Sir William Bragg, O. M., K. B. E., F. R. S

B R I E F N O T E S

Cultured cells cloned from the C1300 neuroblastoma have been shown by several laboratories to extend neurites (1-6) and to accumulate nervespecific enzymatic activities (7) when grown under conditions in which cell division is inhibited. Study of this system has been stimulated by the hope that it might serve as an in vitro model of nerve cell differentiation. Many of the neurite-inducing agent...

M a R T I N F R E D R I K S S O N

Since most of the concepts and areas of research relevant to this thesis are related to fundamental data management issues (abstraction and representation) an appropriate start for this background analysis is to explain these fundamental issues. In the general case, the concepts of abstraction and representation are the means for us to perceive and interact with data in the most suitable manner...

A N E F F E C T I V E Tr E at M E N T F O R P H O B I a S

Behavioral therapy techniques for treating phobias often includes graded exposure of the patient to anxiety-producing stimuli (Systematic Desensitization). However, in utilizing systematic desensitization, research reviews demonstrate that many patients appear to have difficulty in applying imaginative techniques. This chapter describes the Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT), a new therapeutical app...

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C O M P O N E N T I N T E G R at I O N F R a M E W O R K

An emerging trend in the engineering of complex systems is the use of component integration frameworks. Such a framework prescribes an architectural design that permits flexible composition of third-party components into applications. A good example is Sun Microsystems’ Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) framework, which supports objectoriented, distributed, enterprise-level applications, such as accou...