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Reading Breath in Literature
(2019)
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary ...
Arzneimittel-Kompass 2022
(2022)
Der Arzneimittel-Kompass 2022, der sowohl als Open-Access-Publikation als auch als gedrucktes Buch erscheint, widmet sich dem Schwerpunktthema „Qualität der Arzneimittelversorgung“. Dabei stehen die Qualitätssicherung und ...
From Colonialism to International Aid
(2020)
This open access volume addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until today, analysing the influence of colonial powers, superpowers during the Cold War and ...
Zivilgesellschaftliche Performanz von religiösen und säkularen Migrantenselbstorganisationen
(2022)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch trägt in theoretischer und empirischer Hinsicht zu einem besseren Verständnis der Eigenschaften und zivilgesellschaftlichen Verortung von religiösen und säkularen Migrantenselbstorganisationen ...
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 ...
Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century
(2024)
This open access book provides fascinating insights into the incredible changes that Vietnam underwent in the long twentieth century as it transformed from an early modern kingdom to a European colony, to a divided land ...
Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System
(2021)
This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system. We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this ...
Data Protection without Data Protectionism
(2023)
This open access book offers a new account on the legal conflict between privacy and trade in the digital sphere. It develops a fundamental rights theory with a new right to continuous protection of personal data and ...
5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM 2019)
(2023)
This open access volume contains the proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM2019) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 1 – 4, 2019. The symposium was hosted by ...
Public Procurement
(2023)
This upper-level open access textbook uses an interdisciplinary perspective to discuss the ‘what and why’ of public procurement, providing insight into the ‘how’ of contemporary procurement in the public sector. The authors ...
AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City: Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition
(2016)
Development Economics, Atmospheric Protection / Air Quality Control / Air Pollution, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Group Theory and Generalizations, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Internal Crowdsourcing in Companies
(2021)
This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, ...
Measuring Gender Equality
(2023)
In this open access book, the editors explicitly address the issue of measuring gender equality. The book introduces readers to basic concepts of gender equality, equity and equal opportunities, then discusses measuring ...
Power of Articulation
(2023)
This open access book is the first book that attempts to treat the notion of articulation as an important concept to be added to the lexicon of communication studies and social science. It constitutes the first comprehensive ...
The Entrepreneurial Society
(2019)
This open access book builds on the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). The authors outline how Europe can move towards more inclusive, ...
Bioeconomy: Shaping the Transition to a Sustainable, Biobased Economy
(2018)
Sustainability; Biomass Management; Resource Management; Agriculture; Macroeconomics
Multiscale Biomechanics and Tribology of Inorganic and Organic Systems
(2021)
This open access book gathers authoritative contributions concerning multiscale problems in biomechanics, geomechanics, materials science and tribology. It is written in memory of Sergey Grigorievich Psakhie to feature ...
Variable Pitot-Triebwerkseinlässe für kommerzielle Überschallflugzeuge
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, wie kommerzielle Überschallflugzeuge die Nachfrage nach einem schnellen, flexiblen und sicheren Transportmittel erfüllen könnten, wenn sie im Vergleich zu früheren Anwendungen eine ...
Subjektunabhängige, analytische Unternehmensethik
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet Florian Fuchs den historischen Diskurs um eine Integration ethischer Fragestellungen in die betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung. Vor dem Hintergrund einer bisher fehlenden originären ...
Covid-19 Containment Policies in Europe
(2024)
This open access book examines the diverse strategies implemented by national and local European governments to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Rather than focus on individual national case studies, it brings together leading ...
International Regulation of Gene Editing Technologies in Crops
(2024)
This open access book analyzes the regulation and governance of gene editing in the global agrifood system as applications of gene editing, regulations and the intellectual property landscape continue to evolve. The primary ...
Homonegativity and Religiously Motivated Political Extremism
(2025)
This open access book describes the world’s increasingly multicultural societies face the problem that more and more diverse lifestyles (LGBTQIA+ communities) are not universally accepted, and that today, in addition to ...
Internalisierbare Mengenbilder im individualisierten Mathematikunterricht
(2022)
In diesem Open.Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass eine verminderte Fähigkeit zur Simultanerfassung eine Ursache von Rechenschwäche sein kann. Mathematische Lernschwierigkeiten offenbaren sich häufig schon im frühen ...
Unleashing Society’s Innovative Capacity
(2024)
This is an open access book. Europe faces significant challenges in the coming decades: geopolitical, demographic, technological, increased competition, climate-related, and health issues due to an aging population, to ...
Figure
(2022)
This open access book shows how figures, figuring, and configuration are used to understand complex, contemporary problems. Figures are images, numbers, diagrams, data and datasets, turns-of-phrase, and representations. ...
Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2018-2021: Diagnostic Imaging - IDKD Book
(2018)
Gastrointestinal disease; PET/CT; Radiology; X-ray; IDKD; Davos
Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Steady-State Microbunching
(2024)
This open access book is devoted to the theoretical and experimental studies of a novel accelerator light source mechanism called steady-state microbunching (SSMB) which promises high-power, high-repetition rate, narrow-band ...
