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Modernization with Chinese Characteristics and Great Power
(2023)
This open access book expounds in detail on the profound meaning and main characteristics of modernization with Chinese characteristics. This was done utilizing tools of historical investigation and fact-based research on ...
Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories
(2022)
This Open Access book illustrates the power of stories to illuminate ethical concerns that arise in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for ...
Abschlusspolitische Ergebnisspaltungen mit aufgegebenen Geschäftsbereichen nach IFRS 5
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, ob abschlusspolitische Ergebnisspaltungen mit aufgegebenen Geschäftsbereichen unter IFRS 5 existieren und ob sie verhindert werden können. Anhand von 325 Beobachtungen von ...
Chapter 2 Pathogenesis
(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 ...
Neurolaw
(2021)
This book aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on neuroscience,
justice, and security, by examining how neuroscience could contribute to
fair and more effective criminal justice systems, and how both neurosci entific ...
Vergleichsweise menschlich?: Ambulante Sanktionen als Alternative zur Freiheitsentziehung aus europäischer Perspektive
(2015)
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general; Social Work; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Criminal Law
The Promise of Higher Education
(2021)
This book is a collection of short essays, accessible through open access, which takes the interested reader on a tour across the global higher education landscape. It addresses pertinent themes and challenges in higher ...
Kosten der hubschraubergestützten Notfallversorgung
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Aussteuerung von Zielkonflikten bei der Gestaltung des Luftrettungssystems in Deutschland erarbeitet, indem ein Modell zur Bewertung von Luftrettungsleistungen entwickelt wird. Der ...
Italienisches, europäisches und internationales Immaterialgüterrecht
(2021)
Dieser Open Access Band bietet sowohl deutsch- als auch italienischsprachige Beiträge zu wesentlichen Bereichen des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes und des Urheberrechts aus der Sicht des deutschen, italienischen und ...
Handbook of Teaching Competency Development in Higher Education
(2024)
This is an open access book. It draws from relevant theories and approaches to teachers’ professional development (TPD) and innovative and inspiring TPD practices in higher education. It first lays a solid foundation for ...
Determinants of Financial Development
(2010)
"As the world has witnessed the worst financial crisis and climate crisis of our age, during the period of 2007-2009, the issues surrounding the emergence and development of financial markets and carbon markets is becoming ...
Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy
(2016)
Migration; Child and School Psychology; Political Science
New Progress of Regulations and Judicial Practice of Intellectual Property
(2025)
This open access book brings together two types of cases at home and abroad. One is the latest influential cases in the field of intellectual property rights in the past three years, and the other is the classic intellectual ...
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Civil Engineering
(2023)
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Civil Engineering (ICCE2022). The work focuses on novel research findings on seismic technology of civil engineering ...
Understanding Acoustics
(2020)
This open access textbook, like Rayleigh’s classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than mathematical rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments and corrections ...
Energy and Sustainable Futures: Proceedings of the 3rd ICESF, 2022
(2023)
This is an open access book. This book contains research papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Futures (ICESF), which took place at Coventry University, UK, in 2022. The ICESF is ...
Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture
(2024)
This book studies how the complex relationship between music, the avant-garde, and counterculture challenges all sorts of boundaries. By exploring the avant-garde as a thoughtful inquiry into experimentation, creativity, ...
Das Internet der Dinge für Bildung nutzbar machen
(2021)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation wird auf Basis eines interdisziplinären Diskurses aus Bildungswissenschaften, Informatik und Architektur die Frage erörtert, ob und wie das „Internet der Dinge“ auf Lehr- und Lernprozesse ...
Digital Towns
(2022)
This open access book explores the digital transformation of small and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and development of digital towns. In addition to access to resources, competition from urban ...
Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018)
Sustainable agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa; Agricultural economics; Climate change economics; Agricultural productivity; Modern technology adoption by farmers; Agricultural sustainability; Bioenergy Crop Adoption; ...
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering
(2022)
This open access book is a collection of accepted papers from the 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering (ICCE2021). Researchers and engineers have discussed and presented around three major topics, i.e., ...
From Education Policy to Education Practice
(2023)
This open access book addresses the complex interrelations between education policy and education practice developed under new ways of governance. It illuminates the nexuses of the interrelated fields of education policy ...
Happiness—Concept, Measurement and Promotion
(2022)
This open access book defines happiness intuitively and explores several common conceptual mistakes with regard to happiness. It then moves on to address topical issues including, but not limited to, whether money can buy ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2023)
The open access proceedings set LNCS 13964, 13965, 13966 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2023, which was held in Paris, France, in July 2023. ...
Information Infrastructures within European Health Care
(2017)
e-prescription; information systems design; infrastructure; public; patient- oriented web platforms
Chapter 3 The Instrument of Death
(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 ...
Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States
(2018)
Socio-legal studies; Law; Criminology; Criminal justice; Action research; Scandinavia; Welfare state; Norway; Demark; Finland; Sweden; Iceland
Academic Integrity in Canada
(2022)
This open access book presents original contributions and thought leadership on academic integrity from a variety of Canadian scholars. It showcases how our understanding and support for academic integrity have progressed, ...
Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War
(2021)
This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body ...
Methoden des bestärkenden Lernens für die Produktionsablaufplanung
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird eine Methode zur Adaption, Integration und Anwendung von bestärkenden Lernverfahren (Reinforcement Learning) für die Produktionsablaufplanung beschrieben. Die Methode wird anhand von typischen ...
Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2016)
development; economics
Improving Inclusive Education through Universal Design for Learning
(2021)
This open access international scientific study provides an analysis of how the educational strategy of Universal Design for Learning can stimulate the process of inclusive education in different educational-cultural ...
Textbook on Scar Management
(2020)
This text book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Written by a group of international experts in the field and the result of over ten years of collaboration, it allows students and readers to gain to gain a detailed ...
The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe
(2018)
Third sector impact; Volunteering; Charity; European Commission; Political legitimacy; Third Sector in Europe; Third Sector as a Renewable Resource; Obstacles to Third Sector Organisation; Development in Europe
Recommender Systems: Legal and Ethical Issues
(2023)
This open access contributed volume examines the ethical and legal foundations of (future) policies on recommender systems and offers a transdisciplinary approach to tackle important issues related to their development, ...
Frontiers of Real Estate Science in Japan
(2021)
This open access book presents recent research and hot topics in the field of real estate science in Japan. It features carefully selected English translations of peer-reviewed papers and excellent articles published in ...
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, and ...
Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe
(2020)
This open access book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is at stake in the life of homosexuals in the field of family formation, parenting and ...
GeoHumanities and Health
(2020)
This volume brings together research in the GeoHumanities from various intellectual perspectives to illustrate the benefits of humanities-inspired approaches in understanding and confronting historically entrenched and ...
The German Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(2021)
This open access book examines a particular factor in the enduring international success of German companies. Beyond industrial specialization, peaceful labor relations, local financial markets and the “miracle of the ...