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Experimental Techniques in Modern High-Energy Physics
(2022)
This open access book offers a concise overview of how data from large scale experiments are analyzed and how technological tools are used in practice, as in the search for new elementary particles. It focuses on interconnects ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History
(2017)
This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places. It brings together scholars from disciplines ...
Islamistische Gewalttaten in Westeuropa
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch behandelt die Frage, wie und warum es dazu kommt, dass Menschen schwere islamistische Gewalttaten, etwa in Form terroristischer Anschläge oder gewaltsamer Hasskriminalität, in Westeuropa begehen ...
Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939
(2023)
This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countries and in different ...
Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
(2017)
This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights ...
Technology, Design and the Arts - Opportunities and Challenges
(2020)
This open access book details the relationship between the artist and their created works, using tools such as information technology, computer environments, and interactive devices, for a range of information sources and ...
Peer Review, Peer Education, and Modeling in the Practice of Clinical Ethics Consultation: The Zadeh Project
(2018)
This open access book about the Zadeh Project demonstrates and explores a core question in clinical ethics: how can ethics consultants be accountable in the face of a robust plurality of ethical standpoints, especially ...
Inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit: Erkenntnisse ökonomischer Spitzenforschung prägnant zusammengefasst
(2018)
Inklusives Wachstum; wirtschaftliche Sicherheit; Bildung; soziale Inklusion; Innovation; Unternehmen und Management; industrieller Wandel; Banken und Finanzierung
Advancing Responsible Sourcing in Mineral Value Chains
(2024)
This book examines the responsible sourcing of raw materials within global value chains. With the need for a vast amount of additional raw materials to enable the global green energy transition, it examines the current ...
Pro Git (Second Edition)
(2014)
Computer science
Housing Estates in Europe
(2018)
This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in ...
The Belt and Road Initiative at Ten
(2024)
This open access book analyzes the achievements and challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the macro and industrial, real and financial, domestic and international perspectives, and explores the opportunities ...
Cultural Heritage and Development in Fragile Contexts
(2024)
This open access book discusses cooperation strategies for safeguarding cultural heritage in nations facing diverse forms of fragility. Through case studies and a critical analysis, it explores preserving cultural heritage ...
New Digital Work
(2023)
This open access book will give insights into global issues of work and work systems design from a wide range of perspectives. Topics like the impact of AI in the workplace as well as design for digital sovereignty at the ...
The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin
(2015)
Agriculture; Food Science; Environmental Science and Engineering
Artificial Intelligence Oceanography
(2023)
This open access book invites readers to learn how to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms to perform their research in oceanography. Various examples are exhibited to guide details of how to feed the big ...
Enabling Asia to Stabilise the Climate
(2015)
Sustainable Development
The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia
(2024)
This open access handbook aims to constitute a reference point on political norm dynamics in Southeast Asia, by bringing together the array of normative repertoires that frame the possibilities for citizens to participate ...
Building Bridges for Effective Environmental Participation: The Path of Law Co-Creation
(2024)
This open-access book aims to explore and promote indigenous participation in legal design and visual law, with a specific focus on co-creating a visual representation of the Escazu Agreement in collaboration with the ...
Splendors of Quanzhou, Past and Present
(2023)
This open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou’s innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and culturally—values that are ...
Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020
(2013)
Language Translation and Linguistics; Computational Linguistics
Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability
(2014)
Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach ...
Wie ticken Jugendliche 2016?: Lebenswelten von Jugendlichen im Alter von 14 bis 17 Jahren in Deutschland
(2016)
Popular Social Sciences; Childhood, Adolescence and Society; Sociology of Education; Demography; Social Work
Etiology and Morphogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease
(2016)
Cardiology; Pediatrics
Weißbuch Gelenkersatz: Versorgungssituation bei endoprothetischen Hüft- und Knieoperationen in Deutschland
(2017)
orthopedics; surgery; medicine; biotechnology
Food Economics
(2024)
Food Economics provides a unified introduction to the economics of agricultural production, business decisions, consumer behavior, and the government policies that shape our food system. This open access textbook begins ...
Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Paths
(2021)
This open access book explores the amazing similarity between paths taken by people and many other things in life, and its impact on the way we live, teach and learn. Offering insights into the new scientific field of paths ...
Understanding Statistics and Experimental Design
(2019)
This open access textbook provides the background needed to correctly use, interpret and understand statistics and statistical data in diverse settings. Part I makes key concepts in statistics readily clear. Parts I and ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2018)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 10980 and 10981 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018. The 52 full and 13 ...
