Publications
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Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State
(2007)
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870 - 1924) led the first successful revolt against market-based liberal democracy and founded the Soviet State in 1917, serving as the new nation s chief architect and sole ruler for the next five ...
Information—Consciousness—Reality
(2019)
This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. ...
Die Praxis kollektiven Handelns
(2019)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch präsentiert ein praxistheoretisches Konzept, das die Analyse verschiedener Aspekte und Formen kollektiven Handelns ermöglicht. Im Zentrum steht die Erweiterung des Handlungsverständnisses bei Anthony ...
The Future of Software Quality Assurance
(2020)
This open access book, published to mark the 15th anniversary of the International Software Quality Institute (iSQI), is intended to raise the profile of software testers and their profession. It gathers contributions by ...
Values and Valuing in Mathematics Education
(2019)
This engaging open access book discusses how a values and valuing perspective can facilitate a more effective mathematics pedagogical experience, and allows readers to explore multiple applications of the values perspective ...
Dynamic Spectrum Management
(2020)
This open access book, authored by a world-leading researcher in this field, describes fundamentals of dynamic spectrum management, provides a systematic overview on the enabling technologies covering cognitive radio, ...
Sustainable Rice Straw Management
(2020)
This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is ...
Invited Lectures from the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education
(2018)
Mathematics Education; Mathematics Learning; Mathematics Teaching; Mathematics Teachers; ICME-13; 13th Congress on Mathematical Education; Empirical Studies in Mathematics Education; Theoretical Reflections on ...
Research On and Activities For Mathematically Gifted Students
(2016)
Education; Teaching; Learning
Scaling a Software Business: The Digitalization Journey
(2017)
software development; process management; collaboration; software-driven innovation
European Higher Education Area: The Impact of Past and Future Policies
(2018)
This volume presents the major outcomes of the third edition of the Future of Higher Education – Bologna Process Researchers Conference (FOHE-BPRC 3) which was held on 27-29 November 2017. It acknowledges the importance ...
How AI Impacts Urban Living and Public Health
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2019, held in New York City, NY, USA, in October 2019. The 15 full papers ...
Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium 2018 (RERIS 2018)
(2018)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium (RERIS 18), held in Maseru, Lesotho in January 2018. The symposium aimed to foster research cooperation ...
RESTART Sustainable Business Model Innovation
(2018)
Taking the business model as point of departure, this open access book explores how companies and organizations can contribute to a more sustainable future by designing innovative models that are both sustainable and ...
Error-Correction Coding and Decoding
(2017)
Coding; Communications; Engineering; Networks; Information Theory; Algorithms
Programming Persistent Memory
(2020)
Beginning and experienced programmers will use this comprehensive guide to persistent memory programming. You will understand how persistent memory brings together several new software/hardware requirements, and offers ...
Water Resource Systems Planning and Management: An Introduction to Methods, Models, and Applications
(2017)
hydrology; civil engineering; waste water technology; aquatic pollution; climate change; environmental engineering
Innovation Capacity and the City
(2019)
This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call “User-driven innovation: value ...
Internal Diversity
(2020)
This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants’ internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes ...
Supercomputing Frontiers
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2019, held in Singapore in March 2019. The 6 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected ...
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April ...
Twin-Control
(2019)
This open access book summarizes the results of the European research project “Twin-model based virtual manufacturing for machine tool-process simulation and control” (Twin-Control). The first part reviews the applications ...
Autonomes Fahren
(2015)
Automotive Engineering; Robotics and Automation; Community and Environmental Psychology; Commercial Law
Open and Distance Education in Australia, Europe and the Americas
(2018)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. It ...
Eating, Drinking: Surviving
(2016)
nutrition; agriculture; sustainable development
Emerging States at Crossroads
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ ...
Security in Computer and Information Sciences
(2018)
This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International ISCIS Security Workshop 2018, Euro-CYBERSEC 2018, held in London, UK, in February 2018. The 12 full papers presented together ...
Aquaponics Food Production Systems
(2019)
This open access book, written by world experts in aquaponics and related technologies, provides the authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key aquaculture and hydroponic and other integrated systems, socio-economic ...
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
(2019)
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech ...
Think Big, Start Small
(2017)
return on engineering; innovation management; Elektromobilität; Mobilitätslösung
Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem
(2017)
epistemic justification; infinite regress; epistemology; ethics; metaphysics; philosophy
Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation
(2019)
In the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by governments and public institutions. Experts ...
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; ...
Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty
(2019)
This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic ...
Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours
(2020)
This open access book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations. With the ideological and environmental history of North Korea in mind, the book examines the complex ...
Motivational Profiles in TIMSS Mathematics
(2019)
This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study ...
Subsidiaritätsgrundsatz und Tatsachenfeststellung unter der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention
(2019)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Subsidiarität ist zu einem Schlüsselbegriff des Diskurses um die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK) geworden. Neben seiner vielbeachteten ...
Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial?
(2019)
This open access publication discusses exclusionary rules in different criminal justice systems. It is based on the findings of a research project in comparative law with a focus on the question of whether or not a fair ...
Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
(2020)
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has ...
Flowing Matter
(2019)
This open access book, published in the Soft and Biological Matter series, presents an introduction to selected research topics in the broad field of flowing matter, including the dynamics of fluids with a complex internal ...