Publications
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Shared Mobility Revolution
(2025)
This open access book gathers contributions to the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project Shared automation Operating models for Worldwide adoption (SHOW). It reports on technologies and business models focusing on supporting the ...
Deforming the Reform
(2022)
This open access book presents an actor-centered study on Europeanization, based on the assumption that EU-driven reforms are highly dependent on the behavior and interests of the key domestic actors. Whether or not a state ...
Bayes Factors for Forensic Decision Analyses with R
(2022)
Bayes Factors for Forensic Decision Analyses with R provides a self-contained introduction to computational Bayesian statistics using R. With its primary focus on Bayes factors supported by data sets, this book features ...
The Future Internet: Future Internet Assembly 2012: From Promises to Reality
(2012)
Web 2.0; cognitive networks; internet of things; pervasive computing; social data mining
Decision Science for Future Earth
(2021)
This open access book provides a theoretical framework and case studies on decision science for regional sustainability by integrating the natural and social sciences. The cases discussed include solution-oriented ...
Cancer in the Arab World
(2022)
This is an Open Access book. This book is a must-have for healthcare providers and researchers, public health specialists and policy makers who are interested and involved in cancer care in the Arab world. The Arab world ...
Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence
(2022)
This open access book addresses the question of how God can providentially govern apparently ungovernable randomness. Medieval theologians confidently held that God is provident, that is, God is the ultimate cause of or ...
Messung von Ressourceneffizienz mit der ESSENZ-Methode
(2016)
Natural resources
The Innovation Revolution in Agriculture
(2021)
This open access book is an important reframing of the role of innovation in agriculture. Dr. Campos and his distinguished coauthors address the need for agriculture to feed a growing global population with a reduced ...
Covid-19 and Capitalism
(2022)
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Covid-19. From the end of 2019 until presently, the world has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the cause of this ...
Scaling of Differential Equations
(2016)
Differential equations; Simulation and modeling
Everyday Welfare in Modern British History
(2025)
This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal ...
The Pangenome
(2020)
This open access book offers the first comprehensive account of the pan-genome concept and its manifold implications. The realization that the genetic repertoire of a biological species always encompasses more than the ...
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 ...
Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing
(2016)
otorhinolaryngology; neurosciences; hearing
Security in an Interconnected World
(2020)
This open access book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed forces can subsequently be determined on the grounds of said analysis. More than ...
The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific
(2024)
This Open Access book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the water, energy, and food (WEF) security nexus with a regional focus on East and Southeast Asia. Individual chapters of this book provide interesting nexus ...
(Un)doing Gender empirisch
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband wird angehenden und fortgeschrittenen Forschenden aufgezeigt, wie «doing» und «undoing gender» in Institutionen der frühen Kindheit erforscht und analysiert werden können. Thematisiert ...
Becoming Citizens in a Changing World: IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 International Report
(2018)
Civic education; ICCS; IEA Educational Achievement; Civic knowledge; Civics and citizenship; Attitudes to civic life; Engagement with civic life; Civic participation
The Future of Financial Systems in the Digital Age
(2022)
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. The increasing capacity of digital networks and computing power, together with the resulting connectivity and availability of “big data”, are ...
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles ...
GeomInt–Mechanical Integrity of Host Rocks
(2021)
This open access book summarizes the results of the collaborative project “GeomInt: Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks - experiment, modeling and analysis of discontinuities” within the Program: Geo Research ...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025
(2017)
Landslide Science; International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; Landslide Hazard Assessment; Landslide Dynamics; Landslide Risk Reduction
Atlas of Mineral Deposits Distribution in China (2020)
(2021)
This open access book includes instruction of national mineral database 2020 and atlas of national mineral deposits distribution derived from national mineral database 2020. National mineral database 2020 is based on data ...
Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities
(2016)
water resources; hydrology; sustainable development; urban planning
Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education
(2021)
This open access book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs the ways in which the structures of science education—its concepts, categories, ...
Asylum Determination in Europe
(2019)
Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum ...
Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Connectomics of the Brain
(2016)
Neurosciences, Neurology
Metalearning
(2022)
This open access book as one of the fastest-growing areas of research in machine learning, metalearning studies principled methods to obtain efficient models and solutions by adapting machine learning and data mining ...
Online-Komponenten digitaler Spiele
(2020)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch befasst sich Maximilian Vonthien mit den Fragen, wie lange Publisher von modernen digitalen Spielen den Support für die Online-Komponenten (Online-Mehrspielermodus und Online-DRM-Systeme) erbringen ...
Chapter Conclusion: Death Is Only Their Desire
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Chapter Preface
(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 ...
Die individuelle mathematische Kreativität von Schulkindern
(2022)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation wird zunächst die individuelle mathematische Kreativität von Schulkindern (InMaKreS) konkret definiert und darauf aufbauend das InMaKreS-Modell entwickelt, welches bedeutsame Implikationen ...
Urinary Stents
(2022)
This open access book provides a concise overview of a range of aspects related to urinary stents. Sections within the work cover clinical and recent technological advancements in the field. Chapters feature detailed ...
Dynamics in Logistics
(2021)
This open access book highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of logistics research. Featuring empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented articles, it addresses the modelling, planning, optimization and control of ...
Security of Ubiquitous Computing Systems
(2021)
The chapters in this open access book arise out of the EU Cost Action project Cryptacus, the objective of which was to improve and adapt existent cryptanalysis methodologies and tools to the ubiquitous computing framework. ...
Actors and the Art of Performance
(2016)
Acting on stage is a mode of performing an action, in the context of which the bodily aspects implicitly at work in acting reveal their own significance and power. This event can actualize a wound incarnated in human beings, ...
Viability of UNCLOS amid Emerging Global Maritime Challenges
(2025)
This open access book assesses UNCLOS' resilience and vitality as a legal framework for addressing emerging global maritime challenges. Against the backdrop of a number of emerging global maritime challenges, including the ...
Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation
(2021)
This open access book offers a unique and practically oriented study of organisational and national conditions for implementing Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) policies and practices. It gives the reader a thorough ...
Verrechnungspreise: Grundlagen und Praxis
(2016)
business taxation; tax law