Special Issue: TIME 2005

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Special Issue: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals (GCE 2005)

This article summarizes the outcome of a workshop held at Supercomputing 2005 that focused on grid computing portals and environments. This workshop is the first in a series of workshops planned in conjunction with the supercomputing meetings for the next few years. The intent of the workshop was to provide a venue for the community to share ideas, exchange experiences, and advance the field. G...

Special Issue on Time-Delay Systems

Time-delay often appears in many control systems (such as aircraft, chemical or process control systems) either in the state, the control input, or the measurements. Unlike ordinary differential equations, delay systems are infinite dimensional in nature and time-delay is, in many cases, a source of instability. The stability issue and the performance of control systems with delay are, therefor...

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j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...

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It is with great pleasure that I introduce this specia l i s sue of Aging Successfully that focuses on Preventive Gerontology. Aging successfully is dependent on the individual himself or herself. While health professionals can act as a guide through life’s journey, it is only through one’s own efforts that the best outcomes can be assured. This issue provides tools that all of us can use to ag...