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International Comparative Studies in Mathematics: Lessons for Improving Students’ Learning
(2016)
Mathematics Education; International and Comparative Education; Learning and Instruction
The Potato Crop
(2020)
Life sciences; Agriculture; Nutrition ; Plant breeding; Food—Biotechnology; Agricultural economics
Innovations in Derivatives Markets: Fixed Income Modeling, Valuation Adjustments, Risk Management, and Regulation
(2016)
Quantitative Finance; Banking; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance; Mathematical Modelling and Industrial Mathematics; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Financial Engineering
Factories of the Future
(2019)
Engineering; Industrial engineering; Production engineering
Computer Aided Verification
(2024)
This open access 3-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, CAV 2024, which took place in Montreal, Canada, during July 24–27, 2024. The primary focus of ...
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials
(2024)
This open access comprehensive methodological book offers a much-needed answer to the lack of resources and methodological guidance in learning analytics, which has been a problem ever since the field started. The book ...
Chapter Conclusion
(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 ...
Teaching and Learning Mathematical Modelling: Approaches and Developments from German Speaking Countries
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Teaching; Learning and Instruction
Reconsidering Constitutional Formation II Decisive Constitutional Normativity: From Old Liberties to New Precedence
(2018)
Precedence of Constitution; Normativity and Constitution; Constitutional History of Europe; Constitutionality of Revolutions; American Constitutional History; Constitutional Normativity; Fundamental Laws; Old Liberties ...
Governance grenzüberschreitender Professionalisierung und gesellschaftlicher Integration
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird den Fragen nachgegangen, wie der Akteur Kommunales Bildungsmanagement kollektive Handlungsfähigkeit herstellt und welchen Beitrag diese Koordinationsarbeit zur gesellschaftlichen Integration ...
Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa
(2024)
This open access book breaks new ground by examining the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three Francophone West African countries: Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. It examines the representation and ...
The Evolution of Research on Teaching Mathematics
(2023)
This open access book investigates current issues related to the evolution of research on teaching mathematics and examines up to thirty years of presage-process-product research (PPPR) in mathematics with respect to ...
Protecting the Rights of People with Autism in the Fields of Education and Employment: International, European and National Perspectives
(2015)
European Law; Human Rights; International and Comparative Education; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; Law and Psychology
Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in East Asia
(2022)
This is an open access book. The subject of this book is to provide down-to-earth information on what kind of actions are being taken by the Government, Local community, Businesses, Researchers, NGOs on the energy transition ...
Environmental Valuation with Discrete Choice Experiments
(2021)
This open access book offers up-to-date advice and practical guidance on how to undertake a discrete choice experiment as a tool for environmental valuation. It discusses crucial issues in designing, implementing and ...
Big Earth Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals (2022) - China
(2024)
This open access book showcases the innovative practices of Big Earth Data methods through a collection of comprehensive case studies from China to monitor and evaluate indicators for seven SDGs, i.e., zero hunger (SDG 2), ...
The Handbook of Salutogenesis
(2017)
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Medical Sociology; Health Psychology
Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope
(2020)
This open access volume makes an important contribution to the ongoing research on hope theory by combining insights from both its long history and its increasing multi-disciplinarity. In the first part, it recognizes the ...
Energy Management of Integrated Energy System in Large Ports
(2023)
This open access book provides a detailed exploration of energy management in seaport integrated energy systems, highlighting their potential to replace conventional fuel-based energy usage and promote sustainable development ...
Robust Argumentation Machines
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Robust Argumentation Machines, RATIO 2024, which took place in Bielefeld, Germany, during June 5-7, 2024. The 20 full papers and 1 ...
Inflation in Deutschland und dem Euroraum – ein Überblick
(2023)
Der vorliegende Open-Access-Band analysiert die relevanten ökonomischen Zusammenhänge der Inflation in Bezug auf die Entstehung und die Folgen von nachhaltigen Steigerungen des Preisniveaus einer Volkswirtschaft. Nach einer ...
Integrität im Managementalltag
(2023)
Geschenke und Gefälligkeiten, Entlassungen, Mobbing, Billiglohnproduktion oder Einsatz von Cookies oder Persönlichkeitsprofilen – Das Spektrum an möglichen Spannungsfeldern im Unternehmensalltag ist groß. Mit der Digitalisierung ...
Migration in Southeast Asia
(2023)
This open access IMISCOE Regional Reader explores the issues faced by migrant groups in Southeast Asia and the challenges of getting of their human rights recognized. It analyses the different responses, or lack thereof, ...
Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion
(2022)
This open access book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous conceptualization of seed governance often characterized as traditional vs modern, ...
Reindeer Husbandry
(2023)
This open access book focuses on climate change, Indigenous reindeer husbandry, and the underlying concept of connecting the traditional knowledge of Indigenous reindeer herders in the Arctic with the latest research ...
Transactions on Modularity and Composition I
(2016)
The LNCS Transactions on Modularity and Composition are devoted to all aspects of software modularity and composition methods, tools, and techniques, covering requirement analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and ...
Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations
(2021)
This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological ...
Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon
(2022)
This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history ...
