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This publication provides a forum for projects in the medical, biological and biomedical domains as well as for grid projects that seek to integrate these. The overall objective is to reinforce and promote the awareness of the deployment of grid technology in health. The emphasis is on results of current grid projects in health care. This will show in the outcome of field tests and will identify deployment strategies for prototype applications in health care. In addition, outstanding problem areas and technological challenges are identified and new solutions to these issues are proposed.From Grid to Healthgrid is divided in four themes:- Knowledge and Data Management- Deployments of Grids in Health- Current Projects and- Ethical, Legal, Social and Security Issues.The papers show that healthgrid has matured beyond its original projects and is now tackling some difficult problems that seemed intractable up till two years ago.

This text examines the state of orthodontic care in Europe and suggests ideas about developing a quality system of orthodontic care for the region. It expounds the philosophy of Total Quality Management.

Aims to publish multidisciplinary discussions that contribute to improving the education of children and adults of all ages, anywhere in the world. This book surveys results in cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and educational psychology, and also examines the potential uses of broadband and mass media in supporting education.

Social robotics drives a technological revolution of possibly unprecedented disruptive potential, both at the socio-economic and the socio-cultural level. The rapid development of the robotics market calls for a concerted effort across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines to understand the transformative potential of human-robot interaction. This effort cannot succeed without the special expertise in the study of socio-cultural interactions, norms, and values that humanities research provides.This book contains the proceedings of the conference "What Social Robots Can and Should Do," Robophilosophy 2016 / TRANSOR 2016, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in October 2016. The conference is the second event in the biennial Robophilosophy conference series, this time combined with an event of the Research Network for Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics (TRANSOR). Featuring 13 plenaries and 74 session and workshop talks, the event turned out to be the world's largest conference in Humanities research in and on social robotics. The book is divided into 3 sections: Part I and Part III contain the abstracts of plenary lectures and contributions to 6 workshops: Artificial Empathy; Co-Designing Children Robot Interaction; Human-Robot Joint Action; Phronesis for Machine Ethics?; Robots in the Wild; and Responsible Robotics. Part II contains short papers for presentations in 7 thematically organized sessions: methodological issues; ethical tasks and implications; emotions in human robot interactions; education, art and innovation; artificial meaning and rationality; social norms and robot sociality; and perceptions of social robots.The book will be of interest to researchers in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, robotics, computer science, and art. Since all contributions are prepared for an interdisciplinary readership, they are highly accessible and will be of interest to policy makers and educators who wish to gauge the challenges and potentials of putting robots in society.

Invited Lectures of the 15th PanAmerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering . In November 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina became the location of several important events for geo-professionals, with the simultaneous holding of the 15th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering XV PCSMGE, the 8th South American Congress on Rock Mechanics SCRM and the 6th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, as well as the 22nd Argentinean Congress of Geotechnical Engineering CAMSIGXXII. This synergy brought together international experts, researchers, academics,

Terrorist attacks perpetrated by lone actors have already occurred in several countries, and this phenomenon is emerging as a threat to the security of both NATO members and other countries worldwide. In this context, a lone actor, or lone wolf, is someone who individually prepares or commits violent acts in support of an ideology, group or movement, but who is acting outside of the command structure and without the assistance of any group. Up to now, these individual acts have been seen as almost impossible to forecast, but it is nevertheless important to develop a responsible security policy which takes them into account and

Traditionally, medicine has involved therapies chosen according to clinical guidelines, often arrived at through clinical trials which categorized patients into patient groups. Such clinical guidelines would dictate that all patients within a specific group should be treated in exactly the same way. More recently, the paradigm has shifted towards personalized medicine, and in future, individual treatment plans will depend more on the specific characteristics of individual patients, including genomic data.This book presents the proceedings of the 9th scientific eHealth conference, the eHealth Summit Austria, held in

Coastal zones are among the worlds most densely populated and economically important areas, but these factors put pressure on the often limited available freshwater resources. Global change will undoubtedly increase this pressure through the combined effects of increased population, economic development, rising sea levels, increased evapotranspiration, over-extraction and the salinization of coastal aquifers, decreasing river discharges, and accelerating land subsidence.Saline groundwater exfiltration is a common problem in the coastal zone of the Netherlands, but the hydrological processes and

Mashups and social tagging are two of many aspects of recent developmentson the Web and both are essential to this work. Mashups are Webapplications that integrate data and functions from multiple Web sources.Social tagging is a form of free labelin

Considers the science and technology policies necessary for defense against terrorism and other threats to security; assesses the priorities for governments, universities, national laboratories and industrial firms; and identifies how governments and the science and technology community can most effectively work together to enhance our security.

This work reports on the third congress organized by TIDE (Technology Initiative for the integration of Disabled and Elderly people). This publication covers: accessibility and design for all; users and user empowerment and involvement; and assistive technology research and development.

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.

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.

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.