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Carbon Pricing in Japan
(2021)
This open access book evaluates, from an economic perspective, various measures introduced in Japan to prevent climate change. Although various countries have implemented such policies in response to the pressing issue of ...
Fluidized Bed Reactors for Carbon Capture
(2025)
This open access book provides a perspective on CO2 capture technologies that employ fluidized bed rectors, (FBRs) involving pre-combustion gasification, oxy-fuel combustion, chemical looping combustion, calcium looping ...
Questioning the Entrepreneurial State
(2022)
The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have made the authorities to increasingly turn inward and use ethnocentrism, protectionism, and top-down approaches to guide policy on trade, competition, and industrial ...
Social Selling im B2B
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet einen Überblick über die Grundlagen des Social Sellings und die Einordnung ins Vertriebs- und Marketingmanagement. Dazu werden Social Selling spezifische Ansätze wie Personal Branding, Employee ...
A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility
(2022)
This open access book discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by companies in an age that increasingly values sustainability and demands corporate responsibility. Beginning with the historical development of ...
Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Person-Centered Healthcare
(2022)
This open access book establishes a dialog among the medical and intelligent system domains for igniting transition toward a sustainable and cost-effective healthcare. The Person-Centered Care (PCC) positions a person in ...
Wertorientierungen und Wahlverhalten
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht L. Constantin Wurthmann die sehr enge Beziehung zwischen Wertorientierungen und Wahlverhalten. Obwohl Wertorientierungen und gesellschaftliche Wertorientierungen im Speziellen zu den ...
Children's Life-Histories in Primary Schools
(2025)
This open access book explores schooling from the perspective of children via data from a longitudinal life-history study. It questions whether schooling creates an environment where all children to flourish; or whether a ...
Annals of Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics 2022
(2023)
This Open Access proceedings presents a good overview of the current research landscape of assembly, handling and industrial robotics. The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and ...
Tortuosity and Microstructure Effects in Porous Media
(2023)
This open access book presents a thorough look at tortuosity and microstructure effects in porous materials. The book delivers a comprehensive review of the subject, summarizing all key results in the field with respect ...
Trypanosomatids
(2020)
This volume explores the latest methods used by researchers to study different trypanosomatid parasites. These methods cover numerous disciplines, from organismal biology to molecular mechanism. The chapters in this book ...
Active Assisted Living
(2021)
In dem vorliegenden Open-Access-Buch identifizieren Studierende und Lehrende interprofessionell Entwicklungen und Problemfelder der Assistiven Technologien. Diese halten zunehmend Einzug ins Leben versorgungsbedürftiger, ...
Digital Peripheries
(2020)
This is an open access book. Media industry research and EU policymaking are predominantly tailored to large (and, in the latter case, Western) European markets. This open access book addresses the specific qualities of ...
Feminist Methodologies
(2022)
This open access book gives insights into feminist methodologies in theory and practice. By foregrounding the experiential and embodied nature of doing feminist research, this book offers valuable tools for feminist research ...
Kosten- und Erlössituation der extrakorporalen Nierenersatztherapie
(2023)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch adressiert die Frage nach einer leistungsgerechten Vergütung der Nierenersatztherapie unter Berücksichtigung von Prozesszeiten sowie Material- und Medikamentenkosten. Die Verfahren der ...
The Nexus Between Legal Pluralism and Inclusive Finance
(2025)
This open access book provides detailed information on informal credit markets in Africa and how various legal systems affect these markets. Laws that impose strict formalism exclude many people from the financial system. ...
Pflege-Report 2024
(2024)
Fragen der Versorgungsqualität gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Das gilt auch für die pflegerische Versorgung. Der Pflege-Report, der jährlich in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, beleuchtet im Schwerpunkt ...
Chapter 3 Self-Harm Becomes Epidemic: Mental Health (1959) and Suicide (1961) Acts
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children
(2024)
Euro-American misrepresentations of the non-West in general, and in particular on Hinduism and ancient India, run deep and have far greater colonial connections than that have been exposed in academia. This book analyzes ...
Cultural Convergence
(2021)
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions ...
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing
(2022)
This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for ...
Chapter PART I: Introduction
(2016)
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room ...
Chinese Water Systems
(2022)
This open-access book addresses latest Sino-German results of the joint research efforts within Major Water Program of the Chinese Government supported by German research funding. The Major Water Program aims at the ...
Procurement and Politics
(2023)
This open access book compares the experiences of large-scale military procurement in Canada and Australia. Focusing on the recent frigate and jet-fighter programmes, it demonstrates how delays suffered in delivering weapons ...
Experimenting with the New European Bauhaus Values and Principles in Urban Transformation
(2025)
This open access book offers valuable insights into experimenting with New European Bauhaus values and principles in urban transformation, drawing on contributions from key players such as local activists, action researchers, ...
The Socially Responsible Organization
(2022)
This book explores the nature of the socially responsible organization, specifically the role of crisis management in creating a socially responsible organization. It applies the Myers-Briggs Personality Typology (MBPTI) ...
