ISO 9000, the quality management system standards developed by the International Standards Organization (ISO), is widely used in the construction industry, as it is in all industries in the world. Recently, a growing interest has been paid to the use of this system in the construction industry. Despite the growing interest, ISO 9000 use of construction firms has not been sufficiently studied fr...

This article reveals the leading role of standards in Industrial Ecology. It describes the tendency for the modern stage of world development to introduce widely accepted international standards. Along with this, each country has it own system of standards and respective specifics. A number of significant standards are available for practical operations of industries and institutions, e.g. the ...

Most of us are busy doing the noble deeds of patient care and some of us can barely catch enough sleep to worry about device standards. When we put together all the components and make it into a system, we take it for granted that they will work efficiently, effectively, and safely for the duration of use for which it is intended. This fact is pretty amazing considering that various components ...

For very small software development companies, the quality of their software products is a key to competitive advantage. However, the usage of Software Engineering standards is extremely low amongst such very small software companies. A primary reason cited by many such companies for this lack of quality standards adoption is the perception that they have been developed for large multi-national...

purpose: english abstracts are the only way through which non-speaking readers can access persian papers, the quality of english abstracts from the viewpoint of semantic and syntax should be controlled. adopting a linguistic framework, the present study sought to determine the linguistic and orthographic problems embedded in english abstracts of msrt’s high ranking basic sciences journals, aimi...

In March 2001 ISO TC 211 approved a project to develop an international standard: ISO 19130Sensor and Data Models for Imagery and Gridded Data. Since August 2002 when the project status was reported at the ISPRS Commission II Symposium, the project has made significant progress. The standard has been advanced from the working draft (WD) stage to the committee draft (CD) stage. This paper discus...

While ISO 9000 has been shown to improve internal metrics of firm performance, external measurements may be unaffected. This paper examines the economic value of successive generations of the ISO 9000 standard by assessing the equity returns of 204 firms certified between 1999 and 2002. This study also examines the economic effects of ISO 9001:2000 versus the superseded 1994 standards. The comp...

At Crypto ’85, Desmedt and Odlyzko described a chosen-ciphertext attack against plain RSA encryption. The technique can also be applied to RSA signatures and enables an existential forgery under a chosen-message attack. The potential of this attack remained untapped until a twitch in the technique made it effective against two very popular RSA signature standards, namely iso/iec 9796-1 and iso/...

In the past, ISO 9001:1994, ISO 9002:1994 and ISO 9003:1994 were the standards used for certifying production organizations, but seldom in educational institutions, although it concerns the quality of products and service. The new standard ISO 9001:2000 introduces process approach to quality management. Definitions for quality in education, and examples of processes, according to ISO 9001:2000,...