Standardization activities are recognized as one of the tools to incubate research results and accelerate their transfer to innovative marketable products and services. However, the European Commission (EC) research community and its associated stakeholders acknowledge the lack of research transfer via the standardization channel, generally referred to as the research-tostandardization gap. Thi...

Human serum-based frozen reference materials have been used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Lipid Standardization Program to improve the precision and accuracy of blood cholesterol measurements. Occasionally, laboratories in the program have had problems obtaining results for patients' fresh serum samples equivalent to those obtai...

Multivariate spectroscopic calibration models are only valid to predict samples within the span of the calibration sample space measured relative to the current instrument environment (the primary conditions). Predicting samples in secondary conditions with new variances, same sample variances as the calibration space but a new instrument environment, or both, requires some form of continual mo...

Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was applied for the determination of total soluble solid contents (SSC) of single Ruby Seedless grape berries using both benchtop Fourier transform (VECTOR 22/N) and portable grating scanning (SupNIR-1500) spectrometers in this study. The results showed that the best SSC prediction was obtained by VECTOR 22/N in the range of 12,000 to 4000 cm-1 (833-2500 nm) for...

In 2014, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS released its 90-90-90 targets, which make laboratory diagnostics a cornerstone for measuring efforts toward the epidemic control of HIV. A data-driven laboratory harmonization and standardization approach is one way to create efficiencies and ensure optimal laboratory procurements. Following the 2008 "Maputo Declaration on Strengthening of...

The main focus of current discussions within the standardization process of Learning technology is on technical aspects of so called learning objects. The purpose of this paper is to show the three stages of a learning object scenarisation, starting with the instantiation of contents parameters. The second stage is related to the pedagogical instrument which represents the supports of these con...

Business process standardization is of growing importance for both researchers and practitioners alike. Corporate experts and process owners meanwhile consider business process standards to be a prime action item and major instrument in a firm's BPM toolkit. An increasing number of scientific publications also show a growing interest of the scientific community. But to date IS research on busin...