Publications
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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering
(2022)
This open access book is a collection of accepted papers from the 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering (ICCE2021). Researchers and engineers have discussed and presented around three major topics, i.e., ...
The Illusion of Risk Control: What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty?
(2017)
risk management; black swans; safety; high-risk organisations; FonCSI; complexity in risk management; risk assessment
Kantianism for Animals
(2022)
This open access book revises Kant’s ethical thought in one of its most notorious respects: its exclusion of animals from moral consideration. The book gives readers in animal ethics an accessible introduction to Kant’s ...
Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants
(2016)
Hematology; Surgery; Cardiology
Vulnerability and Transformation of Indonesian Peatlands
(2023)
This open access book deals with restoring degraded peatlands to help mitigate global warming, to which SDG 15 and SDG 13 are directly related. The book analyzes peatland degradation and restoration of the Indonesian ...
Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America
(2020)
This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, ...
Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities
(2013)
Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent ...
Datenreport Zivilgesellschaft
(2019)
Als Open Access Publikation bietet der Datenreport Zivilgesellschaft erstmals einen Überblick über Stand und Entwicklung von Zivilgesellschaft und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement in Deutschland auf verbindender Grundlage der ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2020)
The open access two-volume set LNCS 12224 and 12225 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2020, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in July 2020.* The 43 ...
Normal Development of Voice
(2024)
This fully revised and extended second edition provides a comprehensive, most up-to-date overview of the investigation of quantitative measurement in the complex of voice. Important objective parameters of normal voice ...
Normal Development of Voice
(2024)
This fully revised and extended second edition provides a comprehensive, most up-to-date overview of the investigation of quantitative measurement in the complex of voice. Important objective parameters of normal voice ...
Vietnamese Language, Education and Change In and Outside Vietnam
(2024)
This open access edited book attempts to break new ground in investigating multiple facets of Vietnamese language, education and change in global contexts, engaging with global Vietnam through complex lenses of language ...
Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation
(2018)
Protest mobilization and outcome; Political participation; Emotions and social ties; Deportation nation; Refugees; Pro-migrant protest; Anti-migrant protest
Chapter Bibliography
(2013)
In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection ...
One Hundred Years of Social Protection
(2021)
While the rise of social protection in the global North has been widely researched, we know little about the history of social protection in the global South. This volume investigates the experiences of four middle-income ...
Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants
(2016)
Hematology; Surgery; Cardiology
Neuroökonomie
(2022)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Neuroökonomie und ihre Fragestellungen. Die Neuroökonomie ist ein noch relativ junger Wissenschaftszweig, in dem kognitive Neurowissenschaftler ...
Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America
(2020)
This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, ...
Responsible AI in Africa
(2023)
This open access book contributes to the discourse of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) from an African perspective. It is a unique collection that brings together prominent AI scholars to discuss AI ethics from ...
Words, Objects and Events in Economics
(2021)
This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain ...
The Making of Islamic Heritage
(2017)
diversity; architecture; culture; vulnerability; conservation
Conservation in Chilean Patagonia
(2023)
Chilean Patagonia, located at the southwestern tip of South America, is one of the last regions on earth where highly intact environments predominate. With a coastline that extends along some 100,000 km of fjords, channels, ...
Uprooting Bias in the Academy
(2022)
This open access book analyzes barriers to inclusion in academia and details ways to create a more diverse, inclusive environment. It describes the implementation of UC Davis ADVANCE, a grant program funded by the National ...
Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class
(2020)
This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the ...
Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology
(2021)
This open access book brings together a range of contributions that seek to explore the ethical issues arising from the overlap between counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies. Terrorism and our responses pose some of ...
Student Misconceptions and Errors in Physics and Mathematics
(2020)
This open access report explores the nature and extent of students’ misconceptions and misunderstandings related to core concepts in physics and mathematics and physics across grades four, eight and 12. Twenty years of ...
Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe 3
(2023)
This book gathers contributions to the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project INDIMO (Inclusive Digital Mobility Solutions), its sister projects DIGNITY (Digital Transport in and for Society) and TRIPS (Transport Innovation for ...
Nordic Perspectives on the Discourse of Things
(2023)
This open access book deals with the role of written texts in an increasingly diverse and dynamic society, bringing together a series of studies anchored in the Scandinavian research tradition of sakprosa, which roughly ...
Space Business
(2024)
This book is an academic investigation of commercial activities of firms in the space related industries and those utilizing services provided by space technology firms. These firms and their activities are part of the ...
Stable Isotopes to Trace Migratory Birds and to Identify Harmful Diseases: An Introductory Guide
(2016)
Animal Ecology; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami
(2019)
This open access book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, a social and cultural group that often is overlooked as it is a minority ...
Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement
(2022)
This open access book is about mismanagement of public agencies as a threat to life and limb. Collapsing bridges and buildings kill people and often leave many more injured. Such disasters do not happen out of the blue nor ...
Longer-Term Psychiatric Inpatient Care for Adolescents
(2022)
This open access book describes the theoretical underpinnings and operational aspects of delivering longer-term inpatient psychiatric care to adolescents experiencing severe, unremitting mental illness. The authorship is ...
Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly developing esport phenomenon by examining one of its contemporary flagship titles, Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment 2016), through three central themes ...
Compendium for Early Career Researchers in Mathematics Education
(2019)
The purpose of this Open Access compendium, written by experienced researchers in mathematics education, is to serve as a resource for early career researchers in furthering their knowledge of the state of the field and ...
Freiheitseinschränkende Maßnahmen bei Menschen mit Demenz in professionellen Sorgebeziehungen
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch befasst sich kritisch mit der Anwendung freiheitseinschränkender Maßnahmen (FeM) bei Menschen mit Demenz in professionellen Sorgebeziehungen, die sowohl im Hinblick auf ihren vermeintlichen Nutzen ...
Sago Palm: Multiple Contributions to Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods
(2018)
Under-utilized food resource; Metroxylon sagu; Starch production; Sago palm forest; Sago sugar
Particle Polarization in High Energy Physics
(2023)
This open-access book addresses the following questions: how does the polarization of a particle, i.e., the angular momentum state in which it is produced, manifest itself in nature? What are the concepts and tools needed ...
Regularity of the One-phase Free Boundaries
(2023)
This open access book is an introduction to the regularity theory for free boundary problems. The focus is on the one-phase Bernoulli problem, which is of particular interest as it deeply influenced the development of the ...
Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class
(2020)
This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the ...