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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. ...
GDPR and Biobanking
(2021)
This open access book focuses on the discrepancies in biobank research regulations that are among the most significant hurdles to effective research collaboration. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has established ...
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, ...
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, ...
Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda
(2019)
This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of ...
Beyond Global Food Supply Chains
(2022)
This open access book takes the upheaval of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard from which to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. ...
From Melancholia to Depression
(2021)
This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, ...
Indigenous Early Career Researchers in Australian Universities
(2025)
This open access book explores the key barriers and facilitators to advancing meaningful and fulfilling academic careers in the higher education sector for Australian Indigenous doctoral graduates. It focuses on the career ...
Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities: A Global Assessment
(2013)
Urban Ecology; Urbanism; Sustainable Development; Complex Systems; Science, general; International Environmental Law
Smart Urban Safety and Security
(2025)
This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provides and in-depth analysis of the complex urban transformations linked to ...
Figure
(2022)
This open access book shows how figures, figuring, and configuration are used to understand complex, contemporary problems. Figures are images, numbers, diagrams, data and datasets, turns-of-phrase, and representations. ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2021)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2021, which was held during March 27 until April 1, 2021, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
(2021)
This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update ...
Biological Invasions in South Africa
(2020)
This open access volume presents a comprehensive account of all aspects of biological invasions in South Africa, where research has been conducted over more than three decades, and where bold initiatives have been implemented ...
Long-Term Ecosystem Changes in Riparian Forests
(2020)
This open access book presents and analyzes the results of more than 30 years of long-term ecological research in riparian forest ecosystems with the aim of casting light on changes in the dynamics of riparian forests over ...
University and School Collaborations during a Pandemic
(2022)
Based on twenty case studies of universities worldwide, and on a survey administered to leaders in 101 universities, this open access book shows that, amidst the significant challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility
(2020)
This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. ...
Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity
(2020)
Aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing a wide variety of benefits to human beings. Many of these valuable ecosystems are at risk of being irreversibly ...
Innovative Learning Environments in STEM Higher Education
(2021)
As explored in this open access book, higher education in STEM fields is influenced by many factors, including education research, government and school policies, financial considerations, technology limitations, and ...
Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks
(2015)
Environmental Management
Hochwasserminderung im ländlichen Raum
(2020)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation ist ein anwendungsorientiertes Lehr- und Handbuch zur Abflussminderung im ländlichen Raum. Meteorologische Extreme wie Dürren, Starkregen und Überschwemmungen häufen sich wegen des Klimawandels. ...
Responsive Open Learning Environments: Outcomes of Research from the ROLE Project
(2015)
Educational Technology
Organisiertes Misstrauen und ausdifferenzierte Kontrolle
(2023)
Martin Weißmann legt in diesem Open-Access-Buch theoretische Synthesen zu zentralen Themen der interdisziplinären Polizeiforschung vor und leistet damit einen Beitrag zur Integration dieser ansonsten oft empiristischen ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2022)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 13371 and 13372 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2022, which was held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The ...
Arts and Health Promotion
(2021)
This open access book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the arts from theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and critical perspectives. This is ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 19th International Conference, XP 2018, Porto, Portugal, May 21–25, 2018, Proceedings
(2018)
agile software development; test-driven development; project and people management; empirical software engineering; continuous experimentation
Gesundheit – Teilhabechancen – Diskriminierungsrisiken
(2023)
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. Das Recht auf Gesundheit und Wohlergehen steht allen Menschen zu, unabhängig von Alter, Geschlecht, Beeinträchtigung oder anderen Vielfaltsmerkmalen. Auf die enge Verknüpfung von gesellschaftlicher ...
Clinical Pathways in Stroke Rehabilitation
(2021)
This open access book focuses on practical clinical problems that are frequently encountered in stroke rehabilitation. Consequences of diseases, e.g. impairments and activity limitations, are addressed in rehabilitation ...
Assessment in Mathematics Education: Large-Scale Assessment and Classroom Assessment
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Variable Pitot-Triebwerkseinlässe für kommerzielle Überschallflugzeuge
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, wie kommerzielle Überschallflugzeuge die Nachfrage nach einem schnellen, flexiblen und sicheren Transportmittel erfüllen könnten, wenn sie im Vergleich zu früheren Anwendungen eine ...
Identifying Security Logics in the EU Policy Discourse
(2022)
This open access book investigates the complexity and the modalities of securitization of migration and border control at the EU level. It discusses and compares how different EU institutions and agencies have been deploying ...
