Publications
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Regulatory Pathways for Smart Grid Development in China
(2015)
Energy Policy, Economics and Management; Energy Technology; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
Nils Petter Gleditsch: Pioneer in the Analysis of War and Peace
(2015)
Environmental Law / Policy / Ecojustice
Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe
(2020)
This open access book brings together a unique set of comparative data from Western and Central Europe on how contemporary families live, and discusses the similarities and differences in family lifestyles in this region. ...
Chapter Broadband NIRS Cerebral Evaluation of the Hemodynamic and Oxidative State of Cytochrome-c-Oxidase Responses to +Gz Acceleration in Healthy Volunteers
(2020)
We used a miniature broadband NIRS system to monitor concentration changes in brain oxygenation (oxy- and deoxy- haemoglobin [HbO2], [HHb]) and oxidised cytochrome-c-oxidase ([oxCCO]) during a high +Gz acceleration, induced ...
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 ...
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 ...
Quality Management and Accreditation in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
(2021)
This open access book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview on how to build a quality management program for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and cellular therapy. The text reviews all the essential ...
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 ...
Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy
(2022)
This open access book provides researchers and professionals with a foundational understanding of online privacy as well as insight into the socio-technical privacy issues that are most pertinent to modern information ...
Peer review in an Era of Evaluation
(2022)
This open access volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science itself, recent changes in the evaluation culture of higher education systems have increased ...
The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education
(2022)
This book is open access and discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities have become over-managed business enterprises which may not reflect ...
Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development
(2016)
Agriculture; Agricultural Economics; Geography, general; Innovation/Technology Management
Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management
(2022)
This open access book includes a selection of contributions from the Life Cycle Management 2019 Conference (LCM) held in Poznań, Poland, and presents different examples of scientific and practical contributions, showing ...
Teilhabeforschung – Konturen eines neuen Forschungsfeldes
(2022)
Teilhabeforschung untersucht die Lebenslagen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen und Behinderungen unter den normativen Perspektiven von Inklusion und gleichberechtigter Teilhabe. Sie berücksichtigt, dass sich die ...
Research on Teaching and Learning Probability
(2016)
Mathematics Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning and Instruction
Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(2022)
This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in ...
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative Solutions in Hydropower Engineering and Civil Engineering
(2023)
This open access book is compilation of selected papers from 2nd International Conference on Innovative Solutions in Hydropower Engineering and Civil Engineering (HECE 2022). The work focuses on novel techniques for topics ...
Schulbezogene Motivierungspraktiken von Eltern
(2021)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch untersucht die sprachlichen Motivierungspraktiken von Eltern und zeigt Handlungsoptionen auf, wie diese verbessert werden könnten. Eltern üben mit ihren Einstellungen, Aspirationen und ...
Debating European Citizenship
(2019)
This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is derived from Member State nationality? Who should get it? What ...
Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America
(2021)
This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes ...
Challenging Global Development
(2024)
This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty ...
Italian Contemporary Screen Performers
(2025)
Bringing together performance studies, celebrity studies, and media production studies, this open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-layered condition of film and television performers within the ...
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 ...
TouchDevelop
(2013)
Computer science
Measurement and Control of Charged Particle Beams
(2003-05-21)
This advanced textbook and reference is the first comprehensive and systematic review of all methods used for the measurement, correction, and control of the beam dynamics of modern particle accelerators. Based on material ...
Chapter The Perspective of “Coup Forces,” Saleh and Houthi Elements
(2020)
"From the onset of the Saada wars (2004 – 2010), the Houthis have been described as an Iranian proxy and a security threat. Ali Abdullah Saleh long deployed this Iranian narrative to obtain budgetary and military support ...
Active Disturbance Rejection Control
(2025)
This open access text offers the first comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles and practical implementation of Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC). Drawing on their years of experience in both ...
Europe in the Age of Post-Truth Politics
(2023)
This open access book is the product of three years of academic research that has been carried out in the EU-funded Jean Monnet Network on “Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the Delegitimation of European Integration” ...
