The SAP reference model contains more than 600 non-trivial process models expressed in terms of Event-driven Process Chains (EPCs). We have automatically translated these EPCs into YAWL models and analyzed these models using WofYAWL, a verification tool based on Petri nets. We discovered that at least 34 of these EPCs contain errors (i.e., at least 5.6% is flawed). We analyzed which parts of th...

In arid and semi-arid climates, water scarcity nutrient availability are major constraints for food production. Excess fertilization to make up the limited in dry soils leads nitrogen runoff groundwater contamination. Reducing leaching into surface while providing adequate nutrition remains a challenge. Superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) can reduce loss improve retention therefore minimize increase...

AIM To identify circulating micro (mi)RNAs as biological markers for prediction of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) with acute lung injury (ALI). METHODS Twenty-four serum samples were respectively collected and classified as SAP associated with ALI and SAP without ALI, and the miRNA expression profiles were determined by microarray analysis. These miRNAs were validated by quantitative reverse t...

SAP Fiori ist die neue User Experience der und ermöglicht ein ganz neues Arbeiten, vor allem auch auf Mobilgeräten. In diesem Beitrag werden neben einem Überblick über das Thema Chancen Potenziale aufgezeigt, im Zusammenhang mit S/4HANA bietet. Damit für den einzelnen Anwender ganze Unternehmen Mehrwerte dieser Technologie realisiert können, sollte dem „User Experience“ bereits beim Einführungs...

BACKGROUND The performance of glaucoma diagnostic systems could be conceivably improved by the integration of functional and structural test measurements that provide relevant and complementary information for reaching a diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of data fusion methods and techniques for simple combination of Standard Automated Perimetry (SAP) and O...

Calibration of the Granier thermal dissipation technique for measuring stem sap flow in trees requires determination of the temperature difference (DeltaT) between a heated and an unheated probe when sap flow is zero (DeltaT(max)). Classically, DeltaT(max) has been estimated from the maximum predawn DeltaT, assuming that sap flow is negligible at nighttime. However, because sap flow may continu...

we propose a novel approach for detecting precursors to epileptic seizures in intracranial electroencephalograms (ieeg), which is based on the analysis of system dynamics. in the proposed scheme, the largest lyapunov exponent of the discrete wavelet packet transform (dwpt) of the segmented eeg signals is considered as the discriminating features. such features are processed by a support vector ...

BACKGROUND To invade target cells, Trypanosoma cruzi metacyclic forms engage distinct sets of surface and secreted molecules that interact with host components. Serine-, alanine-, and proline-rich proteins (SAP) comprise a multigene family constituted of molecules with a high serine, alanine and proline residue content. SAP proteins have a central domain (SAP-CD) responsible for interaction wit...

We developed a fast method to construct local sub-databases from the NCBI-nr database for the quick similarity search and annotation of huge metagenomic datasets based on BLAST-MEGAN approach. A three-step sub-database annotation pipeline (SAP) was further proposed to conduct the annotation in a much more time-efficient way which required far less computational capacity than the direct NCBI-nr ...