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Globalization in State Socialist East Central Europe
(2024)
This open access Palgrave Pivot explores four major aspects of globalization: foreign trade, capital and information flows, and the movement of people. The book examines how the state socialist countries of East Central ...
Handbook of Vascular Biometrics
(2020)
This open access handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of biometrics exploiting the shape of human blood vessels for biometric recognition, i.e. vascular biometrics, including finger vein recognition, hand/palm ...
Handbook of Vascular Biometrics
(2020)
This open access handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of biometrics exploiting the shape of human blood vessels for biometric recognition, i.e. vascular biometrics, including finger vein recognition, hand/palm ...
Aktives Altern im digitalen Zeitalter
(2022)
Altersgerechte Assistenzsysteme leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag, die Lebensumgebung mit intelligenter Technik gesundheitsfördernder und selbstbestimmt zu gestalten. Diverse Sensoren, Geräte und Dienste (z.B. Sturzmeldesysteme, ...
Aktives Altern im digitalen Zeitalter
(2022)
Altersgerechte Assistenzsysteme leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag, die Lebensumgebung mit intelligenter Technik gesundheitsfördernder und selbstbestimmt zu gestalten. Diverse Sensoren, Geräte und Dienste (z.B. Sturzmeldesysteme, ...
Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945
(2023)
Religion as a form of cultural expression constitutes a critical element in the relationship between Germany and India. The discovery of Indian traditions in Germany and re-interpretations of those traditions in India ...
Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945
(2023)
Religion as a form of cultural expression constitutes a critical element in the relationship between Germany and India. The discovery of Indian traditions in Germany and re-interpretations of those traditions in India ...
Blue Planet Law
(2023)
Blue Planet Law is the global and future-oriented environmental law that is necessary to face the global environmental crisis in the Anthropocene, assuming especially the link between climate action (SDG 13) and ocean ...
Blue Planet Law
(2023)
Blue Planet Law is the global and future-oriented environmental law that is necessary to face the global environmental crisis in the Anthropocene, assuming especially the link between climate action (SDG 13) and ocean ...
Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
(2024)
This book offers a unique look into the world of policing and the frontline of Brazil’s war on drugs. It analyzes the tensions produced by attempts to modernize Rio de Janeiro’s public security policies. Since the return ...
Foundations of Quantum Theory: From Classical Concepts to Operator Algebras
(2017)
Quantum physics; Mathematical physics; Matrix theory; Algebra
Foundations of Quantum Theory: From Classical Concepts to Operator Algebras
(2017)
Quantum physics; Mathematical physics; Matrix theory; Algebra
Social Change in the Gulf Region
(2023)
This open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to dive into the complex, dynamic, and sometimes contradictory transformation ...
Indigenous Pathways, Transitions and Participation in Higher Education: From Policy to Practice
(2017)
Higher education; international and comparative education; educational policy and politics
Hot Property
(2019)
This open access book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and central banks. Cities are booming everywhere, leading to a growing demand for urban ...
Hot Property
(2019)
This open access book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and central banks. Cities are booming everywhere, leading to a growing demand for urban ...
Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?: Looking Over the Long Run
(2017)
Development Economics; Economic Growth; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Political Economy; Latin American Culture
Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?: Looking Over the Long Run
(2017)
Development Economics; Economic Growth; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Political Economy; Latin American Culture
Case Studies in Biocultural Diversity from Southeast Asia
(2022)
This open access book demonstrates the linkages between local languages, traditional knowledge, and biodiversity at the landscape level in Asia, providing a fresh approach to discussions on Asia’s biocultural diversity. ...
Case Studies in Biocultural Diversity from Southeast Asia
(2022)
This open access book demonstrates the linkages between local languages, traditional knowledge, and biodiversity at the landscape level in Asia, providing a fresh approach to discussions on Asia’s biocultural diversity. ...
Robots in Care and Everyday Life
(2023)
This open access book presents detailed findings about the ethical, legal, and social acceptance of robots in the German and European context. The key resource is the Bremen AI Delphi survey of scientists and politicians ...
Robots in Care and Everyday Life
(2023)
This open access book presents detailed findings about the ethical, legal, and social acceptance of robots in the German and European context. The key resource is the Bremen AI Delphi survey of scientists and politicians ...
Introducing Foreign Models for Development
(2024)
This open access book studies how foreign models of economic development can be effectively learned by and applied to today’s latecomer countries. Policy capacity and societal learning are increasingly stressed as ...
Introducing Foreign Models for Development
(2024)
This open access book studies how foreign models of economic development can be effectively learned by and applied to today’s latecomer countries. Policy capacity and societal learning are increasingly stressed as ...
Forest Entomology and Pathology
(2023)
This open access book will provide an introduction to forest entomology, the principles and techniques of forest insect pest management, the different forest insect guilds/feeding groups, and relevant forest insect pest ...
