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Safety for Particle Accelerators
The use of non-standard technologies such as superconductivity, cryogenics and radiofrequency pose challenges for the safe operation of accelerator facilities that cannot be addressed using only best practice from occupational safety in conventional industry. This book introduces readers to different occupational safety issues at accelerator facilities and is directed to managers, scientists, t…
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- 978-3-030-57031-6
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Projekt- und Teamarbeit in der digitalisierten Arbeitswelt: Herausforderungen…
Ein interdisziplinäres Open-Access-Buch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Projekt- und Teamarbeit besitzen als Formen der Arbeitsorganisation eine hohe praktische Relevanz, die mit den Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung und Vernetzung noch zunimmt. Der Fokus der öffentlichen Debatte um die Digitalisierung der Arbeit liegt auf technologischen und datentechnischen Innovationen. Dieses Sammelwerk er…
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- 978-3-662-62231-5
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Von Bauingenieurinnen und Sozialarbeitern: Studien(fach)wahlen im Kontext von…
Dieses Open-Access-Buch geht theoretisch und empirisch der Frage nach, wie Studien(fach)wahlen im Kontext von sozialem Milieu und sozialem Geschlecht entstehen und nutzt dazu das Habituskonzept nach Pierre Bourdieu und die daran anschließende Methode der Habitushermeneutik. Der Weg an eine Hochschule und in ein spezifisches Studienfach wird nach wie vor grundlegend durch die soziale Herkunft w…
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- 978-3-658-32445-2
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Bearing Witness: Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000)
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas …
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- 978-3-030-62792-8
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Lives in Peace Research
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their p…
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- 978-981-16-4717-8
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Rice Improvement: Physiological, Molecular Breeding and Genetic Perspectives
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. By 2050, human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. The demand for increased food production needs to be met from ever reducing resources of land, water and other environmental constraints. Rice remains the staple food source for a majority of the global populations, but especially in Asia where ninety percent of rice is grown and con…
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- 978-3-030-66530-2
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Water and Earthquakes
This open access book explores the interactions between water and earthquakes, including recent concerns about induced seismicity. It further highlights that a better understanding of the response of the water system to disturbances such as earthquakes is needed to safeguard water resources, to shield underground waste repositories, and to mitigate groundwater contamination. Although the effect…
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- 978-3-030-64308-9
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Comprehensive Utilization of Magnesium Slag by Pidgeon Process
This open access book introduces the magnesium resources in the world and the layout of this industry, the harmless handling/recycling of magnesium slag, and the process of magnesium silicothermic reduction (Pidgeon process) to produce the slag. Examples and experimental data in this book are from the author group’s research programs, as well as the recent researches in China. The book could …
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IAEA Atlas of Cardiac PET/CT
This open access book presents a wide portfolio of examples of positron emission tomography coupled with computer tomography (PET/CT) studies in various cardiac conditions in order to provide a rationale for the implementation of this technology in an array of clinical conditions. Cardiovascular diseases are a major contributor to premature morbidity and mortality worldwide. Low- and middle…
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Energy-Efficient and Semi-automated Truck Platooning
This open access book presents research and evaluation results of the Austrian flagship project “Connecting Austria,” illustrating the wide range of research needs and questions that arise when semi-automated truck platooning is deployed in Austria. The work presented is introduced in the context of work in similar research areas around the world. This interdisciplinary research effort cons…
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