Handlungsorientierungen von Lehrpersonen im Umgang mit Unterrichtsstörungen
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Claudia Marusic anhand der Dokumentarischen Methode Handlungsorientierungen von Lehrpersonen aus Schulen mit und ohne personalisierte Lernkonzepte im Umgang mit Unterrichtsstörungen. ...
Automated Vehicles as a Game Changer for Sustainable Mobility
(2024)
This open access book explores a vision for a sustainable future in urban mobility through the AVENUE project, showcasing full-scale demonstrations of automated minibuses in European cities. AVENUE pioneers on-demand, ...
Narrating China's Governance
(2020)
This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s ...
Novel Technology and Whole-Process Management in Prefabricated Building
(2024)
This open access book discusses the challenges, methodologies, applications in construction, technology and whole-process management of prefabricated buildings. It is a valuable resource for building engineers looking to ...
The Emigrant Communities of Latvia
(2019)
This open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – in the case of return migration - re-integration ...
Das Nachleben der Künste
(2024)
Die künstlerische Produktion der Gegenwart ist äußerst divers und kaum mehr auf klare Kategorien festlegbar. Es ist eine geläufige Diagnose, dass sich Disziplinengrenzen auflösen und dass letztlich alles in einer Kunst im ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, CAV 2024, which took place in Montreal, Canada, during July 24–27, 2024.The primary focus of CAV is to ...
Mobilitäts- und Transportrecht in Europa
(2022)
Dieser Open Access Band beleuchtet den weit über die wissenschaftliche Community hinaus diskutierten Bereich der Personen- und Gütermobilität aus einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Perspektiven. Das Buch zeichnet sich durch ...
Assessing Rare Variation in Complex Traits
(2015)
This book is unique in covering a wide range of design and analysis issues in genetic studies of rare variants, taking advantage of collaboration of the editors with many experts in the field through large-scale international ...
Digitalisierung in Studium und Lehre gemeinsam gestalten
(2021)
Der Open-Access-Band adressiert die Herausforderungen und Chancen der Digitalisierung für Studierende und Lehrende sowie für Support-Strukturen und Leitungen von Hochschulen in Deutschland. Thematische Schwerpunkte bilden ...
Theorizing Teaching
(2023)
This open access book seeks to create a forum for discussing key questions regarding theories on teaching: Which theories of teaching do we have? What are their attributes? What do they contain? How are they generated? How ...
Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling: With Applications for the Social Sciences
(2018)
Agent-Based Modelling; ABM; Artificial Intelligence; AI; Computational social science; Social simulation; Population sciences
The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine
(2024)
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Maidan massacre in Ukraine. It uses a theoretical framework of rational choice, moral hazard, state- repression backfire, and Weberian ideas about rational ...
Infektionen und Gesellschaft
(2021)
In diesem Open Access Tagungsband beantworten renommierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler hochaktuelle Fragen zu Pandemien im Allgemeinen und der COVID-19-Pandemie im Besonderen. Vor allem die Auswirkungen auf ...
Data Science-Based Full-Lifespan Management of Lithium-Ion Battery
(2022)
This open access book comprehensively consolidates studies in the rapidly emerging field of battery management. The primary focus is to overview the new and emerging data science technologies for full-lifespan management ...
Seamless Learning
(2022)
Das Konzept des «Seamless Learning» unterstützt kontextübergreifendes und barrierefreies Lehren und Lernen durch die Integration digitaler Technologien und die Berücksichtigung von Kontext und Anforderungen der jeweiligen ...
Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Asia
(2013)
Development Economics; Economic Growth; Public Economics
Napoleonic Governance in the Netherlands and Northwest Germany
(2021)
“Van der Burg presents an innovative transregional study of Napoleonic governance in the often-overlooked northern periphery of the Empire. This book carefully examines the Empire’s administrative structure in the north, ...
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
(2024)
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. ...
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 ...
Bio-Inspired Information Pathways
(2024)
This open access book offers a timely and comprehensive review of the field of neurotronics. Gathering cutting-edge contributions from neuroscientists, biologists, psychologists, as well as physicists, microelectronics ...
Diasporic Hallyu
(2022)
This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of ...
Kausalität und mentale Verursachung
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird eine Verteidigung des nicht-reduktiven Physikalismus gegen den Vorwurf des Epiphänomenalismus entwickelt. Laut dem Vorwurf des Epiphänomenalismus folgt aus dem nicht-reduktiven Physikalismus, ...
Der junge Carnap in historischem Kontext: 1918–1935 / Young Carnap in an Historical Context: 1918–1935
(2021)
This open access volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context’ workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf Carnap’s philosophy, documented in his recently released diaries, from a combination of ...
