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Spationomy
(2020)
This open access book is based on "Spationomy – Spatial Exploration of Economic Data", an interdisciplinary and international project in the frame of ERASMUS+ funded by the European Union. The project aims to exchange ...
Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design
(2019)
This Open Access book presents feedback from the ‘Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research ...
Teaching for Excellence and Equity
(2019)
This open access book examines the interrelationship of national policy, teacher effectiveness, and student outcomes with a specific emphasis on educational equity. Using data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics ...
Agential Realism als Basis queer(end)er Experimentalpsychologie
(2018)
Zentrale These des Open-Access-Buchs von Julia Scholz ist, dass eine queer(end)e Experimentalpsychologie mit der Herangehensweise des Agential Realism kein Widerspruch in sich ist, obwohl verbreitete Verständnisweisen von ...
The EBMT Handbook
(2019)
This Open Access edition of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) handbook addresses the latest developments and innovations in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy. ...
Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley: Final Report of the Regional NGO Master Plan
(2016)
development economics; water policy; water governance; water management; sustainable development; conservation
Konzeptionen von Förderung, Selektion und Gerechtigkeit
(2019)
In diesem Open Access Buch wird in einer rekonstruktiven Vorgehensweise der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern sich an Primarschulen kollektive/divergierende Orientierungen von Förderung und Selektion sowie dahinterliegende ...
Fragility Fracture Nursing
(2018)
This open access book aims to provide a comprehensive but practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with or at risk of fragility fracture. It considers this from the ...
Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems
(2019)
This Open Access proceedings presents new approaches to Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems, experiences and visions. It contains some selected papers from the international Conference ML4CPS – Machine Learning for ...
Enhanced Living Environments
(2019)
This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)”. The concept of Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) ...
Real-time Linked Dataspaces
(2020)
This open access book explores the dataspace paradigm as a best-effort approach to data management within data ecosystems. It establishes the theoretical foundations and principles of real-time linked dataspaces as a data ...
Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions
(2020)
This open access book presents deep investigation to the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the ...
Ambisonics
(2019)
This open access book provides a concise explanation of the fundamentals and background of the surround sound recording and playback technology Ambisonics. It equips readers with the psychoacoustical, signal processing, ...
Attitudes, Beliefs, Motivation and Identity in Mathematics Education: An Overview of the Field and Future Directions
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Educational Psychology
Beyond the Limits to Growth
(2014)
Sustainable Development; Energy Policy, Economics and Management; Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings); Climate Change Management and Policy; Renewable and Green Energy; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy
(2019)
This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate ...
Low-Dose Radiation Effects on Animals and Ecosystems
(2020)
This open access book summarizes the latest scientific findings regarding the biological effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident in 2011. Various cases of changes in animals and organisms have ...
Biomineralization
(2018)
This open access book is the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Biomineralization (BIOMIN XIV) held in 2017 at Tsukuba. Over the past 45 years, biomineralization research has unveiled details of the ...
Marine Carbon Biogeochemistry
(2019)
This open access book discusses biogeochemical processes relevant to carbon and aims to provide readers, graduate students and researchers, with insight into the functioning of marine ecosystems. A carbon centric approach ...
Updates on Myopia
(2020)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book discusses basic clinical concepts of myopia, prevention of progression and surgical treatments for myopia and pathological myopia. It also summarises ...
A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
(2018)
family; relationships; health, parenthood
Re-Inventing Africa's Development
(2019)
This open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that ...
Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes
(2019)
This open access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEA’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) between 1995 and ...
Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins: A Methodological Overview
(2017)
intergenerational relations; transfer behaviour; migration; multicultural; religious identity; research methods; second generation
Lone Parenthood in the Life Course
(2017)
divorce; separation; living arrangements; family composition; single parents; dynamics; welfare; vulnerability
The Change Laboratory for Teacher Training in Entrepreneurship Education
(2019)
This open access book illustrates a new type of formative intervention for in-service teacher training in entrepreneurship education. The book describes a Change Laboratory and shows how teachers and workshop assistants ...
The Philosophy of Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education, Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy
Chapter Dynamic Dispatch for Method Contracts Through Abstract Predicates
(2017)
Dynamic method dispatch is a core feature of object-oriented programming by which the executed implementation for a polymorphic method is only chosen at runtime. In this paper, we present a specification and verification ...
The Ethics of Medical Data Donation
(2019)
This open access book presents an ethical approach to utilizing personal medical data. It features essays that combine academic argument with practical application of ethical principles. The contributors are experts in ...
Science of Societal Safety
(2019)
This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care ...
Junge Perspektiven der Türkeiforschung in Deutschland
(2014)
Türkeiforschung; Türkei; Nachwuchsforschung; Migration; Integration; Politisches System der Türkei
Computer Aided Verification
(2018)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 10980 and 10981 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018. The 52 full and 13 ...
Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft: Ein vertrauensvoller Dialog
(2020)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch hat das Anliegen, das Zusammenspiel von Wissenschaft, Medien und Öffentlichkeit zu analysieren und nach Wegen zu suchen, es zu verbessern. Die Publikation wurde mit Mitteln der Daimler und Benz ...
Safety Cultures, Safety Models
(2018)
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already ...
Modelling our Changing World
(2019)
This open access book focuses on the concepts, tools and techniques needed to successfully model ever-changing time-series data. It emphasizes the need for general models to account for the complexities of the modern world ...
Designing Urban Food Policies
(2019)
This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. ...
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
(2018)
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the ...
Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study
(2021)
This open access book is intended to assist teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers, editors and authors of textbooks in developing strategies to teach the multiplication of natural numbers based on the experience ...
The Responsible University
(2019)
This book explores how the notion of the responsible university manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education. As the impetus of the knowledge society has catapulted the higher education sector to the ...
Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough
(2019)
This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take ...