An additional challenge brought on by the age of the Internet is achieving reuse across distribution channels. I.e. one particular business process which used to serve the desktop (one channel) should now serve Intranet, Internet, WAP, desktop, atm (i.e., different distribution channels). As this challenge is often not addressed, or even not noticed, we tend to see the multiplication of similar...

BACKGROUND Animal experiments showed that recruitment maneuver (RM) and protective ventilation strategy of the lung could improve oxygenation and reduce extravascular lung water. This study was to investigate the effects of RM on respiratory mechanics and extravascular lung water index (EVLWI) in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). METHODS Thirty patients with ARDS were ...

Steel, concrete, peanut butter, and genetic testing all have something in common: all have reference material established in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce (Pear, 2015). On May 21, 2015, NIST announced that they made ‘‘the world’s first reference material to help ensure laboratories accurately ‘map’ DNA for genetic tes...

This paper describes how the RM-ODP approach for system specification is applied to the description of the IT architectures of a large Swiss bank. The IT organization of UBS AG is defining several architectures based upon a business model which describes the main objectives of the bank considering the IT requirements. The semantics and the components of each architecture are explained using the...