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Industry 4.0 and the Road to Sustainable Steelmaking in Europe
(2024)
This open access book gathers original contributions focused on the transition of the European steel industry to Industry 4.0. It not only investigates how Industry 4.0 can enhance productivity, cost-saving, and sustainability ...
Industry 4.0 and the Road to Sustainable Steelmaking in Europe
(2024)
This open access book gathers original contributions focused on the transition of the European steel industry to Industry 4.0. It not only investigates how Industry 4.0 can enhance productivity, cost-saving, and sustainability ...
Depression im Alter – Eine Frage der Emotionsregulation
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht es um die Frage, ob Emotionsregulationsprobleme eine Bedeutung für die Depression im höheren Erwachsenenalter haben. Depressionen sind in dieser Altersgruppe weit verbreitet, werden aber ...
Depression im Alter – Eine Frage der Emotionsregulation
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht es um die Frage, ob Emotionsregulationsprobleme eine Bedeutung für die Depression im höheren Erwachsenenalter haben. Depressionen sind in dieser Altersgruppe weit verbreitet, werden aber ...
Stressbewältigung durch Pflegekräfte
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Thema Stressbewältigung von Pflegekräften konzeptionell und empirisch betrachtet. Arbeitsstress nimmt für die meisten Berufsgruppen zu und ist zu einer der häufigsten Ursachen für ...
Stressbewältigung durch Pflegekräfte
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Thema Stressbewältigung von Pflegekräften konzeptionell und empirisch betrachtet. Arbeitsstress nimmt für die meisten Berufsgruppen zu und ist zu einer der häufigsten Ursachen für ...
Transnational Entrepreneurship in South East Asia
(2020)
This open access book brings together narratives of inbound and outbound expatriate entrepreneurship in Japan to provide a comprehensive overview of international entrepreneurship in the region. Through in-depth interviews ...
Transnational Entrepreneurship in South East Asia
(2020)
This open access book brings together narratives of inbound and outbound expatriate entrepreneurship in Japan to provide a comprehensive overview of international entrepreneurship in the region. Through in-depth interviews ...
Hydraulic Structure and Hydrodynamics
(2025)
This open access book delves into discussions central to hydraulic structures and research in the realm of hydrodynamics. Hydraulic structures stand as pivotal components within civil engineering and construction, playing ...
New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research
(2015)
Social Policy, Politics and Economics of Welfare, Business and Management, Innovation, Sociology, Economic Sociology, Politics, Citizenship, Social Policy and Welfare
Narrating the Rule of Law
(2024)
This open access book deals with the backsliding of the rule of law in Poland and Hungary as one of the main problems of the EU. What began as a national phenomenon has become a general threat for the EU because the respect ...
Anti-fragile ICT Systems
(2016)
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Information Systems and Communication Service; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Simulation and Modeling; anomaly detection, anti-fragility, cloud ...
MARE-WINT: New Materials and Reliability in Offshore Wind Turbine Technology
(2016)
renewable; green; energy; environment; law; policy
Euphorias in Gender, Sex and Sexuality Variations
(2023)
This Open Access book uses the concept of ‘euphoria’ to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variations even within repressive and disordering ...
Automated Reasoning
(2024)
This two-volume set of LNAI 14739-14740 constitute the proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2024, held in Nancy, France, during July 3-6, 2024. The 39 full research papers ...
Political Leadership and Agricultural Transformation
(2024)
This open access book examines the impact of political leadership on agricultural transformation to understand why cases of successful agricultural transformation are so rare in the developing world. It highlights the ...
Chapter Bibliography
(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 ...
P.Y. Galperin's Development of Human Mental Activity
(2021)
This open access book introduces the legacy of Piotr Galperin to a wider audience of researchers, educators and psychologists. Previous translations of Galperin’s work present only some aspects of his conceptual thinking; ...
Stem Cells in Neuroendocrinology
(2016)
Neurosciences, Endocrinology
Chapter 7 An Experience Much Worse Than Rape
(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 ...
Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Hydrothermal Systems
(2015)
Oceanography; Biogeosciences; Geochemistry
The Future of Manufacturing: The Italian Roadmap
(2024)
This book is an open access publication. This book explores innovation paths for improving the positioning of the manufacturing sector in the international arena. The roadmap is the result of intense work over two years, ...
Platform Embedded Security Technology Revealed
(2014)
Computer science
IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2023
(2025)
This open access book presents the conceptual and operational foundations of the IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (2023), which is designed to assess how well students are prepared for study, work, ...
