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Gesundheitsförderung durch Geburtsvorbereitung: Ein Pilotprojekt für evidenzbasierte Hebammenarbeit (BestMasters)
by Juliane HeroldDie Präventionsarbeit durch Hebammen in Deutschland wird auf Grund mangelnder Netzwerke nicht erfasst oder vereinheitlicht. Die Geburtsvorbereitung in Form von Kursen ist ein von gesetzlichen Krankenkassen finanziertes Präventionsmodell mit fraglicher Wirksamkeit, dessen Inanspruchnahme nicht erhoben wird. Soziale Ungleichheit sorgt für eine Chancenungleichheit für die Erhaltung der eigenen Gesundheit, wodurch es dringend nötig wird, dass Hebammen als Berufsgruppe für die Verbesserung der Strukturen zur Chancengleichheit in deren Präventionsarbeit einstehen. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde dies durch ein Pilotprojekt aufgegriffen: Methoden der Geburtsvorbereitung werden nach Lebenswelt überprüft und es werden Kurskonzepte entwickelt, welche die Netzwerkarbeit von Hebammen und angrenzenden Professionen stärken und Daten generiert, die langfristig zu einer Leitlinie für Geburtsvorbereitungskurse führen können.
Stories Behind Theorems: Conversations with Mathematicians
by Raffaella MulasMathematicians are often seen through a lens of stereotypes: logical, detached thinkers who live in a world of abstract concepts, numbers, and formulas. These perceptions can make mathematics—and mathematicians—seem distant, unapproachable, or even intimidating. But they only scratch the surface. Mathematicians are as diverse, vibrant, and human as anyone else, with personal stories, creative pursuits, struggles, and achievements that shape both their lives and their work. This book brings together a selection of interviews that aim to go beyond the stereotypes and show the human side of mathematics. Each conversation offers a glimpse into the unique experiences, challenges, and passions of a different mathematician. These stories touch on the pursuit of knowledge, the balance between personal and professional life, reflections on mental health, and the central role of creativity in their work. Together, these voices show that mathematics is not only about logic and precision, but it is also shaped by diverse and often surprising perspectives.
Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2025 Workshops: Istanbul, Turkey, June 30 – July 3, 2025, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15887)
by Osvaldo Gervasi Beniamino Murgante Chiara Garau Yeliz Karaca Francesco Scorza Ana Cristina Braga Maria Noelia Faginas LagoThe fourteen-volume set LNCS 15886-15899 constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2025, held in Istanbul, Turkey, during June 30–July 3, 2025.. The 362 full papers, 37 short papers and 2 PHD showcase included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 1043 submissions. In addition, the conference consisted of 58 workshops, focusing on very topical issues of importance to science, technology and society: from new mathematical approaches for solving complex computational systems, to information and knowledge in the Internet of Things, new statistical and optimization methods, several Artificial Intelligence approaches, sustainability issues, smart cities and related technologies.
Proceedings of Data Analytics and Management: ICDAM 2024, Volume 4 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1300)
by Zdzislaw Polkowski Abhishek Swaroop Sérgio Duarte Correia Bal VirdeeThis book includes original unpublished contributions presented at the International Conference on Data Analytics and Management (ICDAM 2024), held at London Metropolitan University, London, UK, during June 2024. The book covers the topics in data analytics, data management, big data, computational intelligence, and communication networks. The book presents innovative work by leading academics, researchers, and experts from industry which is useful for young researchers and students. The book is divided into six volumes.
Trauma Informed Care: Practical Skills for Nurses
by Tamar RodneyThis text outlines a practical guide for nurses and healthcare providers to provide care for individuals with varying traumatic histories with an informed perspective. Consideration of trauma as an acute experience to one that can develop into a post-traumatic stress disorder are explored. Additionally, the biological, behavioral, historical and cumulative basis of trauma are discussed as well as the family’s role in generational trauma. Trauma presents a complex multilayered experience that requires understanding to provide appropriate care. Trauma if often viewed as a physical experience with minimal consideration of the emotional and mental health aspects of these experiences. The perspective of unseen emotional scars is given descriptive graphic to allow the scars to be visualized and treated. The book includes perspectives across the globe from Thailand, UK, Philippines, India, Ireland, and Caribbean. As such this book will fill a gap in the field.
