International Organization for Standardization ISO 9000 is a general standard related to fundamentals of implementation of a quality management system. The aim of ISO 9000 is to implement quality management procedures by means of leadership, work instructions, documentation and record keeping. ISO 9000 standard does not determine the quality or performance level of the product or service. It de...

Matching Pursuit is a video prediction error coding tool which is based on signal expansion using over-complete Gabor dictionary. It was originally proposed to MPEG committee by UCB and has been adopted to MPEG4 Version 2 Visual Working Draft since the Stockholm meeting in July 1997. In the contribution m3247 to the Tokyo meeting, Veeschouwer and Macq of UCL, Belgium propose using a Subband dic...

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At the heart of these changes is a strong emphasis on the need for ensuring biocompatibility. This heightened awareness of the safety of medical devices has taken on an international character, in large part because of the convergence of FDA regulations and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards.1,2As international requirements for the biological evaluation of materials ...

Sound quality metrics help improve the psychoacoustic acceptability of devices and environments by modeling and thus enabling deliberate improvement of perceptual attributes. Sharpness as defined in DIN 45692 [(2009). Deutsches Institut für Normung, Berlin] requires inputs from Zwicker's loudness metric [ISO 532-1 (2017). International Organization for Standardization, Geneva]. This letter demo...

clinicians should be aware of new developments to familiarize themselves with pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics of new anticoagulant agents to appropriately and safely use them. for the moment, cardiologists and other clinicians also require to master currently available drugs, realizing the mechanism of action, side effects, and laboratory monitoring to measure their anticoag...

The article considers the quality control system of medical dental care and components this system. A list main current legal documents regulating is presented. degrees are analyzed. implementation International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards in Ukraine highlighted. An analysis Standards Accreditation Health Care Institutions provided, which deal with issues care. state work o...

This paper presents a pilot project to reinforce participatory practices in standardization. The INTERNORM project creates an interactive knowledge center based on the sharing of academic skills and experiences accumulated by the civil society, especially consumer associations, environmental associations and trade unions to strengthen the participatory process of standardization. The first obje...

Historically, international law has played a key role in global communicable disease surveillance. Throughout the nineteenth century, international law played a dominant role in harmonizing the inconsistent national quarantine regulations of European nation-states; facilitating the exchange of epidemiological information on infectious diseases; establishing international health organizations; a...

Recent efforts to achieve global standardization of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) including noncontact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM), especially through the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and related research, are surveyed. Since the unification of terminology for SPM is a prerequisite for standardization, it should have the first priority, followed by the unification...