Contents Software Productivity Consortium (Consortium) members applying the tools for both the requirement and design model-driven verification and validation are often required to certify their software with various certification authorities such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These certifications require methods and supporting artifacts fo...

One of the oldest unresolved microbiological phenomena is why only a small fraction of the diverse microbiological population grows on artificial media. The "uncultivable" microbial majority arguably represents our planet's largest unexplored pool of biological and chemical novelty. Previously we showed that species from this pool could be grown inside diffusion chambers incubated in situ, like...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The microbiological monitoring of the water used for haemodialysis is important especially for Legionella and non-fermentative bacteria since patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) are suffering from deteriorated function of immune system. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total 50 water and dialysate samples were weekly collected over a period of 10 weeks from 5 sites. ...

Abbreviations: BSA: Bovine Serum Albumin; HABA: 4’-Hydroxyazo-Benzene-2-Carboxylic Acid; IQ: Installation Qualification; LIMS: Laboratory Information Management System; MRD: Minimum Required Dilution; OQ: Operational Qualification; PBS: Phosphate-Buffered Saline; PBST: Phosphate-Buffered Saline With 0.01% Tween-20; PEG: Polyethylene Glycol; PK: Pharmacokinetics; PMT: Photomultiplier-Tube; PQ: P...

This study explores the regulatory basis and applied aspects of qualification centers in Ukraine, focusing on their role recognizing professional qualifications addressing gaps. The establishment is grounded Ukrainian legislation, with main responsibility awarding through validation non-formal informal learning based occupational standards. center accreditation process overseen by National Qual...

Tool classification is an important part of the tool qualification process required by ISO 26262 since it determines the required confidence level for each tool in use. To cover the variety of tools used by practitioners, the standard only provides a framework for tool classification and leaves it up to the applicant to instantiate this framework. To illustrate the ISO 26262 tool classification...

We study and characterize axiomatically a class of voting rules, called consent rules, that incorporate aspects of majoritarianism and liberalism. An outcome of the vote specifies who among the voters are eligible to a certain right or qualification. Each outcome serves also as a permissible ballot. Consent rules are parameterized by the weights given to individuals in determining their own qua...

Certification of safety-critical software is a multi-disciplinary topic. Process assessment is an essential part of that, but is not enough for software certification. Certification employs also several other method families, like inspections and reviews, independent V&V, conformance with selected reference standard(s) and use of selected measurements and analyses. Process assessment supports d...