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Vers la nécessité de repenser la « Grande Europe »
Authors: Saint-Ouen François
Published: May 2015

Les relations entre l’Union européenne et la Russie, dans un contexte d’évolution du monde globalisé vers les BRICS et de réorientation des flux économiques vers l’Asie, conduisent à nouveau à réfléchir à l’idée de « Grande Europe », aujourd’hui oubliée. Cette idée est analysée non seulement sous l’angle des défis globaux, mais aussi suivant des paramètres historico-culturels, institutionnels, économiques, sécuritaires et sociétaux. L’article montre la persistance, dans certains esprits et dans certaines institutions comme l’OTAN, d’une logique de confrontation. Il estime que cette situation est aujourd’hui de plus en plus dommageable, tant pour l’UE que pour la Russie, mais également pour les pays du partenariat oriental et même pour les pays candidats. Il plaide, à l’inverse, pour des relations économiques entre l’UE et l’Union eurasiatique, ainsi que pour un dialogue politique et sécuritaire totalement repensé, notamment à travers l’OSCE, dans l’objectif d’une Europe plus autonome à l’égard des États-Unis et de l’OTAN.
Russia and/versus the EU: From Post-political Consensus to Political Contestations
Authors: Makarychev Andrey
Published: May 2015

Dans cet article, l’auteur affirme que le conflit entre l’Union européenne et la Russie au sujet de l’Ukraine résulte de la collision politique des approches différentes de politique étrangère. Avec la fin de la Guerre froide, l’Union européenne et la Russie définissent leurs affaires étrangères non plus en termes politiques et idéologiques, mais bien en fonction des aspects managériaux, administratifs et légaux de la gouvernance, c’est-à-dire en termes post-politiques. Paradoxalement, le résultat cumulé des deux projets technocratiques – et pour beaucoup pragmatiques – fut une politisation croissante de l’ensemble des relations bilatérales et de la zone de voisinage commune.
Is the EU’s failed relationship with Russia the member states’ fault?
Authors: Schmidt-Felzmann Anke
Published: May 2015

L’année 2014 a vu une rapide et sérieuse détérioration des relations entre l’Europe et la Russie. La soudaine dégradation du « partenariat stratégique » a pris de nombreux observateurs par surprise. Cet article étudie les raisons de l’échec de l’Union européenne à développer des relations de coopération mutuellement bénéficiaires avec la Russie. Il s’intéresse en particulier à l’idée selon laquelle ce sont les divisions internes de l’UE et les liens bilatéraux spécifiques de certains États membres avec la Russie qui sont à l’origine des difficultés de l’Union européenne dans son ensemble. L’article démontre que, si le manque d’unité de l’Union européenne est bien un facteur qui a contribué à l’échec, il ne peut pas entièrement expliquer les mauvais résultats de l’UE concernant la Russie. De nombreux facteurs additionnels permettent d’expliquer les lacunes européennes : une confiance (mal placée) dans la capacité du processus de coopération à améliorer les relations ; la crainte bien ancrée d’une confrontation militaire avec la Russie ; les faiblesses liées à la nature spécifique de l’UE comme acteur international ; et, finalement, le peu de crédit accordé au point de vue des petits États membres qui sont les voisins géographiques de la Russie.
The Visegrad Cooperation: Central Europe divided over Russia
Authors: Racz Andras
Published: May 2015

Les quatre pays d’Europe centrale qui constituent la coopération de Visegrad, à savoir la Pologne, la République tchèque, la Slovaquie et la Hongrie, ont un intérêt commun pour tout ce qui concerne les questions de sécurité en rapport avec la Russie. Cependant, ils sont profondément divisés pour ce qui concerne la politique de l’énergie, les ambitions de politique étrangère et aussi de politique intérieure. Bien que des projets de diversification d’approvisionnement en énergie soient en cours, il faudra longtemps avant de faire décroître la dépendance stratégique envers la Russie. La politique intérieure peut également être particulièrement mise en évidence en ce qui concerne la Hongrie, où le premier ministre Viktor Orban considère la Russie comme un modèle idéologique, contrairement aux trois autres États. Cependant, ces divisions ne seront pas à même de remettre en cause la coopération de Visegrad elle-même, car cette organisation n’a jamais été entendue pour résoudre les problèmes à l’intérieur du groupe de Visegrad, mais bien pour représenter les intérêts communs lorsque ceux-ci sont présents. Aussi, la coopération de Visegrad dispose d’une large expérience pour gérer les désaccords internes au groupe.
L’énergie dans les relations Europe-Russie
Authors: Nigoul Claude
Published: May 2015

