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Brain-Inspired Computing
(2021)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Workshop on Brain-Inspired Computing, BrainComp 2019, held in Cetraro, Italy, in July 2019. The 11 papers presented in this volume were ...
Novel Plant Imaging and Analysis
(2021)
This open access book is only an introduction to show that radiation and radioisotopes (RI) are premier tools to study living plant physiology which leads to new findings. Who had ever imagined that we could see water in ...
Spatial-Temporal Evolution of Mining-Induced Rock Damage and Ground Control of Roadways
(2025)
This open access book presents the Coal remains the primary energy source in China, with an estimated total coal reserve of 59 trillion tons at depths of less than 2000 meters. Among these, over 50% lie at depths exceeding ...
Decision Science for Future Earth
(2021)
This open access book provides a theoretical framework and case studies on decision science for regional sustainability by integrating the natural and social sciences. The cases discussed include solution-oriented ...
Advances in Pharma Business Management and Research
(2020)
This open access book presents a unique collection of practical examples from the field of pharma business management and research. It covers a wide range of topics such as: 'Brexit and its Impact on pharmaceutical Law - ...
Making Universities Matter
(2024)
In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance ...
Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos
(2020)
This open access book gives an overview of the sessions, panel discussions, and outcomes of the Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference, held in February 2018 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, and hosted by the ...
Japan’s Financial System
(2025)
This book is a collection of papers from the Tokyo Center for Economic Research's (TCER) research project on Japan's financial markets and financial system, including: (1) Current Japanese situation of cashless payments ...
Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
(2024)
This open access book includes a selection of innovative contributions presented at the 4th international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2022”, held in Bolzano, Italy in July 2022. Featuring ...
Julian Huxley, Evolutionism and the History of Transhumanism
(2025)
The evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley (1887–1975) attempted to promote a “religion for the future,” which he would come to refer to as Transhumanism. Transhumanism was an attempt to unite a more traditional humanistic ...
Cultural Convergence
(2021)
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions ...
Assessment Framework for People-Centred Solutions to Carbon Neutrality
(2024)
This open access book presents a catalogue of over one thousand indicators which can be used by cities' public administrators to monitor and evaluate social innovation action plans to support people-centred, collaborative ...
Quaternion Algebras
(2021)
This open access textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the arithmetic theory of quaternion algebras and orders, a subject with applications in diverse areas of mathematics. Written to be accessible and approachable ...
The Platformization of the Family
(2025)
This open access book outlines how the digital platforms that mediate so many aspects of commercial and personal life have begun to transform everyday family existence. It presents theory and research methods to enable ...
Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering
(2021)
This open access book reports on methods and technologies to describe, evaluate and control uncertainty in mechanical engineering applications. It brings together contributions by engineers, mathematicians and legal experts, ...
Observing the Volcano World
(2018)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully applying volcanology in practice and to identify areas that need to be addressed for ...
Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior
(2022)
This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in ...
Mobilities on the Margins
(2024)
This open access book examines places on the margins and the dynamics through which a marginal position of a place is created. Specifically, it explores how places, mostly in sparsely populated areas, often perceived as ...
Neoliberal Authoritarianism: An Ethnography of Russian Universities
(2025)
This open access book delves into the politics of oppression and dispossession driven by global neoliberalism and state authoritarianism. Challenging liberal biases, it introduces the concept of "neoliberal authoritarianism," ...
Migrants and Expats: The Swiss Migration and Mobility Nexus
(2019)
This open access book provides insight on current patterns of migration in Switzerland, which fall along a continuum from long-term and permanent to more temporary and fluid. These patterns are shaped by the interplay of ...
Contours of Feminist Political Ecology
(2023)
This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the field. As Professor Lyla Mehta says in her Foreword, the book is "foregrounding multiple ...
The Narrative Subject
(2020)
This open access book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media as instruments and stages for storytelling, or who make the media the subject of story ...
Constitutional Change in the European Union
(2022)
Europe’s future is contested between those who want to integrate further, those who prefer things to stay as they are, and those who would retreat into nationalism. These divisions impair the government of the European ...
Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence
(2022)
This open access book addresses the question of how God can providentially govern apparently ungovernable randomness. Medieval theologians confidently held that God is provident, that is, God is the ultimate cause of or ...
A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age
(2024)
This open access book offers a comprehensive exploration of the digital innovations that have emerged in recent years for the circular built environment. Each chapter is meticulously crafted to ensure that both academic ...
Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography
(2022)
This open access book is about socio-spatial theory in, and the nature of, Nordic geography. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book engages with theorisations of geography in the Nordic countries. ...
Assessing Environmental Risk of Oil Spills with ERA Acute
(2021)
This open access book introduces readers to a new methodology for assessing the risks to the marine environment following accidental oil spills. The methodology will soon be implemented on the Norwegian Continental Shelf ...
Anisotropy Across Fields and Scales
(2021)
This open access book focuses on processing, modeling, and visualization of anisotropy information, which are often addressed by employing sophisticated mathematical constructs such as tensors and other higher-order ...
Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference
(2022)
This open access book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Third Conference on Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, SVCC 2022, held as virtual event, in August 17–19, 2022. The 8 full papers included in this book ...
Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies
(2025)
This open access book focuses on two dimensions of the development of the metaverse that are crucial to ‘reality’, namely spatiality and embodiment. Metaversal technologies are thought to fundamentally affect both our ...
Strengthening European Climate Policy
(2024)
This open-access book foregrounds 10 novel collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, for strengthening European climate policy. ...
Engineering a Better Future
(2018)
This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social science. Motivated by the ...
Dumbing Down
(2022)
This open access book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social constructivist view of ...
The Responsibility of Science
(2022)
This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; second, analyses of the structural ...
The Enactment of Strategic Leadership
(2022)
This Open Access book explores the meaning and roles that strategy and leadership play in our lives. Based on decades of experience, the author contemplates whether we believe strategic leadership exists because it actually ...
Digitale Literaturwissenschaft
(2022)
Dieser Open Access-Band dokumentiert die Beiträge des DFG-Symposions 2017 und ist Teil der Reihe der DFG-Symposionsbände. Die Tagung 2017 zum Thema „Digitale Literaturwissenschaft“ behandelte in vier Sektionen die ...
Public Financial Management and Internal Control
(2024)
This open access book focuses on the ‘downstream’ element of PFM, that is how public organisations utilise public resources. It argues that improvements in PFM/IC will only flow from a recognition that what really matters ...
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2022, which was held during April 4-6, 2022, in Munich, Germany, ...
Quantitative History of China
(2026)
This Open Access book marks the beginning of a new era in the study of Chinese history. Since the beginning of the computer age, quantitative techniques have been increasingly used to study specific topics like family, ...
Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagement für eine nachhaltige Zukunftsgestaltung
(2020)
In diesem Open Access-Buch werden fünf zentrale Themenbereiche des Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagement (UBRM) vorgestellt. Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagerinnen und -manager kennen die Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts, ...
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime
(2019)
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic ...
The Foundations of Multi-channel Neighborhood Governance
(2025)
The book presents various aspects of the current urban development in the context of the recent rapid growth of the ICT sector. It focuses on the local scale, in line with the notion that the neighborhood is the fundamental ...
Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility
(2025)
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, ...
Social Selling im B2B
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet einen Überblick über die Grundlagen des Social Sellings und die Einordnung ins Vertriebs- und Marketingmanagement. Dazu werden Social Selling spezifische Ansätze wie Personal Branding, Employee ...
Digital Peripheries
(2020)
This is an open access book. Media industry research and EU policymaking are predominantly tailored to large (and, in the latter case, Western) European markets. This open access book addresses the specific qualities of ...
The Future of the Occupation of the Palestinian Territories after Gaza
(2025)
This open access book outlines four scenarios for the future of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories as a broad canvas on which the interests, roles and perspectives of the key stakeholders involved in occupation ...
Gen- und Zelltherapie 2.023 - Forschung, klinische Anwendung und Gesellschaft
(2023)
Wenn Sie sich für den Stand der Dinge auf dem Gebiet der Gen- und Zelltherapie interessieren, bietet Ihnen diese Open-Access-Publikation einen umfassenden und hochaktuellen Überblick. Wissenschaftler und Experten behandeln ...
Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children
(2024)
Euro-American misrepresentations of the non-West in general, and in particular on Hinduism and ancient India, run deep and have far greater colonial connections than that have been exposed in academia. This book analyzes ...
Annual Report on the Big Data of New Energy Vehicle in China (2021)
(2023)
This open access book, based on static indicators and dynamic big data from local electric vehicles, is the first New-Energy Vehicles (NEVs) research report on the Big Data in China. Using the real-time big data collected ...
Market Segmentation Analysis
(2018)
Business; Management science; Market research; Statistics
Swiss Public Administration
(2019)
Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other ...
Protecting the Fatherland: Lawsuits and Political Debates in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany (1642-1655)
(2021)
This open access book presents a comparative analysis of the use of fatherland terminology in a political and legal context in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany from 1642 to 1655. Fatherland terminology includes words such ...
Organisationsbildung und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung
(2020)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bricht mit dem Konsens in der Forschung, nach dem Organisationen als Errungenschaft der modernen Gesellschaft und Produkt der Industrialisierung angesehen werden. Die Frage, wie sich Organisationen ...
Academic Flying and the Means of Communication
(2022)
This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of ...
Performance Engineering
(2024)
This open access book improves the users' skills needed to implement models for performance evaluation of digital infrastructures. Building a model is usually a relatively easy task, but making it an accurate representation ...
Future Cities Making
(2025)
This open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy with a view to future city missions. It provides a suite of research-informed ...
