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Disruptions, Diversity, and Ethics in Marketing
(2025)
As the marketing landscape continues to evolve, posing fresh challenges for both academics and practitioners, this book explores contemporary marketing issues, trends, challenges, and opportunities. Featuring papers presented ...
The Suez Canal: Past Lessons and Future Challenges
(2023)
This open access book seeks to provide a survey of historical, geopolitical, economic, and environmental developments in the last 150 years and to highlight future challenges it faces as it pertains to the areas mentioned ...
Isotopes in Economic Geology, Metallogenesis and Exploration
(2023)
This open access book documents the use of radiogenic and stable isotopes to study mineral deposits from a global to the deposit scale. It includes data-sets that have been directly used in mineral exploration. Isotopic ...
The African Marine Litter Outlook
(2023)
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of marine litter in Africa with a focus on plastics. From distribution, to impacts on environmental and human health, this book looks at what is known ...
Chapter Preface
(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 ...
Elements of Robotics
(2017)
robotics; autonomous mobile robots; algorithms; Braitenberg creatures; decision making
Lokal verankerte Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung zwischen Partnerschaft und Machtungleichgewicht
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden Prozesse und Dynamiken der Zusammenarbeit zwischen verschiedenen Akteur*innen in Projekten des zivilen Friedensdienstes in Kenia, Sierra Leone und Liberia betrachtet. Das durch lokale und ...
Collaborating Against Child Abuse
(2017)
Scandinavia; child protection; multi-agency working; criminology; policy
Bordieuan Field Theory as an Instrument for Military Operational Analysis
(2017)
effects-based operations; EBO; Pierre Bourdieu; field theory; information warfare; communism
Chapter Acknowledgements
(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 ...
Intraocular Lens Calculations
(2024)
Cataract surgery, with 25-30 million surgeries per year, has become one of most popular surgeries in the world. The calculation of its power is of utmost importance. As new premium intraocular lenses (IOLs) and modern ...
Model-Driven Development and Operation of Multi-Cloud Applications
(2017)
Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Computational Intelligence
Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South
(2015)
Communication Studies; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); R & D/Technology Policy
Does God Intend that Sin Occur?
(2022)
This open access book argues, from a detailed consideration of the Christian Scriptures, that God intends that sin occur. It swims against the tide of current thinking in philosophy of religion, arguing for an unfashionable ...
Mathematical Surprises
(2022)
This is open access book provides plenty of pleasant mathematical surprises. There are many fascinating results that do not appear in textbooks although they are accessible with a good knowledge of secondary-school ...
New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy
(2016)
Information Storage and Retrieval; Innovation/Technology Management; Computer Applications; Computers and Society; Big data
Ecology of Angola
(2023)
This open access book richly illustrates the first, and comprehensive, account of the country’s biomes and ecoregions, the driving forces that account for their diversity and vulnerability, and the ecological principles ...
The Economic Impact of Christian Missionaries in Zambia
(2024)
This open access book examines the long-term impact of Christian missionaries in Zambia, and sub-Saharan Africa more generally, on education, health, and economic development. It examines how Christian missionaries provided ...
Ageing in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2023)
This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights ...
Promoting Social Dialogue in European Organizations: Human Resources Management and Constructive Conflict Management
(2015)
Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology; Social Policy; Political Science, general
Improving National Education Systems After COVID-19
(2025)
This open access book compares and analyses the results in twelve countries of the two latest international student assessments: Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2021 (PIRLS) and the Programme for International ...
Ranaviruses
(2025)
This is a open access book. Ranaviruses, double-stranded DNA viruses (family Iridoviridae) that cause systemic, life-threatening disease in a variety of amphibians, reptiles and fish, have contributed to mass die-offs of ...
Modern Japan’s Place in World History
(2023)
This Open Access book includes chapters on the key turning points in modern Japanese history from the Meiji Restoration to Japan-China diplomatic normalization in the 1970s and beyond. The topics covered include the First ...
The Datacenter as a Computer
(2019)
This book describes warehouse-scale computers (WSCs), the computing platforms that power cloud computing and all the great web services we use every day. It discusses how these new systems treat the datacenter itself as ...
Global Health Collaboration: Challenges and Lessons
(2018)
global health collaboration; global health education; urban health; multiple morbidities; global health research; international university partnerships; sustainability; public health; multi-morbidity; transcultural; ...
