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The Philosophy of Leopold Blaustein
(2024)
This is an open-access book which is devoted to rediscovering the early history of phenomenology in confrontation with the legacy of Franz Brentano by discussing Leopold Blaustein’s philosophy. It offers a unique perspective ...
Developing Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Software Systems
(2023)
This open access book provides information how to choose and collect the appropriate metrics for a software project in an organization. There are several kinds of metrics, based on the analysis of source code and developed ...
Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century
(2023)
This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that ...
Evolution, Monitoring and Predicting Models of Rockburst
(2018)
Load/unload response ratio predicting of rockburst; Three-dimensional reconstruction of fissured rock; Nonlinear dynamics evolution pattern of rock cracks; Bayesian model for predicting rockburst
Improving Inclusive Education through Universal Design for Learning
(2021)
This open access international scientific study provides an analysis of how the educational strategy of Universal Design for Learning can stimulate the process of inclusive education in different educational-cultural ...
Forced Migration and Separated Families
(2023)
This open access book examines the impacts and experiences of family separation on forced migrants and their transnational families. On the one hand, it investigates how people with a forced migration background in Europe, ...
Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States
(2018)
Socio-legal studies; Law; Criminology; Criminal justice; Action research; Scandinavia; Welfare state; Norway; Demark; Finland; Sweden; Iceland
Exploring the Effectiveness of International Knowledge Cooperation
(2024)
In this open access book, we provide evidence to support the conceptual discussion of what constitutes “modalities of knowledge interaction” and suggest an analytical framework for effective knowledge cooperation. In ...
Pilot Society and the Energy Transition
(2021)
This open access book examines the role of pilot and demonstration projects as crucial devices for conducting innovation in the context of the energy transition. Bridging literature from sustainability transitions and ...
Determinants of Financial Development
(2010)
"As the world has witnessed the worst financial crisis and climate crisis of our age, during the period of 2007-2009, the issues surrounding the emergence and development of financial markets and carbon markets is becoming ...
Quantitative Sustainability
(2024)
This open access book focuses on how scientific methodologies can help industrial managers, entrepreneurs and policymakers handle the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in an efficient and realistic way. It also offers an ...
AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City
(2016)
This book describes the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthy city" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven and Province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. AiREAS is an initiative focused on the multidisciplinary ...
Micro-Management of Irregular Migration
(2022)
This open access book provides an analysis of the functioning, consequences and inherent limitations of internalised immigration control. By adopting the perspective of irregular residents as well as local service providers, ...
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 ...
An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI
(2021)
This open access book introduces the reader to the foundations of AI and ethics. It discusses issues of trust, responsibility, liability, privacy and risk. It focuses on the interaction between people and the AI systems ...
Combatting Illicit Trade on the EU Border
(2021)
This open access book provides the first-ever comparative study on criminal policy concerning the illicit trade of tobacco, conducted among four comparatively new EU Member States (Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Romania) ...
The Ethics of Educational Healthcare Placements in Low and Middle Income Countries
(2017)
education; policy; poverty; aid; development; Africa
Status and Dynamics of Forests in Germany
(2019)
Life sciences; Ecology ; Forestry; Soil science; Soil conservation; Sustainable development; Geobiology
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, and ...
The Future European Energy System
(2021)
This open access book analyzes the transition toward a low-carbon energy system in Europe under the aspects of flexibility and technological progress. By covering the main energy sectors – including the industry, residential, ...
Development and Characterization of a Dispersion-Encoded Method for Low-Coherence Interferometry
(2022)
This Open Access book discusses an extension to low-coherence interferometry by dispersion-encoding. The approach is theoretically designed and implemented for applications such as surface profilometry, polymeric cross-linking ...
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 ...
Religion und Sozialkapital in der Schweiz
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch unterzieht Anastas Odermatt die weitverbreitete Annahme, dass sowohl Religion als auch freiwilliges Engagement förderlich für soziales Vertrauen und damit für gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt und ...
