In this paper, we present the technical approach of the DECOR project to realize proactive, context-sensitive delivery of knowledge within semi-structured, knowledge-intensive processes. We describe some main ideas of the DECOR project and discuss their particular relevance for administrative processes in e-Government. As an example we sketch one of our DECOR case studies, the process for grant...

A key challenge of institutions is how to guide their governing into being desirable. This is important from the perspective of an agent governed by an institution to maintain specific rights, and of cross-institutional policies that require institutions’ regulations to be coordinated (e.g. national legislations with supranational policy). This research addresses this problem by developing a fr...

The Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (RIS) is an autonomous research institution established with the financial support of the Government of India. RIS is India’s contribution to the fulfilment of the long-felt need of the developing world for creating a ‘Think Tank’ on global issues in the field of international economic relations and developme...

Materials and method Among the patients with AIS who underwent surgery in our institution, 15 patients were analyzed. Minimum follow up period post-surgery was 2 years. Patients were all females with an average follow-up of 38 months. The mean patient age at surgery was 14.2±1.5 mean Cobb angle of the major curve preoperatively was 54.3±7.4 and 21.8±6.9 degrees postoperatively. We evaluated the...

the public health and called for the prompt institution of efficient safeguards to ensure the quality and authenticity of medicinal preparations offered for sale to the public. The discussion that followed showed an appalling state of affairs and the Council recommended to the Government of India to urge all Provincial Governments to take such steps as may be necessary to control this state of ...

Financial system of B&H is “bank dominated”, which means that banks (credit institution) is dominated financial institutions in the financial system. Banks have major role in financial intermediation process between deficit and surplus money unites. Having on mind specific features of financial systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina it’s important to analyses characteristics each segment of fi...

BACKGROUND Regional variations in hospital billing for total joint arthroplasty (TJA) have been reported. It is not clear whether differences exist in hospital charges for TJA based on hospital profit status. METHODS Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs) 469 (TJA with comorbidity) and 470 (TJA without comorbidity) for ...