Les événements qui se déroulent en Ukraine depuis la fin de 2013 ont mis en pleine lumière la dépendance énergétique de l’Europe vis-à-vis de la Russie, son principal fournisseur. Jusque-là les Européens s’en accommodaient par une gestion dynamique visant à stabiliser les relations avec leur grand voisin de l’Est grâce à un accord de partenariat ambitieux et à un dialogue organisé dans le secteur énergétique. Après quelques alertes provisoirement réglées, la crise politique intervenue en Ukraine, qui révèle le heurt entre la volonté de Moscou de retrouver son statut de puissance et celle des Washington de s’y opposer, la question des relations énergétiques entre l’Europe, engagée plus ou moins ardemment derrière les États-Unis, et la Russie, se pose avec une acuité renforcée. De quelles alternatives dispose-t-on en Europe pour alléger la dépendance ? Peut-elle prétendre à l’autosuffisance ? Trouver des fournisseurs de substitution crédibles ? Comment la Russie pourrait-elle faire de l’énergie une arme commerciale et politique et se priver d’une clientèle traditionnelle ? Peut-elle envisager de se tourner vers l’Asie ? Quel en serait le prix politique ? Ces questions ne peuvent trouver de réponses sans poser celle d’une vision géopolitique de grande ampleur, qui postule une solution équitable du différend ukrainien, ouvrant sur une coopération maîtrisée au sein d’un ensemble continental de Brest à Vladivostok.
Sujet et identité. Quelques réflexions métapsychologiques
Authors: Kapsambelis Vassilis
Published: May 2015

La problématique de l’identité rencontre les développements récents de la psychanalyse concernant la subjectivité, la subjectivation, voire l’intersubjectivité, et semble appartenir à un même ensemble conceptuel, celui d’une définition ontologique de l’être humain dans son essence et dans son authenticité. Cette approche semble s’opposer à la conception freudienne d’une personnalité à jamais décomposée entre instances antagonistes. Une façon de concevoir un sujet et une identité au sein de la métapsychologie serait de faire intervenir la notion d’objet, et de considérer que le sujet et son identité sont la coproduction de la rencontre moi-objet et traduisent la trace la plus durable de leur entente. Une topique en moi, objet et sujet, peut ainsi être esquissée.
Le faire ensemble et avec soi-même. Deux contextes superposés
Authors: Puget Janine
Published: May 2015

Nous proposons une métapsychologie du Lien, du Deux, qui dépend des pratiques issues du « faire entre deux ou plusieurs sujets », ceux-ci étant dotés d’altérité et d’étrangéité irréductibles à ce qui ne correspond pas à ce qui est de l’ordre des mouvements identificatoires. Les conflits proviennent de la manière de gérer la différence radicale, le vide inhérent à l’entre-deux, les relations de pouvoir. Il s’agit alors de reconnaître les difficultés issues de deux contextes de production subjective qui se superposent. Il devient nécessaire d’introduire un vocabulaire spécifique pour reconnaître les conflits propres à chaque espace. Un court exemple clinique permet de suivre les alternatives de ces hypothèses et des interventions possibles.
Couple et identité
Authors: Robert Philippe
Published: May 2015

S’il en existe une part invariante, l’identité est potentiellement évolutive. Les différences au sein d’un couple marquent et renforcent, au moins dans un premier temps, l’appartenance de chacun à son groupe primaire. La rencontre avec l’autre permet de dévoiler des parts de soi méconnues mais aussi d’en éveiller d’autres qui n’auraient jamais pu se développer. Des patients ont pu évoluer favorablement dans des cures individuelles mais conserver des parts d’eux-mêmes non transformées et agrégées dans le lien de couple. La thérapie de couple permet d’éprouver des vacillements identitaires redessinant les contours des frontières psychiques.
L’identité narrative chez les mères toxicomanes sous substitution
Authors: Rosenblum Ouriel
Published: May 2015

partir d’un groupe de parole de mères toxicomanes sous substitution, au sein d’une structure hospitalière, nous tenterons, dans une analyse de la trajectoire des femmes toxicomanes, de la consommation à la substitution en passant par la maternité, d’aborder la narrativité de soi comme une tentative d’occuper à nouveau corps sexué et, par-delà, opérer un changement identitaire. Ainsi, la mise en scène du féminin dans sa relation aux autres permet à ces femmes toxicomanes de s’extraire de l’immuable de la biologie, pour intégrer une place affiliative en tant que figure parentale. Dorénavant, c’est au travers de la relation à l’autre qu’elles se requalifient en qualité de personne par rapport à la relation à l’autre sexe, dans un souci de construction sociale.
L’identité figure du destin
Authors: Falguière Jacqueline
Published: May 2015

L’auteur propose une réflexion sur l’identité et sa construction liée à son absence d’évolution. La métaphore de la figure du destin est utilisée pour approcher l’impossibilité de subjectiver les origines de cette construction identitaire. L’hypothèse concernant l’absence d’évolution de l’identité tient à deux caractéristiques du fonctionnement mental, les processus identificatoires défaillants et la non-existence de tiers dans la linéarité du chemin identitaire. Rien ne semble pouvoir dévier de sa route l’identité qui s’est construite sur la base d’une mission dictée par les origines de l’individu, l’absence de l’un des parents ou des deux, un traumatisme précoce, un deuil impossible d’un enfant aîné… Ces problématiques identitaires peuvent être approchées dans le cadre d’un groupe analytique et donner lieu pour l’individu à une subjectivation de son histoire et à l’intégration des insights propres à l’amener à une liberté de choix.
Narcissisme primaire, narcissisme secondaire. L’identité dans la gestion de la culpabilité meurtrière
Authors: Chan Jenny
Published: May 2015

