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Traditions in German-Speaking Mathematics Education Research
(2019)
This open access book shares revealing insights into the development of mathematics education research in Germany from 1976 (ICME 3 in Karlsruhe) to 2016 (ICME 13 in Hamburg). How did mathematics education research evolve ...
Ecosystem Restoration through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
(2023)
This open access book is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the relevance of social-ecological ...
Landscapes of the First World War
(2018)
This comparative and transnational study of landscapes in the First World War offers new perspectives on the ways in which landscapes were idealised, mobilised, interpreted, exploited, transformed and destroyed by the ...
Digital Kenya
(2017)
Research & Development; Technology Policy; Development Economics
Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new ...
Klima
(2020)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit sind eng verknüpft mit den Zielen der UN bis 2030 (The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals SDGs), die eine ...
Sustainable Development Disciplines for Humanity
(2023)
This Open Access book provides eight problem solving lectures for sustainable development for people, peace, and partnerships. Those are three of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, the ...
Oxygen Isotopes of Inorganic Phosphate in Environmental Samples
(2022)
This open access book distinguished itself from other publications by offering step-by-step instructions on how to extract, purify, provide modifications, and major issues to be encountered during the process. For the δ18OP ...
Innovatorinnen gestalten Zukunft
(2024)
Dieses Open Access essential enthält eine Sammlung praxisnaher Fallstudien, die auf realen Beispielen von Innovatorinnen basieren und einen Einblick in die vielfältigen Rollen von Frauen in Innovationsprozessen geben. Ein ...
The State of Peacebuilding in Africa
(2021)
This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in ...
A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, Second Edition
(2020)
Many modern computer systems, including homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, support shared memory in hardware. In a shared memory system, each of the processor cores may read and write to a single shared address ...
Stochastic Discounted Cash Flow
(2020)
This open access book discusses firm valuation, which is of interest to economists, particularly those working in finance. Firm valuation comes down to the calculation of the discounted cash flow, often only referred to ...
Model-Based Engineering of Collaborative Embedded Systems
(2021)
This Open Access book presents the results of the "Collaborative Embedded Systems" (CrESt) project, aimed at adapting and complementing the methodology underlying modeling techniques developed to cope with the challenges ...
Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices
(2015)
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Hydrology/Water Resources; Urban Ecology
Masterpieces on Japan by Foreign Authors
(2023)
This open access book includes forty-one chapters about foreign observers’ discourses on Japan. These include a wide range of perspectives from the travelogues of curious visitors to academic theses by scholars, which offer ...
Hizmet in Transitions
(2022)
In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, ...
Digital Transformation of the Design, Construction and Management Processes of the Built Environment
(2020)
This open access book focuses on the development of methods, interoperable and integrated ICT tools, and survey techniques for optimal management of the building process. The construction sector is facing an increasing ...
Start-up Cultures in Times of Global Crises
(2024)
This open access volume analyses the challenges, problems and solutions of startups in times of global crises. It, first, provides an overview of the principles and fundamentals of successful entrepreneurship and startup ...
Education for Children with Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents insights into the lived realities of children with disabilities in primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It examines specific cultural and societal ...
Ein Physiologiemodell für Tactical Combat Casualty Care Training in mobilen Serious Games
(2020)
Julia Hofmann konzipiert in diesem Open Access Buch ein Physiologiemodell für die präzise Simulation bestimmter Verletzungsfolgen und deren Behandlung in einer Computerspielumgebung. Ihre Ergebnisse leisten einen wichtigen ...
A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction
(2023)
This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and ...
Klima
(2020)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit sind eng verknüpft mit den Zielen der UN bis 2030 (The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals SDGs), die eine ...
Deployment and Operation of Complex Software in Heterogeneous Execution Environments
(2022)
This open access book provides an overview of the work developed within the SODALITE project, which aims at facilitating the deployment and operation of distributed software on top of heterogeneous infrastructures, including ...
Gestaltung sozialer Versorgung
(2019)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch erläutert ein Handlungsmodell zur Gestaltung sozialer Versorgung. Das Modell beinhaltet 16 Gestaltungsaufgaben, die sich an den wesentlichen Planungs- und Steuerungsaufgaben sozialer Versorgung und ...
Android on x86
(2013)
Computer science
Conviviality in Burgaz
(2024)
This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions, by building on original, long-term ethnographic research (fourteen months in 2009-2010, followed by fieldwork ...
Die christliche Predigt im 21. Jahrhundert
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass die christliche Predigt eine multimodal realisierte rekonstruktiv-prospektive kommunikative Gattung ist, die die Aufgabe hat, eine Wissens-, Glaubens- und Praktikengemeinschaft ...
