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Functional Somatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents
(2020)
This open access book sets out the stress-system model for functional somatic symptoms in children and adolescents. The book begins by exploring the initial encounter between the paediatrician, child, and family, moves ...
Faith, Finance, and Economy
(2020)
This open access book seeks to foster a multidisciplinary understanding of the ties between faith, financial intermediation, and economic progress by drawing on research across economics, finance, history, philosophy, ...
The Menstrual Movement in the Media
(2025)
This book investigates the impact of the mediation of menstruation and menstrual activism on young people’s knowledge, attitudes, behaviours, and interpersonal relationships. Since 2015, the menstrual movement has become ...
Chapter Introduction
(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 ...
British Media Coverage of the Press Reform Debate
(2020)
This open access book provides a detailed exploration of the British media coverage of the press reform debate that arose from the News of the World phone hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry. Gathering data from a ...
Neighbourhoods in Transition
(2022)
This open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, cities and neighbourhoods. It provides both a theoretical and practical approach to ...
Clinical Text Mining
(2018)
Data Mining; Text Mining; Health Informatics; Health Care Information Systems; Medical Terminologies; Natural Language Processing; Text Analysis; Support Vector Machines
Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health
(2022)
This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to ...
International Organizations in Global Social Governance
(2021)
International Organizations (IOs) are important actors within global social governance. They provide forums for exchange, contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies ...
Open Science: the Very Idea
(2022)
This open access book provides a broad context for the understanding of current problems of science and of the different movements aiming to improve the societal impact of science and research. The author offers insights ...
Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics III
(2025)
This open-access proceedings volume brings selected, peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Fourth Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics (STUOD) 2023 Workshop, held at IFREMER in Plouzané, France, September ...
Non-affirmative Theory of Education and Bildung
(2023)
Interpreting the modern heritage of ‘Bildung’ in connection to education theory, this open access volume explores non-affirmative theory of education and ‘Bildung’ as a language of education for the 21st century. In this ...
The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Europe
(2022)
This open access book centres on the advisory roles of political scientists in Europe. Based on a cross-national survey, the book offers a comparative analysis of the viewpoints and activities of university-based political ...
Protecting the Rights of People with Autism in the Fields of Education and Employment: International, European and National Perspectives
(2015)
European Law; Human Rights; International and Comparative Education; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; Law and Psychology
European Theatre Migrants in the Age of Empire
(2025)
This open access volume explores the crucial yet insufficiently addressed phenomenon of European theatre migration in the long nineteenth century. It argues that theatre migration went far beyond the popular phenomenon of ...
The Science of Citizen Science
(2021)
This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing ...
Sociology of Interdisciplinarity
(2022)
This Open Access book builds upon Science and Technology Studies (STS) and provides a detailed examination of how large-scale energy research projects have been conceived, and with what consequences for those involved in ...
The Logical Writings of Karl Popper
(2022)
This open access book is the first ever collection of Karl Popper's writings on deductive logic. Karl R. Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His philosophy of science ...
Linear Algebra Done Right
(2024)
Now available in Open Access, this best-selling textbook for a second course in linear algebra is aimed at undergraduate math majors and graduate students. The fourth edition gives an expanded treatment of the singular ...
Funktion und Grenzen schuldverhältnisbedingter Nebenpflichten
(2020)
Florian Kamp analysiert in diesem Open-Access-Buch Grund und Grenzen von Nebenpflichten nach § 241 II BGB. Dessen Auslegung zur Suche nach Haftungsgrund und -grenzen bietet als zentralen Befund, dass einzig der historisch ...
Uncertainty in Engineering
(2022)
This open access book provides an introduction to uncertainty quantification in engineering. Starting with preliminaries on Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods, followed by material on imprecise probabilities, it ...
Sprachbildung in der Lehramtsausbildung Mathematik
(2022)
Wie lassen sich Fachdidaktik und Sprachbildung im Lehramtsstudium so verknüpfen, dass zukünftige Mathematiklehrkräfte optimal auf sprachbewussten Fachunterricht vorbereitet werden? Dieser Frage geht dieses Open Access Buch ...
Education to Build Back Better
(2022)
This open access book examines the implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for education systems and argues that major education reforms will be necessary, particularly in the Global South, to address the learning loss caused ...
The Ethics of Educational Healthcare Placements in Low and Middle Income Countries
(2017)
education; policy; poverty; aid; development; Africa
Housing Market Dynamics in Africa
(2018)
Housing finance; Slum upgrading; Africa; Construction; Political economy; Land tenure; Housing development; Urban planning; Real estate; Public policy; Property rights; Economics
Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence
(2023)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 10th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly affecting more aspects of our lives as a result of significant ...
Politische Bildung in Aktion
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht Steve Kenner der Frage nach, inwiefern sich politische Bildungsprozesse aus den Partizipationserfahrungen junger Menschen rekonstruieren lassen. Er begleitete politische Jugendinitiativen ...
Putting PIRLS to Use in Classrooms Across the Globe
(2022)
This open access book provides teachers with approaches to strengthen reading comprehension instruction based on scientific research and evidence-based didactic principles. In this volume, the Progress in International ...
A History of Self-Harm in Britain
(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 ...
Citizen Participation in the Information Society
(2022)
This open access book examines how digital technologies are used to promote citizen participation in democratic urban development. It assesses the emergence, use, applicability and functions of digital modes of citizen ...
Recovering Civility during COVID-19
(2021)
This Open Access book examines many of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic through the distinctive lens of civility. The idea of civility appears often in both public and academic debates, and a polarized political ...
Office 365
(2013)
Computer science
Chapter 1 Ringworm
(2013)
In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection ...
Computing Characterizations of Drugs for Ion Channels and Receptors Using Markov Models
(2016)
Computational Science and Engineering; Biomedicine general; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics
Chapter 9 Which Patient Takes Centre Stage?
(2020)
The growth of personalised medicine and patient partnerships in biomedical
research are reshaping both the emotional and material intersections
between human patients and animal research. Through tracing the creative ...
Gene Drives at Tipping Points
(2020)
This open access book reports on a pilot project aiming at collecting information on the socio-ecological risks that could arise in the event of an uncontrolled spread of genetically engineered organisms into the environment. ...
Higher Degree by Research
(2022)
This open access book provides insights from Indigenous higher degree research (HDR) students on supervision practices in an Australian context. It examines findings from qualitative studies conducted with Indigenous HDR ...
Asylum and Nonreligion
(2024)
This open access Palgrave Pivot explores the experiences of nonreligious asylum seekers in Northern Europe. While religious persecution is often cited as a reason for seeking asylum, nonbelievers also face significant ...
Von einem Traum getrieben
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt das Leben und die Leistungen des norwegischen Ingenieurs und Physikers Rolf Widerøe. Zu seinen vielen bahnbrechenden Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Beschleunigerphysik gehören unter anderem ...
Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
(2021)
This revised textbook motivates and illustrates the techniques of applied probability by applications in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). The author presents information processing and communication ...