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For laboratory accreditation, based on ISO guide 25 [27] and the EN 45001 standard, as well as for certification, based on the ISO 9000 series of standards [1], it is required that measurement and test results be traceable to international, defined, and accepted physical and physicochemical standards [28], This requirement includes the use of conventionally expressed quantities and units in conformity with the SI [29], It also includes the proper use of the concept of measurement uncertainty. All these are necessary conditions for reliance on the measurement results of another laboratory. Accreditation is granted when a laboratory has demonstrated that it is competent and capable of working in the above-mentioned sense. Technical trade barriers then fall away, and the needs and requests from industrialists, traders, and the general public can be met in the interest of open and fair trade, health, safety, and the environment. 

Proper" is used here in a mathematical sense. Technically, any system is a subsystem of itself. A proper subsystem is one that includes less than the whole system. 

Armand Feigenbaum Quality is a customer determination which is based on the customer s actual experience with the product or service, measured against his or her requirements—stated or unstated, conscious or merely sensed, technically operational or entirely subjective—and always representing a moving target in a competitive market ... 

Apart from the financial penalties discussed later, it is clear that it makes httle sense technically to site a large source of power at the end of a long single line far from areas of major electrical demand. ... 

First of all, a technical clarification is necessary in the wider sense, motor fuels are chemical compounds, liquid or gas, which are burned in the presence of air to enable thermal engines to run gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuels. The term heating fuel is reserved for the production of heat energy in boilers, furnaces, power plants, etc. 

Introduction and commercial application Safety and the environment have become important elements of all parts of the field life cycle, and involve all of the technical and support functions in an oil company. The Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea in 1988 has resulted in a major change in the approach to management of safety of world-wide oil and gas exploration and production activities. Companies recognise that good safety and environmental management make economic sense and are essential to guaranteeing long term presence in the industry. 

The economic lifetime was introduced in Section 13.3, and was defined as the point at which the annual cashflow turned permanently negative. This is the time at which income from production no longer exceeds the costs of production, and marks the point when decommissioning should occur, since it does not make economic sense to continue to run a loss-making venture. Technically, the production of hydrocarbons could continue beyond this point but only by accepting financial losses. There are two ways to defer decommissioning ... 

The weighing and proportioning of liquids and solids has also benefited from this technical revolution. Sensing devices and special-purpose computers give a level of precision and speed not possible in the era of elec tromechanical devices. The net result is that packaging and material handling systems now have the sophistication of chemical processes. 

An appreciation of statistical results can be gained from a study conducted to support the first application of computer control for an ethylene oxide production unit at Union Carbide Corporation in 1958. For the above purpose, twenty years of production experience with many units was correlated by excellent statisticians who had no regard for kinetics or chemistry. In spite of this, they did excellent, although entirely empirical work. One statement they made was ... [ethane has a significant effect on ethylene oxide production.] This was rejected by most technical people because it did not appear to make any sense ethane did not react, did not chemisorb, and went through the reactor unchanged. 

When we talk about this subject, the term foulant or foulant layer comes to the forefront. Foulant, or fouling layer, are general terms for deposits on or in the membrane that adversely affect filtration. The term "fouling" is often used indiscriminately in reference to any phenomenon that results in reduced product rates. "Fouling" in this casual sense can involve several distinct phenomena. These phenomena can be desirable or undesirable, reversible or irreversible. Different technical terms apply to each of these possibilities. 

I had the good fortune to become involved in process safety at the right time. It was the right time for me personally as without my previous 16 years in production, I would not have had the right experience. It was also the right time in another sense as, in 1968, the subject was poised for take-off. The chemical industry was coming to realize that safety needed a technical input and was not just something that could be left to an elderly foreman. 

In a mesoscopic system in which both classical- and quantum-mechanical pictures become compatible even for a short time is realised, its pragmatic significance would be very large considering technical level of today. This book is expected to offer the starting point of such new developments. In this sense. I like to express my wholehearted admiration to the eminent work of Dr. Sumio lijima who first discovered CNT. The timely contents of this book are readily conceivable by the excellent authors and I also appreciate the wisdom of my colleague editors. 

The Disparity of a Solution. We may begin to use the word disparity in a technical sense, for the quantity defined above, and to speak of d as the disparity of the solution when the mole fraction of the solute is x. In dilute ionic solutions the sign of d is always negative. The effect of the interionic forces is that ions added to a dilute solution always lose more free energy than they would when added to the corresponding ideal solution hence the total communal term is less than the cratic term. 

My project is not to critique of the power of quantum chemistry that I regard to be a self-evident fact. But with the triumph of quantum mechanics I believe there has been some tendency to exaggerate its success, especially on the part of some practicing quantum chemists and physicists. As a philosopher of chemistry I have the luxury of being able to examine the field as an outsider and of asking the kinds of questions which true practitioners might not even contemplate. The approach I take in this article is a philosophical one in the sense that I am concerned with principles and not just with technical details, although I try to be as accurate as possible with the latter. 

This means that in the strictest sense, PABA is not a vitamin, because the body can manufacture it. But in this sense, too, vitamin A is not technically a vitamin, as the body makes that from beta-carotene. 

So far, we have discussed only pure substances. However, most materials are neither pure elements nor pure compounds, and so they are not substances in the technical sense of the term (Section A) they are mixtures of these simpler substances, with one substance mingled with another. For example, air, hlood, and seawater are mixtures. A medicine, such as a cough syrup, is often a mixture of various ingredients that has been formulated to achieve an overall biological effect. Much the same can be said of a perfume. 

In a sense, the articles equate to what you might expect to find in an Act at national level, while the content of Annexes would be more akin to what would be placed in regulations. There is also a parallel in terms of authorisation, in that amendments to the articles usually require the approval of the political institutions, whereas adaptation of the Annexes to technical progress is possible via a decision of the Commission, functioning as the executive body. You can see this in practice by just looking at the title of each instrument that you read. 

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