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Sliding Base Structures
(2023)
This open access book is an efficient and economic approach for mitigating the seismic damage of low-rise buildings. This book presents various aspects of SB structures, including their fundamentals, dynamic analysis ...
Twisted Isospectrality, Homological Wideness, and Isometry
(2023)
The question of reconstructing a geometric shape from spectra of operators (such as the Laplace operator) is decades old and an active area of research in mathematics and mathematical physics. This book focusses on the ...
Chapter 7 The Long Carry
(2018)
For First World War stretcher bearers, wartime landscapes had a direct impact on the work they undertook. Trenches, shell holes, mud and sand all presented challenges to their ability to carry wounded men swiftly and safely ...
Atlas of Challenges and Opportunities in European Neighbourhoods
(2016)
Human Geography; World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions); Political Science; Economic Geography
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
(2017)
This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, ...
Operationalisation of Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia
(2021)
This open access book explores common critiques in the literature of hybrid peacebuilding, especially the lack of connection between hybridity in theory and practice. Through using a complexity-informed framework, the ...
Electronic Voting
(2022)
This open access book LNCS 13353 constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2022, held in Bregenz, Austria, in October 2022. The 10 full papers presented were carefully ...
Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
(2018)
This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating ...
Operationalisation of Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia
(2021)
This open access book explores common critiques in the literature of hybrid peacebuilding, especially the lack of connection between hybridity in theory and practice. Through using a complexity-informed framework, the ...
Target Suitability and the Crime Drop
(2015)
This is a chapter from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Target suitability ...
Becoming Citizens in a Changing World: IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 International Report
(2018)
Civic education; ICCS; IEA Educational Achievement; Civic knowledge; Civics and citizenship; Attitudes to civic life; Engagement with civic life; Civic participation
Die vielen Gestalten des Thomas Hobbes in der Deutung von Carl Schmitt und Leo Strauss
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch stellt eine Untersuchung der Rezeption der politischen Philosophie Thomas Hobbes’ durch Carl Schmitt und Leo Strauss dar. Dies erfolgt zum einen anhand der Kontextualisierung, zum anderen durch eine ...
Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction
(2023)
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths ...
Chapter 3 ‘They May Strike Back at Society in a Vengeful Manner’
(2019)
Following the Second World War, adolescent medicine emerged in the United States as a speciality focussed on addressing the physical, social and psychological problems of teenagers. While acne had been thought of as an ...
Managing Distributed Cloud Applications and Infrastructure
(2020)
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), combined with greater heterogeneity not only online in cloud computing architectures but across the cloud-to-edge continuum, is introducing new challenges for managing ...
The Ponytail
(2023)
This open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of news articles about ponytails in sports and society, Broch uncovers this ...
The Ponytail
(2023)
This open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of news articles about ponytails in sports and society, Broch uncovers this ...
Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing
(2023)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in research and applications of Foundation Models and is intended for readers familiar with basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts. ...
GUI Design for Android Apps
(2014)
Computer science
Target Suitability and the Crime Drop
(2015)
This is a chapter from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Target suitability ...
Design of Heuristic Algorithms for Hard Optimization
(2023)
This open access book demonstrates all the steps required to design heuristic algorithms for difficult optimization. The classic problem of the travelling salesman is used as a common thread to illustrate all the techniques ...
Atlas of Fallen Dust in Kuwait
(2021)
This open access book serves as an atlas of deposited dust and dust storms in Kuwait in relation to local and global regions. It features a wealth of maps and images of dust storm trajectories in the region, together with ...
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding
(2017)
peacebuilding; multilateralism; diplomacy; United Nations
Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education
(2023)
This open access book serves as a comprehensive guide to digital writing technology, featuring contributions from over 20 renowned researchers from various disciplines around the world. The book is designed to provide a ...
AI in Learning: Designing the Future
(2023)
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is predicted to radically change teaching and learning in both schools and industry causing radical disruption of work. AI can support well-being initiatives and lifelong learning but educational ...
Education, Equity and Inclusion
(2023)
This open access book provides a current view on education, equity and inclusion within the lens of education for a sustainable North. The first book published by the University of the Arctic Thematic Network for Teacher ...
Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe
(2022)
This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus ...
Chapter PART II: PREAMBLE
(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 ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2023)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2023, which was held as part of the European Joint Conferences ...
Future Intelligence
(2023)
The first quarter of the 21st century introduced the world to rapid uncertainty, be it the social-political and financial crises, or pandemics, or the shaking up of well-established democracies with an increasing rise in ...
Creative Ruptions for Emergent Educational Futures
(2024)
This open access book aims to show how creative ruptions – disturbances or commotions - can lead to the emergence of ethical, care-ful educational futures. Grounded in empirical and theoretical research undertaken from ...
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
(2017)
history of crime; medical humanities; capital punishment
The Physics of Laser Plasmas and Applications - Volume 2
(2024)
This open access book (Volume 2) is part of the series "The Physics of Laser Plasmas and Applications." It serves as an introduction to the physics of compressible hydrodynamics, which is used to describe the temporal ...
Managing Distributed Cloud Applications and Infrastructure
(2020)
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), combined with greater heterogeneity not only online in cloud computing architectures but across the cloud-to-edge continuum, is introducing new challenges for managing ...
Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures
(2023)
This is an open access book. This book focuses on the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic in civil engineering. It features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to civil and ...
Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures
(2023)
This is an open access book. This book focuses on the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic in civil engineering. It features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to civil and ...
Foundations of Trusted Autonomy
(2018)
Trusted Autonomy; Automation Technology; Autonomous Systems; Self-Governance; Trusted Autonomous Systems; Design of Algorithms and Methodologies
Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing
(2023)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in research and applications of Foundation Models and is intended for readers familiar with basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts. ...
Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario
(2016)
Climate Change; Energy Efficiency; Remote Sensing; Photogrammetry; Physics
Electronic Voting
(2022)
This open access book LNCS 13353 constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2022, held in Bregenz, Austria, in October 2022. The 10 full papers presented were carefully ...