Digitale Führung und Zusammenarbeit
(2024)
Das vorliegende Open Access Buch umfasst Beiträge der Projekte aus dem Verbundprojekt Modelle ressourcenorientierter und effektiver Führung digitaler Projekt- und Teamarbeit (vLead) . Im Rahmen des Förderschwerpunkts „Arbeit ...
Ethics Dumping: Case Studies from North-South Research Collaborations
(2018)
Global Research Ethics; Global Bioethics; North-South Collaborations; Exploitation Vulnerability; Research Governance; Double Standards in Research; Ethics Dumping Examples
Agenda-Setting zwischen Parlament und Medien: Normative Herleitung und empirische Untersuchung am Beispiel der Schweiz
(2017)
Political Communication; Political Theory
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 18th International Conference, XP 2017, Cologne, Germany, May 22-26, 2017, Proceedings
(2017)
agile software development; lean development; scrum; project management; software development
Person-Centered Outcome Metrology
(2023)
This unique collection of chapters from world experts on person-centered outcome (PCO) measures addresses the following critical questions: Can individual experiences be represented in measurements that do not reduce unique ...
Autonomous Trajectory Planning and Guidance Control for Launch Vehicles
(2023)
This open access book highlights the autonomous and intelligent flight control of future launch vehicles for improving flight autonomy to plan ascent and descent trajectories onboard, and autonomously handle unexpected ...
Solar Particle Radiation Storms Forecasting and Analysis
(2018)
Solar Energetic Particles; Space Weather Forecasting; Solar Flares; Coronal Mass Ejections; Solar Wind Shock Waves; Particle Acceleration in the Solar Corona; Gamma-Ray Flares
Midwifery and Sexuality
(2023)
This first open-access book on midwifery and sexuality integrates sexual health into the care for the pregnant and postpartum couple. It addresses sexuality and intimacy from an education and prevention perspective instead ...
Cloud-Based Benchmarking of Medical Image Analysis
(2017)
Medical imaging
Managing Nordic Local Governments
(2024)
This open access book examines the roles of municipal chief executive officers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Whilst it has long been recognised that local authorities in these countries are often more ...
Projekt- und Teamarbeit in der digitalisierten Arbeitswelt
(2021)
Ein interdisziplinäres Open-Access-Buch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Projekt- und Teamarbeit besitzen als Formen der Arbeitsorganisation eine hohe praktische Relevanz, die mit den Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung und ...
Violence Against Women During Coronavirus
(2023)
This open access book brings together leading international violence researchers to examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on experiences of, and responses to, domestic and family violence. In April 2020 the United ...
Integrated Groundwater Management
(2016)
Water management; Hydrogeology
Chapter 1 Introduction
(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 ...
The Era of Longevity
(2023)
This is an open access book under CC BY-NC-ND. This open access book is a comprehensive solution proposed by Dr. Chen Dongsheng for the issues of medical care, pension, and fund raising in the era of longevity. This book ...
Recent Advances in Mathematics Textbook Research and Development
(2025)
This open-access book documents the issues and developments in mathematics textbook research as presented at the Fourth International Conference on Mathematics Textbook Research and Development (ICMT 4), held at Beijing ...
Das Potenzial von Marketing für eine ressourcenorientierte Transformation des Konsumsystems
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch klärt die Frage, ob Marketing einen essenziellen Beitrag leisten kann, um die Herausforderungen der gegenwärtigen Klima- und Vielfachkrise zu bewältigen. Louise I. H. Rieck untersucht das ...
Unzuverlässiges Erzählen
(2023)
Die einzelnen Studien dieser Open Access-Monographie (zu Werken u.a. von A. Andersch, Th. Bernhard, H. Böll, M. Frisch, G. Grass, H. Risse, A. Schmidt, O.F. Walter und G. Wohmann) geben in der Summe einen Überblick über ...
Climate Change and Safety in High-Risk Industries
(2024)
This open access book directs attention to the safety implications of disruptive, sustainability-driven changes in sociotechnical systems resulting from climate-change considerations in high-risk industries. It addresses ...
