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A Roadmap for Plant Genome Editing
(2024)
This open access book is an update of genome editing techniques applied to a range of plants. We discuss the latest techniques and applications to cereals, roots and tubers, oilseed crops, fruit and forest trees, vegetables, ...
Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century
(2023)
This is an open access book. This edited volume discusses topics in environmental economics with a focus on sustainability, conservation, and responsible resource management. Written in memory of Peter Berck, Professor of ...
Diversity nutzen und annehmen
(2022)
Das Open-Access-Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über relevante psychologische Konzepte des Diversity Managements. Das Buch stellt verschiedene Forschungsarbeiten vor, die Wechselwirkungen und Einflussvariablen von ...
Values and Valuing in Mathematics Education
(2019)
This engaging open access book discusses how a values and valuing perspective can facilitate a more effective mathematics pedagogical experience, and allows readers to explore multiple applications of the values perspective ...
Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe
(2021)
This open access book provides an in-depth look into the background of rule of law problems and the open defiance of EU law in East Central European countries. Current illiberal trends and anti-EU politics have the potential ...
The Future of Software Quality Assurance
(2020)
This open access book, published to mark the 15th anniversary of the International Software Quality Institute (iSQI), is intended to raise the profile of software testers and their profession. It gathers contributions by ...
Visual Securitization
(2021)
This open access book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations’ visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes to reproduce and reinforce a securitized account of refugees. Through visual analysis, the ...
OKAY
(2024)
OKAY erfreut sich ungebrochener Beliebtheit. In der Mündlichkeit wurde es bereits in den 1960er-Jahren erforscht. In der schriftlichen Online-Kommunikation begegnet uns OKAY in zahlreichen Kommunikationskontexten. Um aktiv ...
Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism
(2023)
This open access book brings novel perspectives to the scholarship on transnational migration. The book stresses the complexity of migration trajectories and proposes multi-sited field studies to capture this complexity. ...
Global, Regional, and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis
(2020)
This international relations study investigates the underlying causes of the Yemen crisis by analyzing the interactions of global, regional, and local actors. At all phases, GCC member states played a key role, from political ...
Transformation Literacy
(2022)
This open access book brings science and practice together and inspires a global movement towards co-creating regenerative civilizations that work for 100% of humanity and the Earth as a whole. With its conceptual foundation ...
Ecological Jurisprudence
(2025)
This open access book explores the rise of ecological jurisprudence, a transformative legal theory that challenges traditional legal boundaries. Drawing on over 15 years of research and teaching, the book offers a comprehensive ...
Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
(2023)
This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early ...
Multilevel Pedagogical Leadership in Higher Education
(2024)
This Open Access book addresses the theoretical grounding of the pedagogical dimensions of higher education leadership and its empirical study. The book’s general point of departure is that educational leadership is a ...
Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a practical guide to the creation of sustainable enterprise value and implementation of the principles of stakeholder capitalism for corporate boards and management teams. The authors argue ...
Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco
(2021)
This open access book studies the migration aspirations and trajectories of people living in two regions in Morocco that are highly affected by environmental change or emigration, namely Tangier and Tinghir, as well as the ...
The Demography of Disasters
(2021)
This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for ...
Smart Cities in Asia
(2022)
This open access book examines different aspects of smart cities, including technology, urban development, sustainable development, finance, and privacy and data protection. It also covers a wide range of jurisdictions in ...
Responsible Innovation
(2020)
This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is ...
Boundary Value Problems, Weyl Functions, and Differential Operators
(2020)
This open access book presents a comprehensive survey of modern operator techniques for boundary value problems and spectral theory, employing abstract boundary mappings and Weyl functions. It includes self-contained ...
Collective Memory, Marginality, and Spatial Politics in Urban Indonesia.
(2025)
This volume presents three important themes for the study of Indonesian politics, cultures, and urban space: 1) urban regeneration and collective memory, 2) marginality and the other archives, 3) mood, medium, and media. ...
Towards Effective Flow Control and Mitigation of Shock Effects in Aeronautical Applications
(2025)
This open-access book reports on both experimental and numerical findings from the H2020-funded project TEAMAero (Towards Effective Flow Control and Mitigation of Shock Effects in Aeronautical Applications). It covers novel ...
Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State
(2007)
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870 - 1924) led the first successful revolt against market-based liberal democracy and founded the Soviet State in 1917, serving as the new nation s chief architect and sole ruler for the next five ...
Telecommunication Economics
(2012)
This book constitutes a collaborative and selected documentation of the scientific outcome of the European COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network" which run from October 2007 to October ...
Global Citizenship Education
(2020)
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that ...
Data-Driven Fault Detection and Reasoning for Industrial Monitoring
(2022)
This open access book assesses the potential of data-driven methods in industrial process monitoring engineering. The process modeling, fault detection, classification, isolation, and reasoning are studied in detail. These ...
Information—Consciousness—Reality
(2019)
This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. ...
Die Praxis kollektiven Handelns
(2019)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch präsentiert ein praxistheoretisches Konzept, das die Analyse verschiedener Aspekte und Formen kollektiven Handelns ermöglicht. Im Zentrum steht die Erweiterung des Handlungsverständnisses bei Anthony ...
Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe
(2023)
This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young ...
Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains
(2022)
This open access book presents the main scientific results from the H2020 GUARD project. The GUARD project aims at filling the current technological gap between software management paradigms and cybersecurity models, the ...
Outdoor Learning and Play
(2021)
This Open Access book examines children’s participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales. Underpinned ...
Uncertain Curiosity in Artistic Research, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies
(2025)
This open access edited volume is based on the premise that entanglements between current societal, political, technological, ecological, and cultural transformations cannot be sufficiently understood without transforming ...
Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation
(2020)
This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement ...
Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society
(2021)
This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, ...
Acculturation of Korean New Zealander Youth
(2025)
This open access book explores the acculturation, identity development, and cultural reconnection of newer-generation (1.5- and second-generation) Korean New Zealander youth who grew up in New Zealand after the 1990s. Based ...
How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It
(2022)
Since 1960, two-thirds of very large governmental projects in Nigeria have not only failed, but been abandoned mid-course. This presents a bigger failure rate than mega projects elsewhere, and yet there is no available ...
Circularity Assessment: Macro to Nano
(2023)
This open access book attempts to provide a perspective on the circularity assessment at different levels of the systemic hierarchy and advocates better resource management for a sustainable future. It demonstrates how ...
Produktivitätsmanagement 4.0
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch sind aktuelle Praxisbeispiele und Handlungsempfehlungen zur Gestaltung von Arbeit und Produktivität in der digitalisierten Welt beschrieben. Die Beispiele wurden von Unternehmen und wissenschaftlichen ...
Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises
(2021)
This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of ...
Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960
(2022)
This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how ...
Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film
(2025)
This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts – memory, travelling, and touch – it suggests that the cross-border movements of exiles, émigrés, ...
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in India
(2022)
This open access book addresses self-care on sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV prevention and treatment in the most marginalized and vulnerable communities. Case studies and personal narratives are used to ...
Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process
(2022)
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis ...
Metabolic Neuropsychiatry
(2025)
This open access book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on energy metabolism in the brain and body in neuropsychiatric disorders and suggests future research directions. Multiple lines of evidence indicate that ...
Global Political Demography
(2021)
This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040. Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss, for the first time, all ...
Wheat Improvement
(2022)
This open-access textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for students and practitioners wishing to access in a single volume the key disciplines and principles of wheat breeding. Wheat is a cornerstone of food ...
Mobile Edge Computing
(2022)
This is an open access book. It offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is a very promising technology for achieving intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications ...
Computational Methods für die Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften
(2023)
Mit Computational Methods lassen sich digitale Welten wissenschaftlich erforschen und gestalten. Das Open-Access-Lehrbuch vermittelt zunächst grundlegende Kompetenzen für die automatisierte Erhebung und Aufbereitung von ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2025)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 25th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2024, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during June 04-07, ...
Digital Public Health
(2025)
This comprehensive open access book gives an overview of the core issues in digital public health, with a strong emphasis on prevention, population health, and health systems. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, ranging ...
Corporate Finance for Long-Term Value
(2023)
This open access textbook offers a guide to corporate finance for modern companies that want to create long-term value. Drawing on recent literature on sustainable companies, it starts by analysing the Sustainable Development ...
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications
(2025)
This open access book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2023 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications (WCNA 2023), held in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, from ...