Vending Retail Marketing: Text and International Cases (Classroom Companion: Business)
by Dobromir Kirilov StoyanovThis book provides a comprehensive overview of vending retail marketing. Employing a pioneering structured approach, it highlights three key trends driving the modern vending renaissance: the rise in away-from-home food consumption, advances in information and communication technology (ICT) that are enhancing vending capabilities, and the influence of Generation Y as tech-savvy consumers shaping market demands. It also examines the attendant business complexities and addresses gaps in the existing literature by focusing on the challenges faced by vending operators and the crucial marketing decisions required to navigate this sector effectively. The book is divided into seven chapters, each of which explores a different facet of the vending industry with illustrative examples from around the world. By bridging academic research with practical applications, the book deepens readers&’ understanding and offers guidance on decision-making in vending retail marketing. It provides academics, students, and industry professionals alike with practical insights into theoretical frameworks and industrial innovations. It will also appeal to a broader audience interested in the cultural and technological evolution of vending machines, making it a valuable resource for anyone curious about their past, present, and future prospects.
Creative Methods in Teaching and Learning: Fostering Teacher-Student Success
by Atara IsaacsonThis book explores teaching methods that foster creative thinking among students across various disciplines. It presents effective experiments conducted in workshops with both practicing teachers and student teachers, aiming to modernize existing teaching approaches to better align with the needs of the 21st century. The central argument is that adopting such methods will generate interest and engagement for both learners and educators, while also positively influencing teacher-student relationships and student achievement. The book clarifies and redefines the role of the teacher as an influential and formative figure, even as this role has evolved. It offers strategies to overcome obstacles to learning and suggests engaging approaches to creative activities. This book is intended for teacher educators, researchers, and teachers who deeply value education. Dr. Atara Isaacson is an interdisciplinary researcher and senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education and the Department of Music at Bar-Ilan University. Her work centers on fostering creative thinking in teaching and learning, exploring teacher-student relationships, arts education, and 19th-century music. She is the author of four books in Hebrew—two focused on musicology, and two on education and music education.
MRI Pulse Sequences: Physics, Methods and Clinical Applications
by Suraj D. SeraiThis book explains MRI pulse sequences in a simple, easy-to-understand way. As MRI use grows rapidly due to its detailed imaging and faster technology, it's important for radiology trainees to learn core pulse sequences early. The authors clearly describe the physics behind commonly used clinical MRI sequences, like spin-echo, gradient-echo, and MR angiography, etc., while simplifying complex concepts and including clinical examples. The book also addresses challenges in MRI education and standardization, offering a comprehensive guide for radiologists, residents, physicists, researchers, and students.
Optimizing the Diagnostic Power of Otoacoustic Emissions Using Theoretical Cochlear Mechanics (Springer-AAS Acoustics Series)
by Arturo Moleti Renata SistoThis book examines the diagnostic usefulness of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) in the context of theoretical cochlear mechanics. OAEs have proven to be immensely useful for diagnostic purposes. The phenomenology of hearing physiology, and OAEs in particular, is briefly summarized, providing the necessary references to the literature. State-of-the-art linear and nonlinear mathematical models of the cochlea are discussed, using fundamental concepts of fluid dynamics and mechanics of vibrating systems, often exploiting the formal analogy between mechanical and electric linear systems. In particular, it is explained how the theoretical predictions about the OAE level, phase, and nonlinear I/O functions allow one to design advanced acquisition and analysis tools that significantly improve the specificity and sensitivity of OAEs to hearing dysfunction and other important physiological effects. Examples of diagnostic applications of OAEs in audiology, neurology, and space physiology are discussed, with all of the information needed to develop an OAE experiment provided, from instrument and acquisition setup to signal analysis and theoretical interpretation. The book is targeted at graduate students and researchers in hearing science with at least a basic knowledge of classical physics, calculus, Fourier analysis and signal analysis.
Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Chris Hesselbein Paolo BoryThis open access book focuses on two dimensions of the development of the metaverse that are crucial to &‘reality&’, namely spatiality and embodiment. Metaversal technologies are thought to fundamentally affect both our spaces and bodies, which are two central aspects of the constitution of social reality. Both spatiality and embodiment are core elements of world-making that are being pulled into the ambit of metaversal projects. On the one hand, metaversal technologies are profoundly spatial in the sense that they render space in virtual form or overlay digital layers onto pre-existing physical spaces. On the other hand, metaversal technologies are directly geared towards the body in that they not only seek to extend or expand our embodied senses and emplace our bodies in virtual spaces, but they also seek to capture their behaviours and actions on a far more granular level. This can create new opportunities in terms of work, social interaction, and leisure, but can also open our bodies up to new, tech-driven interventions and control. Whether in the form of VR or AR, such technologies not only reproduce space but also rely on making spaces more legible and open to automated interventions. Taken together, the &‘metaversification&’ of spaces and bodies gives rise to crucial questions about the goals and implications of metaversal developments by large technology companies and about the relationship between the developments of the metaverse and AI systems. Drawing on our combined background and expertise in Science and Technology Studies and the History of Media and Communication, we critically analyse the development of metaversal technologies and platforms by discussing a broad set of developments and examples from a wide range of technology and gaming companies. Written in clear, concise, and accessible language, and combining and applying novel theoretical frameworks and concepts to a currently emergent phenomenon, this book will find a large audience not only within academic and professional circles but also in popular culture.
A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
by Matteo BortoliniThe brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed the social sciencesRobert Bellah (1927–2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. Trained as a sociologist, he crossed disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of a greater comprehension of religion as both a cultural phenomenon and a way to fathom the depths of the human condition. A Joyfully Serious Man is the definitive biography of this towering figure in modern intellectual life, and a revelatory portrait of a man who led an adventurous yet turbulent life.Drawing on Bellah's personal papers as well as in-depth interviews with those who knew him, Matteo Bortolini tells the story of an extraordinary scholarly career and an eventful and tempestuous life. He describes Bellah's exile from the United States during the hysteria of the McCarthy years, his crushing personal tragedies, and his experiments with sexuality. Bellah understood religion as a mysterious human institution that brings together the scattered pieces of individual and collective experiences. Bortolini shows how Bellah championed intellectual openness and innovation through his relentless opposition to any notion of secularization as a decline of religion and his ideas about the enduring tensions between individualism and community in American society.Based on nearly two decades of research, A Joyfully Serious Man is a revelatory chronicle of a leading public intellectual who was both a transformative thinker and a restless, passionate seeker.
The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture
by Professor Jason KönigA cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquityThe mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a millennium—from Homer to the early Christian saints. Aimed at readers of ancient history and literature as well as those interested in mountains and the environment, the book offers a powerful account of the landscape at the heart of much Greek and Roman culture.Jason König charts the importance of mountains in religion and pilgrimage, the aesthetic vision of mountains in art and literature, the place of mountains in conquest and warfare, and representations of mountain life. He shows how mountains were central to the way in which the inhabitants of the ancient Mediterranean understood the boundaries between the divine and the human, and the limits of human knowledge and control. He also argues that there is more continuity than normally assumed between ancient descriptions of mountains and modern accounts of the picturesque and the sublime.Offering a unique perspective on the history of classical culture, The Folds of Olympus is also a resoundingly original contribution to the literature on mountains.
The Language of Art and Artists (Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics)
by Darryl HockingThis book brings together the research of leading scholars who explore the complex interplay between language and art. Employing a diversity of methods—including systemic functional linguistics, corpus analysis, multimodal analysis, genre analysis, discourse analysis, and cognitive linguistics—this edited collection offers fresh perspectives on the role of textual practices in shaping artistic production, interpretation, and engagement across a range of cultural and institutional contexts. The chapters examine a wide range of written and spoken texts, including artists&’ statements, art reviews, painting titles, museum press releases, artists&’ websites, guided tours, audio descriptions, and artist talks. This timely volume is relevant for students, teachers, and researchers in language and applied linguistics, discourse analysis and visual arts, as well as those in the areas of art theory and curatorial studies. It will also appeal to academic literacies and ESP (English for Specific Purposes) practitioners supporting visual arts students worldwide.
