High Standards

High Availability Electronics Standards

Availability modeling of the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) predicts unacceptably low uptime with current electronics systems designs. High Availability (HA) analysis is being used as a guideline for all major machine systems including sources, utilities, cryogenics, magnets, power supplies, instrumentation and controls. R&D teams are seeking to achieve total machine high availabi...

High Performance Debugging Standards Effort

Throughout 1998, the High Performance Debugging Forum worked on defining a base level standard for high performance debuggers. The standard had to meet the sometimes conflicting constraints of being useful to users, realistically implementable by developers, and architecturally independent across multiple platforms. To meet criteria for timeliness, the standard had to be defined in one year and...

Standards of Learning: Science – High School

Taking a High-tech Approach to Standards

Force—the primary organization for Internet standards—is experiencing phenomenal growth, which implies a vote of confidence in its approach to standards-making. IETF (www.ietf.org) is similar to the IEEE in that both organizations focus on participation by individual engineers rather than by organizations. Moreover, both organizations strive to ensure that their standards are developed in an op...

Do High Grading Standards Affect Student Performance?

20 This paper explores the effects of high grading standards on student test performance in 21 elementary school. While high standards have been advocated by policy-makers, business 22 groups, and teacher unions, very little is known about their effects on outcomes. Most of the 23 existing research on standards is theoretical, generally finding that standards have mixed 24 effects on students. ...