Publications
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On the Power and Limits of Empathy
(2024)
This book has two main objectives. The first is to identify and adequately describe the phenomenon of empathy. This essentially means offering a strong, reasoned and accurate description of the phenomenon of empathy in ...
The Fight against Systemic Corruption
(2024)
This open access book examines the interplay between public and private sectors in Latin America's biggest market. It is the result of the binational research project “Organizational Crime and Systemic Corruption in Brazil” ...
Privacy Technologies and Policy
(2026)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Annual Privacy Forum on Privacy Technologies and Policy, APF 2025, held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, during October 22-23, 2025. The 9 full papers ...
Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection
(2022)
This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of studies dealing with the hot topic of digital face manipulation such as DeepFakes, Face Morphing, or Reenactment. It combines the research fields of ...
Enhancing Water and Food Security Through Improved Agricultural Water Productivity
(2025)
This open-access edited book provides a synthesis of knowledge on Water Productivity (WP) and its role in addressing global challenges related to water and food insecurity, as well as climate change. It explores how ...
Proceedings of the 10th Hydrogen Technology Convention, Volume 1
(2024)
This open access book highlights the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells. In recent years, energy conversion between electricity and hydrogen energy has ...
Ehrenamtliche Bürgermeister in Deutschland
(2024)
Dieses open access Buch enthält als erste politikwissenschaftliche Publikation Daten zu ehrenamtlichen Bürgermeistern für alle 10 Bundesländer, in denen diese eine wichtige Position der politischen Repräsentation in ...
Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged?
(2020)
This open access book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, Marie-Caroline Schulte discusses the importance of evi-dence in medical research and ...
Soziale und gesundheitliche Ungleichheit im Alter
(2025)
Der Open-Access-Sammelband nimmt die Interdependenzen von Gesundheit und sozialer Ungleichheit in den Fokus. Demografische und epidemiologische Entwicklungen lassen einen erheblich erhöhten Druck auf die medizinische und ...
Research Assessment in the Humanities
(2016)
This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the ...
Covid-19 and Capitalism
(2022)
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Covid-19. From the end of 2019 until presently, the world has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the cause of this ...
Technische Beschneiung und Umwelt
(2025)
Die globale Erwärmung hat in den vergangenen Jahren die technische Beschneiung zu einer der wichtigsten Anpassungsmaßnahmen im Wintertourismus gemacht. Diese Open-Access-Publikation fasst das Wissen zu diesem Thema zusammen ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2020)
This open access two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in ...
A Journey of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems
(2021)
This Open Access book celebrates Professor Peter Marwedel's outstanding achievements in compilers, embedded systems, and cyber-physical systems. The contributions in the book summarize the content of invited lectures given ...
Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research
(2021)
This open access textbook represents a vital contribution to global health education, offering insights into health promotion as part of patient care for bachelor’s and master’s students in health care (nurses, occupational ...
Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective
(2018)
This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, ...
Umami
(2024)
This Open Access book covers the concept of umami, the unique taste imparted by the amino acid glutamate, was first described in 1908 by Dr. Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo University. Over the past century, hundreds of studies ...
Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers
(2022)
This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake ...
Modern Cryptography Volume 1
(2022)
This open access book systematically explores the statistical characteristics of cryptographic systems, the computational complexity theory of cryptographic algorithms and the mathematical principles behind various encryption ...
Die Methode der didaktisch orientierten Rekonstruktion
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch systematisiert Judith Huget in einer theoretischen Herangehensweise eine stoffdidaktische Methode - die didaktisch orientierte Rekonstruktion - zur Ausdifferenzierung von Wissenselementen von ...
Market Engineering
(2021)
This open access book provides a broad range of insights on market engineering and information management. It covers topics like auctions, stock markets, electricity markets, the sharing economy, information and emotions ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2025)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2025, which took place in Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland, during June 2-5, 2025. XP is the premier agile ...
White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
(2020)
This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed ...
Decarbonizing German Family Firms
(2025)
In this Open Access Publication, we present four chapters that provide a holistic view of the critical steps in a family firm’s decarbonization journey. Achieving the EU's climate targets relies heavily on German family ...
Bayes Factors for Forensic Decision Analyses with R
(2022)
Bayes Factors for Forensic Decision Analyses with R provides a self-contained introduction to computational Bayesian statistics using R. With its primary focus on Bayes factors supported by data sets, this book features ...
Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection
(2022)
This open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic. Starting by ...
The Values of Independent Hip-Hop in the Post-Golden Era
(2019)
Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, this book uncovers the historical trajectory of U.S. independent hip-hop in the post-golden era, seeking to understand its complex relationship to mainstream hip-hop culture and U.S. ...
The Digital Playbook
(2023)
This open access book is a practitioner's guide to smart, connected products and solutions. As a hands-on playbook, it combines the business and technical execution perspectives to help product companies, OEMs, manufacturers ...
Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
(2018)
This open access collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial revolution. Considering significant trends in how people are learning, coupled with the ...
Understanding Cultural Non-Participation in an Egalitarian Context
(2022)
This book uses a rich data set, from individuals whose background profiles statistically predict strong cultural non-participation, to explore the most salient lifestyles and symbolic boundaries drawn in these potentially ...
Researching Elites and Power
(2020)
This open access book describes how elite studies theoretically and methodologically construct their object, i.e. how particular conceptualizations of elites are turned into research practice using different methods for ...
Atlas of Mineral Deposits Distribution in China (2020)
(2021)
This open access book includes instruction of national mineral database 2020 and atlas of national mineral deposits distribution derived from national mineral database 2020. National mineral database 2020 is based on data ...
Children in Custody Disputes
(2024)
This open access book explores how legal proceedings in and out-of-court can be matched to the complex problems underlying disputes concerning child custody, residence and contact between parents. It focusses in particular ...
Digital Health and Wireless Solutions
(2024)
This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Nordic Conference on , Digital Health and Wireless Solutions, NCDHWS 2024, held in Oulu, Finland, during May 7–8, 2024. The 51 full papers included in ...
Die Zukunft zwischen Goethezeit und Realismus
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch geht der Zeitreflexion im Feld der Novellistik nach und ergründet Erzählstrategien und -logiken der literarischen Vertextung von ‚Zeit‘, ihre funktionale Einbindung wie auch ihre selbstreflexive und ...
The Future of Financial Systems in the Digital Age
(2022)
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. The increasing capacity of digital networks and computing power, together with the resulting connectivity and availability of “big data”, are ...
Digital Transformation in Semiconductor Manufacturing
(2020)
This open access book reports on cutting-edge electrical engineering and microelectronics solutions to foster and support digitalization in the semiconductor industry. Based on the outcomes of the European project iDev40, ...
International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation
(2020)
This open access book examines key aspects of international cooperation to enhance nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and nonproliferation, thereby assisting in development and maintenance of the verification regime and ...
Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility
(2026)
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, ...
Umrisse einer Dritten Kultur im interdisziplinären Zusammenspiel zwischen Literatur und Naturwissenschaft
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-band geht es um die Thematisierung des Verhältnisses zwischen den gegenwärtig getrennten „Zwei Kulturen“ und Umrisse ihrer neuen Synthese in Richtung auf eine zeitgenössische, auf Interdisziplinarität ...