Customizing BPMN Diagrams Using Timelines

BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) is widely used standard modeling technique for representing Business Processes by using diagrams, but lacks in some aspects. Representing execution-dependent and time-dependent decisions in BPMN Diagrams may be a daunting challenge [Carlo Combi et al., 2017]. In many cases such constraints are omitted in order to preserve the simplicity and the readability of the process model. However, for purposes such as compliance checking, process mining, and verification, formalizing such constraints could be very useful. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for annotating BPMN Diagrams with Temporal Synchronization Rules borrowed from the timeline-based planning field. We discuss the expressivity of the proposed approach and show that it is able to capture a lot of complex temporally-related constraints without affecting the structure of BPMN diagrams. Finally, we provide a mapping from annotated BPMN diagrams to timeline-based planning problems that allows one to take advantage of the last twenty years of theoretical and practical developments in the field

Caratterizzazione tassonomica e funzionale della fauna ittica nel Lago Maggiore con particolare riferimento alla competizione per le risorse alimentari e alle specie alloctone invasive di recente comaparsa

Not availableRicerche sull\u27evoluzione del Lago Maggiore. Aspetti limnologici. Programma triennale 2013-2015. Campagna 2014. Caratterizzazione tassonomica e funzionale della fauna ittica nel Lago Maggiore con particolare riferimento alla competizione per le risorse alimentari e alle specie alloctone invasive di recente comaparsa. Composizione della comunit? ittica del Lago Maggiore: abbondanze assolute e relative; distribuzione verticale; caratterizzazione della comunit? ittica. Sovrapposizione nella nicchia trofica

Caratterizzazione tassonomica e funzionale della comunit? ittica nel Lago Maggiore con particolare riferimento alle specie alloctone invasive di recente comparsa e alla sovrapposizione della nicchia trofica

Not availableRicerche sull\u27evoluzione del Lago Maggiore. Aspetti limnologici. Programma triennale 2013-2015. Campagna 2013. Caratterizzazione tassonomica e funzionale della comunit? ittica nel Lago Maggiore con particolare riferimento alle specie alloctone invasive di recente comparsa e alla sovrapposizione della nicchia trofica. Premessa. Composizione della comunit? ittica del Lago Maggiore: abbondanze assolute e relative; distribuzione verticale; caratterizzazione della comunit? ittica: considerazione conclusive. Sovrapposizione nella nicchia trofica

Protocollo di campionamento della fauna ittica nei laghi italiani

Abstract not availableIl presente documento definisce le modalit? per il campionamento della fauna ittica in ambienti lacustri finalizzato alla valutazione dello stato ecologico di un lago in linea con le richieste della Direttiva 2000/60/CE (European Union 2000). Il protocollo definisce un metodo standard per il campionamento della fauna ittica finalizzato alla raccolta dei dati necessari per valutare la composizione, abbondanze e struttura di popolazione della comunit? ittica in un ambiente lacustre. Il protocollo si basa sui documenti UNI EN di riferimento a livello Europeo (UNI EN 14757; UNI EN 14962)

Germaine de Staël et Benjamin Constant : des passions au sentiment religieux

To this day, the intellectual exchanges between Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant are little known, particularly in the field of religion. Yet their writings, published or in manuscript, contain many traces of a joint reflection which, after their meeting in Sep- tember 1794, and in the aftermath of the Terreur, focused on the passions and their effects on human beings. Religion became a central topic of their analysis: is religion the source of passionate outbursts or an inner resource to be directed against the evils of the passions? These questions led de Staël and Constant to increasingly distinguish between inner and outer religion, the passions gradually being ousted from their reflections, parti- cularly under the influence of German thought, in favour of religious feeling

Representing Authority in Ancient Knowledge Texts

In this paper we would like to discuss some questions concerning authority and knowledge with obvious relevance to our research group Personal and apersonal authorization (B-5). After briefly summarizing how the phenomenon of ‘authority’ is viewed in general, this paper takes up the specific case of authority and tradition. We then consider text as a special case of tradition, and finally knowledge texts as a special case of texts. The most significant section of the paper is the second half, where we sketch out two complementary methods of constructing or representing authority in such texts, one personal and one non-personal. Ancient Greek, religious studies, theology, church history, ancient history and Chinese studies are our areas of expertise, so most of the examples we have chosen come from those fields. But our intention is to draw broad conclusions that could also apply to other traditions as well

Intracytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm injection versus conventional intracytoplasmic sperm injection: A randomized controlled trial

Background: Intracytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm injection (IMSI) is still proposed and employed in the clinical practice to improve the reproductive outcome in infertile couples scheduled for conventional intracytoplasmic sperm injection (cICSI). The aim of the current randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to test the hypothesis that IMSI gives a better live birth delivery rate than cICSI. Methods: Infertile couples scheduled for their first cICSI cycle for male factor were allocated using a simple randomization procedure. All available biological and clinical data were recorded and analyzed in a triple-blind fashion. Results: Our final analysis involved the first 121 patients (48 and 73 subjects for IMSI and cICSI arm, respectively) because the trial was stopped prematurely on the advice of the data safety and monitoring Committee because of concerns about IMSI efficacy at the first interim analysis. No significant difference between arms was detected in rates of clinical pregnancy per embryo transferred [11/34 (32.3 %) vs. 15/64 (23.4 %); odds ratio (OR) 1.56, 95 % (confidence interval) CI 0.62–3.93, P = 0.343] and of live birth delivery [9/48 (18.8 %) vs. 11/73 (15.1 %); OR 1.30, 95%CI 0.49–3.42, P = 0.594). Conclusion: Current data did not support the routine use of IMSI in the clinical practice for improving cICSI results in unselected infertile couples with male factor

1,3-di(benzo[d]oxazol-5-yl)urea acts as either adventitious rooting adjuvant or xylogenesis enhancer in carob and pine microcuttings depending on the presence/absence of exogenous indole-3-butyric acid

Asexual propagation in Ceratonia siliqua L. (carob), species of economic value, is difficult because of adventitious rooting recalcitrance. In Pinus radiata adventitious rooting of hypocotyl cuttings is enhanced by two urea-derivatives, 1,3-di(benzo[d]oxazol-5-yl)urea (5-BDPU) and 1,3-di(benzo[d]oxazol-6-yl)urea (6-BDPU), combined with exogenous indole-3-butyric acid (IBA). The research was aimed to define the role of these urea-derivatives in adventitious root (AR) formation of carob, and to identify morphogenic roles induced in carob, but also in pine, a distantly-related forest species. In carob, 5-BDPU (10 μM) highly promoted AR formation in combination with IBA (1 μM) when applied for 3 days, followed by a transfer onto hormone free medium (HF) up to culture end (4 weeks). IBA alone (1 μM) was more effective than IBA + kinetin (Kin, 10 nM), whereas Kin alone and 5-BDPU alone were not AR-inductive. The histological analysis showed that the cambial cells initiated the ARs, and similar numbers of AR-primordia were visible at day 12, independently of the AR-inductive treatment (i.e., IBA, IBA + 5-BDPU, IBA + Kin). No cutting treated with Kin alone, and rare HF (±5-BDPU)-treated ones, showed AR-primordia at day 12. The number of AR-forming explants increased under IBA + 5-BDPU. By contrast, the cambial cells were stimulated to initiate deuteroxylem instead of ARs under 5-BDPU alone. The histological analysis in pine microcuttings treated with IBA and/or 5-BDPU at the same concentrations confirmed that 5-BDPU applied alone enhanced xylogenesis, highlighting that this urea-derivative exhibits a dual morphogenic role being involved in the switching between adventitious rooting and xylogenesis depending on the presence of exogenous auxin in both species