In 1906, he ordered the standardization of geographic names for federal use.
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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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It accelerated the standardization of everything from language to law.
Increased efficiency results from the standardization, better resource allocation and utilization, simplified and automated provisioning processes, and overall operational efficiency improvements in the automation of all aspects of IT management.
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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.
Beginning with the Swatch, which was based on a new "slim line" watch that had been developed by AUSAG before the merger, Hayek invested heavily in automation and the standardization of parts and tooling.
Firms often subcontracted manufacturing to different factories and achieved neither economies of scale nor the standardization necessary to mass-produce green homes, according to Allison Arieff, a former editor in chief of Dwell magazine and an influential figure in the modern prefab movement.
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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.
If the producers of QR scanning technology can finally realize the benefit of standardization, then the businesses that dominate with QR promotions will be the ones that open their eyes to what can and will be done with this incredible technology.
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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The lack of standardization makes it hard to summarize and measure how the industry as a whole is doing, which leads people to underestimate how much music is being produced and how much money is being earned.
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But he acknowledges the uneven quality and lack of standardization among the studies.
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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While still going through the typically painfully slow standardization process, one of the promises of HTML5 (hypertext markup language) is it could greatly simplify the process of porting apps from one type of device to another.
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In the long run, the new arrivals could bring more testing and standardization to the market.
Perhaps the greatest hurdle for the QR code business is the lack of standardization.
New Mozilla-proposed APIs that advance the Web as a platform and will be submitted to the W3C for standardization.
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The march toward standardization has so far been unstoppable--Lotus Notes, to take one example, has been largely supplanted by Internet browsers.
It is easy to predict autocar ecosystem wars preventing the level of standardization necessary to accomplish network efficiencies across make-and-model operating systems.
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Odd stadium dimensions were born out of the impossibility of standardization and will remain as teams seek to market their uniqueness and eke out incremental advantages.
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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.
Today, the agents of standardization are not empires but industries, like financial services and telecommunications, that need everyone everywhere to be on the same frequency, so that they can use their products.
This future convention intends to deal with the risk of the impoverishment of cultural diversity and standardization that will result from the gradual loss of the oral and intangible heritage in several parts of the world.
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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Several months in the making, the Bitcoin Foundation launches this week to accelerate the global growth of bitcoin through standardization, protection, and promotion of the open source protocol.
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Beyond simple standardization is the tendency of QR code apps to become inundated with advertising.
Take the ISO 9000 family of standards, published by the International Organization for Standardization.
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The appropriate balance of standardization and localization should be thought through for each brand and its customers.
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