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Disaster Mental Health Community Planning is a step-by-step guide
to developing mental health disaster plans, assisting communities
to act on long-term resilience and recovery. As disasters continue
to increase in severity and number, with 16% of survivors
identified as potential PTSD victims if they don't promptly receive
care, this book is a critical read. Chapters outline how to
prepare, develop, and implement a trauma-informed collaborative
process that prioritizes lasting emotional wellbeing along with
survivors' short-term needs. The manual demonstrates how to form
this partnership through effective communication, assess those
individuals at greatest risk of distress, and deliver
trauma-specific treatment. Readers will appreciate the book's
practical, user-friendly approach, including case studies,
checklists, and follow-up questions to better define goals.
Cutting-edge treatment interventions are included along with basic
information on trauma's impact on the brain and the types and
effects of human-caused and natural disasters to help readers make
sound planning decisions. Accessible to mental-health providers,
community leaders, organizations, and individuals alike, Disaster
Mental Health Community Planning is a Road Map for anyone
interested in delivering a trauma-informed mental health supplement
to their community's medical disaster preparedness and response
plan.
Disaster Mental Health Community Planning is a step-by-step guide
to developing mental health disaster plans, assisting communities
to act on long-term resilience and recovery. As disasters continue
to increase in severity and number, with 16% of survivors
identified as potential PTSD victims if they don't promptly receive
care, this book is a critical read. Chapters outline how to
prepare, develop, and implement a trauma-informed collaborative
process that prioritizes lasting emotional wellbeing along with
survivors' short-term needs. The manual demonstrates how to form
this partnership through effective communication, assess those
individuals at greatest risk of distress, and deliver
trauma-specific treatment. Readers will appreciate the book's
practical, user-friendly approach, including case studies,
checklists, and follow-up questions to better define goals.
Cutting-edge treatment interventions are included along with basic
information on trauma's impact on the brain and the types and
effects of human-caused and natural disasters to help readers make
sound planning decisions. Accessible to mental-health providers,
community leaders, organizations, and individuals alike, Disaster
Mental Health Community Planning is a Road Map for anyone
interested in delivering a trauma-informed mental health supplement
to their community's medical disaster preparedness and response
plan.
Many economic and social surveys are designed as panel studies,
which provide important data for describing social changes and
testing causal relations between social phenomena. This textbook
shows how to manage, describe, and model these kinds of data. It
presents models for continuous and categorical dependent variables,
focusing either on the level of these variables at different points
in time or on their change over time. It covers fixed and random
effects models, models for change scores and event history models.
All statistical methods are explained in an application-centered
style using research examples from scholarly journals, which can be
replicated by the reader through data provided on the accompanying
website. As all models are compared to each other, it provides
valuable assistance with choosing the right model in applied
research. The textbook is directed at master and doctoral students
as well as applied researchers in the social sciences, psychology,
business administration and economics. Readers should be familiar
with linear regression and have a good understanding of ordinary
least squares estimation.
This best-selling dictionary is now in its 4th edition.
Specifically written for students of language teaching and applied
linguistics, it has become an indispensible resource for those
engaged in courses in TEFL, TESOL, applied linguistics and
introductory courses in general linguistics. Fully revised, this
new edition includes over 350 new entries. Previous definitions
have been revised or replaced in order to make this the most
up-to-date and comprehensive dictionary available. Providing
straightforward and accessible explanations of difficult terms and
ideas in applied linguistics, this dictionary offers: Nearly 3000
detailed entries, from subject areas such as teaching methodology,
curriculum development, sociolinguistics, syntax and phonetics.
Clear and accurate definitions which assume no prior knowledge of
the subject matter helpful diagrams and tables cross references
throughout, linking related subject areas for ease of reference,
and helping to broaden students' knowledge The Dictionary of
Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics is the definitive
resource for students.
Many economic and social surveys are designed as panel studies,
which provide important data for describing social changes and
testing causal relations between social phenomena. This textbook
shows how to manage, describe, and model these kinds of data. It
presents models for continuous and categorical dependent variables,
focusing either on the level of these variables at different points
in time or on their change over time. It covers fixed and random
effects models, models for change scores and event history models.
All statistical methods are explained in an application-centered
style using research examples from scholarly journals, which can be
replicated by the reader through data provided on the accompanying
website. As all models are compared to each other, it provides
valuable assistance with choosing the right model in applied
research. The textbook is directed at master and doctoral students
as well as applied researchers in the social sciences, psychology,
business administration and economics. Readers should be familiar
with linear regression and have a good understanding of ordinary
least squares estimation.