Wellbeing Economics
(2018)
Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, ...
Networks in the Russian Market Economy
(2010)
If Russia has become a market economy, how does it function on a grassroots level? In addition to market mechanisms, what kinds of social and moral principles are at work in the new Russian economy? Is the 'Soviet legacy' ...
Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability
(2022)
Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline ...
Studierendenmigration und Entwicklung
(2021)
Wie tragen internationale Studierende und Alumni zur Entwicklung in ihren Herkunftsländern bei? Ist der Entwicklungseffekt am größten, wenn Studierende direkt nach Beendigung ihres Studiums wieder in ihre Herkunftsländer ...
Evaluating Economic Success
(2024)
This open access book argues that a new policy approach is required in order to tackle the numerous problems the world is currently facing. The priority should be on achieving better outcomes for people, especially those ...
Greening the Greyfields
(2022)
This open access book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges of transformative urban regeneration of cities at precinct scale.
Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2
(2021)
This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a ...
The Future of China’s Development and Globalization
(2024)
This is an open access book. As the world continues to recover from the fear and uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new set of challenges like increased geopolitical tensions and climate change have become increasingly ...
Preparing for Digital Disruption
(2021)
This open access book offers an analysis of why preparations for digital disruption should become a stated goal of security policy and policies that aim to safeguard the continuity of critical infrastructure. The increasing ...
Annual Report on the Big Data of New Energy Vehicle in China (2022)
(2024)
This is an Open Access book. This book based on static indicators and dynamic big data from local electric vehicles, is the first New-Energy Vehicles (NEVs) research report on the Big Data in China. Using the real-time big ...
Maritime Spatial Planning
(2019)
This open access book is the first comprehensive overview of maritime or marine spatial planning. Countries across the globe are beginning to implement maritime spatial plans; however the authors of this collection have ...
The European Landing Obligation
(2019)
This open access book provides a comprehensive examination of the European Landing Obligation policy from many relevant perspectives. It includes evaluations of its impacts at economical, socio-cultural, ecological and ...
The State of Peacebuilding in Africa
(2021)
This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in ...
Greening the Financial Sector: How to Mainstream Environmental Finance in Developing Countries
(2012)
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Finance, general; Environmental Economics; Development Finance; Energy Efficiency; Environmental Finance; Green Energy Finance; Renewable Energy
Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new ...
The Borders of the European Union in a Conflictual World
(2024)
This open access book examines the implications for the EU of a radically changed international context characterized by systemic rivalry, competition over norms and regulations, and growing strategic tension. Globalization ...
Teaching, Research and Academic Careers
(2022)
This open access book evaluates research quality, quality of teaching and the relationship between the two through sound statistical methods, and in a comparative perspective with other European countries. In so doing, it ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2025)
This open access 4-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2025, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in July 23-25, 2025. The 51 regular papers presented together ...
Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
(2019)
This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new ...
Leadership in Educational Contexts in Finland
(2024)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview and in-depth coverage of contemporary aspects of leadership in the field of education in Finland. It brings together Finnish scholars to critically explore and discuss ...
Reactor Laboratory Experiments at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
(2025)
This open access is an educational text on reactor physics experiments and is described based on a careful examination of the contents and pedagogical benefits obtained from the book Nuclear Reactor Physics Experiments by ...
Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe
(2024)
This open access book brings together key issues from transformative processes and events across Europe (and in some cases beyond) from 15,000 to 1 BCE. This volume covers the research output produced by the Collaborative ...
Monte Carlo N-Particle Simulations for Nuclear Detection and Safeguards
(2022)
This open access book is a pedagogical, examples-based guide to using the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP®) code for nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation applications. The MCNP code, general-purpose software for particle ...
From Electronic to Mobile Government
(2025)
The open access book combines insights from policy sciences (backgrounds of cross-border coordination challenges), design science (development of architectures for mobile services), information ethics (privacy and security ...
Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Turbulent/Non-Turbulent Interface in Turbulent Shear Flows
(2025)
The turbulent/non-turbulent interface (TNTI) is an irregular boundary between turbulent and irrotational flow, which widely exists in various flow types, such as turbulent boundary layer, combustion flame front, turbulent ...
The Ethical Spirit of EU Law
(2019)
This open access book seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) law, a context in which we can observe a trend towards increasing references to the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’. This aspect is all the ...
National Reflections on the Netherlands Didactics of Mathematics
(2020)
This open access book, inspired by the ICME 13 Thematic Afternoon on “European Didactic Traditions”, consists of 17 chapters, in which educators from the Netherlands reflect on the teaching and learning of mathematics in ...
