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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Children and Adolescents
(2022)
This open access illustrated guide focuses on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in children and adolescents. FGM/C comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or ...
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
Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2020
(2022)
This open access book provides an overview of the dissertations of the eleven nominees for the Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering in 2020. The prize, kindly sponsored by the Gerlind & Ernst Denert Stiftung, is ...
Abschlusspolitische Ergebnisspaltungen mit aufgegebenen Geschäftsbereichen nach IFRS 5
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, ob abschlusspolitische Ergebnisspaltungen mit aufgegebenen Geschäftsbereichen unter IFRS 5 existieren und ob sie verhindert werden können. Anhand von 325 Beobachtungen von ...
How Generations Remember
(2016)
This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how ...
Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All
(2024)
This open access book is the second of a two-volume series that explores how people are living well and creating a “World Worth Living in for All”. It engages in deep listening of voices from across the world and considers ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 24th International Conference, TACAS 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings, Part I
(2018)
authentication; computer science; computer software selection and evaluation; cryptography; data privacy; formal logic; formal methods; formal specification; internet; privacy; program compilers; programming ...
Programming for Computations - Python: A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python
(2016)
Numerical simulations; programming; Python
Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy
(2017)
astronomy; physics; communications; radio; engineering
Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch: Results by the STEVIN-programme
(2013)
Computational Linguistics; Germanic Languages; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computing Methodologies
Global Oil and Gas Resources: Potential and Distribution
(2024)
This open access book presents the evaluation of undiscovered oil and gas resources and reserves growth in 468 basins around the world, as well as the potential of unconventional recoverable resources of seven types, ...
The Dynamics of Opportunity in America: Evidence and Perspectives
(2016)
Educational Policy and Politics; Public Policy; Economic Policy; Knowledge - Discourse; Labor Economics
Emotional and Ecological Literacy for a More Sustainable Society
(2024)
This open access book aims to promote ecological and emotional research and education for sustainability by cultivating values and behaviours consistent with how nature makes us feel connected and nurtured. Built upon the ...
Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World
(2016)
Conservation Biology/Ecology; Vertebrates; Animal Ecology; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
Die Phonetik von äh und ähm
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, welche akustischen Eigenschaften Füllpartikeln wie äh und ähm in spontansprachlichen Dialogen des Deutschen zeigen und welche linguistischen Kontexte dabei auf welche Weise ihre ...
Rural School Improvement in Developing Countries
(2024)
This open access book examines the rural school improvement programs implemented in four developing countries, including China, Myanmar, Uganda, and Kenya. It analyzes research questions such as problems faced by rural ...
Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods
(2022)
This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. ...
The Troika of Adult Learners, Lifelong Learning, and Mathematics
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Climate Change in Central Asia
(2023)
This open access book explores climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in Central Asia and discusses policy options for the Central Asian governments. To address the urgent need for local scholarship on climate ...
Sports and Human Rights
(2024)
Based on a series of themes and case studies, this book aims to illustrate the impact of sports policies and practices on individuals and their identities, and to analyze the potential solutions offered by International ...
Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law: Europe and Asia
(2017)
EU fundamental rights; constitutional law; international
Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition
(2023)
This open access book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector ...
Gravity, Cosmology, and Astrophysics
(2023)
This open access book provides graduate students and scientists with fundamental knowledge on the mechanics of granular suspensions as well as on the mathematical and numerical techniques that can be adopted to investigate ...
Chapter 4 Pharmacological Solutions
(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 ...
Hunter-gatherers in a Changing World
(2017)
This book compiles a collection of case studies analysing drivers of and responses to change amongst contemporary hunter-gatherers. Contemporary hunter-gatherers’ livelihoods are examined from perspectives ranging from ...
A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0
(2015)
Computer science
EU Integrated Urban Initiatives
(2023)
This open access book presents a unique interdiscplinary analysis of urban projects promoted by the EU from a comparative perspective This book presents cross-sectional and cross-time analyses at the territorial level ...
