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Berufs- und Arbeitswelt in der politischen Bildung
(2021)
Dieses open access-Buch analysiert den Zusammenhang von Berufsorientierung und politischer Bildung von Jugendlichen. Der Anspruch der Mündigkeitsbildung stellt die Ausgangsposition für die Vorstellungsforschung subjektiver ...
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 ...
Cyber Security
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2020, held in Beijing, China, in August 2020. The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed ...
White-Collar Crime in the Shadow Economy
(2018)
convenience theory; financial crime; risk; crime prevention; fraud; organised crime; police investigation; social security; Shadow Economy; detection; investigation; convictions; prosecution; tip of the iceberg; ...
New Directions in Digitalisation
(2025)
This open access book brings together experts from both EU competition law as well fundamental rights backgrounds, discussing the most recent developments in EU legislation on digitalisation. Most prominently, it explores ...
New Music and Institutional Critique
(2024)
While institutional critique has long been an important part of artistic practice and theoretical debate in the visual arts, it has long escaped attention in the field of music. This open access volume assembles for the ...
Golden Years of Australian Radio Astronomy
(2021)
The evolution of Australian radio astronomy from 1945 to 1960 has been studied in detail by numerous historians of science in recent years. This Open Access book is the first to present an overview of this remarkable chapter ...
Land-Use Modelling in Planning Practice
(2011)
This book provides an overview of recent developments and applications of the Land Use Scanner model. Internationally recognized as among the best of its kind, this versatile model can be applied at a national level for ...
A Natural History of the Emirates
(2024)
For many people, thoughts of the United Arab Emirates conjure images of ultramodern skyscrapers and rolling sand dunes. However, the Emirates are a rich mosaic of ecosystems and habitats that support surprisingly diverse ...
Contemporary Turkey at a Glance
(2014)
Turkish Studies; Turkish Politics, Society and Culture; Turkish Citizenship; Turkish Minorities; Muslim Identity; Turkish Diaspora
Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships
(2019)
Development Economics;Economic Policy;Asian Economics;Economics;Economy-wide Country Studies;Internal migration, urbanization and poverty in Asia;Poverty as an urban issue;Poverty measures in Asia;Rural-urban migration in ...
The Palgrave Handbook of International Energy Economics
(2022)
This open access handbook is distinguished by its emphasis on international energy, rather than domestic energy policies or international geopolitic aspects. Addressing key topics such as energy production and distribution, ...
The Art of Sustainable Performance
(2020)
This open access book revisits common notions on how to select and recruit the right employees. It reveals that the secret of successful individuals and teams lies in a combination of talent and four important performance ...
Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship
(2022)
This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research ...
Krankenhaus-Report 2022
(2022)
Der Krankenhaus-Report, der jährlich als Buch und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, greift 2022 das Schwerpunktthema „Patientenversorgung während der Pandemie“ auf. Die Auswirkungen der Covid-19-Pandemie haben auch ...
Asia-Pacific Fishing Livelihoods
(2022)
This open access book explores fishing livelihoods in the context of the wider contexts in which they are embedded. Drawing on case studies from across the Asia-Pacific region, the book highlights how fishing livelihoods ...
Crisis Response in Higher Education
(2022)
This open access book explores the impact of Covid-19 on universities, and how students, staff, faculty and academic leaders have adapted to and dealt with the impact of the pandemic. Drawing on experiences from Britain, ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2020, which was planned to take place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, as Part of the European Joint Conferences on ...
Gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse in Deutschland?
(2025)
Gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse zu gewährleisten, ist in Deutschland ein rechtlich verankertes Ziel. Dieses Open-Access-Buch analysiert, welche Aspekte Menschen wichtig sind, wenn es um ein gutes Leben geht, mit welchen ...
Harvest Loss in China
(2025)
This open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing country, China’s food security is closely related to the world’s food security. ...
The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China
(2021)
This open access book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic connectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient Indigenous Bai Yue (百越) in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast China ...
Raumplanungsprozesse im Klinikneubau und Klinikumbau
(2025)
Aufgrund der erheblichen Investitionssummen und der hohen Versorgungsrelevanz eines Krankenhausneubaus ist die effiziente und nachhaltige Gestaltung des Raumplanungsprozesses von großer Bedeutung. Dabei müssen sowohl die ...
Animating Unpredictable Effects
(2021)
Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the ...
Chapter 5 ‘Rapt Up with Joy’:
(2016)
This chapter takes advantage of recent insights from the history of
emotions to offer a fresh perspective on children’s emotional responses to
death. Drawing on a range of printed and archival sources, it argues ...
Dissecting Discrimination
(2022)
This Open-Access-book examines the phenomenon of discrimination using a descriptive approach. Discrimination is omnipresent, whether it is people who discriminate against other people or, more recently, also machines that ...
Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Turbulent/Non-Turbulent Interface in Turbulent Shear Flows
(2025)
The turbulent/non-turbulent interface (TNTI) is an irregular boundary between turbulent and irrotational flow, which widely exists in various flow types, such as turbulent boundary layer, combustion flame front, turbulent ...
Chapter Conclusion
(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 ...
QPLEX: A Computational Modeling and Analysis Methodology for Stochastic Systems
(2025)
This book introduces QPLEX, a powerful computational framework designed for modeling and analyzing nonstationary stochastic systems with large state spaces. The methodology excels at rapidly and accurately generating ...
