Abstract: The present invention provides a method of attenuating the formation or reducing the severity of a bruise in the tissue of a patient via applying a composition comprising a hydrophilic foam substrate and a polymeric hydrophilic agent to a portion of the surface of the skin in an amount and at a location sufficient to attenuate formation of or reduce the severity of bruising.

Abstract: A process for developing Enterprise Architectures that results in a dramatic reduction in the complexity of the architecture and, therefore, in the cost of developing, implementing, and maintaining that architecture. The process is novel in that it is based on a mathematical model for complexity and how complexity can be reduced. The process for constructing enterprise architectures can also validate the architecture before it is implemented. The process begins by partitioning the Enterprise Architecture into autonomous subunits using the equivalence relation synergistic. It then uses type relations between these autonomous subunits to identify redundancies which can be simplified through consolidation. Once these autonomous subunits have been simplified as much as possible through consolidation, outsourcing, or functionality reduction, they are prioritized through risk/value analysis pictorially represented as Risk/Value Graphs.

Abstract: A process for developing Enterprise Architectures that results in a dramatic reduction in the complexity of the architecture and, therefore, in the cost of developing, implementing, and maintaining that architecture. The process is novel in that it is based on a mathematical model for complexity and how complexity can be reduced. The process for constructing enterprise architectures can also validate the architecture before it is implemented. The process begins by partitioning the Enterprise Architecture into autonomous subunits using the equivalence relation synergistic. It then uses type relations between these autonomous subunits to identify redundancies which can be simplified through consolidation. Once these autonomous subunits have been simplified as much as possible through consolidation, outsourcing, or functionality reduction, they are prioritized through risk/value analysis pictorially represented as Risk/Value Graphs.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of attenuating the formation or reducing the severity of a bruise in the tissue of a patient via applying a composition comprising a hydrophilic foam substrate and a polymeric hydrophilic agent to a portion of the surface of the skin in an amount and at a location sufficient to attenuate formation of or reduce the severity of bruising.