Standards improve

Doing what you say you will do Not accepting work below standard Not shipping product below standard Improving processes... 

In both the materials used and the construction process, sustainability and efficiency will become standard. Improvements mjob site management and building design will reduce waste and cost of construction. Materials such as engineered wood, recycled carpeting, and cellulose insulation, which have lower environmental impact, will become cheaper and more widely available. Not only are buildings constructed with such material friendlier to the environment, they also provide higher-quality, lower-cost solutions. 

NMR spectroscopy finds a number of applications in chemical kinetics. One of these is its application as an analytical tool for slow reactions. In this method the integrated area of a reactant, intermediate, or product is determined intermittently as the reaction progresses. Such determinations are straightforward and will not concern us further, except to note that the use of an internal standard improves the accuracy. With flow mixing, one may examine even more rapid reactions. This is simply overflow application of the stopped-flow method. 

Method development for high-pressure ashing and closed microwave digestion was reported for wet oxidation and extraction of Pb, Cd, Cr and Hg from various food packaging materials [57]. Use of HPA resulted in the highest median recoveries of the spiked elements (Pb and Cd, 92% Cr, 97% Hg, 83%). The use of In as an internal standard improved the accuracy... 

Meeting GLP standards improves the overall quahty of the work produced by the contract lab and makes meeting other accreditation standards easier. 

SeS2 and Se02 Recoveries for NBS-SRM 339 were <10 percent. It was quickly realized that the high iron matrix in the sample was playing a major role in signal depression, as the sample otherwise appeared completely solubilized. Although addition of iron to the standards improved the recovery to >90 percent, the sensitivity was still poor, 5-10 percent of that obtained in an iron-free matrix. 

Carter GD, Jones JC (2009) Use of a common standard improves the performance of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry methods for serum 25-hydroxyvitamin-D. Ann Clin Biochem 46 79-81... 

There is little disability among people barely maintaining themselves in a subsistence economy. The disabled die. As people s economic situation improves, their health, as determined by objective medical standards, improves, and so does the incidence of disability, as determined by bureaucratic stan-... 

Standard Improved Polychromatic sparkle Increasing brightness with increasing uniformity... 

Improved design, assembly, and installation standards Improvement in process safety management program Emergency evacuation Shelters (safe havens)... 

Safety, in functional safety terms, is not defined as freedom from risk because no such state exists in the real world. Instead it is defined as freedom from unacceptable risk. Unacceptable is a community-derived yardstick, related to what may be tolerated by individuals and society as a whole. Safety standards improve with time and with the growing wealth of communities. The UK Health and Safety Executive provides a useful description of tolerable risk ... 

Weller, C., Radio or Wired Telemetry forClinical ApipUcations Patient Safety Standards Improved by Wired Telemetry, Biotelemetry, Vol. 2,1974, pp. 208-210. 

An internal standard is a known amount of a nonanalyte element or compound that is added to all samples, blanks, and standard solutions. Calibration with internal standardization is a technique that uses the signal from the internal standard element or compound to correct for interferences in an analysis. Calibration with internal standardization improves the accuracy and precision of an analysis by compensating for several sources of error. 

As living standards improve and people live longer, their medical and healthcare requirements become greater, causing unsustainable strains on the healthcare providers which will inevitably affect the quality of the care being offered. To address these eventualities, patients in the twenty-first century increasingly need to be cared for at their homes and, where possible, to be monitored remotely, thus leaving the much needed hospital beds... 

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