Tsutomu Yamada Tadashi Kaji, Dr. Info. Toshihiko Nakano, Ph.D. OVERVIEW: Consolidation of standards suitable for control systems is an urgent task that must be accomplished if control system security is to be improved. When it comes to control system security standards, the consolidation of industry standards is happening more quickly, but international standards are also being formulated with ...

Prognostics and health management (PHM) technologies reduce burdensome maintenance tasks of products or processes through diagnostic and prognostic activities. These activities provide actionable information that enable intelligent decision‐making for improved performance, safety, reliability, and maintainability. However, standards for PHM system development, data collection and analysis techn...

This paper describes the Linguistic Annotation Framework (LAF) developed by the International Standards Organization TC32 SC4, which is to serve as a basis for harmonizing existing language resources as well as developing new ones. We then describe the use of the LAF to represent the American National Corpus and its linguistic annotations.

In May 2007 ISO formed a working group to develop a new set of standards on software testing – a new area for ISO – these standards are now due for publication starting in May 2013. This initiative is closely-supported by IEEE and BSI, both of which have donated existing standards as source documents to the project (these standards will be retired when the new standards are published). The new ...

Developing countries are increasingly coming under pressure to improve their delivery of veterinary services as a prerequisite for entering the competitive arena of international trade in animals and animal products. The demands placed on developing countries by predominantly developed countries to comply with international disease prevention standards have also resulted in increasing demands o...

ensuring the security in civil aviation - as a primary factor in economical and industrial development - is the major concern of international community. pursuant to the serious challenges in this sector after terrorist events of 11 september 2001 in the united states, international civil aviation organization (icao) as the most important organization relating to the international civil aviatio...

SUMMARY: PHMSA is amending the Hazardous Materials Regulations to maintain alignment with international standards by incorporating various amendments, including changes to proper shipping names, hazard classes, packing groups, special provisions, packaging authorizations, air transport limited quantities, and vessel stowage requirements. These revisions are necessary to harmonize the Hazardous ...

arguments between scientists advocating for vitamins versus those who emphasised minerals went ‘beyond alleviating the effects of malnutrition’ and entered into discussions about national mortality, disability and state responsibility in setting standards for national and international food and nutrition policies. A key goal of professionalising nutrition science was the effort to establish nat...

since the semantic field of the term “torture” in the international law is taken into consideration, this research does not enter into the domain of the internal law; and approaches only the views of international law. by examining the international documents and jurisprudence of the courts, this hypothesis is studied that despite of the presence of the prevailing standard about the appreciatio...