A Comparative Study on the Temperature Effect of Solid Birch Wood and Solid Beech Wood under Impact Loading.

In order to use wood for structural and load-bearing purposes in mechanical engineering, basic information on the impact behaviour of the material over a wide temperature range is needed. Diffuse porous hardwoods such as solid birch wood () and solid beech wood () are particularly suited for the production of engineered wood products (EWPs) such as laminated veneer lumber (LVL) or plywood due to their processability in a veneer peeling process. In the frame of this study, solid birch wood and solid beech wood samples (300 × 20 × 20 mm) were characterised by means of an impact pendulum test setup (working capacity of 150 J) at five temperature levels, ranging from -30 °C to +90 °C.

Temperature-Related Properties of Solid Birch Wood under Quasi-Static and Dynamic Bending.

The project WoodC.A.R.

Long-term experience with setup and implementation of an IHE-based image management and distribution system in intersectoral clinical routine.

Purpose: Sharing of medical data is crucial for the proper treatment of patients as it could reduce the risk of duplicated medical tests and speed up the care process if all documents are readily available. Despite great technical progress, sharing patient data while maintaining full control over the process in an intersectoral (in Germany, this describes the different actors in the healthcare system consisting of clinic, ambulatory care, etc.) setting remains a particular challenge.

Modeling Interoperable Information Systems with 3LGM² and IHE.

Background: Strategic planning of information systems (IS) in healthcare requires descriptions of the current and the future IS state. Enterprise architecture planning (EAP) tools like the 3LGM² tool help to build up and to analyze IS models. A model of the planned architecture can be derived from an analysis of current state IS models.

Practice network-based care management for patients with type 2 diabetes and multiple comorbidities (GEDIMAplus): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Care management interventions in the German health-care system have been evaluated with promising results, but further research is necessary to explore their full potential in the context of multi-morbidity. Our aim in this trial is to assess the efficacy of a primary care practice network-based care management intervention in improving self-care behaviour among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and multiple co-occurring chronic conditions.

Methods/design: The study is designed as a prospective, 18-month, multicentre, investigator-blinded, two-arm, open-label, individual-level, randomized parallel-group superiority trial.