We present OpenRichServices (ORS) as an Architecture Definition Language (ADL) for the compositional specification, deployment, and reconfiguration of systems of services. Key distinguishing features of ORS are its treatment of services as first-class citizens of the language, a clean separation between application and infrastructure flows to address cross-cutting concerns at the architectural ...

We evaluated the safety and efficacy of a glycine-based orally administered rehydration solution by comparing it with a standard oral rehydration solution (ORS) without glycine in a randomized double-blind trial in United States infants (age less than 15 months) given treatment for acute gastroenteritis as inpatients or outpatients. The response to therapy (stool volume and duration of illness)...

Rhododendron dauricum L. produces daurichromenic acid, the anti-HIV meroterpenoid consisting of sesquiterpene and orsellinic acid (OSA) moieties. To characterize the enzyme responsible for OSA biosynthesis, a cDNA encoding a novel polyketide synthase (PKS), orcinol synthase (ORS), was cloned from young leaves of R. dauricum. The primary structure of ORS shared relatively low identities to those...

Inventory management of surgical instruments and material handling decisions perioperative services are critical to hospitals’ operating rooms’ (ORs) service levels costs. However, efficiently coordinating these is challenging due their interdependence the uncertainties faced by hospitals. These challenges motivated development this study answer following research questions: (R1) How does inven...

The health sector is a major contributor to climate change through its large carbon footprint. Hospitals are highly energy and resource intensive. Operating rooms (ORs) contribute part of these emissions because anaesthetic gases, energy-intensive equipment waste. Besides initiatives aimed mitigate hospitals' footprints, care professionals need be involved in this process by changing their prof...

BACKGROUND Since 2000, there has been a decline in the proportion of oral rehydration salts (ORS) therapy in childhood diarrhea. How to sustain and achieve a high level of ORS therapy continues to be a challenge. METHODS The data of 14112 households and 894 villages in 45 counties across 10 provinces of Western China were collected in 2005. Generalized estimated equation logistic regression m...

BACKGROUND Diarrhea is one of the major causes of death in children under five years of age, disproportionately affecting children in low- and middle-income countries. Treatment of diarrhea with oral rehydration solution addresses dehydration and reduces diarrhea related deaths. The World Health Organization Programme for the Control of Diarrhoeal Disease began in 1978 and while global ORS acce...

Signal processing community has recently shown interest in Ramanujan sums which was defined by S.Ramanujan in 1918. In this paper we have proposed Orthogonal Ramanujan Sums (ORS) based on Ramanujan sums. In this paper we present two novel application of ORS. Firstly a new representation of a finite length signal is given using ORS which is defined as Orthogonal Ramanujan Periodic Transform.Seco...