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Hyperparameter Tuning for Machine and Deep Learning with R
(2023)
This open access book provides a wealth of hands-on examples that illustrate how hyperparameter tuning can be applied in practice and gives deep insights into the working mechanisms of machine learning (ML) and deep learning ...
The Limits of Consent
(2024)
This open access book examines the ways that consent operates in contemporary culture, suggesting it is a useful starting point to respectful relationships. This work, however, seeks to delve deeper, into the more complicated ...
Life Cycle Management
(2015)
This book provides insight into the Life Cycle Management (LCM) concept and the progress in its implementation. LCM is a management concept applied in industrial and service sectors to improve products and services, while ...
Länderbericht zum Deutschen Freiwilligensurvey 2019
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bringt die Daten des Deutschen Freiwilligensurveys 2019 für einen Vergleich der Bundesländer Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, ...
Japanische Thomas Mann-Übersetzung zwischen Kulturheteronomie und Emanzipation
(2024)
In diesem Open Access Buch nähert sichNicole Marion Mueller mithilfe innovativer digitaler Methoden dem japanischen Übersetzungspluralismus im 20. Jahrhundert und seinen historischen Rahmenbedingungen an. Dabei bezieht sie ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2019)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 11561 and 11562 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2019, held in New York City, USA, in July 2019. The 52 full ...
Transformation und Emanzipation
(2023)
Dieser Open-Access-Band fokussiert das „magische Dreieck“ aus Arbeit, Zivilgesellschaft und Politik. Wie diese Drei den gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen eine transformativ-demokratische Grundrichtung geben können, darauf ...
The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies
(2023)
This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently ...
Applied Linguistics in the Indonesian Context
(2025)
This open access edited volume presents a series of studies utilizing a variety of linguistic research techniques to investigate areas of language education, acquisition and assessment, contemporary political debate, modern ...
Bayesian Filter Design for Computational Medicine
(2024)
This book serves as a tutorial that explains how different state estimators (Bayesian filters) can be built when all or part of the observations are binary. The book begins by briefly motivating the need for point process ...
Acceleration and Cultural Change
(2024)
This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" ...
Social Media for Civic Education
(2023)
This open access book provides the theoretical and pedagogical foundations for a promising new approach to civic education: using social media to teach civics. While many measures indicate that youth civic engagement has ...
Integrated Treatment Technology of Rural Domestic Sewage
(2024)
This open access book provides integrated treatment technology of rural domestic sewage, and highlights ten typical cases in China. The integrated sewage treatment system (ISTE) combine sewage pretreatment, biological ...
Chapter Referencing Conventions
(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 GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks
(2017)
biodiversity; conservation; ecosystems
Eating, Drinking: Surviving
(2016)
nutrition; agriculture; sustainable development
Projection-Based Clustering through Self-Organization and Swarm Intelligence: Combining Cluster Analysis with the Visualization of High-Dimensional Data
(2018)
Cluster Analysis; Dimensionality Reduction; Swarm Intelligence; Visualization; Unsupervised Machine Learning; Data Science; Knowledge Discovery; 3D Printing; Self-Organization; Emergence; Game Theory; Advanced ...
School of Architecture(s) - New Frontiers of Architectural Education
(2025)
This open access book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of architectural education, as presented at the 2023 annual conference of the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE AC), “School ...
Introduction to Development Engineering
(2023)
This open access textbook introduces the emerging field of Development Engineering and its constituent theories, methods, and applications. It is both a teaching text for students and a resource for researchers and ...
Dissecting 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 ...
Meaning-Making for Living
(2019)
This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children’s selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with ...
The American Climate Emergency Narrative
(2024)
The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet. The book ...
Scaling a Software Business: The Digitalization Journey
(2017)
software development; process management; collaboration; software-driven innovation
Chapter 12 This in-between
(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 ...
Early Childhood Policies and Systems in Eight Countries: Findings from IEA's Early Childhood Education Study
(2016)
Educational policy; Early childhood systems; Aims of early childhood education; Education reform
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 2, 2022
(2023)
This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). It gives an overview of recent progress in ...
Data Journeys in the Sciences
(2020)
This groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leading scholars in the philosophy, history and ...