Recommender Systems: Legal and Ethical Issues
(2023)
This open access contributed volume examines the ethical and legal foundations of (future) policies on recommender systems and offers a transdisciplinary approach to tackle important issues related to their development, ...
Stochastics of Environmental and Financial Economics
(2015)
Systems Theory, Control
Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing: Estimation of Agricultural Crop Biomass Water Equivalent
(2018)
Earth Science; Soil Management; Water Management; Crop Nutrition; Nuclear; CRNS; Biomass Water Equivalent; Remote Sensing; Satellite Imagery
Data Collection in Fragile States
(2020)
‘This open access book addresses an urgent issue on which little organized information exists. It reflects experience in Africa but is highly relevant to other fragile states as well.’ —Constantine Michalopoulos, John ...
Clinical Text Mining
(2018)
Data Mining; Text Mining; Health Informatics; Health Care Information Systems; Medical Terminologies; Natural Language Processing; Text Analysis; Support Vector Machines
Methoden des bestärkenden Lernens für die Produktionsablaufplanung
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird eine Methode zur Adaption, Integration und Anwendung von bestärkenden Lernverfahren (Reinforcement Learning) für die Produktionsablaufplanung beschrieben. Die Methode wird anhand von typischen ...
Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe
(2020)
This open access book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is at stake in the life of homosexuals in the field of family formation, parenting and ...
The German Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(2021)
This open access book examines a particular factor in the enduring international success of German companies. Beyond industrial specialization, peaceful labor relations, local financial markets and the “miracle of the ...
Computational Conflict Research
(2020)
This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this ...
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
Soft Power and Great-Power Competition
(2023)
This open access book consists of essays selected from Joseph S. Nye, Jr.’s last three decades of writing and illustrate a variety of perspectives on the nature of power, the role of the United States in the world and ...
A Decade of Research Activities at the Department of Industrial Engineering (UniNa-DII)
(2024)
This open access book celebrates the decennial of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. It covers the main research achievements developed at the department in the fields of ...
Partizipation und Wissensaufbau beim Lösen von Textaufgaben
(2024)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch geht von der Prämisse aus, dass Lernen aus kognitiver und sozial-konstruktivistischer Sicht als individueller Aufbau von Wissens- und Denkstrukturen verstanden wird. Die Aufgabe der ...
Intelligent Human Computer Interaction: 9th International Conference, IHCI 2017, Evry, France, December 11-13, 2017, Proceedings
(2017)
brain computer interface; artificial intelligence; computer networks; classification databases; HCI machine learning; signal processing; user interfaces
Frauen und Männer in der zweiten Lebenshälfte
(2019)
Das vorliegende Open Access-Buch stellt einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur längsschnittlichen Sozialberichterstattung zum Thema Altern und Geschlecht und zur sozial- und verhaltenswissenschaftlichen Alternsforschung dar. Auf ...
Electromechanobiology of Cartilage and Osteoarthritis
(2023)
This is an open access book. In honor of his 75th birthday, we reflect on the impact of the pioneering work of Alan Grodzinsky and his laboratory. This volume includes in-depth discussions of tissue electromechanics, ...
The Politics of Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy
(2024)
The overarching aim of the book is to provide the first comprehensive account of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy and its dissemination through digital diplomacy. In contrast to other scholarly studies of digital diplomacy ...
Political Islam and Religiously Motivated Political Extremism
(2023)
This open access book presents an international comparison of religiously motivated extremism in the Arab world and around the globe. Based on data from the Arab Barometer and the World Values Survey, it applies advanced ...
The Energy Sector and Energy Geopolitics in the MENA Region at a Crossroad
(2023)
This open access book offers a holistic and interdisciplinary analysis of the energy sector in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and its ongoing transformation. Taking into account global decarbonization ...
The Economics of Big Science
(2021)
The essays in this open access volume identify the key ingredients for success in capitalizing on public investments in scientific projects and the development of large-scale research infrastructures. Investment in science ...
Innovative Priority Mechanisms in Service Operations
(2023)
This book introduces the most advanced and recent theoretical research on innovative priority mechanisms in service settings. It covers cutting-edge topics on service innovations such as line-sitting, service-position-trading, ...
Rule of Law in Europe
(2024)
This open access book discusses the state of rule of law protection in Europe, by considering recent challenges to judiciary independence in EU countries. The purpose of the book is to advance solutions to such challenges. ...
Health Information Systems
(2023)
This heavily revised open access edition provides a thorough overview of the technologies available to assemble, manage and assess the quality of health information systems. It details a variety of scenarios in the context ...
Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds
(2024)
This open-access book is premised on the belief that understanding and protecting privacy requires a multidisciplinary approach. The editors of this contributed book believe that privacy is a ‘wicked problem’ because of ...
Tales of Research Misconduct: A Lacanian Diagnostics of Integrity Challenges in Science Novels
(2017)
research integrity; scientific misconduct; science novels; Lacanian psychoanalysis; continental philosophy; falsification; plagiarism; ethics
Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7)
(2019)
This open access book is the first comprehensive guideline for the beryllium-7 (Be-7) technique that can be applied to evaluate short-term patterns and budgets of soil redistribution in agricultural landscapes. While ...
University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education
(2024)
This open access edited volume reports on a unique network of innovative in-school and out-of-school programs, University-Community Links. UC Links connects university faculty and students with young people and their ...
Die Finanzkrise 2008 im Unbewussten
(2020)
Helga Klug eröffnet in diesem Open-Access-Buch neue ungewohnte Sichtweisen auf die psychische Verarbeitung der Finanzkrise 2008. Dabei rückt die Autorin unbewusste Prozesse in den Fokus, wie sie in Krisenmodellen, ...
Öffentliche Verwaltung – Verwaltung in der Öffentlichkeit
(2020)
Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband beleuchtet Herausforderungen und Chancen für die Verwaltungskommunikation in der modernen Mediendemokratie aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen und berufspraktischen Perspektiven. Die ...
Innovative Medicine: Basic Research and Development
(2015)
molecular medicine; immunology; cell biology
Mobilities in Life and Death
(2023)
This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed ...
Principles of Security and Trust: 7th International Conference, POST 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings
(2018)
authentication; computer science; computer software selection and evaluation; cryptography; data privacy; formal logic; formal methods; formal specification; internet; privacy; program compilers; programming ...
Recent Development of Alternating Current Field Measurement Combine with New Technology
(2024)
This open access book can be divided into three parts. In part 1, three articles are employed to introduce the RACFM technology. In part 2, two articles are introduced to explain the Multifrequency ACFM. In part 3, three ...
Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
(2022)
This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and ...
Chapter Analogy-Based Inference Patterns in Pharmacological Research
(2020)
Analogical arguments are ubiquitous vehicles of knowledge transfer in science and medicine. This paper outlines a Bayesian evidence-amalgamation framework for the purpose of formally exploring different analogy-based ...
One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene
(2023)
This is an open access book. Animals are the traditional blind spot in human rights theory. This book brings together the seemingly disparate discourses of human and animal rights, and looks at emerging animal rights as ...
Natural Computing and Beyond
(2013)
This book contains the joint proceedings of the Winter School of Hakodate (WSH) 2011 held in Hakodate, Japan, March 15–16, 2011, and the 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing (6th IWNC) held in Tokyo, Japan, March ...
Security in Computer and Information Sciences
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, EuroCybersec 2021, held in Nice, France, in October 2021. The 9 papers ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2021)
This open access book constitutes papers from the 5 research workshops, the poster presentations, as well as two panel discussions which were presented at XP 2021, the 22nd International Conference on Agile Software ...
Multi-Winner Voting with Approval Preferences
(2023)
From fundamental concepts and results to recent advances in computational social choice, this open access book provides a thorough and in-depth look at multi-winner voting based on approval preferences. The main focus is ...
East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century
(2023)
This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe during the twentieth century, examining local contexts through a comparative and transnational reworking of theoretical models in postcolonial studies. ...
Trends und Determinanten sozialer Probleme in reichen Ländern
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, warum sich wohlhabende Gesellschaften merklich im Ausmaß sozialer Probleme wie z. B. Kriminalität oder mangelnde Wahlbeteiligung unterscheiden. In einer makrosoziologischen ...
Consumer Decision Neuroscience
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch zur Consumer Decision Neuroscience verfolgt das Ziel, durch die Integration neurowissenschaftlicher Methoden in die Käufer- und Konsumentenverhaltensforschung die Identifikation verhaltensrelevanter, ...
Perspectives on Paradata
(2024)
This open access book examines a rapidly 'datafied' society, reminding us that it is crucial to know what data is about and where it originates. This insight has led to an embryonic stage of new theorizing, empirical ...
Frontiers of Real Estate Science in Japan
(2021)
This open access book presents recent research and hot topics in the field of real estate science in Japan. It features carefully selected English translations of peer-reviewed papers and excellent articles published in ...
Reshaping Engineering Education
(2024)
This open access book is dedicated to exploring methods and charting the course for enhancing engineering education in and beyond 2023. It delves into the idea that education, coupled with social connections, is indispensable ...