This paper is an overview of the work being performed by the ISO committee TC184/SC2 “Robots and Robotic Devices”. SC2 is developing safety standards for robotic applications in personal and medical care, as well as revising existing industrial robot standards with requirements for new applications. A key driver of the new standards is the need for safety guidelines for human robot interaction,...

This paper shows a watermark-based approach to protect digital identity documents against a Print-Scan (PS) attack. We propose a secure ID card authentication system based on watermarking. For authentication purposes, a user/customer is asked to upload a scanned picture of a passport or ID card through the internet to fulfill a transaction online. To provide security in online ID card submissio...

Background: In addition to mortality, Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) has increasingly been claimed as an important outcome variable. The aim of this study was to assess HRQOL and independence in activities of daily living (ADL) six months after discharge from an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and to study its determinants. Methods: All post-operative adult patients admitted to a surgical IC...

BACKGROUND In addition to mortality, Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) has increasingly been claimed as an important outcome variable. The aim of this study was to assess HRQOL and independence in activities of daily living (ADL) six months after discharge from an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and to study its determinants. METHODS All post-operative adult patients admitted to a surgical IC...

Alternative performance measures (APMs) may increase uncertainty and perceived risks concerning the audit, rouse auditor’s professional skepticism (PS), for example in case APMs official reporting diverge (e.g. one shows a profit other loss). In this paper, using survey of Finnish certified public auditors (N = 220), we study how perceive relationships between audit work, PS, APMs. When examini...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent of implementation for patient safety (PS) and patient-centeredness (PC) strategies and their association with hospital characteristics (type, ownership, teaching status, annual evaluation grade) in Iran. METHODS A cross-sectional study through an adapted version of the MARQuIS questionnaire, eliciting information from hospital and nursing managers in 84 Iranian...

In this paper, we describe Everyware, a platform for peer-to-peer applications based on Web services standards. It is conceived to support personal information sharing among peers using different devices and hardware infrastructure. Using open standards and a completely distributed approach, Everyware allows end users to deploy personal Web services easily without requiring configuration or adm...