In many scholarly disciplines, books - not articles - are the norm. As print runs become smaller, the question arises whether publishing monographs in open access helps to make their contents globally accessible. To answer this question, the results of multiple studies on the usage of open access books are presented. The research focuses on three areas: economic viability; optimization of open …
Throughout this book, the concept of framing is used to look at art, photography, scientific drawings and cinema as visually constituted, spatially bounded productions. The way these genres relate to that which exists beyond the frame, by means of plastic, chemically transposed, pencil-sketched or moving images allows us to decipher the particular language of the visual and at the same time cir…
This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China. In this summary volume and the two accompanying volumes that follow, individuals with an intellectual disability tell their life stories, while their family members, teachers, classmates, and co-workers describe their professional, academic, and family…
Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints for its future development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts rep…
Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
Ada tiga permasalahan utama dalam pengelolaan embung di NTT, yaitu 1), permasalahan degradasi daerah tangkapan air (catchment area), rendahnya penutupan vegetasi dan keanekaragaman jenis, tataguna lahan, kebakaran padang savana, laju aliran permukaan dan erosi; 2) permasalahan pada kolam embung (water storage), meliputi tingginya laju sedimentasi, infiltrasi dan evaporasi15, retak dan longsoran…
Dalam naskah orasi ini diuraikan kebutuhan akan bahan bakar dan bahan kimia yang semakin meningkat, sementara ketersediaan bahan bakunya yang berasal dari fosil semakin menipis. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan penelitian dan pengembangan teknologi konversi biomassa agar dihasilkan bahan bakar dan bioproduk untuk menyubstitusi bahan bakar dan bahan kimia asal fosil tersebut.
The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the …
This open access book contains the oral histories that were inspired by the work of the Special Olympics in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of its founding. The foreword and prefatory materials provide an overview of the Special Olympics and its growth in the People’s Republic of China. The sections that follow record interview transcripts of individuals with intellectual disabilities l…
Buku pedoman "Pedoman Teknis Reproduksi Foto" menguraikan secara sistematis tentang pemahaman reprografi, kemampuan kamera dan kualitas lensa, proses scanning, mengenal berbagai macam format file, kalibrasi, kualitas reprografi sertam pemahaman alat dan pengoperasian alat. Setiap tahap kegiatan diuraikan secara rinci, sehingga dapat membantu mempermudah para pelaksana pelestarian dalam melaksan…