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Revitalizing Indian Agriculture and Boosting Farmer Incomes
(2021)
This open access book provides an evidence-based roadmap for revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring that the growth process is efficient, inclusive, and sustainable, and results in sustained growth of farmers’ ...
Evolutionary Equations
(2022)
This open access book provides a solution theory for time-dependent partial differential equations, which classically have not been accessible by a unified method. Instead of using sophisticated techniques and methods, the ...
Rock Fracture Mechanics and Fracture Criteria
(2024)
This open access book delves into the realms of geotechnical engineering and solid mechanics. In order to establish fracture parameters that are both relevant and conducive to safety, the book extensively investigates the ...
Hydropower and Renewable Energies
(2025)
This open access book explores the complementarity of hydropower with new energy sources such as solar and wind in the global energy transition. It analyzes the technological advantages, environmental impacts, and economic ...
Die Zukunft des MINT-Lernens – Band 1
(2023)
Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband stellt Perspektiven auf digitalen MINT-Unterricht und die Lehrkräftebildung der Zukunft dar. Auf Grundlage aktueller Forschungsergebnisse beantwortet er aktuelle Fragestellungen, etwa: Welche ...
Performing Artists and Precarity
(2025)
This open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers in the UK’s live entertainment industries It provides an in-depth account of their working lives during COVID-19, ...
Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments
(2024)
This open access book explores democratic schools and learning environments globally. The book focuses on a newly developed framework for democratic education. The authors describe existing schools and concept schools—those ...
Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments
(2024)
This open access book explores democratic schools and learning environments globally. The book focuses on a newly developed framework for democratic education. The authors describe existing schools and concept schools—those ...
Building the Infrastructure for Cloud Security
(2014)
Computer science
Kommunikation und Bildverarbeitung in der Automation
(2020)
In diesem Open-Access-Tagungsband sind die besten Beiträge des 9. Jahreskolloquiums "Kommunikation in der Automation" (KommA 2018) und des 6. Jahreskolloquiums "Bildverarbeitung in der Automation" (BVAu 2018) enthalten. ...
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
(2018)
computer software maintenance; computer software selection and evaluation; formal logic; formal methods; formal specification; programming languages; semantics; software engineering; specifications; verification
Aviation Noise Impact Management
(2022)
This open access book provides a view into the state-of-the-art research on aviation noise and related annoyance. The book will primarily focus on the achievements of the ANIMA project (Aviation Noise Impact Management ...
Special Topics in Information Technology
(2023)
This open access book presents outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always ...
Vermin, Victims and Disease
(2019)
This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several ...
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
(2017)
elderly; older people, NHS; public services; history; psychiatry; social welfare
P5 eHealth: An Agenda for the Health Technologies of the Future
(2020)
This open access volume focuses on the development of a P5 eHealth, or better, a methodological resource for developing the health technologies of the future, based on patients’ personal characteristics and needs as the ...
Special Topics in Information Technology
(2023)
This open access book presents outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always ...
Molecular Parasitology
(2016)
In the past years, genome projects for numerous human parasites have been completed and now allow first in depth comparisons and evolutionary conclusions. The genomes of parasites reflect the coevolution with their host, ...
Mathematical Modeling of the Human Brain
(2022)
This open access book bridges common tools in medical imaging and neuroscience with the numerical solution of brain modelling PDEs. The connection between these areas is established through the use of two existing tools, ...
Disability, Health and Human Development
(2017)
development; Sen’s capability approach; poverty; mortality; economic insecurity
Chapter “The Root of All Evil is Inactivity”
(2021)
This chapter focuses on the varied responses of French psychiatrists to new
theories of patient occupation emerging after World War I (1914–18).
South China Sea Seeps
(2023)
This open access book presents an overview on seep systems in South China Sea. It includes numerous illustrations and photographs of the seeps that never seen before. It also introduces multidisciplinary research results ...
Verrechnungspreise: Grundlagen und Praxis
(2016)
business taxation; tax law
Designing Sustainability for All
(2021)
This open access book introduces design for Sustainable Product-Service Systems (S.PSS) and for Sustainable Distributed Economies (S.DE). These are introduced as technical and operative tools for the development of a new ...
