Motivation: The number and size of computational models in biology have drastically increased over the past years and continue to grow. Modeled networks are becoming more complex, and reconstructing them from the beginning in an exchangeable and reproducible manner is challenging. Using precisely defined ontologies enables the encoding of field-specific knowledge and the association of disparate data types.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOften, it is the question to the medical expert, if there is a causality in the lawful sense from professional effort or psychical stress to acute coronary death or acute myocardial infarction. Following the German social law the connection has to be probably. Probability is well defined juridically opposite to possibility.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAccording to our knowledge to day the cause of a heart infarction is a stenosing atheromatosis of the coronary vessels or an associated coronary thrombosis. Here are described two cases with unusual precipitating factors of a heart infarction, one by an anaphylactic reaction caused by smallpox vaccination, the other case caused by a very intensive stress situation. As the basic condition in the two cases was accepted a coronary heart disease but the described events were considered by the author as the determinating concomitant cause for the social accident insurance in consequence of their intensity and acuteness.
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