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Environment Impact on Reproductive Health
(2023)
This open access book focuses on of the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on human reproduction. It comprehensively discusses the three most important topics in the field: the basic biology of EDCs; the effects ...
Chapter 2 Cancer and the Gendered Body
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Redefining Global Governance
(2025)
This open access volume offers a unique interdisciplinary analysis of the current structure of global governance on tax, trade, and investment. It explores the interplay between actors, critiques current norm-making ...
Case Studies in Biocultural Diversity from Southeast Asia
(2022)
This open access book demonstrates the linkages between local languages, traditional knowledge, and biodiversity at the landscape level in Asia, providing a fresh approach to discussions on Asia’s biocultural diversity. ...
Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable (First Edition)
(2013)
Computer science
Deep Integration, Global Firms, and Technology Spillovers
(2022)
This open access book explores the impact of deep regional economic integration on spillovers of knowledge and technology across countries. Deep integration through signing deep regional trade agreements (DRTAs), which ...
Supercomputing Frontiers
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2020, which was planned to be held in February 2020, but unfortunately, the physical conference was cancelled due ...
The 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment
(2025)
This open access book provides the latest fundamental and practical advances in reducing the built environment’s carbon footprint based on a collection of papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Net-Zero ...
Greening the Financial Sector: How to Mainstream Environmental Finance in Developing Countries
(2012)
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Finance, general; Environmental Economics; Development Finance; Energy Efficiency; Environmental Finance; Green Energy Finance; Renewable Energy
Klima
(2020)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit sind eng verknüpft mit den Zielen der UN bis 2030 (The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals SDGs), die eine ...
Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution
(2022)
This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary ...
Reversible Computation: Extending Horizons of Computing
(2020)
This open access State-of-the-Art Survey presents the main recent scientific outcomes in the area of reversible computation, focusing on those that have emerged during COST Action IC1405 "Reversible Computation - Extending ...
Next Generation Supply Chains
(2021)
This open access book explores supply chains strategies to help companies face challenges such as societal emergency, digitalization, climate changes and scarcity of resources. The book identifies industrial scenarios for ...
Altern als Zukunft – eine Studie der VolkswagenStiftung
(2022)
Deutschland altert – aber was heißt das? Ist das schlimm? Und kann eine Gesellschaft überhaupt als Ganzes altern? In einer Zusammenführung von psychologischen, gerontologischen und soziologischen Erkenntnissen eröffnet ...
The Role of Community-Mindedness in the Self-Regulation of Drug Cultures
(2012)
This book analyzes heroin users and the drug subculture on the Shetland Islands, an area known for its geographical remoteness, rural character and relative wealth. It fills the scientific gap created by the conventional ...
African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation
(2022)
This open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been ...
Re-presenting Research
(2023)
This open access book focuses on the textual features, or ‘strategies’, which form popularization discourse. In popularization discourse, research findings from academia are re-presented to make them noteworthy to society ...
Companion to European Heritage Revivals
(2014)
Cultural Heritage; Cultural Management; Heritage Strategies; Heritage Experience; Cultural Heritage Routes; Routes des Vins d'Alsace; Liberation Route Arnhem Nijmegen; Region Identity Battle Field
Mathematics Education in East Africa
(2016)
*THIS BOOK WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK* This book is a valuable resource for policymakers and practitioners as it brings insights mainly from developing countries where relatively less research activity takes ...
Empirical Research in Statistics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Statistics
Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning: A Case Study of Punjab, India
(2015)
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Environmental Economics; Community & Population Ecology
Chapter 2 ‘We Are Recreating Bedlam’
(2018)
This essay explores the historical relationship between mental health and the prison system in England and Ireland, from the introduction of the separate system of discipline in the 1840s. In doing so, we focus on the ...
Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new ...
Deployment and Operation of Complex Software in Heterogeneous Execution Environments
(2022)
This open access book provides an overview of the work developed within the SODALITE project, which aims at facilitating the deployment and operation of distributed software on top of heterogeneous infrastructures, including ...
Violence in Extreme Conditions
(2023)
As an organization operating under extreme conditions, the military is often confronted with destructive behavior from individuals, organizations, and societies. Written by experts from a variety of disciplines, this open ...
Annals of Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics 2021
(2022)
This Open Access proceedings presents a good overview of the current research landscape of assembly, handling and industrial robotics. The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and ...
The Formation of Japan-ROK Security Relations
(2025)
This open access book argues that Japan-ROK security relations were formed in the process of adjusting the threat perception gap and policy conflict between the two countries. Conventional analyses using a “cooperation or ...
Gerechter Frieden
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch führt in das noch relativ junge Konzept des gerechten Friedens ein. Es verhandelt seine drei Grundpfeiler: das Verständnis einer Friedensordnung als Rechtsordnung, die Beschränkung militärischer ...
Microorganisms in the Deterioration and Preservation of Cultural Heritage
(2021)
This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the role and potential of microorganisms in the degradation and preservation of cultural materials (e.g. stone, metals, graphic documents, textiles, paintings, glass, ...
Verwaltung im digitalen Zeitalter
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch fokussiert die Herausforderungen und Bedarfe, die sich für die öffentliche Verwaltung aus der stetig fortschreitenden Digitalisierung ergeben. Insbesondere der öffentliche Dienst als zentrale Ressource ...
Remedies against Immunity?
