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Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development
(2017)
Climate Change; Sustainable Development; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Environmental Management
Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
(2023)
This open access book explores the transformative effects of remittances. Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a cross-border space in which people ...
Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum
(2017)
This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole host ...
Kommunikation und Bildverarbeitung in der Automation
(2022)
In diesem Open Access-Tagungsband sind die besten Beiträge des 11. Jahreskolloquiums "Kommunikation in der Automation" (KommA 2020) und des 7. Jahreskolloquiums "Bildverarbeitung in der Automation" (BVAu 2020) enthalten. ...
Nachhaltigkeit in Umwelt, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
(2017)
Knowledge - Discourse; Sociology of Culture; Water and Health; Economic Systems
The European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Textbook for Nurses
(2018)
Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant; Nursing care; Haemato-oncology nursing; Paediatric transplant nursing; Apheresis
Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows ‒ Advanced Components and Methods
(2022)
This open access textbook aims at providing detailed explanations on how to design and construct image analysis workflows to successfully conduct bioimage analysis. Addressing the main challenges in image data analysis, ...
Ship and Offshore Structure Design in Climate Change Perspective
(2013)
Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Climate Change Management and Policy; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
Governing the Sustainable Development Goals
(2022)
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, ...
Die individuelle mathematische Kreativität von Schulkindern
(2022)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation wird zunächst die individuelle mathematische Kreativität von Schulkindern (InMaKreS) konkret definiert und darauf aufbauend das InMaKreS-Modell entwickelt, welches bedeutsame Implikationen ...
Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies in Animal Production Systems, Preparedness, Response and Recovery
(2021)
This Open Access volume explains how major nuclear and radiological emergencies (NREs) can have implications at local, national and international level. The response to NREs requires a competent decision-making structure, ...
Small Electric Vehicles
(2021)
This edited open access book gives a comprehensive overview of small and lightweight electric three- and four-wheel vehicles with an international scope. The present status of small electric vehicle (SEV) technologies, the ...
A Philosophy of Israel Education
(2016)
Philosophy of Education; Religion and Society; Philosophy of Religion; Judaism
Smart Cities
(2024)
This edited volume discusses the socioeconomic, environmental, and policy implications of smart cities. Written by international experts in energy economics and policy, the chapters present wide range of high quality ...
Railway Ecology
(2017)
carbon footprint; environmental impacts of railways; transportation; wildlife; landscape; planning; engineering; efficiency; sustainability; biodiversity; animal casualties on rails
West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways
(2020)
This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the ...
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh ...
The Future Internet: Future Internet Assembly 2012: From Promises to Reality
(2012)
Web 2.0; cognitive networks; internet of things; pervasive computing; social data mining
Bruno Touschek 100 Years
(2023)
This open access book celebrates the contribution of Bruno Touschek to theoretical physics and particle colliders in Europe. It contains direct testimonials from his former students, collaborators, and eminent scientists, ...
Politische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen des Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens in der Schweiz
(2023)
Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die zentralen politischen und ökonomischen Begriffe, Konzepte und Diskurse des schweizerischen Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens. Es spannt den Bogen von den demokratischen Grundsätzen ...
Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows ‒ Advanced Components and Methods
(2022)
This open access textbook aims at providing detailed explanations on how to design and construct image analysis workflows to successfully conduct bioimage analysis. Addressing the main challenges in image data analysis, ...
Animals and Science Fiction
(2024)
Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies. It offers a broad range of theoretical approaches and primary source ...
Financing Clean Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2021)
This open access book analyses barriers and challenges associated with the financing of clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. By considering various economic, financial, political, environmental and social factors, ...
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
(2023)
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 31st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2022, which was held during April 5-7, 2022, in Munich, Germany, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and ...
Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics
(2023)
This open access proceedings volume brings selected, peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics (STUOD) 2021 Workshop, held virtually and in person at the Imperial College ...
