This case report describes the evaluation process and therapeutic intervention of a 19 year-old woman with adjustment disorder. The change of city of residence and transition from high school to university generated high levels of anxiety, especially when under social and evaluative situations. The treatment was structured in 12 weekly sessions. The therapy was focused on thought observation tr...

One of the important advantages held by computer algebra systems (CAS) over purely-numerical computational frameworks is that the CAS can provide a higher-level “symbolic” viewpoint for problem solving. Sometimes this can convert apparently impossible problems to trivial ones. Sometimes the symbolic perspective can provide information about questions which cannot be directly answered, or questi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare escitalopram, problem-solving therapy, and placebo to prevent poststroke depression during 6 months after discontinuation of treatment. METHODS We examined for depression 33 patients assigned to placebo, 34 to escitalopram, and 41 to problem-solving therapy. RESULTS After controlling for age, gender, prior mood disorder, and se...

This paper describes VegoWelt a smart virtual environment that supports human design activities. The research combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques and Virtual Reality (VR) technology. In particular the approach of Conceptual Analogy (Börner, 1997) is applied to provide generative and adaptive design support for human problem solving in an assistant-like fashion.

Bottleneck-centered, opportunistic scheduling is an effective problem solving paradigm based on a fundamental Analyze-Focus-Decide cycle. Opportunistic schedulers have shown better overall performance than other scheduling systems adopting different paradigms. However. in order to make more significant progress, we need to better understand how the different phases of the opportunistic cycle in...

One of the problems teaching introductory object-oriented problem solving and programming is designing appropriate and enlightening examples and exercises. The type of examples we use in procedural programming is not necessarily adequate for illustrating similar syntactical concepts in an object-oriented paradigm. Moving to a higher level of abstraction, as with objects examples need to illustr...

aesthetics relates to felt meaning generated from sensory perceptions, and involves subjective, tacit knowledge rooted in feeling and emotion. we believe the aesthetics of management is important, but little understood, aspect of organizational life. we propose that followers use their aesthetic senses in making these assessments. in this article we try to discover the role of aesthetic in man...