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Warranty Obligations in Western France, 1040–1270
(2023)
This open access book examines warranty obligations in western France during the central Middle Ages. Warranty refers to the commitments that an individual undertook when alienating property to protect the transfer from ...
Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe 3
(2023)
This book gathers contributions to the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project INDIMO (Inclusive Digital Mobility Solutions), its sister projects DIGNITY (Digital Transport in and for Society) and TRIPS (Transport Innovation for ...
Aging Well
(2019)
This open access book outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions designed by stakeholders, healthcare providers, and public, private and ...
Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies
(2022)
This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of ...
Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies
(2022)
This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of ...
Entwicklung von Methoden zur abstrakten Modellierung von Automotive Systems-on-Chips
(2022)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation bietet zu Beginn einen Einblick in die Grundlagen der modellbasierten Systementwicklung. Dabei analysiert die Publikation aktuell bestehende methodische Defizite in der Automotive System-on-Chip ...
Entwicklung von Methoden zur abstrakten Modellierung von Automotive Systems-on-Chips
(2022)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation bietet zu Beginn einen Einblick in die Grundlagen der modellbasierten Systementwicklung. Dabei analysiert die Publikation aktuell bestehende methodische Defizite in der Automotive System-on-Chip ...
Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa
(2024)
This open access book breaks new ground by examining the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three Francophone West African countries: Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. It examines the representation and ...
Mathematisches Problemlösen in der Studieneingangsphase
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die theoriebasierte Entwicklung einer semesterbegleitenden Maßnahme zur Förderung der Problemlösekompetenz von Studienanfänger:innen der Fachmathematik und des gymnasialen Lehramts, sowie ...
Neurovascular Surgery
(2019)
This open access book presents the diagnosis, investigation and treatment of neurovascular diseases, and offers expert opinions and advice on avoiding complications in neurovascular surgery. It also covers complication ...
Future Space-Transport-System Components under High Thermal and Mechanical Loads
(2021)
This open access book presents the findings of Collaborative Research Center Transregio 40 (TRR40), initiated in July 2008 and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Gathering innovative design concepts for thrust ...
Neurovascular Surgery
(2019)
This open access book presents the diagnosis, investigation and treatment of neurovascular diseases, and offers expert opinions and advice on avoiding complications in neurovascular surgery. It also covers complication ...
Principles and Practice of Case-based Clinical Reasoning Education: A Method for Preclinical Students
(2017)
assessment of clinical reasoning; diagnostic bias; diagnostic errors; dual process theory; scripts; medical problem-solving; peer teaching; problem-based learning; semantic qualifiers
Aging Well
(2019)
This open access book outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions designed by stakeholders, healthcare providers, and public, private and ...
25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries
(2018)
USSR countries; Soviet higher education reform; Soviet higher education policy; Post-Soviet higher education; vertical system differentiation; horizontal system differentiation
Mathematisches Problemlösen in der Studieneingangsphase
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die theoriebasierte Entwicklung einer semesterbegleitenden Maßnahme zur Förderung der Problemlösekompetenz von Studienanfänger:innen der Fachmathematik und des gymnasialen Lehramts, sowie ...
Future Space-Transport-System Components under High Thermal and Mechanical Loads
(2021)
This open access book presents the findings of Collaborative Research Center Transregio 40 (TRR40), initiated in July 2008 and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Gathering innovative design concepts for thrust ...
Integrated Diagnostics and Theranostics of Thyroid Diseases
(2023)
This open access book provides basic concepts on Integrated Diagnostics and Theranostics with special emphasis on different human thyroid diseases. Thyroid diseases are increasingly detected (incidentally in many cases) ...
Ethics and Responsible Research and Innovation in Practice
(2023)
This Open Access book aims to present practical contributions to the ethics governance framework, the conceptualization and characteristics of ethics tools, as well as the experience gained from their application in different ...
Artificial Intelligence Technology
(2023)
This open access book aims to give our readers a basic outline of today’s research and technology developments on artificial intelligence (AI), help them to have a general understanding of this trend, and familiarize them ...
Brazil—Japan Cooperation: From Complementarity to Shared Value
(2023)
This is an open access book. Relations between Brazil and Japan progressed dynamically in the 1960s and 1970s, centering on the substantial complementarity between Japan’s needing primary goods to sustain high economic ...
Intelligent Secure Trustable Things
(2024)
This open access book provides an overview about results of the InSecTT project. Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is the natural evolution for both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) because ...
Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy
(2021)
This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich ...
Reimagining Sustainable Organization
(2022)
This open access book reimagines a deeper sustainability in dynamic organization. Offering multiple perspectives on arts, design thinking, leadership, knowledge and project management, Reimagining Sustainable Organization ...
Human Rights Dissemination in Central Asia
(2023)
This open access book explores the field of human rights dissemination in Central Asia. Offering a comparative perspective on five post-Soviet Central Asian states—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and ...
