Escalating costs in the swiss health sector are forcing those responsible to look for massive cost reduction opportunities. A number of analyses have revealed that immense quantities of cost assumption applications, cost assumption decisions, bills and other documents are issued and exchanged everyday between hospitals, insurance companies and other parties-a monotonous and fault-ridden task. W...

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) is located near the western border of China. Xinjiang has a high frequency of dust storms, especially in late winter and early spring. Geostationary satellite remote sensing offers an ideal way to monitor the regional distribution and intensity of dust storms, which can impact the regional climate. In this study observations from the Indian Natio...

tages of EDI-related technology and therefore can better judge the potential of EDI. This might weaken the risk-averse attitude towards investment in complex and expensive innovation. By analogy, we can sketch the same picture with powerful and innovative market players. The automobile manufacturing industry serves as a good example. There, a small number of manufacturers adopted EDI procedures...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether early developmental intervention (EDI) can positively affect the trajectories of cognitive development among children from low-resource families. METHODS Longitudinal analyses were conducted of data from 293 children in the Brain Research to Ameliorate Impaired Neurodevelopment Home-based Intervention Trial, a randomized controlled trial of a home-based EDI pr...

OBJECTIVES The aims were to determine if emotion recognition deficits observed in eating disorders generalize to non-clinical disordered eating and to establish if other psychopathological and personality factors contributed to, or accounted for, these deficits. DESIGN Females with high (n=23) and low (n=22) scores on the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) were assessed on their ability to recog...

Choreography modeling and service integration received a lot of attention in the last decade. However, most real-world implementations of inter-organizational systems are still realized by traditional Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards. In traditional EDI standards, the notion of process or choreography is not explicitly specified. Rather, every business document exchange stands for it...

The present study estimated the human daily and weekly intake of inorganic elements due to consumption of fish in Rio de Janeiro state and the associated potential health risks posed by some toxic elements. All samples analyzed had values of Cd and Pb below the Maximum Tolerable Limits of 3.0 mg kg-1 for Pb and 1.0 mg kg-1 for Cd; only Mugil cephalus, Cynoscion leiarchus and Caranx crysos had A...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has been used in businesses for about 30 years to reduce the costs of document processing and, in general, to achieve strategic business advantages made possible by shorter business process cycle times. The variety of different industry-specific and national EDI standards makes it difficult for businesses to decide which standard to use. Additionally, many comp...

Fatigue of the diaphragm may contribute to the development of respiratory failure [1]. The cause is thought to be an alteration in transmembrane calcium transport [2]. We have previously shown that the calcium channel blocker nicardipine intensifies diaphragmatic fatigue [3]. We compared the effects of diltiazem, another calcium channel blocker, on diaphragm fatigability in vivo with those of n...