On May 19, 1992, the Secretary of Energy signed the revised DOE Order 1300.2A, Department of Energy Technical Standards … the order was to place greater emphasis on the use of technical standards for design, construction, testing, modification … order, Standards Managers have been assigned for each DOE Secretarial office, each DOE Field Office, and each management and …

This workshop is focused on the benefits of the DOE technical standards program, which is focused toward the preferred … use of non-Government standards for DOE activities and the development of DOE technical standards when non …-Government standards are not available or are inappropriate. One goal of the program is to replace redundant site-specific standards with …

Standards are an essential feature in an unregulated field such as computing. Thus, when computing and the healthcare … environment are combined, the requirement for standards is imperative. For instance, the combination of sensitive information and … mobile technology presents increased complexity in information security. Whilst we have many worldwide standards for …

The significance of standards in international agricultural trade is continuously rising. Due to their complexity …, especially private industry standards are often expected to have a negative impact on agricultural export sectors in developing … countries. The successful adoption of standards by a broad number of producers can be seen as a condition to limit negative …

The challenge of implementing EU quality and safety standards for food production and trading is one of the driving … models to identify determinants of the diffusion rate of standards in a food chain under pre-accession conditions. We argue … as pricing behavior, compliance costs and market structure, all of which influence the adoption of standards, are …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …

The significance of standards in international agricultural trade is continuously rising. Due to their complexity …, especially private industry standards are often expected to have a negative impact on agricultural export sectors in developing … countries. The successful adoption of standards by a broad number of producers can be seen as a condition to limit negative …

role of standards within organisations which develop, operate and share systems within SoS. The paper is not about what … standards should be chosen, or indeed developed. Instead, it explores the information that needs to be elicited and modelled, to … reason about the standards that member systems of a SoS adhere to, and to provide a structure within which to promote …

solution relies on adoption of standards fordesign and product data representation, but for sectors predominantly characterized …

Australian accounting standards that will see Australian recognition and reporting of intangible assets such as brands …, trademarks and other marketing assets, curbed by the acceptance of International Accounting Standards rules of recognition. The …