The first Technical Note in this series [1] introduced the international standard ISO 10303, informally known as STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data). Subsequent Technical Notes discussed various issues faced by users of STEP and how the ISO TC184/SC4 committee is addressing these issues. This paper presents the current move to modularize the STEP application protocol architec...

ii Acknowledgements First, I would like to thank professors Paola Mello and Evelina Lamma for their gentle guidance, keen advice and patience. Their support and incitement have been fundamental for overcoming the most diicult times. I am grateful to professor Maurelio Boari for his uninterrupted encouragement, for creating a fertile environment for doing research and for having ooered me the op...

For example, the escape sequence "ESC 2/4 2/8 4/3" or "ESC $ ( C" indicates that the bytes following the escape sequence are Korean KSC characters, which are encoded in two bytes each. The escape sequence "ESC 2/14 4/1" or "ESC . A" indicates that ISO 8859-1 is designated to G2. After the designation, the single shifted sequence "ESC 4/14 4/1" or "ESC N A" is interpreted to represent a characte...

In an international oligopoly model, this paper investigates interaction between trade liberalization in goods and liberalization in service FDI. Since some services are market-specific and have non-tradable nature, a foreign firm has a higher cost in service provisions compared to its domestic competitor and it can overcome the disadvantage by either outsourcing services to the domestic compet...

Interoperabilität von Informationssystemen ist in einer vernetzten Geschäftswelt unabdingbar. Während in der Vergangenheit diese auf eher statisch definierten Kommunikationsstandards basierte, erfordert die allgemeine Dynamik immer mehr flexible Lösungen, die nur auf Basis generischer Interoperabilitätsmodule möglich sind. Um die auszutauschenden Objekte maschinenlesbar zu beschreiben und damit...

exposure to cold work environment is an occupational health hazard and poses adverse effect on workers health, performance and productivity. this study was performed in a cold food-storage warehouse complex in tehran-iran in order to evaluate the workers' exposure to cold stress. twenty nine exposed workers and 33 non-exposed workers as control subject were included in this study. climatic fact...

Local information access (LIA) programs tap into existing public health data flows, and present data in simple and useful ways to ground staff. LIAs hold great potential for improving rural health systems in developing regions; benefits include more evidence-based decision making and optimizations at a local scale, as well as improved service delivery and data quality. Our fledgling LIA program...