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Digital Psychiatry

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Luis Sandoval + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Over the past two decades technology has begun to play an important role in medicine. The synergy of technology and psychiatry now called, telepsychiatry or digital psychiatry, has helped increase treatment access, training and dissemination while reducing cost and stigma associated with mental health disorders. Most of what is known today in telepsychiatry is based on scientific research such as pilot studies, mid to large clinical trial and meta-analysis, which has been conducted in hospital and/or academic settings. Unfortunately, these studies only tell one side of the story, that of the scientists, doctors, clinicians, and professors without taking into account the experience of the patients. This lack of response has driven patients to search for answers independently and solve their own issues by designing simple and innovative ways to complement and treat their chronic and, sometimes, acute mental health conditions. Digital Psychiatry: Case Studies of Patient-Driven Innovations illustrates the clinical perspective of using technology to improve mental health of patients. A series of clinical cases how by modifying and adapting current available technological devices such as video games, apps, movies, and online videos can treat patient’s psychiatric conditions. This book is a prime resource for researchers and clinicians who are trying to understand how to incorporate technology into treatment options for patients.

Resilient Smart Cities

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Nisrine Makhoul
  • English
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Using a consistent structure throughout, the book examines smart cities in a broad sense, looking at people, governance, economic, mobility, environment, and infrastructure dimensions. It identifies the likely weaknesses of those cities and threats faced, proposing a modeling platform to help enhance resilience of smart cities, offering state-of-the-research and deep literature review. Resilient Smart Cities shows the role smart cities play in achieving sustainability goals through the lens of urban resilience and concludes that smart cities are required to be cities of hope where well-being of the humankind is the center.

The Neuroscience of Deep Brain Stimulation

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Yasin Temel + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an established and successful treatment options for patients with movement disorders, including Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and some psychiatric conditions. Neuroscience of Deep Brain Stimulation: Research and Clinical Applications, begins by introducing readers to the foundational research and historical background of DBS, including developmental experimental models for movement and psychiatric disorders. The second section reviews various clinical applications including numerous and in-depth case studies. The final section identifies the mechanisms of action behind DBS, including cellular, metabolic and neurochemical mechanisms. Internationally contributed, this book will become the essential guide for anyone in the field of DBS.

Sustainability

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Liliana L. Mammino
  • English
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Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Endeavour offers a comprehensive overview of the contributions of various disciplines to sustainability, along with possible synergies that could develop among them. The first part of the book covers sustainability science from each related scientific discipline, such as environmental science, engineering, and medicine and economy, highlighting cross disciplinary pathways. The second half of the book offers insights into how each of the green sciences relate to each other and to education on sustainability. This framework is ideal for scientists and researchers in adjacent areas of sustainability.

Experimental Analysis of Behavior

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Alan Poling + 1 more
  • English
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Experimental Analysis of Behavior: A Primer for Practitioners is an accurate summary of EAB that focuses on implications for practitioners (applied behavior analysts). The book follows the Behavior Analyst Certification Boards Fourth Edition Task List and then goes beyond the required 8-hour supervision training to teach important clinical skills like acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Relational Frame Theory (RFT), Executive Function skills, Organizational Behavior Management (OBM), and Curriculum-Based Measures. This resource will help readers understand behavior and the variables that affect it. This sophistication will enhance their ability to produce quality research and interact with colleagues from across other disciplines.

Comprehensive Energy Systems

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Ibrahim Dincer
  • English
  • Hardback
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Comprehensive Energy Systems, Five Volume Set, provides a unique source of unified information covering the entire spectrum of energy from production to utilization in depth with basic to advanced levels of contents and addressing the critical issues that humanity face. This comprehensive book describes traditional and novel energy systems with thorough contents on system design, analysis and assessment, from single generation to multi-generation, also covering theory and applications. In addition, it also presents high-level coverage on energy policies and strategies, economic dimensions, environmental impact assessment and sustainable development.High-level sections include Energy Fundamentals, Energy Materials, Energy Production, Energy Conversion, and Energy Management. For this second edition, existing chapters have been improved and updated with new information, knowledge, technologies and applications. New chapters and case studies　have been added on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, energy trading, transport, transmission, consumption, and recent dynamics in the energy sector after COVID-19.

