Decision support for the guideline-based management of patients with multimorbidity is a challenge since it relies on the combination of single-disease clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). The aim of this work is to present a framework to check, at the modelling level, whether two CPGs overlap and are potentially inconsistent, thus requiring further reconciliation. The method relies on an ontol...

the purpose of the present survey was to determine the effects of the chitosan and atorvastatin on serum lipid profile changes and the influence of time on treatment process in cats. for the management of cholesterol induced hyperlipidemia, twenty-one healthy cats were randomly divided into three equal groups. group a (control) included seven cats that were fed with cholesterol powder (4 g/kg f...

pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important life-threatening nosocomial pathogen and plays a prominent role in serious infections in burned patients. the current study was undertaken to characterize p. aeruginosa strains isolated from burned patients in tehran, iran. the study was conducted in a major burn center in tehran, iran in 2007. a total of seventy specimens obtained from different clinical ...

shigellosis is an acute gastroenteritis caused by shigella species. the purpose of this study was to determine plasmid profile, antibiotic resistance and phenotypic virulent by congo red between s. flexneri strains. the isolated bacteria were identified by standard bacterial and biochemical methods. plasmids were isolated by alkaline lysis method. antibiotic susceptibility test was performed ac...

Purpose – The purpose of the article is to investigate the impact of organizational culture on software process improvement (SPI). Is cultural congruence between an organization and an adopted process model required? How can the level of congruence between an organizational culture and the values and assumptions underlying an adopted process model be assessed? Design/methodology/approach – The ...

In this paper, we propose a peer-to-peer based mobile environment consisting of stations providing semantic services and users with mobile devices which manage their owner’s semantic profile. In this environment the distributed computing power replaces centralized profile management. The service stations broadcast their services in a description logics based ontology language. When users equipp...