Hormones, Metabolism and the Benefits of Exercise
(2018)
metabolic diseases; obesity; type 2 diabetes; muscle glycogen; skeletal muscle microRNAs; Tryptophan-kynurenine metabolites; FNDC5/irisin; AMPK; human brown adipose tissue plasticity
Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: Cross-National Perspectives in Classifications and Identity Politics
(2015)
Migration; Population Economics; Sociology, general; Political Science; Human Geography
Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
(2015)
Development Economics; Economic Policy; Social Policy; Climate Change Management and Policy
Plenoptic Imaging and Processing
(2025)
This open access book delves into the fundamental principles and cutting-edge techniques of plenoptic imaging and processing. Derived from the Latin words "plenus" (meaning "full") and "optic," plenoptic imaging offers a ...
A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism
(2022)
This open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental ...
Internationale Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten an Musikwerken
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch adressiert die durch Globalisierung und Digitalisierung zunehmende Internationalisierung der Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten. Musikverlage, aber auch Urheber sehen sich dabei zwar der Option einer ...
A Macroeconometric Model for Saudi Arabia
(2023)
This Open Access Brief presents the KAPSARC Global Energy Macroeconometric Model (KGEMM). KGEMM is a policy analysis tool for examining the impacts of domestic policy measures and global economic and energy shocks on the ...
Innopolis University - From Zero to Hero
(2022)
This open access book describes the development of Innopolis, a young Russian university established in 2012 to focus on teaching excellence in computer science, engineering, and robotics. It reports on the problems that ...
Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa
(2019)
This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa ...
Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and Student Outcomes: Relationships Across Countries, Cohorts and Time
(2016)
Education; Teaching; Learning and Instruction; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
Contracting and Safety
(2022)
This open access book examines the increase in outsourcing, contracting and subcontracting as ways of organising work. It explores the impact of these employment arrangements on public safety, particularly when they are ...
Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (III)
(2019)
This open access book presents the findings from on-site research into radioactive cesium contamination in various agricultural systems affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. This ...
Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication
(2020)
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch ...
Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2023-2026
(2023)
This open access book deals with imaging of the abdomen and pelvis, an area that has seen considerable advances over the past several years, driven by clinical as well as technological developments. The respective chapters, ...
AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City: Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition
(2016)
Development Economics, Atmospheric Protection / Air Quality Control / Air Pollution, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Group Theory and Generalizations, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 Assessment Framework
(2016)
Education policy and politics; Assessment, testing and evaluation
Chapter 10 Designing for Mental Health
(2019)
In 1953 the American Psychiatric Association established an Architectural Study Project in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects. The project brought together a wide range of experts from psychiatry and ...
Diversity and Disagreement
(2024)
This book details the discovery and exploration of one of the major scientific revelations that has emerged from the field of experimental philosophy—i.e., that heritable personality traits often predict philosophical ...
A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism
(2022)
This open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental ...
Queering Asylum in Europe
(2021)
This two-volume open-access book offers a theoretically and empirically-grounded portrayal of the experiences of people claiming international protection in Europe on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity ...
Ray Tracing Gems II
(2021)
"The digital version of this book is available now for free – with the print version following very soon!
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy ...
Die rechtlichen Herausforderungen der Echtzeitüberweisung
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch behandelt umfassend die rechtlichen Grundlagen der im Jahr 2017 eingeführten Echtzeitüberweisung (SEPA Instant Payment). Der Autor stellt wiederholt Inkonsistenzen zwischen dem europarechtlich ...
Die rechtlichen Herausforderungen der Echtzeitüberweisung
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch behandelt umfassend die rechtlichen Grundlagen der im Jahr 2017 eingeführten Echtzeitüberweisung (SEPA Instant Payment). Der Autor stellt wiederholt Inkonsistenzen zwischen dem europarechtlich ...
Ethics and Civil Drones: European Policies and Proposals for the Industry
(2018)
Codes of conduct; European policies; Civil drones; Safety and security; Creative industry
Insurance Distribution Directive
(2021)
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force ...
Ethics and Civil Drones: European Policies and Proposals for the Industry
(2018)
Codes of conduct; European policies; Civil drones; Safety and security; Creative industry
Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption
(2024)
This open-access volume argues that in a functioning democracy, citizens should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of social importance. This includes citizens accessing all relevant information ...
Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century
(2023)
This is an open access book. This edited volume discusses topics in environmental economics with a focus on sustainability, conservation, and responsible resource management. Written in memory of Peter Berck, Professor of ...
The Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe
(2023)
This open access book focuses on the importance that EU politicization has gained in European democracies and the consequences for voting behaviour in six countries of the EU: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal ...
At Risk of Deprivation
(2024)
This open access book examines how and why various forms of climate (im)mobilities can impact people's objective and subjective well-being. Worsening climate impacts are forcing subsistence farmers worldwide to decide ...
Sustainable Commodity Use
(2022)
This open access book examines the governance and legal landscape of the global commodity sector. For that purpose, the author conceptualises both Global Commodity Governance (GCG) as well as Transnational Commodity Law ...
Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism
(2023)
This open access book engages with the concept of reproductive justice by exploring case studies of struggles around abortion in the context of rising anti-genderism, religious fundamentalism, and ethno-nationalism. Based ...
Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education: Current Thinking
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Politische Bildung für die digitale Öffentlichkeit
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband setzen sich Autor*innen aus unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen mit der Auswirkung einer digitalisierten Öffentlichkeit für die Politische Bildung auseinander. Sie erörtern, wie sich die Formen ...
An Invitation to Statistics in Wasserstein Space
(2020)
This open access book presents the key aspects of statistics in Wasserstein spaces, i.e. statistics in the space of probability measures when endowed with the geometry of optimal transportation. Further to reviewing ...
Politische Bildung für die digitale Öffentlichkeit
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband setzen sich Autor*innen aus unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen mit der Auswirkung einer digitalisierten Öffentlichkeit für die Politische Bildung auseinander. Sie erörtern, wie sich die Formen ...
Internationale Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten an Musikwerken
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch adressiert die durch Globalisierung und Digitalisierung zunehmende Internationalisierung der Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten. Musikverlage, aber auch Urheber sehen sich dabei zwar der Option einer ...
Introduction to Migration Studies
(2022)
This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration ...
Contracting and Safety
(2022)
This open access book examines the increase in outsourcing, contracting and subcontracting as ways of organising work. It explores the impact of these employment arrangements on public safety, particularly when they are ...
R&D Management Practices and Innovation: Evidence from a Firm Survey
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a detailed account of firms’ research and development (R&D) management practices, and whether and how R&D management practices are associated with the success and the nature (explorative or ...
At Risk of Deprivation
(2024)
This open access book examines how and why various forms of climate (im)mobilities can impact people's objective and subjective well-being. Worsening climate impacts are forcing subsistence farmers worldwide to decide ...
Guidebook to Carbon Neutrality in China
(2022)
This Open Access publication focuses on China’s goal of achieving peak carbon emissions in 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. The book is the first to systematically build a framework combining a top-down and bottom-up ...
Illustrated Pollen Terminology
(2018)
This open access book offers a fully illustrated compendium of glossary terms and basic principles in the field of palynology, making it an indispensable tool for all palynologists. It is a revised and extended edition of ...
An Invitation to Statistics in Wasserstein Space
(2020)
This open access book presents the key aspects of statistics in Wasserstein spaces, i.e. statistics in the space of probability measures when endowed with the geometry of optimal transportation. Further to reviewing ...
Sustainable Mobility for Island Destinations
(2022)
This open access book presents the findings of the CIVITAS DESTINATIONS project regarding the link between mobility and tourism in urban areas and the complications tourist destinations face in becoming more sustainable. ...
Agricultural Value Chains in India
(2022)
This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value ...
Making Sense of Immigrant Work Integration
(2022)
This open access book explores the wicked problem of immigrant work integration, with specific examples from Canada. Bringing together a variety of disciplinary perspectives, it discusses immigrant work integration as a ...
Knowledge Solutions: Tools, Methods, and Approaches to Drive Organizational Performance
(2017)
strategy development; collaboration; knowledge sharing; knowledge capture; storage
Arzneimittel-Kompass 2022
(2022)
Der Arzneimittel-Kompass 2022, der sowohl als Open-Access-Publikation als auch als gedrucktes Buch erscheint, widmet sich dem Schwerpunktthema „Qualität der Arzneimittelversorgung“. Dabei stehen die Qualitätssicherung und ...