(2021)
The open access book examines the consequences of the Italian Constitutional Court’s Judgment238/2014 which denied the German Republic’s immunity from civil jurisdiction over claims to reparations for Nazi crimes committed ...
Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases
(2020)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This open access book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and healthy ...
China–Japan–South Korea Trilateral Cooperation
(2024)
This open access book aims to review the history, achievements, and challenges of trilateral cooperation among China, Japan, and South Korea in a systematic way. It offers numerous perspectives to explain the emergence of ...
AVENUE21. Politische und planerische Aspekte der automatisierten Mobilität
(2021)
Gegenstand dieser Open Access Publikation sind die Auswirkungen automatisierter und vernetzter Fahrzeuge auf die Europäische Stadt sowie die Voraussetzungen, unter denen diese Technologie einen positiven Beitrag zur ...
Robots in Care and Everyday Life
(2023)
This open access book presents detailed findings about the ethical, legal, and social acceptance of robots in the German and European context. The key resource is the Bremen AI Delphi survey of scientists and politicians ...
Ethics, Integrity and Policymaking
(2022)
This Open Access book provides illustrative case studies that explore various research and innovation topics that raise challenges requiring ethical reflection and careful policymaking responses. The cases highlight diverse ...
Hydraulic Fracturing and Rock Mechanics
(2023)
This open access book is the first to consider the effect of non-uniform fluid pressure in hydraulic fractures. The book covers the key topics in the process of hydraulic fracture nucleation, growth, interaction and fracture ...
Chapter 10 Indigenous Networks and Evangelical Frontiers: Problems with Governance and Ethics in Cases of ‘Voluntary Isolation’ in Contemporary Amazonia
(2017)
The periodic emergence of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in Amazonia have given rise to sensational media reports and heated academic
debate. In this chapter we describe briefly the historical and ...
Chapter Bibliography
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
Climate Change and Community Resilience
(2022)
This open access book documents myriads of ways community-based climate change adaptation and resilience programs are being implemented in South Asian countries. The narrative style of writing in this volume makes it ...
Chapter Abbreviations
(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 ...
Evidence-Based School Development in Changing Demographic Contexts
(2022)
This Open Access book features a school development model (Arizona Initiative for Leadership Development and Research – AZiLDR) that offers a roadmap for schools to navigate the complexities of continuous school development. ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2022, which was held during April 2-7, 2022, in Munich, ...
New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology
(2016)
Cultural Heritage; Achaeology
Chapter 8 Three Rationales for a Legal Right to Mental Integrity
(2021)
Many states recognize a legal right to bodily integrity, understood as a right against significant, nonconsensual interference with one’s body. Recently, some have called for the recognition of an analogous legal right to ...
The Economics of the Audiovisual Industry
(2014)
Finance and Banking, General Finance
Networks in the Russian Market Economy
(2010)
If Russia has become a market economy, how does it function on a grassroots level? In addition to market mechanisms, what kinds of social and moral principles are at work in the new Russian economy? Is the 'Soviet legacy' ...
A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction
(2023)
This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and ...
The State of Peacebuilding in Africa
(2021)
This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in ...
UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970
(2021)
This open access book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy debates about the care of children. Between 1945 and 1970, an estimated 3,500 children ...
Model-Based Engineering of Collaborative Embedded Systems
(2021)
This Open Access book presents the results of the "Collaborative Embedded Systems" (CrESt) project, aimed at adapting and complementing the methodology underlying modeling techniques developed to cope with the challenges ...
Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices
(2015)
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Hydrology/Water Resources; Urban Ecology
Simplicial and Dendroidal Homotopy Theory
(2022)
This open access book offers a self-contained introduction to the homotopy theory of simplicial and dendroidal sets and spaces. These are essential for the study of categories, operads, and algebraic structure up to coherent ...
Ein Physiologiemodell für Tactical Combat Casualty Care Training in mobilen Serious Games
(2020)
Julia Hofmann konzipiert in diesem Open Access Buch ein Physiologiemodell für die präzise Simulation bestimmter Verletzungsfolgen und deren Behandlung in einer Computerspielumgebung. Ihre Ergebnisse leisten einen wichtigen ...
Skin Necrosis
(2024)
This successful book, now Open Access in its second edition, was the first to discuss skin necrosis as a symptom related to a broad range of pathologies. In recent years, wound care has gained increasing recognition as a ...
Pattern Recognition, Tracking and Vertex Reconstruction in Particle Detectors
(2021)
This open access book is a comprehensive review of the methods and algorithms that are used in the reconstruction of events recorded by past, running and planned experiments at particle accelerators such as the LHC, SuperKEKB ...
European Language Grid
(2023)
This open access book provides an in-depth description of the EU project European Language Grid (ELG). Its motivation lies in the fact that Europe is a multilingual society with 24 official European Union Member State ...
Corporate Diplomacy: How Multinational Corporations Gain Organizational Legitimacy
(2022)
This Open-Access book investigates corporate diplomacy as a legitimation strategy of multinational companies in the United Arab Emirates. The author applies a neo-institutional public relations perspective, according to ...
The Future of Service Post-COVID-19 Pandemic, Volume 1
(2021)
This open access book is geared towards providing insights and stimulating new thinking about the changing nature of services, service work and workers, and service experiences during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in ...
Building Better Interfaces for Remote Autonomous Systems
(2021)
This 'Open Access' SpringerBrief provides foundational knowledge for designing autonomous, asynchronous systems and explains aspects of users relevant to designing for these systems, introduces principles for user-centered ...