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Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows ‒ Advanced Components and Methods
(2022)
This open access textbook aims at providing detailed explanations on how to design and construct image analysis workflows to successfully conduct bioimage analysis. Addressing the main challenges in image data analysis, ...
Animals and Science Fiction
(2024)
Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies. It offers a broad range of theoretical approaches and primary source ...
Financing Clean Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2021)
This open access book analyses barriers and challenges associated with the financing of clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. By considering various economic, financial, political, environmental and social factors, ...
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
(2023)
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 31st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2022, which was held during April 5-7, 2022, in Munich, Germany, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and ...
Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics
(2023)
This open access proceedings volume brings selected, peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics (STUOD) 2021 Workshop, held virtually and in person at the Imperial College ...
Young Adults and Active Citizenship
(2021)
This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means ...
Microsimulation Population Projections with SAS
(2021)
This open access book provides a step-by-step overview on how to build a microsimulation model with SAS. It shows how to convert an already existing multistate projection by age, sex, education and region into a microsimulation ...
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: 21st International Conference, FOSSACS 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14–20, 2018. Proceedings
(2018)
artificial intelligence; computer software; selection and evaluation; formal logic; graph theory; modal logic; petri nets; program compilers; programming language; semantics; separation logic; software engineering; ...
The Political Economy of Central Asian Law
(2024)
This open-access book provides fresh and much-needed insights into the interconnections between law, society and governance in Central Asia. By taking the interdisciplinary perspective of law and society, the book explores ...
Actors and the Art of Performance
(2016)
Acting on stage is a mode of performing an action, in the context of which the bodily aspects implicitly at work in acting reveal their own significance and power. This event can actualize a wound incarnated in human beings, ...
Rainfall Infiltration in Unsaturated Soil Slope Failure
(2023)
This is an open access book. The aim of this book is to provide a thorough grounding in rainfall-induced landslides from three aspects: the coupling effect of hydraulic and mechanic; the analytical, numerical, and physical ...
Embedded System Design
(2021)
A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things. It starts ...
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh ...
Design Science and Its Importance in the German Mathematics Educational Discussion
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Old Ways for New Days
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a critical reflection into how indigenous cultures are attempting to adapt to climate change. Through detailed first-hand accounts, the book describes the unique challenges facing indigenous ...
Finland’s Famous Education System
(2023)
This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a ...
Sonic Skills
(2019)
It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to ...
S-BPM Illustrated: A Storybook about Business Process Modeling and Execution
(2013)
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Management of Computing and Information Systems
River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads
(2017)
Human Rights; Human Geography; Ethics; Sustainable Development; Anthropology; Development Economics
Neoromantik der Jahrhundertwende
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die rege Wiederaufnahme des Romantischen in der literarischen Landschaft um 1900. Es zeichnet die vergessene Diskursgeschichte einer sogenannten ‚Neuromantik‘ nach, um anschließend zu ...
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
(2023)
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types ...
Effective Field Theory for Spontaneously Broken Symmetry
(2024)
This open access book is about spontaneous symmetry breaking, which is a classic area of theoretical physics that lies at the core of many fascinating phenomena such as ferromagnetism, superfluidity, superconductivity, or ...
Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms
(2021)
This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when ...
The Humanities in the Digital: Beyond Critical Digital Humanities
(2023)
This open access book challenges the contemporary relevance of the current model of knowledge production. It argues that the full digitisation of society sharply accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic has added extreme ...
The Politics of Gender Equality
(2024)
This open access book provides the first in-depth study of the development of federal gender equality politics and policy in Australia from the 1970s to the present day. Australia has a history of gender equality innovation, ...
Young Adults and Active Citizenship
(2021)
This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means ...
Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies in Animal Production Systems, Preparedness, Response and Recovery
(2021)
This Open Access volume explains how major nuclear and radiological emergencies (NREs) can have implications at local, national and international level. The response to NREs requires a competent decision-making structure, ...
