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Concepts in Action
(2021)
This open access book is a timely contribution in presenting recent issues, approaches, and results that are not only central to the highly interdisciplinary field of concept research but also particularly important to ...
Education Policies in the 21st Century
(2022)
This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda
(2021)
This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South ...
Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean
(2021)
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of ...
Religionstrends in der Schweiz
(2022)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation beschreibt gegenwärtige Entwicklungen in der Religionslandschaft der Schweiz. Sie führt eine Reihe von Studien fort, die seit den 1980er Jahren in regelmässigen Zeitabständen publiziert werden. ...
Development and Postdevelopmentalism in Studies on, to, with, for, by Young Children
(2025)
This open access book directs its attention to a desire for inter- and transdisciplinary, reciprocal collaborations in studies concerning young children. It focuses on the possibilities and obstacles in collaborative forms ...
Teaching Reading Comprehension in a Digital World
(2025)
This open access book helps teachers include the reading of digital texts in their curriculum. Using ePIRLS, it informs teachers about digital reading and evidence-based teaching principles for digital reading. This ...
A Practical Guide to Understanding and Implementing Challenge-Based Learning
(2025)
This open access book maps the role of challenge-based learning (CBL) in the transformation of higher education pedagogy, towards being sector-informed as well as student-driven. CBL democratises the process of learning ...
Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory
(2024)
This open access book bridges a gap between introductory Quantum Field Theory (QFT) courses and state-of-the-art research in scattering amplitudes. It covers the path from basic definitions of QFT to amplitudes, which are ...
Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering
(2025)
This open access book defines the field of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering, identifying a clear scope of what constitutes “smart” in the context of digital technologies, develops a cross-field perspective, provides ...
Voicing Consent
(2025)
This open access book draws on an international research project, using extensive and multiple methods to explore unwanted sexual contact and violence in sex work populations. A project delivered by a large team of sex ...
Contemporary Issues in Industry 5.0
(2025)
‘Industry 5.0’ was first described in 2020 by the European Commission to describe the next wave of technologies, including Virtual Simulation and Automated Robots, to impact businesses and individuals. It recognizes how ...
AI, Sacred Violence, and War—The Case of Gaza
(2025)
This open access book is about how Israel is using Algorithmic Intelligence (AI) and other computer technology in military operations in the Gaza Strip to achieve goals based on ancient religious entitlements. Changes in ...
Arching in Piled Embankments Including the Effects of Reinforcement and Subsoil
(2025)
This Open access book examined the performance of the reinforced piled embankments in both plane strain and three-dimensional conditions. The arching mechanisms involved in the piled embankments have been investigated by ...
Gender and Education in Central Asia
(2025)
This open access book brings together established and emerging scholars to explore policies, statistical trends and representative research on gender equity across post-Soviet Central Asia. The book provides an overview ...
Assessing Feasibility with Value-laden Models
(2025)
In this Open-Access-book, the author investigates the value dimension of Integrated Assessment Models and their application to questions of feasibility. Integrated models provide a quantified representation of the interaction ...
The Impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian War
(2025)
This open access book discusses conditions of conflict resolution over the Russo-Ukrainian War and analyzes requirements for long-term durable peace for Ukraine. What are the impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian War? Do we really ...
The Québec-United States Relationship
(2025)
Québec’s engagement with the United States is the most significant and consequential point of interaction amongst all its international activities. This new, edited book volume seeks to explore the many ways in which Quebec ...
Mechanical Design and Simulation: Exploring Innovations for the Future
(2025)
This book is an open access publication. This book presents innovative strategies and cutting-edge research at the intersection of mechanical engineering and simulation technologies. Aimed at addressing the current challenges ...
The South China Sea: The Geo-political Epicenter of the Indo-Pacific?
(2025)
This open access book focuses on the geopolitical competition in the South China Sea, an area with highly concentrated choke points in the Indo-Pacific, presenting ideas and recommendations to manage this competition and ...
Understanding Crime Trends in a Hybrid Society
(2025)
This open access book critically revisits 30 years of debate surrounding the evolution of crime trends, aiming to reconcile various hypotheses and controversies. It scrutinizes the concept of the "crime drop," highlighting ...
Service Innovation and Management
(2025)
This open access book investigates how digitalization and service infusion are changing service provision and the customer experience. It highlights the central role of service management and service innovation in making ...
