Description

SOC2 is a refreshingly new type of text for your introductory sociology course! Developed through a proven "student-tested, faculty-approved" approach and with input from focus groups, surveys, and conversations with students and instructors, SOC2 is exactly what students like you want and need in a text. Its engaging magazine-style layout, high-interest and comprehensive content, current examples, and personal tone make it appealing, while a brief, affordable format is sure to please everyone. Additionally, a full suite of online learning aids--including downloadable flashcards and interactive quizzing--allows you to study and learn on your terms.

Description

Practical therapeutic strategies and clinical insights from EMDR practitioners who serve diverse clinical populations.In EMDR Solutions you will find fifteen exemplary EMDR solutions, each of which develops the Standard Protocol in creative and highly effective ways. These solutions move EMDR forward and expand the application of this powerful therapeutic approach. In this source book of therapeutic strategy and clinical insight, each chapter presents step-by-step instructions for implementing a particular EMDR solution with clients. Each intervention is enriched with relevant case histories that bring to life new targets for and variations on the standard EMDR protocol. Concrete and specific, the clinical work illustrated here will add to you fund of knowledge and broaden your practice. Robin Shapiro has gathered a stellar group of EMDR practitioners. Each of the contributors offers key therapeutic insights in an easy-to-digest form: - Maureen Kitchur presents her Strategic Developmental Model, a meta-model for EMDR practice that encompasses all phases of the Standard Protocol, Ericksonian utilization language, and attachment-enhancing practices. Kitchur's model gives a clear order for EMDR processing and a way to process wordless or implicit experience. - Roy Kiessling offers his Resource Development strategies. Easy to learn and very helpful for clients who are disorganized or in crisis, Kiessling's methods turn resources into cognitive interweaves and ego states into resources. - Sandra Wilson and Robert Tinker demonstrate an effective treatment for phantom limb pain that encompasses treatment from history taking through processing to "It's gone!" - A. J. Popky turns the Subjective Units of Distress scale (SUDS) on its head by targeting inappropriate positive affect. Popky also shares his DeTUR protocol with its Level of Urge to Use (LOUU) for the treatment of addictions and compulsive behavior. - Jim Knipe builds on Popky's work with the SUDS and presents techniques for clearing love-sickness, procrastination, avoidance and codependence using the Level of Urge to Avoid (LOUA). - Joanne Twombly and Ulrich Lanius teach two very different preparations for doing EMDR with people with dissociative disorders. Twombly's applies techniques derived from hypnosis and ego-state work while Lanius shows how to use opiate-inhibiting medication to allow EMDR to work with dissociated clients. - Robin Shapiro addresses the Two-Hand Interweave, a simple but widely applicable exercise of discernment. Shapiro also contributes chapters on using EMDR with anxiety disorders, in differentiation-based couple's therapy and with generational and cultural introjects. - Elizabeth Turner engages children with art therapy, play therapy, and story telling in all phases of EMDR. Her chapter is the delightful cherry on top of this informative, easy-to-use book. Additional chapters by Carole Lovell, Andrew Seubert, Jim Cole, and Susan Schulherr address EMDR with dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) with borderline clients, working with mentally retarded clients, a reenactment tool from guided imagery, and the binge/starve cycle of eating disorders. Whether you read EMDR Solutions cover-to-cover or peruse one chapter that speaks to a particular technique or client population, you will be adding crucial skills and knowledge to your EMDR toolbox. 

Description

A brain-computer interface (Bci), sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain-machine interface (Bmi), is a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device. Bcis are often aimed at assisting, augmenting or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions. Research on Bcis began in the 1970s at the University of California Los Angeles (Ucla) under a grant from the National Science Foundation, followed by a contract from Darpa. The papers published after this research also mark the first appearance of the expression brain-computer interface in scientific literature. The field of Bci research and development has since focused primarily on neuroprosthetics applications that aim at restoring damaged hearing, sight and movement. Thanks to the remarkable cortical plasticity of the brain, signals from implanted prostheses can, after adaptation, be handled by the brain like natural sensor or effector channels. Following years of animal experimentation, the first neuroprosthetic devices implanted in humans appeared in the mid-nineties. This book is your ultimate resource for Brain-Computer Interface. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Brain-Computer Interface right away, covering: Brain-computer interface, Bereitschaftspotential, Brain implant, BrainGate, Neurotrophic electrode, Comparison of consumer brain-computer interfaces, Comparison of neurofeedback software, Cyberkinetics, Cyberware, Electrocorticography, Electroencephalography, Emotiv Systems, Force Trainer, Intracranial Eeg, Mindball, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Neural Impulse Actuator, Neurochip, NeuroSky, Miguel Nicolelis, OpenVibe, Optogenetics, Thought recording and reproduction device, Transcranial alternating current stimulation, Neil Weste, Neuroprosthetics,

