"Tortured and abandoned in his tiny prison cell, the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross composed his now classic poem of the soul's longing for God. Written on a scroll smuggled to him by one of his guards while he was imprisoned for his attempts to reform the Church, his songs are the ultimate expression of the spiritual seeker's journey from estranged despair to blissful union with the divine. John experienced his dark night of the soul when God seemed to have abandoned him and prayers no longer provided solace. After escaping his captors, he fell into a state of profound ecstasy and wrote Dark Night of the Soul. Later, he added an important commentary to his poem to guide other searching souls along the arduous path to communion with God." Dark Night of the Soul has never been translated with its subsequent commentary by anyone outside the Catholic Church. Mirabai Starr, who has studied Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism, lends the seeker's sensibility to John's powerful text. She brings this work to the twenty-first century in a brilliant and beautiful rendering.
<p>This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the Third IFAC Workshop on <IT>"ADVANCES IN AUTOMOTIVE CONTROL"</IT> held in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 28-30 March 2001. <p>As the subject indicates, the aim of this workshop was to discuss not only the latest advances related to motor vehicles, but also, and more generally, to exchange ideas between academic partners, car manufacturers and subcontractors. The plenary lectures are of great importance and the thematic sessions in the different sections are the essence of such workshops. However, the discussions between experts in the different fields, the meetings between people from industry, universities and public or private laboratories, as well as the resulting exchange of ideas, are as important.<p>Research is often criticized for providing merely theoretical results and for the insufficient number of its applications. The motor vehicle industry offers a wide field of applications in which we can validate all techniques, tools and methods. This allows us to be involved in all the areas of fundamental research, in all the different possible approaches from fundamental research to technology transfer, and to observe the actual effects of our results.<p>The increase in road traffic was a major problem of the last century. It is clear that one of the challenges of the XXIst century will be to improve driving safety and comfort. The sessions in the Proceedings volume are divided as follows: Driveline control, Driveline modelling, Vehicle dynamics (I and II), Electronic architecture, Intelligent components, Engine control (I and II), Engine modelling, Modelling of combustion and turbo-charging, Diagnostics and Subsystems.<p>The quality ofthe papers and the diversity of their origins clearly show the interest taken in this key sector of our research and industry
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