A Philosophy of Israel Education
(2016)
Philosophy of Education; Religion and Society; Philosophy of Religion; Judaism
Small Electric Vehicles
(2021)
This edited open access book gives a comprehensive overview of small and lightweight electric three- and four-wheel vehicles with an international scope. The present status of small electric vehicle (SEV) technologies, the ...
Microsimulation Population Projections with SAS
(2021)
This open access book provides a step-by-step overview on how to build a microsimulation model with SAS. It shows how to convert an already existing multistate projection by age, sex, education and region into a microsimulation ...
Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
(2020)
This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats ...
The Geopolitics of Hydrogen
(2024)
This open access book is a comprehensive exploration of European hydrogen policy, examining its development at both the EU level and in key Member States, while also considering the geopolitical implications of the emerging ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2024)
The open access book 3-volume set LNCS 14570-14573 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2024, which was held as part ...
Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds
(2015)
Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Ecology; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences
(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 ...
Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering
(2022)
This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first ...
Managing Great Power Politics
(2022)
This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast ...
Architecture of Advanced Numerical Analysis Systems
(2023)
This unique open access book applies the functional OCaml programming language to numerical or computational weighted data science, engineering, and scientific applications. This book is based on the authors' first-hand ...
Sonic Skills
(2019)
It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to ...
S-BPM Illustrated: A Storybook about Business Process Modeling and Execution
(2013)
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Management of Computing and Information Systems
Frühe Kindheit(en)
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch nähert sich Melanie Holztrattner aus einer praxeologischen Perspektive der Frage, wie frühe Kindheit in frühpädagogischen Institutionen hervorgebracht wird. Aktuelle Diskurse der childhood studies ...
Oxygen Transport to Tissue XLI
(2020)
This book presents cutting-edge papers and perspectives on the transport of oxygen to tissues by scientists in a multitude of disciplines such as biochemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine, physics, physiology, ...
Effective Field Theory for Spontaneously Broken Symmetry
(2024)
This open access book is about spontaneous symmetry breaking, which is a classic area of theoretical physics that lies at the core of many fascinating phenomena such as ferromagnetism, superfluidity, superconductivity, or ...
Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services: Methods, Models, Approaches, Techniques, Algorithms, and Tools
(2018)
cloud computing; communication channels; information theory; computer networks; computer systems; data communication systems; Human-Computer Interactopm (HCI); internet; Internet of Services (IoS); Internet of ...
Chapter 6 The Disappearing Body: Dissection to the Extremities
(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 ...
Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
(2020)
This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2024)
The open access book 3-volume set LNCS 14570-14573 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2024, which was held as part ...
Die Trade-offs der Nachhaltigkeit
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch führt auf der Spur der Trade-offs der Nachhaltigkeit vom Versuch einer sprachlogischen Aufarbeitung des Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs aus in die zweiwertige Logik. Die klassische Logik führt hinein in ein ...
Research Thinking for Responsive Teaching
(2024)
This open access book examines the facilitation of pre-service and in-service educators’ research thinking that equips them to be responsive to the unfolding uncertainties of the 21st century, and to likewise prepare their ...
Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering
(2022)
This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first ...
Hochschulreformen, Leistungsbewertungen und berufliche Identität von Professor*innen
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein differenziertes Bild der Folgen von „Bologna“, „Exzellenzinitiative“, Drittmittelwettbewerb und „New Public Management“ für die berufliche Identität von Professor*innen gezeichnet. Eine ...
West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways
(2020)
This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the ...
Subject-Oriented Business Process Management
(2012)
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Management of Computing and Information Systems
Architecture of Advanced Numerical Analysis Systems
(2023)
This unique open access book applies the functional OCaml programming language to numerical or computational weighted data science, engineering, and scientific applications. This book is based on the authors' first-hand ...