Description

Advances in biologically-inspired technologies, such as artificial intelligence and artificial muscles, are making the possibility of engineering robots that look and behave like humans a closer reality. The multidisciplinary issues involved in the development of these robots include materials, actuators, sensors, structures, functionality, control, intelligence, and autonomy. This book reviews various aspects ranging from the biological model to the vision for the future. Contents - Preface - Biologically-Inspired Intelligent Robots - Biological Inspiration for Muscle-Like Actuators of Robots - Biomimetic Animated Creatures - Haptic Devices for Virtual Reality, Telepresence, and Human-Assistive Robotics - Cyborg Technology - Biomimetic Orthotic and Prosthetic Technology - Structural Elements of Biomimetic Robots - Functionality Elements of Biomimetic Robots - Sensors, Actuators and Power Supplies - Biomimetic Robot Control - Cognitive Modeling for Biomimetic Robots - Biologically Inspired Robotic Applications - Outlook for the Intelligent Biomimetic Robots Technology - Index - Author and Editor Biographies

Description

Actuators are devices that convert electrical energy into mechanical work, traditionally used in electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems. As the demand for actuator technologies grows in biomedical, prosthetic and orthotic applications, there is an increasing need for complex and sophisticated products that perform efficiently also when scaled to micro and nano domains.Providing a comprehensive overview of actuators for novel applications, this excellent book:* Presents a mechatronic approach to the design, control and integration of a range of technologies covering piezoelectric actuators, shape memory actuators, electro-active polymers, magnetostrictive actuators and electro- and magnetorheological actuators.* Examines the characteristics and performance of emerging actuators upon scaling to micro and nano domains.* Assesses the relative merits of each actuator technology and outlines prospective application fields.Offering a detailed analysis on current advances in the field, this publication will appeal to practising electrical and electronics engineers developing novel actuator systems. Mechanical and automation engineers, computer scientists and researchers will also find this a useful resource.

Description

A mobile robot is an automatic machine that is capable of movement in a given environment. Mobile robots have the capability to move around in their environment and are not fixed to one physical location. In contrast, industrial robots usually consist of a jointed arm (multi-linked manipulator) and gripper assembly (or end effector) that is attached to a fixed surface. Mobile robots are the focus of a great deal of current research and almost every major university has one or more labs that focus on mobile robot research. Mobile robots are also found in industry, military and security environments. They also appear as consumer products, for entertainment or to perform certain tasks like vacuum. This book is your ultimate resource for Mobile Robot. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Mobile Robots right away, covering: Mobile robot, Robotic mapping, Autonomous robot, Ant robotics, Autonomous underwater vehicle, Domestic robot, Humanoid robot, Industrial robot, Mobile manipulator, Robot, Robotic arm, Robot kinematics, Ubiquitous robot, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Cybernetics, Instituto de Automática, Python Robotics, Robotics, RoboTuna, List of robotics topics, Obstacle avoidance, Robot learning, Snake-arm robot, Bush robot, 321 kinematic structure, 3D Pose Estimation, Across Project, Action description language, Agricultural robot, Allen (robot), Almost Human: Making Robots Think, Android science, Anthrobotics, Any-angle path planning, Arduino, Areas of robotics, Articulated robot, Artificial Ants, Artificial brain, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence,

Description

America's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower in response to Sputnik and the Soviet space program, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) mixes military officers with sneaker-wearing scientists, seeking paradigm-shifting ideas in varied fields—from energy, robotics, and rockets to doctorless operating rooms, driverless cars, and planes that can fly halfway around the world in just a few hours. Michael Belfiore was given unpre-cedented access to write this first-ever popular account of DARPA. The Department of Mad Scientists contains material that has barely been reported in the general media—in fact, only 2 percent of Americans know much of anything about the agency. But as this fascinating read demonstrates, DARPA isn't so much frightening as it is inspiring—it is our future.

Features

• ISBN13: 9780062000651
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

Description

Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Joint," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Joint in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Joint when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Joint, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

Description

From growing up during a simple time to dealing with the struggles of life, The Serious Business of Laughing at Life takes you on a sometimes serious, but often humorous tour of the life of Kevin Trees, one of only a handful of above-knee amputee police officers in the country. His book highlights an unwavering spirit of determination to overcome a life changing accident that left him for dead and his fight to return to the career he loved. Since that day that changed his life forever, Kevin has worn many hats to include a helicopter crewman, a homicide detective featured on the First48 on A&E, an actor, a football coach, a mentor, a public speaker and a teacher. Today he is serving as a sergeant with the Louisville Metro Police Department. Kevin is happily married and a father of two. In his spare time, he enjoys working out, traveling, writing and composing music and coaching his kids. He resides in Louisville, Kentucky with his family, his adopted cat named Peyton, and Lexi his American Eskimo.