Setting a New Industry Standard that Accomodates Robotics

Setting a new standard for kinetochores

Setting a new standard for kinetochores T o really understand how a biological structure works, we need to know not just which, but also how many, molecules are present in it. For kine-tochores—the structures that link centro-meric DNA to spindle microtubules— protein components have been tallied by comparing the fluorescence of GFP-tagged kinetochore proteins to fl uorescent versions of the ce...

Electronic Informed Consent: A New Industry Standard

ISO 31000:2009--Setting a new standard for risk management.

Last year saw the publication of IS0 31000:2009, a new globally accepted standard for risk management together with a new, associated vocabulary in ISO Guide 73:2009. These were developed through a consensus-driven process over four years, through seven drafts, and involving the input of hundreds of risk management professionals around the world. The new standard supports a new, simple way of t...

Taxane/anthracycline combinations: setting a new standard in breast cancer?

Among the novel chemotherapeutic drugs introduced in the 1990s, the taxanes have emerged as the most powerful compounds in breast cancer. Both compounds, paclitaxel and docetaxel, have been evaluated in metastatic settings before adjuvant trials proceeded. Docetaxel was shown in several phase III trials to be superior, particularly in terms of survival, for salvaging polychemotherapies after fa...

Strategic Information Updating: a Bayesian Analysis of Firm Entry Timing into an Industry Standard-setting Organization

Much is known about the drivers of firm-level technology standards adoption, as well as the consortia that are responsible for creating them. In this study, we explore some new but related issues: the strategic information updating decision-making process that firms use in determining their timing of entry into a standard-setting organization (SSO) that supports the formation and promulgation o...