Ermittlung der Teilhabeförderung und des Finanzierungsbedarfs bei Chronisch Mehrfachgeschädigt/Mehrfachbeeinträchtigt Abhängigkeitskranken
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch dokumentiert die Entwicklung des personenzentrierten Bedarfserfassungsinstrumentes „IBUT-CMA“ auf Grundlage der ICF. Ziel war es, die Bedarfe praxisnah zu erfassen, eine direkte, leistungsgerechte, ...
TikTok – Memefication und Performance
(2025)
Gegenstand des interdisziplinären Open-Access-Bandes ist die Videoplattform TikTok, die als eines der meistgenutzten Sozialen Netzwerke große gesellschaftliche Relevanz entfalten konnte und insbesondere in (außer-)schulischen ...
City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500
(2024)
This open access book explores how medieval societies conversed about the city and citizen in texts, visual imagery and material culture. It adopts a long-term, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural perspective, bringing ...
Soziale Netzwerke und politische Partizipation
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Stefanie Lütters, inwieweit Sozialkapital die verzerrte Inanspruchnahme politischer Teilhaberechte erklärt. Denn entgegen der demokratischen Idealvorstellung von politischer Gleichheit ...
Nanosafety
(2025)
Nanosafety encompasses a spectrum of multidisciplinary studies, including nanotoxicology, immunotoxicology, genotoxicity, and epigenetic effects. Nanomaterials, with their unique properties and diverse applications, have ...
How AI Impacts Urban Living and Public Health
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2019, held in New York City, NY, USA, in October 2019. The 15 full papers ...
Japan Nutrition
(2022)
This Open Access auto-translation book demonstrates a time series of nutrition improvement in Japan since the introduction of nutrition sciences to Japan about 150 years ago. The chapters present the historical event where ...
The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
(2025)
This open access book presents a collection of case studies to analyse the FIFA World Cup 2022 held in Qatar, which revealed several complex aspects related to global football – its organization, its community, its related ...
Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking
(2025)
This open access book discusses why the seemingly straightforward strategy of teaching children how to think deeply does not work and offers an alternative way forward for the curriculum to achieve these objectives. Over ...
Digital Entrepreneurship
(2021)
This open access book explores the global challenges and experiences related to digital entrepreneurial activities, using carefully selected examples from leading companies and economies that shape world business today and ...
A Generalization of Bohr-Mollerup's Theorem for Higher Order Convex Functions
(2022)
In 1922, Harald Bohr and Johannes Mollerup established a remarkable characterization of the Euler gamma function using its log-convexity property. A decade later, Emil Artin investigated this result and used it to derive ...
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 ...
Trends in the Treatment of Cerebrovascular Diseases
(2025)
This Open Access book serves as the official proceedings of the 10th European-Japanese Cerebrovascular Congress, held in Kyoto in 2022. During this landmark event, leading experts from both Europe and Japan engaged in ...
Twin-Control
(2019)
This open access book summarizes the results of the European research project “Twin-model based virtual manufacturing for machine tool-process simulation and control” (Twin-Control). The first part reviews the applications ...
Das Formular
(2021)
Wenn stimmt, was bereits Friedrich Schiller beklagt hat: dass der Mensch in der modernen Gesellschaft „zum Formular geworden“ ist, dann steht mit diesem unscheinbaren Verwaltungs-tool nichts weniger als unsere Lebenswirklichkeit ...
Die Praxis der Social-Media-Analyse
(2021)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation entfaltet die Konstruktion von Wissen mit Social-Media-Analysen in der deutschen Automobilindustrie. Dort herrscht Goldgräberstimmung – trotz enormem Innovationsdruck: Big Data soll Licht in ...
Taming the Big Green Elephant
(2021)
In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have ...
Contract Farming in Developing Countries
(2025)
Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of ...
Comparative Studies on Chinese and Western Civilizations
(2026)
This open access book compares Chinese and Western civilizations from multiple perspectives, and it mainly consists of three parts that respectively compare the Warring States and ancient Greece, the Qin and Han dynasties ...
Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
(2020)
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has ...
Differenzerleben als Balanceakt
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern medienbezogene Bildungsprozesse in Paarbeziehungen stattfinden. In der heutigen Informationsgesellschaft stehen Individuen in einer Paarbeziehung vor der ...