Young Adults and Active Citizenship
(2021)
This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means ...
Microsimulation Population Projections with SAS
(2021)
This open access book provides a step-by-step overview on how to build a microsimulation model with SAS. It shows how to convert an already existing multistate projection by age, sex, education and region into a microsimulation ...
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: 21st International Conference, FOSSACS 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14–20, 2018. Proceedings
(2018)
artificial intelligence; computer software; selection and evaluation; formal logic; graph theory; modal logic; petri nets; program compilers; programming language; semantics; separation logic; software engineering; ...
The Political Economy of Central Asian Law
(2024)
This open-access book provides fresh and much-needed insights into the interconnections between law, society and governance in Central Asia. By taking the interdisciplinary perspective of law and society, the book explores ...
Actors and the Art of Performance
(2016)
Acting on stage is a mode of performing an action, in the context of which the bodily aspects implicitly at work in acting reveal their own significance and power. This event can actualize a wound incarnated in human beings, ...
Rainfall Infiltration in Unsaturated Soil Slope Failure
(2023)
This is an open access book. The aim of this book is to provide a thorough grounding in rainfall-induced landslides from three aspects: the coupling effect of hydraulic and mechanic; the analytical, numerical, and physical ...
Embedded System Design
(2021)
A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things. It starts ...
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh ...
Design Science and Its Importance in the German Mathematics Educational Discussion
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Old Ways for New Days
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a critical reflection into how indigenous cultures are attempting to adapt to climate change. Through detailed first-hand accounts, the book describes the unique challenges facing indigenous ...
Finland’s Famous Education System
(2023)
This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a ...
Sonic Skills
(2019)
It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to ...
S-BPM Illustrated: A Storybook about Business Process Modeling and Execution
(2013)
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Management of Computing and Information Systems
River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads
(2017)
Human Rights; Human Geography; Ethics; Sustainable Development; Anthropology; Development Economics
Neoromantik der Jahrhundertwende
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die rege Wiederaufnahme des Romantischen in der literarischen Landschaft um 1900. Es zeichnet die vergessene Diskursgeschichte einer sogenannten ‚Neuromantik‘ nach, um anschließend zu ...
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
(2023)
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types ...
Effective Field Theory for Spontaneously Broken Symmetry
(2024)
This open access book is about spontaneous symmetry breaking, which is a classic area of theoretical physics that lies at the core of many fascinating phenomena such as ferromagnetism, superfluidity, superconductivity, or ...
Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms
(2021)
This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when ...
The Humanities in the Digital: Beyond Critical Digital Humanities
(2023)
This open access book challenges the contemporary relevance of the current model of knowledge production. It argues that the full digitisation of society sharply accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic has added extreme ...
The Politics of Gender Equality
(2024)
This open access book provides the first in-depth study of the development of federal gender equality politics and policy in Australia from the 1970s to the present day. Australia has a history of gender equality innovation, ...
Young Adults and Active Citizenship
(2021)
This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means ...
Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies in Animal Production Systems, Preparedness, Response and Recovery
(2021)
This Open Access volume explains how major nuclear and radiological emergencies (NREs) can have implications at local, national and international level. The response to NREs requires a competent decision-making structure, ...
A Philosophy of Israel Education
(2016)
Philosophy of Education; Religion and Society; Philosophy of Religion; Judaism
Small Electric Vehicles
(2021)
This edited open access book gives a comprehensive overview of small and lightweight electric three- and four-wheel vehicles with an international scope. The present status of small electric vehicle (SEV) technologies, the ...
Microsimulation Population Projections with SAS
(2021)
This open access book provides a step-by-step overview on how to build a microsimulation model with SAS. It shows how to convert an already existing multistate projection by age, sex, education and region into a microsimulation ...
Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
(2020)
This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats ...
