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Proceedings of the 10th Hydrogen Technology Convention, Volume 1
(2024)
This open access book highlights the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells. In recent years, energy conversion between electricity and hydrogen energy has ...
Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding
(2021)
This open access book is a result of an extensive, ambitious and wide-ranging pan-European project focusing on the development of children and young people’s cultural literacy and what it means to be European in the 21st ...
Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education
(2021)
This open access book critiques real world learning across both the curriculum and extracurricular activities. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as business, health, fashion, sociology and geography, the editors and authors ...
Disability, Health and Human Development
(2017)
development; Sen’s capability approach; poverty; mortality; economic insecurity
Brain-Inspired Computing
(2021)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Workshop on Brain-Inspired Computing, BrainComp 2019, held in Cetraro, Italy, in July 2019. The 11 papers presented in this volume were ...
The Narrative Subject
(2020)
This open access book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media as instruments and stages for storytelling, or who make the media the subject of story ...
Understanding Well-being Data
(2021)
‘Following the data’ is a now-familiar phrase in Covid-19 policy communications. Well-being data are pivotal in decisions that affect our life chances, livelihoods and quality of life. They are increasingly valuable to ...
Leveraging Data Science for Global Health
(2020)
This open access book explores ways to leverage information technology and machine learning to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. It focuses on digital disease surveillance ...
Microfinance, EU Structural Funds and Capacity Building for Managing Authorities
(2015)
Finance and Banking, General Finance, International Finance
Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged?
(2020)
This open access book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, Marie-Caroline Schulte discusses the importance of evi-dence in medical research and ...
Chapter 1 Meeting People Is Easy
(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 ...
Annual Report on the Big Data of New Energy Vehicle in China (2021)
(2023)
This open access book, based on static indicators and dynamic big data from local electric vehicles, is the first New-Energy Vehicles (NEVs) research report on the Big Data in China. Using the real-time big data collected ...
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2022, which was held during April 4-6, 2022, in Munich, Germany, ...
Novel Plant Imaging and Analysis
(2021)
This open access book is only an introduction to show that radiation and radioisotopes (RI) are premier tools to study living plant physiology which leads to new findings. Who had ever imagined that we could see water in ...
Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2019
(2020)
This open access book provides an overview of the dissertations of the five nominees for the Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering in 2019. The prize, kindly sponsored by the Gerlind & Ernst Denert Stiftung, is awarded ...
Marine Plastics: Innovative Solutions to Tackling Waste
(2023)
This open access book reflects aims of the Blue Circular Economy (BCE) project, which focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) aiming to create value using circular economy concepts related to products and ...
Managing Great Power Politics
(2022)
This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast ...
Integrating the UN SDGs into WTO Law
(2025)
This is an open access book. Sustainable development is so important that humanity must do its utmost to achieve these goals for the well-being of the present and future generations. WTO members have started to reform WTO ...
Die Trade-offs der Nachhaltigkeit
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch führt auf der Spur der Trade-offs der Nachhaltigkeit vom Versuch einer sprachlogischen Aufarbeitung des Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs aus in die zweiwertige Logik. Die klassische Logik führt hinein in ein ...
Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Experiments
(2023)
This open access book is a pedagogical text on nuclear reactor experiments, covering almost all the experiments that can be carried out at the University Training Reactor, Kindai University (UTR-KINKI) with respect to ...
Lives in Peace Research
(2022)
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, ...
Modern Cryptography Volume 1
(2022)
This open access book systematically explores the statistical characteristics of cryptographic systems, the computational complexity theory of cryptographic algorithms and the mathematical principles behind various encryption ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2020)
This open access two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in ...
Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences
(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 ...
Demographic and Family Transition in Southeast Asia
(2022)
This open access book presents the trends and patterns of demographic and family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years. The rich data are coupled with historical, cultural and policy background ...
Researching Values
(2022)
This open access book presents new approaches for researching values as they are performed or materialized. Values have been an important topic in academic literature for a long time; they are at the core of institutional ...
Towards a Natural Social Contract
(2021)
This open access book states that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security, fairness and sustainability of our societies. The author, ...
Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women
(2020)
Fifty years of feminist thought have made the idea that women stay at home while men dominate the streets seem outdated; nevertheless, Ceuterick argues that theoretical considerations of gender, space, and power in film ...
Sustainable Development Disciplines for Society
(2023)
This multidisciplinary Open Access book provides nine problem-solving lectures for sustainable development for the planet and prosperity. Those are two of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): ...
Recognizing Green Skills Through Non-formal Learning
(2022)
This open access book looks into the roles and practices of small and micro-enterprises in formal and informal economies across seven countries and one territory in terms of how they contribute to environmental and sustainable ...
Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers
(2022)
This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake ...
The World of the Seafarer
(2021)
This open access book constitutes an ethnographic mosaic which depicts the contextual complexities of the life and work of seafarers who are employed in the international merchant cargo fleet. The collection is based upon ...
