The book and the concept have inspired city planners to include green areas, especially remnants of real nature, as an important element in long-term city planning. For instance, in the author's home city, San Diego, "undeveloped areas" like canyons with a rich plant and animal life were ...
Since the brain was found to be somehow flexible, plastic, researchers worldwide have been trying to comprehend its fundamentals to better understand the brain itself, make predictions, disentangle the neurobiology of brain diseases, and finally propose up-to-date treatments. Neuroplasticity is simple...
the magnitude of its consequences, and one’s own coping capabilities (Michalsen2003; Rayner and Cantor1987; Wachinger et al.2012). In this context, coping capabilities refer to general and situation specific competencies of an individual (e.g., the ...
Simulation has become a sophisticated tool that can mirror real-world scenarios with considerable precision [2]. They are highly scalable. This means that they can be used to model systems of varying complexity and scale, from small-scale laboratory experiments to large-scale industrial processes. ...
Events processing functionality can help coping with heterogenous and dispersed monitoring data that highlight health-status and the performance aspects of applications, data and hosting infrastructure. The event processing needs to be context-sensitive by dynamically engaging different monitoring probes and ...