Programme chairs of scientific conferences face a tremendous time pressure. One of the most time-consuming steps during the conference workflow is assigning members of the international programme committee (IPC) to the received submissions. Finding the best-suited persons for reviewing strongly depends on how the paper matches the expertise of each IPC member. While various approaches like ”bid...

In order to achieve acceptable pelformance in enhanced DBMS different kinds of parallelism have to be enabled by appropriate implementation capabilities. The Remote Cooperation System (RCS) offers these capabilities. lt is the basic communication system of our enhanced DBMS called PRIMA. In this paper we present different implementations for RCS and an analysis of their pelformance behavior. In...

Marcus’s view of belief is applied to the debate that centers on the question, “Are delusions beliefs?” Two consequences of this are that i) the question, “Are delusions beliefs?” needs rephrasing and ii) the answer is, “No, some delusional patients do not believe what they prima facie seem to believe”.

The purpose of this study has been the development of an adequate methodology for the quality control of Phyllanthus niruri aqueous extracts. The assay method was tested, with various modifications, to determine its suitability for the quantitative determination of total flavonoids within the crude drug raw material and aqueous extracts. The assay technique for such chemical group is based on t...

In the United States, when medical devices are associated with adverse events that result in death or serious injury, or have malfunctions that could lead to death/serious injury, these events must be reported to the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiologic Health by device manufacturers and user facilities. However, the defects in the medical device evaluation process (...