Penser l’identité suppose d’interroger les complexes des origines, les fantasmes originaires et les pulsions sexuelles. Pour certains sujets, la scène primitive est inaccessible et la castration conduit à une fixation. Dans cette situation, le fantasme de séduction ne peut qu’être traumatique et entraîne le fantasme Un enfant est battu . En 1915, Freud propose de penser que le moi est investi originairement et pulsionnellement et capable, en partie, de satisfaire ses pulsions sur lui-même. Il appelle cet état le narcissisme et celui de la satisfaction, l’autoérotisme. Lorsque le système d’autosatisfaction est mis en échec, la blessure narcissique rend difficile l’identité. À partir de l’analyse d’une séance de travail dans un groupe de paroles en milieu carcéral, j’interrogerai ces enjeux narcissiques mettant en impasse le développement du sexuel et de l’identité. Derrière le délit, retrouvons-nous ce criminel de la conscience de culpabilité tel que le décrit Freud ?
L’identité sexuée, le sexuel et le genre dans une perspective psychanalytique du lien et de la relation
Authors: Benghozi Pierre
Published: May 2015

Dans cet article nous proposons une définition différentiée entre le sexué, le sexuel et le genre. Nous en formulons une relecture sémiotique et dans une perspective psychanalytique des liens, telle que l’a développé René Kaës, ces notions qui ne cessent d’interpeller la question identitaire. La psychanalyse de groupe nous permet de penser l’identité dans une référence psychanalytique. En référence à notre conceptualisation du maillage des liens, notre approche sera structurée par une différenciation entre la notion de lien et celle de relation. Notre hypothèse est que : le sexué est au lien ce que le sexuel est à la relation. Le genre étant l’expression sociale et culturelle du sexué et du sexuel. Nous en distinguerons la notion de « sexual » décrite par Jean Laplanche. La clinique du sexué n’est pas la clinique du sexuel, ou du genre. Nous illustrerons à partir de problématiques, telle que « l’énigme transsexuelle », l’attaque du féminin comme attaque contre les liens et les contenants identitaires, la différence de genre dans la société polynésienne, par l’inscription doublement sexuée du lien dans la société kanake en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nous concluons par une éthique clinique d’une écoute de la différence.
La mise en œuvre d’un atelier d’écriture avec des patients déments au stade sévère : fondements, objectifs et résultats empiriques
Authors: Engasser Ophélie
Published: May 2015

Cet article propose de partager les réflexions menées autour de la mise en place d’un atelier d’écriture au sein d’une institution géronto-psychiatrique spécialisée dans l’accueil de patients atteints de maladie d’Alzheimer et de démences apparentées au stade sévère, présentant de lourds troubles du comportement. Inscrit dans un projet global d’approche non médicamenteuse, l’atelier répondait à une indication d’apaisement des troubles du comportement. Conjuguant les vertus de l’écriture et du groupe, les séances d’atelier nous ont permis d’observer empiriquement un retranchement important des comportements perturbateurs. À partir de séquences cliniques élaborées dans le transfert, nous dégagerons les enjeux processuels à l’œuvre dans le travail d’écriture au sein des groupes de patients déments, notamment en termes de contenance. Nous montrerons que l’écriture présente une efficience particulière, celle de déplacer l’investissement pulsionnel qui parasite le corps, vers le texte écrit.
Problématiques de groupes en institutions gériatriques. Comment penser l’impensable ?
Authors: Caleca Catherine
Published: May 2015

Les psychologues intervenant dans des structures accueillant des âgés utilisent peu l’outil pourtant pertinent du travail en groupe thérapeutique. Nous nous interrogeons au cours de ce travail sur les raisons qui freinent l’utilisation de cette technique. L’une d’entre elles est la réticence des âgés eux-mêmes à se constituer en groupe au sein des institutions. Par ailleurs, la culture des institutions comporte la mise en place de groupes à visée réadaptative, que les psychologues n’utilisent pas afin de ne pas être insérés dans une logique de rééducation ou d’animation. Cependant, l’un des obstacles majeurs pourrait être l’impensé de la mort possible des sujets participant aux groupes. Nous constatons que la mise en place de ceux-ci favorise l’émergence de relations et d’investissements au sein du groupe permettant de surmonter ce traumatisme et de trouver des appuis pour remettre en circulation la capacité de rêverie qu’offre ce dispositif.
Mise en groupe, psychose et porosité des enveloppes psychiques
Authors: Vollon Clarisse , Gimenez Guy , Bonnet Christian
Published: May 2015

