This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics…
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. In Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710), Heikki Pihlajamäki offers an exciting account of the law and judiciary in seventeenth-century Livonia. Immediately after Sweden conquered the province in the 1620s, a reorganization of the Livonian judiciary began. Its legal order became largely modelled…
The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing w…
Environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, and other types of trans-national disasters, are global crises that cannot be solved within the narrow framework of individual nation-states. They must be addressed through global cooperation and solidarity. Such strategies require intercultural dialog that goes beyond fashionable slogans and can lead to a truly equal …
This new open access book provides a valuable restatement of the current law of armed conflict regarding hostilities in a diverse range of contexts: outer space, cyber operations, remote and autonomous weapons, undersea systems and devices, submarine cables, civilians participating in unmanned operations, military objectives by nature, civilian airliners, destruction of property, surrender, sea…
This open access book reports on a pilot project aiming at collecting information on the socio-ecological risks that could arise in the event of an uncontrolled spread of genetically engineered organisms into the environment. The researchers will, for instance, be taking a closer look at genetically engineered oilseed rape, genetically engineered olive flies as well as plants and animals with s…
Buku akses terbuka ini adalah tinjauan komprehensif tentang metode dan algoritma yang digunakan dalam rekonstruksi peristiwa yang direkam oleh eksperimen-eksperimen di masa lalu, yang sedang berlangsung, dan yang direncanakan di akselerator partikel seperti LHC, SuperKEKB, dan FAIR. Topik utama adalah pengenalan pola untuk menemukan jejak dan puncak, menyelesaikan persamaan gerak dengan metode …
This open access book seeks to foster a multidisciplinary understanding of the ties between faith, financial intermediation, and economic progress by drawing on research across economics, finance, history, philosophy, ethics, theology, public policy, law, and other disciplines. Chapters in this edited volume examine themes as consequential as economic opportunities, real world outcomes and fait…
Penggunaan teknologi tidak sesuai standar seperti superkonduktivitas, kriogenik, dan radiofrekuensi menimbulkan tantangan untuk operasi aman fasilitas akselerator yang tidak dapat diatasi hanya dengan praktik terbaik dari keselamatan kerja di industri konvensional. Buku ini memperkenalkan pembaca pada berbagai isu keselamatan kerja di fasilitas akselerator dan ditujukan kepada manajer, ilmuwan,…
Teks yang telah diuji dalam kursus ini adalah titik awal yang ideal bagi para insinyur dan fisikawan yang memasuki bidang akselerator partikel. Dasar-dasar diperkenalkan secara komprehensif, turunan hasil-hasil esensial disediakan dan gaya notasi yang konsisten digunakan di seluruh buku memungkinkan pembaca dengan cepat membiasakan diri dengan bidang ini, memberikan dasar teori yang solid untuk…