(Un)Equal Pathways to Higher Education: Social Origins and Destinations of Co…

Inequality of educational opportunities (IEO) is a recurring topic in both public debate and academic research. This book contributes to the contemporary discussion on IEO with a focus on individual trajectories over the life course. It provides empirical evidence on the magnitude and the mechanisms of IEO in Colombia, a country with extreme, persistent levels of social inequality. Using nation…

(Pushing) the Limits of Neuroplasticity Induced by Adult Language Acquisition

Most adults attempt to learn a second or even third language at some point in their life. Since language exposure is one of the most intense cognitive training regimes one can encounter, it is not surprising that previous research has shown that multilingualism can induce profound change in the brain or ‘neuroplasticity’.What remains unclear is the scope of such adult language learning indu…

A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age

Building information modelling (BIM) has ushered in the era of symbolic building representation: building elements and spaces are described not by graphical elements but by discrete symbols, each with properties and relations that explicitly integrate all information. Digital twinning promises even more: a digital replica in complete sync with the building and its behaviour. Such techno…

“Colonised by Wankers”: Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction

"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottis…

Typisch Social Entrepreneurship : Arbeitsgestaltung und Wirkung von Arbeit be…

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Green Economy in the Transport Sector : A Case Study of Limpopo Province, Sou…

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Wellbeing, Values and Lifestyles = Towards a New Development Paradigm

This open access book with contributions by leading global experts from diverse specialization defines a new development paradigm built on Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE). The volume outlines the contours of LiFE across five facets namely ethics and value system; sustainable consumption and production; modalities of systemic transformation; financing for resilient infrastructure, cities and s…

Verhaltensökonomische Aspekte bei Entscheidungen = Theorie und experimentell…

In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden Analyseergebnisse komplexer Abwägungsentscheidungen vorgestellt. Insbesondere werden verhaltensökonomische Aspekte wie Muster vorhersehbarer und doch hartnäckiger Fehlentscheidungen berücksichtigt. Zunächst wird ein Newsvendor-typisches, jedoch besser generalisierbares Entscheidungsproblem vorgestellt. Das Anwendungsbeispiel ist der Aufbau von Recyclingkap…

User Experience + Artificial Intelligence = Assessing the Qualities of AI-inf…

This open access book addresses the thriving trend of embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities in products and services reaching the lay public, focusing on the user experience (UX) they prompt from a designerly perspective. It offers a UX evaluation method designed explicitly for AI-infused systems to answer one of the core problems affecting the relationsh…

Tourism as Memory-Making = Russian Tourism in the Shadow of Empire

Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states bordering Russia. This open access book provides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated account of the mnemonic inter…