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Disruptions, Diversity, and Ethics in Marketing
(2025)
As the marketing landscape continues to evolve, posing fresh challenges for both academics and practitioners, this book explores contemporary marketing issues, trends, challenges, and opportunities. Featuring papers presented ...
The Suez Canal: Past Lessons and Future Challenges
(2023)
This open access book seeks to provide a survey of historical, geopolitical, economic, and environmental developments in the last 150 years and to highlight future challenges it faces as it pertains to the areas mentioned ...
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 ...
The African Marine Litter Outlook
(2023)
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of marine litter in Africa with a focus on plastics. From distribution, to impacts on environmental and human health, this book looks at what is known ...
Chapter Preface
(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 ...
Elements of Robotics
(2017)
robotics; autonomous mobile robots; algorithms; Braitenberg creatures; decision making
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 ...
Collaborating Against Child Abuse
(2017)
Scandinavia; child protection; multi-agency working; criminology; policy
Bordieuan Field Theory as an Instrument for Military Operational Analysis
(2017)
effects-based operations; EBO; Pierre Bourdieu; field theory; information warfare; communism
Chapter Acknowledgements
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
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 ...
Model-Driven Development and Operation of Multi-Cloud Applications
(2017)
Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Computational Intelligence
Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South
(2015)
Communication Studies; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); R & D/Technology Policy
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 ...
Mathematical Surprises
(2022)
This is open access book provides plenty of pleasant mathematical surprises. There are many fascinating results that do not appear in textbooks although they are accessible with a good knowledge of secondary-school ...
New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy
(2016)
Information Storage and Retrieval; Innovation/Technology Management; Computer Applications; Computers and Society; Big data
Ecology of Angola
(2023)
This open access book richly illustrates the first, and comprehensive, account of the country’s biomes and ecoregions, the driving forces that account for their diversity and vulnerability, and the ecological principles ...
The Economic Impact of Christian Missionaries in Zambia
(2024)
This open access book examines the long-term impact of Christian missionaries in Zambia, and sub-Saharan Africa more generally, on education, health, and economic development. It examines how Christian missionaries provided ...
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 ...
Promoting Social Dialogue in European Organizations: Human Resources Management and Constructive Conflict Management
(2015)
Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology; Social Policy; Political Science, general
Improving National Education Systems After COVID-19
(2025)
This open access book compares and analyses the results in twelve countries of the two latest international student assessments: Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2021 (PIRLS) and the Programme for International ...
Ranaviruses
(2025)
This is a open access book. Ranaviruses, double-stranded DNA viruses (family Iridoviridae) that cause systemic, life-threatening disease in a variety of amphibians, reptiles and fish, have contributed to mass die-offs of ...
Modern Japan’s Place in World History
(2023)
This Open Access book includes chapters on the key turning points in modern Japanese history from the Meiji Restoration to Japan-China diplomatic normalization in the 1970s and beyond. The topics covered include the First ...
The Datacenter as a Computer
(2019)
This book describes warehouse-scale computers (WSCs), the computing platforms that power cloud computing and all the great web services we use every day. It discusses how these new systems treat the datacenter itself as ...
Global Health Collaboration: Challenges and Lessons
(2018)
global health collaboration; global health education; urban health; multiple morbidities; global health research; international university partnerships; sustainability; public health; multi-morbidity; transcultural; ...
Digitale Führung und Zusammenarbeit
(2024)
Das vorliegende Open Access Buch umfasst Beiträge der Projekte aus dem Verbundprojekt Modelle ressourcenorientierter und effektiver Führung digitaler Projekt- und Teamarbeit (vLead) . Im Rahmen des Förderschwerpunkts „Arbeit ...
Ethics Dumping: Case Studies from North-South Research Collaborations
(2018)
Global Research Ethics; Global Bioethics; North-South Collaborations; Exploitation Vulnerability; Research Governance; Double Standards in Research; Ethics Dumping Examples
Agenda-Setting zwischen Parlament und Medien: Normative Herleitung und empirische Untersuchung am Beispiel der Schweiz
(2017)
Political Communication; Political Theory
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
Person-Centered Outcome Metrology
(2023)
This unique collection of chapters from world experts on person-centered outcome (PCO) measures addresses the following critical questions: Can individual experiences be represented in measurements that do not reduce unique ...
Autonomous Trajectory Planning and Guidance Control for Launch Vehicles
(2023)
This open access book highlights the autonomous and intelligent flight control of future launch vehicles for improving flight autonomy to plan ascent and descent trajectories onboard, and autonomously handle unexpected ...
Solar Particle Radiation Storms Forecasting and Analysis
(2018)
Solar Energetic Particles; Space Weather Forecasting; Solar Flares; Coronal Mass Ejections; Solar Wind Shock Waves; Particle Acceleration in the Solar Corona; Gamma-Ray Flares
Midwifery and Sexuality
(2023)
This first open-access book on midwifery and sexuality integrates sexual health into the care for the pregnant and postpartum couple. It addresses sexuality and intimacy from an education and prevention perspective instead ...
Cloud-Based Benchmarking of Medical Image Analysis
(2017)
Medical imaging
Managing Nordic Local Governments
(2024)
This open access book examines the roles of municipal chief executive officers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Whilst it has long been recognised that local authorities in these countries are often more ...
Projekt- und Teamarbeit in der digitalisierten Arbeitswelt
(2021)
Ein interdisziplinäres Open-Access-Buch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Projekt- und Teamarbeit besitzen als Formen der Arbeitsorganisation eine hohe praktische Relevanz, die mit den Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung und ...
Violence Against Women During Coronavirus
(2023)
This open access book brings together leading international violence researchers to examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on experiences of, and responses to, domestic and family violence. In April 2020 the United ...
Integrated Groundwater Management
(2016)
Water management; Hydrogeology
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
The Era of Longevity
(2023)
This is an open access book under CC BY-NC-ND. This open access book is a comprehensive solution proposed by Dr. Chen Dongsheng for the issues of medical care, pension, and fund raising in the era of longevity. This book ...