Politische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen des Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens in der Schweiz
(2023)
Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die zentralen politischen und ökonomischen Begriffe, Konzepte und Diskurse des schweizerischen Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens. Es spannt den Bogen von den demokratischen Grundsätzen ...
River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads
(2017)
Human Rights; Human Geography; Ethics; Sustainable Development; Anthropology; Development Economics
Chapter 1 Epidemiology
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...
Financing Clean Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2021)
This open access book analyses barriers and challenges associated with the financing of clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. By considering various economic, financial, political, environmental and social factors, ...
Frühe Kindheit(en)
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch nähert sich Melanie Holztrattner aus einer praxeologischen Perspektive der Frage, wie frühe Kindheit in frühpädagogischen Institutionen hervorgebracht wird. Aktuelle Diskurse der childhood studies ...
Accounting and Statistical Analyses for Sustainable Development
(2021)
In this Open Access publication Claudia Lemke develops a comprehensive Multi-Level Sustainable Development Index (MLSDI) that is applicable to micro, meso, and macro objects by conducting methodological and empirical ...
Traditionen juristisch-notarieller Textproduktion durch Translation
(2025)
Dieses Open Access-Buch bietet eine historisch ausgerichtete Untersuchung juristisch-notarieller Dokumente aus Neu-Spanien an der Schnittstelle zwischen romanistischer Textlinguistik und Translationswissenschaft. Konkret ...
The Humanities in the Digital: Beyond Critical Digital Humanities
(2023)
This open access book challenges the contemporary relevance of the current model of knowledge production. It argues that the full digitisation of society sharply accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic has added extreme ...
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality: Fathers on Leave Alone
(2017)
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Family; Gender Studies
Chapter Slow Violence and Slow Going
(2023)
This This chapter reads Beckett’s fascination with what Steven Connor has called ‘slow going’ alongside Rob Nixon’s description of the ‘slow violence’ of climate breakdown. Following Nixon’s suggestion that ‘slow violence’ ...
Good Citizenship for the Next Generation
(2021)
This Open Access book presents an international group of scholars seeking to understand how youth from different cultures relate to modern multidimensional concepts of citizenship, and the roles that education and society ...
Research Thinking for Responsive Teaching
(2024)
This open access book examines the facilitation of pre-service and in-service educators’ research thinking that equips them to be responsive to the unfolding uncertainties of the 21st century, and to likewise prepare their ...
Subject-Oriented Business Process Management
(2012)
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Management of Computing and Information Systems
Corporate Data Quality
(2016)
Innovation/Technology Management; e-Commerce/e-business; Business Process Management; e-Business/e-Commerce
Animals and Science Fiction
(2024)
Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies. It offers a broad range of theoretical approaches and primary source ...
Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda
(2019)
This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of ...
Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
(2023)
This open access book explores the transformative effects of remittances. Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a cross-border space in which people ...
Proceeding of 2021 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications
(2022)
This open access proceedings includes original, unpublished, peer-reviewed research papers from the International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications (WCNA2021), held in Berlin, Germany on ...
Design of Heuristic Algorithms for Hard Optimization
(2023)
This open access book demonstrates all the steps required to design heuristic algorithms for difficult optimization. The classic problem of the travelling salesman is used as a common thread to illustrate all the techniques ...
Asia Rising
(2024)
This open-access book offers a clear and thorough exploration of Asia's history from an international relations perspective. The book investigates key political, economic, and cultural forces defining Asia. It highlights ...
Asia Rising
(2024)
This open-access book offers a clear and thorough exploration of Asia's history from an international relations perspective. The book investigates key political, economic, and cultural forces defining Asia. It highlights ...
Sliding Base Structures
(2023)
This open access book is an efficient and economic approach for mitigating the seismic damage of low-rise buildings. This book presents various aspects of SB structures, including their fundamentals, dynamic analysis ...
When Children Draw Gods
(2023)
This open access book explores how children draw god. It looks at children’s drawings collected in a large variety of cultural and religious traditions. Coverage demonstrates the richness of drawing as a method for studying ...
Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe
(2022)
This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus ...
Voices in the History of Madness
(2021)
This interdisciplinary volume brings together new research that broadens our understanding of the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the chapters that follow, we hear from people who have ...
Eingliederung als Rechtfertigungsarbeit
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch analysiert Praktiken der Wiedereingliederung von Beschäftigten mit psychischen Erkrankungen in drei Unternehmen in der Schweiz. Ausgehend von den konkreten Handlungsproblemen der Akteurinnen und ...
Eingliederung als Rechtfertigungsarbeit
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch analysiert Praktiken der Wiedereingliederung von Beschäftigten mit psychischen Erkrankungen in drei Unternehmen in der Schweiz. Ausgehend von den konkreten Handlungsproblemen der Akteurinnen und ...
Future Intelligence
(2023)
The first quarter of the 21st century introduced the world to rapid uncertainty, be it the social-political and financial crises, or pandemics, or the shaking up of well-established democracies with an increasing rise in ...
Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies
(2024)
This open access book links the artistic and cultural turn in migration studies to the larger struggle for narrative and cultural change in European migration societies. It proposes theoretical and methodological approaches ...
AI in Learning: Designing the Future
(2023)
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is predicted to radically change teaching and learning in both schools and industry causing radical disruption of work. AI can support well-being initiatives and lifelong learning but educational ...
Chapter 7 The Long Carry
(2018)
For First World War stretcher bearers, wartime landscapes had a direct impact on the work they undertook. Trenches, shell holes, mud and sand all presented challenges to their ability to carry wounded men swiftly and safely ...
Public Support for the Euro
(2022)
The long-term sustainability of the euro and the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) depends heavily on their ability to attract widespread public support. The support shown for the euro throughout its first two decades has ...
The EBMT Handbook
(2024)
This Open Access new edition of the EBMT handbook with its new format, addresses the latest developments and innovations in hematopoietic cell transplantation and cellular therapy. Consisting of 94 chapters, it has been ...
Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
(2018)
This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating ...
Atlas of Fallen Dust in Kuwait
(2021)
This open access book serves as an atlas of deposited dust and dust storms in Kuwait in relation to local and global regions. It features a wealth of maps and images of dust storm trajectories in the region, together with ...
Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Experiments
(2023)
This open access book is a pedagogical text on nuclear reactor experiments, covering almost all the experiments that can be carried out at the University Training Reactor, Kindai University (UTR-KINKI) with respect to ...
Happiness is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism
(2018)
Liberal Communitarianism; Populism; Communitarian Economics; The Common Good; Security and Privacy; Freedom of the Press; Bioethics; Politics
Games Without Frontiers?
(2021)
This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and ...
Foundations of Trusted Autonomy
(2018)
Trusted Autonomy; Automation Technology; Autonomous Systems; Self-Governance; Trusted Autonomous Systems; Design of Algorithms and Methodologies
Sustainable Manufacturing: Challenges, Solutions and Implementation Perspectives
(2017)
Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Sustainable Development; Energy Efficiency; Production
Public Support for the Euro
(2022)
The long-term sustainability of the euro and the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) depends heavily on their ability to attract widespread public support. The support shown for the euro throughout its first two decades has ...
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding
(2017)
peacebuilding; multilateralism; diplomacy; United Nations
Games Without Frontiers?
(2021)
This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and ...
Zur Soziologie der Software
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch stehen Software und ihre Rolle für das Soziale im Mittelpunkt. Die Arbeit stellt Grundprobleme und Lösungsansätze einer Soziologie der Software vor und skizziert damit eine soziologische Perspektive ...
Zur Soziologie der Software
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch stehen Software und ihre Rolle für das Soziale im Mittelpunkt. Die Arbeit stellt Grundprobleme und Lösungsansätze einer Soziologie der Software vor und skizziert damit eine soziologische Perspektive ...