Research On and Activities For Mathematically Gifted Students
(2016)
Education; Teaching; Learning
Alternatives to Animal Testing
(2019)
This open access book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use of animals in research and describes a variety of practical applications of the three ...
Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering
(2019)
Get the most out of this foundational reference and improve the productivity of your software teams. This open access book collects the wisdom of the 2017 "Dagstuhl" seminar on productivity in software engineering, a meeting ...
IUTAM: A Short History
(2016)
Mechanics
Storying Contemporary Migration
(2024)
This book examines contemporary stories of migration belonging to multiple literary genres such as nonfiction, memoir, novel, and essay, and explores the futures they envision for migrants and their surrounding societies. ...
3rd International Conference on Thermal Issues in Machine Tools (ICTIMT2023)
(2023)
This open access conference proceedings contains all the papers presented at the ICTIMT 2023, the 3rd International Conference on Thermal Issues in Machine Tools. The event takes place in Dresden, the capital of Saxony, ...
Media Resistance
(2017)
media; communication; social media; technology; cultural politics; media law; policy
The Ethics of Vaccination
(2019)
This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for ...
Gute Kinderschutzverfahren
(2023)
In Kinderschutzfällen ist es Aufgabe der Jugendämter und Familiengerichte, im Raum stehende Kindeswohlgefährdungen einzuschätzen und gegebenenfalls durch geeignete Hilfen und Maßnahmen abzuwenden. Diese Einschätzungen und ...
Weakly Nonlinear Systems
(2024)
The open access book covers a large class of nonlinear systems with many practical engineering applications. The approach is based on the extension of linear systems theory using the Volterra series. In contrast to the few ...
Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences
(2018)
This Open Access handbook published at the IAMG's 50th anniversary, presents a compilation of invited path-breaking research contributions by award-winning geoscientists who have been instrumental in shaping the IAMG. It ...
Digital and Strategic Innovation for Alpine Health Tourism
(2023)
This open access book presents a set of practical tools and collaborative solutions in multi-disciplinary settings to foster the Alpine Space health tourism industry’s innovation and competitiveness. The proposed solutions ...
Orte und Räume im Roman
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet eine breit angelegte, digital unterstützte, korpusbasierte Studie zur Referenzierung von Orten und Räumen in Erzähltexten. Aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, insbesondere narratologischer ...
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 ...
Rethinking Nordic Courts
(2021)
This open access book examines whether a distinctly Nordic procedural or court culture exists and what the hallmarks of that culture are. Do Nordic courts and court proceedings share a distinct set of ideas and values that ...
Feature Models
(2024)
This open access book provides a basic introduction to feature modelling and analysis as well as to the integration of AI methods with feature modelling. It is intended as an introduction for researchers and practitioners ...
Obstructions in Security-Aware Business Processes
(2022)
This Open Access book explores the dilemma-like stalemate between security and regulatory compliance in business processes on the one hand and business continuity and governance on the other. The growing number of regulations, ...
Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516
(2020)
This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and ...
Entity Alignment
(2023)
This open access book systematically investigates the topic of entity alignment, which aims to detect equivalent entities that are located in different knowledge graphs. Entity alignment represents an essential step in ...
xxAI - Beyond Explainable AI
(2022)
This is an open access book. Statistical machine learning (ML) has triggered a renaissance of artificial intelligence (AI). While the most successful ML models, including Deep Neural Networks (DNN), have developed better ...
R.J. Rummel: An Assessment of His Many Contributions
(2017)
genocide; democracy; libertarianism; peace; Cold War
The European Higher Education Area: Between Critical Reflections and Future Policies
(2015)
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
Protest-Aktivist*innen der Umweltschutz-Bewegung im Netz und auf der Straße
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht mit Fokus auf einzelne Bürger*innen fallspezifisch und empirisch den Handlungs- und Wirkungszusammenhang von Straßenprotest und Online-Aktivismus im Bereich der Umweltschutz-Bewegung. ...
Mirrored Spaces
(2024)
This open access book critically examines discussions on digitalisation and individual opportunities for socio-economic advancement. Contrary to the prevailing narratives of “digital empowerment” and opportunities for every ...
