Being a derivative of the famous IEEE 802.11 family of standards [1], which was originally targeted at indoor wireless communication, the IEEE 802.11p amendment for vehicular communication [2] still bears certain assumptions about the wireless channel which do not apply for vehicular scenarios. As IEEE standardization is finished, international harmonization of local standards is already on the...

A simple and sensitive method for the simultaneous determination of ethanol, ethyl acetate, tetrahydrofuran, 2-propanol, hexane, dichloromethane and methanol in five drug substances by headspace techniques with FID detection is described. The method was validated for repeatability, linearity, limit of detection, limit of quantification and recovery according to the International Conference on H...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how donors and government agencies responded to a proliferation of donors providing aid to Ghana's health sector between 1995 and 2012. METHODS We interviewed 39 key informants from donor agencies, central government and nongovernmental organizations in Accra. These respondents were purposively selected to provide local and international views from the three types of ...

The International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) was established in 1990. Since then, representatives of the regulatory authorities and pharmaceutical industries from Europe, Japan and the US have held discussions on issues about the technical requirements for safety, efficacy quality, and multidisciplinary areas. Th...

Human tissues play a critical role in modern medicine, particularly in this era of biotechnology. Beyond immediate therapeutic uses, e.g., transplantation, tissues (unlike organs) may be stored for an indefinite time period in traceable and often coded form and later used for biomedical research purposes, teaching, quality control in healthcare, and the manufacture and production of therapeutic...

This study attempts to compare and highlight the major differences between International Accounting Standards (IAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with National Accounting Standards (NAS) in one of the developing nations, Iran. Over the past two decades, the Iranian accounting standards setter, Audit Organization, has decided to eliminate the differences between IFRS and...