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The Road to General Intelligence
(2022)
Humans have always dreamed of automating laborious physical and intellectual tasks, but the latter has proved more elusive than naively suspected. Seven decades of systematic study of Artificial Intelligence have witnessed ...
The Road to General Intelligence
(2022)
Humans have always dreamed of automating laborious physical and intellectual tasks, but the latter has proved more elusive than naively suspected. Seven decades of systematic study of Artificial Intelligence have witnessed ...
Digitalisierung souverän gestalten II
(2022)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Unter dem Titel „Digitalisierung souverän gestalten“ wirft der zweite Themenband des Instituts für Innovation und Technik (iit) einen schlaglichtartigen ...
Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings
(2019)
The open access book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of relevant sources of literature and user complaints that clearly demonstrate the ...
Diffusionics
(2024)
This open access book presents a comprehensive exploration of diffusion metamaterials that control energy and mass diffusion. Currently, if from the perspective of governing equations, diffusion metamaterials and wave ...
Grundbildung und Habitus
(2025)
Dieser Open-Access-Band befasst sich mit dem Zusammenhang von Grundbildung und sozialer Ungleichheit. Er bietet einen Überblick über theoretische, konzeptionelle und methodische Grundlagen und thematisiert habituelle ...
Krankenhaus-Report 2025
(2025)
Der "Krankenhaus-Report" erscheint jährlich als Buch und als Open Access-Publikation mit wechselndem Schwerpunktthema. Daneben stellt das Statistische Bundesamt Grund- und Diagnosedaten der Krankenhäuser bereit, und die ...
Family Dynamics over the Life Course
(2022)
This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of ...
Reindeer Husbandry
(2024)
This open access book focuses on climate change, indigenous reindeer husbandry and the underlying concept of connecting the traditional knowledge of indigenous reindeer herders in the Arctic with the latest research findings ...
Actions for Gender Balance in Informatics Across Europe
(2025)
This book is a open access. The primary purpose of this book is to serve as a comprehensive guide, translating research into best practices to promote gender inclusivity in informatics. The handbook seeks to empower its ...
Asylum Matters
(2021)
This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic ...
Raumplanungsprozesse im Klinikneubau und Klinikumbau
(2025)
Aufgrund der erheblichen Investitionssummen und der hohen Versorgungsrelevanz eines Krankenhausneubaus ist die effiziente und nachhaltige Gestaltung des Raumplanungsprozesses von großer Bedeutung. Dabei müssen sowohl die ...
From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond
(2022)
This open access book aims at deepening the understanding of the relation between cyber-physical systems (CPSs) as socio-technical systems and their digital representations with intertwined artificial intelligence (AI). ...
AVENUE21. Connected and Automated Driving: Prospects for Urban Europe
(2022)
This open access publication examines the impact of connected and automated vehicles on the European city and the conditions that can enable this technology to make a positive contribution to urban development. The authors ...
The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes
(2022)
This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection ...
The Living Environmental Education
(2023)
This open access book is designed and written to bridge the gap on the critical issues identified in environmental education programs in Asian countries. The world and its environments are changing rapidly, and the public ...
Peter Schroeder-Heister on Proof-Theoretic Semantics
(2024)
This open access book is a superb collection of some fifteen chapters inspired by Schroeder-Heister's groundbreaking work, written by leading experts in the field, plus an extensive autobiography and comments on the various ...
Toward Good Simulation Practice
(2024)
This open access book, the Community of Practice led by the VPH Institute, the Avicenna Alliance, and the In Silico World consortium has brought together 138 experts in In Silico Trials working in academia, the medical ...
Alpine Industrial Landscapes
(2022)
This Open Access book presents a pioneering research on brownfield redevelopment in mountain regions, and specifically in the European Alps. The origins and causes, the actual conditions as well as the future challenges ...
Evidence Use in Health Policy Making
(2018)
This open access book provides a set of conceptual, empirical, and comparative chapters that apply a public policy perspective to investigate the political and institutional factors driving the use of evidence to inform ...
Modes of Bio-Bordering
(2021)
This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations. It introduces the concept ...
Teens, Social Media, and Image Based Abuse
(2025)
This Open Access book explores how teens use social media, how they produce, consume, and share sexual images, and how they understand and respond to harmful digital sexual content and interactions. Capturing the views of ...
Digital Platform Regulation
(2022)
This Open Access volume provides an in-depth exploration of global policy and governance issues related to digital platform regulation. With an international ensemble of contributors, the volume has at its heard the question: ...
English Language Education for Graduate Employability in Vietnam
(2024)
This open access book examines the teaching and learning of English for employability in Vietnamese higher education. Its content is framed within one country to better examine the research issues within the influence of ...
In Defence of Psychiatric Diagnoses
(2025)
This open access book makes a distinctive contribution by providing a novel defence of psychiatric diagnoses. It defends psychiatric diagnoses by portraying them as idealised models understood in a neo-Kantian sense. It ...
Good Business
(2025)
This open access book shows how governments can motivate companies to make a positive impact on society and why this is necessary in light of today’s pressing social, economic and environmental challenges and transitions. ...
Hochschulweiterbildung zwischen Wissenschaftsinstitution und Weiterbildungsmarkt
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch basiert auf einer mikrosoziologischen Analyse des Akteursverhaltens in der Programmplanung und -entwicklung der Weiterbildung an Schweizer Hochschulen. Diese ist in einen ausgeprägten Weiterbildungsmarkt ...
Knowledge from a Human Point of View
(2020)
This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new ...
Growing Up Rural
(2026)
This open access book explores the everyday lives of young people living in rural areas in Nordic countries, drawing on qualitative longitudinal methods. The young people’s life stories are set against a backdrop of Nordic ...
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. ...
(Re)theorising More-than-parental Involvement in Early Childhood Education and Care
(2023)
This open access book provides a critical, thought-provoking, and stimulating overview of theories applied worldwide to conceptualise collaborations between early childhood education and children's families. The book starts ...
Pflege-Report 2020
(2020)
Neuausrichtung von Versorgung und Finanzierung Der Pflege-Report, der in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, nimmt jährlich relevante Themen der Versorgung von Pflegebedürftigen unter die Lupe. Als Schwerpunkt ...
Macro Social Influences on Loneliness in Later Life
(2025)
This open access book explores the macro-social influences on loneliness in later life, emphasizing how societal structures, cultural contexts, and broader social transformations shape the experience of loneliness. Dedicated ...
Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy
(2025)
How can Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP) help us understand poetry? Against John L. Austin’s exclusion of poetic utterances as parasitical, Philip Mills explores how contemporary poetics broadens the aims and scope of ...
Elements of Seismic Hazard in Mines
(2025)
The main and first objective of this well-illustrated open access book is to introduce, define and explain common terms and concepts in earthquake and mine seismology. In seismology diverse fields, ranging from mathematics, ...
A Buddhist Approach to International Relations
(2021)
This book is an open access book. Many scholars have wondered if a non-Western theory of international politics founded on different premises, be it from Asia or from the “Global South,” could release international relations ...
Transnational Activism in North America
(2026)
This open access book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine how North American civil society organizations have actively mobilized within and across borders in response to the tumultuous social ...
News, Media, and Communication in a Polarized World
(2025)
This Open Access book provides an in-depth analysis of the role held by media and journalists in a fragmented and polarized communication ecosystem that faces the uncertainty of major challenges, such as the impact of the ...
The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods
(2019)
This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2024)
The two-volume open access book set LNCS 14576 + 14577 constitutes the proceedings of the 33rd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2024, which was held during April 6-11, 2024, in Luxemburg, as part of the European ...