Exploring Korean Politeness Across Online and Offline Interactions
(2024)
This open-access edited volume brings together the latest research on Korean politeness (K-Politeness) from multidisciplinary and multimodal perspectives across a broad range of different interactional contexts and ...
Urbanization in Europe
(2024)
This open access book comes at an opportune time, with ‘land take’ high on the EU policy agenda. It shows how over one million hectares in Europe became urbanized between 2000 and 2018, over eight times that which changed ...
Control Theory Tutorial: Basic Concepts Illustrated by Software Examples
(2018)
Control Theory; Engineering Design Tradeoffs; Robust Control; Feedback Control Systems; Wolfram Mathematica Software; Optimal Control
Whole-Body Regeneration
(2022)
This Open Access volume provides a comprehensive overview of the latest tools available to scientists to study the many facets of whole-body regeneration (WBR). The chapters in this book are organized into six parts. Part ...
S-BPM in the Production Industry: A Stakeholder Approach
(2017)
business process management; software
S-BPM in the Production Industry: A Stakeholder Approach
(2017)
business process management; software
Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact
(2018)
Development Engineering; Technologies for Development; Innovation for Humanitarian Action; Emerging Countries; Developing Countries; Tech4Dev
Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good
(2022)
This open access book traces the research and teaching contributions of Kenneth Goodpaster over more than 45 years of his career. The book shows the content and the progression of these themes over the years identifying ...
Bildungsverläufe von der Einschulung bis in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt: Theoretische Ansätze, empirische Befunde und Beispiele
(2017)
Transitionen; Bildungsentscheidungen; Aus- und Weiterbildung; Steuerung Bildungsverläufe; Bildungs- und Berufsbildungsprozesse; Bildungsverläufe
Logistische Regression
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch gibt eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die logistische Regression. Ausgehend von Grundkenntnissen der linearen Regression wird diese zuerst als zweistufiges Modell interpretiert, was den ...
Chairperson Succession
(2023)
This open access book empirically analyses the competences (input), moderators (process), and disclosure (output) of board chair succession practices for publicly listed organisations in Switzerland. As primus inter pares ...
Exploring Korean Politeness Across Online and Offline Interactions
(2024)
This open-access edited volume brings together the latest research on Korean politeness (K-Politeness) from multidisciplinary and multimodal perspectives across a broad range of different interactional contexts and ...
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
(2017)
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst ...
Debating ‘Homo Academicus’ in Management and Organization
(2025)
In the fields of management and organization, there is an ongoing debate about different ontological assumptions about people in and around organizations, and the dangers of self-fulling prophecies, i.e., the phenomena in ...
Brazil—Japan Cooperation: From Complementarity to Shared Value
(2023)
This is an open access book. Relations between Brazil and Japan progressed dynamically in the 1960s and 1970s, centering on the substantial complementarity between Japan’s needing primary goods to sustain high economic ...
Warranty Obligations in Western France, 1040–1270
(2023)
This open access book examines warranty obligations in western France during the central Middle Ages. Warranty refers to the commitments that an individual undertook when alienating property to protect the transfer from ...
Logistische Regression
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch gibt eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die logistische Regression. Ausgehend von Grundkenntnissen der linearen Regression wird diese zuerst als zweistufiges Modell interpretiert, was den ...
Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy
(2021)
This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich ...
Reimagining Sustainable Organization
(2022)
This open access book reimagines a deeper sustainability in dynamic organization. Offering multiple perspectives on arts, design thinking, leadership, knowledge and project management, Reimagining Sustainable Organization ...
Cooperatives in an Uncertain World
(2024)
This book focuses on different aspects of cooperatives in Switzerland and its neighboring countries, and their contribution to meeting overarching societal challenges. It seeks to identify how cooperatives can tackle grand ...
Internationale Zielmarktanalyse und Vertriebsentwicklung
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird aus dem International Sales Accelerator Modell mit dem «Rad der Implementierung» ein dauerhaft einsetzbares Business Development Tool für den praktischen Einsatz abgeleitet, das Unternehmen ...
Ageing as Future
(2024)
Contemporary societies are aging – but what does that mean? Is this something bad? And can societies age as a whole? By bringing together psychological, gerontological, and sociological findings, this open access book opens ...
Decided Return Migration
(2024)
This open access book creates conceptual links between political emotions, citizenship, home and belonging. The book describes that, in the case of decided return and reintegration to a post-conflict society and a fragmented ...
Krankenhaus-Report 2023
(2023)
Der Krankenhaus-Report, der jährlich als Buch und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, greift 2023 das Schwerpunktthema „Personal“ auf. Nicht erst seit der Covid-19-Pandemie sind die Probleme der personellen Ausstattung ...
E-Cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction
(2023)
This open access book offers the first in-depth study of the history and current debates surrounding electronic cigarettes comparing the UK, US and Australia. Since their introduction, e-cigarettes have been the subject ...
