Publications
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Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking
(2025)
This open access book discusses why the seemingly straightforward strategy of teaching children how to think deeply does not work and offers an alternative way forward for the curriculum to achieve these objectives. Over ...
Digital Entrepreneurship
(2021)
This open access book explores the global challenges and experiences related to digital entrepreneurial activities, using carefully selected examples from leading companies and economies that shape world business today and ...
A Generalization of Bohr-Mollerup's Theorem for Higher Order Convex Functions
(2022)
In 1922, Harald Bohr and Johannes Mollerup established a remarkable characterization of the Euler gamma function using its log-convexity property. A decade later, Emil Artin investigated this result and used it to derive ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2025)
This open access 4-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2025, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in July 23-25, 2025. The 51 regular papers presented together ...
Trends in the Treatment of Cerebrovascular Diseases
(2025)
This Open Access book serves as the official proceedings of the 10th European-Japanese Cerebrovascular Congress, held in Kyoto in 2022. During this landmark event, leading experts from both Europe and Japan engaged in ...
Twin-Control
(2019)
This open access book summarizes the results of the European research project “Twin-model based virtual manufacturing for machine tool-process simulation and control” (Twin-Control). The first part reviews the applications ...
Das Formular
(2021)
Wenn stimmt, was bereits Friedrich Schiller beklagt hat: dass der Mensch in der modernen Gesellschaft „zum Formular geworden“ ist, dann steht mit diesem unscheinbaren Verwaltungs-tool nichts weniger als unsere Lebenswirklichkeit ...
Die Praxis der Social-Media-Analyse
(2021)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation entfaltet die Konstruktion von Wissen mit Social-Media-Analysen in der deutschen Automobilindustrie. Dort herrscht Goldgräberstimmung – trotz enormem Innovationsdruck: Big Data soll Licht in ...
Taming the Big Green Elephant
(2021)
In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have ...
Contract Farming in Developing Countries
(2025)
Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of ...
Comparative Studies on Chinese and Western Civilizations
(2026)
This open access book compares Chinese and Western civilizations from multiple perspectives, and it mainly consists of three parts that respectively compare the Warring States and ancient Greece, the Qin and Han dynasties ...
Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
(2020)
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has ...
Differenzerleben als Balanceakt
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern medienbezogene Bildungsprozesse in Paarbeziehungen stattfinden. In der heutigen Informationsgesellschaft stehen Individuen in einer Paarbeziehung vor der ...
Psychosocial Experiences of African Migrants in Six European Countries
(2020)
This open access book provides an empirical account of the psychological and social experiences of 3500 African migrants to 6 European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, France, and the UK. It discusses the ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2024)
This open access book constitutes papers from the research workshops presented at XP 2022 and XP 2023, respectively the 23rd and 24th International Conferences on Agile Software Development, held on June 13-17, 2022 at the ...
Social Networks and Health Inequalities
(2022)
This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences ...
Building the Inclusive City
(2020)
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and ...
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for the Clinician
(2021)
This is an open access book with CC BY 4.0 license. This comprehensive open access textbook provides a comprehensive coverage of principles and practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery. With a range of topics starting ...
Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium 2018 (RERIS 2018)
(2018)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium (RERIS 18), held in Maseru, Lesotho in January 2018. The symposium aimed to foster research cooperation ...
Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life
(2023)
This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the ...
RESTART Sustainable Business Model Innovation
(2018)
Taking the business model as point of departure, this open access book explores how companies and organizations can contribute to a more sustainable future by designing innovative models that are both sustainable and ...
Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition
(2024)
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods ...
The Autofictional
(2022)
This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to ...
Model Tests and Numerical Simulations of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading II
(2024)
This open access book presents work collected through the Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects (LEAP) in 2019 (LEAP-ASIA-2019) following the LEAP-UCD-2017 whose results have been published as a first volume. In ...
Understanding the Generality of Mathematical Statements
(2023)
In this open access book Milena Damrau investigates the understanding of generality of mathematical statements in first-year university students and its relation to other proof-related activities. Through an experimental ...
Programming Persistent Memory
(2020)
Beginning and experienced programmers will use this comprehensive guide to persistent memory programming. You will understand how persistent memory brings together several new software/hardware requirements, and offers ...
Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship
(2025)
This Open Access book is the first book to share in-depth narratives outlining the lived experiences of Japanese and Latin American Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Brazil, Mexico and Japan. It focuses in on the career paths of ...
Internal Diversity
(2020)
This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants’ internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes ...
Assessment of Cancer Screening
(2022)
Cancer screening is a prominent strategy in cancer control in the United States, yet the ability to correctly interpret cancer screening data eludes many researchers, clinicians, and policy makers. This open access primer ...
The Plaston Concept
(2022)
This open access book presents the novel concept of plaston, which accounts for the high ductility or large plastic deformation of emerging high-performance structural materials, including bulk nanostructured metals, ...
No Truth Without Beauty
(2022)
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and ...
Supercomputing Frontiers
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2019, held in Singapore in March 2019. The 6 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected ...
Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences
(2025)
This open access book presents and defends a new approach towards social functionalism: Presentist Social Functionalism. This approach draws on recent developments in evolutionary biology and philosophy of biology to provide ...
Music and the Cultural Production of Scale
(2023)
This open access book shows how geographical scales are made through music. Scales are sets of spatial frames, abstractions or categories that denote the size, proportion, level, extent or hierarchical relations of phenomena. ...
Eigentum ohne Eigentümer?
(2024)
In der aktuellen eigentumspolitischen Diskussion gibt es Vorschläge, die darauf hinauslaufen, den personalen Bezug des Eigentums erheblich zu relativieren und die Privatnützigkeit des Eigentums zu marginalisieren oder gar ...
Pop Music Made in Småland
(2025)
Using interviews with and academic studies of the careers of internationally-famous music producers and music industry professionals from Småland, Sweden, this open access book studies the history and present state of pop ...
Northern Lights on Civic and Citizenship Education
(2021)
This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in ...
Gas Explosion and Its Protection Technology in Process Industries
(2025)
This open access book first introduces the explosive characteristics of combustible gas in the process industrial device, and then introduces the influence law of structural effect on gas explosion characteristics and ...
Nanoscale Photonic Imaging
(2020)
This open access book, edited and authored by a team of world-leading researchers, provides a broad overview of advanced photonic methods for nanoscale visualization, as well as describing a range of fascinating in-depth ...
Optimierung der Tragfähigkeit von Zahnwellenverbindungen
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass die Tragfähigkeit evolventisch basierter Zahnwellenverbindungen auf geradezu revolutionäre Art und Weise gesteigert werden kann, wenn für ihre Realisierung nicht das System zur ...