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Pro TBB
(2019)
This open access book is a modern guide for all C++ programmers to learn Threading Building Blocks (TBB). Written by TBB and parallel programming experts, this book reflects their collective decades of experience in ...
Sustainable Qatar
(2023)
This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires ...
Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector
(2020)
This open access book explores cultural competence in the higher education sector from multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. It addresses cultural competence in terms of leadership and the role of the ...
Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
(2014)
Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Asian Studies, Asian Politics and Law, Development, Migration, Ethnicity and Identity, General
Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe
(2015)
Computing and Information Technology, Communications and Networks, Politics, Political Analysis Theories and Methods, Public Administration and Policy
Tobacco Control Policy in the Netherlands
(2018)
tobacco control; policy process; advocacy coalition framework; multiple streams approach; tobacco act; ministry of health; dutch smoking or health foundation; self-regulation; policy stagnation; the netherlands; ...
Reading Success in the Primary Years
(2020)
This open access book describes the Reading Success project, in which a 5-step, assessment-to- intervention process, based on the Simple View of Reading, was used within a primary school setting in Australia to better ...
Exhibiting Creative Geographies
(2023)
This open access book provides a detailed example of arts-based knowledge translation from start to finish for any scholar interested in communicating research findings through art. Firmly grounded in the GeoHumanities, a ...
Digitale Transformation
(2018)
Dieses Open Access-Buch gibt eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der digitalen Transformation. Es werden aktuelle technologische Trends sowie Auswirkungen auf den Wettbewerb und die Geschäftsmodellentwicklung erläutert. ...
Technology Assessment in a Globalized World
(2023)
This open access book explores the relevance of the concept of technology assessment (TA) on an international and global level. Technologies play a key role in addressing global challenges such as climate change, population ...
Tourism and Conservation-based Development in the Periphery
(2023)
This open access book applies a social ecological systems (SES) lens to conservation-based development in Patagonia, bringing together authors with historical, contemporary, and future-oriented perspectives in order to ...
Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks
(2016)
Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics; History of Science
Entrepreneurial Cognition
(2018)
This open access book investigates the inter-relationship between the mind and a potential opportunity to explore the psychology of entrepreneurship. Building on recent research, this book offers a broad scope investigation ...
Transforming Media Accessibility in Europe
(2024)
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, accessibility in media has emerged as a crucial frontier for inclusion, equality, and knowledge democracy. The present edited volume "Transforming Media Accessibility in Europe: ...
Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion
(2023)
This open access edited volume shines new light on the history of propaganda and persuasion during the Nordic welfare epoch. A common analytical framework is developed that highlights transnational and transmedial perspectives ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy
(2020)
This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or ...
Chapter 4 Cancerous Growth and Malignancy
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Pro TBB
(2019)
This open access book is a modern guide for all C++ programmers to learn Threading Building Blocks (TBB). Written by TBB and parallel programming experts, this book reflects their collective decades of experience in ...
Nuclear Law
(2022)
This open access book traces the journey of nuclear law: its origins, how it has developed, where it is now, and where it is headed. As a discipline, this highly specialized body of law makes it possible for us to benefit ...
Nuclear Law
(2022)
This open access book traces the journey of nuclear law: its origins, how it has developed, where it is now, and where it is headed. As a discipline, this highly specialized body of law makes it possible for us to benefit ...
Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility
(2020)
This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. ...
Research on Teaching and Learning Mathematics at the Tertiary Level
(2016)
Mathematics Education, Higher Education, Learning and Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education
Algorithms for Big Data
(2022)
This open access book surveys the progress in addressing selected challenges related to the growth of big data in combination with increasingly complicated hardware. It emerged from a research program established by the ...
Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry
(2021)
This Open Access book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, Otto Stern launched the revolutionary molecular beam technique. This technique made it ...
Advances in Wheat Genetics: From Genome to Field
(2016)
plant genetics; plant genomics; agriculture
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2021
(2021)
This open access book is the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)’s 28th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ENTER21@yourplace ...
