Results 211 to 220 of about 6,063,674 (258)

A World of Standards but not a Standard World: Toward a Sociology of Standards and Standardization [PDF]

open access: possibleAnnual Review of Sociology, 2010
Standards and standardization aim to render the world equivalent across cultures, time, and geography. Standards are ubiquitous but underappreciated tools for regulating and organizing social life in modernity, and they lurk in the background of many sociological works.
Steven G. Epstein   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.

Related searches:

Standards and Standardization

2012
AbstractThe meaningfulness of personality measures depends upon a number of factors: validity studies, score scales which are understood by test users, knowledge that the measure has been studied with members of a population to which an individual test taker or a group of test takers belongs, and so on.
Kurt F. Geisinger, Janet F. Carlson
openaire   +2 more sources

Standards and Standardization

2013
Standardisation is indispensable to life in this century. It is virtually indispensable as the air we breathe, and like the air we breathe it is invisible to all except its technicians. Standardisation impacts life dramatically, it shapes technology and defines the terms of commerce. It sustains our environment and makes us safe.
Ade Ogunsola, Andrea Mariscotti
openaire   +2 more sources

Standards and Standardizing

The Journal of Higher Education, 1931
(1931). Standards and Standardizing. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 247-253.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Standards Connection

Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1988
Role du National Information Standards Organization (NISO) dans l'etablissement des normes internationales et enumeration des normes proposees durant le second semestre 1989 et le debut de l'annee ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Standards and Standardization

1974
Standards are practices established by authority, custom, or common consent. The practices embrace all activities of society including social, religious, educational, and technical practices. This paper deals with technical practices embodied in national or international engineering standards.
openaire   +2 more sources

New Standard for Standards

Day 4 Thu, May 03, 2018, 2018
Abstract Digital well planning, construction and maintenance have a lot of potential for cost reduction and improved HSE. Developing a software model to replace many of the tasks performed by humans can reduce administrative tasks and enables more focus on the quality of plans and operations.
Sigbjørn Sangesland   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Standards! Standards! Standards! Experiences with standards at the University of Georgia Libraries

Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, 1987
Discussion du developpement d'un systeme integre de bibliotheque, MARVEL (Managing Ressources for University Libraries), d'abord sans souci du format normalise MARC puis dans le cadre de la compatibilite avec le format ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Standardization, Not Standards, Matters

2015
This chapter looks at ways to actually use the art of Standardization (since there is not enough data to make this a discipline yet) within the Information Technology sector and within a commercial organization to effect change of some type. Note that this is not about Standards - which are relatively sterile documents - but rather a description of how
openaire   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy