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Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization
(2024)
This open access volume explores the impact of globalization on the contemporary study of deep-time art. The volume explores how early rock art research’s Eurocentric biases have shifted with broadened global horizons to ...
Electroweak Physics at LEP and LHC
(2010)
This open access book… During more than 10 years, from 1989 until 2000, the LEP accelerator and the four LEP experiments, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, have taken data for a large amount of measurements at the frontier of ...
Rice Improvement
(2021)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. By 2050, human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. The demand for increased food production needs to be met from ever reducing resources of land, water and other ...
Chapter 4 Self-Harm as Violence
(2015)
This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume contributes to ...
BUiD Doctoral Research Conference 2022
(2023)
This open access book presents selected contributions on a wide range of scientific and technological areas originating from the BUiD Doctoral Research Conference (BDRC 2022). It discusses the following topics: project ...
Chapter Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Measured Cerebral Blood Flow from Spontaneous Oxygenation Changes in Neonatal Brain Injury
(2020)
Neonates with hypoxic-ischaemic (HI) brain injury were monitored
using a broadband near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) system in the neonatal intensive
care unit. The aim of this work is to use the NIRS cerebral oxygenation ...
Klimawandel in Deutschland
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die Auswirkungen von Klimaveränderungen auf Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Deutschland. Es liefert eine fundierte, fachübergreifende Grundlage für Entscheidungen im Zusammenhang mit dem ...
Professions and Proficiency
(2023)
This open access book takes an original view on the social production of knowledge in and across space. It explores how people build and transfer proficiency within and beyond the bounds of social groups. Social groups, ...
Vector Semantics
(2023)
This open access book introduces Vector semantics, which links the formal theory of word vectors to the cognitive theory of linguistics. The computational linguists and deep learning researchers who developed word vectors ...
Digitale Medien kompetent in Kitas einsetzen
(2025)
Digitale Medien sind fester Bestandteil der Lebenswelt von Kindern und der frühpädagogischen Arbeit. Das frühe Erlernen von Medienkompetenzen, die Professionalisierung pädagogischer Fachkräfte und qualitativ hochwertige ...
History of Mathematics Teaching and Learning
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching; Textbook
Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway, and Sweden
(2018)
Pentecostal; Renewal; Televangelism; Scandanavia; Nordic
Holding down the Fort
(2023)
This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and understandings of policing – the monolithic ideas common to most, if not all, Western law enforcement agencies – and contextual, situative, ...
Energy Efficient Servers
(2015)
Computer science
Migration Diversity and Social Cohesion
(2023)
This open access book shows policymakers which initiatives work when responding to the increasing diversity in cities, towns and neighborhood's. In recent times, policymakers have grappled with ways of responding to this ...
Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Dynamics of the Brain
(2016)
Neurosciences, Neurology, Psychiatry
Russia's Turn to the East
(2018)
Development studies; Russia; Far East; International affairs; Energy; Shanghai cooperation organization; Economic development; Security policy; Multilateral organizations; Diplomacy; Regionalism; Russian–European ...
Chapter 1 What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis and Cause
(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 ...
The Challenge of Chance
(2016)
Human Genetics; Philosophy of Science; Probability Theory
Transdisciplinarity in Financial Communication
(2023)
This open access book identifies and analyses problems of text production in finance from three complementary perspectives: problem identification, problem analysis, and problem solution. By doing so, it explains why solving ...
Iconographic Research Poetry
(2024)
This open access book introduces readers to the craft of writing iconographic research poetry in a way that is scholarly, yet playful. By tracing the historical foundations of concrete and iconographic poetry, as well as ...
Programming for Computations - MATLAB/Octave
(2016)
Computational Science and Engineering; Numerical Analysis;
The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque
(2020)
This open access book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), which had continued for over 30 years, but which ...
Cybersecurity in Poland
(2022)
This open access book explores the legal aspects of cybersecurity in Poland. The authors are not limited to the framework created by the NCSA (National Cybersecurity System Act – this act was the first attempt to create a ...
Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Potentially Polluting Wrecks
(2024)
This open access volume focuses on the environmental hazards and cultural significance of Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPWs), and how mitigation efforts have assisted in documenting and preserving the history of these ...
Error-Correction Coding and Decoding
(2017)
Coding; Communications; Engineering; Networks; Information Theory; Algorithms
Doktor Faustus (ver-)stimmen
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch widmet sich Anna Maria Olivari der Forschungslücke der Vertonung von Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus. Sie untersucht ein Korpus von 13 unterschiedlichen Kompositionen aus dem Bereich der Neuen Musik ...