Snow Sports Trauma and Safety: Conference Proceedings of the International Society for Skiing Safety: 21st Volume
(2017)
skiing; snow sports; trauma; safety; kinematics; epidemiology
Regenerative Territories
(2022)
This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material ...
Managing Future Challenges for Safety
(2022)
This open access book addresses the future of work and industry by 2040—a core interest for many disciplines inspiring a strong momentum for employment and training within the industrial world. The future of industrial ...
Managing Future Challenges for Safety
(2022)
This open access book addresses the future of work and industry by 2040—a core interest for many disciplines inspiring a strong momentum for employment and training within the industrial world. The future of industrial ...
Kommunikation und Bildverarbeitung in der Automation
(2020)
In diesem Open-Access-Tagungsband sind die besten Beiträge des 9. Jahreskolloquiums "Kommunikation in der Automation" (KommA 2018) und des 6. Jahreskolloquiums "Bildverarbeitung in der Automation" (BVAu 2018) enthalten. ...
Fundamentals of Manufacturing Engineering Using Digital Visualization
(2025)
This open access book offers a guide to core principles and practices of manufacturing engineering. It covers the design of, together with technological and measurement issues for, technical systems. Locating charts and ...
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
(2018)
computer software maintenance; computer software selection and evaluation; formal logic; formal methods; formal specification; programming languages; semantics; software engineering; specifications; verification
Microfinance, EU Structural Funds and Capacity Building for Managing Authorities
(2015)
Finance and Banking, General Finance, International Finance
Aviation Noise Impact Management
(2022)
This open access book provides a view into the state-of-the-art research on aviation noise and related annoyance. The book will primarily focus on the achievements of the ANIMA project (Aviation Noise Impact Management ...
Vermin, Victims and Disease
(2019)
This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several ...
Cloud Computing Technology
(2023)
This open access book introduces cloud computing and related technologies from the concept, technology, and architecture of cloud computing, combined with typical application cases of cloud; provides students with a more ...
Cloud Computing Technology
(2023)
This open access book introduces cloud computing and related technologies from the concept, technology, and architecture of cloud computing, combined with typical application cases of cloud; provides students with a more ...
P5 eHealth: An Agenda for the Health Technologies of the Future
(2020)
This open access volume focuses on the development of a P5 eHealth, or better, a methodological resource for developing the health technologies of the future, based on patients’ personal characteristics and needs as the ...
Chapter Acknowledgements
(2015)
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This ...
Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role
(2025)
This open access book provides a state-of-the-field of the interactions between emerging national asylum governance systems and the 2018 United Nations Global Compact for Refugees (UN GCR). It provides a detailed examination ...
Curriculum Reform in the European Schools
(2018)
European Union; European Economic Community; European Baccalaureate; EU expansion; assessment reform
Moving Toward Net-Zero Carbon Society
(2023)
This open access book explores various issues concerning the net-zero emission achievement, ranging from carbon pricing, carbon trade schemes, energy transition, ecological conservation, and carbon sinks, as well as the ...
To Be a Minority Teacher in a Foreign Culture
(2023)
This open access book offers in depth knowledge on the challenges and opportunities offered by the inclusion of minority teachers in mainstream educational settings from an international perspective. It aims to be a unique ...
Zukunft der Arbeit – Eine praxisnahe Betrachtung
(2018)
Automatisierung; Digitalisierung; Industrie 4.0; Veränderung der Arbeitswelt; Arbeitsmodelle; Arbeitsorganisation; Gestaltung von Arbeitssystemen
The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power
(2019)
This open access book discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance issues. The use of nuclear power for electricity generation is still ...
Revitalizing Indian Agriculture and Boosting Farmer Incomes
(2021)
This open access book provides an evidence-based roadmap for revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring that the growth process is efficient, inclusive, and sustainable, and results in sustained growth of farmers’ ...
Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology
(2015)
Sustainable Development
Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology
(2015)
Sustainable Development
Building the Infrastructure for Cloud Security
(2014)
Computer science
The Economics of Big Science 2.0
(2025)
The second volume of open access essays builds upon the success of the initial installment, "The Economics of Big Science (© 2021, 978-3-030-52390-9, Open Access book as well)," delving deeper into the tangible socio-economic ...
