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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
No full textThis open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops and the poster track held at the 26th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2025, which took place in Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland, during June 2-5, 2025. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. The main ambition of the co-located workshops was to foster collaboration, generate new insights, and advance the field of agile software development. The 2 full papers and 10 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 35 submissions to the workshops and the poster track. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI and Agile Software Development: From Frustration to Success; The Third International Workshop on Global and Hybrid Work in Software Engineering (GoHyb); Towards a Closser Collaboration between Practice and Research in Agile Software Development - What we learnt and what not; Posters
Navigating Through Crisis
No full textThis open access book explores the socio-economic challenges and recovery efforts in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar during the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on the pandemic’s wide-ranging impacts, particularly on individuals, households, and small and medium-sized enterprises across key sectors such as agriculture, garment manufacturing, and tourism. The analysis incorporates cross-cutting themes, including gender disparities and social protection, highlighting the uneven effects on different demographics. The book also discusses the policy responses adopted by these countries to mitigate socio-economic challenges. It examines the mechanisms employed during policy implementation, identifying key lessons for managing crises in the region. The book aims for a diverse audience, including students, researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners. Offering evidence-based insights, this volume is an important resource for understanding crisis management and policy development in the context of developing countries
Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects
No full textThis open access book on open-source data and the trade in cultural heritage is foundational for object biography, provenance research studies, and social science methodological education. Interest in studying the (illicit) trade in cultural objects, as well questions around ownership, access and protection, have grown in recent years. However, this interdisciplinary field requires a range of methodological skills in order to trace an object's ownership history and the social network underpinning its trade. Drawing from a diverse group of researchers and practitioners, this edited volume brings together methodological, ethical and disciplinary considerations in the use of open source data to research the trade and transfer of cultural objects. As such, it will serve as the paramount guide to anyone who is interested in doing research on this topic
Explainable Artificial Intelligence
No full textThis open access five-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence, xAI 2025, held in Istanbul, Turkey, during July 2025. The 96 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I: Concept-based Explainable AI; human-centered Explainability; explainability, privacy, and fairness in trustworthy AI; and XAI in healthcare. Volume II: Rule-based XAI systems & actionable explainable AI; features importance-based XAI; novel post-hoc & ante-hoc XAI approaches; and XAI for scientific discovery. Volume III: Generative AI meets explainable AI; Intrinsically interpretable explainable AI; benchmarking and XAI evaluation measures; and XAI for representational alignment. Volume IV: XAI in computer vision; counterfactuals in XAI; explainable sequential decision making; and explainable AI in finance & legal frameworks for XAI technologies. Volume V: Applications of XAI; human-centered XAI & argumentation; explainable and interactive hybrid decision making; and uncertainty in explainable AI
Surgery in Uremic Patients
No full textThis open access book on Surgery in Uremic Patients is a comprehensive guide for general surgeons about the management of the most prevalent surgical challenges and procedures in patients with renalfailure. It covers preoperative assessment, anesthetic considerations, postoperative care, and specialized procedures. The book emphasizes understanding uremia's impact on organ systems for informed decision-making. It discusses anesthetic strategies tailored to uremic patients, postoperative complications, and preventive measures like managing infections and fluid imbalances. Specialized procedures such as dialysis access surgery are detailed, along with integrating technology into modern surgical practices. Common surgeries like appendectomy, hernia repair, and cholecystectomy are optimized to minimize complications. Upper and lower gastrointestinal surgeries, hepatobiliary surgery, urological surgery, transplant surgery, endocrinosurgery, bariatric surgery, geriatric surgery, and abdominal emergencies are thoroughly covered. The book concludes with key findings, clinical implications, and future research avenues, serving as a valuable resource for surgeons and students enhancing their approach to uremic patient care
Critical Political Theory
No full textHow can political theory strengthen democracy and emancipatory social change while remaining critical of its own norms and foundations? How can it confront populist movements that claim to defend democracy but in fact advance authoritarian agendas? Oliver Flügel-Martinsen engages with key thinkers of the political – among them M. Foucault, J. Derrida, C. Lefort, C. Mouffe, I. M. Young, J. Rancière, W. Brown, R. Geuss, A. Mbembe, and J. Butler – to address these challenges. Revisiting truth-skeptical approaches, neoliberal hegemony, exclusions in the name of an essentialist understanding of the people, and global injustices, he explores how critical theory can help us escape the present in working toward a different future
Thyroid Eye Disease
No full textThis open access book provides a comprehensive, open access reference on thyroid eye disease for healthcare professionals. It is structured for easy reference around the key topics in thyroid eye disease management, with sections on natural history and pathogenesis, diagnosis and investigation, medical management, surgical management and psychological impact. The support of Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust ensures that the book includes consideration of patient-centered care throughout each chapter. Thyroid Eye Disease: A Collaborative Open Access Reference is an essential resource for ophthalmologists around the world (particularly oculoplastics specialists) as well as endocrinologists, nurses, optometrists and orthoptists
Du bist, was du siehst?
