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The Emigrant Communities of Latvia
(2019)
This open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – in the case of return migration - re-integration ...
System-Aufstellungen und ihre naturwissenschaftliche Begründung
(2020)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation liefert Thomas Gehlert eine konsistente, auf aktuellen Experimenten und Theorien basierte, fundierte natur- und neurowissenschaftliche Theorie, die den zugrundeliegenden Prozess bei Intuition ...
The Illusion of Risk Control: What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty?
(2017)
risk management; black swans; safety; high-risk organisations; FonCSI; complexity in risk management; risk assessment
Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing: Estimation of Agricultural Crop Biomass Water Equivalent
(2018)
Earth Science; Soil Management; Water Management; Crop Nutrition; Nuclear; CRNS; Biomass Water Equivalent; Remote Sensing; Satellite Imagery
AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City
(2016)
This book describes the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthy city" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven and Province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. AiREAS is an initiative focused on the multidisciplinary ...
Computational Conflict Research
(2020)
This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this ...
Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art
(2015)
This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is ...
The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease
(2019)
This open access book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed by George Engel 40 years ago, the Biopsychosocial ...
Sago Palm: Multiple Contributions to Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods
(2018)
Under-utilized food resource; Metroxylon sagu; Starch production; Sago palm forest; Sago sugar
Peer Review, Peer Education, and Modeling in the Practice of Clinical Ethics Consultation: The Zadeh Project
(2018)
This open access book about the Zadeh Project demonstrates and explores a core question in clinical ethics: how can ethics consultants be accountable in the face of a robust plurality of ethical standpoints, especially ...
The Great Disruptor
(2020)
Dieser Open Access-Band untersucht aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive das öffentliche Auftreten von Donald Trump und nimmt dabei insbesondere in den Blick, wie der US-amerikanische Präsident an der ...
One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences
(2017)
Fritz Haber; Military-Industrial Complex; 1925 Geneva Protocol; Ethics of Chemical Warfare; Dual-use Problem; Anti-plant Chemical Warfare; Chemical Weapons During World War I; Chemical Weapons During World War II; ...
The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque
(2020)
This open access book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), which had continued for over 30 years, but which ...
Krankenhaus-Report 2019
(2019)
Der Krankenhaus-Report erscheint jährlich als Open Access-Buch und als gedrucktes Buch. Er nimmt relevante, vorwiegend ordnungspolitische Themen im Kontext Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit der Krankenhausversorgung in den ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2019. XP is the premier agile software development conference ...
Human Rights in Child Protection
(2018)
This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research ...
Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility
(2019)
In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to ...
The Plight of Older Workers: Labor Market Experience after Plant Closure in the Swiss Manufacturing Sector
(2016)
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Labor Economics; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Ganzheitliche Digitalisierung von Prozessen
(2018)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Geschäftsprozessmanagement als ein ganzheitlicher Prozess begriffen, der der Mitwirkung aller Stakeholder bedarf. Denn das traditionelle Business Process Engineering stößt heute angesichts ...
Conviviality at the Crossroads
(2020)
Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The ...
Chapter 4 Self-Harm as Violence
(2015)
This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume contributes to ...
Brain and Human Body Modeling
(2019)
This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modeling with specific emphasis in the areas of neurology and neuroelectromagnetics, depression and cancer treatments, radio-frequency studies and ...
Science and Technology Governance and Ethics
(2015)
R & D/Technology Policy; Ethics; Food Science; Nanotechnology; Biotechnology
Nanoinformatics
(2018)
Machine learning; Big data; Atomic resolution characterization; First-principles calculations; Nanomaterials synthesis
Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety: From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations
(2017)
nuclear safety; decision making
Programming for Computations - Python
(2020)
Mathematics; Computer mathematics; Numerical analysis; Computer software; Numerical analysis
Computer Aided Verification
(2019)
The open access two-volume set LNCS 11561 and 11562 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2019, held in New York City, USA, in July 2019. The 52 full ...
New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration
(2019)
This open access book offers a comparative overview on Portuguese emigration in Europe and outside the EU in times of recession. It looks at Portuguese emigrants who, after the crisis of 2008, moved both intra-EU, such as ...
Transmedial Narration
(2019)
This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of narration in all times, ...
