Publications
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A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
(2018)
family; relationships; health, parenthood
Re-Inventing Africa's Development
(2019)
This open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that ...
Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes
(2019)
This open access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEA’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) between 1995 and ...
Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins: A Methodological Overview
(2017)
intergenerational relations; transfer behaviour; migration; multicultural; religious identity; research methods; second generation
Lone Parenthood in the Life Course
(2017)
divorce; separation; living arrangements; family composition; single parents; dynamics; welfare; vulnerability
The Change Laboratory for Teacher Training in Entrepreneurship Education
(2019)
This open access book illustrates a new type of formative intervention for in-service teacher training in entrepreneurship education. The book describes a Change Laboratory and shows how teachers and workshop assistants ...
The Philosophy of Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education, Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy
Chapter Dynamic Dispatch for Method Contracts Through Abstract Predicates
(2017)
Dynamic method dispatch is a core feature of object-oriented programming by which the executed implementation for a polymorphic method is only chosen at runtime. In this paper, we present a specification and verification ...
The Ethics of Medical Data Donation
(2019)
This open access book presents an ethical approach to utilizing personal medical data. It features essays that combine academic argument with practical application of ethical principles. The contributors are experts in ...
Science of Societal Safety
(2019)
This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care ...
Junge Perspektiven der Türkeiforschung in Deutschland
(2014)
Türkeiforschung; Türkei; Nachwuchsforschung; Migration; Integration; Politisches System der Türkei
Computer Aided Verification
(2018)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 10980 and 10981 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018. The 52 full and 13 ...
Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft: Ein vertrauensvoller Dialog
(2020)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch hat das Anliegen, das Zusammenspiel von Wissenschaft, Medien und Öffentlichkeit zu analysieren und nach Wegen zu suchen, es zu verbessern. Die Publikation wurde mit Mitteln der Daimler und Benz ...
Safety Cultures, Safety Models
(2018)
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already ...
Modelling our Changing World
(2019)
This open access book focuses on the concepts, tools and techniques needed to successfully model ever-changing time-series data. It emphasizes the need for general models to account for the complexities of the modern world ...
Designing Urban Food Policies
(2019)
This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. ...
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
(2018)
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the ...
Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study
(2021)
This open access book is intended to assist teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers, editors and authors of textbooks in developing strategies to teach the multiplication of natural numbers based on the experience ...
The Responsible University
(2019)
This book explores how the notion of the responsible university manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education. As the impetus of the knowledge society has catapulted the higher education sector to the ...
Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough
(2019)
This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take ...
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment
(2019)
This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain ...
YOUMARES 9 - The Oceans: Our Research, Our Future
(2020)
This open access book summarizes peer-reviewed articles and the abstracts of oral and poster presentations given during the YOUMARES 9 conference which took place in Oldenburg, Germany, in September 2018. The aims of this ...
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
(2014)
Cultural and Media Studies, New Media and Digital Media, Media and Cultural Theory, Popular Culture
The Plant Stem
(2018)
Plant stem construction; Plant cell contents; Plant cell walls; Plant meristems; Anatomy of pteridophyta; Stem evolution; Plant ecology; Wood degradation; Fossilization; Plant morphology
Deltas in the Anthropocene
(2020)
The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene ...
Nb3Sn Accelerator Magnets
(2019)
This open access book is written by world-recognized experts in the fields of applied superconductivity and superconducting accelerator magnet technologies. It provides a contemporary review and assessment of the experience ...
„Deutschland ist das Land der Chancen“
(2019)
Social sciences; Industrial sociology; Emigration and immigration; Childhood; Adolescence; Social groups; Family
Volcanic Unrest
(2019)
This open access book summarizes the findings of the VUELCO project, a multi-disciplinary and cross-boundary research funded by the European Commission's 7th framework program. It comprises four broad topics: 1. The global ...
The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus
(2019)
This Open Access book analyses the interplay between governing, evaluation and knowledge with an empirical focus on Swedish higher education. It investigates the origins, logics, and mechanisms of evaluation and quality ...
Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities
(2020)
This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban ecosystems, population distribution, and physical ...
Early Algebra: Research into its Nature, its Learning, its Teaching
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Global Business Strategy
(2015)
Emerging Markets/Globalization; Innovation/Technology Management; Business Strategy/Leadership; International Economics; Operations Management
An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI
(2021)
This open access book introduces the reader to the foundations of AI and ethics. It discusses issues of trust, responsibility, liability, privacy and risk. It focuses on the interaction between people and the AI systems ...
Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7)
(2019)
This open access book is the first comprehensive guideline for the beryllium-7 (Be-7) technique that can be applied to evaluate short-term patterns and budgets of soil redistribution in agricultural landscapes. While ...
Flexibel studieren – Vereinbarkeit ermöglichen
(2019)
Imke Buß weist in ihrem Open-Access-Buch nach, dass Hochschulen durch die strategische Gestaltung ihrer Studienstrukturen die Vereinbarkeit von Studium, Familie und Beruf ermöglichen können. Die Autorin entwickelt ein ...
