The Nyāyasūtravivaraṇa, written in the first centuries of the 2nd millennium CE, provides the most accessible introduction to the core teachings of old Nyāya. Excerpting from the two earliest and most important treatises of this tradition—the Nyāyabhāṣya and Nyāyavārttika—Gambhīravaṃśaja created a comprehensive yet concise digest. The present work contains not only a critic…
The Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development (LSVD) explains and illustrates the processes by which individuals construct their work experiences, vocational pathways and career patterns through episodes of interaction with affordances they recognize within their contexts, and how counseling can facilitate those processes. The LSVD was created by combining the scientifically…
In this open access book, Timothy Aylsworth and Clinton Castro draw on the deep well of Kantian ethics to argue that we have moral duties, both to ourselves and to others, to protect our autonomy from the threat posed by the problematic use of technology. The problematic use of technologies like smartphones threatens our autonomy in a variety of ways, and critics have only begun to appreciate t…
This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The practices of Jane Lumley in England, Camila Herculiana in Padua, Victorine de Chastenay in Paris, as well as Elisabe…
Dieses Open Buch schlägt eine Brücke zwischen Theorie und Praxis für das produzierende Gewerbe im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung, der Industrie 4.0 und der Künstlichen Intelligenz. Es ist das Resultat eines vierjährigen Forschungsprojekts, das unter der Leitung des Instituts für Produktionssysteme der Technischen Universität Dortmund und der RapidMiner GmbH in Zusammenarbeit mit zwölf we…
Folgt man den aktuellen UNO-Berichten, steht die Welt an einem kritischen Scheidepunkt, der eine Transformation auf verschiedenen Ebenen verlangt. Dieses Open Access-Fachbuch zeigt in 13 Kapiteln im Sinne von aktuellen Werkstattberichten auf, wie und unter welchen Bedingungen Wandel und Transformation stattfinden, wie sie unterstützt und skaliert werden können. Einige der Transformationsproje…
This open access book provides related theories, methods, strategies, and practical cases for implementing education reform through blended learning in curriculum, program, and institutions in the digital age. It sums up the research and practice achievements of blended learning from different research teams, involving more than 20 experts from educational technology, higher education, vocation…
This open access book provides integrated treatment technology of rural domestic sewage, and highlights ten typical cases in China. The integrated sewage treatment system (ISTE) combine sewage pretreatment, biological treatment, sedimentation, and disinfection, which particularly suitable for decentralized domestic wastewater treatment in rural areas without pipe networks. The main advantages o…
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of education in China, covering 12 critical topics including basic education, higher education, professional education, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education, mental health education, and international education and excellence initiatives. Drawing from current research, theoretical literature, and real-life sto…
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 Einflussfaktor für die Entwicklung der Unternehmen geworden. In zunehmendem Maße werden nicht nur die Strategien der Unternehmen digitaler, sondern sämtliche Führungs- und …