Nous proposons d’étudier les processus psychiques du thérapeute durant la période de mise en groupe dans le cadre d’un groupe psychanalytique de paroles mené dans un service d’ergo-sociothérapie avec des patients psychotiques adultes. Le but est de montrer que les premiers temps d’un groupe thérapeutique ont pour effet de modifier la texture des enveloppes psychiques du clinicien, qui vont tendre vers une plus grande porosité. Après avoir défini ce que nous entendons par « porosité des enveloppes psychiques », nous présenterons la façon dont nous envisageons la position psychique du thérapeute en situation de groupe, puis nous reviendrons sur les deux premières séances du groupe psychanalytique de paroles. Les résultats de notre recherche nous permettront d’aller plus loin dans la définition du positionnement psychique du thérapeute en situation de groupe, de son cadre interne et de sa position dite « méta ».
Diagram of strength increase, and original strength
Authors: Keil F.
Published: May 2015

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Remarks on the proportioning of cements in set mortars and concretes
Authors: Calleja J.
Published: May 2015

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Considerations on nominal and real content of active hydraulic materials in cements
Authors: Calleja J.
Published: May 2015

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The Atterberg limits and their significance in the ceramic and brick industries
Authors: Sembenelli P.
Published: May 2015

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Be[ing] You
Authors: Moore Lorna Ann
Published: May 2015

This chapter discusses the one-to-one interactions between participants in the video performance In[bodi]mental. It presents personal accounts of users' body swapping experiences through real-time Head Mounted Display systems. These inter-corporeal encounters are articulated through the lens of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and his work on the “Mirror Stage” (1977), phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1968) and his writings on the Chiasm, and anthropologist Rane Willerslev's (2007) research on mimesis. The study of these positions provides new insights into the blurred relationship between the corporeal Self and the digital Other. The way the material body is stretched across these divisions highlights the way digital media is the catalyst in this in[bodied] experience of be[ing] in the world. The purpose of this chapter is to challenge the relationship between the body and video performance to appreciate the impact digital media has on one's perception of a single bounded self and how two selves become an inter-corporeal experience shared through the technology.
Transposing, Transforming, and Transcending Tradition in Creative Digital Media
Authors: Prager Phillip Andrew , Thomas Maureen , Selsjord Marianne
Published: May 2015

How can digital media technologies, contemporary theories of creativity, and tradition combine to develop the aesthetics of computer-based art today and in the future? Through contextualised case-studies, this chapter investigates how games, information technologies, and traditional visual and storytelling arts combine to create rich, complex, and engaging moving-image based artworks with wide appeal. It examines how dramatist and interactive media artist Maureen Thomas and 3D media artist and conservator Marianne Selsjord deploy creative digital technologies to transpose, transform, and transcend pre-page arts and crafts for the digital era, making fresh work for new audiences. Researcher in digital aesthetics, creative cognition, and play behaviour Dr. Phillip Prager examines how such work is conducive to creative insight and worthwhile play, discussing its remediation of some of the aspirations and approaches of 20th-century avant-garde artists, revealing these as a potent source of conceptual riches for the digital media creators of today and tomorrow.
Making It for the Screen
Authors: Chilsen Paul
Published: May 2015

We are immersed in a culture of spoken media, written media, and now irrevocably, digital screen media. Just as writing and speaking skills are keys to functioning in society, we must consider that the world increasingly demands proficiency in “mediating” as well. Doing anything less leaves this powerful medium in the hands of a relative few. By offering instruction in what digital screen media is, how it is effectively created, how the Internet continues to alter communication, and how this all informs everyday teaching and learning, digital media literacy can become more broadly understood and accessible. This chapter follows a program developed by the Rosebud Institute and looks at how—using simple, accessible technology—people can become more digital media literate by creating screen products themselves. The creation process also enables deeper, more authentic learning, allowing us all to communicate more effectively, to self-assess more reflectively, and to thrive in a screen-based world.
Digital Media in the Classroom
Authors: Sanford Kathy , Merkel Liz , Hopper Tim
Published: May 2015

The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the engagement, social connectivity, and motivation to learn observed in two classes of students, one a grade 9/10 information technology class, the other a grade 3 class of learners classified with learning disabilities. The common factor in the two classes was the way the teachers were rethinking literacy for the 21st century learning by simultaneously engaging students in an event of creating computer programing to address a competition task whilst also addressing curriculum demands. The chapter explores the way the teachers were learning to develop the conditions for emergent learning systems in their classrooms as the first steps to reform the current education system. Drawing on complexity theory, the authors suggest that these students are offering two microcosmic examples of where global systems are heading. The goal of the chapter is to help shift school teaching from its present disconnect between the real world outside students' classrooms and the contrived, dated world of typical school-based curriculum practices.
An Empirical Study about the Use of the Internet and Computer Games among Croatian Children
Authors: Vorkapić Sanja Tatalović , Polanec Elma
Published: May 2015