Chapter 9 “Nonsense Rides Piggyback on Sensible Things”
(2018)
“Nonsense rides piggyback on sensible things”, declares professional sceptic and questioned-document analyst Joe Nickell concerning graphology. This chapter examines graphology’s enduring allure and reach, despite its ...
The Future of the Law of the Sea: Bridging Gaps Between National, Individual and Common Interests
(2017)
marine and freshwater sciences; environmental law; eco-justice; policy
The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy
(2019)
This open access book investigates the pathologisation of homosexuality during the fascist regime in Italy through an analysis of the case of G., a man with "homosexual tendencies" interned in the Collegno mental health ...
Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas
(2013)
Sustainable Development; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Agriculture
Gravity, Positioning and Reference Frames
(2024)
This open access volume contains a selection of papers presented at three different IAG Symposia held in 2022: GGHS2022 – Gravity, Geoid, and Height Systems 2022, Austin, TX, United States of America, September 12 – 14, ...
A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration
(2011)
Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. ...
Sensing Absence: How to See What Isn't There in the Study of Science and Security
(2015)
Chapter 1 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. This is a chapter from Absence in Science, Security and Policy edited by Brian Rappert and Brian Balmer. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY ...
Chapter 19 ‘A Tragedy as Old as History’
(2017)
This chapter will explore how the infertile patient was characterized, perceived, and treated by the medical profession in 1950s England and Scotland. Such was the concern that this subject engendered in postwar Britain ...
Nils Petter Gleditsch: Pioneer in the Analysis of War and Peace
(2015)
Environmental Law / Policy / Ecojustice
Chapter 2 Becoming Really Dead: Dying by Degrees
(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 ...
Managing Transnational UNESCO World Heritage sites in Africa
(2023)
This open access book focuses on the management of transboundary UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Africa region. It highlights the region as a model of best practices on cross-border collaboration in view of enforcing ...
Placing Property
(2023)
This open access book presents a legal geography of property rights in land through the lenses of landscape and critical spatial justice. It seeks to reassert the importance of landscape and place in property as an alternative ...
Manifesto of the New Economy: Institutions and Business Models of the Digital Society
(2011)
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; Methodology/History of Economic Thought; Business and Management, general; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Computer Communication Networks; ...
Human Rights Politics
(2024)
The book offers a comprehensive and clear introduction for students and those interested in human rights, written by a renowned human rights expert. It not only provides an introduction to the diversity of issues, actors ...
Prozessintelligenz: Business-Process-Management-Studie – Status quo und Erfolgsmuster
(2018)
Geschäftsprozesse; Modellierung; Digitale Transformation; Business Process Management; BPM; Best Practices; Erfolgsmuster; Prozessmanagement; Prozesse
Chapter 5 Aspergillosis
(2013)
In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection ...
Electronic Voting
(2025)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2024, held in Tarragona, Spain, during October 2-4, 2024. The 10 full papers included in this book ...
Effectuation entwickeln
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein Rahmenwerk entwickelt, das simulationsbezogene Untersuchungen von Effetcuation ermöglicht und gleichzeitig die Grundlage für die Entwicklung von gründungsunterstützenden Entscheidungssystemen ...
Averting Disaster Before It Strikes
(2023)
Some of the major industrial disasters could have been prevented. When the facts of what happened are established, their stories share a common thread: before things spiralled out of control, there were workers at the ...
Chapter 5 I've Heard Food Queues, but This Is the First Time I've Ever Heard of a Feeding Queue!
(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 ...
Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality
(2025)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the First International Conference on Bridging the Gap between AI and Reality, AISoLA 2023, which took place in Crete, Greece, in October 2023. The papers ...
Research on Teaching and Learning Probability
(2016)
Mathematics Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning and Instruction
Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture
(2016)
environmental management; air quality control; air pollution; climate change; agriculture; atmospheric protection; soil science; conservation
TouchDevelop
(2013)
Computer science
Nondestructive Assay of Nuclear Materials for Safeguards and Security
(2024)
This open access book describes the nondestructive assay techniques that are used for the measurement of nuclear material (primarily uranium and plutonium) for nuclear material accountancy purposes. It is a substantial ...
Communicating, Networking: Interacting: The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU
(2016)
Communication Studies; Sustainable Development; Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks
Communicating, Networking: Interacting: The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU
(2016)
Communication Studies; Sustainable Development; Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks
A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction
(2023)
This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and ...
Temporäre An- und Abwesenheiten in ländlichen Räumen
(2021)
Dieses Open Access Buch ist eine Einführung zu multilokalen Lebensweisen und deren Auswirkungen in ländlichen Räumen. Es werden Motive und Anlässe multilokaler Lebenspraktiken identifiziert und analysiert. Zudem stehen die ...
