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Area-Based Management of Shipping
(2024)
This open access book fills a gap in the literature on shipping in a number of cross-cutting fields (including marine transportation law and policy, law of the sea, Indigenous rights, marine environmental management, and ...
Kosten- und Erlössituation der extrakorporalen Nierenersatztherapie
(2023)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch adressiert die Frage nach einer leistungsgerechten Vergütung der Nierenersatztherapie unter Berücksichtigung von Prozesszeiten sowie Material- und Medikamentenkosten. Die Verfahren der ...
Business Model Innovation
(2024)
In the contemporary business landscape, the imperative for innovative approaches to business model innovation (BMI) is more pronounced than ever, especially given the pressing grand challenges, technological disruptions, ...
The Future of Election Administration
(2019)
As the American election administration landscape changes as a result of major court cases, national and state legislation, changes in professionalism, and the evolution of equipment and security, so must the work of ...
Influences of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Studies
(2021)
This open access book identifies the multiple ways that IEA’s studies of civic and citizenship education have contributed to national and international educational discourse, research, policymaking, and practice. The IEA ...
Business Model Innovation
(2024)
In the contemporary business landscape, the imperative for innovative approaches to business model innovation (BMI) is more pronounced than ever, especially given the pressing grand challenges, technological disruptions, ...
Influences of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Studies
(2021)
This open access book identifies the multiple ways that IEA’s studies of civic and citizenship education have contributed to national and international educational discourse, research, policymaking, and practice. The IEA ...
The Future of Election Administration
(2019)
As the American election administration landscape changes as a result of major court cases, national and state legislation, changes in professionalism, and the evolution of equipment and security, so must the work of ...
Cultural-historical Digital Methodology in Early Childhood Settings
(2024)
This open access book addresses methodological issues related to researching young children’s learning and development, teacher education, and professional development. It pays special attention to research conducted in ...
The Square Kilometre Array
(2024)
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a grand vision project to build the most sensitive radio telescope in the world. This open access book tells the story of its development – a story of transformational science, innovative ...
Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems
(2021)
This open access proceedings presents new approaches to Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems, experiences and visions. It contains selected papers from the fifth international Conference ML4CPS – Machine Learning ...
Debating European Citizenship
(2019)
This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is derived from Member State nationality? Who should get it? What ...
The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus
(2019)
This Open Access book analyses the interplay between governing, evaluation and knowledge with an empirical focus on Swedish higher education. It investigates the origins, logics, and mechanisms of evaluation and quality ...
Excluding Diversity Through Intersectional Borderings
(2024)
This open access book critically examines how discourses and policies target and exclude migrants and their families in Europe and North America along racial, gender and sexuality lines, and how these exclusions are ...
Quantization on Nilpotent Lie Groups
(2016)
Topological Groups, Lie Groups; Abstract Harmonic Analysis; Functional Analysis; Mathematical Physics
Chapter Broadband NIRS Cerebral Evaluation of the Hemodynamic and Oxidative State of Cytochrome-c-Oxidase Responses to +Gz Acceleration in Healthy Volunteers
(2020)
We used a miniature broadband NIRS system to monitor concentration changes in brain oxygenation (oxy- and deoxy- haemoglobin [HbO2], [HHb]) and oxidised cytochrome-c-oxidase ([oxCCO]) during a high +Gz acceleration, induced ...
One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences
(2017)
Fritz Haber; Military-Industrial Complex; 1925 Geneva Protocol; Ethics of Chemical Warfare; Dual-use Problem; Anti-plant Chemical Warfare; Chemical Weapons During World War I; Chemical Weapons During World War II; ...
Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe
(2020)
This open access book brings together a unique set of comparative data from Western and Central Europe on how contemporary families live, and discusses the similarities and differences in family lifestyles in this region. ...
Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development
(2016)
Agriculture; Agricultural Economics; Geography, general; Innovation/Technology Management
Water Resource Systems Planning and Management: An Introduction to Methods, Models, and Applications
(2017)
hydrology; civil engineering; waste water technology; aquatic pollution; climate change; environmental engineering
Digitalization of Medicine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(2024)
This open access book provides a framework to describe why digitalization of the medical provision services is needed and which level of digitalization is possible in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). These countries ...
Krankenhaus-Report 2019
(2019)
Der Krankenhaus-Report erscheint jährlich als Open Access-Buch und als gedrucktes Buch. Er nimmt relevante, vorwiegend ordnungspolitische Themen im Kontext Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit der Krankenhausversorgung in den ...
Financial, Staffing and Societal Sustainability of Dutch Health Care
(2024)
This open access book analyzes how sound choices can be made in Dutch health care policies, and shows why they are necessary, urgent, and even inevitable. Analyzing the current functioning and funding of the Dutch health ...
Die datafizierte Schule
(2023)
Das Open-Access-Buch versteht sich als Einladung über diverse Zukünfte datafizierter Schule nachzudenken. An der Schnittstelle von Bildungsforschung, Erziehungswissenschaft, Soziologie, Informatik und Kommunikationswissenschaft ...
Chapter 3 Men, Alcohol and Coping
(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 ...
Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance
(2023)
This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the ...
Corporate Diplomacy: How Multinational Corporations Gain Organizational Legitimacy
(2022)
Over recent years, there has been rising interest in the societal and political roles of multinational corporations (MNCs), increasingly engaging in issues previously reserved for govern-mental actors. Scholars have started ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2024, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during June 04-07, 2024. XP is the premier agile ...
