National Measurement Office

The word standard can refer to a physical standard such as length or to a standard specification such as the paper standard. The National Measurement Office (NMO) is responsible for all aspects of the National Measuring System (NMS). In the UK all our measurement issues are looked after by tbe NMS, wblch is the nation s infrastructure of measurement laboratories delivering world-class measurement, science and technology, ft provides traceable and increasingly accurate standards of measurement for use in trade, industry, academia and government. 

National Bureau of Standards. 1982. The mechanism of anaerobic (microbial) corrosion. Report to the Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA., by Iverson WP, Olson GJ, National Bureau of Standards, National Measurement Lab, Washington, DC. Task No. NR-205-046. 

Anon. Council Directive of 22 December 1986 on the approximation of national measures relating to the placing on the market of high-technology medicinal products, particularly those derived from biotechnology. Offic. J. Eur. Commun. 1987, No. L215, 38-41. 

Y. C. Wu, W. E. Koch, and R. A. Durst, Standardisation of pH Measurements, National Bureau of Standards Special PubHcation 260-53, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1988 National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., private communication, 1993. 

We thank Professor F. de Schryver, Katholiecke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, and Professor B. Norden, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in whose respective laboratories the fluorescence lifetimes and the flow dichorism were measured. We are grateful to the National Science Foundation for financial support. R. D. Miller also gratelfully acknowledges the partial financial support of the Office of Naval Research. 

It is a pleasure to thank Rudolph Black of the United States Advanced Research Projects Agency, who, in May 1971, funded our proposal that "temperature variations in past climates may be evaluated by measuring stable isotope ratios in natural data banks such as tree ring and varve sequences". We thank William Best of the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research who monitored our study and Frank Eden of the U.S. National Science Foundation who subsequently provided further funds. 

Especially the latter two numbers are still quite insufficient taking into consideration the tasks of such governmental office in the national implementation measures starting with the respective legislation and then supervision of the domestic chemical industry and any cooperative activities with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). 

U.S. EPA (2000). National Management Measures to Control Non-Point Pollution from Agriculture. Office of Water, Non-Point Source Control Branch, Draft Report. 

Concentrations of dichloromethane measured in 1968-73 in a plant producing plastic films in the United States were 458-2060 mg/m in the casting area, 583-3350 mg/m in the filtration area, 625-659 mg/m in the winding area and 160-1130 mg/m in offices (United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1976). 

Printing Office(1946) 5 )H. W.Heinrich. Indus trial Accident Prevention A Scientific Approach5, 3rd ed, McGraw-Hill,NY( 1950) 6)National Safety Council,"Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations, 2nd ed, Chicago,111(1951) 7)Underwriters Laboratories,Inc, Lists Relating to Accident Equipment , NY(1951) 8)National Fire Protection Association,"National Fire Codes for the Prevention of Dust Explosions, Bostoh(1952) 9)W.M.Kunstler,"The Law of Accidents, Oceana Publications,NY( 1954) 10)US Bureau of Mines,"Accidents from Explosives at Metal and Non-metallic Mines, JuIy(1956)(See also Safety Measures in Industry)... 

This research was supported by the NSF-MRL program through the Materials Research Center of Northwestern University (Grant DMR-8821571) and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Contracts 86-0105 and 90-0071). We thank Mr. T. G. Zhang for helpful discussions and Drs. D. Lam and J. Parker of Argonne National Laboratory for assistance with the ellipsometry measurements. 

Milazzo, G. "Standard Reference Materials and Meaningful Measurements", National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 408 Seward, R., Ed. U. S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, 1975, p. 127. 

To have a network of laboratories at the top of a trace-ability system for chemical measurements instead of just the national metrology institute seems to be a requirement typical of metrology in chemistry and is under consideration in many industrialized countries, because the competence for chemical analysis in most countries (except U.S.A.) largely lies outside the domain of the metrology institutes. Another example that underpins this view is the development of metrology in chemistry in Switzerland, where the Swiss Federal Office of Metrology and Accreditation (METAS) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) jointly provide the national references for chemical measurements [2]. 

The participants were GUM Central Office of Measures, Poland National Office of Measures (OMH), Hungary Physikalisch-Technische Bundesan-... 

The atom exhibits very regular, hyperfine energy-level transitions and it is possible to count these cycles of energy. In 1967 the General Conference accepted 9,192,631,770 cycles of cesium-133 as the measurement of one second, making the atomic clock the true international timekeeper. The cesium clock is maintained in Boulder, Colorado, in the offices of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (formally the National Bureau of Standards). Its accuracy is one part in 1,000,000,000,000 (10 12). It will not gain or lose a second in 6000 years. 

This work was principally supported by a grant from the General Electric Co. The studies also were partly supported by grant DMR75-05004 from the National Science Foundation, grants from the Army Research Office and from the Materials Research Laboratory of the University of Massachusetts. One of us (A.E.) appreciates the travel support from the International Commission for Cultural Exchange between the United States and Spain. We would like to express also our appreciation to E. Balizer who obtained the calorimetry measurements. 

Germany to the Reichssicherheitshauptamt [Reich Security Main Office], Since this Association was an extension of the National Socialist state, the figure given is quite reliable. Benz, however, proceeds on the assumption that this figure represented only full Jews , and adds approximately 43% for half-Jews and quarter-Jews , even though these Jews were only partly (half-Jews) or not at all (quarter-Jews) subjected to the measures performed by the German authorities.24... 

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