background: chronic renal failure and dialysis causes symptoms which can affect the patient's quality of sleep and quality of life. therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship between sleep qualities, and quality of life in hemodialysis patients in the chaharmahal and bakhtiari province. methods: this was a descriptive-analytical study. the study population consisted of the dialys...

BACKGROUND Although various instruments have been developed to measure customer satisfaction with community pharmacy services, there is limited research regarding pharmacy staffs' understanding of service quality and its determinants. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore the perceptions of pharmacy staff regarding the factors that constitute a high level of service quality using the service...

The principal problem that affects software development projects is low quality requirements specifications. Low quality requirements specifications make it difficult to develop high quality software. We propose using the Estimated Function Point Counting (EFPC) method of software size estimation as a surrogate process for Requirements Engineering (RE) process, especially for the organizations ...

With more and more electronic information sources becoming widely available, the issue of the quality of these often-competing sources has become germane. We propose a standard for specifying the quality of databases, which is based on the dual concepts of data soundness and data completeness. The relational model of data is extended by associating a quality specification with each relation ins...

This paper describes the formal specifications of garbage collection in the programming language Cedar Mesa. They were developed as part of the process of identifying a safe subset of Mesa for which garbage collection was possible. The purpose of the specifications was to provide a precise definition of safety, along with criteria for checking the safety of proposed language features. Thus the ...

PROV, the Provenance standard, is a family of specifications released in 2013 by the Provenance Working Group, as a contribution to the Semantic Web suite of technologies at the World Wide Web Consortium. The specifications define a data model along with a number of serializations for representing aspects of provenance. The term provenance, as understood in these specifications, refers to infor...

Business-IT alignment for software specifications means that the specifications have to be aligned with business goals. In the SIKOSA research project, we developed the SIKOSA methodology which supports the integrated assurance of quality during the whole software development process. In the present work, we present these aspects of the SIKOSA methodology, which especially align specification d...

Communication is migrating towards wideband transmission (50 Hz – 7 kHz). Terminals and networks are developed in order to provide a significant step towards higher speech quality. At the same time, standardization bodies like ETSI, GCF and the DECT Forum are working on new specifications for terminals. In order to setup appropriate speech quality measurements for wideband terminals, existing w...