OBJECTIVES We examined by thallium-201 scintigraphy whether exercise-induced abnormal blood pressure response (BPR) is related to myocardial ischemia. BACKGROUND Hemodynamic instabilities during exercise in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are considered to be caused by abnormal reflex control of vascular resistance. METHODS In 105 patients with HCM, exercise thallium scintig...

Reengineering continues to gather momentum in the business community. Surveys show that 45% to 88% of large p corporations are involved in business process reengineering (BPR) projects and many others plan to begin projects soon. Since the near-simultaneous publication in 1990 of two articles on reengineering in Harvard Business Review and Sloan Managentent Review, reengineering has been on the...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is an essential tool before an information system project implementation. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects definitely require the standardization and fixation of business processes from customer order to shipment. Therefore, ERP implementations are well proven to be coupled with BPR, although the extend and timing of BPR with respect to ERP implem...

Biological phosphorus removal (BPR) techniques offer a number of advantages over chemical addition, including enhanced treatment, reduced energy consumption, and reduced sludge production. A rapid, low-cost method for determining the feasibility of biological phosphorus removal should allow these techniques to be more widely used. A simple test is proposed to determine the amount of phosphorus ...

The business world is improving dramatically, and Global competitiveness and the need to have competitive advantage drive companies to adopt new technologies and apply it into company’s processes. The development of information technology stimulates organizations to re-design its business processes to better support organization’s mission and reduce costs. This paper presents Crowdsourcing appr...

Over the last few years, many factors have accelerated the need to improve business processes. New methods, technologies and major changes are rapidly bringing new capabilities to businesses. One approach for rapid change and spectacular improvement is the Business Process Reengineering. BPR is an important way to build organizations more efficient, effective and modernize. BPR is considered to...

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 ...

Public sector organizations in developing economies are increasingly turning to BPR to reform function-based bureaucratic systems with customer-oriented process based systems. The value of BPR, however, relies not only on process changes introduced by BPR, but also on the skills, systems, and technologies developed and deployed post-BPR. In this study, drawing from the complementary competence ...

The purpose of this research was to empirically determine what benefits were realized by organizations that have undertaken a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project. The survey’s respondents indicated that they were general& satis$ed with their BPR projects. The findings suggest that BPR enabled organizations to increase productivity+ to raise the qua@ of products and services, to increas...

Biomimetic Pattern Recognition (BPR) is a classification process using a constructed biological structure. BPR is derived from the Principle of Homology-Continuity, which assumes members of the same class are biologically evolved and continuously connected. Recently, BPR has been successfully used in voice, facial, and iris recognition. In this article, we develop two BPR algorithms using proxi...