Chapter 2 A Prostitution of the Profession?
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs
(2024)
This Open Access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs, NSLP 2024, held in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, on May ...
Current and Future Perspectives of Ethnomathematics as a Program
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
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 ...
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
(2014)
Cultural and Media Studies, New Media and Digital Media, Media and Cultural Theory, Popular Culture
Technology Assessment in a Globalized World
(2023)
This open access book explores the relevance of the concept of technology assessment (TA) on an international and global level. Technologies play a key role in addressing global challenges such as climate change, population ...
Organisationsformen der Erkenntnisgewinnung
(2024)
Das Open-Access-Buch untersucht, wie die organisationale Gestaltung von Forschungseinrichtungen ihre inhaltliche und methodische Ausrichtung beeinflusst und wie sich Disziplinen und Forschungsfelder im Laufe der Zeit ...
Chapter 5 Wolves Tongues and Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures for Cancer
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues
(2015)
Migration; Knowledge - Discourse; Public Policy
Entrepreneurial Cognition
(2018)
This open access book investigates the inter-relationship between the mind and a potential opportunity to explore the psychology of entrepreneurship. Building on recent research, this book offers a broad scope investigation ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2024)
The two-volume open access book set LNCS 14576 + 14577 constitutes the proceedings of the 33rd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2024, which was held during April 6-11, 2024, in Luxemburg, as part of the European ...
Philosophy of Astrophysics
(2023)
This is an open access book. This book, the first edited collection of its kind, explores the recent emergence of philosophical research in astrophysics. It assembles a variety of original essays from scholars who are ...
Truth Claims Across Media
(2024)
This book offers an intermedial approach to truthful communication. Bringing together a wide range of media types and interactions from a transmedial perspective, the volume maps out how truth claims are made in different ...
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2021
(2021)
This open access book is the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)’s 28th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ENTER21@yourplace ...
Intel Galileo and Intel Galileo Gen 2
(2014)
Computer science
Modern Cryptography Volume 2
(2023)
This open access book covers the most cutting-edge and hot research topics and fields of post-quantum cryptography. The main purpose of this book is to focus on the computational complexity theory of lattice ciphers, ...
A Life Course Perspective on Chinese Youths
(2024)
This open access book investigates from a life-course perspective the individualization process and the challenges faced by young adults in post-collectivist China, where people are enjoined to "liberate" (jiefang) their ...
Education Policies in the 21st Century
(2022)
This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states ...
Trends in Data Protection and Encryption Technologies
(2023)
This open access book reports the results of a study conducted in Switzerland in 2022 to provide an overview of the changing landscape of encryption and data protection technologies and their global usage trends. The Swiss ...
Atomic Physics for Everyone
(2025)
This open access textbook introduces beginning undergraduate students and high school students to the world of quantum mechanics and atomic spectroscopy. Requiring no previous knowledge of physics and no math beyond basic ...
Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Architecture and Tools
(2013)
Computer science
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America
(2017)
economic inequality; neoliberal politics
Android Application Development for the Intel Platform
(2014)
Computer science
Algorithms for Big Data
(2022)
This open access book surveys the progress in addressing selected challenges related to the growth of big data in combination with increasingly complicated hardware. It emerged from a research program established by the ...
Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry
(2021)
This Open Access book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, Otto Stern launched the revolutionary molecular beam technique. This technique made it ...
Feeling Gender
(2017)
Gender Studies; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Family
Chapter 4 Diagnosis
(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 ...
Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs
(2024)
This Open Access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs, NSLP 2024, held in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, on May ...
Digitale Transformation
(2018)
Dieses Open Access-Buch gibt eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der digitalen Transformation. Es werden aktuelle technologische Trends sowie Auswirkungen auf den Wettbewerb und die Geschäftsmodellentwicklung erläutert. ...
Knowledge and Action
(2017)
Human Geography; Psychology Research; Social Theory; Knowledge - Discourse
Mathematics Teacher Education in the Andean Region and Paraguay
(2018)
*THIS BOOK WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK* This book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, from which comparative ...
