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50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reco…
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 …
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- 978-3-031-05660-4
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- Heritage Studies
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- XL, 504
Accelerator-Driven System at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
This open access book is a unique compilation of experimental benchmark analyses of the accelerator-driven system (ADS) at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA) on the most recent advances in the development of computational methods. It is devoted especially to nuclear engineers and scientists. Readers will find a detailed description of advanced measurement techniques and calculation m…
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- 978-981-16-0344-0
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Quantum Computing for the Quantum Curious
This open access book makes quantum computing more accessible than ever before. A fast-growing field at the intersection of physics and computer science, quantum computing promises to have revolutionary capabilities far surpassing “classical” computation. Getting a grip on the science behind the hype can be tough: at its heart lies quantum mechanics, whose enigmatic concepts can be imposing…
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- 978-3-030-61601-4
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Die Grenzen der EU: Europäische Integration, „Schengen“ und die Kontroll…
Dieses Open-Access-Buch blickt auf die Hintergründe der Politik der Freizügigkeit in Europa und diskutiert die Folgen. Die europäische Integration veränderte die Migrationsverhältnisse erheblich: Zwischen den EU-Mitgliedstaaten wurden unter dem Begriff der „Freizügigkeit“ Grenzübertritte sowie Arbeit und Niederlassung von Staatsangehörigen anderer Mitgliedsländer weitgehend erleich…
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- 978-3-658-33213-6
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The Impact of Individual Expertise and Public Information on Group Decision-M…
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…
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- 978-3-658-33139-9
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Berufliche Orientierung zwischen Heterogenität und Individualisierung: Besch…
Mit Blick auf die berufliche Orientierung Jugendlicher bietet dieses Open-Access-Buch eine systematische, theoriegeleitete und empirische Analyse heterogener Unterstützungsbedarfe und ihrer vielfältigen Ursachen. Die Bedeutung regelmäßiger Bedarfs- und Entwicklungsdiagnostik sowie einer systematischen Verzahnung einzelner Elemente beruflicher Orientierung im schulischen Kontext wird eindruc…
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- 978-3-658-33039-2
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Cultural Governance: Legitimation und Steuerung in den darstellenden Künsten
Im internationalen Vergleich verfügt Deutschland über einen bemerkenswerten Theatersektor im Hinblick auf Ensembles und Spielstätten. Die darstellenden Künste sind zudem der Kulturbereich mit der höchsten öffentlichen Förderung. Theater ist daher in besonderer Weise abhängig von der Politik. Was bedeutet das für den Alltag der Theatermacher*innen? Wie und mit welchen Zielsetzungen grei…
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- 978-3-658-32159-8
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Doing Indefinite Time
This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners’ manifold ways of inhabiting the prison which can be used to challenge well established notions about the experience of imprisonment, such as ‘adaptation’…
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- 978-3-031-12590-4
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- Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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- XIII, 353
The Institutions of Programmatic Action
This open access book is the first monograph to systematically apply the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) in a comparative analysis of public policy in two institutionally different countries. The PAF seeks to explain long-term policy change by examining the shared biographies of policy actors who, to foster their careers, coalesce around policy programs which they promote throughout the pol…
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- 978-3-031-05774-8
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- International Series on Public Policy
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- XXI, 237
Transformation Thermotics and Extended Theories
This open access book describes the theory of transformation thermotics and its extended theories for the active control of macroscopic thermal phenomena of artificial systems, which is in sharp contrast to classical thermodynamics comprising the four thermodynamic laws for the passive description of macroscopic thermal phenomena of natural systems. This monograph consists of two parts, i.e., i…
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- 978-981-19-5908-0
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- X, 344
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