Fragility Fracture and Orthogeriatric Nursing
(2024)
This second edition, in Open Access, aims to provide a comprehensive and practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with or at risk of fragility fracture, with additional ...
Chapter 4 Diagnosis
(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 ...
Entrepreneurial Cognition
(2018)
This open access book investigates the inter-relationship between the mind and a potential opportunity to explore the psychology of entrepreneurship. Building on recent research, this book offers a broad scope investigation ...
Advanced Digital Auditing
(2023)
This open access book discusses the most modern approach to auditing complex digital systems and technologies. It combines proven auditing approaches, advanced programming techniques and complex application areas, and ...
“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits”
(2022)
Why are historically Catholic countries and regions generally more corrupt and less competitive than historically Protestant ones? How has institutionalization of religion influenced the prosperity of countries in Europe ...
Dynamics of Long-Life Assets: From Technology Adaptation to Upgrading the Business Model
(2017)
Knowledge management; Business information systems
Historische, logische und individuelle Genese der Trigonometrie aus didaktischer Sicht
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch führt Valentin Katter eine umfassende didaktisch orientierte Sachanalyse unter historisch-, logisch-, und individualgenetischen Gesichtspunkten durch, mit der es ihm möglich ist, systematisch ...
The Theory of Chinese Modernization
(2025)
This open access book explores China's unique path to modernization, highlighting its journey from ancient civilization to modern society. It examines China's efforts from the mid-19th century's internal and external ...
Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector
(2020)
This open access book explores cultural competence in the higher education sector from multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. It addresses cultural competence in terms of leadership and the role of the ...
Physical (A)Causality
(2018)
Physical indeterminism; Randomness in physics; Physical random number generators; Physical chaos; Self-reflexive knowledge; Acausality in physics; Irreducible randomness
Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences
(2021)
This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several ...
Mathematics Curriculum Reforms Around the World
(2023)
This Open Access volume by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) is an outcome of the ICMI Study 24 and gives a status-quo of school mathematics reform around the world and what we can learn from ...
Duale Schriftnutzung: Brailleschrift und Schwarzschrift
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die schriftsprachlichen Kompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern mit dualer Schriftnutzung untersucht. Von einem dualen Schriftspracherwerb spricht man, wenn Kinder oder Jugendliche mit ...
Management by Missions
(2022)
A few decades ago, management thinking started to embrace the idea of purpose. The first edition of this book marked an important step in this trajectory; it drew attention to the need for managers to relate the concepts ...
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery
(2018)
This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of ...
21st Century Media and Female Mental Health
(2023)
This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, ...
Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe
(2022)
This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus ...
IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 Assessment Framework
(2016)
Education policy and politics; Assessment, testing and evaluation
Chapter 5 Wolves Tongues and Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures for Cancer
(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 ...
Power of Articulation
(2023)
This open access book is the first book that attempts to treat the notion of articulation as an important concept to be added to the lexicon of communication studies and social science. It constitutes the first comprehensive ...
Feeling Gender
(2017)
Gender Studies; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Family
The Economics of Water
(2021)
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it ...
Die Business Judgement Rule
(2021)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation vermittelt Personen aus Wirtschaft und Lehre durch pragmatische und fokussierte Darstellungsweise sowohl die Grundsystematik der Organhaftung als auch die in der Praxis äußerst relevante ...
Data Science for Economics and Finance
(2021)
This open access book covers the use of data science, including advanced machine learning, big data analytics, Semantic Web technologies, natural language processing, social media analysis, time series analysis, among ...
Relational Anthropology for Contemporary Economics
(2022)
This open access book offers a multidisciplinary dialogue on relational anthropology in contemporary economics. A particular view of the human being is often assumed in economic models, but seldom acknowledged let alone ...
Designing Data Spaces
(2022)
This open access book provides a comprehensive view on data ecosystems and platform economics from methodical and technological foundations up to reports from practical implementations and applications in various industries. ...
Latino, Hispanic, or of Spanish Origin+ Identified Student Leaders in Medicine
(2024)
This book explores the rich history and current state of the Latina, Latino, Latinx, Latine, Hispanic, or of Spanish Origin+ (LHS+) community’s representation, activism, and leadership within American medicine. It meets ...
Cybernetic Avatar
(2025)
This open access book presents a vision of a future, where avatars play an integral role in shaping the fabric of our interconnected society. The book introduces the authors’ ongoing efforts to advance avatar technologies ...
Pynchon and Philosophy
(2014)
Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical ...