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Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking
(2025)
This open access book discusses why the seemingly straightforward strategy of teaching children how to think deeply does not work and offers an alternative way forward for the curriculum to achieve these objectives. Over ...
Digital Entrepreneurship
(2021)
This open access book explores the global challenges and experiences related to digital entrepreneurial activities, using carefully selected examples from leading companies and economies that shape world business today and ...
A Generalization of Bohr-Mollerup's Theorem for Higher Order Convex Functions
(2022)
In 1922, Harald Bohr and Johannes Mollerup established a remarkable characterization of the Euler gamma function using its log-convexity property. A decade later, Emil Artin investigated this result and used it to derive ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2025)
This open access 4-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2025, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in July 23-25, 2025. The 51 regular papers presented together ...
Trends in the Treatment of Cerebrovascular Diseases
(2025)
This Open Access book serves as the official proceedings of the 10th European-Japanese Cerebrovascular Congress, held in Kyoto in 2022. During this landmark event, leading experts from both Europe and Japan engaged in ...
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 ...
Das Formular
(2021)
Wenn stimmt, was bereits Friedrich Schiller beklagt hat: dass der Mensch in der modernen Gesellschaft „zum Formular geworden“ ist, dann steht mit diesem unscheinbaren Verwaltungs-tool nichts weniger als unsere Lebenswirklichkeit ...
Die Praxis der Social-Media-Analyse
(2021)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation entfaltet die Konstruktion von Wissen mit Social-Media-Analysen in der deutschen Automobilindustrie. Dort herrscht Goldgräberstimmung – trotz enormem Innovationsdruck: Big Data soll Licht in ...
Taming the Big Green Elephant
(2021)
In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have ...
Contract Farming in Developing Countries
(2025)
Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of ...
Comparative Studies on Chinese and Western Civilizations
(2026)
This open access book compares Chinese and Western civilizations from multiple perspectives, and it mainly consists of three parts that respectively compare the Warring States and ancient Greece, the Qin and Han dynasties ...
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 ...
Differenzerleben als Balanceakt
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern medienbezogene Bildungsprozesse in Paarbeziehungen stattfinden. In der heutigen Informationsgesellschaft stehen Individuen in einer Paarbeziehung vor der ...
Psychosocial Experiences of African Migrants in Six European Countries
(2020)
This open access book provides an empirical account of the psychological and social experiences of 3500 African migrants to 6 European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, France, and the UK. It discusses the ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2024)
This open access book constitutes papers from the research workshops presented at XP 2022 and XP 2023, respectively the 23rd and 24th International Conferences on Agile Software Development, held on June 13-17, 2022 at the ...
Social Networks and Health Inequalities
(2022)
This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences ...
Building the Inclusive City
(2020)
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and ...
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for the Clinician
(2021)
This is an open access book with CC BY 4.0 license. This comprehensive open access textbook provides a comprehensive coverage of principles and practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery. With a range of topics starting ...
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 ...
Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life
(2023)
This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the ...
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 ...
Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition
(2024)
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods ...
The Autofictional
(2022)
This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to ...
Model Tests and Numerical Simulations of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading II
(2024)
This open access book presents work collected through the Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects (LEAP) in 2019 (LEAP-ASIA-2019) following the LEAP-UCD-2017 whose results have been published as a first volume. In ...
Understanding the Generality of Mathematical Statements
(2023)
In this open access book Milena Damrau investigates the understanding of generality of mathematical statements in first-year university students and its relation to other proof-related activities. Through an experimental ...
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 ...
Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship
(2025)
This Open Access book is the first book to share in-depth narratives outlining the lived experiences of Japanese and Latin American Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Brazil, Mexico and Japan. It focuses in on the career paths of ...
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 ...
Assessment of Cancer Screening
(2022)
Cancer screening is a prominent strategy in cancer control in the United States, yet the ability to correctly interpret cancer screening data eludes many researchers, clinicians, and policy makers. This open access primer ...
The Plaston Concept
(2022)
This open access book presents the novel concept of plaston, which accounts for the high ductility or large plastic deformation of emerging high-performance structural materials, including bulk nanostructured metals, ...
No Truth Without Beauty
(2022)
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and ...
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 ...
Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences
(2025)
This open access book presents and defends a new approach towards social functionalism: Presentist Social Functionalism. This approach draws on recent developments in evolutionary biology and philosophy of biology to provide ...
Music and the Cultural Production of Scale
(2023)
This open access book shows how geographical scales are made through music. Scales are sets of spatial frames, abstractions or categories that denote the size, proportion, level, extent or hierarchical relations of phenomena. ...
