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Low-Dose Radiation Effects on Animals and Ecosystems : Long-Term Study on the…
This open access book summarizes the latest scientific findings regarding the biological effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident in 2011. Various cases of changes in animals and organisms have been reported since the FNPP accident. However, it is often unknown whether they are actually due to radiation, since the dose or dose-rate are not necessarily associated w…
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- 9789811382185
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- XV, 264 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Ecosystem Restoration through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes…
This Open Access book series aims to make timely and targeted contributions for decision-makers and on-the-ground practitioners by producing knowledge concerning “socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes” (SEPLS) – areas where production activities help maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services in various forms while sustainably supporting the livelihoods and well-b…
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- 9789819912926
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Logischer Empirismus, Lebensreform und die deutsche Jugendbewegung: Logical E…
This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key protagonists; they both belonged to the German Youth Movement and developed their early philosophical views in this setting. By combining scholarly essays with unpublished and hard to access manuscripts…
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- 978-3-030-84887-3
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- X, 356
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Inquisitive Logic: Consequence and Inference in the Realm of Questions
This open access book makes a case for extending logic beyond its traditional boundaries, to encompass not only statements but also also questions. The motivations for this extension are examined in detail. It is shown that important notions, including logical answerhood and dependency, emerge as facets of the fundamental notion of entailment once logic is extended to questions, and can therefo…
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- Volume 60
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- 978-3-031-09705-8
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- XX, 272
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The Logical Writings of Karl Popper
This open access book is the first ever collection of Karl Popper's writings on deductive logic. Karl R. Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His philosophy of science ("falsificationism") and his social and political philosophy ("open society") have been widely discussed way beyond academic philosophy. What is not so well known is that Poppe…
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- 978-3-030-94926-6
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- XXIV, 552
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Advances in Proof-Theoretic Semantics
This volume is the first ever collection devoted to the field of proof-theoretic semantics. Contributions address topics including the systematics of introduction and elimination rules and proofs of normalization, the categorial characterization of deductions, the relation between Heyting's and Gentzen's approaches to meaning, knowability paradoxes, proof-theoretic foundations of set theory, Du…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-22686-6
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- VI, 283
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- Trends in Logic
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- 511.3 ADV a
The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding for…
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- 9783030005788
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- IX, 151 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Variant Construction from Theoretical Foundation to Applications
This open access book presents theoretical framework and sample applications of variant construction. The first part includes the components variant logic, variant measurements, and variant maps, while the second part covers sample applications such as variation with functions, variant stream ciphers, quantum interference, classical/quantum random sequences, whole DNA sequences, and multiple-va…
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- 9789811322822
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- XXIV, 409 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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International Comparisons in Learning and Education : Eliasian Perspectives
This Open Access edited volume addresses the important role of education in society through the lens of theoretical concepts developed by Norbert Elias. This book sets out to challenge dominant perspectives within the sociology of education by reorientating traditional debates about socialisation, childhood, early years education, care, schooling and the curriculum, focusing on the relational l…
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- 9783031609589
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- XXIV, 275 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Agential Realism als Basis queer(end)er Experimentalpsychologie: Eine wis…
Zentrale These des Open-Access-Buchs von Julia Scholz ist, dass eine queer(end)e Experimentalpsychologie mit der Herangehensweise des Agential Realism kein Widerspruch in sich ist, obwohl verbreitete Verständnisweisen von Queertheorien und von Experimentalpsychologie(n) dies berechtigterweise zunächst nahelegen. Die Autorin konfrontiert experimentalpsychologische Wissensproduktion mit queerth…
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- 9783658226442
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- XI, 299 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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