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Cognitive Supervision for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Laser Surgery
(2016)
Biomedical Engineering, Robotics and Automation, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Minimally Invasive Surgery
The Very Long Game
(2024)
This open access book is the outcome of a unique multinational effort organized by the Hamburg-based Defense AI Observatory (DAIO) to portray the current state of affairs regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Enabling Things to Talk
(2013)
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Business IT Infrastructure; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Operations Management; Software Engineering; Special Purpose and Application-Based ...
Credit Networks in The Preindustrial World
(2025)
This open access book examines the formation and sustainability of private credit networks in past societies, gathering a global range of case studies from Europe and the Americas. The book represents a fi rst attempt to ...
Management by Missions
(2022)
A few decades ago, management thinking started to embrace the idea of purpose. The first edition of this book marked an important step in this trajectory; it drew attention to the need for managers to relate the concepts ...
Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins: A Methodological Overview
(2017)
intergenerational relations; transfer behaviour; migration; multicultural; religious identity; research methods; second generation
Implementation of EU Readmission Agreements
(2016)
European Law
Clinical Pathways in Stroke Rehabilitation
(2021)
This open access book focuses on practical clinical problems that are frequently encountered in stroke rehabilitation. Consequences of diseases, e.g. impairments and activity limitations, are addressed in rehabilitation ...
Pinewood
(2024)
This open access book examines how Pinewood came to be Britain’s dominant film studio complex, focusing on key years following the Second World War. It presents a revisionist, micro history of the studio and its longevity ...
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
Regional Geological Survey of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, Zhejiang Province in China
(2020)
This Open Access book introduces readers to the regional geology of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, the area between China's northern Zhejiang Province and southern Anhui Province and explores the strata, magmatic rocks and ...
Radical Solutions and Open Science
(2020)
This open access book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. The book introduces the reader into Open Access, Open Technology, Open Data, Open Research results, Open Licensing, Open ...
Multifunctional Ceramic Filter Systems for Metal Melt Filtration
(2024)
This open access book covers novel techniques and materials for removing inclusions in metallic melts, resulting in significant improvements to the purity, quality, and materials properties of the cast metal product. It ...
Introduction to Digital Humanism
(2024)
This open access textbook introduces and defines digital humanism from a diverse range of disciplines. Following the 2019 Vienna Manifesto, the book calls for a digital humanism that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, ...
Advanced Digital Auditing
(2023)
This open access book discusses the most modern approach to auditing complex digital systems and technologies. It combines proven auditing approaches, advanced programming techniques and complex application areas, and ...
NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2021
(2022)
This is open access volume of the NL ARMS offers an interdisciplinary view on the domain of Compliance and Integrity in International Military Trade (CIIMT), integrating defence economics, international law, arms export ...
Chapter 2 Mental Health at Work
(2015)
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda
(2021)
This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South ...
Differential Undercounts in the U.S. Census
(2019)
This open access book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as “differential undercount”, by showing which groups have the highest net undercounts and which groups have the greatest undercount ...
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 ...
Künstliche Intelligenz
(2019)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) klingt in aktuellen Debatten oft abstrakt und alltagsfremd. Doch die meisten Internetnutzerinnern und -nutzer sind ...
Übersetzungspolitiken in der Frühen Neuzeit / Translation Policy and the Politics of Translation in the Early Modern Period
(2024)
Ausgangspunkt dieses Konferenzbands im Open Access ist die Frage nach den Bedingungen, die dafür verantwortlich zeichnen, dass überhaupt und in welcher Form in der Frühen Neuzeit übersetzt wird. Anders formuliert geht es ...
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 ...
Radical Solutions and Open Science
(2020)
This open access book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. The book introduces the reader into Open Access, Open Technology, Open Data, Open Research results, Open Licensing, Open ...
Multifunctional Ceramic Filter Systems for Metal Melt Filtration
(2024)
This open access book covers novel techniques and materials for removing inclusions in metallic melts, resulting in significant improvements to the purity, quality, and materials properties of the cast metal product. It ...
The Regulator–Regulatee Relationship in High-Hazard Industry Sectors
(2024)
This open access book addresses relationships that develop from the complex set of legislative, regulatory, and institutional arrangements that arise in the governance of high-hazard industries, especially those connected ...
Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism
(2017)
healthcare; politics; poverty; aid; development; Africa
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This ...
National and International Civilian Protection Strategies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(2023)
This open access book examines security and protection within Israel and Palestine, analyzing national and international security strategies that apply to the protection of civilians. The author examines the principles, ...
Neo-Ottomanism and the Politics of Emotions in Turkey
(2024)
This open access book explores the politics of emotions under the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It examines how emotional politics and, particularly, ...
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
(2017)
history of crime; capital punishment; medical humanities
Differential Undercounts in the U.S. Census
(2019)
This open access book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as “differential undercount”, by showing which groups have the highest net undercounts and which groups have the greatest undercount ...
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 ...
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. ...
Hamburger Klimabericht – Wissen über Klima, Klimawandel und Auswirkungen in Hamburg und Norddeutschland
(2017)
Anpassung an den Klimawandel; Gesellschaft und Klimawandel; Klimafolgen; Klimaschutz; Klimawandel in Norddeutschland; Regionales Klimaassessment
Pinewood
(2024)
This open access book examines how Pinewood came to be Britain’s dominant film studio complex, focusing on key years following the Second World War. It presents a revisionist, micro history of the studio and its longevity ...
Hardy Inequalities on Homogeneous Groups
(2019)
This open access book provides an extensive treatment of Hardy inequalities and closely related topics from the point of view of Folland and Stein's homogeneous (Lie) groups. The place where Hardy inequalities and homogeneous ...
IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2022 Assessment Framework
(2023)
This open access publication outlines the underlying framework for gathering data on civic knowledge, attitudes, and engagement as well as contextual information, and it describes the assessment design for the International ...
Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology
(2017)
cognitive science; semantics; language
Übersetzungspolitiken in der Frühen Neuzeit / Translation Policy and the Politics of Translation in the Early Modern Period
(2024)
Ausgangspunkt dieses Konferenzbands im Open Access ist die Frage nach den Bedingungen, die dafür verantwortlich zeichnen, dass überhaupt und in welcher Form in der Frühen Neuzeit übersetzt wird. Anders formuliert geht es ...
IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2022 Assessment Framework
(2023)
This open access publication outlines the underlying framework for gathering data on civic knowledge, attitudes, and engagement as well as contextual information, and it describes the assessment design for the International ...
Regional Geological Survey of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, Zhejiang Province in China
(2020)
This Open Access book introduces readers to the regional geology of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, the area between China's northern Zhejiang Province and southern Anhui Province and explores the strata, magmatic rocks and ...
Chapter 12 Preventing Male Mental Illness in Post-war Britain
(2019)
Ali Haggett extends the boundaries of previous work, exploring the discourse around gender and prevention of mental illness in Britain from the 1950s. The chapter examines how important information about health and well-being ...
Historische, logische und individuelle Genese der Trigonometrie aus didaktischer Sicht
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch führt Valentin Katter eine umfassende didaktisch orientierte Sachanalyse unter historisch-, logisch-, und individualgenetischen Gesichtspunkten durch, mit der es ihm möglich ist, systematisch ...
Advanced Digital Auditing
(2023)
This open access book discusses the most modern approach to auditing complex digital systems and technologies. It combines proven auditing approaches, advanced programming techniques and complex application areas, and ...
Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism
(2017)
healthcare; politics; poverty; aid; development; Africa
Finite Difference Computing with PDEs: A Modern Software Approach
(2017)
finite difference methods; programming; python; verification; numerical methods; differential equations
Radiobiology Textbook
(2023)
This open access textbook focuses on the various aspects of radiobiology. The goal of radiobiological research is to better understand the effects of radiation exposure at the cellular and molecular levels in order to ...
Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
(2019)
Based on empirical research, this book focuses on the ambivalences and contraditions of eating in Vietnam. Against the background of an emerging consumer society and the globalisation of the agro-food system, eating becomes ...
Neo-Ottomanism and the Politics of Emotions in Turkey
(2024)
This open access book explores the politics of emotions under the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It examines how emotional politics and, particularly, ...
Digital Health Care in Taiwan
(2022)
This open access book introduces the National Health Insurance (NHI) system of Taiwan with a particular emphasis on its application of digital technology to improve healthcare access and quality. The authors explicate how ...
Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe
(2024)
This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban ...
Revising the Integration-Citizenship Nexus in Europe
(2023)
This open access book critically re-examines the theoretical and empirical interconnections between integration and citizenship, specifically, naturalisation. With new, empirical-grounded analyses of what we term ...
Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change
(2023)
This open access book explores a new conceptual framework for the sustainable management of the boreal forest in the face of climate change. The boreal forest is the second-largest terrestrial biome on Earth and covers a ...
Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences
(2021)
This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several ...
Digital Healthcare and Expertise
(2023)
This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital platforms by combining insights from STS, medical sociology and media studies. It addresses topical questions, ...
Brief Interventions for Psychosis
(2016)
This book offers a clinical guide that brings together a broad range of brief interventions and their applications in treating psychosis. It describes two core approaches that can narrow the current, substantial gap between ...
Challenges in Research Policy
(2025)
This open access volume addresses major challenges in research policy and provides advice on how to approach them. With chapters designed as accessible policy briefs, the book serves as an essential resource for new actors ...
The South Texas Health Status Review: A Health Disparities Roadmap
(2013)
Public Health; Epidemiology; Demography
Paradigms on Technology Development for Security Practitioners
(2025)
This open access book is authored by a rich mix of contributors from across the landscape of research, academia, LEAs, civil protection, and other first responders, practitioners, public and private organizations and ...
Contemporary Bioethics
(2015)
Human Genetics; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Ethics
Infektionen und Gesellschaft
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Tagungsband werden die Erfahrungen mit der Corona-Pandemie durch renommierte Forscherinnen und Forscher wissenschaftlich reflektiert. Neben dem gesellschaftlichen und politischen Umgang mit Covid-19, ...
Historische, logische und individuelle Genese der Trigonometrie aus didaktischer Sicht
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch führt Valentin Katter eine umfassende didaktisch orientierte Sachanalyse unter historisch-, logisch-, und individualgenetischen Gesichtspunkten durch, mit der es ihm möglich ist, systematisch ...
Parenting and Work in Poland
(2021)
The open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers engage with parenthood and also function in the labour market. Parenting ...
The Cold War in the Classroom
(2019)
Education; Teaching; Education—History; Communication; Russia—History; Europe, Eastern—History; Historiography
The Cold War in the Classroom
(2019)
Education; Teaching; Education—History; Communication; Russia—History; Europe, Eastern—History; Historiography
University and School Collaborations during a Pandemic
(2022)
Based on twenty case studies of universities worldwide, and on a survey administered to leaders in 101 universities, this open access book shows that, amidst the significant challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change
(2023)
This open access book explores a new conceptual framework for the sustainable management of the boreal forest in the face of climate change. The boreal forest is the second-largest terrestrial biome on Earth and covers a ...
University and School Collaborations during a Pandemic
(2022)
Based on twenty case studies of universities worldwide, and on a survey administered to leaders in 101 universities, this open access book shows that, amidst the significant challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences
(2021)
This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several ...
Management by Missions
(2022)
A few decades ago, management thinking started to embrace the idea of purpose. The first edition of this book marked an important step in this trajectory; it drew attention to the need for managers to relate the concepts ...
The South Texas Health Status Review: A Health Disparities Roadmap
(2013)
Public Health; Epidemiology; Demography
Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology
(2017)
cognitive science; semantics; language
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
21st Century Media and Female Mental Health
(2023)
This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, ...
21st Century Media and Female Mental Health
(2023)
This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, ...
The Academic Book of the Future
(2015)
Literature, Pedagogy/Teaching, Education, Organisations and Institutions, General, Society, Culture and Education, Higher Education
Bisociative Knowledge Discovery: An Introduction to Concept, Algorithms, Tools, and Applications
(2012)
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Pattern Recognition; Computer Communication ...
Finite Difference Computing with PDEs: A Modern Software Approach
(2017)
finite difference methods; programming; python; verification; numerical methods; differential equations
Introduction to Digital Humanism
(2024)
This open access textbook introduces and defines digital humanism from a diverse range of disciplines. Following the 2019 Vienna Manifesto, the book calls for a digital humanism that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, ...