The Governance of Insurance Undertakings
(2022)
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the ...
Youthquake 2017
(2019)
Political science; Great Britain—Politics and government; Elections; Democracy; Comparative politics; Social groups; Family
Youthquake 2017
(2019)
Political science; Great Britain—Politics and government; Elections; Democracy; Comparative politics; Social groups; Family
Global Agendas and Education Reforms
(2024)
This open access book examines the effects of global education agendas such as digitalization, innovation and entrepreneurship, education in emergencies, globalization-internationalization, diversity, and sustainability ...
PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars
(2024)
Why are we willing to believe that technology can bring about war… but not peace? PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End War is the world's first book dealing with the use of technological innovation to support peace and ...
Tourismus in der Krise: COVID-19 als Auslöser für neue Geschäftsmodelle und Digitalisierung
(2023)
Inhaltsangabe: Dieses Open-Access Buch befasst sich mit der krisenbedingten Transformation touristischer KMU infolge von COVID-19. Fokussiert auf eine Flusskreuzfahrtdestination gelingt es, aus einer multidisziplinären ...
Arts and Health Promotion
(2021)
This open access book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the arts from theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and critical perspectives. This is ...
Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
(2015)
Civil Engineering; Natural Hazards; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Industry Sec; 2ECEES; Earthquake Engineering; Performance Based Design and Earthquake Engineering; Irregular Buildings and ...
AI, Data, and Digitalization
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the revised selected papers of the First International Symposium on AI, Data and Digitalization, SAIDD 2023, held in Sogndal, Norway, during May 9–10, 2023. The 13 full papers included in ...
Access to Online Resources: A Guide for the Modern Librarian
(2018)
access management; online resources; library technology; access protocols; identity management; authentication; authorisation; troubleshooting; SAML
Agiles Lernen im Unternehmen
(2021)
Dieses Open Access-Buch zeigt, dass Kompetenzentwicklung im Unternehmen so flexibel und innovativ sein kann, wie es die Arbeit oft schon ist. Der Ansatz „Agiles Lernen im Unternehmen“ wendet agile Methoden auf die betriebliche ...
Agiles Lernen im Unternehmen
(2021)
Dieses Open Access-Buch zeigt, dass Kompetenzentwicklung im Unternehmen so flexibel und innovativ sein kann, wie es die Arbeit oft schon ist. Der Ansatz „Agiles Lernen im Unternehmen“ wendet agile Methoden auf die betriebliche ...
Hochwasserminderung im ländlichen Raum
(2020)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation ist ein anwendungsorientiertes Lehr- und Handbuch zur Abflussminderung im ländlichen Raum. Meteorologische Extreme wie Dürren, Starkregen und Überschwemmungen häufen sich wegen des Klimawandels. ...
Unleashing Society’s Innovative Capacity
(2024)
This is an open access book. Europe faces significant challenges in the coming decades: geopolitical, demographic, technological, increased competition, climate-related, and health issues due to an aging population, to ...
Social Science Research in the Arab World and Beyond
(2023)
This book presents and discusses the logic and method of social science research adapted mainly for instruction at Arab universities and for research in Arab countries, but with applicability beyond the region. It illustrates ...
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery
(2018)
This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2022)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 13371 and 13372 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2022, which was held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The ...
Teachers of Mathematics Working and Learning in Collaborative Groups
(2024)
This open access book is the product of an international study which offers a state-of-the-art summary of mathematics teacher collaboration with respect to theory, research, practice, and policy. The authors – leading ...
Chapter 5 Mapping Punishment: Provincial Places to Dissect
(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 ...
Measuring Gender Equality
(2023)
In this open access book, the editors explicitly address the issue of measuring gender equality. The book introduces readers to basic concepts of gender equality, equity and equal opportunities, then discusses measuring ...
Internal Crowdsourcing in Companies
(2021)
This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, ...
Die Zukunft des MINT-Lernens – Band 2
(2023)
Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband stellt zukunftsweisende digitale Tools, Methoden und Konzepte für guten MINT-Unterricht vor: Er erläutert und diskutiert insbesondere Konzepte und Forschungsergebnisse zur lernförderlichen ...
Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life
(2023)
This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the ...
Power of Articulation
(2023)
This open access book is the first book that attempts to treat the notion of articulation as an important concept to be added to the lexicon of communication studies and social science. It constitutes the first comprehensive ...
The Economics of Water
(2021)
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it ...
The Economics of Water
(2021)
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it ...
European Variations as a Key to Cooperation
(2020)
This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to bring together thirty very different European states and their citizens, the EU will have ...
Re-engineering the Uptake of ICT in Schools
(2015)
Information Systems and Communication Service; Education, general
Chapter Introduction
(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 ...
