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The Philosophy of Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education, Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy
Neuroaesthetics
(2024)
This open access neuroaesthetics textbook, the first in the world, is designed for teaching a semester module (14 meetings) to undergraduate/masters students from both the sciences and the humanities. Written in a style ...
Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World: Albanian Migrants and Their Children in Europe
(2015)
Migration; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Childhood, Adolescence and Society; Sociology, general
Post-Truth Populism
(2024)
This open access book analyses the convergence between ‘post-truth’ political culture and the politics of populism. The premise is that there is an intrinsic link between post-truth discourse (referring to mis/disinformation, ...
Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in September 2020. ...
Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility
(2020)
"This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that ...
Wie Sprache dem Verstehen hilft
(2022)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch widmet sich den Desiderata, Design-Kriterien für sprachsensiblen Fachunterricht am Beispiel des Geographieunterrichts zu entwickeln sowie Erkenntnisse über dessen Wirksamkeit hinsichtlich ...
Programming Languages and Systems: 27th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings
(2018)
artificial intelligence; computer architecture; computer software selection and evaluation; distributed computer systems; formal logic; formal model; java; model checking; processors; program compilers; program ...
Finite Difference Computing with Exponential Decay Models
(2016)
Computational Science and Engineering; software Engineering; Programming Techniques
Measuring Gender Equality
(2023)
In this open access book, the editors explicitly address the issue of measuring gender equality. The book introduces readers to basic concepts of gender equality, equity and equal opportunities, then discusses measuring ...
Governance for Drought Resilience
(2016)
Climate Change Management and Policy; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
(2015)
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh ...
Party System Changes and Challenges to Democracy
(2024)
This open access book focuses on the nexus between “party system stability” and “democratic consolidation”, using Slovenia as a case study. Its findings are presented from a comparative perspective to illustrate the ...
Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights
(2021)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices. Sex ...
Equity Policies in Global Higher Education
(2022)
This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation ...
Educational Processes, Decisions, and the Development of Competencies from Early Preschool Age to Adolescence
(2024)
The contributions to the open access volume are comprehensive summaries of important research findings from the two comprehensive interdisciplinary longitudinal studies BiKS-3-18 and BiKS-8-18 conducted by the research ...
Public Administration in Japan
(2024)
This open access book provides an authoritative overview of public administration, public management and public governance in Japan. Japan is one of the leading countries on the international stage, with a reputation for ...
Von Japan nach Deutschland
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird erstmals mithilfe einer qualitativen Studie in den fünf größten japanischen Communitys Deutschlands - Düsseldorf, München, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg - das Migrations- und ...
70 Years of Levothyroxine
(2021)
This open access book presents the history, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of levothyroxine, discussing its role in the thyroid pathophysiology of patients of various ages and during pregnancy. It also describes the ...
Understanding Energy Innovation
(2022)
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themes—networks, nodes, narratives and nostalgia—and ...
Chapter 11 Understanding the Social Care Crisis in England Through Older People’s Lived Experiences
(2020)
The chapter’s focus is social care in England where responsibility for
the organisation and funding of care has shifted from the state to the individual.
It draws on a qualitative research project about the experiences ...
Supercomputing Frontiers
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Asian Conference Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2022, which took place in Singapore in March 2022. The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully ...
Deliberative Public Engagement with Science: An Empirical Investigation
(2018)
experimental manipulations of deliberative engagement; nanotechnology public policy issues; education-oriented communications; experimental social science; science, technology and society; innovation policy; ...
Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015
(2017)
economics; productivity; consumption; value; income; expenditure
Teacher Education in the Nordic Region
(2023)
This open access book is the first account of the whole diversity of teacher education in the Nordic region: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, the Åland Islands and Sápmi (where the ...
Post Un-Lock
(2023)
This open access book builds a framework that holds together numerous open issues in territorial planning: from the understanding of territorial, landscape, environmental and climatic dynamics to the analysis of local ...
Core Concepts and Methods in Load Forecasting
(2023)
This comprehensive open access book enables readers to discover the essential techniques for load forecasting in electricity networks, particularly for active distribution networks. From statistical methods to deep learning ...
