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Addresses several functional areas such as: planning, scheduling, monitoring, control, fault classification and diagnosis, training, and help desks. This book is of interest to researchers and professionals in telecommunication, AI experts, and graduate students.

This work, based on a conference held in San Francisco, California, in 1994, discusses cardiac systolic and diastolic function, and how these can best be measured and interpreted. Other topics covered include: cardiac mechanics; flow dynamics; vascular properties; and pharmacological interventions.

Focusing on data mining, this work is a joint effort from researchers in Japan, and includes a report on the forefront of data collection, user-centred mining and user interaction/reaction. It offers an overview of modern solutions with real-world applications, sharing hard-learned experiences.

This international comparative study of the ombudsman institution began in 1994 when the authors formed the idea of producing a successor to Caiden's "International Handbook of Ombudsman". It includes methodology and strategy, findings, and thematic chapters on such issues as human rights.

Aiming to improve quality in health care and diagnoses, this work discusses information processing in medicine and presents a new approach. By object-oriented analysis, modelling and design, it enables an evolutionary development according to the needs of the medical environment.

This is the proceedings of the IPA Fourth International Copyright Symposium, 1998. It aimed to reconfirm the creative role of the publisher as a conduit for culture built upon the knowledge and experience of the past, as well as to explore the publishers' new role.

"This volume, in my view, should prove to be a landmark publication. Farreras and her colleagues have thrown available light onto what will prove to be a rich field of historical research and historically informed science policy."- Wade E. Pickren, Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesThis volume breaks new ground in assessing the intramural research conducted at the United States National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (today the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) in the 1950s. The research conducted in these institutes was pioneering and laid the foundation for current neuroscience and behavioural research. Dr. Ingrid Farreras uses the records of the time and also oral histories conducted with retired institute scientists to present the institutional context in which the research was conducted. Topics in her discussion include the history of the United States Public Health Service, the creation of the two institutes at the National Institutes of Health, the organization of their extramural and intramural research programs, and brief summaries of the research that the fifteen laboratories and branches of both institutes conducted during the 1950s. Twelve noted scientists involved in neurological and mental health research then provide their unique, first-hand accounts of their experiences at the NIH. The volume also contains four appendices providing information about the organizational structure of the two institutes, the scientists who worked there, citations of illustrative landmark papers that were published based on their research, and selected primary and secondary resources related to the history of these institutes. The aim of the volume is to foster continuing additional descriptive and analytical research on the history of biomedical sciences in the areas of neurology and mental health in the mid twentieth century.

Drawing on research in the social sciences, communications and other fields, this book analyzes how the online environment is influencing the experience of psychology.

An introduction to the methodology and practice of analysis, design and implementation of distributed health information systems. It includes a special section dedicated to security and interoperability of such systems as well as to advanced electronic health record approaches.

This volume provides an in-depth analysis of knowledge modelling technology, illustrating the main tenets of this paradigm, surveying the state of the art and then presenting in detail the application of this technology to parametric design problems.

This text examines the current situation and trends in the use of health informatics and telematics in Africa and Latin America. It is intended to provide an understanding of the opportunities in health informatics for the advancement of technical co-operation between Europe and developing regions.

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.

Health Information Technology (HIT) continues to increase in importance as a component of healthcare provision, but designing HIT is complex. The creation of cooperative learning processes for future HIT users is not a simple task. The importance of engaging end users such as health professionals, patients and relatives in the design process is widely acknowledged, and Participatory Design (PD) is the primary discipline for directly involving people in the technological design process. Exploring the application of PD in HIT is crucial to all those involved in engaging end users in HIT design and, in collaboration with a wide range of people, a broad repertoire of methods and techniques to apply PD within multiple domains has been established.This book, Participatory Design & Health Information Technology, presents the contributions of researchers from 5 countries, who share their experience and insights into applying PD in the development of HIT. The book begins with a review of PD and HIT research, followed by 10 papers, each of which describes important lessons for HIT designers interested in user participation. The papers are grouped under the themes of participatory processes; participatory reflections; participatory business; and participatory inspiration. The book will be of interest to researchers, students, health professionals, IT designers and managers who work with or are interested in supporting participation in the design of HIT.

Nursing informatics has a long history of focusing on information management and nurses have a long history of describing their computer use. However, based on the technical advances and through the ongoing and consistent changes in healthcare today, we are now challenged to look to the future and help determine what nurses and patients/consumers will need going forward.This book presents the proceedings of the Post Conference to the 13th International Conference on Nursing Informatics, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2016. The theme of the Post Conference is Forecasting Informatics Competencies for Nurses in the Future of Connected Health. This book includes 25 chapters written as part of the Post Conference; a result of the collaboration among nursing informatics experts from research, education and practice settings, from 18 countries, and from varying levels of expertise - those beginning to forge new frontiers in connected health and those who helped form the discipline.The book content will help forecast and define the informatics competencies for nurses in practice, and as such, it will also help outline the requirements for informatics training in nursing programs around the world. The content will aid in shaping the nursing practice that will exist in our future of connected health, when practice and technology will be inextricably intertwined.