No full textIn diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die mediale Fremddarstellung weiblicher Führungskräfte analysiert und mit der Selbstbeschreibung von Top-Managerinnen verglichen. Wie stellen Nachrichten- und Wirtschaftsmedien weibliche Führungskräfte dar? Und wie sehen Top-Managerinnen sich selbst? Mit Hilfe von Medienanalyse und qualitativen Interviews ermittelt die Studie, inwieweit das öffentliche Bild das Selbstverständnis von Managerinnen beeinflusst. Mit ihren Ergebnissen leistet die Arbeit einen produktiven Beitrag zum Verständnis der Lebenswirklichkeit weiblicher Führungskräfte in Deutschland. Vor dem Hintergrund des Fachkräftemangels und des Diskurses um Diversität und Gendergerechtigkeit ist das Buch nicht nur wissenschaftlich, sondern auch wirtschaftlich und gesellschaftliche relevant und aktuell. Darüber hinaus bietet es Denkanstöße und konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen – sowohl für Entscheider*innen aus der Wirtschaft als auch für Journalist*innen und Medienschaffende und nicht zuletzt für weibliche Führungskräfte selbst
Comics in Bildungskontexten
No full textDer Band gibt neue Einblicke in die historische und aktuelle Rolle von Comics in Bildungskontexten, insbesondere in die vielschichtigen Ansätze, die in Forschung, (Hochschul-)Lehre und künstlerischer Praxis verfolgt werden. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt den Entwicklungen von der Vorgeschichte bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, den damit verbundenen (pädagogischen) Diskursen sowie verschiedenen Ebenen der Praxis einschließlich des Erstellens eigener Comics und deren Einsatz in unterschiedlichen Bildungssettings. Die Beiträge beleuchten das Bildungsmedium Comic aus unterschiedlichen fachlichen Perspektiven und können somit als Auftakt für eine bildungshistorische und erziehungswissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung dienen, die über die konkrete (fach-)didaktische Anwendung des Mediums hinausgeht und Impulse für weiterführende Forschungen liefert
Quantum Computing from Hopfield Nets
No full textThis open access book is meant as a textbook for Computer Science students who are looking for a gentle introduction to the world of quantum computing. More specifically, it is written for readers who have basic knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and have a certain familiarity with search algorithms, optimization techniques, and neural networks. This is not because the authors are interested in Quantum AI or Quantum ML, but because they start from the basic premise that there exists a conceptual bridge between certain AI/ML models and certain quantum computing models. The purpose of this book is therefore 1) to revisit these AI/ML models and their applications, and 2) to build on this familiar foundation to segue into the study of quantum computing and its possible use cases. The presentation is technical but pragmatic and practice oriented. The authors cover theory to the necessary extent but largely proceed in an example-driven manner. Most of the examples are concerned with combinatorial optimization and consider problems that can be cast as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems. Numerous python/numpy/scipy codes support the mathematical discussion and demonstrate how to put theory into practice, accompanied by exercises for each chapter. Parts of the material were adopted from long running lectures on pattern recognition, on the foundations of quantum computing, and on quantum computing algorithms, which are taught by the authors in the Computer Science master’s program at the University of Bonn