G lycated hemoglobin concentrations (most commonly hemoglobin A1C; HbA1c) reflect time-averaged blood glucose during the previous 2–3 months and are used as the gold standard for longterm follow-up of glycemic control. Standardization with common calibration was first proposed in 1984 (1). It was only after the publication of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) study in 1993 (2)...

In this paper the FPGA implementations for four stream ciphers are presented. The two stream ciphers, MUGI and SNOW 2.0 are recently adopted by the International Organization for Standardization ISO/IEC 18033-4:2005 standard. The other two stream ciphers, MICKEY 128 and TRIVIUM have been submitted and are under consideration for the eSTREAM, the ECRYPT (European Network of Excellence for Crypto...

For the strength evaluation of orthopedic implants such as hip prostheses, mechanical tests provided in standards such as the Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) are often performed. However, numerical analysis has been increasingly used to identify the worst case before mechanical tests...

With the rapid development of information technology, security has been gaining attention. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) issued international standards and technical reports related to security, which are gradually being adopted by enterprises. This study analyzes relationship between certification (ISO 27001) corporate financial performance using data from Chinese pu...

T he Common Object Request Broker Architecture is a specification for creating, distributing, and managing distributed program objects across a network. Both the International Organization for Standardization and X/Open have sanctioned CORBA as the standard middleware architecture for distributed objects. CORBA was specifically designed to support heterogeneous environments, different vendors’ ...

Introduction / objectives In the Netherlands bedpans are regarded as semi-critical items unlike Spauldings scheme (1968), where bedpans are categorized as non-critical items. Washer-disinfectors (WD) were used incorrect for a long time. A survey in 1990 showed poor final cleaning and disinfection results. The Dutch Working Party Infection Prevention made guidelines for WD (1998), and in 2006 th...

On the initiative of the World Health Organization, two meetings on the Standardization of Reporting Results of Cancer Treatment have been held with representatives and members of several organizations. Recommendations have been developed for standardized approaches to the recording of baseline data relating to the patient, the tumor, laboratory and radiologic data, the reporting of treatment, ...

We provide an overview and guidance for the Speed and Separation Monitoring methodology as presented in the International Organization of Standardization's technical specification 15066 on collaborative robot safety. Such functionality is provided by external, intelligent observer systems integrated into a robotic workcell. The SSM minimum protective distance function equation is discussed in d...