Psychosocial Experiences of African Migrants in Six European Countries
(2020)
This open access book provides an empirical account of the psychological and social experiences of 3500 African migrants to 6 European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, France, and the UK. It discusses the ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2024)
This open access book constitutes papers from the research workshops presented at XP 2022 and XP 2023, respectively the 23rd and 24th International Conferences on Agile Software Development, held on June 13-17, 2022 at the ...
Social Networks and Health Inequalities
(2022)
This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences ...
Building the Inclusive City
(2020)
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and ...
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for the Clinician
(2021)
This is an open access book with CC BY 4.0 license. This comprehensive open access textbook provides a comprehensive coverage of principles and practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery. With a range of topics starting ...
Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium 2018 (RERIS 2018)
(2018)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium (RERIS 18), held in Maseru, Lesotho in January 2018. The symposium aimed to foster research cooperation ...
Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life
(2023)
This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the ...
RESTART Sustainable Business Model Innovation
(2018)
Taking the business model as point of departure, this open access book explores how companies and organizations can contribute to a more sustainable future by designing innovative models that are both sustainable and ...
Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition
(2024)
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods ...
The Autofictional
(2022)
This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to ...
Model Tests and Numerical Simulations of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading II
(2024)
This open access book presents work collected through the Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects (LEAP) in 2019 (LEAP-ASIA-2019) following the LEAP-UCD-2017 whose results have been published as a first volume. In ...
Understanding the Generality of Mathematical Statements
(2023)
In this open access book Milena Damrau investigates the understanding of generality of mathematical statements in first-year university students and its relation to other proof-related activities. Through an experimental ...
Programming Persistent Memory
(2020)
Beginning and experienced programmers will use this comprehensive guide to persistent memory programming. You will understand how persistent memory brings together several new software/hardware requirements, and offers ...
Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship
(2025)
This Open Access book is the first book to share in-depth narratives outlining the lived experiences of Japanese and Latin American Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Brazil, Mexico and Japan. It focuses in on the career paths of ...
Internal Diversity
(2020)
This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants’ internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes ...
Assessment of Cancer Screening
(2022)
Cancer screening is a prominent strategy in cancer control in the United States, yet the ability to correctly interpret cancer screening data eludes many researchers, clinicians, and policy makers. This open access primer ...
The Plaston Concept
(2022)
This open access book presents the novel concept of plaston, which accounts for the high ductility or large plastic deformation of emerging high-performance structural materials, including bulk nanostructured metals, ...
No Truth Without Beauty
(2022)
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and ...
Supercomputing Frontiers
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2019, held in Singapore in March 2019. The 6 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected ...
Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences
(2025)
This open access book presents and defends a new approach towards social functionalism: Presentist Social Functionalism. This approach draws on recent developments in evolutionary biology and philosophy of biology to provide ...
Music and the Cultural Production of Scale
(2023)
This open access book shows how geographical scales are made through music. Scales are sets of spatial frames, abstractions or categories that denote the size, proportion, level, extent or hierarchical relations of phenomena. ...
Eigentum ohne Eigentümer?
(2024)
In der aktuellen eigentumspolitischen Diskussion gibt es Vorschläge, die darauf hinauslaufen, den personalen Bezug des Eigentums erheblich zu relativieren und die Privatnützigkeit des Eigentums zu marginalisieren oder gar ...
Pop Music Made in Småland
(2025)
Using interviews with and academic studies of the careers of internationally-famous music producers and music industry professionals from Småland, Sweden, this open access book studies the history and present state of pop ...
Northern Lights on Civic and Citizenship Education
(2021)
This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in ...
Gas Explosion and Its Protection Technology in Process Industries
(2025)
This open access book first introduces the explosive characteristics of combustible gas in the process industrial device, and then introduces the influence law of structural effect on gas explosion characteristics and ...
Nanoscale Photonic Imaging
(2020)
This open access book, edited and authored by a team of world-leading researchers, provides a broad overview of advanced photonic methods for nanoscale visualization, as well as describing a range of fascinating in-depth ...
Optimierung der Tragfähigkeit von Zahnwellenverbindungen
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass die Tragfähigkeit evolventisch basierter Zahnwellenverbindungen auf geradezu revolutionäre Art und Weise gesteigert werden kann, wenn für ihre Realisierung nicht das System zur ...