The popularity of declaring quality assurance seems to be growing significantly in the last decade, including the field of distance studies and elearning. Unfortunately, the implementation of quality assurance mechanisms on the operational level faces considerable problems. In this article we describe different conceptions of quality of distance studies, the stage of research and implementation...

Three kinds of the insurance policies for the net premium calculation for married couples are considered. The net premium equation principle is used in all premium calculations. The particular quality of the additional pension assurance is the individual form of its undertaking and the limitation of annual (monthly) pension payments. Due to this fact the biggest interest to the individual insur...

The recently published book, Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective (Patil and Gray, Springer 2009) includes a number of chapters by people affiliated with CDIO. These include topics such as CDIO standards and syllabus as essential elements in quality assurance, how they have been used to in national quality assurance schemes, and the history of quality assurance as it ha...

This paper presents selective results of a survey conducted to find out the much needed insight into the status of information security in Saudi Arabian organizations. The purpose of this research is to give the state of information assurance in the Kingdom and to better understand the prevalent ground realities. The survey covered technical aspects of information security, risk management and ...

The paradigm of model-based software development has become more and more popular, since it promises an increase in the efficiency and quality of software development. Following this paradigm, models become primary artifacts in the software development process where quality assurance of the overall software product considerably relies on the quality assurance of involved software models. In thi...

Consumer fraud on the Internet is slowly mounting, resulting in appreciable monetary losses, and growing distrust of e-commerce websites. Information assurance has been proposed to be one solution to counter this, to which consumers have also been favorably receptive. We explore here the extent of adoption of such assurance among Business-to-Consumer (B2C) information goods/services websites. T...