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Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities
(2020)
This open access book describes how the numerous arrivals of asylum seekers since 2015 shaped reception and integration processes in Europe. It addresses the structuration of asylum and reception systems, and spaces and ...
Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People
(2024)
This Open Access book presents an in-depth portrait of the use and impact of digital technologies by learners ages 5-18 years in their everyday lives. The portrait is framed by the ecological-systems theory and situated ...
Biological Computing
(2025)
This open access book comprehensively introduces biocomputing, focusing on its foundational theories, experimental operations, and computational models. Biocomputing represents an innovative computational paradigm that ...
Argumentation und Metakognition bei geometrischen Beweisen und Beweisprozessen
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Nele Abels geometrische Beweise und Beweisprozesse von Studierenden des Grundschullehramts in ihrem letzten Studienjahr. Mathematisches Argumentieren und Beweisen sind wesentliche ...
Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
(2021)
This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, ...
Water-filtered Infrared A (wIRA) Irradiation
(2022)
The aim of this open access book is to provide a unique, timely, critical and comprehensive compilation of more than 30 years of robust international experimental and clinical research related to the basic science and ...
Wellbeing and Devolution
(2019)
It has been over twenty years since the people of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voted for devolution. Over that time, the devolved legislatures have established themselves and matured their approach to governance. ...
Active Assisted Living
(2021)
In dem vorliegenden Open-Access-Buch identifizieren Studierende und Lehrende interprofessionell Entwicklungen und Problemfelder der Assistiven Technologien. Diese halten zunehmend Einzug ins Leben versorgungsbedürftiger, ...
Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration
(2024)
This open access book explores Asian approaches towards investment arbitration—a transnational procedure to resolve disputes between a foreign investor and a host state—setting it in the wider political economy and within ...
The Socially Responsible Organization
(2022)
This book explores the nature of the socially responsible organization, specifically the role of crisis management in creating a socially responsible organization. It applies the Myers-Briggs Personality Typology (MBPTI) ...
The Politics of Diversity in Music Education
(2021)
This open access book examines the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through music education. Recent surges in nationalist, fundamentalist, protectionist and ...
Rational Cybersecurity for Business
(2020)
Use the guidance in this comprehensive field guide to gain the support of your top executives for aligning a rational cybersecurity plan with your business. You will learn how to improve working relationships with stakeholders ...
Handbook of Contact Mechanics
(2019)
This open access book contains a structured collection of the complete solutions of all essential axisymmetric contact problems. Based on a systematic distinction regarding the type of contact, the regime of friction and ...
The Halal Industry in Asia
(2025)
This innovative, open access volume explores the core characteristics of the halal industry through case studies of five East and Southeast Asian countries—Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia and China—representing ...
Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises
(2022)
This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe and particularly Greece during the last decade when the economic and refugee crises coincided. It ...
Rational Use of Intravenous Fluids in Critically Ill Patients
(2024)
This open access book, published by Springer under the Open Access CC BY 4.0 Licence in collaboration with the International Fluid Academy (IFA, www.fluidacademy.org), explores rationalized intravenous fluid therapy for ...
Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit im Jugendalter
(2022)
Dieser Open-Access-Band bietet eine Übersicht disziplinärer Zugänge und aktueller empirischer Befunde zum Wohlbefinden und gesundheitsrelevanten Verhalten von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen. Internationale Perspektiven ...
De La Mettrie's Ghost
(2005)
This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roman drama and beyond, it is a compelling hunt for the nature of free will.
Society 5.0
(2020)
This open access book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which was proposed in the 5th Basic Science and Technology Plan by Japan’s national government for ...
The Amazing Journey of Reason
(2020)
This Open Access book explores questions such as why and how did the first biological cells appear? And then complex organisms, brains, societies and –now– connected human societies? Physicists have good models for describing ...
Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Person-Centered Healthcare
(2022)
This open access book establishes a dialog among the medical and intelligent system domains for igniting transition toward a sustainable and cost-effective healthcare. The Person-Centered Care (PCC) positions a person in ...
Understanding Well-being Data
(2021)
‘Following the data’ is a now-familiar phrase in Covid-19 policy communications. Well-being data are pivotal in decisions that affect our life chances, livelihoods and quality of life. They are increasingly valuable to ...
The Sharing Economy in Europe
(2022)
This open access book considers the development of the sharing and collaborative economy with a European focus, mapping across economic sectors, and country-specific case studies. It looks at the roles the sharing economy ...
Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding
(2021)
This open access book is a result of an extensive, ambitious and wide-ranging pan-European project focusing on the development of children and young people’s cultural literacy and what it means to be European in the 21st ...
Marine Plastics: Innovative Solutions to Tackling Waste
(2023)
This open access book reflects aims of the Blue Circular Economy (BCE) project, which focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) aiming to create value using circular economy concepts related to products and ...
Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education
(2021)
This open access book critiques real world learning across both the curriculum and extracurricular activities. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as business, health, fashion, sociology and geography, the editors and authors ...
Innovative Tools and Methods Using BIM for an Efficient Renovation in Buildings
(2022)
This open access book describes a BIM-based toolkit that has been developed according to the latest research activities on building information modelling and semantic interoperability to optimize the building process. It ...
