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This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions. It analyzes the role played by the reorganization of higher education (HE) institutions, stimulated by new performance-based narratives aimed at building attracti... More

The 2005 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity is a landmark agreement in modern international law of culture. It reflects the diverse and pluralist understanding of culture, as well as its growing commercial dimension. Thirty diplomats, practitioners and academics explain and assess this importan... More

In light of the increased utilization of information technologies, such as social media and the 'Internet of Things,' this book investigates how this digital transformation process creates new challenges and opportunities for political participation, political election campaigns and political regula... More

At a time when globalization has side-lined many of the traditional, state-based addressees of legal accountability, it is not clear yet how blame is allocated and contested in the new, highly differentiated, multi-actor governance arrangements of the global economy and world society. Moral Agency a... More

National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike. The Nagoya Protocal brings novel ideas for resolving the challenges plaguing the Access and Benefi... More

This contributed volume presents some of the latest research related to model order reduction of complex dynamical systems with a focus on time-dependent problems.  Chapters are written by leading researchers and users of model order reduction techniques and are based on presentations given at the 2... More

This book provides readers with a unique opportunity to explore how the international economic legal order (IELO) may look in a post-WTO world. The substance of this book presupposes (whether correct or not) that the WTO either: (a) Stagnates into the foreseeable future (Doha withers, no new Rounds,... More

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.... More

Das Werk dient der systematischen Aufbereitung der in der deutschen AWZ und in den Küstengewässern der Nord- und Ostsee geltenden Regelungen des Meeresnaturschutzes. Unter Einbezug internationaler und europäischer Vorgaben erläutert die Schrift die einschlägigen nationalen Bestimmungen und bietet pr... More

Im vorliegenden Buch sind die wichtigsten orthopädisch-traumatologischen Untersuchungstechniken systematisiert dargestellt. In einem ersten Schritt werden die Untersuchungstechniken sowie die pathophysiologischen Hintergründe aufgeführt. Es erfolgt eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Beschreibung der Durch... More

Das erfolgreiche Handbuch für Praktiker - bislang bekannt als "der Steiger-Lippmann" - fasst das gesamte, für Führungskräfte aller Ebenen relevante Wissen der Psychologie in einem Werk zusammen und ist, nun schon in der 5. Auflage mit neuem Herausgeberteam, ein bewährter Wegweiser in allen Führungss... More