Publications
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Dinaric Perspectives on TIMSS 2019
(2022)
This open access book brings together national experts from across the Dinaric region to rigorously review IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 grade four data to develop a multidimensional ...
Paul J. Crutzen: A Pioneer on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Change in the Anthropocene
(2016)
This open access book contains texts by the Nobel laureate Paul J. Crutzen who is best known for his research on ozone depletion. It comprises Crutzen’s autobiography, several pictures documenting important stages of his ...
Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud
(2018)
application; blueprints; self-management; self-organisation; resource management; supply chain; big data; PaaS; Saas; HPCaaS
Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe
(2015)
Computing and Information Technology, Communications and Networks, Politics, Political Analysis Theories and Methods, Public Administration and Policy
Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative
(2021)
This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Education
(2021)
This open access handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing field of positive education, featuring a broad range of theoretical, applied, and practice-focused chapters from leading international experts. It ...
Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction
(2023)
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths ...
Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson
(2015)
History of Computing; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities; Data Structures; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities: Changing Neighbourhoods
(2016)
Migration; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Political Science
Chapter PART II: PREAMBLE
(2016)
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room ...
Brexit and the Control of Tobacco Illicit Trade
(2020)
This book assesses the consequences of Brexit for the control of illicit trade in tobacco products in the UK and EU. Based on the currently applicable legal framework, it examines the significance of a possible non-application ...
EU-Turkey Relations
(2021)
This open access book explores the new complexities and ambiguities that epitomize EU-Turkey relations. With a strong focus on the developments in the last decade, the book provides full access to a comprehensive understanding ...
Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy
(2022)
This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely been brought ...
Digital Libraries
(2020)
16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, Bari, Italy, January 30–31, 2020, Proceedings
Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration
(2022)
This open access book attempts to show that an examination of the list’s formal features has the potential to produce genuine insights into the production of knowledge, the poetics of literature and the composition of ...
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; ...
Modern IoT Onboarding Platforms for Advanced Applications
(2023)
This is an open access book. The book starts with an introductory IoT overview related to its selected scope of applications. There is no doubt that digitalization solutions from Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things ...
Exceptional Lifespans
(2021)
How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, ...
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Forschung
(2022)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open Access Publikation. Der lange gehegte Traum von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) wird in unserer Alltagswelt zunehmend Realität. Damit verbinden sich hohe gesellschaftliche Erwartungen, aber auch ...
Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation
(2022)
This open access book introduces the function, implementation and governance of green infrastructure in Japan and other countries where lands are geologically fragile and climatologically susceptible to climate change. It ...
Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion
(2022)
This pioneering book presents thirteen articles on the fascinating topic of emotions (jeong 情) in Korean philosophy and religion. Its introductory chapter comprehensively provides a textual, philosophical, ethical, and ...
Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually ...
Android Application Development for the Intel Platform
(2014)
Computer science
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 ...
Optimizing HPC Applications with Intel Cluster Tools
(2014)
Computer science
The Sanitation Triangle
(2022)
This open access book deals with global sanitation, where SDG 6.2 sets a target of enabling access to sanitation services for all, but has not yet been achieved in low- and middle-income countries. The transition from the ...
Implementation of EU Readmission Agreements
(2016)
European Law
Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene
(2021)
This open access book crosses disciplinary boundaries to connect theories of environmental justice with Indigenous people’s experiences of freshwater management and governance. It traces the history of one freshwater crisis ...
Chapter 3 Environmental Entanglements
(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 ...
AI based Robot Safe Learning and Control
(2020)
This open access book mainly focuses on the safe control of robot manipulators. The control schemes are mainly developed based on dynamic neural network, which is an important theoretical branch of deep reinforcement ...
A Transition to Sustainable Housing
(2023)
This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the ...
Immunogenetics
(2022)
This open access book explores techniques for working in the field of immunogenetics, i.e. fundamental and translational research into the adaptive immune receptor repertoire. Many chapters are dedicated to lab protocols, ...
Anti-Microbial Resistance in Global Perspective
(2020)
‘The Maternal Sepsis Intervention has had a profound impact on maternal mortality and antibiotic use whilst also reducing hospital costs. The Ministry of Health is keen to explore opportunities to extending the lessons ...
Mesoscale Analysis of Hydraulics
(2021)
This open access book presents a series of complicated hydraulic phenomena and related mechanism of high-speed flows in head-head dam. According to the basic hydraulic theory, detailed experiments and numerical simulations, ...
The Limits of Art
(2021)
This open access book is about exploring interesting borderline cases of art. It discusses the cases of gustatory and olfactory artworks (focusing on food), proprioceptive artworks (dance, martial arts, and rock climbing ...
New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies
(2022)
This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data ...
Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2018-2021: Diagnostic Imaging - IDKD Book
(2018)
Gastrointestinal disease; PET/CT; Radiology; X-ray; IDKD; Davos
Chapter Reading together
(2017)
Every region of India is and has been multilingual, with speakers of
different languages and speakers of multiple languages. But literary
‘multilingual locals’ are often more fragmented than we think. While
multilingualism ...
Simplex Society
(2024)
This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane ...
Particle Physics Reference Library
(2020)
This third open access volume of the handbook series deals with accelerator physics, design, technology and operations, as well as with beam optics, dynamics and diagnostics. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the “Particle ...