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The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power
(2019)
This open access book discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance issues. The use of nuclear power for electricity generation is still ...
Evolutionary Equations
(2022)
This open access book provides a solution theory for time-dependent partial differential equations, which classically have not been accessible by a unified method. Instead of using sophisticated techniques and methods, the ...
Wertorientierungen und Wahlverhalten
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht L. Constantin Wurthmann die sehr enge Beziehung zwischen Wertorientierungen und Wahlverhalten. Obwohl Wertorientierungen und gesellschaftliche Wertorientierungen im Speziellen zu den ...
Snow Sports Trauma and Safety: Conference Proceedings of the International Society for Skiing Safety: 21st Volume
(2017)
skiing; snow sports; trauma; safety; kinematics; epidemiology
Designing Sustainability for All
(2021)
This open access book introduces design for Sustainable Product-Service Systems (S.PSS) and for Sustainable Distributed Economies (S.DE). These are introduced as technical and operative tools for the development of a new ...
Regenerative Territories
(2022)
This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material ...
Make Capitalism History
(2023)
This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic ...
Chapter 1 Meeting People Is Easy
(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 4 States of Rest
(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 ...
Intangible Capital and Growth
(2022)
For several decades now, advanced economies across the globe have been undergoing a process of rapid transformation towards becoming knowledge economies. It is now widely recognized that intangible capital has been a crucial ...
Chapter 4 States of Rest
(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 ...
Mutation Breeding in Coffee with Special Reference to Leaf Rust
(2023)
This open-access book provides a comprehensive overview of current methodologies for improving resistance to leaf rust in coffee, one of the world's most important cash crops and beverages. Coffea arabica L. (Arabica) ...
Mutation Breeding in Coffee with Special Reference to Leaf Rust
(2023)
This open-access book provides a comprehensive overview of current methodologies for improving resistance to leaf rust in coffee, one of the world's most important cash crops and beverages. Coffea arabica L. (Arabica) ...
The Future of Work
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of new forms of working and new working arrangements largely enabled by technology. The Future of Work is a projection of how work, working, workers and the workplace will ...
Models, Methods and Tools for Product Service Design
(2019)
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the Manutelligence project, the goal of which is to help enterprises develop smart, social and flexible products with high value added services. Manutelligence ...
Concrete-Polymer Composites in Circular Economy
(2025)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Polymers in Concrete 2023 (ICPIC 2023), held under the theme "Cement-Polymer Composite in Circular Economy". It provides multidisciplinary ...
Chapter Introduction: Self-Harm from Social Setting to Neurobiology
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Digital Transformations in Nordic Higher Education
(2023)
This open access book expands the scholarly and policy debates surrounding digital transformation in higher education. The authors adopt a pluralistic conceptual framework which uncovers three analytical elements – contexts, ...
Big Data in der Mobilität
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch befasst sich mit den gesellschaftlich und wirtschaftlich weitreichenden Potenzialen von „Big Data in der Mobilität“. Zunächst werden der Mobilitätsmarkt mit seinen Akteuren sowie deren Interessen ...
Ukraine's Journey to Recovery, Reform and Post-War Reconstruction
(2025)
This open access volume explores Ukraine's challenges post-war, focusing on economic revival and sustainable development. Addressing scholars, policymakers, and practitioners the book discusses pivotal issues for the ...
Robotics, AI, and Humanity
(2021)
This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance ...
Robotics, AI, and Humanity
(2021)
This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance ...
Progress on the Study of the Ginibre Ensembles
(2025)
This open access book focuses on the Ginibre ensembles that are non-Hermitian random matrices proposed by Ginibre in 1965. Since that time, they have enjoyed prominence within random matrix theory, featuring, for example, ...
The EU and China in African Authoritarian Regimes
(2018)
Political science; EU; China; Africa; Rwanda; Ethiopia; Angola; Survival strategy; Governance; Reform; Economic dependence; Paul Kagame; 2005 Ethiopian general election; African oil revenues; Authoritarian ...
Chapter 48 In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging to Assess Compound Efficacy Against Trypanosoma brucei
(2020)
Traditional animal models for human African trypanosomiasis rely on detecting Trypanosoma brucei brucei
parasitemia in the blood. Testing the efficacy of new compounds in these models is cumbersome because it
may take ...
Optics in Our Time
(2016)
Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices; Quantum Optics; Popular Science in Physics; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
Chapter 48 In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging to Assess Compound Efficacy Against Trypanosoma brucei
(2020)
Traditional animal models for human African trypanosomiasis rely on detecting Trypanosoma brucei brucei
parasitemia in the blood. Testing the efficacy of new compounds in these models is cumbersome because it
may take ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2023)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2023, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during June 13-16, 2023. XP is the premier agile ...
