FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR SIRA BANKSBook two in the Criminal Desires seriesWhen a new case and her boyfriend’s ex threaten Sharon Richards’ relationship, she has to work hard to entangle this web of hate and guilt.Having decided to enter a relationship with a man whose world is fundamentally different to hers, Sharon Richards soon finds out that keeping her work and private life entirely separate can’t work out in the lo...

Bion in the Consulting Room addresses the long-unanswered question of Bion’s clinical and supervisorial technique and examines the way Bion’s conceptual model and clinical practices informed his theoretical work.As Bion wrote about technique so rarely, the authors set about looking at many of his clinical and supervisorial examples to infer what might be learned from them. This book factors in the four distinctive periods of Bion's clinical and supervisorial work in chrono...

Giving Voice to Values is a very important tool that has helped many professionals better align what they do with what they value and believe. This book introduces the methodology of Socratic Dialogue as a complementary set of tools for creating spaces of joint reflection in which one can gain clarity about one’s values and gain the confidence to voice them effectively.Socrates’ main concern was to progressively reach a higher alignment between ideas and actions: that is, to achiev...

FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR SIRA BANKSBook one in the Criminal Desires seriesWhen a cop falls for a suspect in her latest case, she has to look into the abyss of her own desires.Sharon Richards, a cop working for the NYPD, has to investigate a murder in one of the city’s BDSM clubs. A young woman was shot. No one heard a thing, no one saw a thing. A difficult case, complicated further by the instant attraction between her ...

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is referred to as an efficient and inevitable convergence of the Internet of Things, intelligent transportation systems, edge / fog and cloud computing, and big data, all of which could be intelligently harvested for the cooperative vehicular safety and non-safety applications as well as cooperative mobility management. A secure and low-latency communication is, therefore, indispensable to meet the stringent performance requirements of the safety-critical veh...

Algebraic Identification and Estimation Methods in Feedback Control Systems presents a model-based algebraic approach to online parameter and state estimation in uncertain dynamic feedback control systems. This approach evades the mathematical intricacies of the traditional stochastic approach, proposing a direct model-based scheme with several easy-to-implement computational advantages. The approach can be used with continuous and discrete, linear and nonlinear, mono-variable and...

Foods for Special Dietary Regimens is an overview of alimentation for people with specific medical conditions. Each of the nine featured chapters describes a recommended diet with special reference to the lifestyle or disease conditions in a specific patient group. The book covers a diverse range of patient groups that have special nutritional requirements including the elderly, athletes, vegetarians, diabetics and phenylketonurics to name a few. Diets for individuals affected by specific ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2025, held in Salerno, Italy, during December 1–3, 2025.The 9 Industry papers, 19 Workshop papers, 1 Doctoral symposium paper and 1 Tutorial paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Industry papers; Doctoral symposium papers; Tutori...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2025, held in Salerno, Italy, during December 1–3, 2025.The 23 full research papers and 20 short research papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions.PROFES 2025 focuses on professional Software Process Improvement (SPI) motivated by product, process, and service quality needs. The technical...

The key argument of this book is that state policing plays a vital role in the realm of security sector governance, but that African police have several failings that are direct outcomes of their historical development: they are often violent, brutal, corrupt and politicised. As institutions, Africa's national police forces still tend to resemble those established by colonial powers in their structure and conduct, and are typically mistrusted by the very people for whom they are meant to e...

One of the disturbing trends which have developed in recent times is the uncaring attitudes and violence of people towards their fellow human beings, the animals and the environment, and the gradual decay of western civilizations! This has brought about a situation where humanity can no longer afford to ignore the present dangers and continue living in the old ways. We must make changes in the way they live to avoid a potential disaster unfolding through the collapse of the global economie...

Illustrating the power, simplicity, and generality of the concept of flatness, this reference explains how to identify, utilize, and apply flatness in system planning and design. The book includes a large assortment of exercises and models that range from elementary to complex classes of systems. Leading students and professionals through a vast array of designs, simulations, and analytical studies on the traditional uses of flatness, Differentially Flat Systems contains an extensive amoun...