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Freshwater Microplastics: Emerging Environmental Contaminants?
(2018)
This volume focuses on microscopic plastic debris, also referred to as microplastics, which have been detected in aquatic environments around the globe and have accordingly raised serious concerns. The book explores whether ...
Happiness is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism
(2018)
This timely book addresses the conflict between globalism and nationalism. It provides a liberal communitarian response to the rise of populism occurring in many democracies. The book highlights the role of communities ...
The Plant Stem: A Microscopic Aspect
(2018)
This unique and attractive open access textbook combines the beauty of macroscopic pictures of plant stems with the corresponding colorfully stained images of anatomical micro-structures. In contrast to most botanical ...
Evolution, Monitoring and Predicting Models of Rockburst: Precursor Information for Rock Failure
(2018)
This open access book focuses on investigating predicting precursor information and key points of rockburst in mining engineering through laboratory experiment, theoretical analysis, numerical simulation and case studies. ...
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 ...
Risikoadaptierte Prävention: Governance Perspective für Leistungsansprüche bei genetischen (Brustkrebs-)Risiken
(2018)
Die vorliegende Studie empfiehlt, Leistungsansprüche für Personen mit interventionsfordernden (Brustkrebs-)Risiken anhand einer neuen Rechtskategorie, der ‚risikoadaptieren Prävention‘, abzubilden. Spätestens seit dem ...
Self-Assembled Molecules – New Kind of Protein Ligands: Supramolecular Ligands
(2017)
The subject of this book relates to protein ligands with particular structural and complexation properties. They are composed of self-assembled molecules, capable of penetrating as a unit into proteins outside the binding ...
Model-Based Demography: Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory
(2018)
Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting ...
Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age: 27th International Conference, GSCL 2017, Berlin, Germany, September 13-14, 2017, Proceedings
(2018)
This open access volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th biennial conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, GSCL 2017, held in Berlin, Germany, in September ...
Musical Haptics
(2018)
This open access book offers an original interdisciplinary overview of the role of haptic feedback in musical interaction. Divided into two parts, part I examines the tactile aspects of music performance and perception, ...