A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
(2018)
family; relationships; health, parenthood
Chapter 5 Wolves Tongues and Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures for Cancer
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Auswirkungen von Standardisierung auf Zentralabitur und Unterricht
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden mithilfe der forschungsleitenden Frage: „Wie ist Geographieunterricht angesichts des Zentralabiturs möglich?“ die Auswirkungen der Einrichtung beziehungsweise funktionalen Umdeutung des ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2021)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2021, which was held during March 27 until April 1, 2021, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice ...
Duale Schriftnutzung: Brailleschrift und Schwarzschrift
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die schriftsprachlichen Kompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern mit dualer Schriftnutzung untersucht. Von einem dualen Schriftspracherwerb spricht man, wenn Kinder oder Jugendliche mit ...
Indikatoren für die Messung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation
(2021)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation diskutiert unterschiedliche Ansätze zur Messung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation in Unternehmen, Hochschulen und staatlichen Forschungsinstituten. In Form von Steckbriefen beschreibt ...
Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility
(2020)
This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2024)
The two-volume open access book set LNCS 14576 + 14577 constitutes the proceedings of the 33rd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2024, which was held during April 6-11, 2024, in Luxemburg, as part of the European ...
Research on Teaching and Learning Mathematics at the Tertiary Level
(2016)
Mathematics Education, Higher Education, Learning and Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education
Truth Claims Across Media
(2024)
This book offers an intermedial approach to truthful communication. Bringing together a wide range of media types and interactions from a transmedial perspective, the volume maps out how truth claims are made in different ...
A Life Course Perspective on Chinese Youths
(2024)
This open access book investigates from a life-course perspective the individualization process and the challenges faced by young adults in post-collectivist China, where people are enjoined to "liberate" (jiefang) their ...
Modern Cryptography Volume 2
(2023)
This open access book covers the most cutting-edge and hot research topics and fields of post-quantum cryptography. The main purpose of this book is to focus on the computational complexity theory of lattice ciphers, ...
Reading Success in the Primary Years
(2020)
This open access book describes the Reading Success project, in which a 5-step, assessment-to- intervention process, based on the Simple View of Reading, was used within a primary school setting in Australia to better ...
Exhibiting Creative Geographies
(2023)
This open access book provides a detailed example of arts-based knowledge translation from start to finish for any scholar interested in communicating research findings through art. Firmly grounded in the GeoHumanities, a ...
Biological Invasions in South Africa
(2020)
This open access volume presents a comprehensive account of all aspects of biological invasions in South Africa, where research has been conducted over more than three decades, and where bold initiatives have been implemented ...
Digitale Hate Speech
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access Buch wird Hate Speech (oder synonym Hassrede) im Internet interdisziplinär diskutiert. Die Beiträge, die aus den Bereichen Linguistik, Sprachtechnologie, Informationswissenschaft und Politikwissenschaft ...
Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value
(2022)
This open access book explores cutting-edge solutions and best practices for big data and data-driven AI applications for the data-driven economy. It provides the reader with a basis for understanding how technical issues ...
Auswirkungen von Standardisierung auf Zentralabitur und Unterricht
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden mithilfe der forschungsleitenden Frage: „Wie ist Geographieunterricht angesichts des Zentralabiturs möglich?“ die Auswirkungen der Einrichtung beziehungsweise funktionalen Umdeutung des ...
Industry 4.0 for SMEs
(2020)
This open access book explores the concept of Industry 4.0, which presents a considerable challenge for the production and service sectors. While digitization initiatives are usually integrated into the central corporate ...
Radiological Issues for Fukushima’s Revitalized Future
(2015)
Effects of Radiation / Radiation Protection
Cognitive Supervision for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Laser Surgery
(2016)
Biomedical Engineering, Robotics and Automation, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Minimally Invasive Surgery
Religionstrends in der Schweiz
(2022)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation beschreibt gegenwärtige Entwicklungen in der Religionslandschaft der Schweiz. Sie führt eine Reihe von Studien fort, die seit den 1980er Jahren in regelmässigen Zeitabständen publiziert werden. ...
