2 Advanced cyber threats present a challenge to established engineering and strategic analysis processes: established processes, to facilitate cost-effective risk management.

1 1 This is an updated version of the guidelines presented to the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) at its meeting in September 2009 [CCSA, 2009]. It takes into account comments received from members of the CCSA and as well recent developments on quality. The aim of the document is to further support the work of the CCSA for enhanced quality assurance of statistica...

The popularity of declaring quality assurance seems to be growing significantly in the last decade, including the field of distance studies and elearning. Unfortunately, the implementation of quality assurance mechanisms on the operational level faces considerable problems. In this article we describe different conceptions of quality of distance studies, the stage of research and implementation...

Three kinds of the insurance policies for the net premium calculation for married couples are considered. The net premium equation principle is used in all premium calculations. The particular quality of the additional pension assurance is the individual form of its undertaking and the limitation of annual (monthly) pension payments. Due to this fact the biggest interest to the individual insur...

The recently published book, Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective (Patil and Gray, Springer 2009) includes a number of chapters by people affiliated with CDIO. These include topics such as CDIO standards and syllabus as essential elements in quality assurance, how they have been used to in national quality assurance schemes, and the history of quality assurance as it ha...