Sexualisierte Gewalt und digitale Medien
(2022)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation stellen Katharina Kärgel und Frederic Vobbe anhand sieben typischer Fallbeispiele Handlungsempfehlungen für einen adäquaten Umgang mit mediatisierter sexualisierter Gewalt dar. Die ...
Emerging Technologies
(2022)
This monograph investigates a multitude of emerging technologies including 3D printing, 5G, blockchain, and many more to assess their potential for use to further humanity’s shared goal of sustainable development. Through ...
Procurement and Politics
(2023)
This open access book compares the experiences of large-scale military procurement in Canada and Australia. Focusing on the recent frigate and jet-fighter programmes, it demonstrates how delays suffered in delivering weapons ...
Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology
(2018)
Community-Oriented Policing; Policing and Society; Police Science; Police-Community Relations; Police Legitimacy; Technology and Ethics; Fear of Crime; Crime Detection
Handbook of Ocean Wave Energy
(2017)
Offshore Engineering; Renewable and Green Energy; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation; Natural Resource and Energy Economics; Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Transdisciplinarity for Transformation
(2024)
This open access book presents state-of-the-art insights on transdisciplinary work towards societal transformation. It provides theoretical and practical guidance and tools, applicable across diverse empirical settings. ...
The Creative Gesture
(2024)
This open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the theme of creativity as a symbolic capacity to link things together: it manifests itself when the ...
Linked Open Data - Creating Knowledge Out of Interlinked Data
(2014)
Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems and Communication Service
Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends
(2016)
This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the ...
Chasing the Chinese Dream
(2021)
This open access book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society since Liberation in 1949, and why poverty alleviation measures evolved from the ...
Oxygen-Carrier-Aided Combustion Technology for Solid-Fuel Conversion in Fluidized Bed
(2023)
This open access book surveys the development of OCAC technology in the last decade for solid fuel conversion in fluidized beds. The scientific concerns, including combustion and emission characteristics, ash-related ...
Chapter PART I: Introduction
(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 ...
Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Applications in Agriculture and Biology
(2023)
This open access book offers an introduction to mixed generalized linear models with applications to the biological sciences, basically approached from an applications perspective, without neglecting the rigor of the theory. ...
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
(2023)
This open access collection of AI ethics case studies is the first book to present real-life case studies combined with commentaries and strategies for overcoming ethical challenges. Case studies are one of the best ways ...
Proof and Proving in Mathematics Education
(2012)
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Transdisciplinarity for Transformation
(2024)
This open access book presents state-of-the-art insights on transdisciplinary work towards societal transformation. It provides theoretical and practical guidance and tools, applicable across diverse empirical settings. ...
Education for Citizenship in Times of Global Challenge
(2025)
This open access book investigates the ways in which young people around the world are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens. It presents the international results from the third cycle of the study IEA’s International ...
Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends
(2016)
This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the ...
External Voting
(2023)
This open access book is the first monograph that brings together insights from comparative politics, political sociology, and migration studies to introduce the current state of knowledge on external voting and transnational ...
Saving for Development
(2016)
development; economic policy
Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
(2018)
This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid ...
Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Applications in Agriculture and Biology
(2023)
This open access book offers an introduction to mixed generalized linear models with applications to the biological sciences, basically approached from an applications perspective, without neglecting the rigor of the theory. ...
Emerging Technologies
(2022)
This monograph investigates a multitude of emerging technologies including 3D printing, 5G, blockchain, and many more to assess their potential for use to further humanity’s shared goal of sustainable development. Through ...
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
(2023)
This open access collection of AI ethics case studies is the first book to present real-life case studies combined with commentaries and strategies for overcoming ethical challenges. Case studies are one of the best ways ...
Documenting the Armenian Genocide
(2024)
This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a ...
