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A discussion of whiplash trauma. The work brings together experts working in the areas of epidemiology, biomechanics, experimental and analytical research, physical modelling, and clinical aspects of whiplash injury.

Intends to examine the focus and aims that drive rehabilitation intervention and technology development. This book addresses the questions of what research is taking place to develop rehabilitation, applied technology and how we have been able to modify and measure responses in both healthy and clinical populations using these technologies.

Focuses on the following issues: Computational Electromagnetics; Electromagnetic Engineering; Coupled Field and Special Applications; Micro- and Special Devices; Bioelectromagnetics and Electromagnetic Hazard; and Magnetic Material Modelling.

Describes thermal storage technologies and outlines various aspects of thermal storage beginning with the global environment, and the history of thermal storage systems and principles of heat pumps. This book is suitable for junior building equipment engineers and equipment engineering students.

Discusses the clinical principles, human factors and technology issues associated with the use of virtual reality for assessment and treatement in neuro-psycho-physiology. The chapters are contributed by researchers who have pioneered the ideas and technology associated with this field.

This text, based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop, describes a range of the most recent methods of science evaluation and the experience in their implementation in many countries. It should be of interest to researchers, policy-makers and practitioners of science evaluation.

This collection of 28 papers is launched by the European Telematics Applications Project HANSA, with support of the GMDS WG Hospital Information Systems and the GMDS FA Medical Informatics. Papers deal with architectural concepts, models and developments for hospital information systems.

This text discusses recent advances in the mechanisms of pain management and their application to the clinic, particularly in developing countries. Both the local traditions for curing pain and the substances used are presented in the book.

This work attempts a balanced appraisal of the sensitive issues surrounding the subject of ethics in drug research. It aims to make people involved in drug research and development think more carefully about the issues involved. The focus is on the more contentious areas of drug research.

This text discusses the use of interactive technology - such as robotics, computer vision, simulation and artificial intelligence - in health care. Such technology may influence the future of medical and surgical practice by improving access, quality and continuity of care while reducing costs.

Investigates spontaneous, unpredictable uses of technology that are driven by social contexts and collaborative processes, based on our ability to communicate our presence, both virtual and physical, in symbolic ways. This book proposes a research model of design for emergence, focusing on emergent phenomena as part of an iterative design process.

There have been many efforts to integrate XML into programming languages reaching from the simple document object model (DOM) to whole XML class generators. This work focuses on two main aspects: the seamless integration of XML and persistency concepts into the object-oriented programming language Java.

Presents the approaches and technical solutions in the area of smart home, health telematics, and enabling technologies. This book delves into the user perspective to ascertain real needs, explores the enabling technology, looks at the realization of smart homes and addresses to deliver services to persons with disabilities and elderly people.

Several case studies showed that introducing Person-Centered e-Learning (PCeL) is more demanding with respect to time, competence, and facilitative skills. This work introduces a methodology for PCeL pattern mining, description, scenario modeling using the Unified Modeling Language (UML), instantiation on learning platforms, and more.

Although we can recognize further progress in educating health and a considerable number of educational programs for health informatics / medical informatics specialists have been set up, there is still a need to enhance these educational activities world wide, considering global developments as well as new curricular concepts.

This work presents an XML engine for storage and retrieval of XML documents which covers the full range from data-centric to document-centric applications on a single integrated platform. It also investigates transaction management for concurrent XML processing.

An anthology that answers a need to understand design that supports the daily life of people with dementia. It intends to support the research and development around the topic of dementia in older people, which has stressed innovation, participation in the design process, as well as technical competence and the physical environment.

The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) carries out research in the field of ageing, with a focus on the role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can play to promote Active Ageing. This book attempts to reflect aspects of the contribution ICT can make to quality of life for older citizens in Europe.

Although this thesaurus has its roots in an historical collection at the University of Missouri-Columbia where literature on health care informatics has been collected, the rapidly evolving nature of the field is reflected in the use of recent literature as the source for the data.

This publication analyzes and documents the responsibilities which all parties bear in law and ethics to render drug treatment in medicine as safe as it can be, and the liability which arises when injury is suffered.

Presents articles on Aging-in-Place, Assistive Technology, Monitoring and Telehealth, Transportation and Mobility, and Design. This book includes a section on monitoring and telehealth, that reveals applications of advanced pattern recognition techniques, some of which have found roles in the military, process engineering, and financial sectors.

Introduces a particular methodology to build adaptive Web sites and presents the main concepts behind Web mining and applying them to adaptive Web sites. This book includes a chapter, which explains the Web mining process and the tools to analyze Web data, mainly focused in machine learning.

A survey of work on passage times in stable Markov chains with a discrete state space and a continuous time. A unifying framework is provided by probabilistic potential theory and the results presented in the text are interpreted from this point of view.

The motivation behind the research presented in this book stems from the modelling of stochastic processes occurring in present day research of performance analysis of data handling systems. Coverage includes the one- and two-dimensional random walk, the workload process and fluctuation theory.

In the research project presented in this book, an innovative type of fibre concrete is developed, which improved both the tensile strength and the ductility: the Hybrid-Fibre Concrete (HFC). The expression 'hybrid' refers to the 'hybridisation' of fibres: short and long steel fibres were combined together in one concrete mixture. This is the contrary of conventional steel fibre concretes, which contain only one type of fibre. The basic goal of combining short and long fibres is to improve the tensile strength by the action of short fibres on the one hand and on the other hand to improve the ductility by the action of long fibres. In this research project all important aspects needed for the development and application of HFC have been considered. A total of fifteen mixtures, with different types and amounts of steel fibres were developed and tested in the fresh state (workability) as well as in the hardened state (uniaxial tensile tests, flexural tests, pullout tests of single fibres and compressive tests). A new analytical model for the bridging of cracks by fibres was developed and successfully implemented for tensile softening response of HFC. Finally, the utilisation of HFC in the engineering practice was discussed, including a case-study on light prestressed long-span beams made of HFC.