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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779455203321

Titolo

The Iran-Iraq War : new international perspectives / / edited by Nigel Ashton and Bryan R. Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-07478-5

1-283-87215-3

1-135-11536-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Cold War history

Altri autori (Persone)

AshtonNigel John

GibsonBryan R

Disciplina

955.05/42

Soggetti

Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988

Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 - Diplomatic history

Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Lessons learned : civil military relations during the Iran-Iraq War and its influence on the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 Iraq War / Ibrahim Al-Marashi -- Saddam and the Iran-Iraq War : rule from the top / Williamson Murray and Kevin Woods -- Mustazafin and Taghutti : Iran and the war, 1980-1988 / Rob Johnson -- The true role of oil in the outcome of the Iran-Iraq War : some important lessons in historical context / Farzin Nadimi -- The finances of war : Iraq, credit and conflict, September 1980-August 1990 / Glen Rangwala -- The Gulf States and the Iran-Iraq War : cooperation and confusion / Kristian Coates-Ulrichsen -- The ostensible "silent victor" : the long-term impact of the Iran-Iraq War on Turkey's regional position and neighborly relations / Elliot Hen-Tov -- Reappraising the Carter administration's response / Chris Emery -- Changing American perspectives on the Iraq-Iran War / Judith Yaphe -- Critical oral history : a new approach to examining the United States' role in the war / Malcolm Byrne -- France's discrete involvement in the Iran-Iraq War / Pierre Razoux -- The Soviet Union and the Iran-Iraq War / Artemy Kalinovsky.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume offers a wide-ranging examination of the Iran-Iraq War



(1980-88), featuring fresh regional and international perspectives derived from recently available new archival material.Three decades ago Iran and Iraq became embroiled in a devastating eight-year war which served to re-define the international relations of the Gulf region. The Iran-Iraq War stands as an anomaly in the Cold War era; it was the only significant conflict in which the interests of the United States and Soviet Union unwittingly aligned, with both superpowers ultimately supporting the Iraqi regime. <I

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483777203321

Titolo

HCI in Work and Learning, Life and Leisure : 6th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering, USAB 2010, Klagenfurt, Austria, November 4-5, 2010. Proceedings / / edited by Gerhard Leitner, Martin Hitz, Andreas Holzinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010

ISBN

1-280-39013-1

9786613568052

3-642-16607-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 532 p. 144 illus.)

Collana

Programming and Software Engineering, , 2945-9168 ; ; 6389

Altri autori (Persone)

LeitnerGerhard

HitzMartin

HolzingerAndreas

Disciplina

005.7

Soggetti

Application software

Artificial intelligence

Information storage and retrieval systems

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Human-computer interaction

Computer networks

Medical informatics

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Artificial Intelligence

Information Storage and Retrieval

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Computer Communication Networks

