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Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England
(2022)
This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. ...
World Protests
(2022)
This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin America. There are periods ...
The Belt and Road Initiative Green Development Case Studies Report 2020
(2022)
This is an Open Access book. In accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it showcases 17 projects under the framework of Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). These projects cover ninefields, namely, biodiversity ...
Anatomie des Amoklaufs
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch widerlegt Madlen Sell die weit verbreitete Annahme, dass es sich bei School Shootings um Amokläufe handelt. Vielmehr ähneln School Shootings hinsichtlich der langen und zum Teil minutiösen ...
Family Dynamics over the Life Course
(2022)
This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 18th International Conference, XP 2017, Cologne, Germany, May 22-26, 2017, Proceedings
(2017)
agile software development; lean development; scrum; project management; software development
Green Economy in the Transport Sector
(2022)
This open access book is interdisciplinary and provides cross-sectoral and multi-dimensional exploration of sustainable development and transportation in South Africa. Drawing on work from different disciplines, the book ...
The Forum of Federations Handbook of Fiscal Federalism
(2023)
This open access handbook compares fiscal federalism arrangements in eleven federal/ decentralized countries. Each chapter examines an individual country, laying out its constitutional design as relates to fiscal powers ...
Asylum Matters
(2021)
This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic ...
S-BPM in the Wild
(2015)
This is the first book to present field studies on the application of subject-oriented business process management (S-BPM). Each case presents a specific story and focuses on an essential modeling or implementation issue, ...
AVENUE21. Connected and Automated Driving: Prospects for Urban Europe
(2022)
This open access publication examines the impact of connected and automated vehicles on the European city and the conditions that can enable this technology to make a positive contribution to urban development. The authors ...
Zusammenwirken von natürlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz
(2021)
Dieses Open Access Buch erläutert, wie das Zusammenwirken von Menschen, Tieren und Pflanzen einerseits und Maschinen andererseits mit der zunehmenden Digitalisierung und durch das Zusammenwirken von natürlicher und künstlicher ...
Air Quality Integrated Assessment: A European Perspective
(2017)
air quality; air pollution; environmental analysis
Transforming Education for Sustainability
(2023)
This book investigates how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next ...
Reindeer Husbandry
(2024)
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 findings ...
Learning to Diagnose with Simulations
(2022)
This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical ...
Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets
(2021)
This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, ...
Pflege-Report 2020
(2020)
Neuausrichtung von Versorgung und Finanzierung Der Pflege-Report, der in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, nimmt jährlich relevante Themen der Versorgung von Pflegebedürftigen unter die Lupe. Als Schwerpunkt ...
Ageing in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2023)
This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights ...
Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Circular Economy
(2023)
The purpose of this open access edited collection is to discuss the role and importance of stakeholder engagement in a sustainable circular economy from multiple theoretical and practical perspectives. Developing and ...
Tourismus und Klimawandel
(2021)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation beleuchtet die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Tourismus und Klimawandel für die Tourismusdestination Österreich und basiert auf einer umfassenden Erhebung, Zusammenfassung und Bewertung des ...
Lokal verankerte Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung zwischen Partnerschaft und Machtungleichgewicht
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden Prozesse und Dynamiken der Zusammenarbeit zwischen verschiedenen Akteur*innen in Projekten des zivilen Friedensdienstes in Kenia, Sierra Leone und Liberia betrachtet. Das durch lokale und ...
Intraocular Lens Calculations
(2024)
Cataract surgery, with 25-30 million surgeries per year, has become one of most popular surgeries in the world. The calculation of its power is of utmost importance. As new premium intraocular lenses (IOLs) and modern ...
Communicative Figurations
(2018)
This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as ...
Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South
(2015)
Communication Studies; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); R & D/Technology Policy
Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
(2021)
This open access volume addresses the link between international taxation, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the medium-term revenue strategy concept. It also analyses how countries and governments can reinforce ...
Hipsterism
(2023)
This Open-Access-book utilises Hipsterism to demonstrate modes of identity, collectivity, conceptions and a whole spectrum of activities with varying degrees of commitment in contemporary society. Analysed through the lens ...
Reactor Laboratory Experiments at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
(2025)
This open access is an educational text on reactor physics experiments and is described based on a careful examination of the contents and pedagogical benefits obtained from the book Nuclear Reactor Physics Experiments by ...
Process Mining Workshops
(2022)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Workshops held at the Third International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2021, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, during ...
Bordieuan Field Theory as an Instrument for Military Operational Analysis
(2017)
effects-based operations; EBO; Pierre Bourdieu; field theory; information warfare; communism
Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
(2021)
This open access book is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the relevance of social-ecological ...
Isotopes in Economic Geology, Metallogenesis and Exploration
(2023)
This open access book documents the use of radiogenic and stable isotopes to study mineral deposits from a global to the deposit scale. It includes data-sets that have been directly used in mineral exploration. Isotopic ...
Collaborating Against Child Abuse
(2017)
Scandinavia; child protection; multi-agency working; criminology; policy
From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond
(2022)
This open access book aims at deepening the understanding of the relation between cyber-physical systems (CPSs) as socio-technical systems and their digital representations with intertwined artificial intelligence (AI). ...
Does God Intend that Sin Occur?
(2022)
This open access book argues, from a detailed consideration of the Christian Scriptures, that God intends that sin occur. It swims against the tide of current thinking in philosophy of religion, arguing for an unfashionable ...
Responsible Innovation
(2020)
This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is ...
Transdisziplinär und transformativ forschen, Band 2
(2019)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch setzt die 2018 begonnene Sammlung von Methoden für transdisziplinäre, transformative wie nicht-transformative Forschung fort. Auch in Band 2 werden Methoden der Wissenserzeugung, Wissensintegration ...
Boundary Value Problems, Weyl Functions, and Differential Operators
(2020)
This open access book presents a comprehensive survey of modern operator techniques for boundary value problems and spectral theory, employing abstract boundary mappings and Weyl functions. It includes self-contained ...
Digitale Transformation und Unternehmensführung
(2020)
Dieses Open Access-Fachbuch setzt sich empirisch und theoretisch mit Teilaspekten der digitalen Transformation und deren Konsequenzen für die Unternehmensführung auseinander. Die mit der Digitalisierung verbundenen neuen ...
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 ...