Publications
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Klimawandel in Deutschland
(2017)
climate change; climatology
Emerging States and Economies
(2019)
This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” ...
Guideline for Salinity Assessment, Mitigation and Adaptation Using Nuclear and Related Techniques
(2018)
This open access book is an outcome of the collaboration between the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences ...
Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education
(2019)
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity ...
Satellite Earth Observations and Their Impact on Society and Policy
(2017)
observation-based policy; environment; big data
Uses of Technology in Lower Secondary Mathematics Education: A Concise Topical Survey
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Managed Software Evolution
(2019)
This open access book presents the outcomes of the “Design for Future – Managed Software Evolution” priority program 1593, which was launched by the German Research Foundation (“Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)”) to ...
Problem Solving in Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education: Learning and Instruction
Japan’s Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power
(2019)
This open access book assesses the profound impact of Japan’s aspirations to become a great power on Japanese security, democracy and foreign relations. Rather than viewing the process of normalization and rejuvenation as ...
Internet of Things. Information Processing in an Increasingly Connected World
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First IFIP International Cross-Domain Conference on Internet of Things, IFIPIoT 2018, held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC ...
Bird Species
(2018)
The average person can name more bird species than they think, but do we really know what a bird “species” is? This open access book takes up several fascinating aspects of bird life to elucidate this basic concept in ...
Engineering a Better Future
(2018)
This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social science. Motivated by the ...
Teaching and Learning About Whole Numbers in Primary School
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Teaching; Learning and Instruction
Handbook of Life Course Health Development
(2018)
Health development science; Developmental origins of chronic illnesses; Community; Diabetes; Autism; Obesity; Nutrition; Health disparities across the lifespan; Fetal programming
Migrants and Expats: The Swiss Migration and Mobility Nexus
(2019)
This open access book provides insight on current patterns of migration in Switzerland, which fall along a continuum from long-term and permanent to more temporary and fluid. These patterns are shaped by the interplay of ...
Market Segmentation Analysis
(2018)
Business; Management science; Market research; Statistics
Swiss Public Administration
(2019)
Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other ...
Geographies of Schooling
(2019)
This open access book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions and their specific spatial dimensions from different disciplinary perspectives. It presents ...
Make Life Visible
(2020)
This open access book describes marked advances in imaging technology that have enabled the visualization of phenomena in ways formerly believed to be completely impossible. These technologies have made major contributions ...
Bildungsverläufe von der Einschulung bis in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt: Theoretische Ansätze, empirische Befunde und Beispiele
(2017)
Transitionen; Bildungsentscheidungen; Aus- und Weiterbildung; Steuerung Bildungsverläufe; Bildungs- und Berufsbildungsprozesse; Bildungsverläufe
YOUMARES 8 – Oceans Across Boundaries: Learning from each other
(2018)
This open access book presents the proceedings volume of the YOUMARES 8 conference, which took place in Kiel, Germany, in September 2017, supported by the German Association for Marine Sciences (DGM). The YOUMARES conference ...
Observing the Volcano World
(2018)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully applying volcanology in practice and to identify areas that need to be addressed for ...
The Psychology of Silicon Valley
(2020)
Misinformation. Job displacement. Information overload. Economic inequality. Digital addiction. The breakdown of democracy, civility, and truth itself. This open access book explores the conscious and unconscious norms, ...
Zukunft der Arbeit – Eine praxisnahe Betrachtung
(2018)
Automatisierung; Digitalisierung; Industrie 4.0; Veränderung der Arbeitswelt; Arbeitsmodelle; Arbeitsorganisation; Gestaltung von Arbeitssystemen
Kundennutzen durch digitale Transformation: Business-Process-Management-Studie – Status quo und Erfolgsmuster
(2018)
Geschäftsprozesse; Modellierung; Digitale Transformation; Business Process Management; BPM; Prozessmanagement; Digitalisierung; Kundennutzen; Kunden
Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals
(2019)
This open access book presents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based on state-of-the-art scenario modelling, it provides the vital missing link ...
Deutsch-chinesische Studienangebote erfolgreich managen
(2019)
In diesem Open Access-Buch liefern Katja Kuhn und Patrick Fekete eine hilfreiche Unterstützung zur erfolgreichen Entwicklung und Realisierung deutsch-chinesischer Studienprogramme. Basierend auf einer detaillierten ...
Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective
(2018)
This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, ...
Automated Machine Learning
(2019)
This open access book presents the first comprehensive overview of general methods in Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), collects descriptions of existing systems based on these methods, and discusses the first series ...
Medienraum Diaspora
(2019)
Alena Strohmaier diskutiert in diesem Open-Access-Buch die komplexen Konfigurationen von Diaspora, deren soziopolitische und kulturelle Aspekte und unternimmt eine theoretische Dimensionierung des Begriffs, indem sie diesen ...
A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
(2015)
Public Health; Sociology, general; Epidemiology
Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development
(2017)
Climate Change; Sustainable Development; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Environmental Management
Pflege-Report 2019
(2020)
Der Pflege-Report, der in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, nimmt jährlich relevante Themen der Versorgung von Pflegebedürftigen unter die Lupe. Schwerpunkt des Jahres 2019 ist die Frage „Mehr Personal ...
The Ethics of Cybersecurity
(2020)
This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of papers that provide an integrative view on cybersecurity. It discusses theories, problems and solutions on the relevant ethical issues involved. This ...
Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions
(2020)
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct ...
Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather
(2020)
Earth sciences; Natural disasters; Climate change; Coasts; Environmental management; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Social justice; Human rights
Präventionsarbeit der Polizei als pädagogische Herausforderung
(2022)
Mit diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein Beitrag zur Professionalisierung der Präventionsarbeit der Polizei geleistet. Polizeibeamtinnen und Polizeibeamten müssen in der täglichen Präventionspraxis unterschiedlichsten Erwartungen ...
Self as Method
(2023)
Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, ...
Bioethics and the Holocaust
(2022)
This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics ...
Unterrichtszentrierte Schulentwicklung
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Marco Galle, wie Lehrpersonen und Schulleitende ihren Unterricht und ihre Schule so weiterentwickeln können, dass sich die persönlichen Voraussetzungen und Ziele der Schülerinnen und ...