1 Executive Summary This report firstly provides an overview of video data compression formats, metadata standards, video data models and the use of knowledge representation formalisms in systems that process video data. Secondly, this report gives an overview of the work done in the TIWO project towards modelling video data, specifically films, in terms of their narrative content: the work com...

Executive Summary Poor software quality carries with it tremendous costs to an organization. Today, virtually every business depends on software for the development, production, distribution and/or after-sales support of products and services. According to a 2002 study conducted by the United States Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), poor software qua...

This research paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of internal audit standards as a foundation for carrying out and promoting wide variety value-added tasks in emerging markets. Three Jordanian telecommunications firms were subject study. In each firm, non-executive directors, who serve on Audit Committee, also received questionnaire that was designed this objective. total 85 questionnaires...

a pedestrian is every person who is walking, especially along or the width of a street or other place used by cars. growth, development and industrialization of societies, threatens the safety of pedestrians. increase and acceleration of vehicles and traffic, lack of road and street standards, weakness of laws or inappropriate executive guarantees, causing to insecurity and incidence of physica...

Americans’ trust in government officials has never been lower. Despite the intense public focus on ethics recent years, legal scholarship subject sparse. This Article fills gap by examining regime of federal executive branch depth, with a discussion both applicable standards and agencies offices that are charged ensuring comply those standards. The describes how current system heavily emphasize...

Background: Different institutes utilize different test standards for routine health checks in China. It is necessary and urgent to establish unified conserve medical resources reduce the social burden The purpose of this study determine items evaluate advantage disadvantage by comparing with American executive exam (EHE) standards. Methods: We collected check used 60 top hospitals within mainl...

PURPOSE While Cognitive impairment (CI) has been identified as an independent risk factors for mortality in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD), it is inadequately assessed. We evaluated the applicability of the Modified Mini-Mental State Examination (3MS) in assessing specific cognitive function and compared it to a detailed neuropsychological test battery as the reference standard. ...

PURPOSE To enhance patient safety through contemporaneous and comprehensive standards for a safe practice of anesthesia that augment, enhance, and support similar standards already published by various countries and that provide a resource for countries that have yet to formulate such standards. STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT The Safe Anesthesia Working Group of the World Health Organization's "Safe S...

OBJECTIVE: To identify cognitive predictors of medical decision-making capacity (MDC) in participants with traumatic brain injury (TBI) at time of acute injury (baseline) and at six-month follow-up. PARTICIPANTS: At baseline, participants were 34 adults with moderate to severe TBI and 20 healthy adults. At six-month follow-up, participants were 24 adults with moderate to severe TBI and 20 norma...