Geflüchtete in ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands
(2023)
Die Open-Access-Publikation präsentiert umfangreiche empirische Analysen zu Halte- und Bleibeorientierung Geflüchteter und richtet den Blick dabei besonders auf die Situation der ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands. Migrations- ...
Open Skies
(2020)
This open access book on the history of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory covers the scientific discoveries and technical innovations of late 20th century radio astronomy with particular attention to the people and ...
Pflege-Report 2023
(2023)
Fragen der Versorgungsqualität gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Das gilt auch für die pflegerische Versorgung. Der Pflege-Report, der jährlich in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, beleuchtet im Schwerpunkt ...
Outcomes of Open Adoption from Care
(2022)
This Open Access book presents unique evidence from the first comprehensive study of the outcomes of open adoption from care in Australia. It contributes to the international debate concerning the advantages and disadvantages ...
Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia
(2022)
This open access book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka and Khulna in Bangladesh, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune in India, ...
Understanding Past Earthquakes
(2025)
This open access book presents the state of the art in research on the characteristics of past earthquakes. It presents an overview of contemporary developments, their use cases, and practical considerations, with the aim ...
Digitale Identitäten und Nachweise
(2025)
Digitale Identitäten sind der Schlüssel zur digitalen Souveränität – für Personen, Unternehmen und den öffentlichen Sektor. Dieser Sammelband bündelt die zentralen Erkenntnisse des Forschungsprogramms „Sichere Digitale ...
Augmented Humanity
(2021)
This open access book will examine the implications of digitalization for the understanding of humanity, conceived as a community of intelligent agency. It addresses important topics across a range of social and behavioral ...
Toxic Parliaments
(2024)
This open access book shows how the #MeToo movement and revelations of sexual harassment and bullying have spurred on reform of the parliamentary workplace in four Westminster countries – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and ...
Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK
(2024)
This open access book draws together key research from the UK Climate Resilience programme. It focuses on topics central to the programme’s research agenda, including improved characterisation and quantification of climate ...
Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs
(2020)
This open access book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies the implications for education and training in the region. It also assesses how ...
Die Rolle von Unternehmen im IFRS-Standardsetzungsprozess
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch würdigt die Autorin unterschiedliche Normermittlungstheorien und betrachtet die Rolle von Unternehmen bei der Entwicklung der Regelungen zur Bilanzierung von Mehrkomponentengeschäften nach IFRS ...
Quantum Computing for the Quantum Curious
(2021)
This open access book makes quantum computing more accessible than ever before. A fast-growing field at the intersection of physics and computer science, quantum computing promises to have revolutionary capabilities far ...
The Comprehensive Cancer Center
(2022)
This open access book provides a valuable resource for hospitals, institutions, and health authorities worldwide in their plans to set up and develop comprehensive cancer care centers. The development and implementation ...
Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North
(2023)
This open access book sheds light on 21st-Century multilingualism in the Far North of Europe – Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Estonia – an area with multifaceted contacts between many Uralic and Indo-European languages. These ...
Parasites, Pussycats and Psychosis
(2022)
This open access book analyzes the evidence linking Toxoplasma gondii to the increasing incidence of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the United States. Initially establishing that infectious agents are regularly ...
Transdisziplinär und transformativ forschen, Band 2
(2019)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch setzt die 2018 begonnene Sammlung von Methoden für transdisziplinäre, transformative wie nicht-transformative Forschung fort. Auch in Band 2 werden Methoden der Wissenserzeugung, Wissensintegration ...
Archaeological Research on Cultures in Northeast China from the Xia to the Warring States Period
(2025)
This open access book mainly focuses on Northeast China, which historically included Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaoning Province, and the eastern part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. This area borders ...
Conversations on Climate: The People Behind the Science
(2025)
This open access book presents interviews with high-profile climate scientists about state-of-the-art research questions. Consequences of climate change have become more and more visible and are now regularly discussed in ...
Digitale Transformation und Unternehmensführung
(2020)
Dieses Open Access-Fachbuch setzt sich empirisch und theoretisch mit Teilaspekten der digitalen Transformation und deren Konsequenzen für die Unternehmensführung auseinander. Die mit der Digitalisierung verbundenen neuen ...
New Social Mobility
(2022)
This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories ...
NEETs in European rural areas
(2024)
This open access book constitutes a transnational and multidisciplinary inquiry of the most pressing challenges faced by young people Not in Employment, nor in Education or Training (NEET) in rural areas across Europe. . ...
Funerary Textiles in Situ
(2025)
This open access book explores the role of textiles in death to investigate questions into how the body was prepared before the funeral, how the body was seen and perceived by its relatives and community, and the role of ...