This book contains the refereed papers which were presented at the
interna tional conference on "Multivariate Approximation and
Splines" held in Mannheim, Germany, on September 7-10,1996. Fifty
experts from Bulgaria, England, France, Israel, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Ukraine, USA and Germany participated
in the symposium. It was the aim of the conference to give an
overview of recent developments in multivariate approximation with
special emphasis on spline methods. The field is characterized by
rapidly developing branches such as approximation, data fit ting,
interpolation, splines, radial basis functions, neural networks,
computer aided design methods, subdivision algorithms and wavelets.
The research has applications in areas like industrial production,
visualization, pattern recognition, image and signal processing,
cognitive systems and modeling in geology, physics, biology and
medicine. In the following, we briefly describe the contents of the
papers. Exact inequalities of Kolmogorov type which estimate the
derivatives of mul the paper of BABENKO, KOFANovand tivariate
periodic functions are derived in PICHUGOV. These inequalities are
applied to the approximation of classes of mul tivariate periodic
functions and to the approximation by quasi-polynomials. BAINOV,
DISHLIEV and HRISTOVA investigate initial value problems for non
linear impulse differential-difference equations which have many
applications in simulating real processes. By applying iterative
techniques, sequences of lower and upper solutions are constructed
which converge to a solution of the initial value problem."
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Turbulent Shear Flows 7 - Selected Papers from the Seventh International Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, Stanford University, USA, August 21-23, 1989 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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The Seventh Symposium was held on the campus of Stanford University
with*a combination offacilities and weather which made it possible
to add open-air poster sessions and coffee breaks to the programme.
This was particularly convenient as the call for papers attracted
close to three hundred abstracts and a total number of participants
well in excess of this number. Some one hundred and thirty papers
were presented in carefully phased parallel sessions and thirty six
further contributions were made available in the form of posters.
In addition, a lively open-forum session allowed additional
speakers to make brief presentations. The staff of the
Thermo-Sciences Division of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at Stanford undertook the local arrangements with
evident success and their extensive record of contributions to
Turbulent Shear Flows made the venue particularly appropriate.
Also, the Centre for Turbulence Studies, based on the faculty of
the University and the NASA Ames Research Center, provided a
considerable body of expertise with emphasis on direct numerical
stimulation.
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Turbulent Shear Flows 6 - Selected Papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, September 7-9, 1987 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Since the inaugural symposium at the Pennsylvania State University
in 1977, the venues for the series of biennial symposia on
turbulent shear flows have alternated between the USA and Europe.
For the Sixth Symposium, the first to be held in France, the city
of Toulouse proved a natura] choice, being a centre for the
aerospace industry, meteorological research and higher education.
The meeting was hosted by the Paul Sabatier University on the
southern perimeter of the city, and there nearly 300 workers in the
field of turbulence converged to pronounce upon, debate and absorb
the current issues in turbulent shear flows and to enjoy the
unfailing September sunshine. The meeting had attracted more than
200 offers of papers from which just over 100 full papers and about
20 shorter communications in open forums could be accommodated. The
present volume contains 28 of the original symposium presentations
selected by the editors. Each contribution has been revised by its
authors - sometimes quite extensively -in the light of the oral
presentation. It is our hope that the selection provides a
substantial statement of permanent interest on current research in
the five areas covered by this book, i.e. fundamentals and
closures, scalar transport and geophysical flows, aerodynamic
flows, complex flows, and numerical simulations.
In the past, applied artificial intelligence systems were built
with particular emphasis on general reasoning methods intended to
function efficiently, even when only relatively little
domain-specific knowledge was available. In other words, AI
technology aimed at the processing of knowledge stored under
comparatively general representation schemes. Nowadays, the focus
has been redirected to the role played by specific and detailed
knowledge, rather than to the reasoning methods themselves. Many
new application systems are centered around knowledge bases, i. e.,
they are based on large collections offacts, rules, and heuristics
that cap ture knowledge about a specific domain of applications.
