Parameterizable Views for Process Visualization

In large organizations different users or user groups usually have distinguished perspectives over business processes and related data. Personalized views on the managed processes are therefore needed. Existing BPM tools, however, do not provide adequate mechanisms for building and visualizing such views. Very often processes are displayed to users in the same way as drawn by the process designer. To tackle this inflexibility this paper presents an advanced approach for creating personalized process views based on well-defined, parameterizable view operations. Respective operations can be flexibly composed in order to reduce or aggregate process information in the desired way. Depending on the chosen parameterization of the applied view operations, in addition, different "quality levels" with more or less relaxed properties can be obtained for the resulting process views (e.g., regarding the correctness of the created process view scheme). This allows us to consider the specific needs of the different applications utilizing process views (e.g., process monitoring tools or process editors). Altogether, the realized view concept contributes to better deal with complex, long-running business processes with hundreds up to thousands of activities

Business Process Visualization - Use Cases, Challenges, Solutions

The proper visualization and monitoring of their (ongoing) business processes is crucial for any enterprise. Thus a broad spectrum of processes has to be visualized ranging from simple, short–running processes to complex long–running ones (consisting of up to hundreds of activities). In any case, users shall be able to quickly understand the logic behind a process and to get a quick overview of related tasks. One practical problem arises when different fragments of a business process are scattered over several systems where they are often modeled using different process meta models (e.g., High–Level Petri Nets). The challenge is to find an integrated and user–friendly visualization for these business processes. In this paper we discover use cases relevant in this context. Since existing graph layout approaches have focused on general graph drawing so far we further develop a specific approach for layouting business process graphs. The work presented in this paper is embedded within a larger project (Proviado) on the visualization of automotive processes

Automatically Generating and Updating User Interface Components in Process-Aware Information Systems

The increasing adoption of process-aware information systems (PAISs) has resulted in a large number of implemented business processes. To react on changing needs, companies need to be able to quickly adapt these process implementations. Current PAISs only provide mechanisms to evolve the schema of a process, but do not support the automated creation and adaptation of user interfaces (UIs). The latter may have a complex logic and comprise conditional elements or database queries. Creating and evolving UIs manually is a tedious and error-prone task. This paper introduces a set of patterns for transforming fragments of a business process, whose activities are performed by the same user role, to UIs of the PAIS. In particular, UI logic can be expressed using the same notation as for process modeling. Furthermore, a transformation method is introduced, which applies these patterns to automatically derive UIs by establishing a bidirectional mapping between process model and UI. This mapping allows propagating UI changes to the process model and vice versa. Overall, our approach enables process designers to rapidly develop and update complex UIs in PAISs

Влияние температурного режима на уреазную активность хеликобактерной инфекции = Effects of temperature on urease activity of h. Pylori infection

Avramenko A. A., Shuhtina I. N., Shuhtin V. V., Bobrik L. M., Boris R. N., Zukow W. Влияние температурного режима на уреазную активность хеликобактерной инфекции = Effects of temperature on urease activity of h. Pylori infection. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2015;5(10):318-322. ISSN 2391-8306. DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.34431http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/2015%3B5%2810%29%3A318-322https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/works/674157Formerly Journal of Health Sciences. ISSN 1429-9623 / 2300-665X. Archives 2011–2014http://journal.rsw.edu.pl/index.php/JHS/issue/archive Deklaracja.Specyfika i zawartość merytoryczna czasopisma nie ulega zmianie.Zgodnie z informacją MNiSW z dnia 2 czerwca 2014 r., że w roku 2014 nie będzie przeprowadzana ocena czasopism naukowych; czasopismo o zmienionym tytule otrzymuje tyle samo punktów co na wykazie czasopism naukowych z dnia 31 grudnia 2014 r.The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland parametric evaluation. Part B item 1089. (31.12.2014).© The Author (s) 2015;This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland and Radom University in Radom, PolandOpen Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercialuse, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.Received: 25.09.2015. Revised 24.10.2015. Accepted: 24.10.2015.  УДК 616.3+612.56:579.835.12 ВЛИЯНИЕ ТЕМПЕРАТУРНОГО РЕЖИМА НА УРЕАЗНУЮ АКТИВНОСТЬ ХЕЛИКОБАКТЕРНОЙ ИНФЕКЦИИEFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON UREASE ACTIVITY OF H. PYLORI INFECTION А. А. Авраменко *, И. Н. Шухтина **, В. В. Шухтин **, Л. М. Бобрик **,Р. Н. Борис ***, W. Zukow ****A. A. Avramenko *, I. N. Shuhtina **, V. V. Shuhtin **, L. M. Bobrik**, R. N. Boris***, W. Zukow **** *Черноморский государственный университет им. П.Могилы, г. Николаев**Одесский национальный медицинский университет, г. Одесса***Украинский НИИ медицины транспорта МЗУкраины, г. Одесса****Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego, Bydgoszcz*Problem Laboratory for Chronic Helikobakterioza Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University, Nikolaev**Odessa National Medical University, Odessa***Ukrainian Research Institute for Medicine of Transport****Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz  Summary It was the comparative characteristic of urease activity of the active form of H. pylori infection using urease test at temperature + 37 ° C and + 4 ° C. It was found that the rate of urease activity at temperature + 4 ° C in 3.9 times less than at temperature + 37 ° C. Key words: Helicobacter pylori infection, temperature regime, the rate of urease activity. Резюме ВПЛИВ ТЕМПЕРАТУРНОГО РЕЖИМУ НА УРЕАЗНИЙ АКТИВНОСТІ ГЕЛІКОБАКТЕРНОЇ ІНФЕКЦІЇ. Була проведена порівняльна характеристика уреазної активності активної форми гелікобактерної інфекції за допомогою уреазного тесту при температурному режимі + 37 °С і + 4 °С. Було з'ясовано, що швидкість уреазної активності при температурному режимі + 4 °С в 3,9 рази менше, ніж при температурному режимі + 37 °С. Ключові слова: гелікобактерна інфекція, температурний режим, швидкість уреазної активності.  Резюме Была проведена сравнительная характеристика уреазной активности активной формы хеликобактерной инфекции при помощи уреазного теста при температурном режиме + 37 °С и + 4 °С. Было выяснено, что скорость уреазной активности при температурном режиме + 4 °С в 3,9 раза меньше, чем при температурном режиме + 37 °С. Ключевые слова: хеликобактерная инфекция, температурный режим, скорость уреазной активности

