AIM This study sets out (a) to estimate the prevalence of admissions by birth defects, using the official database of hospitals of Ecuador; and (b) to set the basis for a new National Register of Birth Defects in Ecuador that works as a program for the clinical and epidemiological investigation of risk factors in the etiology of congenital anomalies in Ecuadorian hospitals, using a case-control...

a r t i c l e i n f o Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is being used to improve the efficiency of the organizational processes, however, a number of obstacles have prevented its full potential from being realised. One of these obstacles is caused by an emphasis on the business process itself at the exclusion of considering other important knowledge of the organization. Another is due to th...

UNLABELLED Distraction osteogenesis is an effective method for lengthening long bones and filling bone defects that result from bone resection. Insufficiency of bone consolidation in the distraction segment is problematic. In this study, we examined whether 3-phase bone scintigraphy can predict the outcome of distraction osteogenesis. We also investigated the effects of chemotherapy and surgica...

Introduction: Consequence of lopsided blood-thinning-drug, lowering blood-viscosity (BV), is bleeding and very frequently asymptomatic-hemorrhage (AH) the acute-heart-failure (AHF) happen. V.R.S.Kumar et al. (2020) reported that such asymptomatic episodes are due to internal flow choking in cardiovascular system (CVS) at a critical blood pressure ratio (BPR), which regulated by biofluid/blood h...

Business Process Redesign (BPR) projects are considered to be high risk due to their high management complexity, enterprisewide impact, and steep project cost. This paper describes a technique that should reduce that risk by developing a systematic process redesign method that we call Dynamic Process Modeling (DPM). It integrates customer-oriented process modeling with computerized visual proce...

Total quality management (TQM) and business process reengineering (BPR) have emerged as important practices but not yet as a discipline. A methodology for mapping, measuring, tracking, and managing commitments in business processes is necessary to make a discipline from TQM and BPR. An organization’s network of commitments can be depicted as a map of interconnected work-flow loops. That map can...

It is acknowledged that developing dynamic models of business processes prior to their change can contribute towards more successful Business Process Reengineering (BPR) projects. This paper investigates the suitability of IDEF diagrams (IDEF0 and IDEF3) and Petri Nets (DES-nets) for modeling business processes. After an introductory discussion of modeling issues and consequent requirements on ...

This work focuses on the process redesign for software development and management implemented at a Mexican steel manufacturing company. The main goal was to improve the software systems production, maintenance and support; it was achieved by implementing artifacts and practices of RUP and Agile Methodologies like FDD and XP. Throughout this document we can identify the needs and problems on the...

This chapter addresses the first research question and will be a steppingstone to the fundamental analysis of Chapter 7. Essentially, this chapter is an exploratory analysis. That is why more of a statistical descriptive analysis is used in order to explain the profile of BPR as a financial provider under circumstances of complex and intense competition and abrupt environmental changes during t...

Technical Notes in BPR usually originate when a progress report goes beyond the usual form to present a wealth of detail about some single aspect of the subject under investigation . In other cases, a progress report may simply require a more generous physical format to do justice to its content, in the opinion of the Editor . BPR Technical Notes are carefully studied by the publication's staff...