The foundation of QASoft is the database of quantitative reference spectra. When the development of QASoft was begun some 10 years ago there were no available quantitative gas phase spectra. The available gas spectra such as those in the collections from Sadtler, Aldrich or EPA were recorded only for purposes of molecule detection and identification, not for measurement. In almost all cases the...

background: given the importance of adolescents’ health in establishing health in the newly thriving generation of every society, the first step for adolescents’ health promotion is health needs assessment. the present study was, therefore, conducted to design a valid and reliable scale for health needs assessment of male adolescents. methods: this is an exploratory sequential mixed method stud...

Variability in human taste perception is associated with both genetic and environmental factors. The influence of taste receptor expression on this variability is unknown, in part, due to the difficulty in obtaining human oral tissue that enables quantitative expression measures of taste genes. In a comparison of six current techniques (Oragene RNeasy Kit, Isohelix swab, Livibrush cytobrush, to...

Background: Benevolent marketing is one of the new and ethical strategies of marketing businesses to create special value for the customer, according to which a direct relationship between selling the product and helping the business to a charity or charity is defined and promoted to fulfill responsibility. Becomes corporate social. The main purpose of this article is to identify and rank benev...

This paper is concerned with understanding the issues that affect the adoption of software process standards by Very Small Entities (VSEs), their needs from process standards and their willingness to engage with the new ISO/IEC 29110 standard in particular. In order to achieve this goal, a series of industry data collection studies were undertaken with a collection of VSEs. A twin track approac...

Geriatric medicine has an encyclopaedic sweep, reflecting the complexity of both the ageing process and of our patient group. Keeping up with, and making sense of, the relevant scientific literature is challenging, especially as ageing has increased in prominence as a focus of research across many branches of the sciences and the humanities. This review of research published in 2012 in generali...