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  • Eating Disorders Transformed

    Bridging Psychological Approaches with Virtual Reality Interventions
    • 1st Edition
    • Giuseppe Riva + 3 more
    • English
    Eating Disorders Transformed: Bridging Psychological Approaches with Virtual Reality Interventions offers a pioneering perspective on addressing Eating Disorders (EDs), a critical area of mental health that has seen a significant rise in recent years. This groundbreaking volume synthesizes extensive research and clinical advancements in the field, bringing together insights from leading experts across various disciplines. The book begins with a foundational overview of established treatments viewed through diverse psychological lenses and enriched by the latest insights from the DSM-5. The second section explores the mechanics of VR technology and its potential to revolutionize treatment for core symptoms of EDs.In the final section, readers will find pioneering experiences shared by the authors, detailing the development of VR applications designed to enhance clinical practice. This book aims to bridge the gap between traditional approaches and technological advancements, providing practical guidelines and access to VR software that readers can explore firsthand. It not only serves as a reference for clinicians and researchers but also invites readers to engage with the evolving landscape of mental health interventions.

  • Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English
    Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change, Volume Two provides readers from a broad range of backgrounds – including students, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners – with a central reference for core elements the economics of climate change. Topics in this new release include Mitigation Costs, Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Development, Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Trade, Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Financial Markets, Industrial Climate Policy, Technology, and Innovation, Climate, Health, and Human Behavior, Critical Perspectives on Climate Economics, and Future Directions for Climate Economics.

  • Interventions and Modifiers of Well-Being and Their Impact

    • 1st Edition
    • Colin R. Martin + 3 more
    • English
    Interventions and Modifiers of Well-Being and Their Impact examines the interlink between physical and emotional well-being. This volume defines the significance of well-being and its applications to health. Sections review the various positive modifiers of well-being, including yoga, meditation, art, and dance while also outlining potential negative modifiers like obesity, addiction, and the use of social media. Each chapter provides case studies and clinical examples of applications. Written by international experts in the field, this book will be the single source researchers and clinicians understand and implement modifiers to help improve well-being.

  • Contemporary Financial Intermediation

    • 5th Edition
    • Stuart I. Greenbaum + 2 more
    • English
    Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Fifth Edition offers a distinctive approach to the study of financial markets and institutions by presenting an integrated portrait that puts information and economic reasoning at the core. The book explores the implications of the information technology revolution that characterizes the financial services industry with digitization and fintech as important manifestations. Sections explore the subtlety, plasticity, and fragility of financial institutions and credit markets, and the ramifications for risk management (including cyber risk). This textbook demands more in terms of quantitative skills and analysis, but its ability to teach about the forces shaping the financial world is unmatched.For the financial sector, the best preprofessional training explains the reasons why markets, institutions, and regulators evolve the way they do, why we suffer recurring financial crises, how we typically react to them, and how digitization and fintech will affect financial services and the industry at large. This book provides students with a complete foundation on the subject, presenting a strong basis for learning and understanding key challenges surrounding the management and operations of financial institutions and their competitive environment.

  • Biological Measures of Well-Being

    • 1st Edition
    • Colin R. Martin + 3 more
    • English
    Biological Measures of Well-Being is organized into four distinct sections that together examine the interlink between physical and emotional well-being. The first section introduces the reader to the correlation among well-being with the environment, economic status, and biological measures. The second section outlines the blood and body fluids as biological correlates of well-being. The third section reviews physiology and imaging as biological correlates of well-being. The fourth discusses the genetic correlations of well-being. Written by international experts in the field, this book will be the single source researchers and clinicians will need to understand well-being and its interlink with biological measures.

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 74
    • English
    Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 74 in this ongoing series, is the premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs in social psychology. Contributions to the series provide defining pieces of established research programs, reviewing and integrating thematically related findings by individual scholars or research groups. Topics discussed in this new release include cultural change, gossip and reputation, counternormative behavior, information sampling, and intellectual humility

  • Safety Analysis and Risk Control

    From Theory to Implementation
    • 1st Edition
    • Mohammad Yazdi
    • English
    Safety Analysis and Risk Control: From Theory to Implementation provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles of risk analysis, emphasizing their relevance and application in making safety a top priority across industries, offering both depth and breadth in coverage. Following an introduction to core concepts and methodologies, the book considers hazard identification, risk assessment techniques, mitigation strategies, and the implementation of safety measures, supported by real-world, integrated case studies and applications throughout. Each chapter provides practical exercises, tools, and resources to enable readers to apply safety and risk control concepts directly to their work environments.Interac... data sets, hosted on a companion website, encourage active engagement with the material, while an instructor's manual and lecture slides support teaching. As industries face increasingly complex safety challenges and regulatory requirements, this book fulfills an urgent need for clear guidelines and tools to implement effective risk control measures of relevance to students and professionals across the fields of occupational health and safety, environmental science, engineering, business management, and public health, among others.

  • Securing Electric Mobility

    • 1st Edition
    • Aparna Kumari
    • English
    Electric vehicles (EVs) continue to capture a growing share of the smart car market across the globe. Like most new technologies, e-mobility comes with a learning curve. Securing Electric Mobility provides readers with in-demand knowledge relating to the dynamically evolving intersection between information & communication technology and vehicle engineering.The edited volume offers in-depth understanding of the distinct features of EV cybersecurity. It opens with a description of the fundamental elements of EVs, their interconnectedness, their cyber-physical characteristics and resulting vulnerabilities. It then dissects the digital threat landscape to increase awareness of all possible risks posed by cyberattacks on electric vehicles, and from there it systematically covers data management, regulatory frameworks, existing solutions and emerging cybersecurity protocols and methodologies that are enhanced by blockchain, artificial intelligence, Internet-of-Things integration, machine learning, and real-time monitoring systems. The value of this thorough overview is strengthened further through the inclusion of real-word case studies, which prove the effectiveness of the adopted approaches to safeguard vehicle control systems, owners’ personal data, and the broader cyber-physical network and related equipment.This book proves to be an indispensable, state-of-the-art resource for academia and industry alike as it encourages further transformative, interdisciplinary investigations into the security-assurance complexities that guide EVs’ resilience evolution.

  • Integrating Activity-Based Models with Mobile Phone Data

    Advances in Traffic Modeling and Multi-Agent Simulation
    • 1st Edition
    • Fei Yang + 2 more
    • English
    Integrating Activity-Based Models with Mobile Phone Data: Advances in Traffic Modeling and Multi-Agent Simulation analyzes the path from the observation to prediction using traffic big data. The book explores the refined identification method of individual travel chains in the diversified and complex urban travel environment, reconstructing the structure and algorithms of Activity-based Models or ABM based on the characteristics identified by mobile phone signaling data. Final sections develop an activity decision-making and microscopic behavior simulation platform. Users will find this to be a resource that supports urban and regional traffic management optimization and traffic planning using traffic big data.

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 58
    • English
    A scholarly, annual volume in the field of behavior science that brings together cutting-edge research and theoretical advances. Each edition surveys the latest findings across learning, conditioning, memory, perception, decision making, and related areas, often blending behavioral analysis with neuroscience, genetics, and computational modeling. It features review chapters, original research, and conceptual perspectives aimed at researchers, graduate students, and clinicians seeking a comprehensive, up-to-date understanding of behavior and its underlying mechanisms.

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