This book chapter is dedicated to theoretical and empirical review of media among children. Empirical results about computer presence in family homes, IT literacy with different computer programmes among parents, as well children are described. In addition, attitudes of parents and preschool and school-aged children about using Internet and computer games as well as attitudes toward the Internet violence are analysed. The results of games types that children play as well as frequency of playing and children's emotions evoked by them are shown. Finally, the results about presence of significant others as well as their conversation with children are shown. All of the above are interestingly studied in the frame of correlation analysis to research relations between some socio-demographic variables (sex, age, the level of education, and presence of computer in family home), so certain future research guidelines can be established.
Tools for the Process
Authors: Heinen Rachel , Leone Salvatore A. , Fairchild Joshua , Cushenbery Lily , Hunter Samuel T.
Published: May 2015

Technology exerts an all-encompassing impact on the modern workplace, and has a strong influence on how designers approach creative problem solving. Such technologies can be valuable tools for organizations seeking to develop creative solutions to maintain a competitive advantage. However, with the rapid pace of technological development, it can be difficult for organizations to remain up-to-date and ahead of the competition. There is much that is still unknown about the ways in which novel technologies influence creative performance. The chapter attempts to provide insight on this topic by utilizing a process model of creative endeavors to predict how various types of technology may be used to enhance organizational creativity and innovation. Recommendations for future research and practice in the realms of technology and innovation are also discussed.
BOLD Ideas for Creative Social Networking
Authors: Zhang Wei , Kramarae Cheris
Published: May 2015

To further open the conversation about women's empowerment and global collaborations using new networking technologies, this chapter problematizes some prevalent ideas about creativity and social networking, notes suggested change that carry anti-feminist sentiments throughout the world, and suggests a number of ways that women and men can all benefit from an opening of queries about innovative ways of working together online. With the suggested expansions, the authors welcome more inclusive and invitational discussion about future digital media research and development.
Creating Resilient Communities
Authors: Ercoskun Ozge Yalciner
Published: May 2015

Money is a human invention; it can be redesigned to fulfill today's needs. Local currencies are economic and social instruments, operating as supplements to conventional money. Local currencies can serve multiple purposes, including: stimulating the local economy, building an active social network and encouraging sustainable consumption. This chapter focuses on social local currencies and time banks and attempts to answer the question, how they can contribute to the local development and help to build a resilient community. The objectives of this chapter are to analyze what local currency is and how it works, and to provide operational information on how to build currency systems and time banks. The chapter also gives case study insights on how different communities and eco-villages in the world have managed to create resilient economies with local currencies. The chapter concludes by putting forward the significance of the resilient communities, thus contributing to the long-term goal of sustainable development.
Global Warming, Climate Policy, and the Green Paradox
Authors: Popescu Gheorghe H. , Nica Elvira
Published: May 2015

Scholarship about the role of managed systems when considering the impacts of climate change, the environmental problem arising from polluting-resource use, the economic aspects of strategies to slow climate change, and the connection between climate change and economic growth has increased and consolidated, especially in recent years. The main objective of this chapter is to explore and describe the effects of climate policy on greenhouse gas emissions, the societal aspects of climate change, the technology-based determinants of green growth, and the productivity impacts of environmental quality. The results of the current chapter converge with prior research on the harmful results of climate change, reduced use of polluting inputs as a consequence of environmental policy, the prevailing governmental policies for fighting global warming, and measures to mitigate the temperature increase by reducing CO2 emissions.
Harmonization with EU Regulation Regarding Environmental Protection in Livestock Production
Authors: Nastić Lana , Bekić Bojana
Published: May 2015

Environmental protection is one of the key problems in the process of accession of the Republic of Serbia to the European Union. That refers to agricultural production and livestock production which can be large source of environmental pollution. To prevent that, the EU Nitrates Directive must be implemented in Serbia in the following period. However, the Nitrates Directive implementation is related to numerous organizational and financial problems, especially at family farms with activity in livestock production. In this chapter, the authors presented characteristics of livestock production in the Republic of Serbia (cattle number, number of family farms, characteristics of housing capacities for animals and facilities for manure and slurry storage). The authors presented ways in which manure is stored, as well as the potentials of biogas production. Also, they presented models of livestock production financing, including subsidized credits for agriculture, which can facilitate the implementation of the Nitrates Directive at farms.
Development of the Green Economy in Romania
Authors: Ciocoiu Carmen Nadia , Cicea Claudiu
Published: May 2015

The socio-economic context and globally discouraging trends observed in recent years regarding resource conservation and regeneration, control of climate change, technical, technological and informational inequality, progress gaps among nations and locally among citizens of the same country, have led to the need for developing policies, reforms and programs to support sustainable development. In this chapter the authors analyze some important issues regarding the Romanian experience in developing the green economy. They start with the background analysis of the concept, emphasizing several European Union documents regarding green economy and sustainable development. Then, the authors analyze the social and economic profile of Romania, in relation with some suggestive indicators of welfare, sustainability, equity and economic opportunities etc. Special attention is given to the environmental Performance Index (EPI) and Human Development Index (HDI). In the last part of the research, the authors present a short SWOT analysis for the green economy in Romania and several future research directions.
Organic Agriculture as a Tool to Make Economy Green
Authors: Guz Mykhailo , Ivolga Ivan
Published: May 2015

