Requisites for improved instructional effectiveness in all disciplines have become more stringent as the result of increased teacher accountability and the move toward performance assessment. National standards such as the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century (National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project, 1999) and the National Educational Technology Standards...

The Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap (NHG), the college of general practitioners in the Netherlands, has begun a national programme of standard setting for the quality of care in general practice. When the standards have been drawn up and assessed they are disseminated via the journal Huisarts en Wetenschap. In a survey, carried out among a randomized sample of 10% of all general practitioners...

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22033, Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22033, Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards an...

introduction: cardiovascular diseases are important factors at human death and factor destroys human resources. health intervention is a service for developing of health and diagnoses or modifies of process diseases. it is necessary that every country regarding to its goals, laws national, interests and standards, considers establishing such a system. a comparison of cardiovascular disease clas...

Emil Simiu; Fahim Sadek; and Michael A. Riley NIST Fellow, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8611. E-mail: [email protected] Research Structural Engineer, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8611. E-mail: [email protected] Research Structur...

the aim of this research was to investigate the location and accessibility of urmia sport centers concerning national and international standards. the research was applicable, analytical and descriptive. statistical population consisted of all sport centers of urmia physical education department. statistical sample equaled the statistical population (29 sport centers). data were collected by a ...

† National Institute of Standards and Technology. ‡ National Institutes of Health. * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected]. Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8543, and Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, B...

The good thing about standards is that there are so many of them." This humorous comment is often made when some well meaning team member wants to solve a problem by referring to a standard. This may be true, but what is also true is that information systems are becoming more "complex" (in the vaguest sense of the word), that systems and the information processed are more distributed and that t...