Zur Unterstützung von unternehmensweiten und -übergreifenden Geschäftsprozessen muss ein WorkflowManagement-System (WfMS) eine große Anzahl von Workflows (WF) steuern können. Dadurch resultiert eine hohe Last für die WF-Server und das zugrunde liegende Kommunikationssystem. Ein verbreiteter Ansatz zur Bewältigung der Last ist es, die WF-Instanzen verteilt durch mehrere WF-Server zu kontrolliere...

The capability to dynamically adapt in-progress workflows (WF) is an essential requirement for any workflow management system (WfMS). This fact has been recognized by the WF community for a long time and different approaches in the area of adaptive workflows have been developed so far. They either enable WF type changes and their propagation to in-progress WF instances or (ad-hoc) changes of si...

Steroid hormones, particularly 17beta-estradiol (E2), regulate the development and expression of neural structures and sexual behavior. Recently, we demonstrated that E2-regulated responses are controlled by quantitative trait loci. In this study, we quantified 1) volume of the sexually dimorphic nucleus (SDN) of the preoptic area (POA); 2) medial basal hypothalamic (MBH)-POA aromatase and 5alp...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the systemic effect of water fluoridation on dental caries prevalence and experience in Cheongju, South Korea, where water fluoridation ceased 7 years previously. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was employed at two schools where water fluoridation had ceased (WF-ceased area) and at two schools where the water had never been fluoridated (non-WF...

Dendritic cells (DC) present antigen and initiate T cell-mediated immune responses. To investigate the possible association of autoimmunity with DC function, we compared the accessory activity of splenic DC from Wistar/Furth (WF) and diabetes-prone (DP) BioBreeding (BB) rats. The latter develop autoimmune diabetes and thyroiditis. DC function was quantified in vitro by measuring T cell prolifer...

8 Microalgae are currently being investigated as a feedstock for the commercial production of 9 transportation fuels, due to their potential scalability and sustainability advantages over conventional 10 feedstocks. The water consumption of microalgae has been postulated to be a resource barrier for 11 large-scale production. This study presents an assessment of the water footprint (WF) of a cl...

Dehydrated uncooked potato (Irish and sweet) flour was blended by weight with commercial wheat flour at 0 to 10% levels of substitution to make bread. Comparative study of the microbial and nutritional qualities of the bread was undertaken. The total aerobic bacterial counts ranged from 3.0 × 10(5) cfu/g to 1.09 × 10(6) cfu/g while the fungal counts ranged from 8.0 × 10(1) cfu/g to 1.20 × 10(3)...

Objective: In the present work, the effects of different fractions of Coriandrum sativum (C. sativum), on pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-induced seizures and brain tissues oxidative damage were investigated in rats. Materials and Methods: The rats were divided into the following groups: (1) vehicle, (2) PTZ (90 mg/kg), (3) water fraction (WF) of C. sativum (25 and 100 mg/kg), (4) n-butanol fraction (...

Purpose This study aims to focus on building a conceptual closed-loop vaccine supply chain (CLVSC) decrease wastage and counterfeit/fake vaccines. Design/methodology/approach Through focused literature review, the framework for CLVSC is described, system dynamics (SD) research methodology used build causal loop diagram (CLD) of proposed model. Findings In battle against COVID-19, waste manageme...

Vaccines are non pathogenic construct of pathogens, which exploit the ability of immune system to mount specific response against a particular pathogen, thereby protecting the host against that pathogen. The incidence of many infectious diseases have gone down considerably during last several decades as a consequence of vaccination, but successful vaccination often requires multiple immunizatio...