Complete mental health: An agenda for the 21st century -- and Conceptual Framework -- Positive Formation of the Self: Character, Attitudes, Spirituality, and Identity -- The Values in Action Inventory of Character Strengths for Youth -- Adolescent Spirituality -- Children’s Life Satisfaction -- Measuring Hope in Children -- The Ethnic Identity Scale -- Healthy Habits, Positive Behaviors, and …
Introduction: New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval -- CIR Concepts -- Interactive Information Retrieval: Bringing the User to a Selection State -- Cognitive Overlaps along the Polyrepresentation Continuum -- Integration Approaches to Relevance -- New Cognitive Directions -- CIR Processes -- A Multitasking Framework for Cognitive Information Retrieval -- Explanation in Information S…
High Performance Computing and Algorithms -- Computer Modeling and Simulations -- Biological and Medical Informatics -- Data and Information Sciences -- Computational Graphics and Visualization.The 2004 International Symposium on Computational and Information Sciences (CIS 2004) aimed at bringing researchers in the area of computational and - formation sciences together to exchange new ideas an…
Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism -- “In Order That We Should Not Ourselves Appear to Be Adjusting Our Estimates … to Make Them Fit Some Predetermined Amount” -- Ptolemy’s Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypotheses -- Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis -- Descartes and the Heart Beat: A Conservative Innovati…
The Bridge Between the Ideal and Real Mechanical Properties for Superhard Materials -- Thermodynamic and Kinetic Aspects of Spontaneus Crystallization of Diamond and Cubic Boron Nitride -- Strain-Induced Disorder and Phase Transformation in Hexagonal Boron Nitride under Quasi-Homogeneous Pressure up to 25 GPa: In-Situ X-Ray Study in a Rotational Diamond Anvil Cell -- Combining Hard with Soft Ma…
Invited Papers -- Nanostructured Materials Based Next Generation Devices and Sensors -- Metal-Induced Crystallization — An Advanced Technology for Producing Polycrystalline Si Films on Foreign Substrates -- Electronic Characterisation and Modelling of Disordered Semiconductors -- Spectroscopy of Rare Earth Ions -- Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Bio-Applications -- Transmission Elec…
The Johannesburg Conference -- Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development -- Production, Consumption and the World Summit on Sustainable Development -- Water for Sustainable Development in Africa -- Energy and Sustainable Development at Global Environmental Summits: An Evolving Agenda -- Management of Chemicals for Sustainable Development -- Health: A Necessity for Sustainable Development --…
The Philosopher Scientist -- The Concept of Nature -- Physical Understanding -- The Scientist Philosopher -- The Block Universe -- Causation and Determinism -- Conclusion.How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. Clearly w…
Targets in Ocular Allergy -- Dry Eye: Inflammation of the Lacrimal Functional Unit -- Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid -- Immunomodulation for Corneal Transplantation -- Scleritis -- Clinical Aspects of MALT -- Immunogenetics of Ocular Inflammatory Disease -- Immune Mechanisms in Uveitis -- The Tip of the Iceberg: Current Knowledge of Uveitis in Juvenile Arthritis -- Herpes Viruses in Ocular Infla…
Disaster Risk and Vulnerability Management from Awareness to Practice -- Quantitative Area Risk Analysis: Available Tools and Open Problems -- ARIPAR-GIS, TRAT, OPTIPATH, EHHRA-GIS -- Risk Based Decision Making: Three Examples of Practical Application Tools -- Catastrophe Risk Management -- Interactive Risk Management -- Pilot Project on Environment and Health Rapid Risk Assessment in Secondary…