Research and training programs in Medical Informatics and Telemedicine offered at the Politecnico di Milano are summarized. The educational pathways refer to the programs of: the (5-years) LaureaDegree, the (3-years) Diploma Universitario Degree, the post-Laurea (3-years) Doctoral Degree, the (I-year) Master's Degree, and a Continuing Education Program. The research programs focus on databases ...

partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Technology (Honours) in 2009, is an authentic record of the work carried out by Sushil Subramanian under my guidance and supervision. In my opinion, this work fulfills the requirement for which it has been submitted. This thesis has not been submitted to any other university or institution for any degree or diploma.

BACKGROUND As part of the UK government's initiative to Increase Access to Psychological Therapies (see http://www.iapt.nhs.uk/for full details of the IAPT programme) there has been an expansion in the provision of post-graduate Diploma training in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). Previous evaluations of such training programmes have yielded mixed results but have been limited by small sample...

It has become fashionable to conceptualise recent shifts in agrarian priorities as a „postproductivist‟ transition from a previously „productivist‟ agriculture. This notion has become more popular throughout the 1990s as a way to capture in one convenient package the complex changes experienced by both the agricultural sector specifically and rural areas more generally. However, the widespread ...

BPMN 2.0 [1] is the de facto standard for business process modeling that provides a graphical notation for specifying business processes in a diagram. In order to re-use parts of the business process, the term of “Process Fragments” has been introduced [2]. A process fragment is a “connected graph, however with significantly relaxed completeness and consistency criteria compared to an executabl...