The Promise of Higher Education
(2021)
This book is a collection of short essays, accessible through open access, which takes the interested reader on a tour across the global higher education landscape. It addresses pertinent themes and challenges in higher ...
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering
(2024)
Creating an inclusive environment where different software developers can feel welcome and leverage their talents is an ethical imperative no company can ignore. Indeed, software organizations have in the last decade been ...
Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2016)
development; economics
Chapter 1 Psychological Illness and General Practice
(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 ...
Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia
(2024)
This Open Access book explores the complex interplay between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population. The authors offer a fresh look at the tensions between the local ...
When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?
(2021)
This open access book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion of what these economies and polities should do to guarantee themselves a relatively ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2023)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2023, which was held during April 22-27, 2023, in Paris, France, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and ...
Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy
(2016)
Migration; Child and School Psychology; Political Science
The Sweetpotato Genome
(2025)
This open access book is a compilation of advances in sweetpotato genomics, which have been used to improve our understanding of the evolution of sweetpotato, increase our knowledge of crop growth and development, and ...
Migration and Home
(2024)
This open access short reader offers an intersectional perspective on the meaning of home in migration. The book provides a pathway through existing scholarship on home and migration, exploring how intersectional power ...
Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War Finland
(2023)
This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland’s Cold War cultural diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the country’s foreign relations, the link between culture and politics, ...
66 Simple Rules for Entrepreneurs
(2024)
This open access book is your ticket to entrepreneurial success! Learn practical tips to think more like an entrepreneur, spot opportunities, build key relationships, tell compelling stories, and grow your venture. Discover ...
Participatory Research and Planning in Practice
(2020)
This open access book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of participatory ...
Greening Water Risks
(2023)
Confronted with an increase in floods, droughts and other natural hazards, cities and regions are alert to find climate proof solutions that overcome the limitations of traditional grey infrastructure. Nature-based solutions ...
Finance for Food
(2014)
Development Economics; Agricultural Economics; Finance, general; Economic Growth; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Microfinance; Rural Finance; Agricultural Finance; Rural Development; Developing ...
Global Business Strategy
(2015)
Emerging Markets/Globalization; Innovation/Technology Management; Business Strategy/Leadership; International Economics; Operations Management
Understanding Acoustics
(2020)
This open access textbook, like Rayleigh’s classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than mathematical rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments and corrections ...
Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories
(2022)
This Open Access book illustrates the power of stories to illuminate ethical concerns that arise in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for ...
Adaptive Peacebuilding
(2023)
This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle ...
Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context
(2023)
This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book assesses rigorously and ...
Proceedings of the 2020 DigitalFUTURES
(2021)
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2020 DigitalFUTURES—The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020). The book focuses on novel techniques for ...
Transforming Entrepreneurship Education
(2023)
This open access book provides selected teaching approaches, supporting methods, concrete examples of curricula as well as extracurricular teaching formats, which are predominantly tailored to both African and German ...
Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018)
Sustainable agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa; Agricultural economics; Climate change economics; Agricultural productivity; Modern technology adoption by farmers; Agricultural sustainability; Bioenergy Crop Adoption; ...
Numerical Simulation of Pulsed Plasma Thruster
(2025)
This is an open access book. It is valuable in gaining an understanding of the working mechanism of pulsed plasma thrusters. It facilitates the evaluation of the thruster's working characteristics and propulsive performance, ...
(Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam
(2023)
This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively ...
Making Healthcare Safe
(2021)
This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably ...
GeoHumanities and Health
(2020)
This volume brings together research in the GeoHumanities from various intellectual perspectives to illustrate the benefits of humanities-inspired approaches in understanding and confronting historically entrenched and ...
Symbiotic Interaction: 5th International Workshop, Symbiotic 2016, Padua, Italy, September 29–30, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
(2017)
human-computer interaction; machine learning; cyber-physical systems
Positive Tipping Points Towards Sustainability
(2024)
This open access book provides the first comprehensive review of the state of the art of social tipping points applied to energy systems from a social interdisciplinary perspective. It does so by presenting a novel theory ...
Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand
(2023)
Through an inter-subjective lens, this open access book investigates the initial labour market integration experiences of these migrants, refugees or asylum seekers, who are characterised by different biographies and ...
Suffrage, Capital, and Welfare
(2024)
This open access book examines disenfranchisement and voting barriers in ten self-governing and aspiring liberal democracies worldwide, before and after the introduction of so-called universal suffrage. Focusing on economic ...
Ribosome Biogenesis
(2022)
This Open Access volume provides comprehensive reviews and describes the latest techniques to study eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis. For more than 50 years ribosomes are a major research topic. Our knowledge about ribosome ...
Modernization with Chinese Characteristics and Great Power
(2023)
This open access book expounds in detail on the profound meaning and main characteristics of modernization with Chinese characteristics. This was done utilizing tools of historical investigation and fact-based research on ...
Ray Tracing Gems
(2019)
This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rendering in real time. With the announcement of new ray tracing APIs and hardware to support them, developers can easily create real-time applications with ray tracing as ...
Chapter 2 Pathogenesis
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...
Altern im Wandel: Zwei Jahrzehnte Deutscher Alterssurvey (DEAS)
(2017)
demography
Chapter 4 Delivering Post-Mortem Harm: Cutting the 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 ...
Chapter 4 Delivering Post-Mortem Harm: Cutting the 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 ...
Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change
(2014)
Climate Change; Nature Conservation; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Applied Ecology
Objective Information Theory
(2023)
Objective Information Theory (OIT) is proposed to represent and compute the information in a large-scale complex information system with big data in this monograph. To formally analyze, design, develop, and evaluate the ...
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
Vergleichsweise menschlich?: Ambulante Sanktionen als Alternative zur Freiheitsentziehung aus europäischer Perspektive
(2015)
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general; Social Work; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Criminal Law
Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming Processes
(2024)
This open access book comprises selected papers presented at the NUMIFORM 2023conference, where recent developments, innovations and advances in numerical methods for material forming and shaping through plastic deformation ...
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 2 Issue 1, 2023
(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). The book provides a common platform for the ...
Augmented Reality for Engineering Graphics
(2024)
This open access book offers a timely snapshot of Augmented Reality (AR) technology, with an emphasis on its application within the mechanical and manufacturing engineering domains, for both educational and industrial ...
Energy and Sustainable Futures: Proceedings of the 3rd ICESF, 2022
(2023)
This is an open access book. This book contains research papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Futures (ICESF), which took place at Coventry University, UK, in 2022. The ICESF is ...
Creating Resilient Futures
(2022)
This open access edited volume critically examines a coherence building opportunity between Climate Change Adaptation, the Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas through presenting best practice ...
Risky Play
(2023)
This open access book brings together current childhood research and contemporary ethical theory to draw attention to how children depend upon a scope of action for risky play for their mental and physical development. In ...
Das ethische Mandat von Pflegekammern
(2024)
In den letzten Jahren errichteten einige deutsche Bundesländer Pflegekammern, die Selbstverwaltungsorgane der Pflege, andere sind auf dem Weg dahin. Ethik ist ein normativ gesetzter Kammerbaustein. Allerdings ist bis heute ...
Akzeptanz multimodaler Mobilität
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch knüpft an aktuelle Themen zur Transformation der Alltagsmobilität an. Es leistet einen Beitrag zur Frage, wie und wann Menschen ihre Mobilität multimodal gestalten, also verschiedene Verkehrsmittel ...
Klinische Entscheidungsfindung mit Künstlicher Intelligenz
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-essential schafft Orientierung, wenn Künstliche Intelligenz im klinischen Alltag eingesetzt wird. Die Herausforderungen werden anhand zweier Beispiele aus dem Bereich der Nephrologie erläutert, die ...
