Despite efforts toward integrating differing approaches, little progress has been made in developing a single, comprehensive system of psychotherapy. A major problem to such integration arises with the existence of two basically incompatible or irreconcilable views of human nature and of related philosophies, theories, and practices of psychotherapy. The currently popular paradigm is questioned...

Contrary to current belief among many philosophers, I attempt to show that philosophical counseling is a form of psychotherapy that is in need of structure and guidance in order for it to prosper as a viable approach to mental health treatment. Methodological approaches are examined including dialectical, solution-oriented, and long-term considerations that comprise the nature of meaning analys...

Markov models are often used for performance mod-eling. However most models do not have closed form solutions, and numerical solutions are often not feasible due to the large (or even innnite) state space of models of practical interest. One can sometimes take advantage of special structures such as nearly completely decomposable models or models with matrix analytic solutions. This paper prese...

Endothelial cells (ECs) exhibit dramatic plasticity of form at the single- and collective-cell level during new vessel growth, adult vascular homeostasis, and pathology. Understanding how, when, and why individual ECs coordinate decisions to change shape, in relation to the myriad of dynamic environmental signals, is key to understanding normal and pathological blood vessel behavior. However, t...

Current textbooks of eclectic psychotherapy consist essentially of a collection of at best loosely integrated methods and techniques from various approaches to or theories of psychotherapy. The focus is upon including the disparate rather than the common elements of the major theories. This paper proposes that any true or systematic eclecticism must start from and be built upon the basic common...

superior performance compared to other machine learning techniques, especially in classification problems. Yet one limitation of SVMs is the lack of an explanation capability which is crucial in some applications, e.g. in the medical and security domains. In this paper, a novel approach for eclectic rule-extraction from support vector machines is presented. This approach utilizes the knowledge ...