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Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation
(2022)
This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
(2019)
This book provides an authoritative insight on the Loss and Damage discourse by highlighting state-of-the-art research and policy linked to this discourse and articulating its multiple concepts, principles and methods. ...
Vote Buying in Indonesia
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions and policy representation in newly democratic countries, with a focus ...
Building the Foundation: Whole Numbers in the Primary Grades: The 23rd ICMI Study
(2018)
mathematics teaching and learning in the primary school; whole number arithmetic; 23rd ICMI Study; international perspectives on primary math education; social-cultural diversity of early mathematics teaching; ...
The Seine River Basin
(2021)
This open access book reviews the water-agro-food and socio-eco-system of the Seine River basin (76,000 km2), and offers a historical perspective on the river’s long-term contamination. The Seine basin is inhabited by circa ...
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 ...
Workers, Managers, Productivity
(2020)
This open access book provides a glimpse into the Japanese management technique known as “Kaizen,” and the ways it has been disseminated around the developing world. The novelty of this book is three-fold: it provides a ...
Knowledge and Digital Technology
(2024)
This open access book explores the multifaceted interplay of technology, knowledge, and place. While digital technology is increasingly influencing our way of knowing, conversely it is itself the consequence of human ...
Religiöse Rituale und soziale Ordnung
(2020)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Bedeutung von religiösen Ritualen für die soziale Ordnung systematisch untersucht. Dazu werden Konzepte des Zusammenhangs von Ritualen mit verschiedenen Ebenen des Sozialen erarbeitet: ...
Cultivating Teacher Resilience
(2021)
This open access book follows the development of the Building Resilience in Teacher Education (BRiTE) project across Australia and internationally. Drawing on the success of this project and the related research collaborations ...
Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning: A Case Study of Punjab, India
(2015)
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Environmental Economics; Community & Population Ecology
How to Practice Academic Medicine and Publish from Developing Countries?
(2022)
This is an open access book. The book provides an overview of the state of research in developing countries – Africa, Latin America, and Asia (especially India) and why research and publications are important in these ...
Making Medicines in Africa
(2015)
Life Sciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Economics, Political Economy, Development, International Relations, International Political Economy, African Studies, African Economics
Asian Century… on a Knife-edge
(2018)
Asian Century; Asia's middle class; Urbanisation in Asia; Asian demographic challenges; Democracy and politics in Asia; Asia's global value chains; Economic crime in Asia; Power transition in Asia; China and US ...
Mathematical Modeling for Women’s Health
(2024)
The purpose of this work is to focus mathematical modeling on issues affecting women’s health. Working in six collaborative teams, researchers developed new mathematical models to address questions in a range of application ...
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Higher Plants
(2024)
This book covers the fundamentals of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and higher plant symbiosis with potential implications in crop production. It provides new insights into our understanding of the mechanisms of ...
Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean
(2021)
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of ...
Responsive Open Learning Environments: Outcomes of Research from the ROLE Project
(2015)
Educational Technology
Physical (A)Causality
(2018)
Physical indeterminism; Randomness in physics; Physical random number generators; Physical chaos; Self-reflexive knowledge; Acausality in physics; Irreducible randomness
Physical (A)Causality
(2018)
Physical indeterminism; Randomness in physics; Physical random number generators; Physical chaos; Self-reflexive knowledge; Acausality in physics; Irreducible randomness
Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
(2022)
This is an open access book. It 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 interlinkages ...
Buildings for Education
(2020)
This open access book presents theoretical and practical research relating to the vast, publicly financed program for the construction of new schools and the reorganization of existing educational buildings in Italy. This ...
The Seine River Basin
(2021)
This open access book reviews the water-agro-food and socio-eco-system of the Seine River basin (76,000 km2), and offers a historical perspective on the river’s long-term contamination. The Seine basin is inhabited by circa ...
