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YOUMARES 8 – Oceans Across Boundaries: Learning from each other
(2018)
This open access book presents the proceedings volume of the YOUMARES 8 conference, which took place in Kiel, Germany, in September 2017, supported by the German Association for Marine Sciences (DGM). The YOUMARES conference ...
Observing the Volcano World
(2018)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully applying volcanology in practice and to identify areas that need to be addressed for ...
The Psychology of Silicon Valley
(2020)
Misinformation. Job displacement. Information overload. Economic inequality. Digital addiction. The breakdown of democracy, civility, and truth itself. This open access book explores the conscious and unconscious norms, ...
Zukunft der Arbeit – Eine praxisnahe Betrachtung
(2018)
Automatisierung; Digitalisierung; Industrie 4.0; Veränderung der Arbeitswelt; Arbeitsmodelle; Arbeitsorganisation; Gestaltung von Arbeitssystemen
Kundennutzen durch digitale Transformation: Business-Process-Management-Studie – Status quo und Erfolgsmuster
(2018)
Geschäftsprozesse; Modellierung; Digitale Transformation; Business Process Management; BPM; Prozessmanagement; Digitalisierung; Kundennutzen; Kunden
Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals
(2019)
This open access book presents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based on state-of-the-art scenario modelling, it provides the vital missing link ...
Deutsch-chinesische Studienangebote erfolgreich managen
(2019)
In diesem Open Access-Buch liefern Katja Kuhn und Patrick Fekete eine hilfreiche Unterstützung zur erfolgreichen Entwicklung und Realisierung deutsch-chinesischer Studienprogramme. Basierend auf einer detaillierten ...
Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective
(2018)
This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, ...
Automated Machine Learning
(2019)
This open access book presents the first comprehensive overview of general methods in Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), collects descriptions of existing systems based on these methods, and discusses the first series ...
Medienraum Diaspora
(2019)
Alena Strohmaier diskutiert in diesem Open-Access-Buch die komplexen Konfigurationen von Diaspora, deren soziopolitische und kulturelle Aspekte und unternimmt eine theoretische Dimensionierung des Begriffs, indem sie diesen ...
A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
(2015)
Public Health; Sociology, general; Epidemiology
Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development
(2017)
Climate Change; Sustainable Development; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Environmental Management
Pflege-Report 2019
(2020)
Der Pflege-Report, der in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, nimmt jährlich relevante Themen der Versorgung von Pflegebedürftigen unter die Lupe. Schwerpunkt des Jahres 2019 ist die Frage „Mehr Personal ...
The Ethics of Cybersecurity
(2020)
This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of papers that provide an integrative view on cybersecurity. It discusses theories, problems and solutions on the relevant ethical issues involved. This ...
Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions
(2020)
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct ...
Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather
(2020)
Earth sciences; Natural disasters; Climate change; Coasts; Environmental management; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Social justice; Human rights
Präventionsarbeit der Polizei als pädagogische Herausforderung
(2022)
Mit diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein Beitrag zur Professionalisierung der Präventionsarbeit der Polizei geleistet. Polizeibeamtinnen und Polizeibeamten müssen in der täglichen Präventionspraxis unterschiedlichsten Erwartungen ...
Self as Method
(2023)
Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, ...
Bioethics and the Holocaust
(2022)
This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics ...
Unterrichtszentrierte Schulentwicklung
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Marco Galle, wie Lehrpersonen und Schulleitende ihren Unterricht und ihre Schule so weiterentwickeln können, dass sich die persönlichen Voraussetzungen und Ziele der Schülerinnen und ...
Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
(2021)
This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, ...
The Politics of Diversity in Music Education
(2021)
This open access book examines the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through music education. Recent surges in nationalist, fundamentalist, protectionist and ...
Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion
(2022)
This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, ...
Concrete-Polymer Composites in Circular Economy
(2025)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Polymers in Concrete 2023 (ICPIC 2023), held under the theme "Cement-Polymer Composite in Circular Economy". It provides multidisciplinary ...
The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto
(2014)
Computer science
Addressing the Climate Crisis
(2022)
This open access book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate change at multiple levels of our societies, amidst growing calls for transformative ...
European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times
(2022)
This open access book provides the first ever authoritative collection of scholarly insights, based upon original research, into the political groups of the EP tackling the fundamental changes since the Lisbon Treaty and ...
Novel Foods and Edible Insects in the European Union
(2022)
This open access book proposes an in-depth study on a vast range of issues connected to the regulation of Novel Foods in the European Union, pursuing an interdisciplinary approach and thus providing a comprehensive picture ...
Delusions in Context
(2018)
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions—unusual beliefs that can significantly disrupt people’s lives. Experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience, clinical psychiatry, ...
Saving for Development
(2016)
development; economic policy
Contextual Process Digitalization
(2020)
This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants’ perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and ...