Datenreport Zivilgesellschaft
(2019)
Als Open Access Publikation bietet der Datenreport Zivilgesellschaft erstmals einen Überblick über Stand und Entwicklung von Zivilgesellschaft und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement in Deutschland auf verbindender Grundlage der ...
Narrating China's Governance
(2020)
This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s ...
Your Post has been Removed
(2020)
This open access monograph argues established democratic norms for freedom of expression should be implemented on the internet. Moderating policies of tech companies as Facebook, Twitter and Google have resulted in posts ...
Entity-Oriented Search
(2018)
This open access book covers all facets of entity-oriented search—where “search” can be interpreted in the broadest sense of information access—from a unified point of view, and provides a coherent and comprehensive overview ...
Managing Innovation and Standards
(2019)
This book provides an in-depth study of the management of standards and regulation in sustainable and radical innovation development. It considers the case of micro Combined Heat and Power (mCHP) technology. The developers ...
Stoßprobleme in Physik, Technik und Medizin
(2020)
Dieses Open Access Buch widmet sich dem Problem der Mechanik des Zusammenstoßes zweier makroskopischer Körper. Falls die Dynamik der Körper als Ganzes dies erlaubt, ohne in unüberschaubare Komplexität zu verfallen (in der ...
Symbiotic Interaction: 5th International Workshop, Symbiotic 2016, Padua, Italy, September 29–30, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
(2017)
human-computer interaction; machine learning; cyber-physical systems
Quartier und Demokratie
(2019)
Die Beiträge dieses Open-Access-Bandes bringen demokratietheoretische Fragestellungen mit partizipatorischen Erfahrungen aus Quartieren zusammen. Charakteristisch für viele partizipative Planungsmodi ist ihr sozialräumlicher ...
Young People's Views of Government, Peaceful Coexistence, and Diversity in Five Latin American Countries
(2018)
This open access report presents findings from the five Latin American countries that participated in the second cycle of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2016). ICCS 2016 investigated the ...
The Future Internet: Future Internet Assembly 2011: Achievements and Technological Promises
(2011)
Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Multimedia Information Systems; Communications Engineering, Networks; Computers and Society
Vocational Teacher Education in Central Asia: Developing Skills and Facilitating Success
(2018)
teacher training; project based learning; educational technology; research methodology; network development; vocational teacher education; developing teaching skills; technical teacher education; Central Asia; GIZ ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2018)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 10980 and 10981 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018. The 52 full and 13 ...
The Handbook of Salutogenesis
(2017)
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Medical Sociology; Health Psychology
Intelligent Human Computer Interaction: 9th International Conference, IHCI 2017, Evry, France, December 11-13, 2017, Proceedings
(2017)
brain computer interface; artificial intelligence; computer networks; classification databases; HCI machine learning; signal processing; user interfaces
Öffentliche Verwaltung – Verwaltung in der Öffentlichkeit
(2020)
Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband beleuchtet Herausforderungen und Chancen für die Verwaltungskommunikation in der modernen Mediendemokratie aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen und berufspraktischen Perspektiven. Die ...
Finding the Limits of the Limes
(2019)
This open access book demonstrates the application of simulation modelling and network analysis techniques in the field of Roman studies. It summarizes and discusses the results of a 5-year research project carried out by ...
Etiology and Morphogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease
(2016)
Cardiology; Pediatrics
Die Finanzkrise 2008 im Unbewussten
(2020)
Helga Klug eröffnet in diesem Open-Access-Buch neue ungewohnte Sichtweisen auf die psychische Verarbeitung der Finanzkrise 2008. Dabei rückt die Autorin unbewusste Prozesse in den Fokus, wie sie in Krisenmodellen, ...
Security of Networks and Services in an All-Connected World: 11th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2017, Zurich, Switzerland, July 10-13, 2017, Proceedings
(2017)
anomaly detection; artificial intelligence; cloud computing; data security; cyber crime; internet; network security; wireless; web
Data Collection in Fragile States
(2020)
‘This open access book addresses an urgent issue on which little organized information exists. It reflects experience in Africa but is highly relevant to other fragile states as well.’ —Constantine Michalopoulos, John ...
Frauen und Männer in der zweiten Lebenshälfte
(2019)
Das vorliegende Open Access-Buch stellt einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur längsschnittlichen Sozialberichterstattung zum Thema Altern und Geschlecht und zur sozial- und verhaltenswissenschaftlichen Alternsforschung dar. Auf ...
Transactions on Modularity and Composition I
(2016)
The LNCS Transactions on Modularity and Composition are devoted to all aspects of software modularity and composition methods, tools, and techniques, covering requirement analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and ...
Status and Dynamics of Forests in Germany
(2019)
Life sciences; Ecology ; Forestry; Soil science; Soil conservation; Sustainable development; Geobiology
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2019)
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. The LNCS 11427 and 11428 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, ...
High Resolution Imaging in Microscopy and Ophthalmology
(2019)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the application of the newest laser and microscope/ophthalmoscope technology in the field of high resolution imaging in microscopy and ophthalmology. Starting by ...