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Embedded Firmware Solutions
(2015)
Computer science
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 ...
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 ...
United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
(2019)
“I have seen the UN perform on a changing global stage in many UN missions. This book examines how the UN must continue to evolve amongst changing state actors, differing regional organisations and a constant global paradigm ...
United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
(2019)
“I have seen the UN perform on a changing global stage in many UN missions. This book examines how the UN must continue to evolve amongst changing state actors, differing regional organisations and a constant global paradigm ...
Zukunft der Arbeit in Industrie 4.0
(2015)
Industrial and Production Engineering; Robotics and Automation; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
Scaling of Differential Equations
(2016)
Differential equations; Simulation and modeling
Zivilgesellschaftliche Performanz von religiösen und säkularen Migrantenselbstorganisationen
(2022)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch trägt in theoretischer und empirischer Hinsicht zu einem besseren Verständnis der Eigenschaften und zivilgesellschaftlichen Verortung von religiösen und säkularen Migrantenselbstorganisationen ...
Opening Science: The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing
(2014)
Job Careers in Science and Engineering; Computers and Society; Communication Studies; Web 2.0 and interoperability; Scientific micro blogging; Social networking platforms; Creative commons; Dynamic publication ...
Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia
(2022)
This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan. Asia is one of the regions ...
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. ...
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 ...
Remembering Marielle Franco from a Theological Perspective
(2024)
In this Open Access book, Katharina Merian discusses memories of Marielle Franco from the perspective of the concept of dangerous memory introduced by the political theologian Johann Baptist Metz. Franco was an Afro-Brazilian ...
History Education and Conflict Transformation
(2017)
civil society organisations; textbook studies; history textbooks; textbook writing; post-conflict societies; perpetrators; victims
Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson
(2015)
History of Computing; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities; Data Structures; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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. ...
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 ...
The EBMT Handbook
(2024)
This Open Access new edition of the EBMT handbook with its new format, addresses the latest developments and innovations in hematopoietic cell transplantation and cellular therapy. Consisting of 94 chapters, it has been ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System
(2021)
This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system. We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this ...
The Physics of Laser Plasmas and Applications - Volume 2
(2024)
This open access book (Volume 2) is part of the series "The Physics of Laser Plasmas and Applications." It serves as an introduction to the physics of compressible hydrodynamics, which is used to describe the temporal ...
Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia
(2022)
This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan. Asia is one of the regions ...
Design Thinking as a Strategic Approach to E-Participation
(2025)
This open access book examines how the adoption of Design Thinking (DT) can support public organisations in overcoming some of the current barriers in e-participation. Scholars have discussed the adoption of technology to ...
Design Thinking as a Strategic Approach to E-Participation
(2025)
This open access book examines how the adoption of Design Thinking (DT) can support public organisations in overcoming some of the current barriers in e-participation. Scholars have discussed the adoption of technology to ...
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 ...
IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 Assessment Framework
(2016)
Education policy and politics; Assessment, testing and evaluation
North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment
(2016)
Atmospheric Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Environmental Management
Reading Breath in Literature
(2019)
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary ...
Resilienz
(2023)
Resilienz ist in aller Munde. Egal, ob es sich um gesellschaftliche, wirtschaftliche, technologische oder ökologische Themen handelt: Der Begriff bestimmt zunehmend den Diskurs über die Zukunftsfähigkeit unserer Gesellschaft ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chapter 3 Environmental Entanglements
(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 ...
Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of ...
Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of ...
Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
(2015)
Development Economics; Economic Policy; Social Policy; Climate Change Management and Policy
Reading Breath in Literature
(2019)
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary ...
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 ...
Zivilgesellschaftliche Performanz von religiösen und säkularen Migrantenselbstorganisationen
(2022)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch trägt in theoretischer und empirischer Hinsicht zu einem besseren Verständnis der Eigenschaften und zivilgesellschaftlichen Verortung von religiösen und säkularen Migrantenselbstorganisationen ...
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 ...
Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century
(2024)
This open access book provides fascinating insights into the incredible changes that Vietnam underwent in the long twentieth century as it transformed from an early modern kingdom to a European colony, to a divided land ...
Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System
(2021)
This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system. We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this ...
Data Protection without Data Protectionism
(2023)
This open access book offers a new account on the legal conflict between privacy and trade in the digital sphere. It develops a fundamental rights theory with a new right to continuous protection of personal data and ...
5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM 2019)
(2023)
This open access volume contains the proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM2019) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 1 – 4, 2019. The symposium was hosted by ...