Health Informatics



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Psychological Factors of HCI -- Mapping the Users’ Problem Solving Strategies in the Participatory Design of Visual Analytics Methods -- User-Centered Design of Preference Elicitation Interfaces for Decision Support -- “Same Same but Different” How Service Contexts of Mobile Technologies Shape Usage Motives and Barriers -- Social Acceptance of Negotiation Support Systems -- e-Health and HCI -- Chances of Increasing Youth Health Awareness through Mobile Wellness Applications -- A Small but Significant Difference – The Role of Gender on Acceptance of Medical Assistive Technologies -- Discount User-Centered e-Health Design: A Quick-but-not-Dirty Method -- Towards a Pattern Language Approach to Sharing Experiences in Healthcare Technology Evaluations -- Enhancing the Quality of Life of Elderly People -- Potential of e-Travel Assistants to Increase Older Adults’ Mobility -- Making the Wii at Home: Game Play by Older People in Sheltered Housing -- Designing for Older People: A Case Study in a Retirement Home -- Supporting Fellow Humans with Special Needs -- User Centered Interaction Design for Mobile Applications Focused on Visually Impaired and Blind People -- E-Learning Accessibility for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Practical Examples and Experiences -- Enhancing Digital Inclusion with an English Pseudo-syllabic Keyboard -- Teaching and Virtual/Mobile Learning -- LDS: Computer-Based Lesson Development System for Teaching Computer Science -- Enhancing Virtual Reality Learning Environments with Adaptivity: Lessons Learned -- Mobile Learning and Commuting: Contextual Interview and Design of Mobile Scenarios -- Enhanced and New Methods in HCI Research -- The XAOS Metric – Understanding Visual Complexity as Measure of Usability -- Context Information in Guiding Visual Search: The Role ofColor and Orientation -- Exploring the Possibilities of Body Motion Data for Human Computer Interaction Research -- Enabling User Experience with Future Interactive Learning Systems (UXFUL 2010) -- International Workshop on Enabling User Experience with Future Interactive Learning Systems (UXFUL 2010) -- Following the White Rabbit – A Robot Rabbit as Vocabulary Trainer for Beginners of English -- Learning Flow Management and Semantic Data Exchange between Blog-Based Personal Learning Environments -- Educational Complexity: Centrality of Design and Monitoring of the Experience -- Designing Usable Educational Material for English Courses Supported by Mobile Devices -- Enhancing the Learning Experience: Preliminary Framework for User Individual Differences -- Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA) -- Scene Segmentation in Artistic Archive Documentaries -- Issues in Designing Novel Applications for Emerging Multimedia Technologies -- Metadata Aggregation for Personalized Music Playlists -- Instant Video Browsing: A Tool for Fast Non-sequential Hierarchical Video Browsing -- An Experimental Investigation of the Akamai Adaptive Video Streaming -- A Social Approach to Image Re-targeting Based on an Interactive Game -- Vicarious Learning with a Digital Educational Game: Eye-Tracking and Survey-Based Evaluation Approaches -- Tutorial -- iPhone/iPad Human Interface Design -- Posters -- On the Paradigm Shift of Search on Mobile Devices: Some Remarks on User Habits -- Leveraging the Semantic Web for Intelligent and Adaptive Education -- Semantic Mash-



Up Personal and Pervasive Learning Environments (SMupple) -- Model of a Touchscreen Interaction Benchmark Test Supporting Usability Awareness in Mobile Application Development Process -- Information System User Interface Complexity -- e-Health and HCI.-Technical Expertise and Its Influence on the Acceptance of Future Medical Technologies: What Is Influencing What to Which Extent?.

Sommario/riassunto

The Human-Computer Interaction & Usability Engineering Workgroup (Ar- ¨ beitskreis HCI&UE) of the Austrian Computer Society (Osterreichische C- puter Gesellschaft, OCG) has been serving as an international platform for interdisciplinaryexchange,researchanddevelopmentsinceFebruary2005. While human-computer interaction (HCI) traditionally brings psychologists and c- puter scientists together, the inclusion of usability engineering (UE), a software engineering discipline ensuring the appropriate implementation of applications, has become indispensable. Because of the fast developments in information and communication technologies (ICT), the ?elds of application of HCI and UE are broader than ever. Therefore, USAB 2010 had, in comparison to past USAB conferences, quite a broad focus on all potential aspects of HCI in work - vironments, learning, private life and leisure activities. Each of these areas of application includes various challenges for HCI and UE, which go far beyond the classical desktop interface as well as usability norms and de'nitions pos- lated in the late twentieth century. The contributions for USAB 2010 provide important insights on the actual researchactivities in the ?eld and support the interested audience by presenting the state of the art in HCI researchas well as giving valuable input on questions arising when planning or designing research projects. Because of the increasing propagation of the ?eld of HCI research, it is not possible to address all areas within a smallconference;however,this is not the goalofUSAB 2010--itshould be seen as a metaphorical counterpart of a wholesale, an HCI delicatessen shop providinga tasting menuwith di'erent courses(hopefully) cateringto alltastes.