Energy and Sustainable Futures
(2021)
This open access book presents papers displayed in the 2nd International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Futures (ICESF 2020), co-organised by the University of Hertfordshire and the University Alliance DTA in Energy. ...
Energy and Sustainable Futures
(2021)
This open access book presents papers displayed in the 2nd International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Futures (ICESF 2020), co-organised by the University of Hertfordshire and the University Alliance DTA in Energy. ...
Measure, Integration & Real Analysis
(2020)
This open access textbook welcomes students into the fundamental theory of measure, integration, and real analysis. Focusing on an accessible approach, Axler lays the foundations for further study by promoting a deep ...
Measure, Integration & Real Analysis
(2020)
This open access textbook welcomes students into the fundamental theory of measure, integration, and real analysis. Focusing on an accessible approach, Axler lays the foundations for further study by promoting a deep ...
Sensorgestützte Kartierung von Bodeneigenschaften für die teilflächenspezifische Kalkung
(2025)
Dieses Open Access Buch vermittelt fundierte Grundlagen und praxisorientierte Anleitungen für die genaue Kartierung von Ackerflächen auf der Grundlage von Bodenparametern wie Textur, pH-Wert und Humusgehalt. Es werden die ...
Sensorgestützte Kartierung von Bodeneigenschaften für die teilflächenspezifische Kalkung
(2025)
Dieses Open Access Buch vermittelt fundierte Grundlagen und praxisorientierte Anleitungen für die genaue Kartierung von Ackerflächen auf der Grundlage von Bodenparametern wie Textur, pH-Wert und Humusgehalt. Es werden die ...
Fallibility at Work
(2017)
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book addresses how organizations can deal with human fallibility in order to create space for excellence at work. Some mistakes in work settings put lives ...
Der weite Weg zum Bürgergeld
(2024)
Der Open-Access Band diskutiert das neue Bürgergeld in seiner sozialpolitischen Geschichte und Bedeutung. Das seit 2023 in Deutschland geltende „Bürgergeld“ sollte die unbeliebte Sozialleistung „Hartz 4“ ablösen, zugleich ...
New Horizons in Systemic Practice with Children and Families
(2024)
This open access book illustrates how systemic theory, as both a meta-theory and a relational organic theory, can be a suitable framework for understanding and appreciating the new horizons of systemic practice with children ...
New Horizons in Systemic Practice with Children and Families
(2024)
This open access book illustrates how systemic theory, as both a meta-theory and a relational organic theory, can be a suitable framework for understanding and appreciating the new horizons of systemic practice with children ...
Between Peace and Conflict in the East and the West
(2021)
This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, socio-economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical region and ...
Between Peace and Conflict in the East and the West
(2021)
This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, socio-economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical region and ...
Theory and Practice of Sociosensitive and Socioactive Systems
(2022)
Interactive adaptive systems increasingly become part of our everyday life. Which factors could shape this development and under which conditions will interactions with technical systems be deemed socially appropriate? The ...
Theory and Practice of Sociosensitive and Socioactive Systems
(2022)
Interactive adaptive systems increasingly become part of our everyday life. Which factors could shape this development and under which conditions will interactions with technical systems be deemed socially appropriate? The ...
Informatics in the Future: Proceedings of the 11th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2015), Vienna, October 2015
(2017)
Big data; Computing ethics; Women in computing; Research ethics
Informatics in the Future: Proceedings of the 11th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2015), Vienna, October 2015
(2017)
Big data; Computing ethics; Women in computing; Research ethics
Sustainability of Southern African Ecosystems under Global Change
(2024)
This open access book about the sustainability of marine and terrestrial ecosystems in southern Africa provides a synthesis of the research program Science Partnerships for the Adaptation to Complex Earth System Processes ...
Sustainability of Southern African Ecosystems under Global Change
(2024)
This open access book about the sustainability of marine and terrestrial ecosystems in southern Africa provides a synthesis of the research program Science Partnerships for the Adaptation to Complex Earth System Processes ...
Social Dynamics in Swiss Society
(2018)
Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open access book describes how the lives of the Swiss population have changed in terms of health, family ...
Social Dynamics in Swiss Society
(2018)
Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open access book describes how the lives of the Swiss population have changed in terms of health, family ...
Popularität und Relevanz in der Suche
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird mithilfe eines großangelegten Online-Experiments untersucht, wie sich die Anzeige von Zitationen oder Downloads auf die Relevanzbewertung in akademischen Suchsystemenauswirkt. Bei der Suche ...
The Fundamental Elements of Strategy
(2021)
This open access book clarifies confusions of strategy that have existed for nearly 40 years through the core thoughts of three fundamental elements. Unlike the traditional definition of strategy as "a plan to achieve a ...
The Fundamental Elements of Strategy
(2021)
This open access book clarifies confusions of strategy that have existed for nearly 40 years through the core thoughts of three fundamental elements. Unlike the traditional definition of strategy as "a plan to achieve a ...
