We describe a quantitative and comparative review of a selection of European birthweight standards for gestational age for singletons, to enable appropriate choices to be made for clinical and research use. Differences between median values at term across standards in 10 regions and misclassification of 'small for gestational age' (SGA), were studied. Sex and parity differences, exclusion crite...

Over the past few decades there has been a continual drum of concern by instructional designers, psychologists, researchers and informed educators concerning the design, presentation and evaluation of instructional resources in all their various formats. The innovations brought about by Internet technologies have once again amplified concerns regarding the viability of online course content, pr...

nowadays programming and designing of green space of urban area, without considering the criteria for 'optimum standards of green areas is impossible, . in this research, it is tried to determine, the per capita standard rate of green space in different regions of gorgan city, . the applied methedology is an integration of several international and local methods, based on the principles of...

Standards, models, frameworks and guidelines have been developed for secure software development such as such as Common Criteria, SSE-CMM, Microsoft SDL, OpenSAMM. Current standards and models provide guidance for particular areas such as threat modelling, risk management, secure coding, security testing, verification, patch management, configuration management etc. But there is not a generally...

Raftery et al (1997) criticise Seymour & Rooke (1995) for setting out battle lines in their use of the terms rationalist and interpretive paradigms and argue that such dichotomies lead to a degeneration in research standards. Sharing their concern for research standards, in reply, we argue that Raftery et al’s plea for methodological liberalism will itself undermine standards. Different researc...

purpose: this study aimed to identify and introduce the most important evaluation and production criteria of audio books based on users’ point of view.method: in terms of methodology, this study was among the quantitative studies and done with descriptive survey. the research instrument was researcher-made questionnaire. population was all users of audiolib website that used from audio books mo...