Living with Nature, Cherishing Language
(2024)
This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of ...
Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change
(2014)
Climate Change; Nature Conservation; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Applied Ecology
Living with Nature, Cherishing Language
(2024)
This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of ...
Adaptive Dynamic Programming
(2024)
This open access book focuses on the practical application of Adaptive Dynamic Programming (ADP) in chemotherapy drug delivery, taking into account clinical variables and real-time data. ADP's ability to adapt to changing ...
Preparing for Life in a Digital Age: The IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study International Report
(2014)
Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Computers and Education; International and Comparative Education
Chapter Appendix
(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 ...
Demystifying Climate Models
(2016)
Civil engineering; Climate change management
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
(2017)
medical humanities; philosophy
Molecular Mechanism of Congenital Heart Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension
(2020)
This open access book focuses on the molecular mechanism of congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension, offering new insights into the development of pulmonary circulation and the ductus arteriosus. It describes ...
Smart Technologies for Precision Assembly
(2021)
This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2020, held virtually in December 2020. The 16 revised full papers and 10 ...
Smart Technologies for Precision Assembly
(2021)
This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2020, held virtually in December 2020. The 16 revised full papers and 10 ...
Sonic Design
(2024)
This open access book offers a historical context and an overview of the field's current artistic and scientific research. Sonic design includes the construction and performance of acoustic instruments but also recording, ...
Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
(2016)
This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars from history, literature and cultural studies, to reappraise how ...
Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
(2016)
This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars from history, literature and cultural studies, to reappraise how ...
The Plight of Older Workers: Labor Market Experience after Plant Closure in the Swiss Manufacturing Sector
(2016)
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Labor Economics; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
The Plight of Older Workers: Labor Market Experience after Plant Closure in the Swiss Manufacturing Sector
(2016)
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Labor Economics; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Molecular Mechanism of Congenital Heart Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension
(2020)
This open access book focuses on the molecular mechanism of congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension, offering new insights into the development of pulmonary circulation and the ductus arteriosus. It describes ...
Sonic Design
(2024)
This open access book offers a historical context and an overview of the field's current artistic and scientific research. Sonic design includes the construction and performance of acoustic instruments but also recording, ...
System-Aufstellungen und ihre naturwissenschaftliche Begründung
(2020)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation liefert Thomas Gehlert eine konsistente, auf aktuellen Experimenten und Theorien basierte, fundierte natur- und neurowissenschaftliche Theorie, die den zugrundeliegenden Prozess bei Intuition ...
System-Aufstellungen und ihre naturwissenschaftliche Begründung
(2020)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation liefert Thomas Gehlert eine konsistente, auf aktuellen Experimenten und Theorien basierte, fundierte natur- und neurowissenschaftliche Theorie, die den zugrundeliegenden Prozess bei Intuition ...
Defending Checks and Balances in EU Member States
(2021)
This open access book deals with Article 7 TEU measures, court proceedings, financial sanctions and the EU Rule of Law Framework to protect EU values with a particular focus on checks and balances in EU Member States. It ...
Chapter References
(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 ...
Soft Crystals
(2023)
This open access book introduces the science of the new materials, soft crystals, by showing various interesting examples. Different from conventional hard and stable crystals, the soft crystals respond to gentle stimuli ...
Hydraulics in Civil Engineering
(2024)
On the one hand, the book closes the gap between applied civil engineering hydraulics books and standard fluid mechanics works; on the other hand, it is designed as a course that can be applied modularly. The goal is to ...
Studium als Balanceakt
(2023)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation untersucht studienbezogene Erfahrungen von First-in-Family Studierenden in Österreich und zeigt auf, wie diese ihren studentischen Alltag bewältigen. Formen der Bewältigung und Kriterien des ...
The Future Internet: Future Internet Assembly 2011: Achievements and Technological Promises
(2011)
Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Multimedia Information Systems; Communications Engineering, Networks; Computers and Society