User Experience + Artificial Intelligence
(2025)
This open access book addresses the thriving trend of embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities in products and services reaching the lay public, focusing on the user experience (UX) ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Western Balkans
(2025)
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is increasingly recognized as an attractive alternative to national court proceedings, especially in international business relations. This open access book focuses on ADR mechanisms ...
The Risks and Ethics of Human Gene Editing
(2025)
This Open Access book is about the risks and the ethics of human germline gene editing, i.e., the possibility to make heritable changes to the DNA of early human embryos or germ cells. Is there something particularly morally ...
Peer-Unterstützungsbeziehungen im Kontext psychischer Beeinträchtigung
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch schafft durch ein qualitatives Forschungsvorgehen im Sinne der Grounded Theory Methodologie einen empirischen Zugang zur Perspektive von Peer-Begleiter*innen auf Unterstützungsangebote im Kontext ...
Decoding Marine Genetic Resource Governance Under the BBNJ Agreement
(2025)
This open access book provides practical guidance for understanding the new treaty adopted in June 2023 that will change the way biodiversity is governed in about two thirds of the oceans known as areas beyond national ...
Humanistic Wellbeing
(2025)
This open access book seeks to change the way we think about happiness and the good life. It starts ambitiously by exploring how the biological question, “What is life?” can be integrated with the philosophical question, ...
Revival Movements as Conflict Agendas of the Popular in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(2025)
This open access book focuses on the potential for conflict between high and low culture during the transformations of the popular in the field of religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Specifically, the ...
Managing Future Challenges for Safety
(2022)
This open access book addresses the future of work and industry by 2040—a core interest for many disciplines inspiring a strong momentum for employment and training within the industrial world. The future of industrial ...
Responsive Schulleitung
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird Schulleitungshandeln im Kontext einer nationalen Reformumsetzung (Neue-Mittelschul-Reform) betrachtet. Dabei fokussiert die Arbeit auf den Ansatz der responsiven Führung. Dieser Zugang hilft, ...
Moving Toward Net-Zero Carbon Society
(2023)
This open access book explores various issues concerning the net-zero emission achievement, ranging from carbon pricing, carbon trade schemes, energy transition, ecological conservation, and carbon sinks, as well as the ...
Aviation Noise Impact Management
(2022)
This open access book provides a view into the state-of-the-art research on aviation noise and related annoyance. The book will primarily focus on the achievements of the ANIMA project (Aviation Noise Impact Management ...
Public Actors in International Investment Law
(2021)
This open access book focuses on public actors with a role in the settlement of investment disputes. Traditional studies on actors in international investment law have tended to concentrate on arbitrators, claimant investors ...
Molecular Parasitology
(2016)
In the past years, genome projects for numerous human parasites have been completed and now allow first in depth comparisons and evolutionary conclusions. The genomes of parasites reflect the coevolution with their host, ...
Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World: Albanian Migrants and Their Children in Europe
(2015)
Migration; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Childhood, Adolescence and Society; Sociology, general
Sexualisierte Gewalt und digitale Medien
(2022)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation stellen Katharina Kärgel und Frederic Vobbe anhand sieben typischer Fallbeispiele Handlungsempfehlungen für einen adäquaten Umgang mit mediatisierter sexualisierter Gewalt dar. Die ...
Chapter 48 In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging to Assess Compound Efficacy Against Trypanosoma brucei
(2020)
Traditional animal models for human African trypanosomiasis rely on detecting Trypanosoma brucei brucei
parasitemia in the blood. Testing the efficacy of new compounds in these models is cumbersome because it
may take ...
Entwicklung von Methoden zur abstrakten Modellierung von Automotive Systems-on-Chips
(2022)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation bietet zu Beginn einen Einblick in die Grundlagen der modellbasierten Systementwicklung. Dabei analysiert die Publikation aktuell bestehende methodische Defizite in der Automotive System-on-Chip ...
Soziale Arbeit und Sucht
(2021)
Das Open Access Buch «Soziale Arbeit in der Suchtprävention und Suchthilfe der Deutschsprachigen Schweiz» hat die Professionalisierung der Sozialen Arbeit in der Suchtarbeit zum Ziel. In einem ersten Schritt soll mittels ...