Cancer in the Arab World
(2022)
This is an Open Access book. This book is a must-have for healthcare providers and researchers, public health specialists and policy makers who are interested and involved in cancer care in the Arab world. The Arab world ...
The EBMT/EHA CAR-T Cell Handbook
(2022)
This first open access European CAR-T Handbook, co-promoted by the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) and the European Hematology Association (EHA), covers several aspects of CAR-T cell treatments, ...
Shared Physical Custody
(2021)
This open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, ...
General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business
(2023)
This open access book explores the history of risk management in medieval and early modern European maritime business, focusing particularly on 'General Average' – a mechanism by which extraordinary expenses regarding ship ...
Informatics in Schools. Beyond Bits and Bytes: Nurturing Informatics Intelligence in Education
(2023)
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2023, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, during October 23–25, 2023. The 14 ...
Assessing Progress in Decarbonizing Spain’s Building Stock
(2024)
This open access book delves into the topic of monitoring the effectiveness of building renovation policies within the European Union (EU) using indicators. Given the substantial environmental impact of existing buildings ...
YOUMARES 8 – Oceans Across Boundaries: Learning from each other
(2018)
This open access book presents the proceedings volume of the YOUMARES 8 conference, which took place in Kiel, Germany, in September 2017, supported by the German Association for Marine Sciences (DGM). The YOUMARES conference ...
Constructing Worlds of Labour
(2025)
This open access book simultaneously addresses both the segmenting and the egalitarian function of individual labour law, in almost all countries of the world, in some chapters following up from its origin to the present. ...
The First African Conference on High Energy Physics
(2026)
This open access book compiles the proceedings of the inaugural African Conference on High Energy Physics (ACHEP), which took place in Rabat and Kenitra, Morocco, from October 23 to 27, 2023. The conference brought together ...
Fluidized Bed Reactors for Carbon Capture
(2025)
This open access book provides a perspective on CO2 capture technologies that employ fluidized bed rectors, (FBRs) involving pre-combustion gasification, oxy-fuel combustion, chemical looping combustion, calcium looping ...
Digitale Kulturen der Lehre entwickeln
(2023)
Die Digitalisierung sowie der damit einhergehende Wandel von Gesellschaft und Arbeitsleben verändern die Anforderungen an Hochschulen, Lehrende und Studierende. Dabei entsteht eine neue Kultur digitaler Lehre mit großen ...
Modellieren und Programmieren unter Verwendung der Satzstruktur natürlicher Sprachen
(2025)
Mit diesem Buch ist ein niederschwelliger, weil intuitiver Einstieg in die Modellierung von Abläufen sichergestellt. Anleitung für Personen ohne jegliches Vorwissen, wie mittels Elementen und Sätzen natürlicher Sprache ...
Feminist Methodologies
(2022)
This open access book gives insights into feminist methodologies in theory and practice. By foregrounding the experiential and embodied nature of doing feminist research, this book offers valuable tools for feminist research ...
Primary Physical Science Education
(2024)
This open access book is the first of two volumes that integrates a study of direct encounters with Primary Forces of Nature, Wind, Light, Rain, Heat and Cold, Water, etc., with imaginative narrative forms of communication. ...
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing
(2022)
This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for ...
Qatar’s Nation Branding and Soft Power
(2023)
This open access book examines how creating a national brand assisted Qatar in absorbing the shock and awe following the outburst of the crisis with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates in May 2017. ...
Internet of Things. Information Processing in an Increasingly Connected World
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First IFIP International Cross-Domain Conference on Internet of Things, IFIPIoT 2018, held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC ...
A Guide to Additive Manufacturing
(2022)
This open access book gives both a theoretical and practical overview of several important aspects of additive manufacturing (AM). It is written in an educative style to enable the reader to understand and apply the material. ...
Du bist, was du siehst?
(2026)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die mediale Fremddarstellung weiblicher Führungskräfte analysiert und mit der Selbstbeschreibung von Top-Managerinnen verglichen. Wie stellen Nachrichten- und Wirtschaftsmedien weibliche ...
The Psychology of Silicon Valley
(2020)
Misinformation. Job displacement. Information overload. Economic inequality. Digital addiction. The breakdown of democracy, civility, and truth itself. This open access book explores the conscious and unconscious norms, ...
GeomInt–Mechanical Integrity of Host Rocks
(2021)
This open access book summarizes the results of the collaborative project “GeomInt: Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks - experiment, modeling and analysis of discontinuities” within the Program: Geo Research ...
Early Modern Translation and the Digital Humanities
(2025)
This open-access volume explores how digital resources and methods can be usefully employed for research on early modern translation. The volume focuses mainly on digital resources, and features a number of chapters on ...
Families Affected by Addiction
(2025)
This Open Access book sheds new light on the wide range of Affected Family Members' experiences. At a conservative estimate, there are at least 100 million adults across the globe who are affected by their relatives’ ...
Metalearning
(2022)
This open access book as one of the fastest-growing areas of research in machine learning, metalearning studies principled methods to obtain efficient models and solutions by adapting machine learning and data mining ...
