This book provides an up-to-date overview of the economic, chemical, physical, analytical and engineering aspects of the subject, gathering together information which would otherwise be scattered over a wide variety of sources.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the economic, chemical, physical, analytical and engineering aspects of the subject, gathering together information which would otherwise be scattered over a wide variety of sources.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2022, held in Reykjavic, Iceland, during November 30 - December 2, 2022. The 20 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The NordSec conference series addresses a broad range of topics within IT security and privacy.

Supportive clinical supervision provides healthcare workers with a safe, confidential space to discuss the impact of work pressures, process challenging emotional aspects of their roles and reflect on work-life balance. While it is widely accepted as an effective means to maintain well-being and boost resilience, the availability of supportive supervision in practice is often haphazard or superficial. Tackling this important issue, Supportive Clinical Supervision offers a complete, practical account of how the restorative and supportive power of evidence-based clinical supervision can prevent burnout, promote well-being, improve workplaces and contribute to better outcomes across healthcare and beyond. The authors propose an evidence-based 'support model' to capture and understand the many and complex ways in which people and workplaces interact, then consider a range of ways in which improvements can be made at individual and systemic levels.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2017, held in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in June 2017. The 11 papers presented together with 4 short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on running system efficiently, storing data smartly, roaming in graph, building collaborative services, and making things safe.

The Northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana west of the Continental Divide have a diversity of forest types distributed across a wide range of topography and a long history of forest wildfires. To infer the climate drivers of fire in dry forests over the past several centuries, we reconstructed a history of surface fires from fire scars on trees at 21 sites in this region. While the results of this study are useful for managing fire, we recognize that land managers and other researchers also need site-specific details of fire history that we did not publish with our regional-scale analysis. For example, site-specific fire regimes properties, such as mean fire interval, can be used to understand how fire regime may have changed on a particular site over the past century by determining a Fire Regime Condition Class. Site-specific chronologies of fire can also be related to other aspects of a site's history, such as tree demography and the history of human use of the site. Finally, details of site-specific fire histories and the sites from which they were sampled may be used to extrapolate fire regimes from sampled to similar unsampled areas. The objective of our broader study was to obtain annually accurate histories of surface fire occurrence across Idaho and Montana to identify regional-fire years and infer their climate drivers. To meet this objective, we targeted small sites with many, well-preserved fire scars in dry forests; in other words, those dominated or codominated by ponderosa pine. We obtained annually accurate fire dates by crossdating, which can assign the exact calendar year to tree rings and hence fire scars. Prior to our study, no accurately dated fire histories had been published for this region. Our objective here is to provide site-specific histories of surface fire that can be used for land management or additional research. We report on 20 of the 21 sites we used in our broader study of climate drivers-details of the remaining site were reported elsewhere. In addition, we report on three sites that were sampled in this region for other purposes. For each site, we report both the chronology of surface fires and estimates of time-averaged properties of the fire regime, as well as site location, forest type, and topography. We describe our methods in a single section that applies to all sites but provide details of each site in a separate section of the results.