Publications
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Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) Processes in Bentonite Barrier Systems
(2024)
This book is open access book. The collaborative Pilot Project, titled “Comparison of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) Processes in Bentonite Barrier Systems”, aims to investigate the fundamentals, conduct laboratory ...
Innovative Learning Environments in STEM Higher Education
(2021)
As explored in this open access book, higher education in STEM fields is influenced by many factors, including education research, government and school policies, financial considerations, technology limitations, and ...
Designing Data Spaces
(2022)
This open access book provides a comprehensive view on data ecosystems and platform economics from methodical and technological foundations up to reports from practical implementations and applications in various industries. ...
Cyber Security
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th China Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2022, held in Beijing, China, in August 2022. The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed and ...
The Pandemic of Argumentation
(2022)
This open access book addresses communicative aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the epidemic of misinformation from the perspective of argumentation theory. Argumentation theory is uniquely placed to ...
Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
(2023)
This open access book reviews the importance of ecological functioning within rangelands considering the complex inter-relationships of production agriculture, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and wildlife habitat. More ...
Assessment in Mathematics Education: Large-Scale Assessment and Classroom Assessment
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Spatializing Language Studies
(2023)
This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion in the physical world can enhance second language teaching and learning. It does so through a diverse array ...
Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity
(2020)
Aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing a wide variety of benefits to human beings. Many of these valuable ecosystems are at risk of being irreversibly ...
Clinical Pathways in Stroke Rehabilitation
(2021)
This open access book focuses on practical clinical problems that are frequently encountered in stroke rehabilitation. Consequences of diseases, e.g. impairments and activity limitations, are addressed in rehabilitation ...
Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks
(2015)
Environmental Management
Diseases of the Chest, Breast, Heart and Vessels 2019-2022
(2019)
This open access book focuses on diagnostic and interventional imaging of the chest, breast, heart, and vessels. It consists of a remarkable collection of contributions authored by internationally respected experts, featuring ...
Relational Anthropology for Contemporary Economics
(2022)
This open access book offers a multidisciplinary dialogue on relational anthropology in contemporary economics. A particular view of the human being is often assumed in economic models, but seldom acknowledged let alone ...
Social Movements in 1980s Sweden
(2023)
This open access book discusses the emergence and development, and in some cases also the disappearance, of social movements and activism in Sweden during the 1980s. Its aim is to nuance and problematize the image of the ...
Long-Term Ecosystem Changes in Riparian Forests
(2020)
This open access book presents and analyzes the results of more than 30 years of long-term ecological research in riparian forest ecosystems with the aim of casting light on changes in the dynamics of riparian forests over ...
From Decoding Turbulence to Unveiling the Fingerprint of Climate Change
(2022)
This open access book serves as a reference for the key elements and their significance of Klaus Hasselmann's work on climate science and on ocean wave research, all based on a rigorous and deeply physical thinking. It ...
Chapter Introduction
(2013)
In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection ...
Grundsätze ordnungsmäßiger Bilanzierung von Kundenbeziehungen nach GoB im Vergleich zu IFRS
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch erfolgt eine normative Auseinandersetzung mit der Bilanzierung von immateriellen Vermögensgegenständen nach HGB im Vergleich zu der Bilanzierung immaterieller Vermögenswerte nach IFRS. Der ...
Spatializing Language Studies
(2023)
This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion in the physical world can enhance second language teaching and learning. It does so through a diverse array ...
Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Toward Social-Scientific Literacy and Engineering Resilience
(2015)
Nuclear Engineering; Environmental Science and Engineering; Social Sciences, general
Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Toward Social-Scientific Literacy and Engineering Resilience
(2015)
Nuclear Engineering; Environmental Science and Engineering; Social Sciences, general
Professionelle Unterrichtswahrnehmung im sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachunterricht
(2024)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele zur Förderung der professionellen Unterrichtswahrnehmung von (angehenden) Lehrkräften im sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachunterricht. Im Fokus ...
Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2022, held in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2022. The 36 regular ...
Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine
(2024)
This book guides its audience—which can range from novice users to experts— though a 55-chapter tour of Google Earth Engine. A sequenced and diverse set of lab materials, this is the product of more than a year of effort ...
Forschendes Lernen
(2020)
Dieses Open Access Buch zeigt, dass Forschendes Lernen ein zentrales Schlagwort in der Bildungsdebatte der letzten Jahre ist. Mit diesem didaktischen Format steht im Fokus des Lernens nicht mehr die Reproduktion von Wissen, ...
“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits”
(2022)
Why are historically Catholic countries and regions generally more corrupt and less competitive than historically Protestant ones? How has institutionalization of religion influenced the prosperity of countries in Europe ...
Magnetism and Accelerator-Based Light Sources
(2021)
This open access book collects the contributions of the seventh school on Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation held in Mittelwihr, France, from 7 to 12 October 2018. It starts with an introduction to the physics of modern ...
First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life
(2024)
This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their ...
Climate-Related Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific
(2024)
This open access book critically examines the policies and practices related to climate-related human mobility in Asia-Pacific and the legal and policy protection framework for climatically displaced migrants (CDMs) through ...
Rescaling Sustainability Transitions
(2025)
This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes ...
Practical Economics
(2017)
Comparative Politics; Political Economy; Public Administration; Macroeconomics; Economics; Finance; Economic Growth; Russian, Soviet, and East European History
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 ...
Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions of Gases and Particles
(2014)
Earth System Sciences; Environmental Chemistry; Climatology; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Chemical Exchanges; Biogeochemistry; COST 735; air-sea interface; Trace gases; SOLAS
Chapter 13 A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy
(2024)
As cardiac xenotransplantation moves from labs into hospitals, this chapter asks what Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel Pig-Heart Boy reveals about power, race, and identity in relation to the experimental therapy. ...
Musculoskeletal Diseases 2021-2024
(2021)
This open access book focuses on imaging of the musculoskeletal diseases. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by clinical as well as technological developments. The authors ...
Smittestopp − A Case Study on Digital Contact Tracing
(2022)
This open access book describes Smittestopp, the first Norwegian system for digital contact tracing of Covid-19 infections, which was developed in March and early April 2020. The system was deployed after five weeks of ...
Smittestopp − A Case Study on Digital Contact Tracing
(2022)
This open access book describes Smittestopp, the first Norwegian system for digital contact tracing of Covid-19 infections, which was developed in March and early April 2020. The system was deployed after five weeks of ...
Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches
(2018)
This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family ...
International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice
(2021)
This open access book offers essential information on values-based practice (VBP): the clinical skills involved, teamwork and person-centered care, links between values and evidence, and the importance of partnerships in ...
Chapter Conclusion: The Politics of Self-Harm: Social Setting and Self-Regulation
(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 ...