Public Participation in Governance of Industrial Safety Risks
(2025)
This open access book contributes to the increasing trend toward greater public participation in decision-making in many areas of public life, particularly in the field of the environment and sustainable development. It ...
Bridging Borders
(2025)
The open access book analyzes cross-border cooperation (CBC) in Central Asia from a comparative perspective. It provides new insights into four main areas: (1) It highlights international experiences in CBC to identify ...
Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data
(2025)
This open access book provides an in-depth overview of the characteristics, significance, backgrounds and limits of the most relevant electronic health data categories used at a global level for secondary purposes. These ...
Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation
(2021)
This open access book offers a unique and practically oriented study of organisational and national conditions for implementing Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) policies and practices. It gives the reader a thorough ...
Questioning the Entrepreneurial State
(2022)
The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have made the authorities to increasingly turn inward and use ethnocentrism, protectionism, and top-down approaches to guide policy on trade, competition, and industrial ...
Inquisitive Logic
(2022)
This open access book makes a case for extending logic beyond its traditional boundaries, to encompass not only statements but also also questions. The motivations for this extension are examined in detail. It is shown ...
Guideline for Salinity Assessment, Mitigation and Adaptation Using Nuclear and Related Techniques
(2018)
This open access book is an outcome of the collaboration between the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences ...
Multidisciplinary Aspects of Design
(2024)
This open access book gathers the contributions from the Design! OPEN International Conference, held in Parma, Italy in May 2022. The conference explored the multidisciplinary aspects of design starting from its dimensions: ...
Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education
(2019)
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity ...
Bird Species
(2018)
The average person can name more bird species than they think, but do we really know what a bird “species” is? This open access book takes up several fascinating aspects of bird life to elucidate this basic concept in ...
Transforming Global Health Partnerships
(2024)
This is a book about the human experience of conducting global health research, linked to operational responses to the control and prevention of diseases worldwide. Rather than a manual or how-to guide, we propose a roadmap ...
Leveraging Data Science for Global Health
(2020)
This open access book explores ways to leverage information technology and machine learning to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. It focuses on digital disease surveillance ...
Von Verteidigern und Entdeckern
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet eine Einführung in den Identitätskonflikt zwischen Verteidigern und Entdeckern. Basierend auf einer Studie mit 5000 Befragten aus vier europäischen Ländern zeigen die Autoren, dass sich ...
Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2019
(2020)
This open access book provides an overview of the dissertations of the five nominees for the Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering in 2019. The prize, kindly sponsored by the Gerlind & Ernst Denert Stiftung, is awarded ...
Soft Skills for the 21st Century
(2025)
In this open access book, the authors embark on a ground breaking exploration of the often-elusive realm of soft skills, addressing the challenges posed by technology and the evolving workplace. With well-founded research, ...
3D Recording and Interpretation for Maritime Archaeology
(2019)
This open access peer-reviewed volume was inspired by the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology International Workshop held at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia in November 2016. Content is based on, but ...
Rethinking Health Care Ethics
(2018)
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the ...
Wheat Evolution and Domestication
(2023)
This open access book covers a century of research on wheat genetics and evolution, starting with the discovery in 1918 of the accurate number of chromosomes in wheat. We re-evaluate classical studies that are pillars of ...
Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations
(2022)
This open access book describes recent innovations in food systems based on root, tuber and banana crops in developing countries. These innovations respond to many of the challenges facing these vital crops, linked to their ...
Wellbeing, Values and Lifestyles
(2025)
This open access book with contributions by leading global experts from diverse specialization defines a new development paradigm built on Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE). The volume outlines the contours of LiFE across ...
Unterrichtszentrierte Schulentwicklung
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Marco Galle, wie Lehrpersonen und Schulleitende ihren Unterricht und ihre Schule so weiterentwickeln können, dass sich die persönlichen Voraussetzungen und Ziele der Schülerinnen und ...
Concept and Design Developments in School Improvement Research
(2021)
This open access book discusses challenges in school improvement research and different methodological approaches that have the potential to foster school improvement research. Research on school improvement and accountability ...
Practical Tools for Youth Entrepreneurs
(2024)
This open access book inspires young entrepreneurs to embark on the journey toward the future of work through actionable entrepreneurship, especially focusing on South Africa. Its insights and tools extend beyond borders, ...
Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games
(2020)
This open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares the similarities and differences of the LA ...
Managing Protected Areas
(2024)
This open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the relationship between people and ...
Corporate Social Responsibility in Football Associations
(2026)
This Open Access book examines how football’s governing bodies translate their public CSR commitments into everyday practice. Focusing on UEFA, the German Football Association (DFB) and a representative regional federation, ...
Migration Research in a Digitized World
(2022)
This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of ...
Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering
(2025)
This open access book defines the field of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering, identifying a clear scope of what constitutes “smart” in the context of digital technologies, develops a cross-field perspective, provides ...
Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss
(2021)
This open access book originates from an international workshop organized by Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in November 2019 that gathered renown researchers from academia, representatives of leading ...