Gesundheitsversorgung am Lebensende
(2016)
Social Structure, Social Inequality
Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises
(2022)
This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe and particularly Greece during the last decade when the economic and refugee crises coincided. It ...
Quaternion Algebras
(2021)
This open access textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the arithmetic theory of quaternion algebras and orders, a subject with applications in diverse areas of mathematics. Written to be accessible and approachable ...
Society 5.0
(2020)
This open access book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which was proposed in the 5th Basic Science and Technology Plan by Japan’s national government for ...
The EU and China in African Authoritarian Regimes
(2018)
Political science; EU; China; Africa; Rwanda; Ethiopia; Angola; Survival strategy; Governance; Reform; Economic dependence; Paul Kagame; 2005 Ethiopian general election; African oil revenues; Authoritarian ...
Transforming Global Health Partnerships
(2024)
This is a book about the human experience of conducting global health research, linked to operational responses to the control and prevention of diseases worldwide. Rather than a manual or how-to guide, we propose a roadmap ...
Hydropower and Renewable Energies
(2025)
This open access book explores the complementarity of hydropower with new energy sources such as solar and wind in the global energy transition. It analyzes the technological advantages, environmental impacts, and economic ...
Ukrainian Migration to the European Union: Lessons from Migration Studies
(2016)
Migration; Population Economics; Political Science
Alpine Landgesellschaften zwischen Urbanisierung und Globalisierung
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet Einblicke in die Bandbreite agrar- und regional-soziologischer Forschung und eng verwandter Disziplinen in Österreich. Es widmet sich den vielfältigen Lebensrealitäten von Akteurinnen und ...
Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector
(2025)
This open access book unveils the hidden elite of Italy's third sector, offering a rare glimpse into the lives and minds of civil society's most influential leaders. Bridging elite and civil society studies, it presents ...
International Impacts on Social Policy
(2022)
This open access book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the ...
Self-Assembled Molecules – New Kind of Protein Ligands
(2017)
immunotargeting techniques; ligands; intramolecular immunological signals; congo red amyloids
25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries
(2018)
USSR countries; Soviet higher education reform; Soviet higher education policy; Post-Soviet higher education; vertical system differentiation; horizontal system differentiation
Social Innovations in the Urban Context
(2016)
Sociology, general; Social Policy; Political Theory
Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations
(2022)
This open access book describes recent innovations in food systems based on root, tuber and banana crops in developing countries. These innovations respond to many of the challenges facing these vital crops, linked to their ...
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
(2017)
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst ...
De La Mettrie's Ghost
(2005)
This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roman drama and beyond, it is a compelling hunt for the nature of free will.
The Sharing Economy in Europe
(2022)
This open access book considers the development of the sharing and collaborative economy with a European focus, mapping across economic sectors, and country-specific case studies. It looks at the roles the sharing economy ...
The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
(2016)
Quantum Physics; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
Eingebettete Systeme
(2021)
Ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal dieses Open-Access-Lehrbuchs ist die umfassende Einführung in das Grundlagenwissen über eingebettete Systeme mit Anwendungen in cyber-physischen Systemen und dem Internet der Dinge. Es beginnt ...
Chapter Introduction: Self-Harm from Social Setting to Neurobiology
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Dumbing Down
(2022)
This open access book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social constructivist view of ...
Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss
(2021)
This open access book originates from an international workshop organized by Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in November 2019 that gathered renown researchers from academia, representatives of leading ...
Migration Research in a Digitized World
(2022)
This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of ...
Von Verteidigern und Entdeckern
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet eine Einführung in den Identitätskonflikt zwischen Verteidigern und Entdeckern. Basierend auf einer Studie mit 5000 Befragten aus vier europäischen Ländern zeigen die Autoren, dass sich ...
Organisationsbildung und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung
(2020)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bricht mit dem Konsens in der Forschung, nach dem Organisationen als Errungenschaft der modernen Gesellschaft und Produkt der Industrialisierung angesehen werden. Die Frage, wie sich Organisationen ...
Protecting the Fatherland: Lawsuits and Political Debates in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany (1642-1655)
(2021)
This open access book presents a comparative analysis of the use of fatherland terminology in a political and legal context in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany from 1642 to 1655. Fatherland terminology includes words such ...
Talent Development in European Higher Education: Honors Programs in the Benelux, Nordic and German-Speaking Countries
(2015)
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
Academic Flying and the Means of Communication
(2022)
This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of ...
Fertility Transition in the Developing World
(2022)
This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behaviour that occurred in Asia, Latin America, and Africa since the ...
Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior
(2022)
This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in ...
The Responsibility of Science
(2022)
This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; second, analyses of the structural ...
Digitalisierung: Bildung | Technik | Innovation
(2017)
communications engineering; digital humanities; technology; information systems; networks
Stakeholder Relationships And Sustainability
(2024)
This open-access book analyses how stakeholder relationships impact the sustainability of health aid. It does this by providing an overarching analytical framework, which allows for a systematic analysis of sustainability, ...