The main questions that trouble ecologists are concentrated on the state of the environment per square unit, while concerns of food security supporters are concentrated on a cost of production unit (which is bigger in comparison with standard for organic agriculture). Economists, in turn, are concerned about the low cost of decision for achievement of food security in comparison with environmental safety. The point, discussed in the chapter, is related to implementation of organic and traditional technologies of farming. It is expedient to estimate the changes of environment per units of production, if there is a set of food production and soils of a variable quality.
Rural Tourism in Transitional Russia's Economics
Authors: Ivolga Anna
Published: May 2015

This chapter assesses the potential of rural tourism in Russia, addresses such threats to sustainable rural development as unemployment and depopulation, and substantiates the practicality of diversification of traditional rural sources of income by means of tourism and other alternative activities. The system approach is utilized, which envisages systematization and stocktaking of various aspects of sustainable development: available resources, economic conditions of agricultural production, market capacity and demand for agricultural commodities and food, employment and social issues, environmental conditions, and alternative sources of income for rural inhabitants.
“Personal Training”
Authors: Tsolaki Anthoula
Published: May 2015

Dementia is one of the most devastating disease of the elderly. Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain its most common cause. This chapter presents current data about AD risk factors, biomarkers, risk genes, available treatments. It also focuses on current and future perspectives about the use of personalized, non pharmaceutical computer- based intervation. The aim of this work is to propose that the knowledge of carring or not AD risk can be a guide for a personalized combination of brain training in preclinical stages of the disease in order to postpone or even cancel disease onset.
Neuroimaging Approaches for Elderly Studies
Authors: Styliadis Charis , Kartsidis Panagiotis , Paraskevopoulos Evangelos
Published: May 2015

Advances in the field of neuroimaging have allowed for the examination of the effects of age-related changes on cognitive capacity in elderly populations. Structural techniques are now routinely used to report cortical atrophic rates in aging and particularly within the context of the Alzheimer's disease, and may be integrated with functional techniques which examine the functional characteristics of the cortex at rest and during the performance of a task. Despite advancing age cognitive function remains highly plastic, allowing for interventions that aim to maintain or even remediate its capacity and the mechanisms by which structure and function are altered among seniors. Overall, information on the integrity of the cerebral structure and function aid in the early detection and treatment of the Alzheimer's disease as well as the evaluation and track of the disease's progression. In this chapter, neuroimaging methods are presented along with findings that are particularly relevant for the study of neuroplasticity in the aging brain.
Implementing Cognitive Exercises in Electronic Form for Supporting Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
Authors: Chaldogeridis Agisilaos , Kyropoulou Kleopatra , Malegiannaki Amaryllis-Chryssi , Nikolaidou Evdokia , Tsiatsos Thrasyvoulos
Published: May 2015

Main goal of this chapter is the development of computerized cognitive exercises for rehabilitation of patients with Alzheimer's disease. More specifically, in traditional rehabilitation settings cognitive exercises are administered by using the paper-and-pencil procedure. This chapter is focused on the transferring of these interventions to an electronic form, enriched with multimedia and interactions that cannot be achieved in the printed form. The presented work tries to automate the procedure and facilitate the psychologist's work. Computer-based intervention programs can exploit all the possibilities of adjusting the difficulty levels of exercise, the speed, the images, using audible signals, accelerating the processing of results for psychologists and much more that add value to creation of such programs. This chapter explores whether and how this kind of exercises can be successfully transferred in an electronic form.
Decision Support in the Elderly Healthcare
Authors: Billis Antonis S. , Frantzidis Christos A. , Bamidis Panagiotis D.
Published: May 2015

Ambient assisted living environments comprise of “smart” components that play the role of a “guardian angel” for the seniors. Health monitoring algorithms have been widely presented in the literature, however in most of the cases, they examine contextual information and the production of alerts in case of an emergency. This short-term information, needs to be combined also with respective analysis in the long run. Integrating both types of temporal information regarding the health status of seniors, one can safeguard that both emergency detection and early diagnosis of health deterioration would lead to increase feelings of safety and quality of life to baby boomers. This chapter aims at presenting the open questions regarding health monitoring in AAL environments and proposes an approach that combines both contextual and long-term trends to characterize overall health.
Robot Programming and Tangible Interfaces for Cognitive Training
Authors: Demetriadis Stavros , Giannouli Vaitsa , Sapounidis Theodosios
Published: May 2015