Knowledge Cartography for Young Thinkers
(2025)
Discover the transformative power of knowledge mapping with this revolutionary book. You will have access to a rich collection of mapping techniques, technologies, and real-life applications designed for learners of all ...
Experimental Studies in Learning Technology and Child–Computer Interaction
(2022)
This book is about the ways in which experiments can be employed in the context of research on learning technologies and child–computer interaction (CCI). It is directed at researchers, supporting them to employ experimental ...
Age-Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa
(2022)
This is an open access book Considers user competence, context, and mediating influences on ICT innovation in a developing country context Presents baseline data of older South Africans' ICT use, with templates and examples ...
Dynamic Spectrum Management
(2020)
This open access book, authored by a world-leading researcher in this field, describes fundamentals of dynamic spectrum management, provides a systematic overview on the enabling technologies covering cognitive radio, ...
AVENUE21. Automatisierter und vernetzter Verkehr: Entwicklungen des urbanen Europa
(2020)
Gegenstand dieser Open Access Publikation sind die Auswirkungen automatisierter und vernetzter Fahrzeuge auf die Europäische Stadt sowie die Voraussetzungen, unter denen diese Technologie einen positiven Beitrag zur ...
Well-being During the Pandemic
(2025)
This open access book focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being, happiness and quality of life, taking into account the mediating effects of social inequalities. The volume brings together and into ...
Sustainable Rice Straw Management
(2020)
This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is ...
Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities
(2022)
This open access book includes a series of relevant policy research articles, elaborared in the framework of the “Quality in higher education: internationalisation and databases to enhance the Romanian education system” ...
Advanced Control Technology of Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems
(2025)
The photovoltaic (PV) inverter serves as the interface between the PV panels and the power grid and realizes the power conversion, which is the core equipment of the PV power generation system. With the development of PV ...
Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
(2023)
This is an open access book. Time is an exceptional dimension with high relevance in medicine, engineering, business, science, biography, history, planning, or project management. Understanding time-oriented data via visual ...
Empire Under the Microscope
(2022)
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, ...
Complications in Neurosurgery II
(2024)
This Open Access book on Complications in Neurosurgery contains the proceedings of the 2nd ICCN conference held in Mumbai in 2019. The work illustrates and discusses key point of intra- and postoperative complications ...
Sozioanalyse in der pädagogischen Arbeit
(2021)
Sabrina Rutter zeigt in dieser Open-Access-Publikation auf, inwiefern handlungsleitende Orientierungen von Lehrkräften in der Schule ungleichheitsrelevant werden und mit habitus- und milieuspezifischen Logiken zusammenhängen. ...
European Higher Education Area: The Impact of Past and Future Policies
(2018)
This volume presents the major outcomes of the third edition of the Future of Higher Education – Bologna Process Researchers Conference (FOHE-BPRC 3) which was held on 27-29 November 2017. It acknowledges the importance ...
Quantifying Quality of Life
(2022)
Describes technological methods and tools for objective and quantitative assessment of QoL Appraises technology-enabled methods for incorporating QoL measurements in medicine Highlights the success factors for adoption and ...
Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2022
(2024)
This open access book provides an overview of the dissertations of the five nominees for the Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering in 2022. The prize, kindly sponsored by the Gerlind & Ernst Denert Stiftung, is awarded ...
Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action
(2022)
This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed ...
AI Ethics in Higher Education: Insights from Africa and Beyond
(2023)
This open access book tackles the pressing problem of integrating concerns related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics into higher education curriculums aimed at future AI developers in Africa and beyond. For doing so, ...
Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial?
(2019)
This open access publication discusses exclusionary rules in different criminal justice systems. It is based on the findings of a research project in comparative law with a focus on the question of whether or not a fair ...
International Symposium on Mathematics, Quantum Theory, and Cryptography
(2021)
This open access book presents selected papers from International Symposium on Mathematics, Quantum Theory, and Cryptography (MQC), which was held on September 25-27, 2019 in Fukuoka, Japan. The international symposium MQC ...
Das zukunftsfähige Familienunternehmen
(2024)
Die Zukunftsfähigkeit eines Unternehmens, also das langfristige Überleben bei adäquatem Erfolg, erfordert finanzielle Nachhaltigkeit (finanzielle Stärke), eine robuste Strategie und resiliente Leistungserstellung sowie ...
ESA Science Programme Missions
(2025)
This work got its start by trying to answer the question "how do you evaluate the scientific performance of the ESA's Science Programme missions?" For many years, the decision makers responsible for the content of the ESA ...
Data Parallel C++
(2023)
"This book, now in is second edition, is the premier resource to learn SYCL 2020 and is the ONLY book you need to become part of this community." Erik Lindahl, GROMACS and Stockholm University Learn how to accelerate C++ ...