Doing Indefinite Time

Irene Marti

This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners’ manifold ways...

Transformation Thermotics and Extended Theories

Ji-Ping Huang , Liu-Jun Xu

This open access book describes the theory of transformation thermotics and its extended theories for the active control of macroscopic thermal phenomena of artificial systems, which is in sharp contrast to classical thermodynamics comprising the four thermodynamic laws...

Age-Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa

Jaco Hoffman , Vera Roos

Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises

Aspasia Chatzidaki , Konstantinos Kafetsios , Maria Kousis

This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe and particularly Greece during the last decade when the economic and refugee crises coincided. It offers new analyses and data on a diverse range of...

Brazil—Japan Cooperation: From Complementarity to Shared Value

Nobuaki Hamaguchi , Danielly Ramos

This is an open access book. Relations between Brazil and Japan progressed dynamically in the 1960s and 1970s, centering on the substantial complementarity between Japan’s needing primary goods to sustain high economic growth and Brazil’s seeking non-hegemonic...

Managing Future Challenges for Safety

Corinne Bieder , Hervé Laroche , Jesús Villena-López

This open access book addresses the future of work and industry by 2040—a core interest for many disciplines inspiring a strong momentum for employment and training within the industrial world. The future of industrial safety in terms of technological risk-management,...

Experimental Studies in Learning Technology and Child–Computer Interaction

Michail Giannakos

This book is about the ways in which experiments can be employed in the context of research on learning technologies and child–computer interaction (CCI). It is directed at researchers, supporting them to employ experimental studies while increasing their quality and...

Self as Method

Qi Wu , Biao Xiang

Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift.  This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of...

Italian National Forest Inventory—Methods and Results of the Third Survey

Davide De Laurentis , Lucio Di Cosmo , Antonio Floris , Patrizia Gasparini

This open access book deals with the methods and the results of the third Italian national forest inventory (INFC2015). Arma dei Carabinieri is entrusted with the realisation of the National Forest Inventory and with the decisions about the aims of the survey and...

The Living Environmental Education

Wei-Ta Fang , Arba'at Hassan , Ben A. Lepage

This open access book is designed and written to bridge the gap on the critical issues identified in environmental education programs in Asian countries. The world and its environments are changing rapidly, and the public may have difficulty keeping up and understanding...

The Search for Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter

Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Karl Van Bibber

A host of astrophysical measurements suggest that most of the matter in the Universe is an invisible, nonluminous substance that physicists call “dark matter.” Understanding the nature of dark matter is one of the greatest challenges of modern physics and is of...

Monte Carlo N-Particle Simulations for Nuclear Detection and Safeguards

Andrea Favalli , John S. Hendricks , Martyn T. Swinhoe

This  open access book is a pedagogical, examples-based guide to using the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP®) code for nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation applications. The MCNP code, general-purpose software for particle transport simulations, is widely used in...

Stereotypes and Myths. Intertextuality in Central European Imagological Reflections

Krisztián Benyovszky , Anna Zelenková , Tibor Žilka

This book combines the theory of intertextuality and intermediality with imagological reflections. These are understood as a way of intercultural, hermeneutically oriented secondary communication in which the analyses of "otherness" do not serve for the purposes of...

Theory and Practice of Sociosensitive and Socioactive Systems

Collectif

Interactive adaptive systems increasingly become part of our everyday life. Which factors could shape this development and under which conditions will interactions with technical systems be deemed socially appropriate? The "FActors of Social Appropriateness"...

The Asymmetric Nature of Time

Vincent Grandjean

This open access monograph offers a detailed study and a systematic defense of a key intuition we typically have, as human beings, with respect to the nature of time: the intuition that the future is open, whereas...

Deforming the Reform

Luana Martin-Russu

This open access book presents an actor-centered study on Europeanization, based on the assumption that EU-driven reforms are highly dependent on the behavior and interests of the key domestic actors. Whether or not a state pursues a European and democratic agenda...

Novel Foods and Edible Insects in the European Union

Giulia Formici , Lucia Scaffardi

This open access book proposes an in-depth study on a vast range of issues connected to the regulation of Novel Foods in the European Union, pursuing an interdisciplinary approach and thus providing a comprehensive picture of this complex topic. Particular attention is...

Public Law and Economics

Robert Cooter , Michael Gilbert

This comprehensive textbook applies economic analysis to public law. The economic analysis of law has revolutionized legal scholarship and teaching in the last half-century, but it has focused mostly on private law, business law, and criminal law.This book extends the...

Next Generation Compliance

Cynthia Giles

Nearly everyone accepts as gospel two assumptions: compliance with environmental rules is high, and enforcement is responsible for making compliance happen. Both are wrong. In fact, serious violations of environmental regulations are widespread, and by far the most...

Kulturen im Dialog VI – Culture in Dialogo VI – Cultures in Dialogue VI

Annemarie Profanter

JungakademikerInnen unterschiedlicher Fachgebiete haben sich mit der Idee den interdisziplinären sowie interkulturellen wissenschaftlichen Dialog zu fördern ans Werk gemacht und setzen sich in ihren Beiträgen mit internationalen Fragen beziehungsweise regionalen Themen...