The ISO 26262 standard defines functional safety for automotive E/E systems. Since the publication of the first edition of this standard in 2011, many different safety techniques complying to the ISO 26262 have been developed. However, it is not clear which parts and (sub-) phases of the standard are targeted by these techniques and which objectives of the standard are particularly addressed. T...

Building on longitudinal data from 73 Chinese manufacturing firms during 2009–2012, we assess whether and how firms gain higher efficiency in achieving their sustainability goals by adopting management practice standards (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and/or OHSAS 18001). We propose four pathways for firms to gain sustainability efficiency in their certification journey: participation, qualitative integ...

Context: Quality of Service (QoS) is a major issue in various web service related activities. Quality models have been proposed as the engineering artefact to provide a common framework of understanding for QoS, by defining the quality factors that apply to web service usage. Objective: The goal of this study is to evaluate the current state of the art of the proposed quality models for web ser...

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for quad-dominant meshing of unorganized point clouds based on periodic global parameterization. Our meshing method is guided by principal directions so as to preserve the intrinsic geometric properties. We use local Delaunay triangulation to smooth the initial principal directions and adapt the global parameterization to point clouds. By optimizing the...

The first Technical Note in this series [1] introduced the international standard ISO 10303, informally known as STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data). Subsequent Technical Notes discussed various issues faced by users of STEP and how the ISO TC184/SC4 committee is addressing these issues. This paper presents the current move to modularize the STEP application protocol architec...

For example, the escape sequence "ESC 2/4 2/8 4/3" or "ESC $ ( C" indicates that the bytes following the escape sequence are Korean KSC characters, which are encoded in two bytes each. The escape sequence "ESC 2/14 4/1" or "ESC . A" indicates that ISO 8859-1 is designated to G2. After the designation, the single shifted sequence "ESC 4/14 4/1" or "ESC N A" is interpreted to represent a characte...

ANSI X9.24-1:2009 specifies the key check value, which is used to verify the integrity of the blockcipher key. This value is defined as the most significant bits of the ciphertext of the zero block, and is assumed to be publicly known data for verification. ISO/IEC 9797-1:2011 illustrates a total of ten CBC MACs, where one of these MACs, the basic CBC MAC, is widely known to be insecure. In thi...

These and related characters were proposed for encoding in L2/09-320 as characters used for writing short vowels in Devanagari. It appears the proposal was not reviewed by the Unicode Technical Committee. However, two of the characters discussed in it —    and ◌     — were later proposed in N3710 and N3731 by the Government of India and others as Kashmiri additions to D...

Background–The purpose of this investigation is to measure the normal neck and trunk motion of daily living and to compare this to annualized movements as defined by the ASTM F2423-11 and ISO 18192-1:2011 standards. Methods–Ten volunteers wore a custom sensor system that monitored their upper and lower spine motion. The system allows continuous measurement of the frequency and magnitude of spin...

There are three major historical varieties of Limbu, which may be labeled using the names of the individuals to whom their development is attributed: Śirijaṅgā, Cemajoṅ, and Subba. The Limbu script encoded in the UCS is based largely upon the script reformed by B. B. Subba in the 1970s. This version is adequate for writing contemporary Limbu, but is missing some letters found in the repertoires...