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Open AccessIs a less-intensive follow-up for colon cancer in early stages reasonable?
Patients with colon cancer are usually included in an intensive 5-year surveillance protocol after curative resection, independent of the tumor stage, though early stages have a considerably lower risk of recu...
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Open AccessRobot-assisted early mobilization of intensive care patients: a feasibility study protocol
Early mobilization positively influences the outcome of critically ill patients, yet in clinical practice, the implementation is sometimes challenging. In this study, an adaptive robotic assistance system will...
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Postextubationsdysphagie bei Intensivpatienten
Eine relevante Anzahl an kritisch kranken, beatmeten Intensivpatienten zeigt nach der Extubation eine ausgeprägte Dysphagie. Einige Studien konnten nachweisen, dass eine Postextubationsdysphagie (PED) zur erhe...
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Design-Prinzipien und Umsetzung personalisierter Assistenzsysteme unter Berücksichtigung des Datenschutzes
Digitale Assistenzsysteme stellen Beschäftigten aufgabenbezogene Informationen in ihren Arbeitsprozessen über tragbare Endgeräte wie beispielsweise Datenbrillen bereit. Durch eine Personalisierung können diese...
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NoPhish-Challenge-Karten
Phishing-Angriffe stellen nach wie vor eine große Bedrohung im privaten wie auch im Unternehmenskontext dar. Neben einer Verbesserung der technischen Schutzmaßnahmen setzen viele Unternehmen auch auf die ...
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Open AccessPatient, nurse, and physician preferences: final results of the CONVENIENCE study evaluating pegfilgrastim prophylaxis via pre-filled syringe or on-body injector in cancer patients
The on-body injector (OBI) automatically delivers pegfilgrastim the day after chemotherapy (CTx), thus eliminating the need of return visits to the medical office for guideline-compliant pegfilgrastim administ...
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Open AccessIncisional hernia at the site of stoma reversal—incidence and risk factors in a retrospective observational analysis
The closure of a stoma site has a high incidence of incisional hernia (IH) development, reaching 30% in some studies. Location and defect size in the abdominal wall depend on the type of stoma formed, most com...
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Perianal minimally invasive surgery (PAMIS) for rectal stump resection after previous colectomy
Resection of a long rectal stump after previous colectomy or Hartmann procedure often requires a combined transperitoneal and transperineal approach because of limited access through a perineal incision alone....
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Hepatic Echinococcosis
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Risk of Thromboembolic Events with Endovascular Cooling Catheters in Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Endovascular cooling is currently used for hypothermia treatment and fever reduction therapy. At the same time, little is known about the risks associated to endovascular cooling in patients treated with an en...
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LISTEN: a user-adaptive audio-augmented museum guide
Modern personalized information systems have been proven to support the user with information at the appropriate level and in the appropriate form. In specific environments like museums and exhibitions, focusi...
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An Operational Definition of Context
The definition of context experienced an evolution in the research area of context-aware computing, but still suffers from either generality or incompleteness. Furthermore, many definitions are driven by the e...
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Index of Perceived Inflation or EU Consumer Surveys?
After the euro changeover at the beginning of 2002, a marked discrepancy emerged between perceived inflation and inflation as measured by the consumer price index. To what extent are consumers st...
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Personalization and Context Management
Supporting the individual user in his working, learning, or information access is one of the main goals of user modeling. Personal or group user models make it possible to represent and use information about p...
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Agent-Based Ubiquitous User Modeling
The main objective of the thesis is to define and implement a framework for agent-based distributed user-modeling. This paper introduces the approach for applying agent technology and illustrates the research ...
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Applications of a Context-Management System
In ubiquitous computing, the user will be interrupted in performing a task only if the information is relevant to the task or highly important in the situation to justify the interrupt. The information selecti...
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What determines the success or failure of german bilateral financial aid?
This paper explores the causes of success or failure of German bilateral financial aid, using data on 1,003 Financial Cooperation (FC) projects and programs performed by the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW...
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User Modeling in Adaptive Audio-Augmented Museum Environments
The paper illustrates approaches for making audio-augmented museum environments adaptive. Based on well-known user modeling techniques we present a combination of suitable components that adapt audio informati...
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Ausprägungen und Effekte umwelt- und kostenorientierter Unternehmensführung
Einige für das Verständnis der ökologischen Wirkungen menschlichen Verhaltens grundlegende Erkenntnisse, die im Folgenden herausgearbeitet werden sollen, sind:
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