In order to correctly evaluate semantic technologies, which have become widely adopted in recent years, we need to put evaluations under the scope of a unique software quality model. This paper presents a quality model for semantic technologies. First, some well-known software quality models are described, together with methods for extending them. Afterwards, a new method for extending quality ...

Epithelial dysfunction is a key characteristic of acute lung injury (ALI). Isoflurane (ISO) confers lung protection via anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic properties. However, the specific role and potential mechanisms of subanesthetic ISO in lung epithelium protection during zymosan-induced ALI remain unclear. In this study, zymosan increased the expression and activity of beneficial heme ox...

Intraseasonal and interannual variability of Asian summer monsoon rainfall in pentad precipitation data is examined using a hidden Markov model (HMM). The spatial patterns of discrete rainfall states derived with the HMM and the associated transition probabilities between the states are shown to represent well the principal Asian summer monsoon intraseasonal oscillation (ISO), propagating eastw...

Objective. To investigate the independent and additive effects of resistance training (RT) and soy isoflavone (ISO) on body composition in postmenopausal women (PW). Method. This study used a placebo-controlled, double-blind (soy), randomized (ISO versus placebo) x (RT versus No RT) design. A total of 80 PW, aged 45-70 years, were randomly (71 completed 9-months intervention): RT + ISO (n = 15)...

In 1987, the Geneva-based International Standards Organization (ISO) introduced the ISO 9000-series standards as a way to encourage product and service quality improvement and facilitate international trade. Since that time, ISO 9000 standards have gained international recognition and have been widely adopted by manufacturing and service industries. In December 1999, more than 340,000 ISO 9000-...

To overcome drug resistance caused by apoptosis deficiency in patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), there is a need to identify other means of triggering apoptosis-independent cancer cell death. We are the first to report that isogambogenic acid (iso-GNA) can induce apoptosis-independent autophagic cell death in human NSCLC cells. Several features of the iso-GNA-treated NSCLC cel...

Iso-surface extraction is one of the most important approaches for volume rendering, and iso-contouring is one of the most effective methods for iso-surface extraction. Unlike most other methods having their search domain be the whole dataset, iso-contouring does its search only on a relatively small subset of the original dataset. This subset, called a seed-set, has the property that every iso...

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...