Digitale Souveränität: Bürger | Unternehmen | Staat
(2018)
Digitales Lernen; Datenaufbereitung; Industrie 4.0; Breitbandausbau; Echtzeitvernetzung; Wertschöpfung und Arbeitsmarkt; Gesellschaftlicher Wandel; Digitale Geschäftsmodelle; Arbeitswelt 4.0
EQUITY IN COVID-19
(2024)
This Open Access edited volume presents twelve African case studies that systematically reconstruct, document and analyse how national governments and other stakeholders took equity into account in their initial policy ...
The Globalization of Science Curricula
(2018)
Globalization; Science education; Science curricula; Large scale international assessments; Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey; TIMSS; Policy borrowing; Curriculum reform; IEA Research for Education
Chapter 3 Clinical Manifestations
(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 ...
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Signaling in Neuroprotection
(2018)
Alzheimer’s disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Nicotine; Transporter; Glia
Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things
(2024)
This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes four related strands in the history of experimental control: the development ...
Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things
(2024)
This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes four related strands in the history of experimental control: the development ...
Oxygen-Carrier-Aided Combustion Technology for Solid-Fuel Conversion in Fluidized Bed
(2023)
This open access book surveys the development of OCAC technology in the last decade for solid fuel conversion in fluidized beds. The scientific concerns, including combustion and emission characteristics, ash-related ...
Bariatric Surgery in Clinical Practice
(2022)
obesity; disease; bariatric surgery; clinical practice
Making Presentation Math Computable
(2023)
This Open-Access-book addresses the issue of translating mathematical expressions from LaTeX to the syntax of Computer Algebra Systems (CAS). Over the past decades, especially in the domain of Sciences, Technology, ...
Alpine Landgesellschaften zwischen Urbanisierung und Globalisierung
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet Einblicke in die Bandbreite agrar- und regional-soziologischer Forschung und eng verwandter Disziplinen in Österreich. Es widmet sich den vielfältigen Lebensrealitäten von Akteurinnen und ...
The Handbook of Salutogenesis
(2022)
This open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the 2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena. Revised and updated from the ...
Stochastic Discounted Cash Flow
(2020)
This open access book discusses firm valuation, which is of interest to economists, particularly those working in finance. Firm valuation comes down to the calculation of the discounted cash flow, often only referred to ...
Das Co-Creation Toolbook
(2022)
Das in dieser Open-Access-Publikation vorgestellte Toolbook soll zur Ermutigung und Stärkung von Science-/Society-Projekten beitragen und den weiteren Diskurs stimulieren. Es bietet wissenschaftlich fundierte und zugleich ...
Gesundheitsversorgung am Lebensende
(2016)
Social Structure, Social Inequality
Persistent Organic Pollutants in Human Milk
(2023)
This open access book reviews the trends of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in human milk and discusses the main findings of five global surveys that were coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ...
Chapter 4 Endemic Mycoses and Allergies
(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 ...
Stochastic Dynamic Response Analysis and Performance-Based Seismic Safety Evaluation for High Concrete Faced Rockfill Dams
(2025)
This open access book provides a complete probabilistic analysis method and a performance-based seismic safety evaluation for high concrete faced rockfill dam (CFRD). Combined with random sample generation and reliability ...
The Creative Gesture
(2024)
This open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the theme of creativity as a symbolic capacity to link things together: it manifests itself when the ...
Biologiedidaktische Nature of Science-Forschung: Zukunftsweisende Praxis
(2024)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch präsentiert aktuelle Erkenntnisse einer Schwerpunkttagung zum Reflektieren über die Natur der Naturwissenschaften (Nature of Science). Sie erfahren weiterführende Ideen durch neue theoretische und ...
Chasing the Chinese Dream
(2021)
This open access book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society since Liberation in 1949, and why poverty alleviation measures evolved from the ...
Sexualisierte Gewalt und digitale Medien
(2022)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation stellen Katharina Kärgel und Frederic Vobbe anhand sieben typischer Fallbeispiele Handlungsempfehlungen für einen adäquaten Umgang mit mediatisierter sexualisierter Gewalt dar. Die ...
Documenting the Armenian Genocide
(2024)
This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a ...
European Union Support for Colombia's Peace Process
(2023)
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches ...
