In view of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) mission statement "To promote excellence in clinical diagnosis, research, technical development, and education in cardiovascular ultrasound in Europe" and the increasing demand for standardization and quality control, the EAE have established recommendations and guidelines for standardization of echocardiography performance, data acq...

Web services are a logical evolution of software components and middleware. Based on a comparison of Web services with middleware and components we come up with the statement that Web services are components and middleware in one. However, for the Web services to live up to their potential as an integrating technology for mission critical Webbased applications, it is necessary to provide viable...

PROBLEM STATEMENT Many tasks are beyond the capabilities of single individuals, and so must be carried out by teams. This is particularly the case for teams working in complex technological environments, such as air traffic control or surgical teams. Analysis of a team’s performance is vital for two reasons. At the comparative level, it may be necessary to identify the best team among the avail...

The importance of cancer biomarkers is now increasingly recognized and acted on by regulatory organizations, healthcare providers (from reimbursement through to practicing clinicians), cancer organizations, research institutes, and charities. For example, the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) states in the opening of its mission statement, “The purpose and scope of the AJCC is to create...

this paper examines the effects of corporate governance (board structure and ownership structure) and some financial variables on financial statement restatements. for this purpose, citing firms have been divided into two groups: a group comprising firms (48 firms) that have maximum amount of the annual adjustment (more than 5% of ebit) and a group (control group; 46 firms) comprising firms tha...

The paper is structured as follows. In section 2 we give a short overview of the different phases of WSDM. In the next sections we elaborate the Conference Review case study. Section 3 gives the mission statement of this web application, section 4 deals with the audience modeling and in section 5 we make the conceptual design of the web site. In section 6, we deal with some aspects of the Imple...

You would think the mandate of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is to ensure that medicines on the Indian market are safe, effective, and necessary for public health. But the government thinks differently. According to a statement by the ministry to the Department Related Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare (1), the CDSCO’s mission as stated in the committee’s...

We describe two approaches to analyzing and tagging team discourse using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to predict team performance. The first approach automatically categorizes the contents of each statement made by each of the three team members using an established set of tags. Performance predicting the tags automatically was 15% below human agreement. These tagged statements are then used ...

"The Working Group should identify those research problems or areas within the broad field of fisheries in developing countries which the trends identified by the first Working Group suggest should be on the international research agenda. Research areas should be included whether or not it appears likely that they will ultimately form part of the ICLARM program, provided that the research invol...