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Personalised medicine, a discipline enabled by genetic, biopharma, diagnostic, and information and communications (ICT) technologies attempts to tailor disease treatment to individual patients. Personalised medicine is rapidly emerging as a state-of-the-art approach to diagnostics and therapeutics and is beginning to revolutionise our health care system, promising better medicine for all.

This volume contains the proceedings of the first workshop held within the scope of COST Action C27. The research part of the workshop led to the 13 papers assembled in this volume.

This guideline was prepared within the COST Action E55 “Modelling of the performance of timber structures” WG3 “Robustness of Structures”. The main objective of the Action is to provide the basic framework and knowledge required for the efficient ans sustainable use of timber as a structural and building material. Focus is directed on the aspects of design, construction, assessment and maintenance of competitive and high performance timber structures. The Action mainly considers high performance structures where the load-bearing capacity is of predominant interest; for example, structures such as timber bridges, large-span halls and roofs, and also load-bearing elements of other types of timber structures.