Technische Mechanik 1: Statik
by Christian MittelstedtDieses Buch folgt der klassischen Gliederung der Technischen Mechanik, wie sie an Fachhochschulen und Universitäten in Deutschland gelehrt wird, und widmet sich der Statik, d.h. der Betrachtung von Körpern in Ruhe unter Kräften. Ziel des Buches ist es, den Studierenden eine anschauliche Einführung in die Statik zu geben und sie in die Lage zu versetzen, ingenieurtechnische Probleme selbständig zu formulieren und zu lösen. Zu diesem Zweck bietet das Buch eine Reihe von Beispielen. Das Buch wendet sich an Studierende an Fachhochschulen und Universitäten des Maschinenbaus, des Bauingenieurwesens, der Mechanik und aller anderen Studiengänge, in denen die Statik eine Rolle spielt.
Advances in Mathematical Modelling, Applied Analysis and Computation: Proceedings of ICMMAAC 2024 – Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1394)
by Dumitru Baleanu George A. Anastassiou Devendra Kumar Jagdev SinghThis book is a collection of research papers from the &“7th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Applied Analysis and Computation&” organized by Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon from April 18–20, 2024. This proceeding contains research papers related with fundamental mathematical theory and methods in a very suitable manner and useful for handling various contemporary issues of physical, chemical and engineering sciences. The aim of this conference is to foster cooperation among mathematicians and scientists working in these areas. This book is a very useful resource for mathematicians, scientists and engineers working in the field of applied mathematics, analysis and computation for solving real life problems of different domains.
International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Developent: AI2SD Global Submit Symposium Series On Health, Energy, Environment and Agriculture, Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1403)
by Janusz Kacprzyk Valentina Emilia Balas Mostafa EzziyyaniThis book provides a dynamic platform for exploring groundbreaking advancements in intelligent systems for sustainable development. It offers readers&’ access to the latest technologies and innovative solutions that address global challenges. Bringing together leading academics, pioneering researchers, and industry leaders fosters knowledge exchange across various fields such as health, education, agriculture, energy, and security. It enables readers to gain valuable insights, build strategic partnerships, and contribute to shaping a more sustainable future. This book bridges scientific research with practical applications and is ideal for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers, driving progress across multiple disciplines.
Transformative Gesundheitskommunikation: Ein neuer Blickwinkel auf das Gesundheitswesen und die Prävention
by Olaf WerderDieses Buch erweitert unser Verständnis von kommunikativen Beziehungen und zentralen Hindernissen für eine effektivere Gesundheitskommunikation. Es bietet eine humanistische Ausrichtung der Gesundheitskommunikation sowie Einblicke in ihre sozialen, kulturellen, politischen, ethischen und spirituellen Dimensionen und Kontexte. Damit verfolgt das Buch einen inklusiveren und integrierten Ansatz zur Bewältigung der zentralen Herausforderungen und Chancen im Bereich zeitgenössischer Gesundheit, Medizin und Wohlbefinden.
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, June 10–13, 2025, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15872)
by Longbing Cao Myra Spiliopoulou Vipin Kumar Can Wang Yu Yao Xintao Wu Yanqiu Wu Zhangkai WuThe five-volume set, LNAI 158710 - 15874 constitutes the proceedings of the 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2025, held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, during June 10–13, 2025. The conference received a total of 557 submissions to the main track, 35 submissions to the survey track and 104 submittion to the special track on LLMs. Of these, 134 papers have been accepted for the main track, 10 for the survey track and 24 for the LLM track. 68 papers have been transferred to the4 DSFA special session. The papers have been organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Anomaly Detection; Business Data Analysis; Clustering; Continual Learning; Contrastive Learning; Data Processing for Learning; Part II: Fairness and Interpretability; Federated Learning; Graph Mining and GNN; Learning on Scientific Data; Part III: Machine Learning; Multi-modality; OOD and Optimization; Recommender Systems; Representation Learning and Generative AI; Part IV: Security and Privacy; Temporal Learning; Survey; Part V: LLM Fine-tuning and Prompt Engineering; Fairness and Interpretability of LLMs; LLM Application; OOD and Optimization of LLMs.
