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The New Production of Expert Knowledge
(2024)
This Open Access book offers a novel perspective on the role of quantification in the making of education utopias through an analysis of expert knowledge and its producers. Drawing on empirical findings from the European ...
High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World
(2017)
Pyrenees; nature conservation; species distribution; lakes; forests
Alltägliche Lebenssituation sprachbeeinträchtigter Kinder
(2023)
Dieses Buch setzt sich mit alltäglicher Lebenssituation als Gegenstand pädagogischer Sprachdiagnostik auseinander und ist im Diskurs über Diagnostik und Förderung sprachlich-kommunikativer Kompetenzen zu verorten. Es wurde ...
Advances in Discrete Differential Geometry
(2016)
Differential Geometry
Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities
(2016)
water resources; hydrology; sustainable development; urban planning
Human and Organisational Factors
(2020)
This open access book addresses several questions regarding the implementation of human and organisational factors (HOF) so that recent improvements in industrial safety can be built upon. It addresses sources of frustration ...
Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education: Experience and Lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders
(2013)
Environmental Management; Business Ethics; Environmental Science and Engineering; Science Education; Non-Profit Enterprises/Corporate Social Responsibility
Cultural Adaptation in Chinese Mental Health Translation
(2024)
This open access book demonstrates the necessity, feasibility, and effectiveness of cultural adaptation in the translation of mental health scales into Chinese. It illustrates the key principles of culturally effective ...
Special Topics in Information Technology
(2021)
This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology ...
Adaptive Urban Transformation
(2023)
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. ...
Adaptive Urban Transformation
(2023)
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. ...
De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period
(2020)
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this ...
Solving PDEs in Python: The FEniCS Tutorial I
(2017)
computer science; algorithms; visualization; software; programming
Migration in South America
(2022)
This open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks ...
Railway Ecology
(2017)
carbon footprint; environmental impacts of railways; transportation; wildlife; landscape; planning; engineering; efficiency; sustainability; biodiversity; animal casualties on rails
Jesuit and English Experiences at the Mughal Court, c. 1580–1615
(2022)
This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India Company (EIC) at the Mughal ...
Causality in Policy Studies
(2023)
This volume provides a methodological toolbox for conducting policy research. Recognizing that policy research spans various academic disciplines, each of which takes a different view on causality, the volume introduces a ...
Good Citizenship for the Next Generation
(2021)
This Open Access book presents an international group of scholars seeking to understand how youth from different cultures relate to modern multidimensional concepts of citizenship, and the roles that education and society ...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025
(2017)
Landslide Science; International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; Landslide Hazard Assessment; Landslide Dynamics; Landslide Risk Reduction
Nachhaltigkeit in Umwelt, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
(2017)
Knowledge - Discourse; Sociology of Culture; Water and Health; Economic Systems
Sustainable Development Disciplines for Society
(2023)
This multidisciplinary Open Access book provides nine problem-solving lectures for sustainable development for the planet and prosperity. Those are two of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): ...
The Semantics of Development in Asia
(2024)
This open access book explores Japanese involvement in Asian development through selected development ideas and lexemes that are widely regarded in Japan as 'untranslatable' into other languages. Each chapter traces the ...
The European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Textbook for Nurses
(2018)
Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant; Nursing care; Haemato-oncology nursing; Paediatric transplant nursing; Apheresis
Accounting and Statistical Analyses for Sustainable Development
(2021)
In this Open Access publication Claudia Lemke develops a comprehensive Multi-Level Sustainable Development Index (MLSDI) that is applicable to micro, meso, and macro objects by conducting methodological and empirical ...
Neoromantik der Jahrhundertwende
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die rege Wiederaufnahme des Romantischen in der literarischen Landschaft um 1900. Es zeichnet die vergessene Diskursgeschichte einer sogenannten ‚Neuromantik‘ nach, um anschließend zu ...
Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda
(2019)
This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of ...
Chapter 6 The Disappearing Body: Dissection to the Extremities
(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 ...
The Political Economy of Central Asian Law
(2024)
This open-access book provides fresh and much-needed insights into the interconnections between law, society and governance in Central Asia. By taking the interdisciplinary perspective of law and society, the book explores ...
Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds
(2015)
Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Ecology; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
Rainfall Infiltration in Unsaturated Soil Slope Failure
(2023)
This is an open access book. The aim of this book is to provide a thorough grounding in rainfall-induced landslides from three aspects: the coupling effect of hydraulic and mechanic; the analytical, numerical, and physical ...
Hochschulreformen, Leistungsbewertungen und berufliche Identität von Professor*innen
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein differenziertes Bild der Folgen von „Bologna“, „Exzellenzinitiative“, Drittmittelwettbewerb und „New Public Management“ für die berufliche Identität von Professor*innen gezeichnet. Eine ...
Kundennutzen durch digitale Transformation: Business-Process-Management-Studie – Status quo und Erfolgsmuster
(2018)
Geschäftsprozesse; Modellierung; Digitale Transformation; Business Process Management; BPM; Prozessmanagement; Digitalisierung; Kundennutzen; Kunden
Embedded System Design
(2021)
A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things. It starts ...
A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
(2015)
Public Health; Sociology, general; Epidemiology
Understanding the Physics of Particle Accelerators
(2024)
This open access book introduces readers to the physics of particle accelerators, by means of beam dynamics simulations and exercises using the computer code ZGOUBI. The respective chapters are organized chronologically ...
Oxygen Transport to Tissue XLI
(2020)
This book presents cutting-edge papers and perspectives on the transport of oxygen to tissues by scientists in a multitude of disciplines such as biochemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine, physics, physiology, ...
Traditionen juristisch-notarieller Textproduktion durch Translation
(2025)
Dieses Open Access-Buch bietet eine historisch ausgerichtete Untersuchung juristisch-notarieller Dokumente aus Neu-Spanien an der Schnittstelle zwischen romanistischer Textlinguistik und Translationswissenschaft. Konkret ...
Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms
(2021)
This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when ...
Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services: Methods, Models, Approaches, Techniques, Algorithms, and Tools
(2018)
cloud computing; communication channels; information theory; computer networks; computer systems; data communication systems; Human-Computer Interactopm (HCI); internet; Internet of Services (IoS); Internet of ...
Smart Cities
(2024)
This edited volume discusses the socioeconomic, environmental, and policy implications of smart cities. Written by international experts in energy economics and policy, the chapters present wide range of high quality ...