In safety–critical applications, it is necessary to justify, prior to deployment, why software behaviour is to be trusted. This is normally referred to as software safety assurance. Within certification standards, developers demonstrate this by appealing to the satisfaction of objectives that the safety assurance standards require for compliance. In some standards the objectives can be very det...

abstract background: professional development is reiterated in the new definition of modern organizations as a serious undertaking of organizations. this article aims to present and describe a prescriptive model to increase the quality of professional development of iranian nurses within an organization‑based framework. materials and methods: this article is an outcome of the results of a study...

In the context of early intervention, infants will wear their hearing aids at fixed, cliniciandetermined settings for months or years before they are able to clearly express their preferences. Therefore, the validity of the clinician-determined hearing aid settings may be of crucial importance for auditory development in the early years of life. In this chapter the validity of prescriptive appr...