Temporäre An- und Abwesenheiten in ländlichen Räumen
(2021)
Dieses Open Access Buch ist eine Einführung zu multilokalen Lebensweisen und deren Auswirkungen in ländlichen Räumen. Es werden Motive und Anlässe multilokaler Lebenspraktiken identifiziert und analysiert. Zudem stehen die ...
Data Assimilation Fundamentals
(2022)
This open-access textbook's significant contribution is the unified derivation of data-assimilation techniques from a common fundamental and optimal starting point, namely Bayes' theorem. Unique for this book is the ...
Data Assimilation Fundamentals
(2022)
This open-access textbook's significant contribution is the unified derivation of data-assimilation techniques from a common fundamental and optimal starting point, namely Bayes' theorem. Unique for this book is the ...
Interface Oral Health Science 2014
(2015)
dentistry; oral and maxillofacial surgery; regenerative medicine; tissue engineering
Interface Oral Health Science 2014
(2015)
dentistry; oral and maxillofacial surgery; regenerative medicine; tissue engineering
Chapter 8 Three Rationales for a Legal Right to Mental Integrity
(2021)
Many states recognize a legal right to bodily integrity, understood as a right against significant, nonconsensual interference with one’s body. Recently, some have called for the recognition of an analogous legal right to ...
Chapter 8 Three Rationales for a Legal Right to Mental Integrity
(2021)
Many states recognize a legal right to bodily integrity, understood as a right against significant, nonconsensual interference with one’s body. Recently, some have called for the recognition of an analogous legal right to ...
Chapter List of Abbreviations
(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 List of Abbreviations
(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 ...
Simplicial and Dendroidal Homotopy Theory
(2022)
This open access book offers a self-contained introduction to the homotopy theory of simplicial and dendroidal sets and spaces. These are essential for the study of categories, operads, and algebraic structure up to coherent ...
Simplicial and Dendroidal Homotopy Theory
(2022)
This open access book offers a self-contained introduction to the homotopy theory of simplicial and dendroidal sets and spaces. These are essential for the study of categories, operads, and algebraic structure up to coherent ...
Reversible Computation: Extending Horizons of Computing
(2020)
This open access State-of-the-Art Survey presents the main recent scientific outcomes in the area of reversible computation, focusing on those that have emerged during COST Action IC1405 "Reversible Computation - Extending ...
Übersetzen in der Frühen Neuzeit – Konzepte und Methoden / Concepts and Practices of Translation in the Early Modern Period
(2021)
Dieser interdisziplinäre Open Access-Band beschäftigt sich mit den vielfältigen Konzepten und Methoden des Übersetzens als zentraler und ubiquitärer Kulturtechnik der Frühen Neuzeit (1450–1800). In fünfzehn Einzelstudien ...
Übersetzen in der Frühen Neuzeit – Konzepte und Methoden / Concepts and Practices of Translation in the Early Modern Period
(2021)
Dieser interdisziplinäre Open Access-Band beschäftigt sich mit den vielfältigen Konzepten und Methoden des Übersetzens als zentraler und ubiquitärer Kulturtechnik der Frühen Neuzeit (1450–1800). In fünfzehn Einzelstudien ...
Pattern Recognition, Tracking and Vertex Reconstruction in Particle Detectors
(2021)
This open access book is a comprehensive review of the methods and algorithms that are used in the reconstruction of events recorded by past, running and planned experiments at particle accelerators such as the LHC, SuperKEKB ...
Pattern Recognition, Tracking and Vertex Reconstruction in Particle Detectors
(2021)
This open access book is a comprehensive review of the methods and algorithms that are used in the reconstruction of events recorded by past, running and planned experiments at particle accelerators such as the LHC, SuperKEKB ...
Environment Impact on Reproductive Health
(2023)
This open access book focuses on of the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on human reproduction. It comprehensively discusses the three most important topics in the field: the basic biology of EDCs; the effects ...
Environment Impact on Reproductive Health
(2023)
This open access book focuses on of the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on human reproduction. It comprehensively discusses the three most important topics in the field: the basic biology of EDCs; the effects ...
Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution
(2022)
This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary ...
Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution
(2022)
This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary ...
Microorganisms in the Deterioration and Preservation of Cultural Heritage
(2021)
This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the role and potential of microorganisms in the degradation and preservation of cultural materials (e.g. stone, metals, graphic documents, textiles, paintings, glass, ...
Microorganisms in the Deterioration and Preservation of Cultural Heritage
(2021)
This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the role and potential of microorganisms in the degradation and preservation of cultural materials (e.g. stone, metals, graphic documents, textiles, paintings, glass, ...
