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Atomic Physics for Everyone = An Introduction to Atomic Physics, Quantum Mech…
This open access textbook introduces beginning undergraduate students and high school students to the world of quantum mechanics and atomic spectroscopy. Requiring no previous knowledge of physics and no math beyond basic algebra and sines and cosines, this book focuses on concepts to make the excitement of atomic physics more accessible for learners than ever before. It comes replete with lea…
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- 9783031695070
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- XIII, 263 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Begegnung mit dem eigenen Tod = Nahtoderfahrungen als Brüche und Kontinuitä…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Nahtoderfahrung (NTE) als Phänomen im Kontext der Erforschung des Todes, daraus abgeleitete Todesdefinitionen und ihr Wandel vor dem Hintergrund historischer Entwicklungen und ihren gesellschaftlichen Trends beleuchtet. Mit dem Bekanntwerden des Phänomens können in Bezug auf die Aussagekraft von NTE verschiedene Deutungen identifiziert werden, die sich zum…
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- 9783658457266
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- IX, 313 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Demography of Disasters = Impacts for Population and Place
This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations. Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change) a…
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- 9783030499204
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- XVII, 268 ill; lamp
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Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged? = How Scientific…
This open access book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, Marie-Caroline Schulte discusses the importance of evi-dence in medical research and practice with a focus on the ethical and methodological prob-lems of EBM. The claims that EBM can herald a new theory of epistemology and a Kuhnian paradigm will be refuted. T…
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- 9783476057037
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- IX, 148 ill; lamp
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Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery
This open access book covers all aspects of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) and provides detailed information on each MIGS device, including its mechanism of action; patient selection; implantation techniques; post-operative management; and a review of the existing literature. Step-by-step descriptions are provided for the surgical technique used in implanting each MIGS device, accom…
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- 9789811556326
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- IX, 204 ill; lamp
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Technological Utopianism and the Idea of Justice
This open access book advances a modest defence of technological utopias. While technological utopianism is not devoid of risks and elitism, their benefits should not be discounted in an overall assessment. Rather than rejecting them based on a too narrow definition of utopianism, we must acknowledge their potential to exceed the individualist vs. collectivist dichotomy ascribed to traditional …
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- 9783031759451
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- IX, 156 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Reactor Laboratory Experiments at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
This open access is an educational text on reactor physics experiments and is described based on a careful examination of the contents and pedagogical benefits obtained from the book Nuclear Reactor Physics Experiments by T. Misawa, H. Unesaki, and C. H. Pyeon (2010) from Kyoto University Press, Japan. The current volume comprehensively covers basic and applied topics on experiment using nuclea…
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- 9789819780709
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- XIV, 255 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Strengthening European Climate Policy = Governance Recommendations from Innov…
This open-access book foregrounds 10 novel collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, for strengthening European climate policy. Part of a three-volume collection covering climate, energy, and mobility policy.
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- 9783031720550
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- XXXV, 163 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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A Journey of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems = Essays Dedicated to Peter …
This Open Access book celebrates Professor Peter Marwedel's outstanding achievements in compilers, embedded systems, and cyber-physical systems. The contributions in the book summarize the content of invited lectures given at the workshop “Embedded Systems” held at the Technical University Dortmund in early July 2019 in honor of Professor Marwedel's seventieth birthday. Provides a compre…
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- 9783030474874
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- XV, 176 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Transdisciplinarity in Financial Communication = Writing for Target Readers …
This open access book identifies and analyses problems of text production in finance from three complementary perspectives: problem identification, problem analysis, and problem solution. By doing so, it explains why solving these problems in transdisciplinary collaboration benefits theory, practice, and society at large. Drawing on 25 years of ethnographic research, roughly 2100 text products,…
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- 9783031291159
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- XII, 274 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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