Healing the psyche through music, myth, and ritual.

According to Carl Jung, a person's symptoms occur as a result of the psyche's creative attempt to self-regulate. These symptoms are viewed as the symbol-making function of the psyche. Music therapy as a therapeutic tool is also viewed as having a symbol-making function in that the physical act of making music involves conceptualizing one's symptoms into sounds. The sound serves as a musical symbol of the symptom. The myth of Orpheus is offered as an example of how early man amplified the creative potential contained in music to heal from life's woes. The Orphic archetype illustrates that music serves as a medium for healing and as an expression of Self. That psyche can be healed by music is a reminder of the connection between music therapy and the myth of Orpheus. In using the therapeutic tool of music one can transcend, through the symbol making process inherent in music therapy, the tension of opposites that are created at the crossroads of disease and wellness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Applications of the discrete element method in mechanical engineering

Compared to other fields of engineering, in mechanical engineering, the Discrete Element Method (DEM) is not yet a well known method. Nevertheless, there is a variety of simulation problems where the method has obvious advantages due to its meshless nature. For problems where several free bodies can collide and break after having been largely deformed, the DEM is the method of choice. Neighborhood search and collision detection between bodies as well as the separation of large solids into smaller particles are naturally incorporated in the method. The main DEM algorithm consists of a relatively simple loop that basically contains the three substeps contact detection, force computation and integration. However, there exists a large variety of different algorithms to choose the substeps to compose the optimal method for a given problem. In this contribution, we describe the dynamics of particle systems together with appropriate numerical integration schemes and give an overview over different types of particle interactions that can be composed to adapt the method to fit to a given simulation problem. Surface triangulations are used to model complicated, non-convex bodies in contact with particle systems. The capabilities of the method are finally demonstrated by means of application examples. Commemorative Contribution.     

Local Exact Particle Tracing on Unstructured Grids

For analyzing and interpreting results of flow simulations, particle tracing is a well established visualization method. In addition, it is a preliminary step for more advanced techniques such as line integral convolution. For interactive exploration of large data sets, a very efficient and reliable particle tracing method is needed. For wind channel experiments or flight simulations, large unstructured computational grids have become common practice. Traditional approachs, based on numerical integration methods of ordinary differential equations however fail to deliver sufficiently accurate path calculation at the speed required for interactive use. In this paper we extend the local exact approach of Nielson and Jung in such a way that it can be used for interactive particle tracing in large data sets of steady flow simulation experiments. This will be achieved by sophisticated preprocessing using additional memory. For further visual enhancement of the streamline we construct an implicitly defined smooth Bézier curve that is used for ray tracing. This allows us to visualize additional scalar values of the simulation as attributes to the trajectory and enables the display of high‐quality smooth curves without creating any visualization geometry and providing a good impression of the spatial situation at the same time. ACM CSS: I.3.3 Computer Graphics—Line and curve generation; I .3.7 Computer Graphics—Raytracing; G.1.2 Numerical Analysis—Spline and piecewise polynomial approximation     

如何构建工程项目管理企业知识管理框架

就工程项目管理企业知识管理建设框架进行了理论的阐述，从建立支持企业知识共享、创新的平台和促进该平台运作的机制提出了知识管理中最重要的两点，指出进行企业知识管理建设对企业未来发展具有重要的影响。     

中国民航信息系统现状及发展展望

介绍了中国民航信息系统的现状和与实际业务需求的差距,接着从系统设计理念、核心系统、新系统新功能和信息系统整合等多个方面详细阐述了民航信息系统的发展思路,最后强调了建立新一代民航信息系统的紧迫性,具备很强的指导意义。     

应用型机械本科专业教学体系改革研究与实践

根据当前高等教育改革与发展的指导思想，紧紧围绕国家实施制造业信息化建设工程为背景，积极配合打造浙江先进制造业基地建设，结合现代机械专业结构调整，本着交叉、复合、应用型人才的培养目标，塑造具有宽口径、厚基础和强创新意识的人才培养理念，以数字化设计制造为核心，以机械技术、电子技术、信息技术和管理学科结合为主线，突出知识综合与创新能力，强调专业实践与专业知识的有效结合，有的放矢实施机械专业教学改革与实践。     

智能化系统在新火车站的应用——福州火车站智能化系统设计总结

福州火车站智能化系统包括到发通告、旅客引导显示、客运广播、建筑设备自动控制等7个子系统和系统总集成。     

知识管理研究

通过对知识管理内容、过程、人和技术等方面的研究，提出今后知识管理研究在这些方面的重点。     

科技期刊编辑专业化和学者化是保证期刊学术质量的关键

一般科技期刊刊载的论文内容都具有很强的专业性,这就要求科技期刊编辑必须具有丰富的专业知识和较高的学术水平才能胜任编辑工作.从编辑过程的选题组稿、论文初审、选择审稿专家和编辑加工四个方面对此进行了阐述,指出了提高科技期刊编辑的相关专业知识和学术水平的措施.