The 8th International Conference on Advances in Construction Machinery and Vehicle Engineering
(2024)
This open access book presents select contributions from the 8th International Conference on Advances in Construction Machinery and Vehicle Engineering (ICACMVE 2023), focusing on the recent advances and best practices of ...
Managing Elevated Risk: Global Liquidity, Capital Flows, and Macroprudential Policy - An Asian Perspective
(2015)
Finance/Investment/Banking; Economic Policy; Development Economics
Democratizing Risk Governance
(2023)
This open access book features contributions from a multidisciplinary team of leading and emerging scholars focused on democratization of risk assessment, management, and communication. The volume identifies and sheds light ...
Community Nursing Services in England
(2023)
This open access book provides an historical account of the ways in which community nursing services in England have been shaped by policy changes, from the inception of the NHS in 1948 to the present day. Focusing on ...
Anxiety as Vibration
(2024)
This open access book draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari alongside Lacan and Freud to offer a radical psychosocial survey of the status of anxiety. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book examines key issues ...
Chapter 16 Surgery and Emotion
(2018)
In this chapter I have endeavoured to demonstrate the ways in which an
approach that takes the emotions seriously might nuance and complicate
our understandings of the history of pre-anaesthetic surgery. In general,
historians ...
Systemic Circular Economy Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composites
(2022)
This open access book provides an overview of the work undertaken within the FiberEUse project, which developed solutions enhancing the profitability of composite recycling and reuse in value-added products, with a ...
Elimination of Infectious Diseases from the South-East Asia Region
(2021)
This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO’s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, ...
Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy
(2016)
Agricultural Economics
Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology
(2014)
Environment, general; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Environmental Economics; Social Policy
Moral Reasoning at Work
(2015)
Business and Management, Leadership and Strategy, Organisational Behaviour, Human Resources
Chapter Bibliography
(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 ...
Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Modeling and Simulation, plus Econophysics Colloquium 2014
(2015)
Springer Proceedings in Complexity
Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After
(2023)
This is an open access book. This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider ...
Transforming Education for Sustainability
(2023)
This book investigates how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next ...
Air Quality Integrated Assessment: A European Perspective
(2017)
air quality; air pollution; environmental analysis
The Business of Hope
(2023)
This open access book contributes to research on the ascendance of neoliberalism in Canada through the vantage point of professional fundraising in the 1990s and 2000s. Fifty high-ranking fundraisers from across Canada ...
Chapter 5 Special Cases
(2015)
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This ...
Chapter Acknowledgements
(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 ...
Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England
(2022)
This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. ...
China-Africa Science, Technology and Innovation Collaboration
(2024)
This open access book brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to explore science, technology, and innovation cooperation between China and African countries by using different perspectives. The growing ...
Pflegefachpersonen als pflegende Angehörige
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch stehen Pflegefachpersonen im Zentrum, die zugleich pflegende Angehörige sind. Als professionell Pflegende verfügen sie über Fachwissen, pflegefachliche Kompetenzen und Kenntnisse zum Versorgungssystem. ...
Perceptions of the Independence of Judges in Europe
(2021)
This open access book is about the perception of the independence of the judiciary in Europe. Do citizens and judges see its independence in the same way? Do judges feel that their independence is respected by the users ...
Collider Physics within the Standard Model
(2017)
elementary particles; quantum field theory; string theory
National Spatial Planning in China
(2025)
This open access book conducts systematic and comprehensive research on urban spatial development problems in China from territorial perspectives, based on the scientific theory on human settlements environment. By integrating ...
Insights into the New Hydrogen Economy
(2025)
This open access book offers a comprehensive exploration of the future of the hydrogen industry. It builds upon insights gathered from a series of expert workshops and follow-on activity. International experts from various ...
Contemporary Irish Theatre
(2024)
This open access book is a new survey of theatre practices in Ireland from 1957 to the present. Part I: Histories, situates the theatrical activity of twentieth and twenty-first century Ireland within its social and political ...
Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
(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 ...
Digital Transformation of Learning Organizations
(2021)
This open access volume provides insight into how organizations change through the adoption of digital technologies. Opportunities and challenges for individuals as well as the organization are addressed. It features four ...
Chapter 5 Choreographing the Interdisciplinary
(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 ...
Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course
(2016)
Sociology
New Wars and Old Plagues
(2023)
This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies ...