Availability, Reliability and Security: ARES 2025 International Workshops, Ghent, Belgium, August 11–14, 2025, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15995)
by Vincent Naessens Bjorn De Sutter Bart Coppens Bruno VolckaertThis four-volume set LNCS 15994-15997 constitutes the proceedings of the ARES 2025 International Workshops on Availability, Reliability and Security, held under the umbrella of the 20th International conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2025, which took place in Ghent, Belgium, during August 11-14, 2025. The 79 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. They contain papers of the following workshops: Part I: First International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Cyber and Cyber-Physical Security (AI&CCPS 2025); 8th International Symposium for Industrial Control System and SCADA Cyber Security Research (ICS-CSR 2025); First Workshop on Sustainable Security and Awareness For nExt Generation InfRastructures (SAFER 2025); 4th Workshop on Cybersecurity in Industry 4.0 (SecIndustry 2025). Part II: 6th Workshop on Recent Advances in Cyber Situational Awareness and Data-Centric Approaches (CSA 2025); First International Workshop on Responsible Data Governance, Privacy, and Digital Transformation (RDGPT 2025); 22nd International Workshop on Trust, Privacy and Security in the Digital Society (TrustBus 2025). Part III: 18th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2025); 14th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2025); 9th International Workshop on Cyber Use of Information Hiding (CUING 2025). Part IV: First International Workshop on Cybersecurity and Privacy Risk Assessments (CPRA 2025); Second International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities (EDId 2025); Second International Workshop on Security and Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Multimodal Data (SPETViD 2025); 6th International Workshop on Graph-based Approaches for CyberSecurity (GRASEC 2025); 5th International Workshop on Behavioral Authentication for System Security (BASS 2025).
Enterprise Risk Management: A Modern Approach (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
by Robert Rieg Werner Gleißner Ute VaniniThe book helps readers to answer a pressing question for businesses: how can they evaluate risks and opportunities to develop appropriate risk-adjusted strategies that allow them to generate maximum profit at acceptable risk levels? This book focuses on a hands-on approach to risk management which includes a step-by-step guide on how to identify, analyze, quantify and aggregate various risks in organizations. It guides the reader through what-if simulation and scenario analyses as well as Monte Carlo simulations in Excel with applications to traditional non-financial businesses and platform companies like Spotify. This management-oriented perspective sets it apart from often compliance-related textbooks, which mostly focus on financial industries. Its approach is applicable to a wide range of industries and based on a strategic and value-based view of balancing risks and opportunities in businesses. The mathematical and technical details are presented in an easy-to-follow format and illustrated throughout with examples and simple calculations. Additional material for lecturers and students (exercises, cases, templates) is provided online.
Film/Music Analysis: A Film Studies Approach (Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture)
by Emilio AudissinoThe field of Film-Music Studies has been increasingly dominated by musicologists; this book brings the discipline back squarely into the domain of Film Studies, offering an approach in which music and visuals are seen as equal players in the game. Blending Neoformalism with Gestalt psychology and Leonard B. Meyer's musicology, this study treats music as a cinematic element, offering scholars and students of both music and film a set of tools to help them analyse the wide-ranging impact that music has in films. This second edition provides an updated survey of the field and a new chapter featuring additional case studies, including a novel analytical category for studying the contemporary 'sound-design style' film music.