This chapter presents the conceptual framework, the research rationale and preliminary outcomes of an innovative research agenda that explores the use of tangible interface and robot programming tasks as a method for providing cognitive training to patients with memory dysfunctions. The main argument of this approach is that when programming tasks and relevant tangible systems are used for cognitive training they activate and practice users' logical-analytical and visuospatial skills, which may have beneficial impact on patients' cognitive performance in daily activities. The chapter also presents preliminary outcomes from a pilot study where eleven patients suffering from mild cognitive impairment participated in a robot programming training session using the PROTEAS prototype tangible interface. Results (both qualitative and quantitative) revealed a significant negative correlation between patients' “Task Completion Time” (TCT) and mental condition (as measured by MMSE index), indicating that TCT provides a measure directly related to patients' cognitive capacity for analysis and planning.
An Ambient Intelligence System for the Monitoring, Empowerment, and Disease Evolution Prediction for Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment
Authors: Votis Konstantinos , Segkouli Sofia , Drosou Anastasios , Tzovaras Dimitrios , Tsolaki Magda
Published: May 2015

This chapter addresses the critical issue of exploration and integration of environmental factors as well as the effect of activities of daily living with medical and biological factors in order to monitor and predict AD/MCI disease progression and evolution. Thus, traditional approaches to clinical research and practice requires population statistics and therefore takes into account only the average biological behaviour of the disease, independently of the person specific clinical history, environmental factors, as well as the daily activity interactions in relation to historical data. The proposed system will use IT-based tools (including also 3D gaming environments) in order to address specific cognitive and physical/motor parameters and ADLs (activities of daily living) factors within AD, and MCI domain and aim at improving their diagnosis, evaluating their variations along the progress of an Alzheimer disease and its different steps, and supporting the stimulation/training of the patient affected by the disease.
Assistive Technologies for People with Dementia
Authors: Xenakidis Christos N. , Hadjiantonis Antonis M. , Milis George M.
Published: May 2015

This chapter focuses on the presentation and discussion of available assistive tools for people with dementia symptoms and cognitive decline, leading to the conclusion that these tools may, nowadays, will be replaced by mobile applications for smart devices. A functional mobile prototype assistive application for android platform devices like smartphones, tablets and smartwatches is presented, with features that offer support to the basic needs of caregivers and people with cognitive decline, giving more emphasis on people with early Alzheimer's disease symptoms. It is shown that, utilising the available technology, as well as existing literature and empirical knowledge, mobile applications may offer a serious alternative to currently available assistive tools, while also offering considerable functionality advantages.
Unobtrusive Low-Cost Physiological Monitoring Using Visual Information
Authors: Petridis Sergios , Giannakopoulos Theodoros , Perantonis Stavros
Published: May 2015

This chapter describes efficient visual analysis methods towards the unobtrusive monitoring of elderly people using common low-cost hardware. In particular, two real-time approaches are demonstrated for (a) Pupil Size Estimation and (b) Pulse Rate Estimation. In both cases, a main concern in the development has been to keep low the overall complexity, so that the hosting hardware that executes the proposed methods is left with free resources, in order to be able to also execute other processes in the context of a health monitoring framework. In addition, all experiments have been carried out using typical, low-cost visual sensors, i.e. simple webcams. Finally, the respective benchmarks needed to evaluate the two methodologies are described in this chapter.
Recognizing Physical Activities using Wearable Devices
Authors: Khan Ali Mehmood , Lawo Michael
Published: May 2015

Physical activity is a major part of the user's context for wearable computing applications. The System should be able to acquire the user's physical activities using body worn sensors. The authors propose developing a personal activity recognition system that is practical, reliable, and can be used for health-care related applications. They propose to use the wearable device which is a readymade, light weight, small and easy to use device for identifying physical activities (i.e. lying, sitting, walking, standing, cycling, running, ascending stairs and descending stairs), fitness studio activities (i.e. using elliptical trainer, butterfly, bench-press and pull down) and swimming techniques (i.e., dolphin, back-stroke, breast-stroke and free-style) using machine learning algorithms. In this chapter, the authors present an approach to build a system that exhibits this property and provides evidence based on user studies. Their results indicate that the system has a good accuracy rate.
ICT Support to Those Providing Care to Elderly
Authors: Sidiropoulos Efstathios A. , Zilidou Vasiliki I. , Karagianni Maria A. , Ioannidis Lazaros I. , Romanopoulou Evangelia D. , Karagiozi Konstantina I. , Pandria Niki , Paraskevopoulos Evangelos , Bamidis Panagiotis D.
Published: May 2015

This chapter discusses the training needs of elderlies' caregivers on Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). More precisely it describes the carers' digital skills diversity and efforts which include a broad range of skill and content learning needs. This work is part of the project DISCOVER that aims to develop competencies for EU carers. A thorough analysis of the followed training activities as well as the service and pilot methodology in four European countries is presented. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the existing limitations that carers face in ICT training and propose an efficient model for the establishment of an e-learning system for professional and family elderly caregivers.
Energy Efficiency of Coding Schemes for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors: Leeson Mark S. , Patel Sahil
Published: May 2015

