Making Standards Stick: A Theory of Coupled vs. Decoupled Compliance

Making Dictyostelium stick

euronal growth cones have detergent-resistant membranes (DRMs), specialized cell membrane fractions enriched in GPI-anchored proteins and intracellular signaling molecules. But are the DRMs involved in regulating neurite outgrowth? Yes, say Nakai and Kamiguchi (page 1097), who developed a new technique for selectively disrupting DRMs, and used it to demonstrate the functional importance of thes...

Automated Theory Decision Making: A Case of Evolution vs. Creationism

Calculating Compliance Standards

The security of information is important to protect top secret documents for government and private organisations alike. For this reason, many methods have been developed to enforce security and protect access to documents, computers and networks. Some of these methods include policies and procedures. These policies and procedures are compiled according to an Information Security Architecture (...

Standards and standard-compliance

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) was established in September 2005 at an international workshop in Cambridge, United Kingdom, which had and still has as its primary goal the creation of richer descriptions of our collections of genomes and metagenomes through the development of standards and tools for supporting compliance and exchange of contextual information [1]. Members of the GSC inc...

Managing Standards Compliance

Software engineering standards determine practices that`compliant' software processes shall follow. Standards generally deene practices in terms of constraints that must hold for documents. The document types identiied by standards include typical development products, such as user requirements, and also process-oriented documents, such as progress reviews and management reports. The degree of ...