Healthier Food: Design and Development of Foods with Improved Functional and Nutritional Properties (Food Engineering Series)
by Vladimir S. Kurćubić Nemanja M. Miletić Slaviša B. Stajić Marko M. PetkovićFood reformulation is a modern strategy aimed at developing healthier or functional foods, with proven positive effects on human health. Minimal food processing using innovative food preservation methods (with thermal processing at more moderate temperature regimes) allows for maximum preservation of the biological value of foods, especially those that are enriched or fortified, usually with phytochemicals, a combination of processes or in some other way. The use of secondary/waste products from the food industry has found its place in the monograph, due to the topicality of the circular economy and environmental protection, as the latest area in the reformulation and creation of sustainable production of healthier foods. The most promising innovative solutions in this area are not sufficiently known to the wider scientific, professional and consumer public. Healthier Food: Design and development of foods with improved functional and nutritional properties covers the design of innovative reformulated or enriched animal products (meat and milk) and products obtained by processing plant raw materials (bakery products). The chapters provide a clear insight into the challenges in the process of developing new, modified products and food technology and hygiene and the science of ingredients that make up the architecture of added-value food, initiating effective reformulation strategies. The book will be a useful reference for food engineers and scientists, policy makers and students interested in safe and quality food and the preservation and improvement of health through incorporation of functional components in food.
Database Engineered Applications: 28th International Symposium, IDEAS 2024, Bayonne, France, August 26–29, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15511)
by Richard Chbeir Yannis Manolopoulos Jorge Bernardino Peter Z. Revesz Carson K. Leung Sergio IlarriThis LNCS conference volume constitutes the proceedings of 28th International Symposium on Database Engineered Applications, IDEAS 2024, in Bayonne, France, in August 2024. The 21 full papers together with 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The symposium presents papers in the broader field of data management and were organized in seven sessions: (1) Theoretical Issues; (2) Classification; (3) Text and Languages; (4) Big Data; (5) Query Processing and Applications; (6) Machine Learning and Rules; (7) Recommendation, and (8) Indexing and Event Detection
Service Delivery and the Pulse of Citizen Satisfaction in Urban Governance of Bangladesh
by Md. Awal MollahThis book offers a comparative analysis of municipal service delivery in four major Bangladeshi cities: Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, and Rajshahi. Using the SERVQUAL model, it evaluates service quality through five dimensions—Tangibles, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, and Empathy—providing a detailed understanding of citizen satisfaction in varied urban settings. The book&’s strength lies in its comparative framework, which examines the distinct challenges and governance structures of each city. This analysis identifies common issues while uncovering unique dynamics, enabling a thorough exploration of service delivery systems. It highlights effective practices and areas for improvement, fostering a balanced view of urban governance. Key municipal services such as street lighting, waste management, water supply, sewerage systems, and birth registration are assessed in detail. By focusing on practical reforms and innovations, the book bridges academic research with real-world application, offering actionable insights for policymakers, urban planners, and practitioners. With its emphasis on practical solutions and comparative insights, this book is an essential resource for those involved in urban development. It provides valuable lessons for enhancing service quality and citizen satisfaction, contributing to more effective governance in developing countries.
Convince with Data, Inspire with Stories: Data Storytelling in Project Management
by Friederike OehlerkingIn companies—and especially in project management—we often find ourselves in a conflict: we need to make business decisions based on insights from data analysis. For the analysis itself, we dive deep into the details of our Data Lakes 4.0. But when we surface and try to present our findings to management as a decision paper, we fail precisely because of those details. Why? Because our audience&’s brains shut down when faced with too many dry facts. Data storytelling solves this problem. Our brains respond better to stories than to a list of pure numbers. In data storytelling, data is presented alongside an easy-to-understand visualization and an engaging narrative. The usual information overload is reduced to essential and relevant key messages. This makes the content more understandable and forms a solid foundation for business decisions. Enriched with scientific facts about how our brains work and &“veteran stories&” from project management, this book shows ways to combat &“Death by PowerPoint&” and free the world from poor presentations. The Contents What is Data Storytelling? Projects, Communication, and Presentations States of Data Storytelling: Audience, Aha Moment, Storyboard, Narrative Arc Visualization: Pre-attentive Attributes, Gestalt Principles, Slide Design, Data and Presentation Visualization