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Aktives Altern im digitalen Zeitalter
(2022)
Altersgerechte Assistenzsysteme leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag, die Lebensumgebung mit intelligenter Technik gesundheitsfördernder und selbstbestimmt zu gestalten. Diverse Sensoren, Geräte und Dienste (z.B. Sturzmeldesysteme, ...
Craftspeople and Designer Makers in the Contemporary Creative Economy
(2020)
This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills ...
The Fundamental Elements of Strategy
(2021)
This open access book clarifies confusions of strategy that have existed for nearly 40 years through the core thoughts of three fundamental elements. Unlike the traditional definition of strategy as "a plan to achieve a ...
Development Policies and Policy Processes in Africa
(2017)
economics; quantitative policy evaluation; Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP); poverty
Improving Potassium Recommendations for Agricultural Crops
(2021)
This open access book highlights concepts discussed at two international conferences that brought together world-renowned scientists to advance the science of potassium (K) recommendations for crops. There was general ...
Solving PDEs in Python
(2016)
This book offers a concise and gentle introduction to finite element programming in Python based on the popular FEniCS software library. Using a series of examples, including the Poisson equation, the equations of linear ...
Chapter 9 Moral Responsibility and the Justification of Policies to Preserve Antimicrobial Effectiveness
(2020)
Restrictive policies that limit antimicrobial consumption, including therapeutically
justified use, might be necessary to tackle the problem of antimicrobial
resistance. We argue that such policies would be ethically ...
A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945-1980
(2015)
This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the mid-twentieth century. It argues that statistics suggesting women have been more vulnerable to ...
The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
(2021)
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, ...
Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia
(2020)
This open access book presents up-to-date analyses of community-based approaches to sustainable resource management of SEPLS (socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes) in areas where a harmonious relationship ...
Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU
(2025)
This interdisciplinary book takes stock of Ukraine’s thorny European integration path in the last two decades. Engaging many Ukrainian academics and practitioners, the book seeks to offer a first-hand insight into how ...
Popularität und Relevanz in der Suche
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird mithilfe eines großangelegten Online-Experiments untersucht, wie sich die Anzeige von Zitationen oder Downloads auf die Relevanzbewertung in akademischen Suchsystemenauswirkt. Bei der Suche ...
Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return
(2018)
Aging migrants; Return and circulation migration; Migrant worker hostels in France; Social systems; Older North and West African men
Science of Fungi in Grapevine
(2025)
This open access book provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between fungi and grapevines, covering contemporary mycological classifications, pathogens, the mycobiome, endophytes, and mycorrhizae. Inspired ...
Phenomenology of Bioethics
(2021)
This book offers a unique description of how phenomenology can help professionals from medical, environmental and social fields to explore notions such as interaffectivity, empathy, epoche, reduction, and intersubjective ...
Chapter 6 Against Reciprocity
(2015)
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself ...
Towards a Digital Epistemology
(2021)
This Open Access book explores the concept of digital epistemology. In this context, the digital will not be understood as merely something that is linked to specific tools and objects, but rather as different modes of ...
The Japanese Banking Crisis
(2021)
This open access book provides a readable narrative of the bubbles and the banking crisis Japan experienced during the two decades between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. Japan, which was a leading competitor in the ...
Public Administration in Germany
(2021)
This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, ...
Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850–2000
(2013)
In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection ...
Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea
(2016)
Environmental Management; Water Policy
Lines of Inquiry in Mathematical Modelling Research in Education
(2019)
This open access book is based on selected presentations from Topic Study Group 21: Mathematical Applications and Modelling in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at the 13th International Congress on Mathematical ...
Advances in Crowdfunding
(2020)
This open access book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of knowledge on the state of crowdfunding research and practice. It considers crowdfunding models and their different manifestations across a variety ...
Deep Neural Networks and Data for Automated Driving
(2022)
This open access book brings together the latest developments from industry and research on automated driving and artificial intelligence. Environment perception for highly automated driving heavily employs deep neural ...
Automated Deduction – CADE 28
(2021)
This open access book constitutes the proceeding of the 28th International Conference on Automated Deduction, CADE 28, held virtually in July 2021. The 29 full papers and 7 system descriptions presented together with 2 ...
Hohes Alter in Deutschland
(2023)
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. Trotz des schnellen Wachstums des Anteils der Bevölkerung in einem Alter ab 80 Jahren an der Gesamtbevölkerung ist das Wissen über diese Bevölkerungsgruppe bislang gering. Zwar gibt es ...
Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion
(2022)
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe ...
Antisense RNA Design, Delivery, and Analysis
(2022)
This open access volume gathers a variety of models, delivery systems, and approaches that can be used to assess RNA technology for exploiting antisense as a therapeutic intervention. Beginning with a section on the design ...
Typisch Social Entrepreneurship
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden erstmalig Merkmale und Bedingungen der Arbeitsgestaltung und der Wirkung von Arbeit bei Social Entrepreneuren in Deutschland umfassend und wissenschaftlich fundiert erhoben. Das Ergebnis ...
Effective Teaching Around the World
(2023)
This open access book brings together theoretical, empirical, methodological, and practical insights from various countries on effective teaching. It particularly focuses on discussing issues pertaining to effective teaching ...
Macroeconomic Modelling of R&D and Innovation Policies
(2022)
This open access book encompasses a collection of in-depth analyses showcasing the challenges and ways forward for macroeconomic modelling of R&D and innovation policies. Based upon the proceedings of the EC-DG JRC-IEA ...
Learn BlackBerry 10 App Development
(2014)
Computer science
Mental Health in Prisons
(2018)
This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services. It also discusses how non-medical practices, such ...
Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey
(2022)
What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common? And what can actors who struggle for rights and justice in these contexts learn from each other? Based on a ...
Der Beitrag des Design Thinking zur marktorientierten Unternehmensführung
(2022)
Iphigenie Leandra Kiefer untersucht in diesem Open-Access-Buch, welchen Beitrag die Implementierung von Design Thinking zur marktorientierten Unternehmensführung und zum Unternehmenserfolg leistet. Auf der Grundlage einer ...
Foundations of a Sociology of Canon Law
(2022)
This "Open Access" book investigates the legal reality of the church through a sociological lens and from the perspective of canon law studies, the discipline which researches the law and the legal structure of the Catholic ...
Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures II
(2025)
This open access book focuses on the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic in civil engineering. The book features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to civil and structural ...
Chapter 2 'Sex and History'
(2016)
The project responds to issues identified by the health
and education sector in the UK and internationally, particularly relating to
the widely attested difficulty for teachers of opening up conversations around
important ...
Personalentwicklung in Schulen als Führungsaufgabe
(2022)
Im Zuge schulischer Reformen wurden Aufgaben der Personalentwicklung von der Schulaufsicht an Schulen delegiert. Für die Verankerung von Personalentwicklungsaufgaben an Einzelschulen spielen rechtliche Regelungen eine ...
Cyber-Physical Systems: A Model-Based Approach
(2021)
In this concise yet comprehensive Open Access textbook, future inventors are introduced to the key concepts of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Using modeling as a way to develop deeper understanding of the computational and ...