The use of 4D management tool in construction industry has been growing rapidly in recent years in response to soaring demands on efficient construction management. Successful implementation of this tool in an engineering firm for use in real projects is still challenging. This paper shares the experience on implementing an in-house 4D management tool in a large EPC (Engineering, Procurement an...

Within the requirements phase of many projects, functional requirements are often documented as Use Cases. Within SOA projects, however, these Use Cases are not sufficient since they do not represent a global control flow resembling the one of a business process an integral aspect of a SOA. Instead they are written from the point of view of a single actor. This makes an additional step necessar...

INTRODUCTION Despite the crucial role of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in vascular regeneration, the specific interactions between EPCs and hematopoietic cells remain unclear. METHODS In EPC colony forming assays, we first demonstrated that the formation of EPC colonies was drastically increased in the coculture of CD34+ and CD34- cells, and determined the optimal concentrations of CD34...

Energy performance contracting (EPC) is the best solution for an educational building to implement energy conservation measures (ECMs) because of its high capital expenditure and operational needed retrofit maintenance. It also considered a win–win mechanism organising efficiency projects. aims assist buildings in acquiring new high-efficiency equipment maximising use reduction, as guaranteed b...

Bangladesh’s railway infrastructure is outdated and inadequate, the lack of transportation capacity seriously hinders country’s economic development. In track engineering practice EPC projects such as second line project a Meter-Gauge addition new Board-Gauge in Bangladesh, according to operation characteristics maintenance status existing cable Bangladesh railway, design construction track, pr...

In this paper EPML is presented as an interchange format for EPC business process models. EPML builds on EPC syntax related work and is designed to be applicable as a serialisation format for EPC modelling tools. After a description of EPML in the large, examples are given to illustrate selected representational aspects including flat and hierarchical EPCs, business views, and graphical informa...

OBJECTIVES Patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) suffer considerable morbidity and mortality despite advances in therapy. Treatment with erythropoietin (Epo) has shown promise in CHF patients, yet its mechanisms of action remain elusive. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) contribute to postnatal angiogenesis and vasculogenesis, and Epo was shown to promote EPC mobilization. We explored t...

AIMS Doxorubicin (Dox) is a potent chemotherapeutic agent associated with severe cardiotoxicity. Erythropoietin (Epo) has recently been shown to exhibit proangiogenic properties related to endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) mobilization. We tested the hypothesis that EPC are compromised in rats with Dox-induced cardiotoxicity and correction of this functional impairment by treatment with Epo cou...

Neither the European Patent Convention (EPC) nor the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) have touched and influenced in any manner the way in which patents can be presently enforced in the member countries of the European Union (EU) and/or of EPC. This situation, however, would change dramatically if some kind of a Community Patent (CP) would be introduced, the fate of a draft EU Regulation for int...