Experience has shown that when used in combination with rich
knowledge bases, even simple reasoning methods can be extremely
effective in a wide variety of problem domains. Knowledge base
construction and management will thus become the key factor in the
development of viable knowledge-based ap plications. Knowledge Base
Management Systems (KBMSs) are being proposed that provide
user-friendly environments for the construction, retrieval, and
manipUlation of large shared knowledge bases. In addition to
deductive reasoning, KBMSs require operational characteristics such
as concurrent access, integrity maintenance, error recovery,
security, and perhaps distribution. For the development ofKBMSs,
the need to integrate concepts and technologies from different
areas, such as Artificial Intel ligence, Databases, and Logic, has
been widely recognized. One of the central issues for KBMSs is the
framework used for knowledge representation-semantic networks,
frames, rules, and logics are proposed by the AI and logic
communities."
After a long period of research, development, test and trial,
relational database management systems are at last being marketed
in force. The feedback from early installations of these systems is
overwhelmingly positive. The most frequent comment by users is that
productivity has been increased by a significant factor (from 5 to
20 times what it was using previous approaches). Another comment is
that, in many cases, end users can now handle their own problems by
direct use of the system instead of using application programmers
as mediators between them and the system. As the reputation of
relational systems for ease of use and enhanced productivity has
grown, there has been a strong temptation for vendors of other
approaches to exploit the label "relational" somewhat
indiscriminately. In some cases the label is being misapplied to a
whole data system; in others it is being misapplied to an
interface. It is therefore worth developing criteria which database
management systems (DBMSs) should have in order to be called
"relational." The Relational Task Group (RTG) of the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) undertook such an effort by
developing a characterization of RDBMSs and analyzing fourteen
DBMSs per this characterization. The result of this work is
presented in this book. The conclusions of the RTG are in agreement
with my view that a DBMS should not be called "relational" unless
it satisfies at least the following conditions: 1. All information
in the database is represented as values in tables.
Decision making in modem obstetrics and perinatology is con trolled
by a variety of different factors, but there is little doubt that
in industrialized countries one of the most powerful single factors
is the concern and fear of causing permanent brain damage in the
unborn and newborn. The dramatic increase in the rates of abdom
inal deliveries in many parts of the world is certainly rooted to a
substantial part in the bstetrician's concern not so much about
possible perinatal death, but more so about permanent brain dam age
in surviving children. This trend has been accelerated by the
increasing number of litigations in connection with brain damage
observed in many societies. This problem itself has many aspects,
but it seems evident that litigation - justified or unjustified -
is one modem expression of the human and social tragedy inflicted
on individuals and families by the birth of a brain-damaged child.
The medical, social, and human importance of the problem is in
sharp contrast to the relative lack of scientific knowledge avail
able. This became very clear when the National Institutes of Health
published the excellent review in 1985 on "Prenatal and Perinatal
Factors Associated with Brain Disorders" and its editor, J. M."
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Turbulent Shear Flows 9 - Selected Papers from the Ninth International Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, Kyoto, Japan, August 16-18, 1993 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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The inaugural Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows was held at The
Pennsylvania State University in 1977. Thereafter the locations for
the biennial symposium have alternated between the USA and Europe.
However, the ninth Symposium on Turbu lent Shear Flows was awarded
to Japan in recognition of the strong support researchers of the
Pacific Rim countries have given previous symposia. The University
of Kyoto was the host institution and the meeting was held in the
Inter national Conference Hall. The Local Arrangements Committee
did a superb job scheduling traditional Japanese dinners and
arranging visits to the many cultural treasures in the Kyoto
region. The meeting attracted more than 260 offers of papers.
Thirty-three sessions were scheduled to accommodate the 138 papers
accepted for oral presentation. In addition a poster session was
scheduled on each of the three days to accommodate a total of 42
poster presentations. From the presentations at the symposium 24
have been selected for inclusion in this volume. The authors of
these papers have revised them taking into consideration comments
made during their oral presentation and recommendations made by the
Editors. Four subject areas are identified, namely closures and
fundamentals, free flows, wall flows, and combustion and
recirculating flows. Eminent authorities have prepared introductory
articles fot each topic to put the individual contributions in
context with each other and with related research.