Frontier Research on High Performance Concrete and Mechanical Properties
(2025)
This open access book focuses on cutting-edge research in high-performance concrete. Concrete has been a main construction material all over the world in the past century. As the demand for construction rises, the need for ...
Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence
(2022)
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development ...
History of Mathematics Teaching and Learning
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching; Textbook
The Enactment of Strategic Leadership
(2022)
This Open Access book explores the meaning and roles that strategy and leadership play in our lives. Based on decades of experience, the author contemplates whether we believe strategic leadership exists because it actually ...
Climate-Resilient Cities
(2025)
This edited volume discusses the concept of resilient cities within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Written by an international panel of scholars and experts, the book presents theoretical approaches, identifies ...
Electricity Access, Decarbonization, and Integration of Renewables
(2023)
This Open-Access-Book covers different aspects of the low-carbon energy transformation in a unique manner, with a particular focus on two regions, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The first part of the book provides ...
Physics of Earth’s Radiation Belts
(2022)
This open access book serves as textbook on the physics of the radiation belts surrounding the Earth. Discovered in 1958 the famous Van Allen Radiation belts were among the first scientific discoveries of the Space Age. ...
International Conference on Urban Climate, Sustainability and Urban Design
(2025)
This open access book is a proceeding of the International Conference on Urban Climate, Sustainability, and Urban Design in Mianyang (MYUCSUD). This work focuses on the latest thoughts, ideas, models, methods, solutions, ...
Police Code of Silence in Times of Change
(2022)
This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in ...
Platform Embedded Security Technology Revealed
(2014)
Computer science
Collider Physics within the Standard Model
(2017)
elementary particles; quantum field theory; string theory
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 ...
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; ...
Constitutional Change in the European Union
(2022)
Europe’s future is contested between those who want to integrate further, those who prefer things to stay as they are, and those who would retreat into nationalism. These divisions impair the government of the European ...
Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Hydrothermal Systems
(2015)
Oceanography; Biogeosciences; Geochemistry
Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions
(2020)
This open access book synthesizes leading-edge science and management information about forest and rangeland soils of the United States. It offers ways to better understand changing conditions and their impacts on soils, ...
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 ...
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. ...
A Visual Atlas for Soil Micromorphologists
(2021)
This open access atlas is an up-to-date visual resource on the features and structures observed in soil thin sections, i.e. soil micromorphology. The book addresses the growing interest in soil micromorphology in the fields ...
Managing Elevated Risk: Global Liquidity, Capital Flows, and Macroprudential Policy - An Asian Perspective
(2015)
Finance/Investment/Banking; Economic Policy; Development Economics
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2020)
This open access two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in ...
Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality
(2021)
This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers ...
Understanding the Creeping Crisis
(2021)
This open access book explores a special species of trouble afflicting modern societies: creeping crises. These crises evolve over time, reveal themselves in different ways, and resist comprehensive responses despite ...
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 ...
Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations ICOSAHOM 2018
(2020)
This open access book features a selection of high-quality papers from the presentations at the International Conference on Spectral and High-Order Methods 2018, offering an overview of the depth and breadth of the activities ...
Introduction to Digital Humanism
(2024)
This open access textbook introduces and defines digital humanism from a diverse range of disciplines. Following the 2019 Vienna Manifesto, the book calls for a digital humanism that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, ...
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 ...
Decarbonizing Freight Transport
(2022)
This Open-Access-Book analyzes the acceptance of sustainable freight transport and suggests a new framework for policy measures to decarbonize freight transport. Despite intense political endeavors, the environmental ...
The Coupling of Safety and Security
(2020)
This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, ...
Diseases of the Brain, Head and Neck, Spine 2020–2023
(2020)
This open access book offers an essential overview of brain, head and neck, and spine imaging. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by both clinical and technological developments. ...
Making Sense of Work Through Collaborative Storytelling
(2022)
Collective sense making starts with individual stories. Stories influence how we construct our sense of self in relation to others and our social environment, especially within the world of work. The stories we tell ourselves ...
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 ...