Publications
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Pflege-Report 2019
(2020)
Der Pflege-Report, der in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, nimmt jährlich relevante Themen der Versorgung von Pflegebedürftigen unter die Lupe. Schwerpunkt des Jahres 2019 ist die Frage „Mehr Personal ...
Emerging Pollutants
(2025)
This open access book focuses on the importance of reducing pollution and protecting water resources for the health of people and the environment. Water is vital for life on Earth. The quality of the world's freshwater ...
Preventing Mental Illness
(2019)
This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians ...
Optimal Surface Fitting of Point Clouds Using Local Refinement
(2023)
This open access book provides insights into the novel Locally Refined B-spline (LR B-spline) surface format, which is suited for representing terrain and seabed data in a compact way. It provides an alternative to the ...
Childlessness in Europe
(2017)
In recent decades, levels of childlessness have been increasing rapidly in most
European countries. German-speaking countries seem to be at the forefront of this
development, as more than 20% of the women living in ...
Dynamics of Gender Relations
(2025)
This edited volume brings together for the first time international research approaches from the field of figurational and processual sociology at the intersection of gender studies. It assembles current research on the ...
Fire Hazards: Socio-economic and Regional Issues
(2024)
The open access book aims to show the readers novel, relevant and reproducible power of synergistic collaborations between European research groups and stakeholders with the objective to synthesize the existing knowledge ...
EU-Turkey Relations
(2021)
This open access book explores the new complexities and ambiguities that epitomize EU-Turkey relations. With a strong focus on the developments in the last decade, the book provides full access to a comprehensive understanding ...
Structural Health Monitoring Damage Detection Systems for Aerospace
(2021)
This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction ...
Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity
(2020)
This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ...
Pflege-Report 2022
(2022)
Der Pflege-Report, der jährlich in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, rückt im Schwerpunkt 2022 jene Pflegebedürftigen in den Mittelpunkt, die nicht wie im „Normalfall“ aus altersassoziierten Gründen ...
Adults in Play with Children
(2025)
This is an Open access book.This work addresses the presence and participation of adults in play with children. Rather than discussing this issue on ideological ground, the international contributions build on empirical ...
Migration and Discrimination
(2021)
This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which ...
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 ...
The Asian 21st Century
(2022)
This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. ...
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 ...
Society 5.0
(2020)
This open access book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which was proposed in the 5th Basic Science and Technology Plan by Japan’s national government for ...
Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights
(2020)
This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role ...
Researching Central Asia
(2024)
This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages ...
The Limits of Art
(2021)
This open access book is about exploring interesting borderline cases of art. It discusses the cases of gustatory and olfactory artworks (focusing on food), proprioceptive artworks (dance, martial arts, and rock climbing ...
Brexit and the Control of Tobacco Illicit Trade
(2020)
This book assesses the consequences of Brexit for the control of illicit trade in tobacco products in the UK and EU. Based on the currently applicable legal framework, it examines the significance of a possible non-application ...
Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia
(2023)
This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary ...
A City in Blue and Green
(2019)
This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a ...
Digital Twin
(2024)
This open access book offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Digital Twin (DT), which is a very promising technology for achieving digital intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications and computing ...
Immunogenetics
(2022)
This open access book explores techniques for working in the field of immunogenetics, i.e. fundamental and translational research into the adaptive immune receptor repertoire. Many chapters are dedicated to lab protocols, ...
Digital Humanism
(2022)
This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a “digital humanism”. This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment ...
New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies
(2022)
This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data ...
Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice
(2022)
This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known ...
Beyond Treaties: Rethinking Legal Mechanisms for International Climate Governance
(2025)
This open access book examines the implications of the shift towards minilateralism for international climate law, analysing how climate-related trade measures and Paris Agreement compatible platforms may enhance global ...
Environmental Valuation with Discrete Choice Experiments in R
(2025)
This open access book offers advice and practical guidance for conducting discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in environmental valuation. It covers essential aspects of designing, implementing, and analysing choice experiments. ...
Climate Disaster Preparedness
(2024)
As a result of global warming, extreme events, such as firestorms and flash floods, pose increasingly unpredictable and uncertain existential threats, taking lives, destroying communities, and wreaking havoc on habitats. ...
Digital Libraries
(2020)
16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, Bari, Italy, January 30–31, 2020, Proceedings
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 ...
Paul J. Crutzen: A Pioneer on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Change in the Anthropocene
(2016)
This open access book contains texts by the Nobel laureate Paul J. Crutzen who is best known for his research on ozone depletion. It comprises Crutzen’s autobiography, several pictures documenting important stages of his ...
The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues
(2025)
This open access book explores the Republic of Turkey’s unresolved issues that have persisted over the past 101 years. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the challenges facing the country to critically ...
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 ...
Chapter The Price of Uncertainty in Present-Biased Planning
(2017)
The tendency to overestimate immediate utility is a common cognitive bias. As a result people behave inconsistently over time and fail
to reach long-term goals. Behavioral economics tries to help affected individuals
by ...
BUiD Doctoral Research Conference 2023
(2024)
This open access book presents selected contributions on a wide range of scientific and technological areas originating from the BUiD Doctoral Research Conference (BDRC 2023). It discusses the following topics: project ...
Ten Crises
(2021)
This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic history of China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factors leading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his ...
Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology
(2021)
This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of ...