Chapter 4 AVATAR Therapy for Refractory Auditory Hallucinations
(2016)
AVATAR therapy is part of a new and exciting wave of therapies which adopt an explicitly
relational and dialogic approach to working with the distressing voices. To understand
the AVATAR approach, it is important to ...
Statistical Foundations of Actuarial Learning and its Applications
(2023)
This open access book discusses the statistical modeling of insurance problems, a process which comprises data collection, data analysis and statistical model building to forecast insured events that may happen in the ...
Chapter Functional Annotation of Rare Genetic Variants
(2015)
Genome-wide association studies have successfully identified a growing number of
common variants that robustly associate with a wide range of complex diseases and
phenotypes. In the majority of cases though, the variants ...
Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements
(2023)
This open access book brings into dialogue emerging and seasoned migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Violent conflicts, social unrest, ...
Gestresste Eltern
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch setzt sich mit der übergeordneten Forschungsfrage auseinander, für welche Dimensionen subjektiven elterlichen Wohlbefindens das Kind eine Rolle spielt. Anhand eines systematischen Gangs durch den ...
Chapter Conclusion
(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 ...
Consensus or Conflict?
(2021)
This open access book brings together leading international scholars and policy-makers to explore the challenges and dilemmas of globalization and governance in an era increasingly defined by economic crises, widespread ...
Tourism and ICTs: Advances in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability
(2024)
This open-access book presents the best research papers from the XIV International Congress on Tourism and Information and Communications Technologies (TURITEC2023), held in Málaga, Spain from 19 to 20 October 2023. The ...
Measurement Across the Sciences
(2023)
This open access book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics, engineering, education, and psychology. It addresses ...
Chapter 7 He that Hath an Ill-Name Is Half-Hanged: The Anatomical Legacy of the Criminal Corpse
(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 ...
Empty Innovation
(2023)
Innovation is generally viewed as something inherently good, a source of progress and prosperity in our society. But innovation can also have negative, unintended, and wasteful effects, if policies are misdirected and ...
Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Europe
(2017)
entrepreneurship; innovation; Horizon 2020; capital gains; taxation; income; rights; R&D policy; technology; commercialization; financing; investment
Brain and Human Body Modeling 2020
(2021)
This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modeling in an effort to advance neurology, cancer treatment, and radio-frequency studies including regulatory, safety, and wireless communication ...
Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos
(2023)
This open access book is a collection of articles based on presentations from the 2020 Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference that gives an overview of conference outcomes. The vision of the conference has ...
Urban Agriculture in Public Space
(2024)
This open access book discusses urban agriculture initiatives integrated in public space of dense inner-city neighbourhoods, thereby ensuring its accessibility for large and diverse segments of urban populations. It ...
Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals
(2023)
This open access book addresses the growing trend in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) research named collaborative knowledge building in which researchers and ECEC personnel collaborate. This kind of ...
Water Resources in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin: Impact of Climate Change and Human Interventions
(2024)
This open access book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the current state of knowledge covering climate change, surface water change, arsenic pollution, water utilization, water-food-energy nexus, water related ...
Loneliness in Europe
(2024)
This open-access volume accompanies the microdata release of the EU Loneliness Survey. Loneliness, often referred to as the ‘epidemic of the 21st century’, has emerged as a grave public health concern. For years, a lack ...
The Transformation of the Liberal International Order
(2024)
This open access book aims to emphasize the potential for Japan, Europe and Indo-Pacific countries including the US to respond to shared domestic and international challenges on finding joint ways to uphold and develop the ...
The New Politics of Numbers
(2022)
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers ...
The Illiberal Public Sphere
(2024)
This open access book provides the first systematic analysis of the role of the media in the rise of illiberalism, based on an original theoretical framework and extensive empirical research in Eastern Europe – a region ...
Principles of Mechanics
(2019)
This open access textbook takes the reader step-by-step through the concepts of mechanics in a clear and detailed manner. Mechanics is considered to be the core of physics, where a deep understanding of the concepts is ...
Global Elite Migrations
(2024)
This open access book explores the lives and careers of migrating artists with the purpose to understand how they make use of their migrant-networks and how this process interacts with decisions they make about immigration ...
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2020.* The 17 full papers and ...
Transformation and Development
(2020)
This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, political and economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical ...