Digitale Souveränität: Bürger | Unternehmen | Staat
(2018)
Digitales Lernen; Datenaufbereitung; Industrie 4.0; Breitbandausbau; Echtzeitvernetzung; Wertschöpfung und Arbeitsmarkt; Gesellschaftlicher Wandel; Digitale Geschäftsmodelle; Arbeitswelt 4.0
Model Tests and Numerical Simulations of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading
(2020)
This open access book presents work collected through the Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects (LEAP) in 2017. It addresses the repeatability, variability, and sensitivity of lateral spreading observed in twenty-four ...
The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
(2019)
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three ...
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
(2019)
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the research workshops, doctoral symposium and panel summaries presented at the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May ...
Freiwilliges Engagement in Deutschland: Der Deutsche Freiwilligensurvey 2014
(2017)
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging
Advancing Energy Policy
(2018)
This open access book advocates for the Social Sciences and Humanities to be more involved in energy policymaking. It forms part of the European platform for energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities’ activities, and ...
The Potato Crop
(2020)
Life sciences; Agriculture; Nutrition ; Plant breeding; Food—Biotechnology; Agricultural economics
Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
(2019)
This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, ...
Meaning-Making for Living
(2019)
This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children’s selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with ...
Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences
(2018)
This Open Access handbook published at the IAMG's 50th anniversary, presents a compilation of invited path-breaking research contributions by award-winning geoscientists who have been instrumental in shaping the IAMG. It ...
Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities
(2020)
This open access book describes how the numerous arrivals of asylum seekers since 2015 shaped reception and integration processes in Europe. It addresses the structuration of asylum and reception systems, and spaces and ...
Wellbeing and Devolution
(2019)
It has been over twenty years since the people of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voted for devolution. Over that time, the devolved legislatures have established themselves and matured their approach to governance. ...
Handbook of Contact Mechanics
(2019)
This open access book contains a structured collection of the complete solutions of all essential axisymmetric contact problems. Based on a systematic distinction regarding the type of contact, the regime of friction and ...
Manual of Digital Earth
(2020)
This open access book offers a summary of the development of Digital Earth over the past twenty years. By reviewing the initial vision of Digital Earth, the evolution of that vision, the relevant key technologies, and the ...
Bisociative Knowledge Discovery: An Introduction to Concept, Algorithms, Tools, and Applications
(2012)
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Pattern Recognition; Computer Communication ...
Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering
(2019)
Get the most out of this foundational reference and improve the productivity of your software teams. This open access book collects the wisdom of the 2017 "Dagstuhl" seminar on productivity in software engineering, a meeting ...
Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting
(2019)
This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art ...
Projection-Based Clustering through Self-Organization and Swarm Intelligence: Combining Cluster Analysis with the Visualization of High-Dimensional Data
(2018)
Cluster Analysis; Dimensionality Reduction; Swarm Intelligence; Visualization; Unsupervised Machine Learning; Data Science; Knowledge Discovery; 3D Printing; Self-Organization; Emergence; Game Theory; Advanced ...
Supercomputing Frontiers: 4th Asian Conference, SCFA 2018, Singapore, March 26-29, 2018, Proceedings
(2018)
artificial intelligence; big data; cloud computing; communication; computer architecture; computer science; computer systems; data management; databases; hardware; High-Performance Computing (HPC); information ...
Mediation in Collective Labor Conflicts
(2019)
This open access book opens up the black box of mediation in collective conflicts through the analyses and comparisons of various systems. Mediation and related third party interventions such as conciliation and facilitation ...
Factories of the Future
(2019)
Engineering; Industrial engineering; Production engineering
Limits to the European Union’s Normative Power in a Post-conflict Society: EULEX and Peacebuilding in Kosovo
(2018)
Peacebuilding; EULEX; Kosovo; European Union; Conflict prevention; Normative power; Post-conflict; IECEU
R.J. Rummel: An Assessment of His Many Contributions
(2017)
genocide; democracy; libertarianism; peace; Cold War
Between Psychology and Philosophy
(2020)
This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. ...
Handbook of Ocean Wave Energy
(2017)
Offshore Engineering; Renewable and Green Energy; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation; Natural Resource and Energy Economics; Engineering Fluid Dynamics
CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology
(2019)
This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and ...
Knowledge and Action
(2017)
Human Geography; Psychology Research; Social Theory; Knowledge - Discourse
Alternatives to Animal Testing
(2019)
This open access book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use of animals in research and describes a variety of practical applications of the three ...
Life Cycle Management
(2015)
This book provides insight into the Life Cycle Management (LCM) concept and the progress in its implementation. LCM is a management concept applied in industrial and service sectors to improve products and services, while ...
Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns: An Integrative Approach
(2017)
nymphalid; ecology; evolution; genetics; mimicry