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IMMUNO-model in Cancer
(2026)
This open access volume describes the computational and experimental models that help researchers understand the responses of the immune system in cancer and test experimental immune-oncology approaches. The chapters in ...
Bioethics Across the Globe
(2020)
This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences ...
Gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse in Deutschland?
(2025)
Gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse zu gewährleisten, ist in Deutschland ein rechtlich verankertes Ziel. Dieses Open-Access-Buch analysiert, welche Aspekte Menschen wichtig sind, wenn es um ein gutes Leben geht, mit welchen ...
Aquaponics Food Production Systems
(2019)
This open access book, written by world experts in aquaponics and related technologies, provides the authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key aquaculture and hydroponic and other integrated systems, socio-economic ...
Inclusive Welfare
(2025)
This open access book serves to spur further development of Islamic economic and financial concepts and practices, particularly in terms of Islamic social-public finance and Islamic monetary policy support. The book has a ...
Climate Change in Regional Perspective
(2024)
This Open Access book addresses climate change in Europe and Latin America from a comparative regionalism studies (CRS) perspective. Written by an international team of scholars and experts, chapters critically analyze ...
Water and Earthquakes
(2021)
This open access book explores the interactions between water and earthquakes, including recent concerns about induced seismicity. It further highlights that a better understanding of the response of the water system to ...
Transformative Governance for the Future
(2024)
This open access book helps actors who are committed to change unlock true innovative potential for the common good in their organizations. Innovation and change processes are not linear. Hence, this book presents a novel ...
Die Bedeutung von Flüchtling, Geflüchtete_r und Migrant_in
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch besteht aus einer korpusbasierten diskurssemantischen Analyse der differenzkonstruierenden und zum Teil Lebensrollen verkörpernden Ausdrücke Flüchtling, Geflüchtete_r und Migrant_in. Es setzt sich ...
Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation
(2023)
This Open Access book compiles the findings of the Scientific Group of the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 and its research partners. The Scientific Group was an independent group of 28 food systems scientists from ...
Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks
(2024)
This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks. Manually analyzing text and images in United States textbooks from the ...
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies
(2021)
This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, ...
China: Surpassing the “Middle Income Trap”
(2021)
This open access book explores one of the most fiercely debated issues in China: if and how China will surpass the middle income trap that has plagued many developing countries for years. This book gives readers a clear ...
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
(2021)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2021, which took place during March 27–April 1, 2021, and was held as part of ...
New Business Models for the Reuse of Secondary Resources from WEEEs
(2021)
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the FENIX project, funded by the EU community under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to design a new product service paradigm able to promote innovative ...
Von Beteiligung zur Koproduktion
(2022)
Der Open-Access-Band stellt die Bedingungen, Verfahrensweisen und Organisationsformen einer gemeinschaftlichen Entwicklung von Gemeinden, Städten und Regionen in den Mittelpunkt einer wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung. ...
The Early Years
(2015)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license. The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government intervention in what is instinctively ...
Strand Corrosion in Prestressed Concrete Structures
(2023)
This is an open access book. This book focuses on the durability problems of existing prestressed concrete (PC) structures caused by strand corrosion, clarifies the mechanical behavior of corroded prestressing strands, ...
Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: The Human-Data-Technology Nexus
(2023)
This is an open access book. It gathers the first volume of the proceedings of the 31st edition of the International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM 2022, held on June 19 – 23, 2022, ...
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
(2019)
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech ...
Values for a Post-Pandemic Future
(2022)
This open access book shows how value sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical ...
Transition and Opportunity
(2022)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Multinational corporations (MNCs) have long played a crucial role in the Chinese economy. This role is one that is set to continue in the post-pandemic era as China ...
Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation
(2019)
In the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by governments and public institutions. Experts ...
Sinnbilder des Alltagsverstandes
(2023)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch folgt der übergreifenden Fragestellung, ob ein Kritiklernen im institutionell gebundenen politischen Unterricht möglich ist. Diese Fragestellung wird nicht aus einer institutionen- und ...
Task Design In Mathematics Education
(2015)
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High-Quality Outdoor Learning
(2022)
This open access book reviews evidence and case studies on the effects of outdoor learning on teachers and learners. It shows how real-world learning outside the classroom contributes to unlocking the full potential of ...
Freshwater Microplastics
(2018)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume focuses on microscopic plastic debris, also referred to as microplastics, which have been detected in aquatic environments around the globe and have accordingly ...
European Traditions in Didactics of Mathematics
(2019)
This open access book discusses several didactic traditions in mathematics education in countries across Europe, including France, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, the Czech and Slovakian Republics, and the Scandinavian ...
Sublinear Computation Paradigm
(2022)
This open access book gives an overview of cutting-edge work on a new paradigm called the “sublinear computation paradigm,” which was proposed in the large multiyear academic research project “Foundations of Innovative ...
Diversity in Computer Science
(2023)
This is an open access book that covers the complete set of experiences and results of the FemTech.dk research which we have had conducted between 2016-2021 – from initiate idea to societal communication. Diversity in ...
Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe
(2019)
This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on ...
Russia-China Relations
(2022)
This open access book examines Russia-China relations across a variety of civilian and military areas of cooperation. Leading experts in the field present empirical case studies covering a wide range of strategic cooperation ...
First Working Conference on Artificial Intelligence Development for a Resilient and Sustainable Tomorrow
(2024)
Künstliche Intelligenz ist ein Treiber der digitalen Transformation von Unternehmen, welche die gesamte Organisation, einschließlich ihrer Strukturen, Prozesse und Mitarbeitender berührt. Die AI Tomorrow Konferenz möchte ...
Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation
(2020)
This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ‘robot reserve army’ has profound effects ...
Indian Agriculture Towards 2030
(2022)
This open access book brings together varying perspectives for transformational change needed in India’s agriculture and allied sectors. Stressing the need of thinking for a post-Green Revolution future, the book promotes ...
Learning Cultural Literacy through Creative Practices in Schools
(2022)
This open access book discusses how cultural literacy can be taught and learned through creative practices. It approaches cultural literacy as a dialogic social process based on learning and gaining knowledge through ...
Ressourceneffizienz und Nachhaltigkeit
(2022)
Klimaschutz und Ressourceneffizienz gehen häufig Hand in Hand. Mit Spiel und Spaß ressourceneffizientes Handeln fördern – das ist die Devise der Planspiele rund um das Thema Energie- und Materialeffizienz, die in diesem ...
Equitable Research Partnerships
(2019)
This open access book offers insights into the development of the ground-breaking Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings (GCC) and the San Code of Research Ethics. Using a new, intuitive moral framework ...
Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies
(2021)
This open access textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It provides a step-by-step approach for its application in urban planning and design. This ...
Modernising European Legal Education (MELE)
(2023)
This open access book presents innovative strategies to address cross-cutting topics and foster transversal competences. The modernization of European legal education presents a compelling challenge that calls for enhanced ...
Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning
(2022)
This book is about making weather warnings more effective in saving lives, property, infrastructure and livelihoods, but the underlying theme of the book is partnership. The book represents the warning process as a pathway ...
Enacting Citizenship
(2025)
This open access book presents new, empirically-based ethnographic and sociological studies of Kurdish women’s activism and its implications for their rights and the dynamics of citizenship across different social, cultural, ...
Collective Actions in Europe
(2019)
This open access book offers an analytical presentation of how Europe has created its own version of collective actions. In the last three decades, Europe has seen a remarkable proliferation of collective action legislation, ...
Practices, Perceptions and Prospects for Climate Change Education in Africa
(2025)
This open access book presents peer-reviewed chapters that introduce the subject of climate change within formal and informal sectors of education in Africa, as key to building the capacity of current and future generations ...
Bridging Divides Through Gender-Just Citizenship
(2025)
This open access book explores how to build a gender-just peace in which women’s political citizenship is foregrounded through a case study of Northern Ireland. It addresses the role that civil society can play in peacebuilding ...
Explainable Artificial Intelligence
(2026)
This open access five-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence, xAI 2025, held in Istanbul, Turkey, during July 2025. The 96 revised full papers ...
Theoretical Foundations of Synchrotron and Storage Ring RF Systems
(2015)
This is an open access book. This course-tested text is an ideal starting point for engineers and physicists entering the field of particle accelerators. The fundamentals are comprehensively introduced, derivations of ...
Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 3)
(2020)
This third and last open access volume in the series takes the perspective of non-EU countries on immigrant social protection. By focusing on 12 of the largest sending countries to the EU, the book tackles the issue of the ...
Inquiry-Based Learning - Undergraduate Research
(2019)
This open access book provides a systematic overview of experiences with Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) and undergraduate research (UR) in German universities, covering both research universities (Universitäten) and universities ...
Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene
(2021)
This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex ...
Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2)
(2020)
This second open access book in a series of three volumes examines the repertoire of policies and programmes led by EU Member States to engage with their nationals residing abroad. Focusing on sending states’ engagement ...
Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity
(2022)
This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses ...
Motivationale Aspekte mathematischer Lernprozesse
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden professionelle Kompetenzen von angehenden Mathematiklehrkräften untersucht, die sie zur Förderung des Mathematiklernens und zur Motivationsförderung von Schüler*innen mit Lernschwierigkeiten ...
Harvest Loss in China
(2025)
This open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing country, China’s food security is closely related to the world’s food security. ...
Rhetoriken zwischen Recht und Literatur
(2023)
Die Beiträge dieses Open-Access-Buchs diskutieren das Verständnis von Rhetorik, mit dem heute in Literatur- und Rechtswissenschaft gearbeitet wird. Sie beleuchten, inwiefern sich die westliche Tradition von rhetorischen ...
Marken bei der strategischen Auswahl von Logistikdienstleistern
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch widmet sich der kundenbezogenen Markenwirkung bei der strategischen Auswahl von Logistikdienstleistern und bestrebt aufzuzeigen, dass und wann Marken bei der strategischen Auswahlentscheidung ...