New Vision 2050: A Platinum Society
(2018)
Sustainability; Climate change; Saturation; Leading country in resolving societal problems; Resource self-sufficiency; Urban mines; Renewable energy; Human-nature symbiosis; Aging society; Longevity; Lifelong ...
The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
(2019)
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three ...
Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake
(2015)
Effects of Radiation / Radiation Protection
Chapter 3 The Gibbet in the Landscape
(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 ...
Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences
(2022)
This open access book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist transformation. It explores the vulnerabilities that arise for female citizens from the ...
World Class Universities
(2020)
This open access book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current ...
Evidenzbasierter Fledermausschutz in Windkraftvorhaben
(2020)
Die Energieproduktion aus Windkraft ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Energiewende in Deutschland. Seit Jahren zeigen jedoch Untersuchungen, dass vor allem Fledermäuse und Großvögel vielfach durch Kollisionen an ...
Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa
(2023)
This Open Access book explores the multifaceted nature of agricultural and rural development in Asia and examines the extent to which the Asian experience is being replicated in contemporary Africa. This volume compiles ...
A Fair Share of Tax
(2018)
Tax compliance; Reciprocity; Ethnography; Economic anthropology; Welfare; Exchanges; Taxpayer; Marcel Mauss; Swedish Tax Agency; quid-pro-quo exchange; Fiscal anthropology; Swedish tax; Behavioural economics; ...
e-Science
(2021)
This open access book shows the breadth and various facets of e-Science, while also illustrating their shared core. Changes in scientific work are driven by the shift to grid-based worlds, the use of information and ...
Learning Diversity
(2023)
This Open-Access-book explores diversity in its ambivalence. On the one side, we love to describe diversity as a resource for personal, social, economic, and cultural growth. On the other side, categories of differences ...
The Future of India's Social Safety Nets
(2024)
India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to address human suffering. The COVID-19 pandemic unified the international response in similar ways, and the world has a lot to learn ...
Nanoinformatics
(2018)
Machine learning; Big data; Atomic resolution characterization; First-principles calculations; Nanomaterials synthesis
The Ethical Spirit of EU Values
(2022)
This open access book, summarising the research conducted at this Jean Monnet Chair, seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) values. EU integration began at the economic level; human rights were only ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the research workshops, doctoral symposium and panel summaries presented at the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May ...
Invited Lectures from the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education
(2018)
Mathematics Education; Mathematics Learning; Mathematics Teaching; Mathematics Teachers; ICME-13; 13th Congress on Mathematical Education; Empirical Studies in Mathematics Education; Theoretical Reflections on ...
Security, Disinformation and Harmful Narratives: RT and Sputnik News Coverage about Sweden
(2024)
It is a well-known fact both among scholars of propaganda and disinformation, and among political leaders that Sputnik and RT are using their news coverage for disinformation purposes to harm Western and European societies. ...
Relational Anthropology for Contemporary Economics
(2022)
This open access book offers a multidisciplinary dialogue on relational anthropology in contemporary economics. A particular view of the human being is often assumed in economic models, but seldom acknowledged let alone ...
Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality
(2021)
This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a ...
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
(2021)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2021, which was held during March 27 until April 1, 2021, as ...
Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
(2024)
This open access book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the Lives of the Poets speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using ...
Justice and Recovery for Victimised Children
(2024)
This open access book contributes to ongoing discussions about how societies should respond to children who have experienced violence and abuse by delving into the Barnahus model: a multidisciplinary and co-located model ...
Securitization and Democracy in Eurasia
(2023)
This open-access book presents cutting-edge research on securitization and democratic development in the OSCE Region. Gathering contributions by practitioners and researchers from various disciplines, it presents case ...
Inklusion und Beteiligung bei Bürger*innenbeteiligungsverfahren
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch widmet sich Jonathan Seim der Frage, wer an Bürger*innenbeteiligungsverfahren beteiligt werden sollte. Ob jene Konsultationsverfahren tatsächlich zu einer Stärkung der Demokratie beitragen können, ...
Supercomputing Frontiers: 4th Asian Conference, SCFA 2018, Singapore, March 26-29, 2018, Proceedings
(2018)
artificial intelligence; big data; cloud computing; communication; computer architecture; computer science; computer systems; data management; databases; hardware; High-Performance Computing (HPC); information ...