Forecasting and Assessing Risk of Individual Electricity Peaks
(2020)
The overarching aim of this open access book is to present self-contained theory and algorithms for investigation and prediction of electric demand peaks. A cross-section of popular demand forecasting algorithms from ...
Crime and Safety in the Rural
(2022)
Criminology has until recently neglected the nature and levels of crime outside the urban realm. This is not a surprise as crime tends to concentrate in urban areas and the police directs resources where the problems are. ...
Annals of Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics 2021
(2022)
This Open Access proceedings presents a good overview of the current research landscape of assembly, handling and industrial robotics. The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and ...
Supercomputing Frontiers
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2020, which was planned to be held in February 2020, but unfortunately, the physical conference was cancelled due ...
Supercomputing Frontiers
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2020, which was planned to be held in February 2020, but unfortunately, the physical conference was cancelled due ...
Chapter Dedication
(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 ...
Deep Integration, Global Firms, and Technology Spillovers
(2022)
This open access book explores the impact of deep regional economic integration on spillovers of knowledge and technology across countries. Deep integration through signing deep regional trade agreements (DRTAs), which ...
Hybrid Intelligence
(2023)
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from DigitalFUTURES 2022—The 4th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2022). The work focuses on novel techniques for ...
Mathematical Modeling for Women’s Health
(2024)
The purpose of this work is to focus mathematical modeling on issues affecting women’s health. Working in six collaborative teams, researchers developed new mathematical models to address questions in a range of application ...
Robotic Surgery of Colon and Rectum
(2024)
This is an open access book. Colorectal surgery is one of the most performed procedures in dedicated colorectal and general surgery units worldwide. In the last two decades, the minimally invasive laparoscopic approach has ...
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Higher Plants
(2024)
This book covers the fundamentals of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and higher plant symbiosis with potential implications in crop production. It provides new insights into our understanding of the mechanisms of ...
Trade Union Cooperation in Europe
(2020)
This open access book discusses transnational trade union cooperation in Europe – its forms, focuses, conditions, and obstacles. It provides an overview of existing trade union cooperation and includes detailed analyses ...
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 ...
Chapter Bibliography
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Megatrends in Agriculture, Food Industry and Food Markets
(2024)
This book offers a research-based, holistic overview of the entire value chain of the global food industry. It captures and defines over 80 contemporary ‘megatrends’ in agriculture and the food market that can be empirically ...
Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism
(2018)
Older adults outnumbering children; Gerontology/geriatrics; Aging world population; The study of ageism; Ageism is the most prevalent form of discrimination
Money and Debt: The Public Role of Banks
(2021)
This Open Access book from the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy explains how money creation and banking works, describes the main problems of the current monetary and financial system and discusses ...
Manufacturing Driving Circular Economy
(2023)
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 18th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, held on October 5-7, 2022, as a hybrid event, in/from Berlin, Germany. With a focus on manufacturing ...
Cultivating Teacher Resilience
(2021)
This open access book follows the development of the Building Resilience in Teacher Education (BRiTE) project across Australia and internationally. Drawing on the success of this project and the related research collaborations ...
Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases
(2020)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This open access book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and healthy ...
Existenz- und Regularitätstheorie der zweidimensionalen Variationsrechnung mit Anwendungen auf das Plateausche Problem für Flächen vorgeschriebener mittlerer Krümmung
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch behandelt für eine breite Klasse zweidimensionaler Variationsprobleme eine Existenz- und Regularitätstheorie, die der Lösung von Randwertproblemen partieller Differentialgleichungssysteme dient. ...
Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning: A Case Study of Punjab, India
(2015)
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Environmental Economics; Community & Population Ecology
How to Practice Academic Medicine and Publish from Developing Countries?
(2022)
This is an open access book. The book provides an overview of the state of research in developing countries – Africa, Latin America, and Asia (especially India) and why research and publications are important in these ...
VR Technologies in Cultural Heritage
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on VR Technologies in Cultural Heritage, VRTCH 2018, held in Brasov, Romania in May 2018. The 13 revised full papers along ...
