fuzzy control systems have had various applications in a wide range of science and engineering in recent years. since an unstable control system is typically useless and potentially dangerous, stability is the most important requirement for any control system (including fuzzy control system). conceptually, there are two types of stability for control systems: lyapunov stability (a special case ...

Structural family therapy is a model of treatment based on systems theory that was developed primarily at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, under the leadership of Salvador Minuchin, over the last 15 years. The model’s distinctive features are its emphasis on structural change as the main goal of therapy, which acquires preeminence over the details of individual change, and the attention ...

1998–2011 Dreams of teaching Kerisha Bowen was born in Trinidad and moved to Toronto before her family finally settled Pennsylvania. A good student, wanted be a professor. She majored chemistry at Lincoln University, then earned an MS PhD Temple University as part program help students from underrepresented groups enter academic careers. Her first job, assistant professor Penn State Brandywine,...

It is well-known that for expansive maps and continuous potential functions, the specification property (for the map) and the Bowen property (for the potential) together imply the existence of a unique equilibrium state. We consider symbolic spaces that may not have specification, and potentials that may not have the Bowen property, and give conditions under which uniqueness of the equilibrium ...

Many articles over the last two decades have enumerated barriers to and facilitators for evidence use in health systems. Bowen et al’s article “Response to Experience of Health Leadership in Partnering with University-Based Researchers: A Call to ‘Re-imagine Research’” furthers the debate by focusing on an under-explored research area (health system design and health service organization) with ...

This study explored impacts of a newly developed gender affirmative Group Therapy Program informed by Bowen Family Therapy approach (Bowen, 1978) for transgender individuals and their families (BFTTG). All transgender participants met criteria of gender dysphoria classified by DSM-V (DSM-V, 2014). The recent research of gender dysphoria shows that the process of transitioning is accompanied by ...

Special needs estate planning introduces additional complexity, including the need to plan for ongoing caregiving after members of parents’ generation have passed. This role is often left siblings. (Brandy, Burke, Landon, Oertle, 2018). The sibling relationship has not been well-studied in this context, and dynamic become more complex as families changed recent years (Sanner & Jensen, 2021). ov...