
(2022)
This open access book is the first monograph to systematically apply the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) in a comparative analysis of public policy in two institutionally different countries. The PAF seeks to explain ...
Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe
(2025)
This Open Access book offers a mixed-method approach to analysing anti-Muslim narratives in interactions between the far right and the Western European mainstream. By exploring narratives that portray Islam as inherently ...
Projective Simulation in Action
(2025)
This open access monograph presents an in-depth study of the problem of how agency fits into the physical world. In particular, the authors focus on agency as a precondition of free will. They present a detailed and ...
Planung und Durchführung von Missionen autonomer Drohnen im Schwarm
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch behandelt die Missionsplanung autonomer Drohnenschwärme als verteiltes System. Sie wird als vielseitiges Werkzeug verstanden, das beschreibende, gestaltende und anwendungsorientierte Aspekte umfasst. ...
Affective Injustice in Healthcare
(2025)
This book explores the ambiguous role of affects in healthcare work and medical education. At the same time that healthcare professionals are often encouraged to suppress or downplay their affects in order to maintain a ...
Differential Geometry
(2024)
This open access book covers the main topics for a course on the differential geometry of curves and surfaces. Unlike the common approach in existing textbooks, there is a strong focus on variational problems, ranging from ...
The War Against Ukraine and the EU
(2024)
This open access book aims at discussing the manifold consequences that the War against Ukraine bears for the European Union and EU Studies. It takes stock of the fact that the Russian Attack on Ukraine and the ensuing War ...
Applying Machine Learning in Science Education Research
(2025)
This open access textbook offers science education researchers a hands-on guide for learning, critically examining, and integrating machine learning (ML) methods into their science education research projects. These methods ...
The Hard Edge of Soft Power
(2025)
This open access book explores the linkages between geopolitics and hosting mega-events. It encompasses and transcends the international and domestic dimensions of soft power to unpack how mega-events shape cities and ...
Disaster Intelligent Perception and Emergency Command of Power Grid
(2024)
This open access book addresses the current technical problems of low efficiency of emergency site information collection, lack of flexibility of emergency information interaction, lack of fusion analysis technology and ...
Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building Inclusive Local Health Security in Africa and India
(2024)
This open access edited volume focuses on the scope and benefits of strengthening local industrial-health linkages. The Covid-19 pandemic collapsed international supply chains for health. That experience brought home to ...
Green Consensus and High Quality Development
(2022)
This open access book is based on the research outputs of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) in 2020. It covers major topics of Chinese and international attention regarding ...
Living The Letters
(2025)
In this work, Michael Marmur employs the structure of the Hebrew alphabet to set out elements of an emerging Jewish theology, presenting a case for the urgent relevance of Jewish life at a time of deepening rupture and ...
Young Citizens' Views and Engagement in a Changing Europe
(2025)
This open access report presents the European results from the third cycle (2022) of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS). Eighteen countries and two benchmarking participants (the German ...
Diseases of the Brain, Head and Neck, Spine 2020–2023
(2020)
This open access book offers an essential overview of brain, head and neck, and spine imaging. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by both clinical and technological developments. ...
Audacious Education Purposes
(2020)
This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines ...
Making Sense of Work Through Collaborative Storytelling
(2022)
Collective sense making starts with individual stories. Stories influence how we construct our sense of self in relation to others and our social environment, especially within the world of work. The stories we tell ourselves ...
Extracellular Fine Particles
(2025)
This open access book elucidates new biological phenomena caused by extracellular fine particles and highlights the development of base technologies for their control. In this book, the latest knowledge is collected on the ...
Low-Dose Radiation Effects on Animals and Ecosystems
(2020)
This open access book summarizes the latest scientific findings regarding the biological effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident in 2011. Various cases of changes in animals and organisms have ...
Stressbewältigung durch Pflegekräfte
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Thema Stressbewältigung von Pflegekräften konzeptionell und empirisch betrachtet. Arbeitsstress nimmt für die meisten Berufsgruppen zu und ist zu einer der häufigsten Ursachen für ...
Dekoloniale politische Bildung
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch setzt sich Malte Kleinschmidt mit der Frage auseinander, wie politische Bildung zu einer Dekolonisierung beitragen kann. Nicht erst durch die Auseinandersetzungen um Black Lives Matter wird ...
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment
(2019)
This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain ...