The Geopolitics of Hydrogen
(2024)
This open access book is a comprehensive exploration of European hydrogen policy, examining its development at both the EU level and in key Member States, while also considering the geopolitical implications of the emerging ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2024)
The open access book 3-volume set LNCS 14570-14573 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2024, which was held as part ...
Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds
(2015)
Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Ecology; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences
(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 ...
Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering
(2022)
This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first ...
Managing Great Power Politics
(2022)
This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast ...
Architecture of Advanced Numerical Analysis Systems
(2023)
This unique open access book applies the functional OCaml programming language to numerical or computational weighted data science, engineering, and scientific applications. This book is based on the authors' first-hand ...
Sonic Skills
(2019)
It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to ...
S-BPM Illustrated: A Storybook about Business Process Modeling and Execution
(2013)
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Management of Computing and Information Systems
Frühe Kindheit(en)
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch nähert sich Melanie Holztrattner aus einer praxeologischen Perspektive der Frage, wie frühe Kindheit in frühpädagogischen Institutionen hervorgebracht wird. Aktuelle Diskurse der childhood studies ...
Oxygen Transport to Tissue XLI
(2020)
This book presents cutting-edge papers and perspectives on the transport of oxygen to tissues by scientists in a multitude of disciplines such as biochemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine, physics, physiology, ...
Effective Field Theory for Spontaneously Broken Symmetry
(2024)
This open access book is about spontaneous symmetry breaking, which is a classic area of theoretical physics that lies at the core of many fascinating phenomena such as ferromagnetism, superfluidity, superconductivity, or ...
Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services: Methods, Models, Approaches, Techniques, Algorithms, and Tools
(2018)
cloud computing; communication channels; information theory; computer networks; computer systems; data communication systems; Human-Computer Interactopm (HCI); internet; Internet of Services (IoS); Internet of ...
Chapter 6 The Disappearing Body: Dissection to the Extremities
(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 ...
Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
(2020)
This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2024)
The open access book 3-volume set LNCS 14570-14573 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2024, which was held as part ...
Die Trade-offs der Nachhaltigkeit
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch führt auf der Spur der Trade-offs der Nachhaltigkeit vom Versuch einer sprachlogischen Aufarbeitung des Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs aus in die zweiwertige Logik. Die klassische Logik führt hinein in ein ...
Research Thinking for Responsive Teaching
(2024)
This open access book examines the facilitation of pre-service and in-service educators’ research thinking that equips them to be responsive to the unfolding uncertainties of the 21st century, and to likewise prepare their ...
Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering
(2022)
This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first ...
Hochschulreformen, Leistungsbewertungen und berufliche Identität von Professor*innen
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein differenziertes Bild der Folgen von „Bologna“, „Exzellenzinitiative“, Drittmittelwettbewerb und „New Public Management“ für die berufliche Identität von Professor*innen gezeichnet. Eine ...
West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways
(2020)
This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the ...
Subject-Oriented Business Process Management
(2012)
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Management of Computing and Information Systems
Architecture of Advanced Numerical Analysis Systems
(2023)
This unique open access book applies the functional OCaml programming language to numerical or computational weighted data science, engineering, and scientific applications. This book is based on the authors' first-hand ...
Politische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen des Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens in der Schweiz
(2023)
Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die zentralen politischen und ökonomischen Begriffe, Konzepte und Diskurse des schweizerischen Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens. Es spannt den Bogen von den demokratischen Grundsätzen ...
River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads
(2017)
Human Rights; Human Geography; Ethics; Sustainable Development; Anthropology; Development Economics
Chapter 1 Epidemiology
(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 ...
Financing Clean Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2021)
This open access book analyses barriers and challenges associated with the financing of clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. By considering various economic, financial, political, environmental and social factors, ...
Frühe Kindheit(en)
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch nähert sich Melanie Holztrattner aus einer praxeologischen Perspektive der Frage, wie frühe Kindheit in frühpädagogischen Institutionen hervorgebracht wird. Aktuelle Diskurse der childhood studies ...