Publications
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Lectins. Methods and protocols
(2014)
Lectins: Methods and Protocols summarizes classic lectin technologies and advanced techniques with high throughputs and sensitivities. Chapters include methods and techniques for serial lectin-affinity chromatography ...
Rewilding European Landscapes
(2015)
Nature Conservation; Environmental Management; Biodiversity; Landscape Ecology; Applied Ecology
Droplet Dynamics Under Extreme Ambient Conditions
(2022)
This open access book presents the main results of the Collaborative Research Center SFB-TRR 75, which spanned the period from 2010 to 2022. Scientists from a variety of disciplines, ranging from thermodynamics, fluid ...
Arzneimittel-Kompass 2021
(2021)
Der Arzneimittel-Kompass, der sowohl als Open-Access-Publikation als auch als gedrucktes Buch erscheint, widmet sich in seiner ersten Ausgabe dem Schwerpunktthema „Hochpreisige Arzneimittel – Herausforderung und Perspektiven“. ...
Krisenmanagement am Beispiel der Flüchtlingslage 2015/2016
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden Erfahrungen zur Zusammenarbeit und zum Wissensmanagement verschiedenster staatlicher, gemeinnütziger und privater Akteure in der Flüchtlingslage 2015/16 aufbereitet, mit praxisnahen ...
Social Development in the World Bank
(2021)
This open access book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and extending his arguments for "putting people first.” Cernea led a community of social ...
Central Bank Policy Mix: Issues, Challenges, and Policy Responses
(2022)
This is an open access book. This book is an integration of keynote speeches, lectures, and related teaching materials during the five years of the "Central Bank Policy Mix: Issues, Challenges and Policy Responses" flagship ...
Cultural Governance
(2021)
Im internationalen Vergleich verfügt Deutschland über einen bemerkenswerten Theatersektor im Hinblick auf Ensembles und Spielstätten. Die darstellenden Künste sind zudem der Kulturbereich mit der höchsten öffentlichen ...
Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Network System(Junior Level)
(2023)
This open access book follows the development rules of network technical talents, simultaneously placing its focus on the transfer of network knowledge, the accumulation of network skills, and the improvement of professionalism. ...
Sustainable Aging
(2025)
This open access book discusses three areas in which Germany has long-standing experience and solutions that are valuable for other countries—care education, care insurance and standards for age-friendly city neighborhoods. ...
Knowledge from a Human Point of View
(2020)
This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new ...
Higher Education Reforms in Romania: Between the Bologna Process and National Challenges
(2015)
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education; International higher education arena; Higher education reforms; UEFISCDI; Evidence-based policy making; Higher education ...
Chapter 5 Treatment
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...
Experiencing Society and the Lived Welfare State
(2023)
This open access book presents a new approach to the history of welfare state. By applying the concepts of experiencing society and the lived welfare state, the collection introduces theoretical, methodological and empirical ...
Bioeconomy
(2018)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book defines the new field of "Bioeconomy" as the sustainable and innovative use of biomass and biological knowledge to provide food, feed, industrial products, ...
Risiko im Wandel
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Lösungsansätze, mit denen die Versicherungswirtschaft den wesentlichen Herausforderungen und Megatrends der heutigen Zeit begegnen kann. Es handelt sich also ...
Chapter 3 In Bad Shape: Sensing the Criminal Corpse
(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 ...
Nontoxic: Masculinity, Allyship, and Feminist Philosophy
(2022)
This open access book argues for allyship masculinity as an open-ended, intersectional model for feminist men. It provides a roadmap for navigating between toxic masculinity on one side, and feminist androgyny on the other. ...
Charting Spiritual Care
(2020)
This open access volume is the first academic book on the controversial issue of including spiritual care in integrated electronic medical records (EMR). Based on an international study group comprising researchers from ...
Managing the Complexity of Critical Infrastructures
(2016)
Complexity; Simulation and Modeling; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Communications Engineering, Networks
The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary
(2022)
This Open Access book explains a new type of political order that emerged in Hungary in 2010: a form of authoritarian capitalism with an anti-liberal political and social agenda. Eva Fodor analyzes an important part of ...
Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES
(2022)
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2021 DigitalFUTURES—The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021). The work focuses on novel techniques for ...
Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa
(2023)
Countries across Africa are rapidly transitioning from rural to urban societies. The UN projects that 60% of people living in Africa will be in urban areas by 2050, with the urban population on the continent tripling over ...
Knowledge and Civil Society
(2022)
This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives ...
Towards Gender Equality in Law
(2022)
This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out states’ failures in their ...
Planning Cities in Africa
(2022)
This open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with ...
Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa
(2022)
This open access book offers a compelling account of everyday life, livelihoods, and governance in post-apartheid South Africa among the urban poor and marginalized, anchored in and through a critique of the concept of ...