Deutsch als Zweitsprache: Alphabetisierung für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene
(2018)
Migrationspädagogik; Zweitsprache; Deutschkurs; Alphabetisierung; Alphabetisierungskurs; Geflüchtete; Flüchtlinge; Migranten; Schlauwerkstatt; Schlauschule; Deutsch als Zweitsprache; Deutsch als Fremdsprache; ...
Proceedings of PIANC Smart Rivers 2022
(2023)
This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 10th PIANC Smart Rivers Conference (Smart Rivers 2022). The work focuses on novel techniques for inland waterways and navigation structures. The contents make valuable ...
Human-Nature Interactions
(2022)
This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in ...
Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting
(2019)
This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art ...
Akzeptanzkommunikation in der Energie- und Rohstoffwirtschaft
(2023)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation untersucht die Akzeptanz der sächsischen Bevölkerung gegenüber Energie- und Rohstoffvorhaben sowie die Eignung von Kommunikationsmaßnahmen zur Verbesserung des Akzeptanzniveaus. Die Bürger:innen ...
The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract
(2024)
This open access book focuses on the energy sector and will make a significant contribution to its continued evolution. For many years, the energy sector has been missing a raison d’etre and now finally there are increased ...
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
(2019)
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking ...
Personalized Hip and Knee Joint Replacement
(2020)
This open access book describes and illustrates the surgical techniques, implants, and technologies used for the purpose of personalized implantation of hip and knee components. This new and flourishing treatment philosophy ...
Judicial Governance and Democracy in Europe
(2023)
This is an Open Access book. Amid the growing debate about models of judicial governance and their relationship to democratic quality, this book offers a systematic and empirical study of this relationship. The book thereby ...
Mobilities of Knowledge
(2017)
Human Geography; Sociology of Education; Anthropology; Migration
Autonomes Fahren
(2015)
Automotive Engineering; Robotics and Automation; Community and Environmental Psychology; Commercial Law
Skills in Rheumatology
(2021)
This Open Access book presents practical approaches to managing patients affected by various rheumatological diseases, allowing readers to gain a better understanding of the various clinical expressions and problems ...
Chapter 1 Early Twentieth-Century Self-Harm: Cut Throats, General and Mental Medicine
(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 ...
Limits to the European Union’s Normative Power in a Post-conflict Society: EULEX and Peacebuilding in Kosovo
(2018)
Peacebuilding; EULEX; Kosovo; European Union; Conflict prevention; Normative power; Post-conflict; IECEU
Automated Reasoning
(2024)
Infotext (nur auf Basis des Vorgängers): This two-volume set of LNAI 14739-14740 constitute the proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2024, held in Nancy, France, during July ...
The Geology of Kuwait
(2023)
This open access book contains a set of chapters covering all aspects of geosciences related to Kuwait and adjacent regions, including Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states. It covers basic information about the ...
Chapter Acknowledgements
(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 ...
Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms
(2021)
This open access book shares the experiences of Tropical Legumes III (TLIII) project in facilitating access to seed of improved legume varieties to smallholder farmers through innovation platforms. It highlights practices ...
The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition
(2020)
The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in low-carbon technologies. The large-scale shift to low-carbon energy is ...
Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012
(2019)
This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment ...
Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2023)
This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team’s inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption ...
Formal Methods
(2025)
The open access book set LNCS 14933 + 14934 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2024, which took place in Milan, Italy, in September 2024. The 51 full and 4 short ...
Partizipative Forschung
(2020)
Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband bietet eine fundierte Grundlage für den Einstieg in die partizipative Forschung allgemein und in die Partizipative Gesundheitsforschung. Es werden Forschungsansätze und Methoden für die Erhebung ...
Marine Mammals
(2023)
This highly-readable Open Access textbook provides basic background information about marine mammals and anthropogenic impacts on them. The book includes inspiring exercises for education school programs in natural sciences. ...
Chapter 4 Self-Harm as a Result of Domestic Distress
(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 ...
Bayesian Methods in the Search for MH370
(2016)
Probability theory
Postdigital Participation in Education
(2023)
This open access book examines the interrelations and correlations of the postdigital condition and its relationship to education, with a particular focus on participation. Contributions reflect on how educational institutions ...