Friendship Across the Seas
(2023)
This Open Access book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy), with a focus on the ...
European Union Support for Colombia's Peace Process
(2023)
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches ...
The Globalization of Science Curricula
(2018)
Globalization; Science education; Science curricula; Large scale international assessments; Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey; TIMSS; Policy borrowing; Curriculum reform; IEA Research for Education
Water-filtered Infrared A (wIRA) Irradiation
(2022)
The aim of this open access book is to provide a unique, timely, critical and comprehensive compilation of more than 30 years of robust international experimental and clinical research related to the basic science and ...
Rational Cybersecurity for Business
(2020)
Use the guidance in this comprehensive field guide to gain the support of your top executives for aligning a rational cybersecurity plan with your business. You will learn how to improve working relationships with stakeholders ...
Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering
(2021)
This open access book reports on methods and technologies to describe, evaluate and control uncertainty in mechanical engineering applications. It brings together contributions by engineers, mathematicians and legal experts, ...
Curriculum Reform in the European Schools
(2018)
European Union; European Economic Community; European Baccalaureate; EU expansion; assessment reform
Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit im Jugendalter
(2022)
Dieser Open-Access-Band bietet eine Übersicht disziplinärer Zugänge und aktueller empirischer Befunde zum Wohlbefinden und gesundheitsrelevanten Verhalten von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen. Internationale Perspektiven ...
Preparing for Life in a Digital World
(2020)
This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe ...
Data Parallel C++
(2021)
Learn how to accelerate C++ programs using data parallelism. This open access book enables C++ programmers to be at the forefront of this exciting and important new development that is helping to push computing to new ...
Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region
(2020)
This open access book discusses the impact of human-induced global climate change on the regional climate and monsoons of the Indian subcontinent, adjoining Indian Ocean and the Himalayas. It documents the regional climate ...
Chapter Abbreviations
(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 ...
3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage III
(2023)
This open access book presents a collection of papers focusing on current 3D research challenges in the domain of digital cultural heritage. 3D technologies find considerable use within the field of cultural heritage at ...
Sociology in Germany
(2021)
This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and ...
The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Workplace
(2022)
This is an Open Access book. Hoping to incubate a unique idea about workplace design, Dr. Agustin Chevez walked in isolation for 42 days from Melbourne to Sydney. His pilgrimage delivered 34 Signposts, a collection of ...
Governing Social Protection in the Long Term
(2020)
This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between employment relations and social policy. Utilising ...
Argumentation und Metakognition bei geometrischen Beweisen und Beweisprozessen
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Nele Abels geometrische Beweise und Beweisprozesse von Studierenden des Grundschullehramts in ihrem letzten Studienjahr. Mathematisches Argumentieren und Beweisen sind wesentliche ...
Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography
(2022)
This open access book is about socio-spatial theory in, and the nature of, Nordic geography. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book engages with theorisations of geography in the Nordic countries. ...
Anisotropy Across Fields and Scales
(2021)
This open access book focuses on processing, modeling, and visualization of anisotropy information, which are often addressed by employing sophisticated mathematical constructs such as tensors and other higher-order ...
Concept and Design Developments in School Improvement Research
(2021)
This open access book discusses challenges in school improvement research and different methodological approaches that have the potential to foster school improvement research. Research on school improvement and accountability ...
The Platformization of the Family
(2025)
This open access book outlines how the digital platforms that mediate so many aspects of commercial and personal life have begun to transform everyday family existence. It presents theory and research methods to enable ...
The Prevent Duty in Education
(2020)
This open access book explores the enactment, impact and implications of the Prevent Duty across a range of educational contexts. In July 2015 the UK became the first country to place a specific legal requirement on those ...
Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection
(2022)
This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of studies dealing with the hot topic of digital face manipulation such as DeepFakes, Face Morphing, or Reenactment. It combines the research fields of ...
Assessing Environmental Risk of Oil Spills with ERA Acute
(2021)
This open access book introduces readers to a new methodology for assessing the risks to the marine environment following accidental oil spills. The methodology will soon be implemented on the Norwegian Continental Shelf ...
Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship
(2022)
The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating ...
Genresignaturen
(2022)
Karina Kirsten diskutiert in diesem Open-Access-Buch die diskursive und historische Verfasstheit von Genres. Mit ‚Genresignaturen‘ entwickelt sie einen neuen analytischen Zugang, um die vielfältigen inter- und transmedialen ...
Safety for Particle Accelerators
(2021)
The use of non-standard technologies such as superconductivity, cryogenics and radiofrequency pose challenges for the safe operation of accelerator facilities that cannot be addressed using only best practice from occupational ...
Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention
(2022)
This open access book focuses on the public health crisis of youth suicide and provides a review of current research and prevention practices. It addresses important topics, including suicide epidemiology, suicide risk ...
Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe
(2020)
This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) ...