Public Procurement
(2023)
This upper-level open access textbook uses an interdisciplinary perspective to discuss the ‘what and why’ of public procurement, providing insight into the ‘how’ of contemporary procurement in the public sector. The authors ...
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
Internal Crowdsourcing in Companies
(2021)
This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, ...
Measuring Gender Equality
(2023)
In this open access book, the editors explicitly address the issue of measuring gender equality. The book introduces readers to basic concepts of gender equality, equity and equal opportunities, then discusses measuring ...
Power of Articulation
(2023)
This open access book is the first book that attempts to treat the notion of articulation as an important concept to be added to the lexicon of communication studies and social science. It constitutes the first comprehensive ...
The Entrepreneurial Society
(2019)
This open access book builds on the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). The authors outline how Europe can move towards more inclusive, ...
Bioeconomy: Shaping the Transition to a Sustainable, Biobased Economy
(2018)
Sustainability; Biomass Management; Resource Management; Agriculture; Macroeconomics
Multiscale Biomechanics and Tribology of Inorganic and Organic Systems
(2021)
This open access book gathers authoritative contributions concerning multiscale problems in biomechanics, geomechanics, materials science and tribology. It is written in memory of Sergey Grigorievich Psakhie to feature ...
Variable Pitot-Triebwerkseinlässe für kommerzielle Überschallflugzeuge
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, wie kommerzielle Überschallflugzeuge die Nachfrage nach einem schnellen, flexiblen und sicheren Transportmittel erfüllen könnten, wenn sie im Vergleich zu früheren Anwendungen eine ...
Subjektunabhängige, analytische Unternehmensethik
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet Florian Fuchs den historischen Diskurs um eine Integration ethischer Fragestellungen in die betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung. Vor dem Hintergrund einer bisher fehlenden originären ...
Covid-19 Containment Policies in Europe
(2024)
This open access book examines the diverse strategies implemented by national and local European governments to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Rather than focus on individual national case studies, it brings together leading ...
International Regulation of Gene Editing Technologies in Crops
(2024)
This open access book analyzes the regulation and governance of gene editing in the global agrifood system as applications of gene editing, regulations and the intellectual property landscape continue to evolve. The primary ...
Homonegativity and Religiously Motivated Political Extremism
(2025)
This open access book describes the world’s increasingly multicultural societies face the problem that more and more diverse lifestyles (LGBTQIA+ communities) are not universally accepted, and that today, in addition to ...
Internalisierbare Mengenbilder im individualisierten Mathematikunterricht
(2022)
In diesem Open.Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass eine verminderte Fähigkeit zur Simultanerfassung eine Ursache von Rechenschwäche sein kann. Mathematische Lernschwierigkeiten offenbaren sich häufig schon im frühen ...
Unleashing Society’s Innovative Capacity
(2024)
This is an open access book. Europe faces significant challenges in the coming decades: geopolitical, demographic, technological, increased competition, climate-related, and health issues due to an aging population, to ...
Figure
(2022)
This open access book shows how figures, figuring, and configuration are used to understand complex, contemporary problems. Figures are images, numbers, diagrams, data and datasets, turns-of-phrase, and representations. ...
Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2018-2021: Diagnostic Imaging - IDKD Book
(2018)
Gastrointestinal disease; PET/CT; Radiology; X-ray; IDKD; Davos
Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Steady-State Microbunching
(2024)
This open access book is devoted to the theoretical and experimental studies of a novel accelerator light source mechanism called steady-state microbunching (SSMB) which promises high-power, high-repetition rate, narrow-band ...
The Governance of Insurance Undertakings
(2022)
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the ...
Youthquake 2017
(2019)
Political science; Great Britain—Politics and government; Elections; Democracy; Comparative politics; Social groups; Family
Youthquake 2017
(2019)
Political science; Great Britain—Politics and government; Elections; Democracy; Comparative politics; Social groups; Family
Global Agendas and Education Reforms
(2024)
This open access book examines the effects of global education agendas such as digitalization, innovation and entrepreneurship, education in emergencies, globalization-internationalization, diversity, and sustainability ...
PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars
(2024)
Why are we willing to believe that technology can bring about war… but not peace? PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End War is the world's first book dealing with the use of technological innovation to support peace and ...
Tourismus in der Krise: COVID-19 als Auslöser für neue Geschäftsmodelle und Digitalisierung
(2023)
Inhaltsangabe: Dieses Open-Access Buch befasst sich mit der krisenbedingten Transformation touristischer KMU infolge von COVID-19. Fokussiert auf eine Flusskreuzfahrtdestination gelingt es, aus einer multidisziplinären ...
