Publications
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Low-Cost Methods for Molecular Characterization of Mutant Plants
(2015)
Plant Breeding/Biotechnology; Biological Techniques; Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Designing Digital Work
(2019)
Combining theory, methodology and tools, this open access book illustrates how to guide innovation in today’s digitized business environment. Highlighting the importance of human knowledge and experience in implementing ...
Online Hate Speech in the European Union: A Discourse-Analytic Perspective
(2017)
hate speech research; discourse analysis of social media; corpus linguistics methods; C.O.N.T.A.C.T. project European Union; hate speech in reaction to news; racism in online comments forum; discourse analytic research
Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas: Linkages between Science, Policy and Practice
(2017)
climate change; cities; society; biodiversity; mitigation; impact
Exploring Resilience
(2019)
Resilience has become an important topic on the safety research agenda and in organizational practice. Most empirical work on resilience has been descriptive, identifying characteristics of work and organizing activity ...
Big Data in Context: Legal, Social and Technological Insights
(2017)
privacy; data protection; data mining; predictive analytics
Principles of Security and Trust
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as part of the European ...
Visions for Intercultural Music Teacher Education
(2020)
This open access book highlights the importance of visions of alternative futures in music teacher education in a time of increasing societal complexity due to increased diversity. There are policies at every level to ...
The Essence of Software Engineering
(2018)
Software Engineering; Software Development; Software Processes; Software Architectures; Software Management
Ecological Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in North America
(2014)
Ecotoxicology; Environmental Management; Waste Management/Waste Technology; Chlorpyrifos; Terrestrial systems; Aquatic systems; Ecological risk assessment
Youth Transitions among Descendants of Turkish Immigrants in Amsterdam and Strasbourg:
(2019)
This open access book maps the youth transitions of descendants of migrants from Turkey living in Amsterdam and Strasbourg, through a comparative mixed-methods research design. As such, it is of interest to discussions in ...
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
(2019)
This open access book presents a comprehensive overview of dilated cardiomyopathy, providing readers with practical guidelines for its clinical management. The first part of the book analyzes in detail the disease’s ...
Demystifying Internet of Things Security
(2020)
Break down the misconceptions of the Internet of Things by examining the different security building blocks available in Intel Architecture (IA) based IoT platforms. This open access book reviews the threat pyramid, secure ...
The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008
(2020)
This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory ...
The Legacy of Felix Klein
(2019)
This open access book provides an overview of Felix Klein’s ideas, highlighting developments in university teaching and school mathematics related to Klein’s thoughts, stemming from the last century. It discusses the ...
Developmental State Building
(2019)
This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural ...
Building a Cashless Society
(2019)
This open access book tells the story of how Sweden is becoming a virtually cashless society. Its goal is to improve readers’ understanding of what is driving this transition, and of the factors that are fostering and ...
Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy
(2016)
Agricultural Economics
The Beauty of Geology: Art of Geology Mapping in China Over a Century
(2019)
This open access book contains a collection of rare geologic maps and figures made by Chinese geologists in the last century. Preserved in National Geological Archives of China, these artworks demonstrate the development ...
Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology
(2019)
This open access book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other animals, and plants. The analyses are based ...
Particle Accelerator Physics
(2015-01-01)
This book by Helmut Wiedemann is a well-established, classic text, providing an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to the field of high-energy particle acceleration and beam dynamics.
The present 4th edition has been ...
Inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit: Erkenntnisse ökonomischer Spitzenforschung prägnant zusammengefasst
(2018)
Inklusives Wachstum; wirtschaftliche Sicherheit; Bildung; soziale Inklusion; Innovation; Unternehmen und Management; industrieller Wandel; Banken und Finanzierung
Modern Mathematics Education for Engineering Curricula in Europe
(2018)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the core subjects comprising mathematical curricula for engineering studies in five European countries and identifies differences between two strong traditions of ...
MARE-WINT: New Materials and Reliability in Offshore Wind Turbine Technology
(2016)
renewable; green; energy; environment; law; policy
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2019)
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book, LNCS 11429, is part III of the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2019, ...
New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy
(2016)
Information Storage and Retrieval; Innovation/Technology Management; Computer Applications; Computers and Society; Big data
Web and Internet Economics
(2017)
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2017,
held in Bangalore, India, in December 2017.
The 28 full and 6 short papers presented ...
Sustainability, Human Well-Being, and the Future of Education
(2019)
This open access book explores the key dimensions of a future education system designed to enable individuals, schools, and communities to achieve the twin twenty-first century challenges of sustainability and human ...
Urban Planning Against Poverty
(2020)
This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions ...
