Publications
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The Emigrant Communities of Latvia
(2019)
This open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – in the case of return migration - re-integration ...
System-Aufstellungen und ihre naturwissenschaftliche Begründung
(2020)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation liefert Thomas Gehlert eine konsistente, auf aktuellen Experimenten und Theorien basierte, fundierte natur- und neurowissenschaftliche Theorie, die den zugrundeliegenden Prozess bei Intuition ...
The Illusion of Risk Control: What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty?
(2017)
risk management; black swans; safety; high-risk organisations; FonCSI; complexity in risk management; risk assessment
Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing: Estimation of Agricultural Crop Biomass Water Equivalent
(2018)
Earth Science; Soil Management; Water Management; Crop Nutrition; Nuclear; CRNS; Biomass Water Equivalent; Remote Sensing; Satellite Imagery
AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City
(2016)
This book describes the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthy city" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven and Province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. AiREAS is an initiative focused on the multidisciplinary ...
Computational Conflict Research
(2020)
This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this ...
Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art
(2015)
This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is ...
The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease
(2019)
This open access book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed by George Engel 40 years ago, the Biopsychosocial ...
Sago Palm: Multiple Contributions to Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods
(2018)
Under-utilized food resource; Metroxylon sagu; Starch production; Sago palm forest; Sago sugar
Peer Review, Peer Education, and Modeling in the Practice of Clinical Ethics Consultation: The Zadeh Project
(2018)
This open access book about the Zadeh Project demonstrates and explores a core question in clinical ethics: how can ethics consultants be accountable in the face of a robust plurality of ethical standpoints, especially ...
The Great Disruptor
(2020)
Dieser Open Access-Band untersucht aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive das öffentliche Auftreten von Donald Trump und nimmt dabei insbesondere in den Blick, wie der US-amerikanische Präsident an der ...
One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences
(2017)
Fritz Haber; Military-Industrial Complex; 1925 Geneva Protocol; Ethics of Chemical Warfare; Dual-use Problem; Anti-plant Chemical Warfare; Chemical Weapons During World War I; Chemical Weapons During World War II; ...
The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque
(2020)
This open access book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), which had continued for over 30 years, but which ...
Krankenhaus-Report 2019
(2019)
Der Krankenhaus-Report erscheint jährlich als Open Access-Buch und als gedrucktes Buch. Er nimmt relevante, vorwiegend ordnungspolitische Themen im Kontext Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit der Krankenhausversorgung in den ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2019. XP is the premier agile software development conference ...
Human Rights in Child Protection
(2018)
This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research ...
Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility
(2019)
In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to ...
The Plight of Older Workers: Labor Market Experience after Plant Closure in the Swiss Manufacturing Sector
(2016)
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Labor Economics; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Ganzheitliche Digitalisierung von Prozessen
(2018)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Geschäftsprozessmanagement als ein ganzheitlicher Prozess begriffen, der der Mitwirkung aller Stakeholder bedarf. Denn das traditionelle Business Process Engineering stößt heute angesichts ...
Conviviality at the Crossroads
(2020)
Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The ...