Cold Micro Metal Forming
(2020)
This open access book contains the research report of the Collaborative Research Center “Micro Cold Forming” (SFB 747) of the University of Bremen, Germany. The topical research focus lies on new methods and processes for ...
Cold Micro Metal Forming
(2020)
This open access book contains the research report of the Collaborative Research Center “Micro Cold Forming” (SFB 747) of the University of Bremen, Germany. The topical research focus lies on new methods and processes for ...
The Social Construction of Death
(2014)
Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the ...
The Social Construction of Death
(2014)
Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the ...
Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research
(2014)
Information Profession; Information Literacy; LIS Education; Trends; Information Retrieval; Informatrics
Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes
(2021)
This Open Access book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication that incorporates social change messaging into entertaining media. Sometimes called ...
Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes
(2021)
This Open Access book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication that incorporates social change messaging into entertaining media. Sometimes called ...
Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming’s Philosophy of Mind
(2020)
This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult ...
Semiotics in Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education
Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa
(2019)
This open access book presents a strong philosophical, theoretical and practical argument for the mainstreaming of indigenous knowledge in curricula development, and in teaching and learning across the African continent. ...
Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa
(2019)
This open access book presents a strong philosophical, theoretical and practical argument for the mainstreaming of indigenous knowledge in curricula development, and in teaching and learning across the African continent. ...
Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea
(2016)
Environmental Management; Water Policy
Learn BlackBerry 10 App Development
(2014)
Computer science
Learn BlackBerry 10 App Development
(2014)
Computer science
Chapter 9 Moral Responsibility and the Justification of Policies to Preserve Antimicrobial Effectiveness
(2020)
Restrictive policies that limit antimicrobial consumption, including therapeutically
justified use, might be necessary to tackle the problem of antimicrobial
resistance. We argue that such policies would be ethically ...
Chapter 9 Moral Responsibility and the Justification of Policies to Preserve Antimicrobial Effectiveness
(2020)
Restrictive policies that limit antimicrobial consumption, including therapeutically
justified use, might be necessary to tackle the problem of antimicrobial
resistance. We argue that such policies would be ethically ...
A History of Force Feeding
(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 ...
A History of Force Feeding
(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 ...
Improving Potassium Recommendations for Agricultural Crops
(2021)
This open access book highlights concepts discussed at two international conferences that brought together world-renowned scientists to advance the science of potassium (K) recommendations for crops. There was general ...
Improving Potassium Recommendations for Agricultural Crops
(2021)
This open access book highlights concepts discussed at two international conferences that brought together world-renowned scientists to advance the science of potassium (K) recommendations for crops. There was general ...
Culture and Sustainability
(2023)
This Open access book brings a cultural lens, and a distinctive analytical framework, to the problem of transitioning to a sustainable, low-carbon future. The world faces a seemingly impossible hurdle – to radically alter ...
Culture and Sustainability
(2023)
This Open access book brings a cultural lens, and a distinctive analytical framework, to the problem of transitioning to a sustainable, low-carbon future. The world faces a seemingly impossible hurdle – to radically alter ...
Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming’s Philosophy of Mind
(2020)
This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult ...
The Physics of the B Factories
(2017)
Physics
The Physics of the B Factories
(2017)
Physics
Digitale Teilhabe von Menschen mit einer geistigen Beeinträchtigung
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Entwicklung einer Definition, eines Modells und eines Erhebungsinstruments Digitaler Teilhabe von Menschen mit geistiger Beeinträchtigung beschrieben. Eine geistige Behinderung wird als ...
Digitale Teilhabe von Menschen mit einer geistigen Beeinträchtigung
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Entwicklung einer Definition, eines Modells und eines Erhebungsinstruments Digitaler Teilhabe von Menschen mit geistiger Beeinträchtigung beschrieben. Eine geistige Behinderung wird als ...
Towards a Digital Epistemology
(2021)
This Open Access book explores the concept of digital epistemology. In this context, the digital will not be understood as merely something that is linked to specific tools and objects, but rather as different modes of ...
Towards a Digital Epistemology
(2021)
This Open Access book explores the concept of digital epistemology. In this context, the digital will not be understood as merely something that is linked to specific tools and objects, but rather as different modes of ...
Solving PDEs in Python
(2016)
This book offers a concise and gentle introduction to finite element programming in Python based on the popular FEniCS software library. Using a series of examples, including the Poisson equation, the equations of linear ...
Solving PDEs in Python
(2016)
This book offers a concise and gentle introduction to finite element programming in Python based on the popular FEniCS software library. Using a series of examples, including the Poisson equation, the equations of linear ...
The Japanese Banking Crisis
(2021)
This open access book provides a readable narrative of the bubbles and the banking crisis Japan experienced during the two decades between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. Japan, which was a leading competitor in the ...