Prozessintelligenz: Business-Process-Management-Studie – Status quo und Erfolgsmuster
(2018)
Geschäftsprozesse; Modellierung; Digitale Transformation; Business Process Management; BPM; Best Practices; Erfolgsmuster; Prozessmanagement; Prozesse
From Bilateral Arbitral Tribunals and Investment Courts to a Multilateral Investment Court
(2020)
This open access book considers the potential setup for a future Multilateral Investment Court (MIC). The option of an MIC was first discussed by the EU Commission in 2016 and has since been made an official element of the ...
The Future of Election Administration
(2019)
As the American election administration landscape changes as a result of major court cases, national and state legislation, changes in professionalism, and the evolution of equipment and security, so must the work of ...
Transforming Education Outcomes in Africa
(2019)
Good education changes lives. It is therefore unsurprising that improved schooling plays a central part in most development strategies. At the same time, the expansion of school attainment alone is not sufficient to guarantee ...
Mary and Early Christian Women
(2019)
Religion; Theology; Feminist theology; Bible—Theology
Systematic Reviews in Educational Research
(2020)
In this open access edited volume, international researchers of the field describe and discuss the systematic review method in its application to research in education. Alongside fundamental methodical considerations, ...
Linear Selection Indices in Modern Plant Breeding
(2018)
This open access book focuses on the linear selection index (LSI) theory and its statistical properties. It addresses the single-stage LSI theory by assuming that economic weights are fixed and known - or fixed, but unknown ...
Taking the EU to Court
(2020)
This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, ...
Handbook on Craniofacial Superimposition
(2020)
This open access handbook presents a trustable craniofacial superimposition methodological framework. It includes detailed technical and practical overviews, and discussions about the latest tools and open problems, covering ...
Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture
(2016)
environmental management; air quality control; air pollution; climate change; agriculture; atmospheric protection; soil science; conservation
Survey-Welten
(2019)
Die Open-Access-Studie nimmt eine plurale Perspektive auf Survey-Qualität ein und untersucht empirisch unterschiedliche Logiken der Survey-Produktion. Wie aufgezeigt wird, gehen die vier identifizierten Survey-Welten mit ...
Affect and Mathematics Education
(2019)
This open access book, inspired by the ICME 13 topic study group “Affect, beliefs and identity in mathematics education”, presents the latest trends in research in the area. Following an introduction and a survey chapter ...
Model-Driven Development and Operation of Multi-Cloud Applications
(2017)
Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Computational Intelligence
Elements of Robotics
(2017)
robotics; autonomous mobile robots; algorithms; Braitenberg creatures; decision making
Tensor Network Contractions
(2020)
Tensor network is a fundamental mathematical tool with a huge range of applications in physics, such as condensed matter physics, statistic physics, high energy physics, and quantum information sciences. This open access ...
Renewables for Energy Access and Sustainable Development in East Africa
(2019)
This short open access book investigates the role of renewable energy in East Africa to provide policy-relevant inputs for the achievement of a cost-effective electrification process in the region. For each country, the ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2019)
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. The LNCS 11427 and 11428 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, ...
Ethics Dumping: Case Studies from North-South Research Collaborations
(2018)
Global Research Ethics; Global Bioethics; North-South Collaborations; Exploitation Vulnerability; Research Governance; Double Standards in Research; Ethics Dumping Examples
Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality
(2020)
This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary ...
Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings
(2019)
The open access book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of relevant sources of literature and user complaints that clearly demonstrate the ...
Economic Evaluation of Sustainable Development
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents methods to evaluate sustainable development using economic tools. The focus on sustainable development takes the reader beyond economic growth to ...
Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies
(2018)
This open access book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of ...
Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe
(2016)
Public Health; Ethics
Open Source Systems: Towards Robust Practices 13th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 22-23, 2017, Proceedings
(2017)
collaboration; information systems; Linux; open access; open source software
Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling: With Applications for the Social Sciences
(2018)
Agent-Based Modelling; ABM; Artificial Intelligence; AI; Computational social science; Social simulation; Population sciences
Report on Global Environmental Competitiveness (2013)
(2014)
Environmental Economics; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Green Development; Environmental Competitiveness; Environmental Coordination; Economy Transformation; Environmental Carrying; Environmental Management
Applying the Kaizen in Africa
(2018)
At present, how to develop industries is a burning issue in Africa, where population growth remains high and economic development has thus far failed to provide sufficient jobs for many, especially young people and women. ...
Energy Justice Across Borders
(2020)
Philosophy; Engineering ethics; Energy policy; Energy and state; Economic geography; Renewable energy resources; Sustainable development; Energy systems
Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation
(2018)
Protest mobilization and outcome; Political participation; Emotions and social ties; Deportation nation; Refugees; Pro-migrant protest; Anti-migrant protest
Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries
(2020)
This open access book explores key issues and presents recent case studies in areas of importance for the transition to a circular model of development in emerging African countries that will minimize resource consumption ...