The Regulator–Regulatee Relationship in High-Hazard Industry Sectors
(2024)
This open access book addresses relationships that develop from the complex set of legislative, regulatory, and institutional arrangements that arise in the governance of high-hazard industries, especially those connected ...
Niederlassungen führen
(2023)
Niederlassungen sollten ganzheitlich geführt und gesteuert werden – andernfalls leiden Strategieumsetzung und Kommunikation. Die ganzheitliche Steuerung ist deshalb eine Governance-Aufgabe, die nicht nur im Pflichtenheft ...
Diseases of the Chest, Breast, Heart and Vessels 2019-2022
(2019)
This open access book focuses on diagnostic and interventional imaging of the chest, breast, heart, and vessels. It consists of a remarkable collection of contributions authored by internationally respected experts, featuring ...
Relational Anthropology for Contemporary Economics
(2022)
This open access book offers a multidisciplinary dialogue on relational anthropology in contemporary economics. A particular view of the human being is often assumed in economic models, but seldom acknowledged let alone ...
From Decoding Turbulence to Unveiling the Fingerprint of Climate Change
(2022)
This open access book serves as a reference for the key elements and their significance of Klaus Hasselmann's work on climate science and on ocean wave research, all based on a rigorous and deeply physical thinking. It ...
Interdisciplinary Nutritional Management and Care for Older Adults
(2021)
This open access book aims to primarily support nurses as leaders and champions of multimodal, Interdisciplinary nutrition care for older adults. A structured approach to fundamentals of nutrition care across Interdisciplinary ...
World Archaeo-Geophysics
(2024)
This open access volume showcases the intersection of geophysics and archaeology on a global scale, emphasising the evolution and application of geophysical methods in archaeological research and cultural heritage management. ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda
(2021)
This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South ...
Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics
(2017)
climate vulnerability; urban resilience; climate change; adaptation; planning; environmental risk analysis; decision making; disaster risk reduction; tropical climate management
Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing in International Equity Markets
(2021)
In this Open-Access-book three essays on empirical asset pricing in international equity markets are presented. Despite being of fundamental economic and scientific importance, international financial markets have remained ...
Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) Processes in Bentonite Barrier Systems
(2024)
This book is open access book. The collaborative Pilot Project, titled “Comparison of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) Processes in Bentonite Barrier Systems”, aims to investigate the fundamentals, conduct laboratory ...
From Melancholia to Depression
(2021)
This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, ...
Soziale Netzwerke und gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten
(2020)
In diesem Buch wird die Perspektive der soziologischen, psychologischen und gesundheitswissenschaftlichen Netzwerkforschung für die Erklärung des Zusammenhangs zwischen sozialen und gesundheitlichen Ungleichheiten fokussiert. ...
The Pandemic of Argumentation
(2022)
This open access book addresses communicative aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the epidemic of misinformation from the perspective of argumentation theory. Argumentation theory is uniquely placed to ...
Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity
(2020)
Aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing a wide variety of benefits to human beings. Many of these valuable ecosystems are at risk of being irreversibly ...
Interdisciplinary Nutritional Management and Care for Older Adults
(2021)
This open access book aims to primarily support nurses as leaders and champions of multimodal, Interdisciplinary nutrition care for older adults. A structured approach to fundamentals of nutrition care across Interdisciplinary ...
Öffentliche Mobilität
(2021)
Dieser Open Access Band fasst erstmals aktuelle neue Entwicklungen im Öffentlichen Verkehr zusammen und entwirft mit dem Konzept der Öffentlichen Mobilität die konkrete Vorstellung eines zukunftsfähigen Öffentlichen Verkehrs. ...
History of Innovative Entrepreneurs in Japan
(2023)
This is the first Open Access book introducing more than 20 of Japan’s leading innovative entrepreneurs from the 17th century to the present. The author outlines the innovative business models created by entrepreneurs ...
History of Innovative Entrepreneurs in Japan
(2023)
This is the first Open Access book introducing more than 20 of Japan’s leading innovative entrepreneurs from the 17th century to the present. The author outlines the innovative business models created by entrepreneurs ...
Designing Data Spaces
(2022)
This open access book provides a comprehensive view on data ecosystems and platform economics from methodical and technological foundations up to reports from practical implementations and applications in various industries. ...