CONTEXT Diagrams of the flow of participants through a clinical trial are recommended in the Consolidated Standards for Reporting of Trials (CONSORT) statement, but it is unclear whether such flow diagrams improve the quality of trial reports. OBJECTIVE To examine the information contributed by flow diagrams and the completeness of reporting overall in reports of randomized controlled trials ...

We address the question whether the properties of the observed latitude-time diagram of sunspot occurence (the butterfly diagram) provide evidence for the operation of a flux-transport dynamo, which explains the migration of the sunspot zones and the period of the solar cycle in terms of a deep equatorward meridional flow. We show that the properties of the butterfly diagram are equally well re...

BACKGROUND The Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses (QUOROM) statement provides guidance for improving the quality of reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. To make the process of study selection transparent it recommends "a flow diagram providing information about the number of RCTs identified, included, and excluded and the reasons for excluding them". We undertook an empirical s...

The core of the SOZL(structured methodology + object-oriented methodology + Z language) is Predicate Data Flow Diagram. In order to eliminate the ambiguity of predicate data flow diagrams and their associated textual specifications, a formalization of the syntax and semantics of predicate data flow diagrams are necessary. In this paper we use Z notation to define an abstract syntax and the rela...

The research work of Wil van der Aalst, Arthur ter Hofstede, Bartek Kiepuszewski, and Alistair Barros has resulted in the identification of 21 patterns that describe the behavior of business processes. This paper reviews how two graphical process modeling notations, tShe BPMN Business Process Diagram from the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), and the UML 2.0 Activity Diagram from t...

In this paper, we characterize a Wigmore Diagram as an information-flow network. A fuzzy approach to weighing the strength of the evidence as defined in a Wigmore Diagram is defined and compared to the well-known probabilistic approach.

We propose a novel approach to pedestrian flow characterization. The definitions of density, flow and velocity existing in the literature are extended through a data-driven spatio-temporal discretization framework. The framework is based on three-dimensional Voronoi diagrams. The new definitions are (i) independent from an arbitrarily chosen discretization; (ii) appropriate for the multi-direct...

In the present paper scalar macroscopic models for traffic and pedestrian flows are coupled and the resulting system is investigated numerically. For the traffic flow the classical Lighthill-Whitham model on a network of roads and for the pedestrian flow the Hughes model are used. These models are coupled via terms in the fundamental diagrams modeling an influence of the traffic and pedestrian ...

The main focus of this paper is demonstrating a methodology for capturing and designing co-operative work processes. We present a method, appropriate for group work analysis, and particularly well suited for the analysis and design of workflow applications. With this end in view, we have chosen the OSSAD method as a foundation for a specific method for co-operative applications analysis and des...

Dynamically reconfigurable computing systems (DRCS) provides an intermediate tradeoff between flexibility and performance of computing systems design. Unfortunately, designing DRCS have a high complexity and is a formidable task. Although many researches are ongoing in the academia and industry, but the lack of tools and design flows discourage designers from adopting the reconfigurable computi...