From Colonialism to International Aid
(2020)
This open access volume addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until today, analysing the influence of colonial powers, superpowers during the Cold War and ...
Introduction to Migration Studies
(2022)
This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration ...
Evidenzbasiertes Wildtiermanagement
(2023)
Diese Open Access Publikation hat das Spannungsfeld zwischen Menschen und Wildtieren, die sich ihren Lebensraum teilen, zum Thema. Dies kann zu Konflikten führen, die wirksame Managementmaßnahmen erfordern. Einerseits ...
Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption
(2024)
This open-access volume argues that in a functioning democracy, citizens should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of social importance. This includes citizens accessing all relevant information ...
Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (III)
(2019)
This open access book presents the findings from on-site research into radioactive cesium contamination in various agricultural systems affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. This ...
Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0
(2020)
This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material ...
Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education
(2020)
This Open Access book is about the development of a common understanding of environmental citizenship. It conceptualizes and frames environmental citizenship taking an educational perspective. Organized in four complementary ...
R&D Management Practices and Innovation: Evidence from a Firm Survey
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a detailed account of firms’ research and development (R&D) management practices, and whether and how R&D management practices are associated with the success and the nature (explorative or ...
The Blue Compendium
(2023)
Home to over 80 percent of all life on Earth, the ocean is the world’s largest carbon sink and a key source of food and economic security for billions of people. The relevance of the ocean for humanity's future is undisputed. ...
Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education
(2023)
This open access book is a nuanced introduction to Forced Migration Studies and a toolkit for faculty and undergraduate students, with a special emphasis on community-engaged learning. Experts from the social sciences, ...
Guidebook to Carbon Neutrality in China
(2022)
This Open Access publication focuses on China’s goal of achieving peak carbon emissions in 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. The book is the first to systematically build a framework combining a top-down and bottom-up ...
English Medium Instruction as a Local Practice
(2023)
From the perspective of translanguaging and instruction theories, this Open Access book examines Chinese English Medium Instruction (EMI) lecturers’ linguistic and pedagogical characteristics. This book demonstrate that ...
Brain and Human Body Modelling 2021
(2023)
This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modelling to advance neurology, cancer treatment, and radio-frequency studies including regulatory, safety, and wireless communication fields. ...
New Metropolitan Perspectives
(2020)
This open access book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and ...
Ray Tracing Gems II
(2021)
"The digital version of this book is available now for free – with the print version following very soon!
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy ...
Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: The First Three Years
(2016)
Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Agriculture; Plant Sciences; Ecology
A Transition to Sustainable Housing
(2023)
This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the ...
Rechtsgemeinschaft mit Tieren
(2024)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch fragt, ob die alten Begründungen, mit denen Tiere traditionell aus der Rechtsgemeinschaft ausgeschlossen wurden, noch tragen und zeigt, welche Fragen sich heute stellen. Die Grenzen der Rechtsgemeinschaft ...
Early Geometrical Thinking in the Environment of Patterns, Mosaics and Isometries
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Teaching; Learning and Instruction
Evidenzbasiertes Wildtiermanagement
(2023)
Diese Open Access Publikation hat das Spannungsfeld zwischen Menschen und Wildtieren, die sich ihren Lebensraum teilen, zum Thema. Dies kann zu Konflikten führen, die wirksame Managementmaßnahmen erfordern. Einerseits ...
Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context
(2023)
This open access book offers critical, multidisciplinary analyses on graduate employability. The book examines employability at the macro, meso and micro levels: higher education policy, the labour market, higher education ...
Perspectives on Nuclear Medicine for Molecular Diagnosis and Integrated Therapy
(2016)
nuclear medicine; diagnostic radiology
Illustrated Pollen Terminology
(2018)
This open access book offers a fully illustrated compendium of glossary terms and basic principles in the field of palynology, making it an indispensable tool for all palynologists. It is a revised and extended edition of ...
North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment
(2016)
Atmospheric Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Environmental Management