Eigentum ohne Eigentümer?
(2024)
In der aktuellen eigentumspolitischen Diskussion gibt es Vorschläge, die darauf hinauslaufen, den personalen Bezug des Eigentums erheblich zu relativieren und die Privatnützigkeit des Eigentums zu marginalisieren oder gar ...
Pop Music Made in Småland
(2025)
Using interviews with and academic studies of the careers of internationally-famous music producers and music industry professionals from Småland, Sweden, this open access book studies the history and present state of pop ...
Northern Lights on Civic and Citizenship Education
(2021)
This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in ...
Gas Explosion and Its Protection Technology in Process Industries
(2025)
This open access book first introduces the explosive characteristics of combustible gas in the process industrial device, and then introduces the influence law of structural effect on gas explosion characteristics and ...
Nanoscale Photonic Imaging
(2020)
This open access book, edited and authored by a team of world-leading researchers, provides a broad overview of advanced photonic methods for nanoscale visualization, as well as describing a range of fascinating in-depth ...
Optimierung der Tragfähigkeit von Zahnwellenverbindungen
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass die Tragfähigkeit evolventisch basierter Zahnwellenverbindungen auf geradezu revolutionäre Art und Weise gesteigert werden kann, wenn für ihre Realisierung nicht das System zur ...
Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician
(2021)
This open access book examines the many contributions of Paul Lorenzen, an outstanding philosopher from the latter half of the 20th century. It features papers focused on integrating Lorenzen's original approach into the ...
Bewertung von Eigentumswohnungen
(2021)
Der Kauf einer Eigentumswohnung ist wirtschaftlich vorteilhaft, wenn ihr Wert größer als der gezahlte Preis ist. Der zweckadäquate Wert wird „Entscheidungswert“ oder „Grenzpreis“ genannt und ruht auf künftigen Mietüberschüssen. ...
Translation und Marginalisierung
(2025)
Übersetzungen spiegeln und bestätigen die Normen der zielkulturellen Mehrheitsgesellschaft und ihrer machthabenden Instanzen, wohingegen Anliegen von Minderheiten meist unberücksichtigt bleiben. Diesen oft übersehenen ...
Digital Business
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Fachbuch beleuchtet empirische und theoretische Aspekte der Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft aus der Perspektive verschiedener Managementbereiche. Der Megatrend Digitalisierung ist zu einem dominierenden ...
Framing Global Mathematics
(2022)
This open access book is about the shaping of international relations in mathematics over the last two hundred years. It focusses on institutions and organizations that were created to frame the international dimension of ...
The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces
(2022)
This open access book provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the relevant literature on the legibility of different kinds of typefaces, which goes back over 140 years in the case of reading from paper and more than ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2022)
This open access two-volume set LNCS 13371 and 13372 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2022, which was held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The ...
Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State
(2020)
This book reflects on theoretical developments in the political theory of care and new applications of care ethics in different contexts. The chapters provide original and fresh perspectives on the seminal notions and ...
Das Weltbild der Circular Economy und Bioökonomie
(2024)
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. Bei der Suche nach neuen Wirtschaftsformen richten sich viele Hoffnungen auf die Circular Economy und Bioökonomie. Beiden wird das Potenzial zugesprochen, die Natur mit ihren Ressourcen zu ...
Divorce in Europe
(2020)
This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs ...
Challenging Assumptions Around Dementia
(2023)
This open access book explores the expectations surrounding dementia, what it ‘looks like’ and how people have been treated by others. It aims to raise awareness of the different types of dementia, and how they impact the ...
Time in Education Policy Transfer
(2025)
This open access book investigates a topic underexplored in policy transfer: time. Drawing on well-known theories from comparative education, public policy studies, political science, and sociology, but written in an ...
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 ...
Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography
(2022)
This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology for creating empirically grounded agent-based models ...
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 ...
Der Zusammenhang zwischen Meritokratie und beruflicher Bildung
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss des meritokratischen Prinzips auf die Wertschätzung beruflicher Bildung gegenüber allgemeiner bzw. akademischer Bildung. Diesen Einfluss untersucht die Autorin ...
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 ...
The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership
(2021)
This open access book provides a comprehensive look at the pluses and minuses of leadership in times of an unparalleled crisis, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. It examines the COVID-19 crisis in terms of psychodynamics, ...
Demystifying Intelligent Multimode Security Systems
(2023)
This open access book. Use this practical guide to understand the concepts behind Intelligent Multi-modal Security Systems (IMSS) and how to implement security within an IMSS system to improve the robustness of the devices ...
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 ...