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Turbulent Shear Flows 5 - Selected Papers from the Fifth International Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, August 7-9, 1985 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Franz Durst, Brian E. Launder, John L. Lumley, Frank W. Schmidt, James H Whitelaw
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The first four symposia in the series on turbulent shear flows have
been held alternately in the United States and Europe with the
first and third being held at universities in eastern and western
States, respectively. Continuing this pattern, the Fifth Symposium
on Turbulent Shear Flows was held at Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York, in August 1985. The meeting brought together more than
250 participants from around the world to present the results of
new research on turbulent shear flows. It also provided a forum for
lively discussions on the implications (practical or academic) of
some of the papers. Nearly 100 formal papers and about 20 shorter
communications in open forums were presented. In all the areas
covered, the meeting helped to underline the vitality of current
research into turbulent shear flows whether in experimental,
theoretical or numerical studies. The present volume contains 25 of
the original symposium presentations. All have been further
reviewed and edited and several have been considerably extended
since their first presentation. The editors believe that the
selection provides papers of archival value that, at the same time,
give a representative statement of current research in the four
areas covered by this book: - Homogeneous and Simple Flows - Free
Flows - Wall Flows - Reacting Flows Each of these sections begins
with an introductory article by a distinguished worker in the
field.
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Turbulent Shear Flows 8 - Selected Papers from the Eighth International Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, Munich, Germany, September 9 - 11, 1991 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the
Eighth Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows held at the Technical
University of Munich, 9-11 September 1991. The first of these
biennial international symposia was held at the Pennsylvania State
Uni versity, USA, in 1977; subsequent symposia have been held at
Imperial College, London, England; the University of California,
Davis, USA; the University of Karlsruhe, Ger many; Cornell
University, Ithaca, USA; the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse,
France; and Stanford University, California, USA. The purpose of
this series of symposia is to provide a forum for the presentation
and discussion of new developments in the field of turbulence,
especially as related to shear flows of importance in engineering
and geo physics. From the 330 extended abstracts submitted for this
symposium, 145 papers were presented orally and 60 as posters. Out
of these, we have selected twenty-four papers for inclusion in this
volume, each of which has been revised and extended in accordance
with the editors' recommendations. The following four theme areas
were selected after consideration of the quality of the
contributions, the importance of the area, and the selection made
in earlier volumes: - wall flows, - separated flows, -
compressibility effects, - buoyancy, rotation, and curvature
effects. As in the past, each section corresponding to the above
areas begins with an introduction by an authority in the field that
places the individual contributions in context with one another and
with related research.
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Component-Based Software Engineering - 9th International Symposium, CBSE 2006, Vasteras, Sweden, June 29 - July 1, 2006, Proceedings (Paperback, 2006 ed.)
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This is the refereed proceedings of the 9th International
Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2006, held
in V ster s, Sweden in June/July 2006. The 22 revised full papers
and 9 revised short papers presented cover issues concerned with
the development of software-intensive systems from reusable parts,
the development of reusable parts, and system maintenance and
improvement by means of component replacement and
customization.
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Component-Based Software Engineering - 7th International Symposium, CBSE 2004, Edinburgh, UK, May 24-25, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Ivica Crnkovic, Judith A. Stafford, Heinz-W. Schmidt, Kurt Wallnau
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Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is concerned with the
devel- ment of software-intensive systems from reusable parts
(components), the dev- opmentofsuchreusableparts,
andthemaintenanceandimprovementofsystems by means of component
replacement and customization. Although it holds c- siderable
promise, there are still many challenges facing both researchers
and practitioners in establishing CBSE as an e?cient and proven
engineering dis- pline. Six CBSE workshops have been held
consecutively at the most recent six International Conferences on
Software Engineering (ICSE). The premise of the last three CBSE
workshops was that the long-term success of component-based
development depends on the viability of an established science and
technology foundation for achieving predictable quality in
component-based systems.
TheintentoftheCBSE2004symposiumwastobuildonthispremise, andto
provide a forum for more in-depth and substantive treatment of
topics perta- ing to predictability, to help establish
cross-discipline insights, and to improve cooperation and mutual
understanding. The goal of the CBSE 2004 symposium was to discuss
and present more complete and mature works, and consequently
collect the technical papers in published proceedings. The response
to the Call for Papers was beyond expectations: 82 papers were
submitted. Of those 25 (12 long and 13 short) were accepted for
publication. In all 25 cases, the papers were reviewed by three to
four independent reviewers. The symposium brought together
researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines related
to CBS
Currently, the field of information systems technology is rapidly
extending into several dimensions. There is the semantic dimension
(including object orientation, data deduction and extended
knowledge representation schemes), there is improved systems
integration, and there are new tools. All these extensions aim to
provide semantically richer and better engineered information
systems that allow for more adequate and complete representations
and thus extend the effective use of database technology to a wider
class of applications. Database researchers and developers, whether
they are committed to application or to system construction, are
convinced that next-generation information system technology will
be heavily determined by a handful of new concepts that they have
to understand and work out in detail now. This volume concentrates
on the following topics: - Extended data types and data models,
database programming languages; - Rule-based data deduction, expert
systems, knowledge bases; - Object orientation and semantic data
modelling; - DB application development, methodologies and tools; -
Interface technology, parallelism, interoperability, ...; - New
database applications.
