This open access book analyzes language education through a socio-material framework. The authors revisit their position as researchers by decentering themselves and humans in general from the main focus of research activities and giving way to the materialities that are agentive but often overlooked parts of our research contexts and processes. Through this critical posthumanist realism, they …
This open access book identifies various forms of heritage destruction and analyses their causes. It proposes strategies for avoiding and solving conflicts, based on integrating heritage into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It reflects on the identity-building role of heritage, on multidimensional conflicts and the destruction of heritage, and considers conflict-solving strategies …
In this open-access-book the author concludes that expertise could be the key factor for global and interconnected problems. Experimental results have shown that expertise was a stronger predictor than public information regarding change in behavior and strategy adaption. Identifying non-routine problem-solving experts by efficient online assessments could lead to less volatile system performan…
This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemp…
This open access book offers an overview of theories related to simulation and describes different simulation areas within nursing. It illustrates how simulation may be used in different levels in professional education. The book deals with the role of the Simulation Facilitator, peer learning and the use of Virtual Reality in simulation. It provides new insights and paths to the development of…
XcalableMP is a directive-based parallel programming language based on Fortran and C, supporting a Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) model for distributed memory parallel systems. This open access book presents XcalableMP language from its programming model and basic concept to the experience and performance of applications described in XcalableMP. XcalableMP was taken as a parallel…
This open access book analyzes language education through a socio-material framework. The authors revisit their position as researchers by decentering themselves and humans in general from the main focus of research activities and giving way to the materialities that are agentive but often overlooked parts of our research contexts and processes. Through this critical posthumanist realism, they …
This open access book deals with the methods and the results of the third Italian national forest inventory (INFC2015). Arma dei Carabinieri is entrusted with the realisation of the National Forest Inventory and with the decisions about the aims of the survey and data treatment. National forest inventories produce statistically based information on forests over country areas. Such information i…
Diese Open-Access-Publikation vermittelt Personen aus Wirtschaft und Lehre durch pragmatische und fokussierte Darstellungsweise sowohl die Grundsystematik der Organhaftung als auch die in der Praxis äußerst relevante Problematik der Organhaftung bei unklaren Rechtslagen. Gleichzeitig wird durch Auslegung der Legalitätspflicht untersucht, ob der gegenwärtig in der Rechtsprechung verfolgte An…
Der Kauf einer Eigentumswohnung ist wirtschaftlich vorteilhaft, wenn ihr Wert größer als der gezahlte Preis ist. Der zweckadäquate Wert wird „Entscheidungswert“ oder „Grenzpreis“ genannt und ruht auf künftigen Mietüberschüssen. Stephan Walochnik diskutiert in dem Open Access-Buch, wie diese wiederum durch schwer quantifizierbare Wohnungsmerkmale beeinflusst werden, deren Berücksi…