Magnetic Microhydrodynamics
(2024)
This open access book presents the most recent advances in the novel, interdisciplinary field of magnetic microhydrodynamics. This emerging area of advanced research combines magnetism with the knowledge of bioinspired ...
Regulatory Pathways for Smart Grid Development in China
(2015)
Energy Policy, Economics and Management; Energy Technology; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
16th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control
(2024)
This open access book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of vehicle systems dynamics and control, as presented by leading international researchers at the 16th JSAE International ...
Wohnungsnot, Geschlecht und Gesundheit
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird in einem ersten Schritt theoretisch erarbeitet, weshalb Stigmatisierung ein inhärenter Bestandteil von Wohnungsnot ist, welche Konsequenzen diese konkret für die Teilhabe von Menschen in ...
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods
(2021)
This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through ...
Generalisiertes Vertrauen in automatisierten Journalismus
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht es um die Frage, wie Leser*innen in Deutschland automatisiert generierte Nachrichten wahrnehmen und welche Bedeutung sie den Verfahren im Journalismus zuschreiben. Im Mittelpunkt steht die ...
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Civil Engineering
(2024)
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Civil Engineering (ICCE2023). The work focuses on novel research findings on seismic technology of civil engineering ...
International Conference on Urban Climate, Sustainability and Urban Design
(2025)
This open access book is a proceeding of the International Conference on Urban Climate, Sustainability, and Urban Design in Mianyang (MYUCSUD). This work focuses on the latest thoughts, ideas, models, methods, solutions, ...
Chapter 3 Candida
(2013)
In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection ...
The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology
(2023)
In this open access book, ecological economics and political ecology traditions converge into a single academic school. The book constitutes a common ground where multiple and critical voices are expressed, covering a broad ...
Differential Equations for Studies in Computational Electrophysiology
(2023)
This open access text aims at giving you the simplest possible introduction to differential equations that are used in models of electrophysiology. It covers models at several spatial and temporal scales with associated ...
Marine Anthropogenic Litter
(2015)
Freshwater & Marine Ecology
Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization
(2024)
This open access volume explores the impact of globalization on the contemporary study of deep-time art. The volume explores how early rock art research’s Eurocentric biases have shifted with broadened global horizons to ...
Electroweak Physics at LEP and LHC
(2010)
This open access book… During more than 10 years, from 1989 until 2000, the LEP accelerator and the four LEP experiments, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, have taken data for a large amount of measurements at the frontier of ...
Rice Improvement
(2021)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. By 2050, human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. The demand for increased food production needs to be met from ever reducing resources of land, water and other ...
Chapter 4 Self-Harm as Violence
(2015)
This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume contributes to ...
BUiD Doctoral Research Conference 2022
(2023)
This open access book presents selected contributions on a wide range of scientific and technological areas originating from the BUiD Doctoral Research Conference (BDRC 2022). It discusses the following topics: project ...
Chapter Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Measured Cerebral Blood Flow from Spontaneous Oxygenation Changes in Neonatal Brain Injury
(2020)
Neonates with hypoxic-ischaemic (HI) brain injury were monitored
using a broadband near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) system in the neonatal intensive
care unit. The aim of this work is to use the NIRS cerebral oxygenation ...
Klimawandel in Deutschland
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die Auswirkungen von Klimaveränderungen auf Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Deutschland. Es liefert eine fundierte, fachübergreifende Grundlage für Entscheidungen im Zusammenhang mit dem ...
Professions and Proficiency
(2023)
This open access book takes an original view on the social production of knowledge in and across space. It explores how people build and transfer proficiency within and beyond the bounds of social groups. Social groups, ...
Vector Semantics
(2023)
This open access book introduces Vector semantics, which links the formal theory of word vectors to the cognitive theory of linguistics. The computational linguists and deep learning researchers who developed word vectors ...
Digitale Medien kompetent in Kitas einsetzen
(2025)
Digitale Medien sind fester Bestandteil der Lebenswelt von Kindern und der frühpädagogischen Arbeit. Das frühe Erlernen von Medienkompetenzen, die Professionalisierung pädagogischer Fachkräfte und qualitativ hochwertige ...
History of Mathematics Teaching and Learning
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching; Textbook
Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway, and Sweden
(2018)
Pentecostal; Renewal; Televangelism; Scandanavia; Nordic
Holding down the Fort
(2023)
This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and understandings of policing – the monolithic ideas common to most, if not all, Western law enforcement agencies – and contextual, situative, ...
Energy Efficient Servers
(2015)
Computer science
Migration Diversity and Social Cohesion
(2023)
This open access book shows policymakers which initiatives work when responding to the increasing diversity in cities, towns and neighborhood's. In recent times, policymakers have grappled with ways of responding to this ...
Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Dynamics of the Brain
(2016)
Neurosciences, Neurology, Psychiatry
Russia's Turn to the East
(2018)
Development studies; Russia; Far East; International affairs; Energy; Shanghai cooperation organization; Economic development; Security policy; Multilateral organizations; Diplomacy; Regionalism; Russian–European ...
Chapter 1 What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis and Cause
(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 Challenge of Chance
(2016)
Human Genetics; Philosophy of Science; Probability Theory
Transdisciplinarity in Financial Communication
(2023)
This open access book identifies and analyses problems of text production in finance from three complementary perspectives: problem identification, problem analysis, and problem solution. By doing so, it explains why solving ...