The Fundamentals of People Analytics
(2023)
This open access book prepares current and aspiring analytics professionals to effectively address this need by curating key concepts spanning the entire analytics lifecycle, along with step-by-step instructions for their ...
Design Ethnography
(2021)
This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards ...
Das Blaue Buch
(2016)
Oncology, Hematology, Pharmacy, Nursing
Welche Öffentlichkeit brauchen wir?
(2023)
In diesem Open Access-Sammelband reflektieren namhafte Autor:innen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis Blockaden und Chancen eines zukünftigen, besseren Mediensystems. Ausgehend von der These, dass Journalismus, Medien und ...
The International Handbook of Social Enterprise Law
(2023)
This open-access book brings together international experts who shed new light on the status of social enterprises, benefit corporations and other purpose-driven companies. The respective chapters take a multidisciplinary ...
Chapter Genomes
(2016)
In the last decade, the rise of affordable affordable high-throughput sequencing technologies has led to rapid advances across the biological sciences. At the time of writing, annotated reference genomes are available ...
Blockchain and Crypto Currency
(2020)
This open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of ...
Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows
(2020)
This Open Access textbook provides students and researchers in the life sciences with essential practical information on how to quantitatively analyze data images. It refrains from focusing on theory, and instead uses ...
On-Surface Synthesis II
(2018)
On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising strategy to create organic nanoarchitectures with atomic precision. Molecular building blocks holding adequate functional groups are dosed onto surfaces that ...
Efficient Energy-Saving Control and Optimization for Multi-Unit Systems
(2024)
This open access book focuses on energy efficiency optimization control methods and energy efficiency optimization methods. The mathematical proof of the multi-unit operation energy efficiency prediction theory and engineering ...
Krankenhaus-Report 2020
(2020)
Der Krankenhaus-Report, der jährlich in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, analysiert 2020 im Rahmen seines Schwerpunktthemas „Finanzierung und Vergütung am Scheideweg“ die aktuellen Entwicklungen in der ...
The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific
(2024)
This open access book considers that the Central and South Asian region sits at the middle of geographical, geopolitical, economic and historical cross-roads. Since the independence of the Central Asian states in the 1990s, ...
Teacher Transition into Innovative Learning Environments
(2021)
This open access book focuses on how the design and use of innovative learning environments can evolve as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are ...
Evaluating Information Retrieval and Access Tasks
(2021)
This open access book summarizes the first two decades of the NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research (NTCIR). NTCIR is a series of evaluation forums run by a global team of researchers and hosted by the ...
Resourceful Civil Society
(2022)
This open access book examines how civil society organizations in Poland, Russia, and Sweden (re)act to transformations of opportunities and limitations in access to various forms of resources. The volume’s contributions ...
Optimization-Based Energy Management for Multi-energy Maritime Grids
(2021)
This open access book discusses the energy management for the multi-energy maritime grid, which is the local energy network installed in harbors, ports, ships, ferries, or vessels. The grid consists of generation, storage, ...
Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1)
(2020)
This first open access book in a series of three volumes provides an in-depth analysis of social protection policies that EU Member States make accessible to resident nationals, non-resident nationals and non-national ...
Guide to Qualitative Research in Parliaments
(2023)
This open access book is a hands-on guide on doing qualitative research in parliaments, exploring achievements and drawbacks for all. From early-career scholars looking for an ‘in’ to start their research to senior academics ...
Topological Obstructions to Stability and Stabilization
(2023)
This open access book provides a unified overview of topological obstructions to the stability and stabilization of dynamical systems defined on manifolds and an overview that is self-contained and accessible to the ...
Performance Analysis of a Liquid/Gel Rocket Engine During Operation
(2025)
This open access book takes space propulsion system, gel propulsion system, and pumped liquid rocket engine as research objects and establishes and describes the theory, dynamic model, and numerical calculation method of ...
Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice
(2023)
This Open Access book builds on the experiences of one of the largest European projects in the domain of responsible Research and Innovation: NewHoRRIzon. It highlights the potential of and opportunity in responsible R&I ...
Sine Cosine Algorithm for Optimization
(2023)
This open access book serves as a compact source of information on sine cosine algorithm (SCA) and a foundation for developing and advancing SCA and its applications. SCA is an easy, user-friendly, and strong candidate in ...