Publications
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Psychometric Framework for Modeling Parental Involvement and Reading Literacy
(2015)
Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
Building an Inclusive, Green and Low-Carbon Economy
(2023)
This open access book introduces the major environmental green development issues from six major themes carbon neutrality, nature-based solution, watershed management and climate adaptation, BRI green development, sustainable ...
Critical Points for the Organisation of Test Performance Studies in Microbiology
(2022)
This open access book in the field of plant pest detection shows a constant demand in development and improvement of fast and reliable detection tools, especially for high-priority pests. This open access book describes ...
Progress in Entrepreneurship Education and Training
(2023)
The education of future entrepreneurs shapes how we will live in the future, and proper entrepreneurship education is thus of utmost importance. Entrepreneurship educators and researchers constantly renew tools, interventions, ...
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 ...
Executing Magic in the Modern Era
(2017)
This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and ...
Scaling-up Higher Order Thinking
(2023)
This open access book addresses the evasive problem of why truly effective educational innovation on a wide scale is so difficult to achieve, and what leaders may do about this. Examining the case of system-wide reform ...
Taking Vulnerabilities to Labour Exploitation Seriously
(2024)
This open access book intends to contribute to the debate on migrant labour exploitation by exploring the extent to which the EU and the European countries provide a standard for protecting migrant workers. It moves from ...
Managing the Complexity of Critical Infrastructures
(2016)
Complexity; Simulation and Modeling; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Communications Engineering, Networks
Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
(2023)
This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil ...
Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records
(2016)
Health Informatics; Ethics; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences
Foundations of Robotics
(2022)
This open access book introduces key concepts in robotics in an easy to understand language using an engaging project-based approach. It covers contemporary topics in robotics, providing an accessible entry point to ...
Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems
(2016)
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Complex Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Computer Applications
Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records
(2016)
Health Informatics; Ethics; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences
X Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy
(2024)
This open access volume contains the proceedings of the X Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy which was held from 13 to 17 June 2022 at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Since 2006 the series of the ...
Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia
(2023)
This open access book examines Malaysian politics using a linguistic perspective. It explores how language serves to (de)legitimise governance, and its subsequent policies and activities in Malaysia. Grounded in discourse ...
Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance
(2013)
Political Science, general; Social Policy; Business Ethics; Non-Profit Enterprises/Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainable Development
Chapter 2 Athlete's Foot
(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 ...
Socioeconomic Segregation and Educational Inequality
(2024)
This open access book uses multiple IEA Assessments to examine the relationship between socioeconomic segregation between classrooms and student outcomes. By examining Socioeconomic status (SES) segregation between classrooms ...
Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance
(2013)
Political Science, general; Social Policy; Business Ethics; Non-Profit Enterprises/Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainable Development
Fashion Figures
(2017)
STEM careers; girls; preteen; YA; mathlete; fashionista; math; middle school
Evaluationsmethoden der Wissenschaftskommunikation
(2023)
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. Akteure und Fördergeber von Wissenschaftskommunikation beschäftigt zunehmend die Frage, welche Wirkungen von ihren Aktivitäten tatsächlich ausgehen und ob sie ihre Ziele damit eigentlich ...
Men's Experiences of Violence in Intimate Relationships
(2019)
This open access book draws on a broad study on violence against men, from both male and female partners in Norway, to contribute to the research on intimate partner violence. It identifies similarities in men's experiences ...
Flexitranstore
(2020)
This open access book comprises 10 high-level papers on research and innovation within the Flexitranstore Project that were presented at the FLEXITRANSTORE special session organized as part of the 21st International Symposium ...
Seed Science and Technology
(2023)
This open-access edited book is a collection of 17 chapters, synthesized primarily from the lectures delivered by eminent Indian and international experts during a series of capacity-building programmes organised in India ...
Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
(2023)
This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil ...
Percolation Theory Using Python
(2024)
This course-based open access textbook delves into percolation theory, examining the physical properties of random media—materials characterized by varying sizes of holes and pores. The focus is on both the mathematical ...
Higher Education Reforms in Romania: Between the Bologna Process and National Challenges
(2015)
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education; International higher education arena; Higher education reforms; UEFISCDI; Evidence-based policy making; Higher education ...
Pilot Society and the Energy Transition
(2021)
This open access book examines the role of pilot and demonstration projects as crucial devices for conducting innovation in the context of the energy transition. Bridging literature from sustainability transitions and ...
The International Bureau of Education (1925-1968)
(2024)
This open access book offers a critical analysis of the history of the International Bureau of Education (IBE) from its founding in 1925 to its integration into UNESCO in January 1969. Based on the conceptual and methodological ...
Riverine Ecosystem Management: Science for Governing Towards a Sustainable Future
(2018)
Aquatic Ecology; Ecosystem Services; Environmental Management; Freshwater Science; River Restoration; Sustainable River Management; Water Pollution
Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration
(2023)
This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. ...
Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All
(2023)
This open access book is the first of a two-volume series focusing on how people are being enabled or constrained to live well in today’s world, and how to bring into reality a world worth living in for all. The chapters ...
Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, Volume 1
(2023)
This is the first in a series of three volumes of proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC 2022) which was held by Chinese Nuclear Society. As one in the most important and influential conference ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the 6 research workshops, the Agile Education and Training Track, the Doctoral Symposium, as well as a panel presented at XP 2020, the 21st International Conference on Agile Software ...
The Moral Implications of Human and Animal Vulnerability
(2023)
In this open access book, Angela K. Martin thoroughly addresses what human and animal vulnerability are, how and why they matter from a moral point of view, and how they compare to each other. By first defining universal ...
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 ...
The European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Textbook for Nurses
(2023)
This Open Access Second Edition textbook, endorsed by the EBMT, provides adult and pediatric nurses with a full and informative guide covering all aspects of transplant nursing including a new chapter dedicated to cellular ...
Wetlands and Water Framework Directive
(2015)
Environmental Science and Engineering; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Geoecology/Natural Processes
Genome Editing in Neurosciences
(2017)
CRISPR; genetic engineering; DNA; double-strand breaks; Parkinson's disease; Huntington's disease; Rett syndrome; muscular dystrophy