Deployment of e-Invoice infrastructure promises great savings in business transactions costs. But, due to slow transition from socialist economy, Croatia has just begun planning deployment of e-Invoice infrastructure in accordance with recently released national strategy for development of e-Business. Unfortunately, existence of globally competing standards makes decision making much harder. Te...

Accurate simulation provides a significant means for cost reduction during planning and operation of manufacturing installations. Within the projects Realistic Robot Simulation the standards Robot Controller Simulation (RCS) Interface and Virtual Robot Controller (VRC) Interface were defined by international consortia of leading car makers, robot and simulator manufacturers and line builders, w...

The OAIS model has gained widespread acceptance as the fundamental design reference model for an archival system by the digital library community. One of its core entities is Preservation Planning, for which central functional entities are given yet without every detail breaking down into activities requirements. The Planets Preservation Planning approach addresses this by providing a way to ma...

Treatment planning is a critical aspect of clinical education in the dental school curriculum. It is surprising, therefore, that so little attention has been given to this subject in the dental literature. The importance of treatment planning is reinforced in the standards and the tests that clearly present methods and necessity for treatment planning. However, there is minimal evidence about h...

Practice guidelines for community-based parenteral anti-infective therapy (CoPAT) have recently been formulated in several countries. These guidelines emphasize the importance of teamwork and the interdisciplinary nature of CoPAT, and they use similar criteria for patient selection and evaluation, anti-infective agent selection and administration, and clinical monitoring. There are now guidelin...

RAISING the standards of learning that are achieved through schooling is an important national priority. In recent years, governments throughout the world have been more and more vigorous in making changes in pursuit of this aim. National, state, and district standards; target setting; enhanced programs for the external testing of students’ performance; surveys such as NAEP (National Assessment...

This report seeks to inform the reader as to the "state of the art" of tactical HF data communications. HF Communications provide a large utility in the military arena where ad hoc communications are required with minimal assets and planning. A review of the relevant HF standards is performed, with a discussion on the technical aspects and impacts. A product review is also performed, which info...

This paper presents the essential temporal data constructs necessary in providing solutions for transportation applications that use dynamic data, such as facility management systems, safety and incident management, transportation planning, emergency management, and intelligent transportation systems. These temporal data constructs are categorized as time stamps, temporal topology and temporal ...