BACKGROUND Clinical perfectionism is a transdiagnostic process that has been found to maintain eating disorders, anxiety disorders and depression. Cognitive behavioural models explaining the maintenance of clinical perfectionism emphasize the contribution of dichotomous thinking and resetting standards higher following both success and failure in meeting their goals. There has been a paucity of...

Drawing on institutional theory and the literature on inter-organizational systems (IOS), this paper develops a research model for assessing the use of vertical information systems (VIS) standards. Extending prior research on IOS use, we differentiated between two distinct dimensions characterizing organizations’ use of VIS standards: the extent to which organizations adopt VIS standards across...

Over the last several years, economists have studied the impact of standards on market dynamics. Recently, there has been increased attention to standards as barriers to free trade. 1 The O ce of Technology Assessment [29] has suggested a variety of policy level concerns, including trade related matters, and suggests that in part the issues may be based on the U.S. approach to funding standards...

realism is one of the main concepts of the philosophy that has several meanings and there is no standard application for it in the philosophical texts. issues and problems concerning this concept are numerous and belong to the several contexts such as ontology, semantics, epistemology, logic, methodology, and ethics. therefore, in the definition of this concept you can find several criterions a...

This research began with a question about addressing a broader range of accessibility issues in voting than the standards in the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) require. The VVSG standards cover accessibility for low vision, blindness, and cognitive disabilities. But what if anyone could mark their ballot anywhere, any time, on any device? While the likelihood of voters voting on thei...

Polysaccharide (PS) based meningococcal vaccines are primarily evaluated by physicochemical methods to ensure batches are consistently manufactured. As PS content is determined by different methods across numerous laboratories, there is a need for International Standards (IS) to calibrate the assays. Following the successful introduction of the WHO Meningococcal group C (MenC) IS in 2011, NIBSC...

background: different measures of mortality and morbidity statistics is a good tool in determining the health status of a community،the health network development and application of methods of prevention and treatment. basis of mortality data is the death certificate and the most important index in death certificate is accuracy of death causes with who standards and death causes codes in icd10....