Publications
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Global Perspectives of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health, Education, and Role of Media
(2023)
This open access book discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various aspects of life on a global scale. It analyzes the challenges in the healthcare system during the second wave of COVID-19, such as overstressed ...
Active Disturbance Rejection Control
(2025)
This open access text offers the first comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles and practical implementation of Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC). Drawing on their years of experience in both ...
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 ...
Afroeuropean Mobilities in Francophone African Literatures
(2025)
This open access book contributes to the mobility humanities from the perspective of postcolonial literary mobilities and aims at enhancing dialogue between mobilities research and postcolonial literary studies. The study ...
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 ...
Thyroid Surgery
(2024)
This open access book on thyroid surgery has been authored by an international team of contributors who present a comprehensive understanding of both benign and malignant thyroid disorders. It also outlines an interdisciplinary ...
Chemical Reference Materials for Oceanography
(2025)
This open access book explores the history, production, and certification of reference materials for essential parameters in oceanography and provides a comprehensive understanding of them to readers. Because inorganic ...
Schulsysteme beschreiben und gestalten
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die folgenden Fragen untersucht: Was bedeutet Bildungsmonitoring in der Schweiz? Welche Erwartungen und Zielsetzungen werden damit verbunden, welche Instrumente etabliert, welche Produkte ...
Quality Management and Accreditation in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
(2021)
This open access book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview on how to build a quality management program for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and cellular therapy. The text reviews all the essential ...
The Reshaping of China’s Industry Chains
(2024)
This open access book offers a comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and challenges facing the development of China’s industry chains in a changing landscape. As the trend of deglobalization is intensifying, the ...
Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality
(2022)
This aim of this open access book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating perspective from three sectors—Health, Social Policy, and Work in Organizations—the ...
Introduction to Digital Humanism
(2024)
This open access textbook introduces and defines digital humanism from a diverse range of disciplines. Following the 2019 Vienna Manifesto, the book calls for a digital humanism that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, ...
Negotiating Non-Motherhood
(2025)
This open access edited volume focuses on the representations, perceptions, and experiences of women who do not have children against the backdrop of traditional gender norms, pronatalist policies, and patriarchal structures. ...
Der Staat als ‚Guter Auftraggeber‘? Öffentliche Auftragsvergabe zwischen Vermarktlichung und Sozialpolitisierung
(2022)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation befasst sich mit den vielfältigen Entscheidungsprozessen, mit denen der Bieterwettbewerb um öffentliche Aufträge gestaltet wird und fragt, inwieweit dabei versucht wird, gute Arbeitsbedingungen ...
Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection - Volume 2
(2025)
This open access book offers the first comprehensive global overview of urban and local initiatives, policies, and practices towards including and protecting migrants in vulnerable situations and refugees. The chapters in ...
The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education
(2022)
This book is open access and discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities have become over-managed business enterprises which may not reflect ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History
(2023)
This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2021)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 12759 and 12760 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2021, held virtually in July 2021. The 63 full papers ...
Understanding the Creeping Crisis
(2021)
This open access book explores a special species of trouble afflicting modern societies: creeping crises. These crises evolve over time, reveal themselves in different ways, and resist comprehensive responses despite ...
Values – Politics – Religion: The European Values Study
(2023)
This open access book analyses the international data of the European Values Study (EVS 1990 - 2017), with a focus on the impact of religious on political values from empirical as well as theoretical perspectives, i.e. ...
Migration and International Relations
(2023)
This open access short reader investigates how migration has become an increasingly important issue in international relations since the turn of the 21st century. It investigates specific aspects of this migration diplomacy ...
Freiwilliges Engagement in Sportvereinen in peripher-ländlichen Räumen
(2025)
Das Ziel des BLEIB-Projekts bestand darin, sozialräumliche, organisationale und individuelle Rahmenbedingungen zu analysieren, die ein ehrenamtliches und freiwilliges Engagement in Sportvereinen ausgewählter peripher-ländlicher ...
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 ...
Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality
(2021)
This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers ...
How and Why to Regulate False Political Advertising in Australia
(2022)
This open access book represents the first comprehensive, Australia-focused treatment of the problem of false election information disseminated for the purpose of gaining an electoral advantage. It explores cautious legal ...
Hybrid Energy Storage
(2026)
This is an open access book that addresses the need for hybridization in energy storage, offering a fresh perspective on integrating diverse storage solutions to support a successful energy transition. It fills a significant ...
Sex and Gender
(2025)
This open access book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the study of sex and gender and suggests directions for future research in multiple fields. Sex and gender are understood, measured, and applied in different ...
Automatisierter ÖPNV
(2024)
Dieses Open-Access-Handbuch versteht sich als praktisches Hilfsmittel für den gezielten Einsatz eines automatisierten ÖPNV auf dem Weg zur Mobilitätswende. Es richtet sich in erster Linie an Entscheidungsträger, Verwaltungen ...
Modeling Excitable Tissue
(2021)
This open access volume presents a novel computational framework for understanding how collections of excitable cells work. The key approach in the text is to model excitable tissue by representing the individual cells ...
Global collaboration, local production
(2024)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch gibt aktuelle interdisziplinäre Forschungseinblicke rund um das Fab City-Konzept. Ein Ansatz, der beschreibt, wie Produktions- und Konsumptionsweisen gestaltet werden können, sodass einerseits globale ...
Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America
(2021)
This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes ...
Soziale Arbeit und Sucht
(2021)
Das Projekt «Soziale Arbeit in der Suchtprävention und Suchthilfe der Deutschsprachigen Schweiz» hat die Professionalisierung der Sozialen Arbeit in der Suchtarbeit zum Ziel. In einem ersten Schritt soll mittels dieser ...
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 ...
Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia
(2024)
This open access book presents studies of language use in Indonesia, focusing on children and youth. It reports on developments in the use of language for narrative production and within the realm of popular culture and ...
Development and Postdevelopmentalism in Studies on, to, with, for, by Young Children
(2025)
This open access book directs its attention to a desire for inter- and transdisciplinary, reciprocal collaborations in studies concerning young children. It focuses on the possibilities and obstacles in collaborative forms ...
Management in einem dynamischen Umfeld
(2025)
Dieses klar strukturierte Open-Access-Lehrbuch vermittelt grundlegendes Managementwissen. Auf Grundlage der wesentlichen Aspekte der Unternehmensführung wird ein Unternehmens-Modell skizziert, das es dem Leser ermöglicht, ...
A Review of Personal Recurrent Victimization
(2025)
This open access brief summarizes the literature on personal recurrent victimization—broadly defined as experiencing more than one victimization. The featured research uses different categories of personal recurrent ...
Education in China and the World
(2024)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of education in China, covering 12 critical topics including basic education, higher education, professional education, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and ...
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 ...
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 ...