The authors compared heart-rate and blood-pressure responses to typical isometric (ISO) and isokinetic (90 degrees /s) eccentric (ECC) resistance-training protocols in older adults. Twenty healthy older adults (74 +/- 5 years old) performed randomly ordered ISO and isokinetic ECC exercise (3 sets of 10 repetitions) at a target intensity of 100 % of their peak ISO torque value. Heart rate and sy...

While metrology has a long tradition of use in physics and chemistry, it is rarely referred to in the software engineering measurement, and in particular, in the design and documentation of software measures. Using the ISO 9126-4 Technical Report on the measurement of software quality in use as a case study, this paper reports on the extent to which this ISO series addresses the metrology crite...

ISO certification is widely implemented across the globe. Achieving ISO certification is time consuming, very cumbersome and expensive. The impetuses behind pursuing ISO certification are purportedly improved firm’s internal processes, reduced costs, increased market share etc. which ultimately result in overall improved firm performance. This study undertakes meta-analyses of the current ISO l...

The ISO/IEC 27799 standard for information security management in health was released in 2008. The standard contains a substantial section (Section 6) covering information security management systems in the healthcare context. This raises the question whether the ISO/IEC 27799 purports a difference between the generic standard for information security management systems (as embodied in the ISO/...

Since the release of ISO 14001 in 1996, China has witnessed a surge in the number of ISO 14001 certification. As an international environmental standard, ISO 14001 has two basic functions: one is playing as an environmental management instrument, while the other as a signal of firms’ better environmental performance to stakeholders. Based on the stakeholder theory, we have examined the effects ...

ISO 9000 is the most popular and widely adopted meta-standard for quality and operational improvements in manufacturing supply chains. However, few studies have quantitatively examined its impact on supply chain efficiency. In this paper we measure the material and cash flow efficiency of ISO 9000 certified firms in terms of inventory days and account receivable days. We analyzed changes in the...

The study statistically tests the proposition of the ISO/IEC 9126 standard that higher external quality (quality when software is executed) implies higher ‘quality in use’. For this purpose, the study based on 75 user survey data shows that individual external quality subcharacteristics are positively associated with user satisfaction as defined in ‘quality in use’. This study also investigates...

This paper discusses a methodological approach to define quality models (QM) for Web sites of any kind, including Web 2.0 sites. The approach stresses the practical use of a QM, in requirement definition and quality assessment, during design & development processes or during site operation. An important requirement for such QMs is organization mapping, which allows who is in charge of quality m...

This year, the DEFT campaign (Défi Fouilles de Textes) incorporates a task which aims at identifying the session in which articles of previous TALN conferences were presented. We describe the three statistical systems developed at LIA/ADOC for this task. A fusion of these systems enables us to obtain interesting results (micro-precision score of 0.76 measured on the test corpus). Mots-clés : cl...