Who Will Be the Next President?: A Guide to the U.S. Presidential Election System
(2016)
Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; US Politics; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History; Electoral Politics; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Chapter 3 Self-Harm Becomes Epidemic: Mental Health (1959) and Suicide (1961) Acts
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
(2016)
Quantum Physics; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
Advancing Human Assessment: The Methodological, Psychological and Policy Contributions of ETS
(2017)
Educational Testing Service (ETS); large-scale assessment; policy research; psychometrics; admissions tests
Molecular Parasitology
(2016)
In the past years, genome projects for numerous human parasites have been completed and now allow first in depth comparisons and evolutionary conclusions. The genomes of parasites reflect the coevolution with their host, ...
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
(2017)
elderly; older people, NHS; public services; history; psychiatry; social welfare
Migration, Education and Employment
(2024)
This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these ...
Assessment of Energy-Efficient Building Details for Seismic Regions
(2022)
This open access book presents a methodology for the assessment of structural building details, taking into account the contemporary guidelines for earthquake-resistant and energy-efficient buildings. A review of structural ...
Fundamentals of Manufacturing Engineering Using Digital Visualization
(2025)
This open access book offers a guide to core principles and practices of manufacturing engineering. It covers the design of, together with technological and measurement issues for, technical systems. Locating charts and ...
Rock Fracture Mechanics and Fracture Criteria
(2024)
This open access book delves into the realms of geotechnical engineering and solid mechanics. In order to establish fracture parameters that are both relevant and conducive to safety, the book extensively investigates the ...
South China Sea Seeps
(2023)
This open access book presents an overview on seep systems in South China Sea. It includes numerous illustrations and photographs of the seeps that never seen before. It also introduces multidisciplinary research results ...
The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power
(2019)
This open access book discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance issues. The use of nuclear power for electricity generation is still ...
Evolutionary Equations
(2022)
This open access book provides a solution theory for time-dependent partial differential equations, which classically have not been accessible by a unified method. Instead of using sophisticated techniques and methods, the ...
Wertorientierungen und Wahlverhalten
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht L. Constantin Wurthmann die sehr enge Beziehung zwischen Wertorientierungen und Wahlverhalten. Obwohl Wertorientierungen und gesellschaftliche Wertorientierungen im Speziellen zu den ...
Snow Sports Trauma and Safety: Conference Proceedings of the International Society for Skiing Safety: 21st Volume
(2017)
skiing; snow sports; trauma; safety; kinematics; epidemiology
Designing Sustainability for All
(2021)
This open access book introduces design for Sustainable Product-Service Systems (S.PSS) and for Sustainable Distributed Economies (S.DE). These are introduced as technical and operative tools for the development of a new ...
Regenerative Territories
(2022)
This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material ...
Make Capitalism History
(2023)
This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic ...
Chapter 1 Meeting People Is Easy
(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 ...
Chapter 4 States of Rest
(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 ...
Intangible Capital and Growth
(2022)
For several decades now, advanced economies across the globe have been undergoing a process of rapid transformation towards becoming knowledge economies. It is now widely recognized that intangible capital has been a crucial ...
Chapter 4 States of Rest
(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 ...
Mutation Breeding in Coffee with Special Reference to Leaf Rust
(2023)
This open-access book provides a comprehensive overview of current methodologies for improving resistance to leaf rust in coffee, one of the world's most important cash crops and beverages. Coffea arabica L. (Arabica) ...
Mutation Breeding in Coffee with Special Reference to Leaf Rust
(2023)
This open-access book provides a comprehensive overview of current methodologies for improving resistance to leaf rust in coffee, one of the world's most important cash crops and beverages. Coffea arabica L. (Arabica) ...
The Future of Work
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of new forms of working and new working arrangements largely enabled by technology. The Future of Work is a projection of how work, working, workers and the workplace will ...
Models, Methods and Tools for Product Service Design
(2019)
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the Manutelligence project, the goal of which is to help enterprises develop smart, social and flexible products with high value added services. Manutelligence ...
Concrete-Polymer Composites in Circular Economy
(2025)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Polymers in Concrete 2023 (ICPIC 2023), held under the theme "Cement-Polymer Composite in Circular Economy". It provides multidisciplinary ...
