Emission Standards for Hi-Vision.

A New Vision for Standards

W hat is significant about standards? On a recent trip to an IEEE Posix meeting in Utrecht, The Netherlands, my spouse and I stopped in Paris for a few days. One evening, I inserted my credit card in an automatic teller machine, entered my four-digit code, and requested 300 francs. A moment later, the machine gave me the francs, which were automatically converted to US dollars and deducted from...

"Gold standards" for vision testing.

An evaluation of Tehran intercity bus drivers’ vision compared with the standards for Iran and Europe

Background: With an ever-increasing number of vehicles on the road, it is inevitable that drivers will need to call upon an increasing use of sensory and motor skills in order to negotiate safely through traffic. Vision is one of the major senses in human beings, and it is definitely necessary for safe driving. Approximately 95% of the sensory input to the brain required for driving comes from ...

Carbon Dioxide Emission Standards

On June 25, 2013, President Obama announced his plan to introduce carbon dioxide emission standards for electricity generation. This paper proposes an efficiency analysis approach that addresses which emission rates (and standards) would be feasible if the existing generating units adopt best practices. A new efficiency measure is introduced and further decomposed to identify different sources’...

Nonroad Diesel Emission Standards