Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development has proven itself over the years to be able to deliver high-quality software products. However, it is not clear how quality emerges from the large amount of loosely organised activities of a FLOSS community. This makes it difficult to apply traditional quality metrics and certification processes to FLOSS products. This paper investigates possi...

introduction: mortality data are a cornerstone of epidemiological research and health plan. unfortunately they dose not completed coincident to international standards; so due to important of issue and had not any research for precision and accuracy of death certification data in this region, this study was done in death certification data in inpatient kashan shahid beheshti hospital. methods: ...

Background and Aims: Certification programs of plant propagating materials rely on faster, cheaper and more importantly sensitive and reliable methods for detection of systemic pathogens as indicated in national and/or international health standards of plant propagating materials. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been documented as an alternative assay for certific...

Attempting to take advantage of recent displays of preferences for goods with superior levels of environmental performance, many governments and independent organizations have implemented a variety of programs designed to disseminate information on the environmental performance of companies or products. The most popular type of program is known as an eco-labeling or environmental certification ...

This paper describes the adaptation and certification process for switching equipment to be used in the Russian public switched telephone network (PSTN). The first part of the paper illustrates the basic certification procedure and its essential steps. Each step, whether it is described in a natural language or formally in a specification language SDL, is an integral part of the certification p...

Since the 1988 World Health Assembly resolution to eradicate poliomyelitis, considerable progress has been made towards interrupting the transmission of wild poliovirus globally. A formal process for the certification of polio eradication was established on the basis of experience gained during smallpox eradication. Independent groups of experts were designated at the global, regional, and coun...

BACKGROUND The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) certification and maintenance of certification (MOC) programs strive to provide the public with guidance about a physician's competence. This study summarizes the literature on the effectiveness of these programs. METHOD A literature search was conducted for studies published between 1986 and April 2013 and limited to ABMS certificat...

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Two core aspects of the discipline of biobanking are biospecimen quality and good governance. Meeting the demands of both sample quality and governance can be challenging, especially in a resource limited environment. Frequently, differences between biobank processes reduce the ability for cooperative action and specimen sharing with researchers. In the Canadian context, we have made an attempt...

Software certification as it is practised today guarantees that certain standards are kept in the process of software development. However, this does not make any statements about the actual quality of implemented code. We propose an approach to certify the non-functional properties of componentbased software which is based on a formal refinement calculus, using the performance abstractions of ...