Enabling a User-Friendly Visualization of Business Process Models

Abstract. Enterprises are facing increasingly complex business pro-cesses. Engineering processes in the automotive domain, for example, may comprise hundreds or thousands of process tasks. In such a scenario, existing modeling notations do not always allow for a user-friendly pro-cess visualization. In turn, this hampers the comprehensibility of business processes, especially for non-experienced process participants. This paper tackles this challenge by suggesting alternative ways of visualizing large and complex process models. A controlled experiment with 22 subjects provides first insights into how users perceive these approaches. Key words: process visualization, user experiment, visual design

Changes in the Provision of Institutionalized Mental Health Care in Post-Communist Countries

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Alcohol use as a risk factor for tuberculosis – a systematic review

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>It has long been evident that there is an association between alcohol use and risk of tuberculosis. It has not been established to what extent this association is confounded by social and other factors related to alcohol use. Nor has the strength of the association been established. The objective of this study was to systematically review the available evidence on the association between alcohol use and the risk of tuberculosis.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Based on a systematic literature review, we identified 3 cohort and 18 case control studies. These were further categorized according to definition of exposure, type of tuberculosis used as study outcome, and confounders controlled for. Pooled effect sizes were obtained for each sub-category of studies.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The pooled relative risk across all studies that used an exposure cut-off level set at 40 g alcohol per day or above, or defined exposure as a clinical diagnosis of an alcohol use disorder, was 3.50 (95% CI: 2.01–5.93). After exclusion of small studies, because of suspected publication bias, the pooled relative risk was 2.94 (95% CI: 1.89–4.59). Subgroup analyses of studies that had controlled for various sets of confounders did not give significantly different results and did not explain the significant heterogeneity that was found across the studies.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The risk of active tuberculosis is substantially elevated in people who drink more than 40 g alcohol per day, and/or have an alcohol use disorder. This may be due to both increased risk of infection related to specific social mixing patterns associated with alcohol use, as well as influence on the immune system of alcohol itself and of alcohol related conditions.</p

Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems

Abstract. Process-aware information systems (PAIS) must be able to deal with uncertainty, exceptional situations, and environmental changes. Needed business agility is often hindered by the lacking flexibility of existing PAIS. Once a process is implemented, its logic cannot be adapted or refined anymore. This often leads to rigid behavior or gaps between real-world processes and implemented ones. In response to this drawback, adaptive PAIS have emerged, which allow to dynamically adapt or evolve the structure of process models under execution. This paper deals with fundamental challenges related to structural process changes, discusses how existing approaches deal with them, and shows how the various problems have been exterminated in ADEPT2 change framework. We also survey existing approaches fostering flexible process support.

Requirements for the Visualization of System-Spanning Business Processes

The monitoring and visualization of enterprise-wide and cross-organizational business processes is an important, but also very complex task. The information needed for visualizing processes may be scattered over heterogeneous, distributed information systems. These systems may only support fragments of the process and may use different process meta models. Besides an integrated view on these process data, any process visualization must be flexibly and dynamically adaptable to the needs of different applications and user groups. This paper discusses requirements of a flexible process visualization in distributed environments. This includes process data integration issues as well as issues related to adaptable process visualization

Proviado – Personalized and Configurable Visualizations of Business Processes

A monitoring component is a much-needed module in order to provide an integrated view on system-spanning and cross-organizational business processes. Current monitoring tools, however, do not offer adequate process visualization support. In particular, processes are always visualized in the way they were drawn by the process designer. This static approach is by far not sufficient when dealing with more complex scenarios where different user groups usually have different perspectives on processes and related data. In such an environment different views and personalized visualizations have to be provided. In the Proviado project we are developing a framework for realizing flexible and adaptable visualizations of business processes whose data may be scattered over multiple information systems. In this paper we focus on personalization and configuration issues, and we show how process visualizations can be adapted automatically, e.g., by applying different notations for different user groups or by altering the appearance of visualized elements depending on their execution state. For this purpose we define a visualization model which maintains all required visualization parameters