Collaboration in Designing a Pedagogical Approach in Information Literacy
(2020)
This Open Access book combines expertise in information literacy with expertise in education and teaching to share tips and tricks for the development of good information literacy teaching and training in universities and ...
Collaboration in Designing a Pedagogical Approach in Information Literacy
(2020)
This Open Access book combines expertise in information literacy with expertise in education and teaching to share tips and tricks for the development of good information literacy teaching and training in universities and ...
The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues
(2020)
This Open Access book explores heritage conservation ethics of post conflict and provides an important historical record of the possible reconstruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which was inscribed in the UNESCO World ...
The Power of Peer Learning
(2023)
This open access book explores new developments in various aspects of peer learning processes and outcomes. It brings together research studies examining how peer feedback, peer assessment, and small group learning activities ...
Flexibel studieren – Vereinbarkeit ermöglichen
(2019)
Imke Buß weist in ihrem Open-Access-Buch nach, dass Hochschulen durch die strategische Gestaltung ihrer Studienstrukturen die Vereinbarkeit von Studium, Familie und Beruf ermöglichen können. Die Autorin entwickelt ein ...
Tuberculosis in Adults and Children
(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 ...
The Illusion of Risk Control: What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty?
(2017)
risk management; black swans; safety; high-risk organisations; FonCSI; complexity in risk management; risk assessment
The Economy as a Complex Spatial System: Macro, Meso and Micro Perspectives
(2017)
economic geography; systemic risk; heterogeneous agents; complex networks analysis; multinational enterprises; spatial econometrics; COST Action IS1104
Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals
(2023)
This collection amplifies the experiences of some of the world’s young people who are working to address SDGs using geospatial technologies and multi-national collaboration. Authors from every region of the world who have ...
The International Bureau of Education (1925-1968)
(2024)
This open access book offers a critical analysis of the history of the International Bureau of Education (IBE) from its founding in 1925 to its integration into UNESCO in January 1969. Based on the conceptual and methodological ...
Russische Errungenschaften in der Physiologie der Verdauung
(2021)
Dieses Buch ist den wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen Ereignissen rund um die Geschichte und Physiologie der Verdauung in Russland gewidmet. Das Fundament der modernen Wissenschaft auf diesem Gebiet wurde durch die gemeinsame ...
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction
(2010)
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to ...
Particle Polarization in High Energy Physics
(2023)
This open-access book addresses the following questions: how does the polarization of a particle, i.e., the angular momentum state in which it is produced, manifest itself in nature? What are the concepts and tools needed ...
Educational Commons
(2024)
This open access book presents the final findings from the case studies developed within the Horizon 2020 SMOOTH project Educational Spaces. Passing through Enclosures and Reversing Inequalities through Educational Commons. ...
Words, Objects and Events in Economics
(2021)
This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain ...
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 ...
Proceedings of Ninth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology
(2024)
This open access book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Ninth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held in London, on February 19–22, 2024. It discusses emerging ...
East-West Dialogue
(2023)
This Open access book is a collection of interviews published by China News Service, a Beijing-based news agency, in its “West-East Talk” column. It has been divided into five sections: “Mutual Learning Among Civilizations,” ...
Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health Services Research
(2020)
This open access book is a practical introduction to multilevel modelling or multilevel analysis (MLA) – a statistical technique being increasingly used in public health and health services research. The authors begin with ...
Reviving Classical Liberalism Against Populism
(2024)
This open access book by Nils Karlson explores the strategies used by left- and right-wing populists to make populism intelligible, recognizable, and contestable. It presents a synthesized explanatory model for how populists ...
Berufliche Passagen im Lebenslauf: Berufsbildungs- und Transitionsforschung in der Schweiz
(2015)
Professional & Vocational Education; Educational Psychology; Sociology of Education
Entstehung, Struktur und Steuerung des deutschen Schulsystems
(2024)
Für jene, die (künftig) als Lehrkräfte oder in anderen Positionen im Kontext von Schule arbeiten, ist es unerlässlich, über ein orientierendes Wissen zum Schulsystem zu verfügen. In Anlehnung an die Themenstruktur der ...
Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific
(2013)
Professional and Vocational Education
Systemic Risk and Complex Networks in Modern Financial Systems
(2025)
This open access book is a groundbreaking exploration of systemic risk in modern financial systems. Through its theoretical and empirical investigations, it reveals the multidimensionality of systemic risk, the transmission ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2024)
This open access 3-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, CAV 2024, which took place in Montreal, Canada, during July 24–27, 2024. The primary focus of ...