BACKGROUND Difficulties with social function have been reported in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), but underpinning factors are unknown. Emotion recognition, theory of mind (inference of another's mental state) and 'emotional' theory of mind (eToM) (inference of another's emotional state) are important social abilities, facilitating understanding of others. This study examined emotion recogniti...

Over the last years the telecommunications industry has shifted from technology driven and incumbent operators to business driven service providers. There is a need for mature, consistent and complete business process models that are able to describe the strategic, planning and operational processes areas of an operator. This need is addressed by the NGOSS program of the TM Forum, which as emer...

Seit der Liberalisierung der Energiewirtschaft Ende der 90er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts spielt die Industrialisierung dieses Sektors eine immer wichtigere Rolle. Um im Wettbewerb bestehen zu können, müssen Unternehmen der Stromwirtschaft sich stärker prozessorientiert aufstellen und ihre Organisation dementsprechend anpassen. Ein entsprechendes Referenzmodell fehlt zurzeit, könnte jedoch di...

The integration of IMS networks will enable telecom operators to evolve in a manner transparent to the incessant demand for the multimedia services. However the QoS management mechanisms defined for IMS networks are considered poor in oversight and monitoring real-time services. Moreover the eTOM Framework includes the scenarios of monitoring service delivery that enable real-time tracking serv...

Due to fast evolution on the services provided by telecommunication companies, the Information Technology (IT) environment has been gaining an increasingly importance inside organizations. It is no more a silent partner, involved only on the daily’s operations, without any influence on the company’s strategy and management. In the recent years, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITI...

The general aim of this ex post facto study was to investigate the emotional component of theory of mind (eToM) in a sample of 97 female patients with eating disorders (ED), considering all the diagnostic subtypes. Empirical research on this matter in ED is limited, specially focused on anorexia nervosa (AN), and results have been contradictory. The Reading the Mind in the Eyes test was adminis...