In May 2007 ISO formed a working group to develop a new set of standards on software testing – a new area for ISO – these standards are now due for publication starting in May 2013. This initiative is closely-supported by IEEE and BSI, both of which have donated existing standards as source documents to the project (these standards will be retired when the new standards are published). The new ...

i n troduction: around the world, a large number of projects have been developed with the aim of assessing patient satisfaction especially in hospitals. as an important indicator of the quality of health care system, patients’ perception of health care has been the center of attention over the recent 20 years. m e th od: 402 patients who were hospitalized in teaching hospitals affiliated to the...

in the modern world today where the margin of error is minimal for the growth and at the same time there is a very competitive and challenging economic environment, it is very significant and crucial that efficiency is being prevailed in the organization through the help of international standards through which the respective organization should maximize their profits and should meet their resp...

In 2011, a new Software Engineering Standards for very small entities (ISO/IEC 29110) was approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In 2014, an ISO/IEC 29110 systems engineering, management and engineering guide has been developed using ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 systems engineering standard. Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach governing the total technical ...

There are several different standard conventions for specifying a locale, and the first decision is which convention to use. PhET specifies a locale using codes defined by the International Standards Organization (ISO). ISO 639-1 defines language codes [3], while ISO 3166-1 defines country codes [4]. While there are other standards, these are the most commonly-used definitions. An example of a ...

The increased competition in the domestic and international market has posed excessive pressure to the manufacturing organizations to successfully implement the ISO 9001 quality standards. The implementation process becomes more challenging when it is surrounded by numerous barriers. Though the presence of barriers makes it more difficult but certain factors (hereby known as enablers) makes it ...

Cleared blood glucose monitor (BGM) systems do not always perform as accurately for users as they did to become cleared. We performed a literature review of recent publications between 2010 and 2014 that present data about the frequency of inaccurate performance using ISO 15197 2003 and ISO 15197 2013 as target standards. We performed an additional literature review of publications that present...

Methods of analysis for products of modern biotechnology are required for national and international trade in seeds, grain and food in order to meet the labeling or import/export requirements of different nations and trading blocks. Although many methods were developed by the originators of transgenic events, governments, universities, and testing laboratories, trade is less complicated if ther...

In recent times, and in order to maintain an integrated, efficient and homogeneous policy, Integrated Management Systems (IMS) have emerged as an opportunity to improve processes related to Information Technology (IT) in organizations in a way that is modular, consistent and orderly. The ISO 27001 and ISO 20000 standards provide good practices for creating and/or strengthening management infras...