Intel Trusted Execution Technology for Server Platforms
(2013)
Computer science
Rethinking the Internet of Things
(2013)
Computer science
Mutation Breeding and Efficiency Enhancing Technologies for Resistance to Striga in Cereals
(2024)
This open access book is a compilation of protocols developed through a Coordinated Research Project of the Joint FAO/IAEA Center of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, specifically focused on mutation breeding for ...
China in 2035
(2024)
This open access book is a new study by the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University, condensing the new achievements of the Institute’s national policy research. Taking "common prosperity" as the ...
Opportunities and Challenges for New and Peripheral Political Science Communities
(2022)
This open access book offers an updated examination of the institutionalisation of political science in sixteen latecomer or peripheral countries in Europe. Its main theme is how political science as a science of democracy ...
Binging Family
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch zeigt Jakob Kelsch, wie sich in der US-amerikanischen TV-Serie der 1950er und 1960er Jahre der Mythos der patriarchal-strukturierten Kernfamilie als Ideal des familiären Zusammenlebens herausbildete. ...
Research Ethics for Students in the Social Sciences
(2020)
This open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of case histories and a ...
The Places Where Community Is Practiced
(2019)
In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic ...
The Places Where Community Is Practiced
(2019)
In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic ...
Teaching Mathematics as to be Meaningful – Foregrounding Play and Children’s Perspectives
(2024)
This open access book’s theme is Teaching mathematics as to be meaningful – foregrounding children’s play and perspectives. It discusses the relation between teachers, children and mathematical content within the context ...
AVENUE21. Planning and Policy Considerations for an Age of Automated Mobility
(2023)
The subject of this open-access publication is the impact of connected and automated vehicles on the European city and the conditions under which this technology can make a positive contribution to urban development. The ...
Opportunities and Challenges for New and Peripheral Political Science Communities
(2022)
This open access book offers an updated examination of the institutionalisation of political science in sixteen latecomer or peripheral countries in Europe. Its main theme is how political science as a science of democracy ...
The InfoSec Handbook
(2014)
Computer science
Uses of Technology in Lower Secondary Mathematics Education: A Concise Topical Survey
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Longer-Term Psychiatric Inpatient Care for Adolescents
(2022)
This open access book describes the theoretical underpinnings and operational aspects of delivering longer-term inpatient psychiatric care to adolescents experiencing severe, unremitting mental illness. The authorship is ...
The InfoSec Handbook
(2014)
Computer science
Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films
(2023)
This open access book examines the depiction of Korean history in recent South Korean historical films. Released over the Hallyu (“Korean Wave”) period starting in the mid-1990s, these films have reflected, shaped, and ...
Syrian Refugees in Turkey
(2023)
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of Turkey’s response to Syrian mass migration from 2011 to 2020. It examines internal and external dimensions of the refugee issue in relation to Middle Eastern ...
Creative Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Education
(2024)
This open access book explores the synergy between AI and education, highlighting its potential impact on pedagogical practices. It navigates the evolving landscape of AI-powered educational technologies and suggests ...
The Forum of Federations Handbook on Local Government in Federal Systems
(2024)
This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to examine the current roles of and future trends in local government structures and mechanisms in 16 different federal and federal-type ...
Klimawandel in Deutschland
(2017)
climate change; climatology
White Paper on Joint Replacement: Status of Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Care in Germany
(2017)
joint replacement; hip arthroplasty; knee arthroplasty
Die Ausübung mitgliedschaftlicher Kapitalgesellschafterrechte durch eine Erbengemeinschaft
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, wie die Erbengemeinschaft die Mitgliedschaftsrechte in einer Kapitalgesellschaft ausübt und ob das Recht die Erben dabei als einen einzelnen Gesellschafter oder als eine Vielheit ...
Evidence-based Positron Emission Tomography
(2020)
This open access book summarizes the findings of recent evidence-based articles (meta-analyses) on the use of positron emission tomography (PET) for various clinical indications. It is divided into five main sections, ...
COVID-19 and U.S.-China Relations
(2024)
This open access book offers a groundbreaking examination of the profound and lasting impacts of COVID-19 on U.S.-China relations. It covers areas such as public health, trade and supply chain challenges, people-to-people ...
Modern Natural Product Synthesis
(2024)
In this book, key experts in the field of total synthesis of natural products in Japan describe the details of their synthesis routes including unexpected reactions and syntheses. By presenting detailed stories behind the ...
China in 2035
(2024)
This open access book is a new study by the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University, condensing the new achievements of the Institute’s national policy research. Taking "common prosperity" as the ...
Syrian Refugees in Turkey
(2023)
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of Turkey’s response to Syrian mass migration from 2011 to 2020. It examines internal and external dimensions of the refugee issue in relation to Middle Eastern ...
Research Ethics for Students in the Social Sciences
(2020)
This open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of case histories and a ...
Creative Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Education
(2024)
This open access book explores the synergy between AI and education, highlighting its potential impact on pedagogical practices. It navigates the evolving landscape of AI-powered educational technologies and suggests ...