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Blockchain, Crypto Assets, and Financial Innovation
(2025)
This open access book provides a decade-spanning, meticulously curated collection of research that showcases groundbreaking advances in blockchain, cryptocurrency, digital finance, and market volatility. Through empirical ...
International Labour Organization and Global Social Governance
(2021)
This open access book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple and mutually complementary perspectives. It explores the impact of this UN´s oldest ...
Biometric Identification, Law and Ethics
(2021)
This book is open access. This book undertakes a multifaceted and integrated examination of biometric identification, including the current state of the technology, how it is being used, the key ethical issues, and the ...
Noncomplainer-Management im BtB-Marketing
(2024)
In diesem Open Access-Buch untersucht Dr. Fabio-Yannick Laschet unter Berücksichtigung der konstitutiven Besonderheiten des Business-to-Business-Marketings spezifische Determinanten des Noncomplainer-Verhaltens sowie ...
Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe
(2022)
This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational ...
Migration and Pandemics
(2022)
This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. ...
Special Topics in Information Technology
(2024)
This open access book presents outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always ...
Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking
(2020)
Organic waste composting is another excellent example to demonstrate the power and the benefits of nexus thinking. Even though organic waste composting itself is not a new topic, those who want to start a new project or ...
Resilient Governance of Urban Redevelopment
(2023)
To examine the origins, characteristics, and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese characteristics, this open access book takes Guangzhou, a typical Chinese city from 1990 to 2015, as an example. Through participant ...
Process Mining Workshops
(2025)
This book constitutes the revised accepted papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2024, held in Lyngby, Denmark, during October 2024. The ...
Public Systems Modeling
(2022)
This is an open access book discusses readers to various methods of modeling plans and policies that address public sector issues and problems. Written for public policy and social sciences students at the upper undergraduate ...
Chapter Gender Dynamics. An Introduction to Norbert Elias’s Process-Sociological Approach to Gender Relations
(2025)
The text introduces the application of Norbert Elias’s process-sociological approach to gender studies, emphasizing its relevance in understanding gender dynamics over long-term societal developments. Despite Elias’s ...
The Importance and Value of Older Employees
(2021)
This open access book makes a contribution to our understanding of one of the social challenges facing many western nations i.e. the challenge of an ageing population. It specifically addresses the issue of competence among ...
Management of Hydropower Enterprises
(2025)
This open access book highlights the hydropower potential of the Dadu River watershed in Sichuan province, Southwest China, and an important part of the flood control system for the Changjiang (Yangtze) River. Ensuring the ...
Circular Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers in Central and Eastern Europe
(2020)
By adopting a rights-based approach, this open access book sheds light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been adopted to implement circular migration policies in the EU and their consequences for the ...
Sex Differences in Reading and Math Test Scores of Children
(2024)
This open access book examines why reading and math test scores for boys and girls have differed since the origins of testing in the United States. It details the pattern of differences that have remained largely unchanged ...
QPLEX: A Computational Modeling and Analysis Methodology for Stochastic Systems
(2025)
This book introduces QPLEX, a powerful computational framework designed for modeling and analyzing nonstationary stochastic systems with large state spaces. The methodology excels at rapidly and accurately generating ...
Fundamentals of Clinical Data Science
(2019)
This open access book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of clinical data science, focusing on data collection, modelling and clinical applications. Topics covered in the first section on data collection include: data ...
The Institutional Compass: Method, Use and Scope
(2022)
This open access book presents a new generation multi-criteria, multi-stake holder, decision aide, called an "institutional compass". Based on hard data, the compass tells us what quality-direction we are heading in as an ...
New Directions in Digitalisation
(2025)
This open access book brings together experts from both EU competition law as well fundamental rights backgrounds, discussing the most recent developments in EU legislation on digitalisation. Most prominently, it explores ...
Governing the Pandemic
(2021)
This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing ...
People or Property
(2024)
This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face ...
Sociology of Interdisciplinarity
(2022)
This Open Access book builds upon Science and Technology Studies (STS) and provides a detailed examination of how large-scale energy research projects have been conceived, and with what consequences for those involved in ...
Animating Unpredictable Effects
(2021)
Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the ...
Sustainability, AI and Innovation: Proceedings of the Applied Research in Humanities & Social Sciences (ARHSS 2023)
(2025)
This open-access book presents the proceedings of the first 1st International Conference on Applied Research in Humanities & Social Sciences (ARHSS) held from Oct 31 to Nov 02, 2023, at the University of Sharjah, United ...
Community Nursing in Österreich
(2025)
Dieses Open Access Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Hintergründe, Methoden und Konzepte von Community (Health) Nursing, einer innovativen und praxisorientierten Weiterentwicklung in der Gesundheitsversorgung in Österreich. ...
In die falsche Richtung?
(2025)
Latein hat die frühe Neuzeit als Sprache der internationalen Kommunikation, der Wissenschaften, der Schule und der Kirche geprägt. Man schrieb allerdings nicht nur Latein, sondern übertrug auch Texte aus allen Epochen und ...
The Logical Writings of Karl Popper
(2022)
This open access book is the first ever collection of Karl Popper's writings on deductive logic. Karl R. Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His philosophy of science ...
The Prevent Duty in Education
(2020)
This open access book explores the enactment, impact and implications of the Prevent Duty across a range of educational contexts. In July 2015 the UK became the first country to place a specific legal requirement on those ...
Putting PIRLS to Use in Classrooms Across the Globe
(2022)
This open access book provides teachers with approaches to strengthen reading comprehension instruction based on scientific research and evidence-based didactic principles. In this volume, the Progress in International ...
Quantitative Sustainability
(2024)
This open access book focuses on how scientific methodologies can help industrial managers, entrepreneurs and policymakers handle the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in an efficient and realistic way. It also offers an ...
Equity, Equality and Diversity in the Nordic Model of Education
(2020)
Does the Nordic model of education still stand by its original principles and safeguard education for all? This Open Access volume is a carefully crafted collection of chapters that investigate the different aspects of ...
Die Grenzen der EU
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch blickt auf die Hintergründe der Politik der Freizügigkeit in Europa und diskutiert die Folgen. Die europäische Integration veränderte die Migrationsverhältnisse erheblich: Zwischen den EU-Mitgliedstaaten ...
Pediatric and Lifespan Data Science
(2025)
This open access book will address the unique requirements and technological tools for analysis of data across the lifespan, from childhood through advanced age. Topics such as sepsis, hospital-acquired infections, mental ...
Von einem Traum getrieben
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt das Leben und die Leistungen des norwegischen Ingenieurs und Physikers Rolf Widerøe. Zu seinen vielen bahnbrechenden Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Beschleunigerphysik gehören unter anderem ...
Arbeit in der digitalisierten Welt
(2021)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch umfasst Beiträge aus 29 Verbundvorhaben sowie dem begleitenden Verbundprojekt „TransWork“. Im Rahmen des Förderschwerpunkts „Arbeit in der digitalisierten Welt“ des Bundesministeriums für ...
Ritualisierende Agency in Todesritualen
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden anhand von ethnographischen Fallbeobachtungen mit 16 Ritualleiter*innen folgende Fragen beantwortet: Wie positionieren sich Leitende von Todesritualen, die ausserhalb einer religiösen ...
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022
(2022)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)’s 29th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ...
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 ...
Data for Social Good
(2023)
This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations’ datasets and open public data. The ...