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are used in applications such as mineral exploration and environmental monitoring, and must offer reliability and energy efficiency. These are related to each other in the sense that the former requires error-correction which in turn requires energy, consuming battery life in an environment where battery replacement and recharging are difficult. This chapter thus addresses the energy efficiency of three suitable error correction methods for UWSNs, namely Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ), Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Network Coding (NC). The performance of the schemes as a function of transmission distance is determined for various packet sizes by using models of attenuation and noise that represent the underwater environment. ARQ offers the lowest efficiency and NC the highest but there is a distance at which FEC becomes the best option rather than NC suggesting a hybrid FEC/NC method.
A Taxonomy of Sensor Network Anomalies and Their Detection Approaches
Authors: Abuaitah Giovani Rimon , Wang Bin
Published: May 2015

Over the course of operation, sensor network deployments usually exhibit numerous types of anomalies that can result in missing, erroneous, malicious, or rather meaningful data points indicating an important event. Sensor data points can go missing due to network performance degradation as a result of a failing node, a network failure, or a malicious network behavior. Erroneous points are faulty measurements potentially generated by malfunctioning sensors. Malicious data points are usually injected into the network, replayed, or altered by an adversary. Finally, events manifest themselves as abnormal data points reported by sensor nodes expectedly. The significance of such anomalies calls for detection mechanisms that can identify an abnormal behavior in a sensor network deployment. In this chapter, the authors systematically analyze the different types of anomalies prevalent in a sensor network, construct a taxonomy of such anomalies, and discuss potential detection mechanisms necessary to reveal the root causes behind each anomaly.
Distributed Adaptive Parametric Power Spectral Estimation Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors: Nosrati Hamed , Taheri Sayed Mostafa , Shamsi Mousa , Sedaaghi Mohammad H.
Published: May 2015

Spectrum analysis is one of the momentous fields in signal processing. It has a large variety of applications in radar, sonar, speech and image processing. Parametric methods have been proposed and employed for spectrum analysis including power spectral density (PSD) estimation. These methods estimate the parameters of a statistical model and compute the PSD, afterwards. In some circumstances one is obliged to deal with observations of numerous geographically dispersed sensors, to either increase the precision or based on application demands. Having a set of sensors linked together to take the advantages of cooperation and network topology, one obtains a more comprehensive estimation. In this chapter, the authors propose and study four different algorithms capable of facing spatio-temporal variations for parametric modeling and PSD estimation using wireless sensor networks (WSNs). For this purpose, the authors first validate the proposed algorithms using theoretical and mathematical formulations. Thereafter, performing simulation tasks demonstrates and supports the theoretical achievements. The next section of the chapter illustrates the concepts to a greater degree, the authors analyze and compare the performance of these algorithms with each other, as well as with the simple PSD estimation using individual sensors, wherein there is no cooperation among the nodes.
Eigenvalue Assignments in Multimachine Power Systems using Multi-Objective PSO Algorithm
Authors: Welhazi Yosra , Guesmi Tawfik , Abdallah Hsan Hadj
Published: May 2015

Applying multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) algorithm to multi-objective design of multimachine power system stabilizers (PSSs) is presented in this paper. The proposed approach is based on MOPSO algorithm to search for optimal parameter settings of PSS for a wide range of operating conditions. Moreover, a fuzzy set theory is developed to extract the best compromise solution. The stabilizers are selected using MOPSO to shift the lightly damped and undamped electromechanical modes to a prescribed zone in the s-plane. The problem of tuning the stabilizer parameters is converted to an optimization problem with eigenvalue-based multi-objective function. The performance of the proposed approach is investigated for a three-machine nine-bus system under different operating conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed approach in damping the electromechanical modes and enhancing greatly the dynamic stability is confirmed through eigenvalue analysis, nonlinear simulation results and some performance indices over a wide range of loading conditions.
Effect of Asymmetric Rolling with Cone-Shaped Rolls on Microstructure and Tensile Properties of Low-Carbon Steel
Authors: Balgabekov Toleu K. , Azbanbayev Eldar M. , Isagulov Aristotel Z. , Isagulova Diana A. , Zakariya Nurlybek B. , Yermaganbetov Nursultan Z. , Kenzhekeeva Akbope R. , Konirova Zhazira A.
Published: May 2015

The effect of asymmetric rolling with cone-shaped rolls on ultra-fine grain evolution was investigated. To do this, low-carbon steel containing 0.15 % C (mass fraction) billet (h|b|l = 10|45|100 mm3) with the initial average grain size of 60 μm was deformed up to the thickness of 5mm in cone-shaped rolls with diameters ratio of 1.5, as well as in cylindrical rolls. Rolling was conducted at three different temperatures: 900 °C, 1000 °C and 1100 °C. Four passes of asymmetric rolling in cone-shaped rolls were given to gain thickness of 5 mm with total reduction of 61,7 %. It has been shown that during asymmetric rolling in cone-shaped rolls at low temperature of 900 °C grain size is smaller (0.092 μm – at the surface layer and 0.112 μm – at the middle layer) than that of 1000 °C and 1100 °C. Tensile properties of asymmetrically rolled specimen were much higher (580 MPa) in comparison to symmetrically rolled one (486 MPa).