This volume represents the outcome of the International Conference
on "Extending Database Technology," held in Venice, Italy, in March
1988. It contains the major dimensions into which database
technology is currently being pushed by the needs of new
applications and pulled by the chances of novel developments in
hardware and systems architecture. The two broad areas covered are:
extended database semantics: data models and data types, databases
and logic, complex objects, and expert system approaches to
databases; and new architectures and increased database systems
support: novel transaction models, data distribution and
replication, database administration and access efficiency. Since
an increasing amount of database research and development is done
through international cooperation and within joint projects
(ESPRIT, EUREKA, industrial cooperations), a substantial part of
the book is dedicated to representing about a dozen advanced
database projects on data- and knowledge-based systems and on
distributed database applications by their aims, status, and
results.
Ever since philosophy became conscious of itself, there has been a
problem of the relations between the real world which philosophy
sought to understand and explain, and the thought by which it
sought to explain it. It was found that thought had certain
requirements and conditions of its own. If the real world was to be
understood through thought, there was a question whether thought
and the real correspond ed in all respects, and therefore whether
they had the same conditions and laws, or whether some of these
were peculiar to thought alone. For the solution of this problem it
was necessary to study thought and the process of knowing and the
conditions which the manner of know ing placed upon our
interpretation of the real. With a consciousness of the
peculiarities of thought and of its laws, philosophers could then
more surely make use of it to arrive at the knowledge of the real
world which they were seeking, without danger of reading into the
real what is peculiar to thought. This necessity gave rise to the
science of logic, a science which is still necessary, and for the
same reasons. It has an importance in philosophy which it is
disastrous to overlook."
The Analysis of Burned Human Remains, Second Edition, provides a
primary source for osteologists and the medical/legal community for
the understanding of burned bone remains in forensic or
archaeological contexts. It describes in detail the changes in
human bone and soft tissues as a body burns at both the chemical
and gross levels and provides an overview of the current procedures
in burned bone study. Case studies in forensic and archaeological
settings aid those interested in the analysis of burned human
bodies, from death scene investigators to biological
anthropologists.
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Component-Based Software Engineering - 8th International Symposium, CBSE 2005, St. Louis, MO, USA, May 14-15, 2005 (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
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On behalf of the Organizing Committee I am pleased to present the
proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Component-Based Software
Engineering (CBSE). CBSE is concerned with the development of
software-intensive systems from reusable parts (components), the
development of reusable parts, and system maintenance and
improvement by means of component replacement and c- tomization.
CBSE 2005, "Software Components at Work," was the eighth in a
series of events that promote a science and technology foundation
for achieving predictable quality in software systems through the
use of software component technology and its associated software
engineering practices. We were fortunate to have a dedicated
Program Committee comprised of 30 internationally recognized
researchers and industrial practitioners. We received 91
submissions andeach paper wasreviewedby at least three ProgramComm-
tee members (four for papers with an author on the Program
Committee). The entirereviewingprocesswassupportedbyCyberChairPro,
theWeb-basedpaper
submissionandreviewsystemdevelopedandsupportedbyRichardvandeStadt
of Borbala Online Conference Services. After a two-day virtual
Program C- mittee meeting, 21 submissions were accepted as long
papers and 2 submissions were accepted as short papers.
Long 'on' the Tooth: Dental Evidence of Diet addresses human dental
macroscopic and microscopic wear, as well as dental disease, as
indicators of diet. The book focuses primarily on 350 pre-contact
humans from North America dating from approximately 5,500 to 600
years ago. These populations had subsistence strategies ranging
from terrestrial foraging to intensive maize agriculture. The study
makes intra- and intergroup comparisons to elucidate dietary
nuances that are largely beyond the reach of other means of dietary
reconstruction. Finally, the book discusses the importance of using
multiple dietary indicators in unison in order to provide
paleodietary insights.
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