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Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Toward Social-Scientific Literacy and Engineering Resilience
(2015)
Nuclear Engineering; Environmental Science and Engineering; Social Sciences, general
Professionelle Unterrichtswahrnehmung im sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachunterricht
(2024)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele zur Förderung der professionellen Unterrichtswahrnehmung von (angehenden) Lehrkräften im sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachunterricht. Im Fokus ...
Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2022, held in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2022. The 36 regular ...
Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine
(2024)
This book guides its audience—which can range from novice users to experts— though a 55-chapter tour of Google Earth Engine. A sequenced and diverse set of lab materials, this is the product of more than a year of effort ...
Forschendes Lernen
(2020)
Dieses Open Access Buch zeigt, dass Forschendes Lernen ein zentrales Schlagwort in der Bildungsdebatte der letzten Jahre ist. Mit diesem didaktischen Format steht im Fokus des Lernens nicht mehr die Reproduktion von Wissen, ...
“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 ...
Magnetism and Accelerator-Based Light Sources
(2021)
This open access book collects the contributions of the seventh school on Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation held in Mittelwihr, France, from 7 to 12 October 2018. It starts with an introduction to the physics of modern ...
First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life
(2024)
This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their ...
Climate-Related Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific
(2024)
This open access book critically examines the policies and practices related to climate-related human mobility in Asia-Pacific and the legal and policy protection framework for climatically displaced migrants (CDMs) through ...
Rescaling Sustainability Transitions
(2025)
This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes ...
Practical Economics
(2017)
Comparative Politics; Political Economy; Public Administration; Macroeconomics; Economics; Finance; Economic Growth; Russian, Soviet, and East European History
Model-Based Engineering of Collaborative Embedded Systems
(2021)
This Open Access book presents the results of the "Collaborative Embedded Systems" (CrESt) project, aimed at adapting and complementing the methodology underlying modeling techniques developed to cope with the challenges ...
Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions of Gases and Particles
(2014)
Earth System Sciences; Environmental Chemistry; Climatology; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Chemical Exchanges; Biogeochemistry; COST 735; air-sea interface; Trace gases; SOLAS
Chapter 13 A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy
(2024)
As cardiac xenotransplantation moves from labs into hospitals, this chapter asks what Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel Pig-Heart Boy reveals about power, race, and identity in relation to the experimental therapy. ...
Musculoskeletal Diseases 2021-2024
(2021)
This open access book focuses on imaging of the musculoskeletal diseases. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by clinical as well as technological developments. The authors ...
Smittestopp − A Case Study on Digital Contact Tracing
(2022)
This open access book describes Smittestopp, the first Norwegian system for digital contact tracing of Covid-19 infections, which was developed in March and early April 2020. The system was deployed after five weeks of ...
Smittestopp − A Case Study on Digital Contact Tracing
(2022)
This open access book describes Smittestopp, the first Norwegian system for digital contact tracing of Covid-19 infections, which was developed in March and early April 2020. The system was deployed after five weeks of ...
Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches
(2018)
This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family ...
International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice
(2021)
This open access book offers essential information on values-based practice (VBP): the clinical skills involved, teamwork and person-centered care, links between values and evidence, and the importance of partnerships in ...
Chapter Conclusion: The Politics of Self-Harm: Social Setting and Self-Regulation
(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 ...
The Future of China’s Development and Globalization
(2024)
This is an open access book. As the world continues to recover from the fear and uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new set of challenges like increased geopolitical tensions and climate change have become increasingly ...
Metric Algebraic Geometry
(2024)
Metric algebraic geometry combines concepts from algebraic geometry and differential geometry. Building on classical foundations, it offers practical tools for the 21st century. Many applied problems center around metric ...
Education for Children with Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents insights into the lived realities of children with disabilities in primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It examines specific cultural and societal ...
Social Innovation in Higher Education
(2022)
This open access book offers unique and novel views on the social innovation landscape, tools, practices, pedagogies, and research in the context of higher education. International, multi-disciplinary academics and industry ...
Politics of (Dis)Integration
(2020)
This open access book explores how contemporary integration policies and practices are not just about migrants and minority groups becoming part of society but often also reflect deliberate attempts to undermine their ...
Climate of the Middle
(2022)
This Open Access book presents a multidisciplinary perspective to increase our understanding of climate policies that are rooted in the natural moral inclinations of people, families and firms. Which policies prevent a ...
Gestaltung sozialer Versorgung
(2019)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch erläutert ein Handlungsmodell zur Gestaltung sozialer Versorgung. Das Modell beinhaltet 16 Gestaltungsaufgaben, die sich an den wesentlichen Planungs- und Steuerungsaufgaben sozialer Versorgung und ...
Climate of the Middle
(2022)
This Open Access book presents a multidisciplinary perspective to increase our understanding of climate policies that are rooted in the natural moral inclinations of people, families and firms. Which policies prevent a ...
Practical Economics
(2017)
Comparative Politics; Political Economy; Public Administration; Macroeconomics; Economics; Finance; Economic Growth; Russian, Soviet, and East European History
Networks in the Russian Market Economy
(2010)
If Russia has become a market economy, how does it function on a grassroots level? In addition to market mechanisms, what kinds of social and moral principles are at work in the new Russian economy? Is the 'Soviet legacy' ...
All-Optical Methods to Study Neuronal Function
(2023)
This open access volume provides an overview of the latest methods used to study neuronal function with all-optical experimental approaches, where light is used for both stimulation and monitoring of neuronal activity. The ...
Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices
(2015)
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Hydrology/Water Resources; Urban Ecology
Uses of Technology in Upper Secondary Mathematics Education
(2017)
Mathematics Education; Educational Technology; Teaching and Teacher Education
Chapter 13 A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy
(2024)
As cardiac xenotransplantation moves from labs into hospitals, this chapter asks what Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel Pig-Heart Boy reveals about power, race, and identity in relation to the experimental therapy. ...
Musculoskeletal Diseases 2021-2024
(2021)
This open access book focuses on imaging of the musculoskeletal diseases. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by clinical as well as technological developments. The authors ...
Migration and Religion
(2023)
This open access book introduces research on migration and religion with the focus on migration to western European countries from the 1950s and onwards. The book is an in-depth presentation of the main research trends as ...
Computational Science – ICCS 2022
(2022)
The four-volume set LNCS 13350, 13351, 13352, and 13353 constitutes the proceedings of the 22ndt International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2022, held in London, UK, in June 2022.* The total of 175 full papers ...
Hizmet in Transitions
(2022)
In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, ...
Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches
(2018)
This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family ...
Improving Interagency Collaboration, Innovation and Learning in Criminal Justice Systems
(2021)
This Open Access edited collection seeks to improve collaboration between criminal justice and welfare services in order to help prepare offenders for life after serving a prison sentence. It examines the potential tensions ...
Studierendenmigration und Entwicklung
(2021)
Wie tragen internationale Studierende und Alumni zur Entwicklung in ihren Herkunftsländern bei? Ist der Entwicklungseffekt am größten, wenn Studierende direkt nach Beendigung ihres Studiums wieder in ihre Herkunftsländer ...
Evaluating Economic Success
(2024)
This open access book argues that a new policy approach is required in order to tackle the numerous problems the world is currently facing. The priority should be on achieving better outcomes for people, especially those ...
Communication Climate at Work
(2023)
This book explores how members of an organization or group speak to and with each other. An expansion of the author’s previous research on fallibility in organizations, the concept of communication climate is related to ...
Vulnerability Revisited
(2024)
Open access. This open-access book discusses vulnerability and the protection-inclusion dilemma of including those who suffer from serious poverty, severe stigma, and structural violence in research. Co-written with ...
Constructing Roma Migrants
(2019)
This open access book presents a cross-disciplinary insight and policy analysis into the effects of European legal and political frameworks on the life of ‘Roma migrants’ in Europe. It outlines the creation and implementation ...
Multi-dimensional Approaches Towards New Technology
(2018)
This open access edited book captures the complexities and conflicts arising at the interface of intellectual property rights (IPR) and competition law. To do so, it discusses four specific themes: (a) policies governing ...
The European Landing Obligation
(2019)
This open access book provides a comprehensive examination of the European Landing Obligation policy from many relevant perspectives. It includes evaluations of its impacts at economical, socio-cultural, ecological and ...
Innovatorinnen gestalten Zukunft
(2024)
Dieses Open Access essential enthält eine Sammlung praxisnaher Fallstudien, die auf realen Beispielen von Innovatorinnen basieren und einen Einblick in die vielfältigen Rollen von Frauen in Innovationsprozessen geben. Ein ...
Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism
(2024)
This open access book presents the latest findings of researchers from around the globe who presented their work at the 10th international conference of Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism (ICSIMAT) in 2023. It ...
Wellbeing Economics
(2018)
Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, ...
Sustainable Development Disciplines for Humanity
(2023)
This Open Access book provides eight problem solving lectures for sustainable development for people, peace, and partnerships. Those are three of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, the ...
Conviviality in Burgaz
(2024)
This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions, by building on original, long-term ethnographic research (fourteen months in 2009-2010, followed by fieldwork ...
Oxygen Isotopes of Inorganic Phosphate in Environmental Samples
(2022)
This open access book distinguished itself from other publications by offering step-by-step instructions on how to extract, purify, provide modifications, and major issues to be encountered during the process. For the δ18OP ...
Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy
(2023)
This open access handbook describes foundational issues, methodological approaches and examples on how to analyse and model data using Computational Social Science (CSS) for policy support. Up to now, CSS studies have ...
Nachhaltige Gestaltung von lokalen Ernährungssystemen durch Kommunalpolitik und -verwaltung
(2024)
Dieses Open Access Buch erarbeitet konkrete Ansatzpunkte, wie die kommunale Praxis in Politik und Verwaltung Beiträge zur Ernährungswende Richtung Nachhaltigkeit leisten kann. Dabei wird u.a. aufgezeigt, dass die Aufgaben ...
The Fate of Political Scientists in Europe
(2023)
This open access book offers a systematic survey of the attitudes and values of European political scientists. It builds a structural interpretation based on empirical data, as well as offering reflections on the future ...
Classification and Data Science in the Digital Age
(2023)
The contributions gathered in this open access book focus on modern methods for data science and classification and present a series of real-world applications. Numerous research topics are covered, ranging from statistical ...
Transitions in Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Countries and Regions
(2024)
This open access book aims to present the cutting-edge research of scholars from the Global South, where scholars from developing countries have begun to join in the production of knowledges of Area Studies and have produced ...
An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 3
(2020)
This open access book brings together oral histories that record the experiences of individuals with intellectual disabilities in Shanghai as they participate in their careers. Employees with intellectual disabilities ...