Fertility Transition in the Developing World
(2022)
This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behaviour that occurred in Asia, Latin America, and Africa since the ...
Inclusion and Belonging in Cities of Tomorrow
(2024)
This open access book uncovers the historical context and entrenched beliefs that have perpetuated exclusionary urban landscapes and disadvantage for marginalized groups. It offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate ...
Models, Methods and Tools for Product Service Design
(2019)
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the Manutelligence project, the goal of which is to help enterprises develop smart, social and flexible products with high value added services. Manutelligence ...
The Future of Work
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of new forms of working and new working arrangements largely enabled by technology. The Future of Work is a projection of how work, working, workers and the workplace will ...
Problem Solving in Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education: Learning and Instruction
Ocean Governance
(2023)
This Open Access book on Ocean Governance examines sustainability challenges facing our oceans today. The book is organized into three sections: knowledge systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses. The knowledge ...
Leibliche Präsenz
(2023)
In welcher Hinsicht können körperlich-leibliche Erfahrungen als Teil sozialer Aktivitäten verstanden werden und wie kann man sie sozialwissenschaftlich untersuchen? Unter Rückgriff auf den klassischen Pragmatismus, ...
Hope across cultures
(2023)
This open access book presents an integrative and transdisciplinary conceptualization of hope and brings together cross-cultural studies based on quantitative data from around the globe. It incorporates state-of-the-art ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2022, which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2022. XP is the premier agile software development ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2022, which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2022. XP is the premier agile software development ...
Ukraine's Journey to Recovery, Reform and Post-War Reconstruction
(2025)
This open access volume explores Ukraine's challenges post-war, focusing on economic revival and sustainable development. Addressing scholars, policymakers, and practitioners the book discusses pivotal issues for the ...
The Independent Variable Problem
(2023)
This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable. To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different ...
Digital Transformations in Nordic Higher Education
(2023)
This open access book expands the scholarly and policy debates surrounding digital transformation in higher education. The authors adopt a pluralistic conceptual framework which uncovers three analytical elements – contexts, ...
The Independent Variable Problem
(2023)
This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable. To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different ...
Intangible Capital and Growth
(2022)
For several decades now, advanced economies across the globe have been undergoing a process of rapid transformation towards becoming knowledge economies. It is now widely recognized that intangible capital has been a crucial ...
Big Data in der Mobilität
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch befasst sich mit den gesellschaftlich und wirtschaftlich weitreichenden Potenzialen von „Big Data in der Mobilität“. Zunächst werden der Mobilitätsmarkt mit seinen Akteuren sowie deren Interessen ...
Inclusion and Belonging in Cities of Tomorrow
(2024)
This open access book uncovers the historical context and entrenched beliefs that have perpetuated exclusionary urban landscapes and disadvantage for marginalized groups. It offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate ...
Polarized Beam Dynamics and Instrumentation in Particle Accelerators
(2023)
This Open Access book is drawn from lectures dispensed at the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) Summer 2021 Spin Class, by experts in the field. It is an introduction to the dynamics of spin in charged particle ...
El Hierro Island Global Geopark
(2023)
This open access book explores El Hierro Island, which is geologically the youngest of the Canary Islands (Spain). Having registered its latest volcanic eruption in 2011-2012, it is an oceanic subtropical island with low ...
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
Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900
(2024)
This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the ...
Transforming Lives and Systems
(2020)
This open access book explores the transformative experiences of participants in the University of Sydney’s National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) programs. The establishment of the NCCC was viewed as a critical ...
Digital Sustainability
(2024)
Digitalisation and environmental sustainability are two of the megatrends impacting industry and society. This open access Pivot is a timely exploration of some of the challenges and prospects related to digital sustainability ...
Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2
(2019)
Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue ...
The Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education: Intellectual and attitudinal challenges
(2015)
mathematics; education; curriculum
Global LGBTQ Health
(2024)
This open access book is a groundbreaking volume that creates a new field within the intersection of “global health” and “LGBTQ health” delineating specific health challenges and resiliencies. There has been increasing ...
The Data Shake
(2021)
This open access book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European Commission under the call “Policy-development in the age of big data: data-driven ...
Mediation im Erbrecht
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access Buch erläutert in einer praxisnahen Darstellung, wie sich Erbstreitigkeiten durch eine Mediation zügig und für alle Beteiligten sehr befriedigend beilegen lassen. Auf der Grundlage ihrer jahrelangen ...