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
(2017)
history of crime; capital punishment; medical humanities
Beyond Global Food Supply Chains
(2022)
This open access book takes the upheaval of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard from which to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. ...
Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine
(2024)
This book guides its audience—which can range from novice users to experts— though a 55-chapter tour of Google Earth Engine. A sequenced and diverse set of lab materials, this is the product of more than a year of effort ...
Gesundheit – Teilhabechancen – Diskriminierungsrisiken
(2023)
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. Das Recht auf Gesundheit und Wohlergehen steht allen Menschen zu, unabhängig von Alter, Geschlecht, Beeinträchtigung oder anderen Vielfaltsmerkmalen. Auf die enge Verknüpfung von gesellschaftlicher ...
Gesundheit – Teilhabechancen – Diskriminierungsrisiken
(2023)
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. Das Recht auf Gesundheit und Wohlergehen steht allen Menschen zu, unabhängig von Alter, Geschlecht, Beeinträchtigung oder anderen Vielfaltsmerkmalen. Auf die enge Verknüpfung von gesellschaftlicher ...
Migration Between Mexico and the United States
(2022)
This open access Regional Reader describes how Mexico - United States migration changed substantially during the first decade of the 21st Century. The book provides an in-depth analysis on the changes in the flows into and ...
Beyond Global Food Supply Chains
(2022)
This open access book takes the upheaval of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard from which to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. ...
Justice in Climate Policy
(2024)
This open access book is looking into ways to achieve just climate policy within a country. The authors of this monograph share a unique, timely and original vision: continuous support for climate policy is more likely to ...
A Sound Approach to Noise and Health
(2025)
This open access book highlights the negative and positive health effects of chronic exposure to environmental sound. It describes the state of the art in the field from a public health point of view and puts it in a broad ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 19th International Conference, XP 2018, Porto, Portugal, May 21–25, 2018, Proceedings
(2018)
agile software development; test-driven development; project and people management; empirical software engineering; continuous experimentation
Chapter 7 Feeling Fuzzy
(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 ...
Pynchon and Philosophy
(2014)
Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical ...
Community-Oriented Policing and Technological Innovations
(2018)
Community-Oriented Policing; Police Studies; Policing and Technology; Predictive Policing; Policing Innovations; Crime Prevention and Intervention; Crime Detection; Fear of Crime; Urban Security
Semantic Systems. The Power of AI and Knowledge Graphs
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2019, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, in September 2019. The 20 full papers and 8 short papers ...
Capturing the Senses
(2023)
This open-access book surveys how digital technology can contribute effectively to improving our understanding of the past, through a sensory engagement based on the evidence of material culture. In particular, it encourages ...
Strengthening European Energy Policy
(2024)
This open access book foregrounds novel collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, for the benefit of European energy policy. ...
Die Sorge um Andere am Lebensende als Beruf
(2024)
Dieses Open Access Buch behandelt die Arbeitsweisen der Sozialen Arbeit in der Palliative Care, um deren Sichtbarkeit zu erhöhen. Die zentrale Forschungsfrage lautet, wie Fachkräfte der Sozialen Arbeit ihr berufliches ...
China-US Competition
(2023)
This open access edited book brings together a closer examination of European and Asian responses to the escalating rivalry between the US and China. As the new Cold War has surfaced as a perceivable reality in the post-COVID ...
Concepts in Action
(2021)
This open access book is a timely contribution in presenting recent issues, approaches, and results that are not only central to the highly interdisciplinary field of concept research but also particularly important to ...
Concepts in Action
(2021)
This open access book is a timely contribution in presenting recent issues, approaches, and results that are not only central to the highly interdisciplinary field of concept research but also particularly important to ...
Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States
(2024)
This open access book, building on the legacy of food systems scholar and advocate, Jerome Kaufman, examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture (UA) in the United States, especially in how questions ...