In spite of many advances in business process simulation technologies, their adoption by the business analyst community has been primarily limited to specialists. We propose a Business Process Transformation Wizard as a capability to bridge this gap. This enables analysts to explore different business process transformation options using Business Process Transformation patterns and analyze thei...

A single Au nanoparticle (NP) with a diameter of 5 nm was transferred to the end of a Si-tip through a picking process, and an Ag shell with a controlled thickness was formed on the Au core. By carrying out tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) measurements on biphenyl-4-thiol (BPT) with the Au@Ag NP-tip (overall diameter of 22-60 nm), we confirm that such tips show a plasmonic local-field enhan...

background: sleep disturbance is a common complaint of patients undergoing methadone maintenance therapy (mmt). there are limited studies about the effect of different treatments on insomnia due to mmt. in this study, we evaluated the effect of cognitive-behavioral treatment for insomnia (cbti) on sleep disorders in patients undergoing mmt. methods : twenty-two patients with insomnia due to mmt...

This work presents a semi-automatic tool for content retrieval. In contrast to traditional content based image retrieval systems that work with entire images, the tool we have developed handles individual objects. The availability of a pool of pre-segmented objects found using region analysis allows the human behaviour of presegmentation to be replicated. To generate defined objects in the obje...

Background: Sleep disturbance is a common complaint of patients undergoing methadone maintenance therapy (MMT). There are limited studies about the effect of different treatments on insomnia due to MMT. In this study, we evaluated the effect of cognitive-behavioral treatment for insomnia (CBTI) on sleep disorders in patients undergoing MMT.Methods: Twenty-two patients with insomnia due to MMT (...

Four ruthenium(II) complexes, BPT, BPN, BPPT, and BPPN, have been prepared and characterized by (1)H NMR, (13)C NMR, high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), elemental analysis, and X-ray crystallography. All the complexes incorporate a pyridyl unit on the terpyridine-type or N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand and the pyridyl unit can be protonated upon addition of 1.0 M HCl in diethyl ether....

Six selected cultivars of rice namely BPT-5204, MTU-7029, CSR-30, Narendra Usar Dhan-3, Rajendra Bhagwati and Pusa Basmati-1 were screened for salinity tolerance on the basis of in vitro seed germination and seedling growth under different salt stress (02.5%) created by a salt mixture of NaCl, CaCl2, and Na2SO4 in 7:2:1 ratio. At 2% salt stress, germination was only observed in cultivars CSR-30...

Sultan I. Amer, Ph.D. AQUACHEM INC. Environmental Technology • March/April 1998 Wastewater from metal finishing industries contains high concentrations of contaminants which are hazardous to the environment and pose potential health risks to the public. With increasingly stringent regulations governing wastewater discharge and greater quantities of wastewater being produced, there is a growin...