Designing Sustainable Energy for All: Sustainable Product-Service System Design Applied to Distributed Renewable Energy
(2018)
Design for Sustainability; Product-Service System; Distributed Energy; Renewable Energy; Business Models for DRE Systems
Failures in Cultural Participation
(2023)
This open access book examines how and why the UK's approach towards increasing cultural participation has largely failed to address inequality and inequity in the subsidised cultural sector despite long-standing international ...
Young People's Perceptions of Europe in a Time of Change: IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 European Report
(2018)
Civic Education; ICCS; IEA Educational Achievement; Civic knowledge; Civics and citizenship; Attitudes to civic life; Engagement with civic life; Civic and Citizenship Education Study; ICCS 2016; Civic participation; ...
The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto
(2014)
Computer science
Quantum Software
(2024)
This open access book explains the state of the art in quantum software engineering and design, independent from a specific hardware. It deals with quantum software theoretical aspects and with classical software engineering ...
The Economics of Big Science 2.0
(2025)
The second volume of open access essays builds upon the success of the initial installment, "The Economics of Big Science (© 2021, 978-3-030-52390-9, Open Access book as well)," delving deeper into the tangible socio-economic ...
Soziale Arbeit und Sucht
(2021)
Das Open Access Buch «Soziale Arbeit in der Suchtprävention und Suchthilfe der Deutschsprachigen Schweiz» hat die Professionalisierung der Sozialen Arbeit in der Suchtarbeit zum Ziel. In einem ersten Schritt soll mittels ...
Soziale Arbeit und Sucht
(2021)
Das Open Access Buch «Soziale Arbeit in der Suchtprävention und Suchthilfe der Deutschsprachigen Schweiz» hat die Professionalisierung der Sozialen Arbeit in der Suchtarbeit zum Ziel. In einem ersten Schritt soll mittels ...
Who Will Be the Next President?: A Guide to the U.S. Presidential Election System
(2016)
Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; US Politics; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History; Electoral Politics; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Assessment of Energy-Efficient Building Details for Seismic Regions
(2022)
This open access book presents a methodology for the assessment of structural building details, taking into account the contemporary guidelines for earthquake-resistant and energy-efficient buildings. A review of structural ...
El Hierro Island Global Geopark
(2023)
This open access book explores El Hierro Island, which is geologically the youngest of the Canary Islands (Spain). Having registered its latest volcanic eruption in 2011-2012, it is an oceanic subtropical island with low ...
Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900
(2024)
This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the ...
Socioeconomics of Agriculture
(2018)
Hierarchy; Cooperation; Agricultural systems; Governance; Primary sector; Socioeconomics; Agri-food chain; Agricultural economics
Ocean Governance
(2023)
This Open Access book on Ocean Governance examines sustainability challenges facing our oceans today. The book is organized into three sections: knowledge systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses. The knowledge ...
Transforming Lives and Systems
(2020)
This open access book explores the transformative experiences of participants in the University of Sydney’s National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) programs. The establishment of the NCCC was viewed as a critical ...
Socioeconomics of Agriculture
(2018)
Hierarchy; Cooperation; Agricultural systems; Governance; Primary sector; Socioeconomics; Agri-food chain; Agricultural economics
The Evolution of Team-Based Buddhist Scripture Translation in Tang China
(2024)
Open Access This open-access book provides a concise analysis of the apex of team-based translation of Buddhist scriptures during the Tang Dynasty, initiated by the notable gathering of translation experts led by ...
Chapter 6 I Would Have Gone on with the Hunger Strike, but Force-Feeding I Could Not Take
(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 ...
Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2
(2019)
Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue ...
The Data Shake
(2021)
This open access book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European Commission under the call “Policy-development in the age of big data: data-driven ...
Chapter 6 I Would Have Gone on with the Hunger Strike, but Force-Feeding I Could Not Take
(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 ...
Global LGBTQ Health
(2024)
This open access book is a groundbreaking volume that creates a new field within the intersection of “global health” and “LGBTQ health” delineating specific health challenges and resiliencies. There has been increasing ...
Migration Control Logics and Strategies in Europe
(2023)
Building upon the concept of migration regime, this open access book brings together the works of scholars who have investigated logics and routines of action in the field of immigration control within a single and innovative ...
Altern: Biologie und Chancen
(2022)
Dies ist ein Open Access Buch. Wir haben immer mehr Alte, immer weniger Kinder. Dank wissenschaftlicher Fortschritte verlängert sich die Lebenserwartung ständig. Erkenntnisse aus der Naturwissenschaft in der post-genomischen ...