Smart City Code

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Luca Mora + 4 more
  • English
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Smart City Code: Governance Handbook for Digital Transformation Managers in the Public Sector explores how to govern the planning, implementation, and maintenance operations in smart city projects and transitions, and the urban digitalization processes that may potentially trigger. It provides readers with the evidence-based knowledge they need to approach the complexity of smart city governance, responding to the United Nations’ call for more advanced strategic and technical support on urban digital transformations to national, regional, and local governments. The book uses a comprehensive framework that details what configuration of multi-level components should be considered in the governance of smart city transitions.

Encyclopedia of Monetary Policy, Financial Markets and Banking

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Nicholas Apergis
  • English
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Encyclopedia of Monetary Policy, Financial Markets and Banking, Three Volume Set summarizes, analyses, assesses, concludes, and forecasts through use of experts from around the globe to provide the definitive, go-to reference work in the fieldThe 4 sections of this work cover:ECONOMICS 1: The Future of Monetary Policy = Central banks in leading advanced economies have undergone several fundamental transformative changes, especially after the global financial crisis and the recent pandemic crisis era. The key issue for decision-makers remains to consider which fundamental direction monetary policy ought to take next; this section offers insight into this issue.ECONOMICS 2: Climate Change and Sustainability = This section explores how climate change and its impacts exert additional pressure on natural resources available for global economies’ economic growth. Exploration and exploitation of countries’ resources negatively affect ecological systems. This necessitates a societal sustainable balance between resource use, socio-economic growth and the environment.FINANCE 1: Financial Markets = This section focuses on a new framework for financial markets, consistent with the functional view of the financial system design, anchored in exploring the incentives facing the key players in financial markets: market participants, policymakers, and regulators-whose actions determine whether and how markets develop. While different instruments and strategies embody different concessions by stakeholders, the framework should be used to analyse the sequencing of financial market development.FINANCE 2: Banking Developments = While ongoing changes in global banking influence its overall benefits, the crises also revealed the need for a consistent framework for supervising and resolving globally active banks. This section explores where banking stands now, post pandemic and financial crisis.

Urban Computing and Artificial Intelligence

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Ansar Khan + 2 more
  • English
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Urban Computing and Artificial Intelligence: A Data-Driven Tool for Urban Heat Mitigation is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on climate change, urban warming, and the future of resilient cities. The book helps city governments better understand how to plan for the effects of climate change and impending natural disasters. It compiles the concepts, strategies, and technologies associated with resilient cities, and provides an outline of what constitutes climate change and its behavior relating to urban systems. Finally, the book develops a comprehensive concept for the future resiliency of cities related to hydro-climatology and extreme events.Next, it explains the physical principles governing the formation of distinct hydro-climatology and resilient cities, and then illustrates how this knowledge can be applied to moderate the undesirable consequences of swift and haphazard urban development (energy, peak electricity demand, health, comfort, economy, and environment) and help to create more sustainable and resilient cities for the future. With urban climate science now a fully-fledged growing field, this timely book fulfils the need to bring together the disparate parts of urban climate research in global cities into a coherent framework. It is an ideal resource for students, researchers, and policymakers in the fields of urban climate, urban architecture and planning, environmental engineering, urban design, and redevelopment.

Empowerment Self-Defense

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Lindsay M. Orchowski + 1 more
  • English
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Empowerment Self-Defense: Theory, Research and Practice explores the theory, research, and practice of empowerment self-defense as a sexual assault prevention approach. This book begins with introductory chapters that introduce key issues and theory, including the theoretical underpinnings of empowerment self-defense, the difference between empowerment self-defense and martial arts, as well as myths and misconceptions about the approach. The second section include a series of chapters that summarize research on empowerment self-defense. The final section of the book will address special topics, including implementation of empowerment self-defense for indigenous population, individuals with disabilities, and transgender women.Nationwide, 81% of women have reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime. Sexual assault prevention programs vary in their approaches and one approach empowerment self-defense, strengthens an individual’s ability to prevent and respond to threat, and holds great promise for stopping violence and reducing inequality.

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