The Once-Only Principle
(2021)
This open access State-of-the-Art Survey describes and documents the developments and results of the Once-Only Principle Project (TOOP). The Once-Only Principle (OOP) is part of the seven underlying principles of the ...
Enhancing Future Skills and Entrepreneurship
(2020)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 3rd Indo-German Conference on Sustainability in Engineering held at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, on September 16–17, 2019. Intended to ...
Schützende Bewältigung
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird eine qualitative Studie zum Thema Diskriminierungserfahrungen von Fachkräften der Sozialen Arbeit vorgestellt. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, eine gegenstandsverankerte Theorie abzubilden, die ...
Integrating Climate Risks in Bank Risk Management and Capital Requirements
(2025)
Diese Open-Access-Studie zeigt, wie europäische Banken derzeit Klimarisiken in ihr Risikomanagement integrieren. Als Rahmen für unsere Analyse wählen wir dabei den Baseler-Regulierungsansatz. Unsere Ergebnisse stellen ...
Nachhaltige Kunststoffverpackungen aus Post Consumer-Rezyklaten
(2025)
Die im Rahmen von EU-Regularien geforderten Rezyklatanteile in Verpackungen stellen Kunststoffverarbeiter aktuell vor Herausforderungen, da sich die Werkstoffeigenschaften von Rezyklaten oftmals von Neuware unterscheiden. ...
Engineering Haptic Devices
(2023)
This is an open access book. In this third edition of Engineering Haptic Devices the software part was rewritten from scratch and now includes even more details on tactile and texture interaction modalities. The kinematics ...
4th International Conference "Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience" & Midterm Conference of CircularB “Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment”
(2024)
This open access book gathers the proceedings of the 4th International Conference “Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience” (CESARE) & Midterm Conference of CircularB “Implementation of Circular Economy ...
EssensWert - Werte als multidisziplinärer Sammelbegriff im Kontext von Ernährung
(2024)
In den aktuellen Diskursen um die Transformation des Ernährungssystems sind Werte omnipräsent. Jedoch werden sie dabei nicht immer ausdrücklich kenntlich gemacht. Häufig kommt es zu Be- und Abwertungen von Handlungen und ...
Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World
(2020)
This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to ...
Today's TBB
(2025)
This open-access book serves as a comprehensive guide for C++ programmers looking to master Threading Building Blocks (TBB). Authored by two experts in TBB and parallel programming, the book distills decades of collective ...
The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016
(2017)
This open access book presents the most current research results and knowledge from five multidisciplinary themes: Vulnerability of Arctic Environments, Vulnerability of Arctic Societies, Local and Traditional Knowledge, ...
Unifying Sustainability Information for Societal Automation
(2025)
This open access book offers a structured approach that aligns indicators of social value and provides a stable foundation amidst the dynamic and ever-changing social complexities. From detailed system scales of participation ...
Improving a Country’s Education
(2021)
This open access book compares and contrasts the results of international student assessments in ten countries. The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) released the results of its 2018 assessment ...
Glocal Governance
(2022)
This open access book develops a conceptual framework for glocal governance as a multi-stakeholder local governance approach based on global human rights norms and democratic principles. It discusses glocal governance as ...
How Data Quality Affects our Understanding of the Earnings Distribution
(2022)
This open access book demonstrates how data quality issues affect all surveys and proposes methods that can be utilised to deal with the observable components of survey error in a statistically sound manner. This book ...
An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 1
(2020)
This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China. In this summary volume and the two accompanying volumes that follow, individuals ...
Wirtschaft neu lehren
(2021)
Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband vereint strukturierte Erfahrungsberichte und Reflexionen von Hochschullehrenden und Studierenden in der pluralen, sozioökonomischen Hochschulbildung. Neben der konkreten Inspiration, die diese ...
Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
(2022)
This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). ...
Sprachliche Variationen von mathematischen Textaufgaben
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass ein Instrument zur sprachlichen adaptiven Anpassung benötigt wird, um auf die sprachlichen Lernvoraussetzungen bei Textaufgaben von Lernenden im Mathematikunterricht reagieren ...
Building a Cashless Society
(2019)
This open access book tells the story of how Sweden is becoming a virtually cashless society. Its goal is to improve readers’ understanding of what is driving this transition, and of the factors that are fostering and ...
Financial Crisis Management and Democracy
(2021)
This open access book discusses financial crisis management and policy in Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on equity and democracy. Based on a three-year research project by the Jean Monnet Network, this ...
Das ökonomische Laboratop
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch ist die erste soziologische Ethnographie, die sich der Forschungspraxis wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Laborexperimente widmet. Wissenschaftliche Labore sind Orte der Außeralltäglichkeit, die zum ...
Living with Nature, Cherishing Language
(2024)
This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of ...
Buddhism and Psychiatry
(2025)
This Open Access book explores the emergence of mindfulness from Buddhist tradition and its incorporation into contemporary mental health and social care. Mindfulness is a powerful technique, but it needs to be applied ...