Student Feedback on Teaching in Schools
(2021)
This open access book provides a comprehensive and informative overview of the current state of research about student perceptions of and student feedback on teaching. After presentation of a new student feedback process ...
Brain and Human Body Modeling
(2019)
This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modeling with specific emphasis in the areas of neurology and neuroelectromagnetics, depression and cancer treatments, radio-frequency studies and ...
Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
(2023)
This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence ...
Interfacial Phenomena in Adhesion and Adhesive Bonding
(2024)
This open access book reviews the recent research achievements of the investigation of interfacial phenomena in polymer/polymer and polymer/metal joint interfaces with the state-of-the-art analytical techniques not previously ...
Digitales Besuchermanagement in Destinationen
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Essential erläutert die Entwicklung eines digitalen Besuchermanagementsystems für Destinationen von der Bedarfsermittlung bis zur Implementierung und Ausspielung. Zunächst müssen der Bedarf an ...
Neues von der Insel
(2024)
Ein interdisziplinärer Band im Open-Access: Die Aufwertung der Volkssprachen in der Frühen Neuzeit führte zu einer Intensivierung und internationalen Öffnung der europäischen Übersetzungskultur. Der Gebrauch des Englischen ...
Transmedial Narration
(2019)
This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of narration in all times, ...
Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development
(2023)
This open access book provides the first systematic overview of existing challenges and opportunities for responsible data linkage, and a cutting-edge assessment of which steps need to be taken to ensure that plant data ...
Academic Times
(2025)
This open access book explores the hidden politics of time—the chronopolitics—that profoundly shapes the contours of academic life and knowledge production in contemporary universities. Moving beyond familiar critiques of ...
Cancer Care in the Post-COVID World
(2026)
This Open Access textbook, endorsed by UK Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS), covers the effects impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Cancer care and how health care professionals and people with a cancer diagnosis have been ...
Functional Diseases of the Esophagus
(2026)
This is an open access book on the pathophysiology, diagnosis and surgical techniques of functional diseases of the esophagus. In the past, these diseases were only studied and treated in a few centres. However, in the ...
Managing Global Student Migration in the Twentieth Century
(2025)
This open-access book examines student migration in the twentieth century, focusing on the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Established in 1925 by the French government with support from a diverse coalition of ...
Innovation, Economic Development, and Intellectual Property in India and China
(2019)
This open access book analyses intellectual property codification and innovation governance in the development of six key industries in India and China. These industries are reflective of the innovation and economic ...
Coercion and Violence in Mental Health Settings
(2024)
This book aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the contexts, causes and treatments that relate to the reduction of coercion and the prevention of violence in mental health settings. The objective of this new ...
Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions
(2020)
This open access book synthesizes leading-edge science and management information about forest and rangeland soils of the United States. It offers ways to better understand changing conditions and their impacts on soils, ...
Beyond Data
(2022)
This open access book focuses on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on individuals and society from a legal perspective, providing a comprehensive risk-based methodological framework to address it. Building on the ...
Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence
(2022)
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development ...
Peer review in an Era of Evaluation
(2022)
This open access volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science itself, recent changes in the evaluation culture of higher education systems have increased ...
Bullying im Klassenverband – doch nicht nur in der Schule
(2022)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch befasst sich mit den Fragen, welche Rollen Klassenmitglieder bei Bullying einnehmen und durch welche sozial-kognitiven und affektiven Reaktionen sie sich auszeichnen. Bei Bullying handelt ...
A Visual Atlas for Soil Micromorphologists
(2021)
This open access atlas is an up-to-date visual resource on the features and structures observed in soil thin sections, i.e. soil micromorphology. The book addresses the growing interest in soil micromorphology in the fields ...
Decarbonizing Freight Transport
(2022)
This Open-Access-Book analyzes the acceptance of sustainable freight transport and suggests a new framework for policy measures to decarbonize freight transport. Despite intense political endeavors, the environmental ...
Chapter The Perspective of “Coup Forces,” Saleh and Houthi Elements
(2020)
"From the onset of the Saada wars (2004 – 2010), the Houthis have been described as an Iranian proxy and a security threat. Ali Abdullah Saleh long deployed this Iranian narrative to obtain budgetary and military support ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2024)
The open access book 3-volume set LNCS 14570-14573 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2024, which was held as part ...