As with almost every other part of our daily lives, information technology is now indispensable in the legal sphere. The variety of applications has grown, keeping pace with developments in the wider field of artificial intelligence: logic and argument have been joined by statistical methods and data, and knowledge engineering has been enriched by machine learning.This book presents the papers delivered at the 29th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems - JURIX 2016, held in Nice, France, in December 2016. From the 56 submissions received for the conference, 11 were selected for publication as full papers, 10 as short papers, and 10 as posters, which are included in the proceedings for the first time. The papers address a wide range of topics at the interface of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Law, such as argumentation, norms and evidence, network science, information retrieval, and natural language processing. Many of the theories and technologies explored in the papers are drawn from real-life materials, including cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights, Dutch and Greek legal texts, and international investment agreements and contracts.Reflecting the many facets and the interdisciplinary character of AI and Law, the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves them in these fields.

Industrialized housing has been a common phenomenon in the building industry since the industrial revolution; the casting of iron components enabled Victorian iron casters to prefabricate entire buildings and to export them to all British colonies. It got a second boost from Modernist architects like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann; and a third boost in the US when the soldiers came back from the Second World War in 1945 and wanted to buy a ready-made house.In the later decades of the 20th century composite prototypes were built. Timber frame houses are extremely popular in low density areas worldwide. For densely populated areas housing is now firmly attached to reinforced concrete. The contracting industries have developed efficient building methods for the concrete structures on which separate systems of claddings are fixed to form a house.However, in the coming decades, designers, builders and scientists also have to keep the environment in mind, working with a minimal amount of materials, and for minimizing embodied energy and energy use. In the coming age minimal embodied energy and low ecological footprints are renewed values that will be added to energy-positive housing and that will have an influence on the building technology of the future. This will lead to a reformation of the building vocabulary. Other materials will have to be chosen and developed to function in building elements and components.

Techno-Anthropology is an emerging interdisciplinary research field focusing on human/technology interactions and relations, and how these can be understood and facilitated in context. Techno-Anthropology also considers how technological innovation, development and implementation can be made in an appropriate and pragmatic way in relation to understanding work practices.Techno-Anthropology has much to offer to the health informatics and eHealth fields, and this book presents the work of experienced international researchers who share here how they have applied Techno-Anthropology methodologies to their research. The book is divided into three sections: ethnographic and anthropological perspectives on methodology; ethical and sociotechnical approaches; and users, participation and human factors. Topics covered include: learning the craft of Techno-Anthropology; anthropological approaches in studying technology induced errors; technology and the ecology of chronic illness in everyday life; Techno-Anthropologists as agents of change; and using rapid ethnography to support the design and implementation of health information technologies, as well as many more.The book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners within the health informatics field as well as students and scholars. The book will inspire researchers and practitioners to examine health informatics from a new perspective.

Therapeutic architecture can be described as the people-centered, evidence-based discipline of the built environment, which aims to identify and support ways of incorporating those spatial elements that interact with people physiologically and psychologically into design. Architecture is an important factor in people's lives when they are well; when they experience ill-health and are less able to cope it becomes even more important.This book explores the design of specialized residential architecture for people with mental health problems. It sets out to show how building design can support medical and health related procedures and practices, leading to better therapeutic outcomes and an enhanced quality of life. Based on almost two decades of research, it aims to understand how architectural design interacts with the therapeutic milieu, the care programs, and actually living in the spaces.The book is divided into two main parts covering theory and research. Part one consists of three chapters: a brief introduction to old practices, current medical psychosocial and architectural thinking, and alternative thinking. Part two explores the research and conclusions derived from fieldwork.This book provides a fascinating insight into the effect that architectural design can have on all of us, but particularly on those with mental health problems.

Describes a cooperative spatiotemporal planning system that allows for sharing a computationally and cognitively complex spatial planning task between a human and an artificial assistance system.

Contributes to the subject of mining time-changing data streams and addresses the design of learning algorithms for this purpose. This book introduces contributions on several different aspects of the problem, identifying research opportunities and increasing the scope for applications.

Part of a series of "Instructional Course Lectures" ("ICL") books of the International Society On Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT). this first book helps reader find the SOSORT statutes and become familiar with the aims of the creation of this society.

Presents the innovations and achievements of academic communities on Decision Support Systems (DSS). This book intends to improve ways of synthesizing and applying relevant work from resource disciplines to practical implementation of systems that enhance decision support capability.