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This text provides rationales for virtual reality's applicability in clinical psychology. It reviews the relevant literature regarding theoretical and pragmatic issues for these applications, and provides descriptions of ongoing work developed world-wide.

Provides a detailed overview of Inductive Logic Programming, as well as a collection of technical contributions to it. This overview is based on the ESPRIT basic research project no 6020 on Inductive Logic Programming. It is useful for students, researchers and practitioners of artificial intelligence and computer science.

Collected Essays on Best Practices and Lessons Learned. Since the end of the Cold War, numerous conflicts have emerged within the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian space which have affected international relations and highlighted the need for effective strategies for conflict resolution and management.This book presents papers delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop ARW, Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Conflict Management, held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, in June 2015. The authors of these texts are recognized authorities within their fields of expertise. Issues raised by the conflict in Ukraine were the main focus

Lecture Articles for Students of Architecture Delft 19922015 Nottingham 20052011. This book is a collection of articles written in recent years and used in lectures for students at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft and at Nottingham University. The lectures and articles are based on a mixture of innovations in academia and industry. They elucidate the relationship between architecture and building technology, as well as high technology, transfer of technology, innovative design, development and research in the Chair of Product Development at TU Delft. With his experience in both industry and academia, Eekhouts goal is to bridge the

Seventy percent of our planet is covered by water, and even in todays world of instant communication the global community is still heavily reliant on sea-based transport. The maritime domain has always been one of NATOs key strengths, but concerns about maritime security have taken on renewed importance in recent years, and NATO has been forced to re-examine some of its fundamental assumptions about the post Cold War security environment.This book shares some of the research, debates and findings from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop ARW Building Trust to Enhance Maritime Security, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in November 2014.

Around the world, healthcare planners and governments are engaged in activities to stimulate innovation and reform health systems as part of the drive to deliver safe, effective, quality care to patients. ICT is both a critical component of health system innovation and key stimulus for reform.This book presents papers from the 23rd Australian national Health Informatics Conference HIC 2015, held in Brisbane, Australia, in August 2015. The conference brings together researchers, industry groups and healthcare providers from Australia and around the world to share cutting edge research, technology updates and innovations, and the papers

This book contributes to a better understanding of what makes people and communities resilient in the face of disasters, violence and terrorism. This resilience is understood as a resource that facilitates recovery, effective functioning and positive outcomes in the wake of major critical events that threaten the well-being of individuals, families, communities and nations. The chapters in this publication present complementary perspectives on resilience in a variety of socially adverse settings and how to assess resilience beyond the level of an individual. The contributing authors not only consider evidence of resilience in the

Within the last three decades, information modelling and knowledge bases have become essential subjects, not only for academic communities related to information systems and computer science, but also for businesses where information technology is applied.This book presents the proceedings of EJC 2014, the 24th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, held in Kiel, Germany, in June 2014. The main themes of the conference were conceptual modelling, including modelling and specification languages, domain specific conceptual modelling, and validating and communicating conceptual models knowledge

Water fascinating in all its phases, forms and states of aggregation. Without it, life as we know it would not exist on Earth, for as Paracelsus stated in the 16th century water is the matrix of the world and of all its creatures. While it may appear to be a simple molecule, there is still much about it which is not fully understood. What is notably lacking is a microscopically-based understanding of the reasons for the many anomalous properties of water.This book presents lectures from the Enrico Fermi summer school Water fundamentals as the basis for understanding the environment and promoting technology held in Varenna,

An Introduction Third Edition 2015. This book describes the principles of the blast furnace process and especially the control of the process. As a starting point, the blast furnace is seen as a simple iron ore smelter, while gradually the physical, chemical and metallurgical background of the blast furnace process is clarified. The book focuses on the control of the blast furnace process with respect to thermal control, gas flow control and casthouse operation. In this book, all essential process details are described and a special focus is on optimization of coal injection. The optimization of the blast furnace process is not only

This book is a collection of six articles arising from the meeting of the NATO Advanced Study Institute ASI Combinatorial Optimization Methods and Applications, which was held at the University of Montreal in June 2006. This ASI consisted of seven se

Provides an overview of the effects of home ownership. This book refers to processes in the development of the homeownership stock including problems of access, which in turn implies issues of affordability, the viability of financial institutions and subsidies. It also provides an overview of the research results in this field.

BRBRDuring the last decade parallel technologies have completely transformed main stream computing. The majority of standard PC s today incorporate multi-processor chips, with up to four processors. This number will reach eight and more processors so