Viability of UNCLOS amid Emerging Global Maritime Challenges
(2025)
This open access book assesses UNCLOS' resilience and vitality as a legal framework for addressing emerging global maritime challenges. Against the backdrop of a number of emerging global maritime challenges, including the ...
Designing Renewable Energy Systems within Planetary Boundaries
(2025)
This open access book explores interdisciplinary sustainability for energy engineering students. Future generations of engineers need to be game changers. The book is designed to help future engineers redesign the world, ...
Experimenting with the New European Bauhaus Values and Principles in Urban Transformation
(2025)
This open access book offers valuable insights into experimenting with New European Bauhaus values and principles in urban transformation, drawing on contributions from key players such as local activists, action researchers, ...
Plurality and Cultural Specificity of Service Design in East and Southeast Asia
(2025)
This open-access book expounds on how service design has been adopted and practiced in Asia, and how it has impacted especially the East and Southeast Asian countries. As service design is a socio-technical practice that ...
Hybrid Investigative Journalism
(2024)
This open access book is a rare example of the ethnographic study of investigative journalism. This book explores entrepreneurial attempts to combine traditional investigative journalism with alternative ways of organising ...
Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion
(2022)
This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, ...
The Nexus Between Legal Pluralism and Inclusive Finance
(2025)
This open access book provides detailed information on informal credit markets in Africa and how various legal systems affect these markets. Laws that impose strict formalism exclude many people from the financial system. ...
The 3 Dimensions of Digitalised Archaeology
(2024)
This open access book aims to provide an overview of state-of-the-art approaches to 3D documentation from a practical perspective and formulate the most important areas for future developments. Bringing together a wide ...
Potenziale von Bewegung, Spiel und Sport für ein gesundes Aufwachsen in Deutschland
(2025)
Der Band gibt einen Überblick über die Ergebnisse des Projekts 'Move for Health' und ordnet sie in den aktuellen Diskurs zur Bedeutung von Bewegung, Spiel und Sport im Kindesalter ein. Untersucht wurden drei Themenfelder: ...
Pflege-Report 2024
(2024)
Fragen der Versorgungsqualität gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Das gilt auch für die pflegerische Versorgung. Der Pflege-Report, der jährlich in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, beleuchtet im Schwerpunkt ...
Lived Institutions as History of Experience
(2024)
This open access book focuses on institutions that were produced and formed by the emerging welfare state. How were institutions experienced by the people who interacted with them? How did institutions as sites of experience ...
Eingebettete Systeme
(2021)
Ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal dieses Open-Access-Lehrbuchs ist die umfassende Einführung in das Grundlagenwissen über eingebettete Systeme mit Anwendungen in cyber-physischen Systemen und dem Internet der Dinge. Es beginnt ...
The Cool Water Effect
(2025)
This open access book unravels the geo-climatic source of the West’s emancipatory struggles and why the spirit of these struggles is about to spread around the world beyond its original geo-climatic root—which we describe ...
Ratings als Steuerungsinstrument von Unternehmen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird mit Hilfe einer systemtheoretischen Perspektive untersucht, wie Nachhaltigkeitsratings zu einer sinnvollen Gesellschaft beitragen. In einer grundlegenden Einführung in die Systemtheorie wird ...
Stakeholder Relationships And Sustainability
(2024)
This open-access book analyses how stakeholder relationships impact the sustainability of health aid. It does this by providing an overarching analytical framework, which allows for a systematic analysis of sustainability, ...
Soziale Digitalisierung
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch präsentiert innovative Ideen und Lösungsansätze, um die Potenziale Sozialer Digitalisierung gewinnbringend zu nutzen, insbesondere im Kontext der vier Dimensionen Housing, Working, Living und ...
Security of Ubiquitous Computing Systems
(2021)
The chapters in this open access book arise out of the EU Cost Action project Cryptacus, the objective of which was to improve and adapt existent cryptanalysis methodologies and tools to the ubiquitous computing framework. ...
New Directions in South-South Migration
(2025)
This open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of South-South migration. It explores crucial migration themes such as migrant integration in urban areas, migration and rural transformation, urban migration ...
Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
(2018)
This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the ...
Security in an Interconnected World
(2020)
This open access book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed forces can subsequently be determined on the grounds of said analysis. More than ...
Managed Software Evolution
(2019)
This open access book presents the outcomes of the “Design for Future – Managed Software Evolution” priority program 1593, which was launched by the German Research Foundation (“Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)”) to ...
Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
(2019)
This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational ...
Pre-Field Screening Protocols for Heat-Tolerant Mutants in Rice
(2018)
This open access book presents simple, robust pre-field screening protocols that allow plant breeders to screen for enhanced tolerance to heat stress in rice. Two critical heat-sensitive stages in the lifecycle of the rice ...
Orientierungsmuster und Beanspruchungserleben in der Pflege
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden empirisch rekonstruierte Orientierungsmuster und Beanspruchungserleben von Pflegefachpersonen im Kontext ihrer beruflichen Tätigkeit aus einer berufspädagogischen Perspektive analysiert. ...