Filter by
Data for Social Good
This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations’ datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodology. For researchers, the work offers a playbook for partnering with community organisations in d…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811955549
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Annual Report on the Big Data of New Energy Vehicle in China (2021)
This open access book, based on static indicators and dynamic big data from local electric vehicles, is the first New-Energy Vehicles (NEVs) research report on the Big Data in China. Using the real-time big data collected by China's National Monitoring and Management Platform for NEVs, this book delves into the main annual technological progress of NEVs, the vehicle operating characteristics…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811955082
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
New Materialist Explorations into Language Education
This chapter outlines the socio-material framing of the book that it opens. We situate this volume materially not only in the discipline of applied linguistics and language education, but also in the long tradition of applied language studies at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and the community there. In doing so, the book builds on the authors’ roots in social constructionist though…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031138478
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Mathematical Surprises
This is open access book provides plenty of pleasant mathematical surprises. There are many fascinating results that do not appear in textbooks although they are accessible with a good knowledge of secondary-school mathematics. This book presents a selection of these topics including the mathematical formalization of origami, construction with straightedge and compass (and other instruments), t…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031135668
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods
This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031135514
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Distributed Learning Ecosystems
This open-access book is based on the observation that learning ecosystems are increasingly established in higher education institutions. However, an important aspect that is still missing is their interconnectedness. Consequently, the book intends to close this gap by introducing the concept of a distributed learning ecosystem (DLE). A DLE follows the idea of establishing an interlinkage betwe…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783658387037
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Novel Foods and Edible Insects in the European Union
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 paid not only to the current EU legislative framework, its positive innovations, unsolved problems and limits, but also to food…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031134944
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Diversity in Computer Science
This is an open access book that covers the complete set of experiences and results of the FemTech.dk research which we have had conducted between 2016-2021 – from initiate idea to societal communication. Diversity in Computer Science: Design Artefacts for Equity and Inclusion presents and documents the principles, results, and learnings behind the research initiative FemTech.dk, which was …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031133145
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History
This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread practice in world civilisations. With research traditionally being dominated by the Atlantic world, this collection aims to illuminate slavery…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031132605
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Corporate Liability for Transboundary Environmental Harm
This open access book aims to elaborate on the legal prerequisites to establish the liability of corporations for transboundary environmental harm, not only by identifying existing liability rules, principles and standards but also by analysing their potential for further legal development. The authors consider international and transboundary liability law to currently be an underutilised tool …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031132643
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography