Menawarkan perspektif baru tentang "dorongan", buku ini menggunakan paternalisme hukum untuk mengeksplorasi bagaimana sistem hukum dapat mempromosikan kebijakan yang baik tanpa mengabaikan otonomi pribadi. Buku ini menunjukkan bahwa dilema antara aturan opt-in yang tidak efisien dan skema opt-out yang membatasi otonomi gagal untuk secara realistis menangkap rentang opsi yang tersedia bagi pembu…
Healing the Reason-Emotion Split mengacu pada penelitian dari psikologi eksperimental dan ilmu saraf untuk menghilangkan mitos bahwa akal budi harus dijunjung tinggi di atas emosi. Dengan menyatakan bahwa akal budi dan emosi saling menguntungkan kemampuan kita dalam mengambil keputusan, buku ini mengeksplorasi gagasan bahwa memahami hubungan ini dapat memberikan keuntungan jangka panjang bagi p…
Teks ini mengkaji seksualitas manusia melalui teori psikoanalitik dan psikologi ego modern, yang melihat makna emosional dan organisasinya dalam representasi simbolis dari afek sebagaimana diatur oleh ego. Dimulai dengan eksplorasi tentang bagaimana representasi simbolis diterapkan pada pengalaman sensorik tubuh dalam seksualitas manusia, baik dalam realitas maupun fantasi. Selanjutnya, penulis…
This open-access book brings together international experts who shed new light on the status of social enterprises, benefit corporations and other purpose-driven companies. The respective chapters take a multidisciplinary approach (combining law, philosophy, history, sociology and economics) and provide valuable insights on fostering social entrepreneurship and advancing the common good. In …
This unique open access book applies the functional OCaml programming language to numerical or computational weighted data science, engineering, and scientific applications. This book is based on the authors' first-hand experience building and maintaining Owl, an OCaml-based numerical computing library. You'll first learn the various components in a modern numerical computation library. The…
This open access book provides selected teaching approaches, supporting methods, concrete examples of curricula as well as extracurricular teaching formats, which are predominantly tailored to both African and German requirements. These approaches were developed by the YEEES Training and Research Centers, an international interdisciplinary network of university teachers and researchers from Ger…
Resilienz ist in aller Munde. Egal, ob es sich um gesellschaftliche, wirtschaftliche, technologische oder ökologische Themen handelt: Der Begriff bestimmt zunehmend den Diskurs über die Zukunftsfähigkeit unserer Gesellschaft und den Zustand unseres Planeten. Der fünfte Open-Access Themenband des Instituts für Innovation und Technik (iit) gibt einen interdisziplinären Einblick in das T…
This book is the first to be devoted to the theory and applications of spherical (radial) basis functions (SBFs), which is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising techniques for solving problems where approximations are needed on the surface of a sphere. The aim of the book is to provide enough theoretical and practical details for the reader to be able to implement the SBF methods to sol…
This book describes the basic principles underlying the generation, coding, transmission and enhancement of speech and audio signals, including advanced statistical and machine learning techniques for speech and speaker recognition with an overview of the key innovations in these areas. Key research undertaken in speech coding, speech enhancement, speech recognition, emotion recognition and spe…
Der Open-Access-Band stellt die Bedingungen, Verfahrensweisen und Organisationsformen einer gemeinschaftlichen Entwicklung von Gemeinden, Städten und Regionen in den Mittelpunkt einer wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung. Da Kommunen angesichts der Anforderungen aus globalen, nationalen und regionalen Veränderungen die damit verbundenen komplexen Aufgaben nicht mehr alleine lösen können…