This article presents a method for the assessment of innovative moments, which are novelties that emerge in contrast to a client's problematic self-narrative as expressed in therapy, the innovative moments coding system (IMCS). The authors discuss the theoretical background of the IMCS as well as its coding procedures. Results from several studies suggest that the IMCS is a reliable and valid c...

We present an innovative Decision Support System for healthcare applications, based on a semantic enhancement of RFID standard protocol. Semantically annotated descriptions of both drugs and patient’s case history stored in proper RFID tags are used to help doctors in providing the correct therapy. The proposed system allows to discover possible inconsistencies in a therapy suggesting alternati...

The focus of the present paper is on knowledge representation for innovative knowledge processing under especially diicult circumstances. Typical applications are diagnosis and therapy of disturbed dynamic processes like in chemical industries. The process dynamics need to be represented appropriately to support knowledge processing like therapy plan generation, e.g. The present approach has be...

Local recurrence and distant metastasis frequently occur after radiation therapy for cancer and can be fatal. Evidence obtained from radiochemical and radiobiological studies has revealed these problems to be caused, at least in part, by a tumor-specific microenvironment, hypoxia. Moreover, a transcription factor, hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1), was identified as pivotal to hypoxia-mediated...

The management of osteoarthritis (OA) in most species consists of a multimodal approach. In small animals, this involves surgically treating the primary cause if possible, reducing the patient’s weight, adapted activity combined with physical therapy, therapeutic nutrition and finally, pharmacological therapy. As previously mentioned, in recent years innovative therapeutic modalities have emerg...

The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Evidence-Based Practice Project has developed a table summarizing the research opportunities in the area of adults with traumatic brain injury. The table provides an overview of the state of current available evidence on interventions within the scope of occupational therapy practice and is based on the systematic reviews from the AOTA Practi...