Setting the Standards

Setting Standards for Green Schools in Iran

Setting Standards for Green Schools in Iran H. Meybodi A. Laahijaaniyaan, Ph.D. S.M. Shobeyri, Ph.D. S.A. Joezi, Ph.D. R. Azizinejaad, Ph.D. Given the numerous environmental threats brought about by human activities, it is essential that school children be taught the values of environmental protection in order to make the continuity of life possible. Hence, green schools hav...

Setting standards for scientists

From the Hippocratic Oath to the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, from Maimonides’ Oath to the Declaration of Geneva (the Physician’s Oath), human history reveals an abundance of pledges, guidelines and laws to regulate the relationship between professionals and society. However, increasing concerns about the new and emerging ethical aspects of biomedical research, and its potential for abuse, have ...

Setting the bar: Standards for ecosystem services.

Progress in ecosystem service science has been rapid, and there is now a healthy appetite among key public and private sector decision makers for this science. However, changing policy and management is a long-term project, one that raises a number of specific practical challenges. One impediment to broad adoption of ecosystem service information is the lack of standards that define terminology...

Setting the highest possible standards of healthcare.

Beta stiffness--setting age standards.

Beta stiffness index is one of the most commonly used measures of depicting mechanical arterial properties and development of preclinical atherosclerosis. Main influences on its value hold age and blood pressure levels. The goal of this study was to determine age standards of beta stiffness index on common carotid artery in our population using a formula modified by Kawasaki. The study was cond...