Take the ISO 9000 family of standards, published by the International Organization for Standardization.
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Defined under the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14025, EPDs provide quantified, third-party-verified environmental data for products.
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New Mozilla-proposed APIs that advance the Web as a platform and will be submitted to the W3C for standardization.
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Some privacy measures have already been introduced, calling for standardization and industry cooperation.
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They also stressed the need for standardization of the smart grid components, to avoid a patchwork of technologies across the country.
MPEG, which was formed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1988, has had a long partnership with Ericsson Research.
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Mozilla and all other participants are committed to ensuring the project is fully open and the reference implementation of the required Web APIs is being submitted to W3C for standardization.
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During 2006-2010, UNESCO, USAID, and National Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (NACTE) have jointly supported the spade work for standardization and accreditation of teacher education in Pakistan, under STEP (Strengthening Teacher Education in Pakistan) Project.
In 2010, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report listed 19 organizations with ongoing initiatives that influence cybersecurity and governance, including the International Telecommunication Union, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the International Organization for Standardization, and the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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One of the key recommendations was a call for more standardization in procedures that caused confusion during the incident and the subsequent spill.
Endy aims for similar standardization in the new field of synthetic biology, and embraces the radical approach of creating a free registry of building blocks.
By identifying the need for transferability and standardization, while providing a richness of direction and added value for employers.
Direct the planning, initiation and execution of the SCC Programmes, comprising the collection, compilation, analysis, dissemination and international standardization for SCC data.
Though efforts continue to be made for greater emissions standardization, questions remain about the validity of many of the voluntary offsets that have been purchased and sold to date in the United States due to a lack of uniformity around methodology, monitoring, and verification.
Still, proponents for clawbacks will likely push for more clarity and standardization of rules over time.
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Last month, each company started participating in standardization efforts for the new technology through the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association.
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In 1906, he ordered the standardization of geographic names for federal use.
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In order for adoption to be widespread, standardization will be necessary.
Except for his continued belief in the standardization of small things, like windows, doors, hardware and lighting fixtures -- always beautifully designed and executed -- he abandoned many modernist ideas as inhuman and unworkable.
The report, which also blamed insufficient regulation as a reason for the disaster, has recommended a standardization of procedures related to the events that led to the spill such as testing cement barriers and interpreting the results of those tests.
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"Software standardization is a fertile breeding ground for viruses, " said Lev Grossman of TIME Digital.
Perhaps the greatest hurdle for the QR code business is the lack of standardization.
The appropriate balance of standardization and localization should be thought through for each brand and its customers.
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They're blessedly free of corporate branding, except for the trademark Heavenly beds, a fillip of standardization I appreciate.
Modularity allows for affordable customization, while the economics of interdependence mandate standardization.
You will notice Craigslist does have a standard convention for buttons, body copy, hyperlinking (all praise the standardization of Craigslist hyperlinking) and headers.
Others hope this will be a re-ascendence of command-and-control IT, which favors corporate deployments and the standardization on a single platform, presumably Windows, for better management and control.
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To manage this growth, senior management has made simplicity a strategic imperative such that managers are constantly looking for simplification opportunities through consolidation of country and regional operations, standardization of processes, and reduction of SKUs.
The issue, of course, is that while that may be true, the real potential for technology in education is to break us from the requirements of standardization.
Regulation and standardization insure that, when competitors meet, everyone will have trained for the same event, and the results can be compared across competitions.
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