Marine Pollution – Monitoring, Management and Mitigation
(2023)
The study of marine environments inevitably involves considering the problem of marine pollution, which includes questions that focus on the essential need to ensure the long-term health of these exceptional ecosystems and ...
Exploring Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities in OECD Case Law
(2025)
This open access book consolidates a collection of scholarly papers presented at the academic conference titled "Corporate Human Rights Responsibility in OECD Case Law: Actors, Issues, Responsibilities, and Remedies", held ...
Ecological Jurisprudence
(2025)
This open access book explores the rise of ecological jurisprudence, a transformative legal theory that challenges traditional legal boundaries. Drawing on over 15 years of research and teaching, the book offers a comprehensive ...
The Exhibitor as Producer
(2025)
This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues ...
Circular Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers in Central and Eastern Europe
(2020)
By adopting a rights-based approach, this open access book sheds light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been adopted to implement circular migration policies in the EU and their consequences for the ...
Chemical Youth
(2021)
This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the ...
Wie ticken Jugendliche 2016?: Lebenswelten von Jugendlichen im Alter von 14 bis 17 Jahren in Deutschland
(2016)
Popular Social Sciences; Childhood, Adolescence and Society; Sociology of Education; Demography; Social Work
Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020
(2013)
Language Translation and Linguistics; Computational Linguistics
Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe
(2022)
This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational ...
Gestaltung vernetzt-flexibler Arbeit
(2020)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch umfasst fünfzehn Beiträge aus sechs Verbundvorhaben, die im Rahmen des Förderschwerpunkts „Arbeit in der digitalisierten Welt“ des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung unterschiedliche ...
The Fundamentals of People Analytics
(2023)
This open access book prepares current and aspiring analytics professionals to effectively address this need by curating key concepts spanning the entire analytics lifecycle, along with step-by-step instructions for their ...
The Global Lives of German Migrants
(2021)
Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - ...
The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security
(2020)
This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by ...
Acceptance and Diffusion of Connected and Automated Driving in Japan and Germany
(2025)
This open access book gives comprehensive empirical insights on connected and automated driving (CAD) of road transport vehicles which leads to the driver being partially or completely replaced by automation. The current ...
Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Asia
(2013)
Development Economics; Economic Growth; Public Economics
The Institutional Compass: Method, Use and Scope
(2022)
This open access book presents a new generation multi-criteria, multi-stake holder, decision aide, called an "institutional compass". Based on hard data, the compass tells us what quality-direction we are heading in as an ...
Collective Memory, Marginality, and Spatial Politics in Urban Indonesia.
(2025)
This volume presents three important themes for the study of Indonesian politics, cultures, and urban space: 1) urban regeneration and collective memory, 2) marginality and the other archives, 3) mood, medium, and media. ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2022, which was held during April 2-7, 2022, in Munich, ...
People or Property
(2024)
This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face ...
Eigentum ohne Eigentümer?
(2024)
In der aktuellen eigentumspolitischen Diskussion gibt es Vorschläge, die darauf hinauslaufen, den personalen Bezug des Eigentums erheblich zu relativieren und die Privatnützigkeit des Eigentums zu marginalisieren oder gar ...
Differenzerleben als Balanceakt
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern medienbezogene Bildungsprozesse in Paarbeziehungen stattfinden. In der heutigen Informationsgesellschaft stehen Individuen in einer Paarbeziehung vor der ...
Knowledge and Willingness to Act Pro-Environmentally
(2025)
This open access book utilizes data from two large-scale international assessments—TIMSS 2019 and ICCS 2016—to investigate the extent to which education for sustainable development outcomes is conveyed and accomplished ...
Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy
(2025)
How can Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP) help us understand poetry? Against John L. Austin’s exclusion of poetic utterances as parasitical, Philip Mills explores how contemporary poetics broadens the aims and scope of ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2025)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 25th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2024, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during June 04-07, ...
Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking
(2025)
This open access book discusses why the seemingly straightforward strategy of teaching children how to think deeply does not work and offers an alternative way forward for the curriculum to achieve these objectives. Over ...
Governance and Control of Data and Digital Economy in the European Single Market
(2025)
In an era where the digital realm is evolving at an unprecedented pace, the legal framework must adapt accordingly to ensure effective governance and control. This open access book explores the intricate web of regulations ...
Vor der Revolution
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch setzt sich zum Ziel, eingebettet in historische Kontexte paralleler Kalter Kriege im globalen und regionalen Rahmen die historische Genese der amerikanisch-iranischen Sonderbeziehungen nach dem ...
Governance of Arctic Shipping
(2020)
This open access book is a result of the Dalhousie-led research project Safe Navigation and Environment Protection, supported by a grant from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s the Canada First Research Excellent Fund (CFREF). ...
Mapping selfies and memes as Touch
(2022)
This open access book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of digitally networked socialities as culturally meaningful relationships of Touch. Focusing on the ways Touch is practised in everyday social interactions serves ...
Preventing Mental Illness
(2019)
This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians ...
Regulating the Metaverse Economy
(2024)
This open access book examines regulating an environment that has no jurisdiction, is fully anonymous and infinitely vast? Welcome to the Metaverse, an online virtual reality that is expected to add billions to the global ...
Pflege-Report 2022
(2022)
Der Pflege-Report, der jährlich in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, rückt im Schwerpunkt 2022 jene Pflegebedürftigen in den Mittelpunkt, die nicht wie im „Normalfall“ aus altersassoziierten Gründen ...