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Chapter Referencing Conventions
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Die Praxis der Social-Media-Analyse
(2021)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation entfaltet die Konstruktion von Wissen mit Social-Media-Analysen in der deutschen Automobilindustrie. Dort herrscht Goldgräberstimmung – trotz enormem Innovationsdruck: Big Data soll Licht in ...
Der Zusammenhang zwischen Meritokratie und beruflicher Bildung
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss des meritokratischen Prinzips auf die Wertschätzung beruflicher Bildung gegenüber allgemeiner bzw. akademischer Bildung. Diesen Einfluss untersucht die Autorin ...
The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces
(2022)
This open access book provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the relevant literature on the legibility of different kinds of typefaces, which goes back over 140 years in the case of reading from paper and more than ...
Accelerating Digitalization
(2021)
Nicht erst die Coronakrise zeigt, dass die Chancen der Digitalisierung von deutschen Unternehmen noch zu wenig genutzt und Kompetenzen dafür zu wenig aktiviert werden - auch wegen der hohen Unsicherheit im Übergang zu einer ...
Media Resistance
(2017)
media; communication; social media; technology; cultural politics; media law; policy
Introduction to Epigenetics
(2021)
This open access textbook leads the reader from basic concepts of chromatin structure and function and RNA mechanisms to the understanding of epigenetics, imprinting, regeneration and reprogramming. The textbook treats ...
Digital Business
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Fachbuch beleuchtet empirische und theoretische Aspekte der Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft aus der Perspektive verschiedener Managementbereiche. Der Megatrend Digitalisierung ist zu einem dominierenden ...
Building the Inclusive City
(2020)
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and ...
Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity
(2022)
This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses ...
Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2)
(2020)
This second open access book in a series of three volumes examines the repertoire of policies and programmes led by EU Member States to engage with their nationals residing abroad. Focusing on sending states’ engagement ...
Radiation Monitoring and Dose Estimation of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
(2014)
Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection; Environmental Health; Nuclear Energy; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Nuclear Chemistry; Fukushima nuclear plant ...
How Generations Remember
(2016)
This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how ...
Von Bauingenieurinnen und Sozialarbeitern
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch geht theoretisch und empirisch der Frage nach, wie Studien(fach)wahlen im Kontext von sozialem Milieu und sozialem Geschlecht entstehen und nutzt dazu das Habituskonzept nach Pierre Bourdieu und die ...
Challenging Assumptions Around Dementia
(2023)
This open access book explores the expectations surrounding dementia, what it ‘looks like’ and how people have been treated by others. It aims to raise awareness of the different types of dementia, and how they impact the ...
Internationale Zielmarktanalyse und Vertriebsentwicklung
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird aus dem International Sales Accelerator Modell mit dem «Rad der Implementierung» ein dauerhaft einsetzbares Business Development Tool für den praktischen Einsatz abgeleitet, das Unternehmen ...
Pflege-Report 2023
(2023)
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 ...
Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy
(2017)
astronomy; physics; communications; radio; engineering
Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law: Europe and Asia
(2017)
EU fundamental rights; constitutional law; international
Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World
(2020)
This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to ...
Rethinking the Internet of Things
(2013)
Computer science
No Truth Without Beauty
(2022)
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and ...
Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation
(2020)
This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ‘robot reserve army’ has profound effects ...
Rhetoriken zwischen Recht und Literatur
(2023)
Die Beiträge dieses Open-Access-Buchs diskutieren das Verständnis von Rhetorik, mit dem heute in Literatur- und Rechtswissenschaft gearbeitet wird. Sie beleuchten, inwiefern sich die westliche Tradition von rhetorischen ...
The Autofictional
(2022)
This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2020)
The open access two-volume set LNCS 12224 and 12225 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2020, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in July 2020.* The 43 ...
Marine Anthropogenic Litter
(2015)
Freshwater & Marine Ecology
Wheat Improvement
(2022)
This open-access textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for students and practitioners wishing to access in a single volume the key disciplines and principles of wheat breeding. Wheat is a cornerstone of food ...
Parasites, Pussycats and Psychosis
(2022)
This open access book analyzes the evidence linking Toxoplasma gondii to the increasing incidence of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the United States. Initially establishing that infectious agents are regularly ...
Service Design Capabilities
(2021)
This open access book discusses service design capabilities in innovation processes, and provides a framework that guides design students, practitioners and researchers towards a better understanding of operational aspects ...
Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition
(2024)
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods ...
Mobile Edge Computing
(2022)
This is an open access book. It offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is a very promising technology for achieving intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications ...
Data Parallel C++
(2023)
"This book, now in is second edition, is the premier resource to learn SYCL 2020 and is the ONLY book you need to become part of this community." Erik Lindahl, GROMACS and Stockholm University Learn how to accelerate C++ ...
Handbook of Educational Reform Through Blended Learning
(2024)
This open access book provides related theories, methods, strategies, and practical cases for implementing education reform through blended learning in curriculum, program, and institutions in the digital age. It sums up ...
Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway, and Sweden
(2018)
Pentecostal; Renewal; Televangelism; Scandanavia; Nordic
Global Citizenship Education
(2020)
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that ...
Energy Efficient Servers
(2015)
Computer science
Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies
(2022)
This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over ...
Chapter 12 This in-between
(2014)
Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the ...
Produktivitätsmanagement 4.0
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch sind aktuelle Praxisbeispiele und Handlungsempfehlungen zur Gestaltung von Arbeit und Produktivität in der digitalisierten Welt beschrieben. Die Beispiele wurden von Unternehmen und wissenschaftlichen ...