Twitter als Basis wissenschaftlicher Studien: Eine Bewertung gängiger Erhebungs- und Analysemethoden der Twitter-Forschung
(2016)
social media; communication
Emerging Trends in International Development and Climate Policy
(2024)
This open access book delves into the considerable alignment of global sustainable development priorities between Germany and the Republic of Korea (hereafter referred to as Korea), despite their geographical separation. ...
Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy
(2021)
This volume explores various themes at the intersection of archaeology and philosophy: inference and theory; interdisciplinary connections; cognition, language and normativity; and ethical issues. Showcasing this heterogeneity, ...
Spiritual Care & Existential Care interprofessionell
(2024)
Die Beiträge in diesem Buch bieten einen breitgefächerten Überblick und thematische Tiefenschärfung zu ethischen, rechtlichen und strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen von Spiritual / Existential Care: Vorgestellt werden ...
EU Cohesion Policy Implementation - Evaluation Challenges and Opportunities
(2023)
This open access book is the result of the 1st International Conference on Evaluating Challenges in the Implementation of EU Cohesion Policy (EvEUCoP 2022). It presents the recent findings, sparks discussion, and reveals ...
The Nation Form in the Global Age
(2022)
This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization ...
Report on Global Environmental Competitiveness (2013)
(2014)
Environmental Economics; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Green Development; Environmental Competitiveness; Environmental Coordination; Economy Transformation; Environmental Carrying; Environmental Management
Measuring the Business Value of Cloud Computing
(2020)
The importance of demonstrating the value achieved from IT investments is long established in the Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) literature. However, emerging technologies such as the ever-changing ...
Measuring the Business Value of Cloud Computing
(2020)
The importance of demonstrating the value achieved from IT investments is long established in the Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) literature. However, emerging technologies such as the ever-changing ...
Energy Demand Challenges in Europe
(2019)
This open access book examines the role of citizens in sustainable energy transitions across Europe. It explores energy problem framing, policy approaches and practical responses to the challenge of securing clean, affordable ...
Energy Demand Challenges in Europe
(2019)
This open access book examines the role of citizens in sustainable energy transitions across Europe. It explores energy problem framing, policy approaches and practical responses to the challenge of securing clean, affordable ...
Alternating Current Field Measurement Technique for Detection and Measurement of Cracks in Structures
(2025)
This open access book serves as a comprehensive exploration of Alternating Current Field Measurement (ACFM), encompassing the foundational theory crucial for subsequent chapters, as well as the design and testing of ACFM ...
Alternating Current Field Measurement Technique for Detection and Measurement of Cracks in Structures
(2025)
This open access book serves as a comprehensive exploration of Alternating Current Field Measurement (ACFM), encompassing the foundational theory crucial for subsequent chapters, as well as the design and testing of ACFM ...
Chapter 5 Self-Harm as Self-Cutting: Inpatients and Internal Tension
(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 ...
Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem
(2017)
epistemic justification; infinite regress; epistemology; ethics; metaphysics; philosophy
Chapter 1 The Condemned Body Leaving the Courtroom
(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 ...
Chapter 1 The Condemned Body Leaving the Courtroom
(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 ...
The Elements of Big Data Value
(2021)
This open access book presents the foundations of the Big Data research and innovation ecosystem and the associated enablers that facilitate delivering value from data for business and society. It provides insights into ...
The Elements of Big Data Value
(2021)
This open access book presents the foundations of the Big Data research and innovation ecosystem and the associated enablers that facilitate delivering value from data for business and society. It provides insights into ...
The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016
(2017)
climate change; Arctic; vulnerability; environment; marine and terrestrial polar landscapes; indigenous knowledge; tourism
The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016
(2017)
climate change; Arctic; vulnerability; environment; marine and terrestrial polar landscapes; indigenous knowledge; tourism
The Restless Compendium
(2016)
This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, ...
Ethics of Socioeconomics
(2024)
The book analyzes socioeconomic through the lens of a lawyer. In the past decade the world has witnessed some severe financial and economic crises, especially the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the crisis caused by the ...
Ethics of Socioeconomics
(2024)
The book analyzes socioeconomic through the lens of a lawyer. In the past decade the world has witnessed some severe financial and economic crises, especially the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the crisis caused by the ...