This paper describes initial studies in the context of a new effort within ISO to design an international standard for the annotation of discourse with semantic relations that are important for its coherence, “discourse relations”. This effort takes the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) as its starting point, and applies a methodology for defining semantic annotation languages which distinguishes ...

This paper presents performance comparisons of the ISO/IEC 18033 standard block ciphers, AES, Camellia, SEED, TDEA, MISTY1, and CAST-128 in ASIC hardware. All the algorithms are implemented with a loop architecture where one round function block is used iteratively, and Sboxes are generated from lookup tables. In addition to the straightforward implementations, compact data path architectures w...

This paper describes an ISO project developing an international standard for annotating dialogue with semantic information, in particular concerning the communicative functions of the utterances, the kind of content they address, and the dependency relations to what was said and done earlier in the dialogue. The project, registered as ISO 24617-2 Semantic annotation framework, Part 2: Dialogue ...

Part 1 of the ISO Prolog standard (ISO/IEC 13211) published in 1995 covers the core of Prolog, including syntax, operational semantics, streams and some built-in predicates. Libraries, DCGs, and global mutables are current standardization topics. Most Prolog implementations provide an ISO mode in which they adhere to the standard. Our goal is to improve parts of the Prolog standard already publ...

The ability to generate an NC tool path is now common place in CAD/CAM systems, but the technology used for programming and control of NC machines is still based on 1950’s standards. Today under the IMS project called STEP-NC in Europe and Asia, and Super Model in USA, industrialists and academics are collaborating to deliver a new data model as an ISO 14649 standard for CNC machines. This stan...

This paper integrates a stakeholder perspective into the resource-based view of the firm, to analyze the mechanisms that link the adoption of the international Environmental Management Standard ISO 14001 to firms’ competitive advantage. This paper shows that the perceived competitiveness impact of the standard depends mostly on the involvement of firms’ external stakeholders (distributors, cust...

Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document describes a Uniform Resource Name Namespace Identification (URN NID) for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This URN NID is intended for use for the identification of persistent ...

sublingual nitroglycerin (tng) has been introduced as a promising provocative agent for tilt table testing, but it has not been compared directly with the standard isoproterenol (iso) infusion test previously. we tried to assess the diagnostic value and safety of tng tilt testing as compared with iso infusion in patients with unexplained syncope. tng and iso tilt tests were performed in two suc...

Methods The Biogard√ paper substrate was treated by impregnation with patented harmless active compounds. Antibacterial activity against Eschericha coli and Staphylococcus aureus was determined using ISO 20743 (transfer method) standard, antifungal activity using AATCC 30 (part III) against Aspergillus niger and antiviral activity using EN 1447666+A1 standard against H1H1 influenza A virus. Bio...