Business domain ontologies offer great opportunities for facilitating communication between people in business, for improving the enterprise system engineering processes and for creating interoperability between enterprise systems. However despite these opportunities, their use in practice is still limited. This can be partly attributed to the lack of formal representation of these ontologies. ...

Dichotic listening experiments show a right-ear advantage (REA), reflecting a left-hemisphere (LH) dominance. However, we found a decrease in REA when the initial stop consonants of two simultaneous French CVC words differed in voicing rather than place of articulation (Experiment 1). This result suggests that the right hemisphere (RH) is more involved in voicing than in place processing. The v...

OBJECTIVE To determine the occurrence and clinical characteristics of reactive arthritis (ReA) after an outbreak of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotype O:3 infection. METHODS From 15 October to 6 November 1998, a widespread outbreak of Y pseudotuberculosis serotype O:3 occurred in Finland. A questionnaire on musculoskeletal symptoms was mailed to 38 patients with infection confirmed by cultu...

Persistence of arthritis-triggering bacteria can cause chronization of reactive arthritis (ReA). In the evaluation of bacterial persistence in ReA, the persistence of both the triggering bacteria and also of the other bacteria residing in the foci of chronic infection, are important. Two forms of bacterial persistence, cell wall-deficient bacteria (L-forms) and bacterial biofilms, are character...

Objective—Reactive arthritis (ReA) triggered by Chlamydia trachomatis or enteric bacteria such as yersinia, salmonella, Campylobacter jejuni, or shigella is an important diVerential diagnosis in patients presenting with the clinical picture of an undiVerentiated oligoarthritis (UOA). This study was undertaken to evaluate the best diagnostic approach. Patients and methods—52 patients with ReA, d...

There are a number of evolutionary forces in finns that lead to the need to evolve accounting database systems. For example, systems are being reengineered resulting in substantial reductions in the number of agents and redefinitions of events. As rums downsize changing product lines, resources change, requiring further evolution of accounting databases. As a result, it is necessary to evolve a...

We study low level nondefinability in the Turing degrees. We prove a variety of results, including for example, that being array nonrecursive is not definable by a Σ1 or Π1 formula in the language (≤, REA) where REA stands for the “r.e. in and above” predicate. In contrast, this property is definable by a Π2 formula in this language. We also show that the Σ1-theory of (D,≤, REA) is decidable.

OBJECTIVES To assess the incidence of reactive arthritis (ReA) in an outbreak of salmonella infection in a large cohort of children in Germany. METHODS A few days after the salmonella outbreak all parents of affected children and all paediatricians and general practitioners in the region were provided with detailed information about the possibility of ReA. Six weeks after the outbreak a telep...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the research is to study the histopathology and expression of survivin, estrogen and progesterone receptors (ER/PR) in the endometrium of patients with dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) treated with radiofrequency endometrial ablation (REA). METHODS A total of 98 DUB patients were enrolled in this case-control study. Among them, 66 underwent REA treatment and 32 o...

OBJECTIVE To present our experience of amniocentesis for the prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome due to unbalanced homologous acrocentric rearrangements and its recurrence in subsequent pregnancies. CASE REPORT From January 1987 to September 2009, six cases with rea(21q21q) Down syndrome were diagnosed among 31,194 patients who underwent amniocentesis at Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiw...