Publications
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Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks
(2016)
Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics; History of Science
Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
(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 ...
The Academic Book of the Future
(2015)
Literature, Pedagogy/Teaching, Education, Organisations and Institutions, General, Society, Culture and Education, Higher Education
Beyond Data
(2022)
This open access book focuses on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on individuals and society from a legal perspective, providing a comprehensive risk-based methodological framework to address it. Building on the ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy
(2020)
This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or ...
Tribal Reawakening and the Future of State-Building in Kuwait and Qatar
(2025)
This open access book approaches the history of tribes and their role in the formation of the modern states of Kuwait and Qatar by blending historical, political, and sociological perspectives. Traditionally, this subject ...
Contemporary Housing Struggles
(2022)
This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central ...
Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online
(2022)
This open access book explores the multiple forms of curatorial agencies that develop when museum collection digitisations, narratives and new research findings circulate online. Focusing on Viking Age objects, it tracks ...
An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 2
(2020)
This open access book contains the oral histories that were inspired by the work of the Special Olympics in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of its founding. The foreword and prefatory materials provide an overview ...
Nachhaltiges Personalmanagement als Schlüsselfaktor für erfolgreiches Wirtschaften
(2022)
Mit diesem Open-Access-Buch liefert Elisabeth Geursen erstmals Erkenntnisse zum Nachhaltigkeitsbegriff im Personalmanagement, auf den mit „Human Capital“ oder „Human Ressource“ referiert wird, mithilfe primär linguistischer ...
Dependable Embedded Systems
(2021)
This Open Access book introduces readers to many new techniques for enhancing and optimizing reliability in embedded systems, which have emerged particularly within the last five years. This book introduces the most prominent ...
China's Energy Revolution in the Context of the Global Energy Transition
(2020)
This open access book is an encyclopaedic analysis of the current and future energy system of the world’s most populous country and second biggest economy. What happens in China impacts the planet. In the past 40 years ...
Socio-Life Science and the COVID-19 Outbreak
(2022)
This open access book presents the first step towards building socio-life science, a field of science investigating humans in such a way that both social and life-scientific factors are integrated. Because humans are both ...
Open Government
(2022)
Dieses Buch – eine Open-Access-Publikation mit freiem Online-Zugang – bietet Führungskräften und Mitarbeitenden im öffentlichen Sektor sowie Studierenden eine ebenso kompakte wie kompetente Einführung in die wesentlichen ...
Negotiating Non-Motherhood
(2025)
This open access edited volume focuses on the representations, perceptions, and experiences of women who do not have children against the backdrop of traditional gender norms, pronatalist policies, and patriarchal structures. ...
Russia’s Role in the Contemporary International Agri-Food Trade System
(2022)
This Open Access book analyses the emergence of Russia as a global food power and what it means for global food trade. Russia's strategy for food production and trade has changed significantly since the end of the Soviet ...
Chapter 5 Special Cases
(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 ...
Extended Working Life Policies
(2020)
This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, ...
XcalableMP PGAS Programming Language
(2021)
XcalableMP is a directive-based parallel programming language based on Fortran and C, supporting a Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) model for distributed memory parallel systems. This open access book presents ...
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 ...
Educational Data Analytics for Teachers and School Leaders
(2023)
Educational Data Analytics (EDA) have been attributed with significant benefits for enhancing on-demand personalized educational support of individual learners as well as reflective course (re)design for achieving more ...
Digitales Besuchermanagement in Destinationen
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Essential erläutert die Entwicklung eines digitalen Besuchermanagementsystems für Destinationen von der Bedarfsermittlung bis zur Implementierung und Ausspielung. Zunächst müssen der Bedarf an ...
Security Infrastructure Technology for Integrated Utilization of Big Data
(2020)
This open access book describes the technologies needed to construct a secure big data infrastructure that connects data owners, analytical institutions, and user institutions in a circle of trust. It begins by discussing ...
Towards a Systemic Theory of Irregular Migration
(2020)
This open access book provides an alternative theoretical framework of irregular migration that allows to overcome many of the contradictions and theoretical impasses displayed by the majority of approaches in current ...
Children in Migration and International Family Law
(2025)
This open access book offers readers a better understanding of the legal situation of children and families migrating to the EU. Shedding light on the legal, practical, and political difficulties at the intersection of ...
Violence Against Women During Coronavirus
(2023)
This open access book brings together leading international violence researchers to examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on experiences of, and responses to, domestic and family violence. In April 2020 the United ...
Schulsysteme beschreiben und gestalten
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die folgenden Fragen untersucht: Was bedeutet Bildungsmonitoring in der Schweiz? Welche Erwartungen und Zielsetzungen werden damit verbunden, welche Instrumente etabliert, welche Produkte ...
Solar Particle Radiation Storms Forecasting and Analysis
(2018)
Solar Energetic Particles; Space Weather Forecasting; Solar Flares; Coronal Mass Ejections; Solar Wind Shock Waves; Particle Acceleration in the Solar Corona; Gamma-Ray Flares
New Wars and Old Plagues
(2023)
This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies ...
Capturing the Senses
(2023)
This open-access book surveys how digital technology can contribute effectively to improving our understanding of the past, through a sensory engagement based on the evidence of material culture. In particular, it encourages ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
Soziale Armut
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die subjektive Wahrnehmung und Bewältigung von Armut im Kontext der strukturellen Einbindung der Betroffenen konzeptualisiert und erfasst. In einer reichen Gesellschaft arm zu sein, bedeutet ...
Doing Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo
(2025)
This open access textbook provides an introduction to the software program NVivo, the most widely used qualitative analysis program. It is a versatile program with an extensive range of accessible analysis tools, flexibly ...
Radiological Issues for Fukushima’s Revitalized Future
(2015)
Effects of Radiation / Radiation Protection
Physical Disability and Sexuality
(2021)
This open access edited volume explores physical disability and sexuality in South Africa, drawing on past studies, new research conducted by the editors, and first-person narratives from people with physical disabilities ...
The 8th International Conference on Advances in Construction Machinery and Vehicle Engineering
(2024)
This open access book presents select contributions from the 8th International Conference on Advances in Construction Machinery and Vehicle Engineering (ICACMVE 2023), focusing on the recent advances and best practices of ...
Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools
(2022)
This open access book represents a comprehensive review of available land-use cover data and techniques to validate and analyze this type of spatial information. The book provides the basic theory needed to understand the ...
Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
(2021)
This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, GKR 2020, held virtually in September ...
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 ...
Coercion and Violence in Mental Health Settings
(2024)
This book aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the contexts, causes and treatments that relate to the reduction of coercion and the prevention of violence in mental health settings. The objective of this new ...