Chapter Introduction: Self-Harm from Social Setting to Neurobiology
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Digital Transformations in Nordic Higher Education
(2023)
This open access book expands the scholarly and policy debates surrounding digital transformation in higher education. The authors adopt a pluralistic conceptual framework which uncovers three analytical elements – contexts, ...
Big Data in der Mobilität
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch befasst sich mit den gesellschaftlich und wirtschaftlich weitreichenden Potenzialen von „Big Data in der Mobilität“. Zunächst werden der Mobilitätsmarkt mit seinen Akteuren sowie deren Interessen ...
Ukraine's Journey to Recovery, Reform and Post-War Reconstruction
(2025)
This open access volume explores Ukraine's challenges post-war, focusing on economic revival and sustainable development. Addressing scholars, policymakers, and practitioners the book discusses pivotal issues for the ...
Robotics, AI, and Humanity
(2021)
This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance ...
Robotics, AI, and Humanity
(2021)
This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance ...
Progress on the Study of the Ginibre Ensembles
(2025)
This open access book focuses on the Ginibre ensembles that are non-Hermitian random matrices proposed by Ginibre in 1965. Since that time, they have enjoyed prominence within random matrix theory, featuring, for example, ...
The EU and China in African Authoritarian Regimes
(2018)
Political science; EU; China; Africa; Rwanda; Ethiopia; Angola; Survival strategy; Governance; Reform; Economic dependence; Paul Kagame; 2005 Ethiopian general election; African oil revenues; Authoritarian ...
Chapter 48 In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging to Assess Compound Efficacy Against Trypanosoma brucei
(2020)
Traditional animal models for human African trypanosomiasis rely on detecting Trypanosoma brucei brucei
parasitemia in the blood. Testing the efficacy of new compounds in these models is cumbersome because it
may take ...
Optics in Our Time
(2016)
Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices; Quantum Optics; Popular Science in Physics; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
Chapter 48 In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging to Assess Compound Efficacy Against Trypanosoma brucei
(2020)
Traditional animal models for human African trypanosomiasis rely on detecting Trypanosoma brucei brucei
parasitemia in the blood. Testing the efficacy of new compounds in these models is cumbersome because it
may take ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2023)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2023, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during June 13-16, 2023. XP is the premier agile ...
Fertility Transition in the Developing World
(2022)
This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behaviour that occurred in Asia, Latin America, and Africa since the ...
Inclusion and Belonging in Cities of Tomorrow
(2024)
This open access book uncovers the historical context and entrenched beliefs that have perpetuated exclusionary urban landscapes and disadvantage for marginalized groups. It offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate ...
Models, Methods and Tools for Product Service Design
(2019)
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the Manutelligence project, the goal of which is to help enterprises develop smart, social and flexible products with high value added services. Manutelligence ...
The Future of Work
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of new forms of working and new working arrangements largely enabled by technology. The Future of Work is a projection of how work, working, workers and the workplace will ...
Problem Solving in Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education: Learning and Instruction
Ocean Governance
(2023)
This Open Access book on Ocean Governance examines sustainability challenges facing our oceans today. The book is organized into three sections: knowledge systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses. The knowledge ...
Leibliche Präsenz
(2023)
In welcher Hinsicht können körperlich-leibliche Erfahrungen als Teil sozialer Aktivitäten verstanden werden und wie kann man sie sozialwissenschaftlich untersuchen? Unter Rückgriff auf den klassischen Pragmatismus, ...
Hope across cultures
(2023)
This open access book presents an integrative and transdisciplinary conceptualization of hope and brings together cross-cultural studies based on quantitative data from around the globe. It incorporates state-of-the-art ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2022, which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2022. XP is the premier agile software development ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2022, which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2022. XP is the premier agile software development ...
Ukraine's Journey to Recovery, Reform and Post-War Reconstruction
(2025)
This open access volume explores Ukraine's challenges post-war, focusing on economic revival and sustainable development. Addressing scholars, policymakers, and practitioners the book discusses pivotal issues for the ...
The Independent Variable Problem
(2023)
This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable. To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different ...