Vaccines for Neglected Pathogens: Strategies, Achievements and Challenges
(2023)
This book reviews successes and (remaining) challenges in vaccine development for the selected Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) of Leprosy, Leishmaniasis, Meliodoisis and Tuberculosis, which are a continuous burden for ...
Proceedings of the Second International Forum on Financial Mathematics and Financial Technology
(2023)
This open access book is the documentary of the Second International Forum on Financial Mathematics and Financial Technology, with focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in FinTech. In detail, the ...
Civil Society Elites
(2024)
This open access book introduces a groundbreaking concept - civil society elites - and serves as an essential resource for scholars, researchers and students interested in the complexities of power and influence within ...
Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety: From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations
(2017)
nuclear safety; decision making
Chapter News from the Invisible World
(2017)
This chapter explores the transmission of tales of the supernatural during the very long eighteenth century (between c.1660 and c.1832). A genre of publications on this subject which have not been studied are those anthologies ...
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
(2023)
This open access book constitutes selected papers presented during the 30th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, held in Munster, Ireland, in December 2022. The 41 presented papers were ...
International Symposium on Mathematics, Quantum Theory, and Cryptography
(2021)
This open access book presents selected papers from International Symposium on Mathematics, Quantum Theory, and Cryptography (MQC), which was held on September 25-27, 2019 in Fukuoka, Japan. The international symposium MQC ...
Algorithms for Sparse Linear Systems
(2023)
Large sparse linear systems of equations are ubiquitous in science, engineering and beyond. This open access monograph focuses on factorization algorithms for solving such systems. It presents classical techniques for ...
Migration in South Asia
(2023)
This open access Regional Reader provides a contemporary look at the emerging challenges and issues facing South Asian migration amidst covid-19 and discusses a framework for a sustainable and cooperative migration from ...
Thermodynamics and Equilibria in Earth System Sciences: An Introduction
(2024)
Thermodynamics is needed to understand many processes on Earth, be they physical, chemical, or biological. Thermodynamics is critical to study the atmosphere (lapse rate, fohn winds, circulation), hydrosphere (latent and ...
Solar Energetic Particles
(2021)
This open access book serves as a concise primer introducing the non-specialist reader to the physics of solar energetic particles (SEP). It systematically reviews the evidence for the two main mechanisms which lead to the ...
The Changing World of Mobile Communications
(2024)
This open access book from the world’s first 6G Flagship research program at the University of Oulu, Finland, provides a multi-disciplinary and insightful overview of the subject, with contributions from experts in the ...
Chapter 2 Communicative Self-Harm: War, NHS and Social Work
(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 ...
Social Biases During Covid 19
(2023)
This open acess book focuses on a critical aspect of pandemic behavior, which is how important information is communicated. It examines how the press and other entities may bias the dissemination of this information, and ...
Improving Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(2020)
This open access book is a collection of 12 case studies capturing decades of experience improving health care and outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Each case study is written by healthcare managers and providers ...
Care Poverty
(2022)
This open access book turns the research attention of social policy scholars and long-term care researchers from comparative descriptions of care systems, focusing mostly on expenditures and volumes of long-term care ...
Managing the Transition to a Circular Economy
(2024)
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the current status of the circular economy in the tourism sector. This book is presented from the perspective of researchers, policymakers, and industry. ...
Advancing Energy Policy
(2018)
This open access book advocates for the Social Sciences and Humanities to be more involved in energy policymaking. It forms part of the European platform for energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities’ activities, and ...
Science and Technology Governance and Ethics
(2015)
R & D/Technology Policy; Ethics; Food Science; Nanotechnology; Biotechnology
Die Zukunft der Wirtschaftsberichterstattung
(2024)
Dieses Open Access-Buch zeigt, wie der Wert von Ökosystemleistungen und biologischer Vielfalt im Sinne einer ehrlichen Rechnung besser in nationale Berichte und Unternehmensbilanzen integriert werden kann. Wirtschaftlicher ...
The Virtues of Green Marketing
(2023)
This open access book explores the idea that corporate rhetoric can be a force for good. In developing a new framework for analysis and discussion of green marketing, the authors argue that corporate environmental rhetoric ...
Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000
(2021)
This open access book uses Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and renewal of a nation through histories of experience and emotions. It revolves ...
Digitale Transformation
(2022)
Dieses Open Access-Buch gibt eine erweiterte Einführung in die Grundlagen und Charakteristika sowie auch Risiken und Chancen der digitalen Transformation. Anhand von ausführlichen Fallstudien branchenführender Unternehmen ...