Nowadays, many organizations are dealing with the publication of standards for software engineering, for examples, European Space Agency (ESA), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In this paper, the ISO software engineering standards are classified into software product and software process ISO standards. Actually, f...

This paper proposes eSpaceML as a representation scheme for annotating eventdriven spatial expressions in natural language. It adopts SpatialML (MITRE, 2009) and ISO-Space (ISO, 2010) as a basis for the development of a novel, distributed spatial annotation scheme. SpatialML focuses on the annotation of spatial locations and their topological relations, while both ISO-Space and eSpaceML attempt...

Manufacturing companies in developing countries, irrespective of size or sector , often use ISO 9000 as a route to world-class status. Based on the results of an investigation by questionnaire in various manufacturing companies in Vietnam, the research is aimed to study if ISO 9000 implementation has any impact on improving the company competitiveness. Firstly, the study examines the situation ...

A gram-scale synthesis of terminally-branched iso-fatty acids (iso-C12-C19) was developed commencing with methyl undec-10-enoate (methyl undecylenate) (for iso-C12-C14) or the C15 and C16 lactones pentadecanolide (for iso-C15-C17) and hexadecanolide (for iso-C18-C19). Central to the approaches outlined is the two-step construction of the terminal isopropyl group through addition of methylmagnes...

Developing high-quality asynchronous store-and-forward telemedicine systems (ASFTSs) remains a challenge. However, there is no accepted understanding as to what are the important quality characteristics for this type of software system and/or what defines a mature software process for producing high-quality ASTFSs. Through adopting a multi-step research methodology, we define a quality model fo...

BACKGROUND Pretreatment with the angiotensin-converting inhibitor captopril or volatile anesthetic isoflurane has, respectively, been shown to attenuate myocardial ischemia reperfusion (MI/R) injury in rodents and in patients. It is unknown whether or not captopril pretreatment and isoflurane preconditioning (Iso) may additively or synergistically attenuate MI/R injury. METHODS AND RESULTS Pa...

Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940) was a lepidopterist during a period of transition and professionalization in natural history. Over her lifespan she collected more than 22000 butterflies, published extensively and wrote a diary of more than a million words. Wealthy and independent, Fountaine toured Europe in her early twenties and then, over the next 50 years, travelled the globe collecting butte...

Ovarian Cancer (OC) is the most lethal gynecologic tumor, notorious for being diagnosed in late stages. Approximately 15000 women in the USA and over 160000 women worldwide die every year of OC. In the USA about 22000 new cases were diagnosed in 2012. Morbidity and mortality due to OC have changed very little over the past 5 decades, despite extensive research efforts, identification of risk fa...

The current system of International Standards (ISO) is assessed to consider whether standards are fit for purpose for the future in the context of climate change. ISO 7243, ISO 7933 and ISO 9886 provide the current ISO system for the assessment of heat stress. These involve a simple monitoring index, an analytical approach and physiological monitoring, respectively. The system relies on accurat...

The paper addresses the issue of an efficient implementation and utilization of new management system parts into an existing landscape of standardized management system on the example of the integration of an energy management system (ISO 50001) into a quality management system (ISO 9001) and an environmental management system (ISO 14001). Therefore we conduct a comparative analysis of the ISO ...