Chapter Epilogue
(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 ...
Tourismus in der Krise: COVID-19 als Auslöser für neue Geschäftsmodelle und Digitalisierung
(2023)
Inhaltsangabe: Dieses Open-Access Buch befasst sich mit der krisenbedingten Transformation touristischer KMU infolge von COVID-19. Fokussiert auf eine Flusskreuzfahrtdestination gelingt es, aus einer multidisziplinären ...
Arbeitsatmosphären-Report 2024
(2024)
Dieses Open Access Essential bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Bedeutung der Arbeitsatmosphäre und ihre Wirkzusammenhänge. Die in dem Buch zusammengefasste repräsentative Studie zeigt, dass kaum ein Faktor so ...
New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation
(2017)
demographic techniques; quantitative research methods; segregation; bias; distribution
Arbeitsatmosphären-Report 2024
(2024)
Dieses Open Access Essential bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Bedeutung der Arbeitsatmosphäre und ihre Wirkzusammenhänge. Die in dem Buch zusammengefasste repräsentative Studie zeigt, dass kaum ein Faktor so ...
Subjektunabhängige, analytische Unternehmensethik
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet Florian Fuchs den historischen Diskurs um eine Integration ethischer Fragestellungen in die betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung. Vor dem Hintergrund einer bisher fehlenden originären ...
AI, Data, and Digitalization
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the revised selected papers of the First International Symposium on AI, Data and Digitalization, SAIDD 2023, held in Sogndal, Norway, during May 9–10, 2023. The 13 full papers included in ...
Multiscale Biomechanics and Tribology of Inorganic and Organic Systems
(2021)
This open access book gathers authoritative contributions concerning multiscale problems in biomechanics, geomechanics, materials science and tribology. It is written in memory of Sergey Grigorievich Psakhie to feature ...
Access to Online Resources: A Guide for the Modern Librarian
(2018)
access management; online resources; library technology; access protocols; identity management; authentication; authorisation; troubleshooting; SAML
Built on Value
(2019)
Business; Management science; Management; Business enterprises—Finance; Manpower policy
The Cloud-to-Thing Continuum
(2020)
The Internet of Things offers massive societal and economic opportunities while at the same time significant challenges, not least the delivery and management of the technical infrastructure underpinning it, the deluge of ...
New Metropolitan Perspectives
(2023)
This open access book conveys attention to the theme of transition towards resilience and sustainability and its evolutionary perspective that emphasizes the complexity and uncertainty that governments and society are ...
Hochwasserminderung im ländlichen Raum
(2020)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation ist ein anwendungsorientiertes Lehr- und Handbuch zur Abflussminderung im ländlichen Raum. Meteorologische Extreme wie Dürren, Starkregen und Überschwemmungen häufen sich wegen des Klimawandels. ...
Entrepreneurial Theorizing
(2023)
This open access book investigates an entrepreneurial approach to building new theories. It provides a rich understanding of how specific tools facilitate aspects of the theorizing process and offers a clearer big picture ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2022)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 13371 and 13372 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2022, which was held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The ...
Complicities
(2022)
This Open Access book offers a model of the human subject as complicit in the systems that structure human society and the human psyche which draws together clinical research with theory from both psychology and the ...
Chapter Acknowledgements
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Chapter Perspectives in Glycomics and Lectin Engineering
(2014)
This chapter would like to provide a short survey of the most promising concepts applied recently in analysis of glycoproteins based on lectins. The first part describes the most exciting analytical approaches used in the ...
Critical Issues in Head and Neck Oncology
(2023)
This is an open access book. With a wealth of exciting data emerging in this rapidly evolving field this book will review the state-of-the-art knowledge with emphasis on multidisciplinary decision and management of head ...
Critical Issues in Head and Neck Oncology
(2023)
This is an open access book. With a wealth of exciting data emerging in this rapidly evolving field this book will review the state-of-the-art knowledge with emphasis on multidisciplinary decision and management of head ...
Foltersituationen und Wissensflüsse
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht Max Breger Fragen zu Folter aus Perspektive der interaktionistischen Soziologie nach. Folter ist eine extreme Form zwischenmenschlichen Handelns, die als Menschenrechtsverletzung zwar ...
Arts and Health Promotion
(2021)
This open access book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the arts from theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and critical perspectives. This is ...
Literatur und Recht: Materialität
(2023)
Literatur hat nicht selten Recht als ihren Gegenstand, und Recht regelt Literatur auf vielfältige Weise. Diese gegenseitige Vergegenständlichung, zusammengefasst unter dem Begriff der „Materialität“, geschieht in verschiedenen ...
Literatur und Recht: Materialität
(2023)
Literatur hat nicht selten Recht als ihren Gegenstand, und Recht regelt Literatur auf vielfältige Weise. Diese gegenseitige Vergegenständlichung, zusammengefasst unter dem Begriff der „Materialität“, geschieht in verschiedenen ...