Arts and Health Promotion
(2021)
This open access book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the arts from theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and critical perspectives. This is ...
Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
(2015)
Civil Engineering; Natural Hazards; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Industry Sec; 2ECEES; Earthquake Engineering; Performance Based Design and Earthquake Engineering; Irregular Buildings and ...
AI, Data, and Digitalization
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the revised selected papers of the First International Symposium on AI, Data and Digitalization, SAIDD 2023, held in Sogndal, Norway, during May 9–10, 2023. The 13 full papers included in ...
Access to Online Resources: A Guide for the Modern Librarian
(2018)
access management; online resources; library technology; access protocols; identity management; authentication; authorisation; troubleshooting; SAML
Agiles Lernen im Unternehmen
(2021)
Dieses Open Access-Buch zeigt, dass Kompetenzentwicklung im Unternehmen so flexibel und innovativ sein kann, wie es die Arbeit oft schon ist. Der Ansatz „Agiles Lernen im Unternehmen“ wendet agile Methoden auf die betriebliche ...
Agiles Lernen im Unternehmen
(2021)
Dieses Open Access-Buch zeigt, dass Kompetenzentwicklung im Unternehmen so flexibel und innovativ sein kann, wie es die Arbeit oft schon ist. Der Ansatz „Agiles Lernen im Unternehmen“ wendet agile Methoden auf die betriebliche ...
Hochwasserminderung im ländlichen Raum
(2020)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation ist ein anwendungsorientiertes Lehr- und Handbuch zur Abflussminderung im ländlichen Raum. Meteorologische Extreme wie Dürren, Starkregen und Überschwemmungen häufen sich wegen des Klimawandels. ...
Unleashing Society’s Innovative Capacity
(2024)
This is an open access book. Europe faces significant challenges in the coming decades: geopolitical, demographic, technological, increased competition, climate-related, and health issues due to an aging population, to ...
Social Science Research in the Arab World and Beyond
(2023)
This book presents and discusses the logic and method of social science research adapted mainly for instruction at Arab universities and for research in Arab countries, but with applicability beyond the region. It illustrates ...
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery
(2018)
This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2022)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 13371 and 13372 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2022, which was held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The ...
Teachers of Mathematics Working and Learning in Collaborative Groups
(2024)
This open access book is the product of an international study which offers a state-of-the-art summary of mathematics teacher collaboration with respect to theory, research, practice, and policy. The authors – leading ...
Chapter 5 Mapping Punishment: Provincial Places to Dissect
(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 ...
Measuring Gender Equality
(2023)
In this open access book, the editors explicitly address the issue of measuring gender equality. The book introduces readers to basic concepts of gender equality, equity and equal opportunities, then discusses measuring ...
Internal Crowdsourcing in Companies
(2021)
This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, ...
Die Zukunft des MINT-Lernens – Band 2
(2023)
Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband stellt zukunftsweisende digitale Tools, Methoden und Konzepte für guten MINT-Unterricht vor: Er erläutert und diskutiert insbesondere Konzepte und Forschungsergebnisse zur lernförderlichen ...
Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life
(2023)
This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the ...
Power of Articulation
(2023)
This open access book is the first book that attempts to treat the notion of articulation as an important concept to be added to the lexicon of communication studies and social science. It constitutes the first comprehensive ...
The Economics of Water
(2021)
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it ...
The Economics of Water
(2021)
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it ...
European Variations as a Key to Cooperation
(2020)
This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to bring together thirty very different European states and their citizens, the EU will have ...
Re-engineering the Uptake of ICT in Schools
(2015)
Information Systems and Communication Service; Education, general
Chapter Introduction
(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 ...
Chapter Epilogue
(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 ...
Tourismus in der Krise: COVID-19 als Auslöser für neue Geschäftsmodelle und Digitalisierung
(2023)
Inhaltsangabe: Dieses Open-Access Buch befasst sich mit der krisenbedingten Transformation touristischer KMU infolge von COVID-19. Fokussiert auf eine Flusskreuzfahrtdestination gelingt es, aus einer multidisziplinären ...
Arbeitsatmosphären-Report 2024
(2024)
Dieses Open Access Essential bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Bedeutung der Arbeitsatmosphäre und ihre Wirkzusammenhänge. Die in dem Buch zusammengefasste repräsentative Studie zeigt, dass kaum ein Faktor so ...
New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation
(2017)
demographic techniques; quantitative research methods; segregation; bias; distribution