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Signaling in Neuroprotection
(2018)
Alzheimer’s disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Nicotine; Transporter; Glia
Responsive Schulleitung
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird Schulleitungshandeln im Kontext einer nationalen Reformumsetzung (Neue-Mittelschul-Reform) betrachtet. Dabei fokussiert die Arbeit auf den Ansatz der responsiven Führung. Dieser Zugang hilft, ...
Chapter 3 Clinical Manifestations
(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 ...
Linked Open Data - Creating Knowledge Out of Interlinked Data
(2014)
Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems and Communication Service
Terrorist Risk in Urban Outdoor Built Environment
(2025)
This open access book outlines the latest results in analysing, assessing, and managing terrorist risk in the urban outdoor built environment. In detail, contents refer to the outdoor Open Areas (such as streets, squares, ...
Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
(2018)
This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid ...
Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage
(2025)
This open access book addresses the gap in existing knowledge on cultural heritage from a circular economy and sustainable development perspective for cities. It introduces innovative economic, environmental and governance ...
Annals of Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics 2022
(2023)
This Open Access proceedings presents a good overview of the current research landscape of assembly, handling and industrial robotics. The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and ...
The Handbook of Salutogenesis
(2022)
This open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the 2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena. Revised and updated from the ...
Echtzeitsimulation in der Produktionsautomatisierung
(2024)
Dieses Open Access Buch befasst sich in 22 Kapiteln von 41 Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis mit einer Sammlung unabhängiger Beiträge, die den heutigen Stand der Forschung und Technik im Bereich der Echtzeitsimulation ...
Echtzeitsimulation in der Produktionsautomatisierung
(2024)
Dieses Open Access Buch befasst sich in 22 Kapiteln von 41 Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis mit einer Sammlung unabhängiger Beiträge, die den heutigen Stand der Forschung und Technik im Bereich der Echtzeitsimulation ...
Proof and Proving in Mathematics Education
(2012)
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Self-Assembled Molecules – New Kind of Protein Ligands
(2017)
immunotargeting techniques; ligands; intramolecular immunological signals; congo red amyloids
Responsive Schulleitung
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird Schulleitungshandeln im Kontext einer nationalen Reformumsetzung (Neue-Mittelschul-Reform) betrachtet. Dabei fokussiert die Arbeit auf den Ansatz der responsiven Führung. Dieser Zugang hilft, ...
Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems
(2024)
This open access proceedings presents new approaches to Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems, experiences and visions. It contains some selected papers from the international Conference ML4CPS – Machine Learning for ...
Biotechnologie praxisorientiert unterrichten
(2023)
In diesem Open Access Buch finden Sie Anregungen für die praktische und schülergerechte Umsetzung molekularbiologischer Methoden an ausgewählten Themenbeispielen für den Biologieunterricht. Biotechnologische Methoden wie ...
Social Innovations in the Urban Context
(2016)
Sociology, general; Social Policy; Political Theory
Towards Sustainable Good Health and Well-being
(2025)
The purpose of this open access book is threefold. The first is to shed light on patient participation and health literacy for Good Health and Well-being, which is one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Health ...
Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa
(2024)
This open access book breaks new ground by examining the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three Francophone West African countries: Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. It examines the representation and ...
Integrated Diagnostics and Theranostics of Thyroid Diseases
(2023)
This open access book provides basic concepts on Integrated Diagnostics and Theranostics with special emphasis on different human thyroid diseases. Thyroid diseases are increasingly detected (incidentally in many cases) ...
Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing
(2016)
otorhinolaryngology; neurosciences; hearing
Artificial Intelligence Technology
(2023)
This open access book aims to give our readers a basic outline of today’s research and technology developments on artificial intelligence (AI), help them to have a general understanding of this trend, and familiarize them ...
Whole-Body Regeneration
(2022)
This Open Access volume provides a comprehensive overview of the latest tools available to scientists to study the many facets of whole-body regeneration (WBR). The chapters in this book are organized into six parts. Part ...
Ukrainian Migration to the European Union: Lessons from Migration Studies
(2016)
Migration; Population Economics; Political Science