Progress in Entrepreneurship Education and Training
(2023)
The education of future entrepreneurs shapes how we will live in the future, and proper entrepreneurship education is thus of utmost importance. Entrepreneurship educators and researchers constantly renew tools, interventions, ...
The Challenges of Religious Literacy
(2020)
This open access book presents religious literacy as the main explanatory factor when dealing with certain ethnic groups that attract stereotypes which gloss over other personal factors such as age, class, gender and ...
Biotechnologies for Plant Mutation Breeding
(2017)
Plant Breeding/Biotechnology; Agriculture; Genetic Engineering; Plant Genetics & Genomics
The Early Years
(2015)
Economics, Development Economics, Social Policy, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Sociology, Childhood and Youth, Development, Children and Youth, International Economics
The Making of Islamic Heritage
(2017)
diversity; architecture; culture; vulnerability; conservation
Computational Physiology
(2022)
This open access volume compiles student reports from the 2021 Simula Summer School in Computational Physiology. Interested readers will find herein a number of modern approaches to modeling excitable tissue. This should ...
Resilient Urban Futures
(2021)
This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global ...
Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking
(2020)
Organic waste composting is another excellent example to demonstrate the power and the benefits of nexus thinking. Even though organic waste composting itself is not a new topic, those who want to start a new project or ...
International Actors and the Formation of Laws
(2022)
This open access book addresses the discourse that creates, modifies, and reshapes the law, as well as discourse participants. The book focuses on the actors operating in legal regimes and their subtly, bluntly, or even ...
Governing the Pandemic
(2021)
This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing ...
Wertschöpfung hybrid gestalten
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch ist die Digitalisierung von Geschäftsmodellen anhand von Praxisbeispielen beschrieben. Dies umfasst einerseits die Entwicklung digitaler bzw. hybrider Geschäftsmodelle und andererseits die ...
Twitter als Basis wissenschaftlicher Studien: Eine Bewertung gängiger Erhebungs- und Analysemethoden der Twitter-Forschung
(2016)
social media; communication
Evidence Use in Health Policy Making
(2018)
This open access book provides a set of conceptual, empirical, and comparative chapters that apply a public policy perspective to investigate the political and institutional factors driving the use of evidence to inform ...
Systemleichtbau für die Luftfahrt
(2022)
essentials liefern aktuelles Wissen in konzentrierter Form. Die Essenz dessen, worauf es als „State-of-the-Art“ in der gegenwärtigen Fachdiskussion oder in der Praxis ankommt. essentials informieren schnell, unkompliziert ...
Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces
(2023)
This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile ...
Global History with Chinese Characteristics
(2021)
This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese ...
Management of Hydropower Enterprises
(2025)
This open access book highlights the hydropower potential of the Dadu River watershed in Sichuan province, Southwest China, and an important part of the flood control system for the Changjiang (Yangtze) River. Ensuring the ...
2050 China
(2021)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores ...
Enabling Asia to Stabilise the Climate
(2015)
Sustainable Development
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
(2017)
charismatic Christianity; Holy Spirit; demonology; evangelism; indigenous Pentecostal movements; ethnography
Technical Universities
(2020)
This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity ...
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
(2022)
In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and ...
Migration and Pandemics
(2022)
This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2021)
This open access two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2021, which was held during March 27 – April 1, ...
Brand Content und Brand Image
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch schlägt Matthias Albisser eine Konzeptualisierung von Brand Content als Botschaften der Unternehmenskommunikation vor, die gleichberechtigt eine Unternehmensperspektive (Imageaufbau) und eine ...
Resilient Governance of Urban Redevelopment
(2023)
To examine the origins, characteristics, and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese characteristics, this open access book takes Guangzhou, a typical Chinese city from 1990 to 2015, as an example. Through participant ...
Stem Cells in Neuroendocrinology
(2016)
Neurosciences, Endocrinology
The Importance and Value of Older Employees
(2021)
This open access book makes a contribution to our understanding of one of the social challenges facing many western nations i.e. the challenge of an ageing population. It specifically addresses the issue of competence among ...
Sensor Technologies
(2013)
Computer science
Pro Git (Second Edition)
(2014)
Computer science
iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable City
(2022)
This open access book presents the exciting research results of the BMBF funded project iCity carried out at University of Applied Science Stuttgart to help cities to become more liveable, intelligent and sustainable, to ...
Chapter 4 A Few Deaths from Hunger Is Nothing
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
Knowledge Graphs and Big Data Processing
(2020)
This open access book is part of the LAMBDA Project (Learning, Applying, Multiplying Big Data Analytics), funded by the European Union, GA No. 809965. Data Analytics involves applying algorithmic processes to derive insights. ...