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Open AccessIntegrating facies, mineralogy, and paleomagnetism to constrain the age and provenance of Paleozoic siliciclastic sedimentary rocks along the northern Gondwana margin: insights from the Araba and Naqus formations in western Gulf of Suez, Egypt
The depositional ages and provenance of the Paleozoic Araba and Naqus Formations along the northern Gondwanan margin in Egypt have remained uncertain due to a lack of index fossils. Resolving this issue is cru...
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Open AccessIrrigation Water Management in a Water-Scarce Environment in the Context of Climate Change
Climate change has a considerable impact on irrigated agriculture, which is vital for food and fiber production. In this study, in the context of climate change, simulation model CROPWAT 8 was employed to comp...
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Open AccessOrigin of mysterious geothermal gas emissions in the middle of the Western Desert, stable shelf area, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt
This work responds to what was reported in various audio-visual media channels and to queries and explanations from individuals and local residents on the causes of gaseous and thermal emissions from the Earth...
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Open AccessA new continuous noninvasive finger cuff device (Vitalstream) for cardiac output that communicates wirelessly via bluetooth or Wi-Fi
The new noninvasive Vitalstream (VS) continuous physiological monitor (Caretaker Medical LLC, Charlottesville, Virginia), allows continuous cardiac output by a low pump-inflated, finger cuff that pneumatically...
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Open AccessImproving detention ponds for effective stormwater management and water quality enhancement under future climate change: a simulation study using the PCSWMM model
Urban surfaces are often covered by impermeable materials such as concrete and asphalt which intensify urban runoff and pollutant concentration during storm events, and lead to the deterioration of the quality...
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Open AccessMR defecography in ano-rectal dysfunction: a clinical-radiological correlation study
The aim of this work is to assess the diagnostic accuracy of MR defecography in ano-rectal dysfunction [ARD] for proper treatment planning.
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Open AccessA Pilot Study Comparing Aortic Valve Area Estimates Derived from Fick Cardiac Output with Estimates Based on Cheetah-NICOM Cardiac Output
Cardiac output during cardiac catheterization is often estimated using the modified Fick method (COFick). In this proof-of-concept, prospective non-randomized study carried out in a single academic healthcare cen...
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Correction to: Runtime self-monitoring approach of business process compliance in cloud environments
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in the acknowledgement statement.
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D \(^2\) IA: Stream Analytics on User-Defined Event Intervals
Nowadays, modern Big Stream Processing Solutions (e.g. Spark, Flink) are working towards ultimate frameworks for streaming analytics. In order to achieve this goal, they started to offer extensions of SQL that in...
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Towards RAM-Based Variant Generation of Business Process Models
Variability management of process models is a major challenge for Process-Aware Information Systems. Process model variants can be attributed to any of the following reasons: new technologies, governmental rul...
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Correlating Unlabeled Events from Cyclic Business Processes Execution
Event logs are invaluable sources about the actual execution of processes. Most of process mining and postmortem analysis techniques depend on logs. All these techniques require the existence of the case ID to co...
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Automatic Generation of a Data-Centered View of Business Processes
Most commonly used business process (BP) notations, such as BPMN, focus on defining the control flow of the activities of a BP, i.e., they are activity-centered. In these notations, data play a secondary role,...
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An Iterative Approach for Business Process Template Synthesis from Compliance Rules
Companies have to adhere to compliance requirements. Typically, both, business experts and compliance experts, are involved in compliance analysis of business operations. Hence, these experts need a common und...
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The wide spread of Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Computing has been increasing the number of web services on the Web. This increasing number of web services complicates the task of service discovery, in...
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Specification, Verification and Explanation of Violation for Data Aware Compliance Rules
Compliance checking is becoming an inevitable step in the business processes management life cycle. Languages for expressing compliance requirements should address the fundamental aspects of process modeling, ...
