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Manual of Digital Earth
This open access book offers a summary of the development of Digital Earth over the past twenty years. By reviewing the initial vision of Digital Earth, the evolution of that vision, the relevant key technologies, and the role of Digital Earth in helping people respond to global challenges, this publication reveals how and why Digital Earth is becoming vital for acquiring, processing, analysing…
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- 9789813299153
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- XIX, 852 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Learning Diversity
This Open-Access-book explores diversity in its ambivalence. On the one side, we love to describe diversity as a resource for personal, social, economic, and cultural growth. On the other side, categories of differences often lead to discrimination or serve as justifications for privileges. They can cause exclusion and, conversely, promote the self-constitution of discriminated subjects and gro…
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- 978-3-658-40548-9
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- VII, 219
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The Pathway to Publishing: A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Scie…
Scientific writing is a key skill for researchers. Scientific writing develops critical thinking, helps scientists connect their local results with global understanding, and helps scientists identify appropriate next questions to explore. Increased scientific writing capacity within a research group allows more study results to be shared with the practitioner community and policy makers…
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- 9783030981754
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- XIII, 186
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The Moral Implications of Human and Animal Vulnerability
In this open access book, Angela K. Martin thoroughly addresses what human and animal vulnerability are, how and why they matter from a moral point of view, and how they compare to each other. By first defining universal and situational human vulnerability, Martin lays the groundwork for investigating whether sentient nonhuman animals can also qualify as vulnerable beings. She then takes a clos…
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- 978-3-031-25078-1
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- VIII, 193
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Modern Japan’s Place in World History
This Open Access book includes chapters on the key turning points in modern Japanese history from the Meiji Restoration to Japan-China diplomatic normalization in the 1970s and beyond. The topics covered include the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the First and Second World Wars, the Manchurian Crisis, the US Occupation, postwar Japan-China relations, and postwar decolonization…
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- 978-981-19-9592-7
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- XVIII, 211
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The Fate of Political Scientists in Europe
This open access book offers a systematic survey of the attitudes and values of European political scientists. It builds a structural interpretation based on empirical data, as well as offering reflections on the future structure of the discipline. In the middle of a delicate phase of changes marked by the effects of pandemic and the war in Ukraine, we need to pay attention to the factors that …
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- 978-3-031-24643-2
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- XXI, 178
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Ionospheric Multi-Spacecraft Analysis Tools : Approaches for Deriving Ionosph…
This open access book provides a comprehensive toolbox of analysis techniques for ionospheric multi-satellite missions. The immediate need for this volume was motivated by the ongoing ESA Swarm satellite mission, but the tools that are described are general and can be used for any future ionospheric multi-satellite mission with comparable instrumentation.
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- 978-3-030-26732-2
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- X, 288
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- ISSI Scientific Report Series (ISSI, volume 17)
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Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation
This book reviews these megatrends and their implications for the Earth Observation community as well as the wider data economy. It provides insight into new paradigms of Open Science and Innovation applied to space data, which are characterized by openness, access to large volume of complex data, wide availability of new community tools, new techniques for big data analytics such as Artificial…
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- 978-3-319-65633-5
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- IX, 330
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- ISSI Scientific Report Series (ISSI, volume 15)
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Foltersituationen und Wissensflüsse : Soziologische Überlegungen zur Gewalt…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht Max Breger Fragen zu Folter aus Perspektive der interaktionistischen Soziologie nach. Folter ist eine extreme Form zwischenmenschlichen Handelns, die als Menschenrechtsverletzung zwar delegitimiert, aber übliche Praxis moderner Staaten ist. Dabei nutzen Folternde die vielfältigen leiblich-psychischen Verletzlichkeiten des Menschen, um als ‚feindlich‘ versta…
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- 978-3-658-45339-8
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- XVII, 326
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- Wissen, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft (WISSEN)
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Gemeinsam Musizieren : Zur Soziologie und Ethnographie der Streichensembles
Die Untersuchung baut auf Alfred Schütz‘ klassischem Aufsatz „Gemeinsam Musizieren“ auf und folgt der Frage, wie es Musiker:innen gelingt, mit Noten und Instrumenten gemeinsam zu musizieren und wie dies durch die Spielenden erlebt wird. Sie wird anhand von Streichensembles untersucht, die ohne Dirigierende musizieren. Durch die Integration von Videographie, fokussierter und lebensweltana…
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- 978-3-658-42162-5
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- XXVI, 517
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- Wissen, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft (WISSEN)
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