IMPRESS fails to meet its own standards

Treatment of patients with coronary heart disease fails to meet standards of european guidelines: results of EUROASPIRE surveys.

Criticizing reporting standards fails to improve quality in animal research

We agree with Bara and Joffe that there is a need for improvement of reporting quality in animal research (AR) [1]. Presenting details on both methods used and potential cofounders during AR is not only important to reproduce results, and to ensure animal welfare (AW) and public support, it is a duty when animals are compromised, stressed or sacrificed to understand diseases or to identify trea...

Reshaping e-Learning Content to Meet the Standards

There is a set of e-learning standards varying on the level of complexity, detail of description and means for technical implementations. These standards open up new levels of content description, data presentation as well as have impact on reuse and interoperability of e-learning content. E-learning standards such as IMS, SCORM, IEEE LTSC METADATA, DUBLIN CORE and others have settled down in r...

Should ECAs ‘dress to impress’ ?

The research presented in this paper looks at ECA’s and the influence of the color of their clothing on user perception. To perform this research an experiment was done. In the experiment two different colored versions of the same ECA told a story after which test subjects answered questions on their perception of the ECA and the contents of the story. The initial literary research gave good re...

Should Online Course Design Meet Accessibility Standards?

For quite some time now, the Internet and its content have been developing in a haphazard way. This is not inherently a bad thing and perhaps it's even unavoidable, but it does have its problems. Web-based languages such as HTML, JavaScript, XHTML, XML, Perl, etc have been standardized into versions, but these standards shift over time because these languages are almost all very new and in many...