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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the field of positive psychology has sought to implement a science of human flourishing so that we may lead happier, more fulfilling lives. It has found expression not only in academic papers but also popular books and, increasingly, in government policy....
Mathematical Modeling of Social Relationships
What Mathematics Can Tell Us About People
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This edited volume presents examples of social science research projects that employ new methods of quantitative analysis and mathematical modeling of social processes. This book presents the fascinating areas of empirical and theoretical investigations that use formal mathematics in a way that is...
Intergroup Contact Theory
Recent developments and future directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Intergroup contact theory has been one of the most influential theories in social psychology since it was first formulated by Gordon Allport in 1954. This volume highlights, via a critical lens, the most notable recent developments in the field, demonstrating its vitality and its capacity for reinvention...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 9
The Widening Scope of Self Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The Widening Scope of Self Psychology is a watershed in the self-psychological literature, being a contemporary reprise on several major clinical themes through which self psychology, from its inception, has articulated its challenge to traditional psychoanalytic thinking. The volume opens with original...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 11
The Impact of New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Volume 11 begins with a timely assessment of self psychology and intersubjectivity theory, with original contributions by Carveth, Trop, and Powell, and a critical commentary by P. Ornstein. Clinical studies span the transferences, the complementarity of individual and group therapy, the termination...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 8
New Therapeutic Visions
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
New Therapeutic Visions begins with Lachmann and Beebe's developmental perspectives on representational and selfobject transferences, followed by commentaries. In Section II, the self-psychological approach is brought to bear on the clinical treatment of an adolescent girl, incest survivors, addictive...
Training Nonhuman Primates Using Positive Reinforcement Techniques
A Special Issue of the journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This special issue illustrates benefits to animals from positive reinforcement training (PRT) and--depending on the setting--to scientists, animal care staff, veterinarians, and in the case of the zoo, the visiting public. One important theme throughout is that training is a joint venture between...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Mathematical biomedicine is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field of research that connects the natural and exact sciences in an attempt to respond to the modeling and simulation challenges raised by biology and medicine. There exist a large number of mathematical methods and procedures that...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
The new edition of Sport and Exercise Psychology asks four fundamental questions that get to the heart of this flourishing discipline:
What inner states influence what people think, feel, and behave?
How can people manage or self-regulate their own inner states?
How can sport and exercise...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book is the first monograph dedicated entirely to Willmore energy and Willmore surfaces as contemporary topics in differential geometry. While it focuses on Willmore energy and related conjectures, it also sits at the intersection between integrable systems, harmonic maps, Lie groups, calculus...
What Mathematics Can Do for You
Essays and Tips from Japanese Industry Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Japan is a tiny country that occupies only 0.25% of the world’s total land area. However, this small country is the world’s third largest in economy: the Japanese GDP is roughly equivalent to the sum of any two major countries in Europe as of 2012.
This book is a first attempt to ask leaders...
by Rolf Leis
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
An introduction to both classical scattering theory and to the time-dependent theory of linear equations in mathematical physics, this text is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of physics and applied mathematics. Topics include proof of the existence of wave operators, some...
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 7: Colliders
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The idea of colliding two particle beams to fully exploit the energy of accelerated particles was first proposed by Rolf Wideröe, who in 1943 applied for a patent on the collider concept and was awarded the patent in 1953. The first three colliders — AdA in Italy, CBX in the US, and VEP-1 in the...
Calculus in Context
Background, Basics, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Breaking the mold of existing calculus textbooks, Calculus in Context draws students into the subject in two new ways. Part I develops the mathematical preliminaries (including geometry, trigonometry, algebra, and coordinate geometry) within the historical frame of the ancient Greeks and the heliocentric...