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 ...
Sisters of the Brotherhood: Alienation and Inclusion in Learning Philosophy
(2023)
This open access book explores the gendered reality of learning philosophy at the university level, investigating the ways in which women and minority students become alienated from the social practices of a male-dominated ...
Dynamics of Long-Life Assets: From Technology Adaptation to Upgrading the Business Model
(2017)
Knowledge management; Business information systems
Building the Foundation: Whole Numbers in the Primary Grades: The 23rd ICMI Study
(2018)
mathematics teaching and learning in the primary school; whole number arithmetic; 23rd ICMI Study; international perspectives on primary math education; social-cultural diversity of early mathematics teaching; ...
Knowledge for Governance
(2020)
This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well ...
The Gene Ontology Handbook
(2017)
bioinformatics; biotechnology
A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease
(2024)
This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas of medical practice. These include (but are not limited to): Paying less ...
UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970
(2021)
This open access book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy debates about the care of children. Between 1945 and 1970, an estimated 3,500 children ...
Aligning the Energy Transition with the Sustainable Development Goals
(2024)
This open access book brings together concrete analyses from around the world, spanning various scales, that shed light on strategies for implementing essential energy and climate transitions within the broader context of ...
Verwaltung im digitalen Zeitalter
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch fokussiert die Herausforderungen und Bedarfe, die sich für die öffentliche Verwaltung aus der stetig fortschreitenden Digitalisierung ergeben. Insbesondere der öffentliche Dienst als zentrale Ressource ...
Herwig Schopper
(2024)
This open access book is both a memoir and a biography. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1924, Herwig Schopper is one of the few people able to bear witness to 100 years of European history. His career has taken him from research ...
“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 ...
Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times
(2023)
How do migration and integration change when ‘crisis becomes normalcy’? This open access book investigates this question in the present context of turbulent times when, instead of dealing with one crisis, migrants, governments ...
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 ...
Chapter Bibliography
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates
(2018)
Based on a study among higher-educated adult children of lower-class Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, this open access book explores processes of identification among social climbers with ethnic minority ...
Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility and the Role of Soulmates
(2018)
Based on a study among higher-educated adult children of lower-class Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, this open access book explores processes of identification among social climbers with ethnic minority ...
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 ...
Japan’s Peacekeeping at a Crossroads
(2022)
This open access book examines why Japan discontinued its quarter-century history of troop contribution to UN Peacekeeping Operations (1992–2017). Japan had deployed its troops as UN peacekeepers since 1992, albeit under ...
Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
(2022)
This is an open access book. It 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 interlinkages ...
Dynamics of Long-Life Assets: From Technology Adaptation to Upgrading the Business Model
(2017)
Knowledge management; Business information systems
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 ...
A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK
(2016)
nuclear medicine; history of medicine
Wechselwirkungen zwischen Landnutzung und Klimawandel
(2021)
In diesem Open Access Buch werden erstmals übergreifend die Entwicklungen bis 2030 in den Sektoren in Deutschland, welche die größte Fläche beanspruchen – Land- und Forstwirtschaft sowie Siedlung und Verkehr – aufgezeigt ...
The Gene Ontology Handbook
(2017)
bioinformatics; biotechnology
Manufacturing Driving Circular Economy
(2023)
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 18th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, held on October 5-7, 2022, as a hybrid event, in/from Berlin, Germany. With a focus on manufacturing ...
The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice
(2011)
What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable? What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ...
Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle
(2023)
This open access book illustrates how interdisciplinary research develops over the lifetime of a scholar: not in a single project, but as an attitude that trickles down, or spirals up, into research. This book presents how ...
The Economics of the Audiovisual Industry
(2014)
Finance and Banking, General Finance
Hybrid Intelligence
(2023)
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from DigitalFUTURES 2022—The 4th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2022). The work focuses on novel techniques for ...