Your Post has been Removed
(2020)
This open access monograph argues established democratic norms for freedom of expression should be implemented on the internet. Moderating policies of tech companies as Facebook, Twitter and Google have resulted in posts ...
2050 China
(2021)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores ...
Education and Skills for Inclusive Growth, Green Jobs and the Greening of Economies in Asia: Case Study Summaries of India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam
(2018)
Education for Sustainable Development; Green Growth; Green Jobs; Inclusive Growth; Equity in the Promotion of Economic Growth; Environmental Education; Green Economies
Chapter 5 ‘Rapt Up with Joy’:
(2016)
This chapter takes advantage of recent insights from the history of
emotions to offer a fresh perspective on children’s emotional responses to
death. Drawing on a range of printed and archival sources, it argues ...
Efficient Screening Techniques to Identify Mutants with TR4 Resistance in Banana
(2022)
Bananas are a staple food for over 500 million people and are also an important cash crop. Fusarium wilt, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, is one of the most destructive diseases of banana globally. ...
Locating Legal Certainty in Patent Licensing
(2023)
This open access book presents global perspectives and developments within the information and communication technology (ICT) sector, and discusses the bearing they have on policy initiatives that are relevant to the larger ...
Automatic Imitation
(2025)
People spontaneously imitate a wide range of different behaviors. The interest in this phenomenon dates back to at least the 18th century when Adam Smith (1759) argued that imitation can be seen as a primitive form of ...
Finding the Limits of the Limes
(2019)
This open access book demonstrates the application of simulation modelling and network analysis techniques in the field of Roman studies. It summarizes and discusses the results of a 5-year research project carried out by ...
Efficient Learning Machines
(2015)
Computer science
Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy
(2017)
Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Complexity
Humanities World Report 2015
(2015)
Social Policy, Culture and Media Policy, Literature, Cultural Theory
Large Language Models in Cybersecurity
(2024)
This open access book provides cybersecurity practitioners with the knowledge needed to understand the risks of the increased availability of powerful large language models (LLMs) and how they can be mitigated. It attempts ...
Experimental Techniques in Modern High-Energy Physics
(2022)
This open access book offers a concise overview of how data from large scale experiments are analyzed and how technological tools are used in practice, as in the search for new elementary particles. It focuses on interconnects ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History
(2017)
This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places. It brings together scholars from disciplines ...
Islamistische Gewalttaten in Westeuropa
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch behandelt die Frage, wie und warum es dazu kommt, dass Menschen schwere islamistische Gewalttaten, etwa in Form terroristischer Anschläge oder gewaltsamer Hasskriminalität, in Westeuropa begehen ...
Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939
(2023)
This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countries and in different ...
Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
(2017)
This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights ...
Technology, Design and the Arts - Opportunities and Challenges
(2020)
This open access book details the relationship between the artist and their created works, using tools such as information technology, computer environments, and interactive devices, for a range of information sources and ...
Peer Review, Peer Education, and Modeling in the Practice of Clinical Ethics Consultation: The Zadeh Project
(2018)
This open access book about the Zadeh Project demonstrates and explores a core question in clinical ethics: how can ethics consultants be accountable in the face of a robust plurality of ethical standpoints, especially ...
Inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit: Erkenntnisse ökonomischer Spitzenforschung prägnant zusammengefasst
(2018)
Inklusives Wachstum; wirtschaftliche Sicherheit; Bildung; soziale Inklusion; Innovation; Unternehmen und Management; industrieller Wandel; Banken und Finanzierung
Advancing Responsible Sourcing in Mineral Value Chains
(2024)
This book examines the responsible sourcing of raw materials within global value chains. With the need for a vast amount of additional raw materials to enable the global green energy transition, it examines the current ...
Pro Git (Second Edition)
(2014)
Computer science
Housing Estates in Europe
(2018)
This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in ...
The Belt and Road Initiative at Ten
(2024)
This open access book analyzes the achievements and challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the macro and industrial, real and financial, domestic and international perspectives, and explores the opportunities ...
Cultural Heritage and Development in Fragile Contexts
(2024)
This open access book discusses cooperation strategies for safeguarding cultural heritage in nations facing diverse forms of fragility. Through case studies and a critical analysis, it explores preserving cultural heritage ...
New Digital Work
(2023)
This open access book will give insights into global issues of work and work systems design from a wide range of perspectives. Topics like the impact of AI in the workplace as well as design for digital sovereignty at the ...
The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin
(2015)
Agriculture; Food Science; Environmental Science and Engineering
Artificial Intelligence Oceanography
(2023)
This open access book invites readers to learn how to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms to perform their research in oceanography. Various examples are exhibited to guide details of how to feed the big ...
Enabling Asia to Stabilise the Climate
(2015)
Sustainable Development
The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia
(2024)
This open access handbook aims to constitute a reference point on political norm dynamics in Southeast Asia, by bringing together the array of normative repertoires that frame the possibilities for citizens to participate ...
Building Bridges for Effective Environmental Participation: The Path of Law Co-Creation
(2024)
This open-access book aims to explore and promote indigenous participation in legal design and visual law, with a specific focus on co-creating a visual representation of the Escazu Agreement in collaboration with the ...
Splendors of Quanzhou, Past and Present
(2023)
This open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou’s innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and culturally—values that are ...