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Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks
(2024)
This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks. Manually analyzing text and images in United States textbooks from the ...
Die Rolle von Unternehmen im IFRS-Standardsetzungsprozess
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch würdigt die Autorin unterschiedliche Normermittlungstheorien und betrachtet die Rolle von Unternehmen bei der Entwicklung der Regelungen zur Bilanzierung von Mehrkomponentengeschäften nach IFRS ...
Hormones, Metabolism and the Benefits of Exercise
(2018)
metabolic diseases; obesity; type 2 diabetes; muscle glycogen; skeletal muscle microRNAs; Tryptophan-kynurenine metabolites; FNDC5/irisin; AMPK; human brown adipose tissue plasticity
High-Quality Outdoor Learning
(2022)
This open access book reviews evidence and case studies on the effects of outdoor learning on teachers and learners. It shows how real-world learning outside the classroom contributes to unlocking the full potential of ...
An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 1
(2020)
This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China. In this summary volume and the two accompanying volumes that follow, individuals ...
How Data Quality Affects our Understanding of the Earnings Distribution
(2022)
This open access book demonstrates how data quality issues affect all surveys and proposes methods that can be utilised to deal with the observable components of survey error in a statistically sound manner. This book ...
Financial Crisis Management and Democracy
(2021)
This open access book discusses financial crisis management and policy in Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on equity and democracy. Based on a three-year research project by the Jean Monnet Network, this ...
Cloud-Based Benchmarking of Medical Image Analysis
(2017)
Medical imaging
The Comprehensive Cancer Center
(2022)
This open access book provides a valuable resource for hospitals, institutions, and health authorities worldwide in their plans to set up and develop comprehensive cancer care centers. The development and implementation ...
Hunter-gatherers in a Changing World
(2017)
This book compiles a collection of case studies analysing drivers of and responses to change amongst contemporary hunter-gatherers. Contemporary hunter-gatherers’ livelihoods are examined from perspectives ranging from ...
Alterung und Pflege als kommunale Aufgabe
(2022)
Die Beiträge in diesem Open-Access-Sammelband beschreiben und analysieren aus multidisziplinärer Sicht die Herausforderungen und Bewältigungsstrategien von Alterung und Pflege in japanischen und deutschen Gemeinden. ...
Chapter 5 Self-Harm as Self-Cutting: Inpatients and Internal Tension
(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 ...
Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
(2022)
This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). ...
Microfinance 3.0
(2013)
Development Economics; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Finance, general; Business Strategy/Leadership; Ethics; Economic Growth; Microfinance; Development Finance; Sustainable Development; Good ...
Saving and Investment in the Twenty-First Century
(2021)
The economy of the 21st century in the OECD countries and in China, is characterized by a new phenomenon: the structural surplus of private savings in relation to private investment. This is true even in a situation of ...
Chapter Bibliography
(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 ...
Chapter 4 Pharmacological Solutions
(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 ...
Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes
(2023)
This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career ...
Handbook of Education Policy Studies
(2020)
This open access handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational policy research from international, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. ...
Krankenhaus-Report 2021
(2021)
Der Krankenhaus-Report, der jährlich als Buch und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, greift 2021 das Schwerpunktthema „Versorgungsketten – Der Patient im Mittelpunkt“ auf. Dem sektoral getrennt organisierten deutschen ...