The Asymmetric Nature of Time
(2022)
This open access monograph offers a detailed study and a systematic defense of a key intuition we typically have, as human beings, with respect to the nature of time: the intuition that the future is open, whereas the past ...
From Opinion Mining to Financial Argument Mining
(2021)
Opinion mining is a prevalent research issue in many domains. In the financial domain, however, it is still in the early stages. Most of the researches on this topic only focus on the coarse-grained market sentiment analysis, ...
Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance
(2022)
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors ...
Revisiting Premodern Islamic Science and Experience
(2025)
This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What kind of experience constituted premodern Islamic science? And in what ways ...
Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age
(2018)
semantics; artificial intelligence; natural language processing systems; natural language processing; NLP; machine learning; social networking; named entities; support vector machines; SVM
Chapter Developing a Model to Simulate the Effect of Hypothermia on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
(2020)
Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a significant cause of death and neurological disability in newborns. Therapeutic hypothermia at 33.5 °C is one of the most common treatments in HIE and generally improves outcome; ...
Chapter Slow Violence and Slow Going
(2023)
This This chapter reads Beckett’s fascination with what Steven Connor has called ‘slow going’ alongside Rob Nixon’s description of the ‘slow violence’ of climate breakdown. Following Nixon’s suggestion that ‘slow violence’ ...
Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals
(2022)
This open access book is designed as a continuation of the editor’s 2019 book Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of industry sectors globally, and its purpose is to present ...
Ship and Offshore Structure Design in Climate Change Perspective
(2013)
Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Climate Change Management and Policy; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
Compliance and Resistance Within Neoliberal Academia
(2021)
This open access book reflects on academic life under a neoliberal regime. Through collaborative autoethnographies, the authors share stories about the everyday experiences, dilemmas and conflicts of three academics: the ...
Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer
(2013)
R & D/Technology Policy; International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law; Entrepreneurship; Innovation/Technology Management
International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation
(2020)
This open access book examines key aspects of international cooperation to enhance nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and nonproliferation, thereby assisting in development and maintenance of the verification regime and ...
Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments
(2023)
This open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. ...
Narrative Praktiken von Unternehmen
(2022)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation befasst sich mit dem Erzählen im Unternehmenskontext, was spätestens seit der Einführung des Storytelling in den 1999er-Jahren allgegenwärtig ist. Der Band zeigt in diesem Zusammenhang, wie ...
Control Problems for Conservation Laws with Traffic Applications
(2022)
Conservation and balance laws on networks have been the subject of much research interest given their wide range of applications to real-world processes, particularly traffic flow. This open access monograph is the first ...
Proceedings of Conference on Sustainable Traffic and Transportation Engineering in 2023
(2024)
This open access book discusses modern cutting-edge techniques and theoretical research in the domain of transportation engineering. As China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) gains momentum over these years, the construction ...
Analysis of Reaction-Diffusion Models with the Taxis Mechanism
(2022)
This open access book deals with a rich variety of taxis-type cross-diffusive equations. Particularly, it intends to show the key role played by quasi-energy inequality in the derivation of some necessary a priori estimates. ...
Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action
(2014)
In this introduction to the Outstanding contributions to logic volume devoted to Nuel Belnap’s work on indeterminism and free action, we provide a
brief overview of some of the formal frameworks and methods involved in ...
Swiss Energy Governance
(2022)
This open access book gathers the results of an interdisciplinary research project led by the Swiss Competence Centers for Energy Research (SCCER CREST) and jointly implemented by several universities. It identifies ...
The Digital Playbook
(2023)
This open access book is a practitioner's guide to smart, connected products and solutions. As a hands-on playbook, it combines the business and technical execution perspectives to help product companies, OEMs, manufacturers ...
Solving the Powertrain Puzzle
(2014)
Automotive Engineering; Hybrid concepts; Engine Technology
Embedded Firmware Solutions
(2015)
Computer science
Alltägliche Lebenssituation sprachbeeinträchtigter Kinder
(2023)
Dieses Buch setzt sich mit alltäglicher Lebenssituation als Gegenstand pädagogischer Sprachdiagnostik auseinander und ist im Diskurs über Diagnostik und Förderung sprachlich-kommunikativer Kompetenzen zu verorten. Es wurde ...
An Introduction to Cognitive Economics
(2025)
This book introduces readers to “cognitive economics,” a rapidly emerging interdisciplinary science built on economic, psychological, and data scientific foundations. Throughout the book, economist Andrew Caplin provides ...
Unlocking Artificial Intelligence
(2024)
This open access book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current machine learning research and its exploitation in various application areas. It has become apparent that the deep integration of artificial intelligence ...
Large-Scale Cognitive Assessment
(2020)
This open access methodological book summarises existing analysing techniques using data from PIAAC, a study initiated by the OECD that assesses key cognitive and occupational skills of the adult population in more than ...
Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship
(2023)
This open access edited volume explores the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship – the unforeseen consequences and ways to advance to a sustainable future. In particular, it ...