Update on Data Standards at Organic Letters

Organic livestock production standards at a glance

● lower stocking densities and production levels than in conventional systems (stocking densities on dairy farms on average 80% lower; on beef and sheep farms 40-80% lower). Organic certification Definitions of ‘organic’ farming vary internationally. Many countries operate national or ‘private’ standards, which do not have statutory status. The International Federation of Organic Farming Moveme...

Update from Wireless Standards

The next percentile point of process optimization yields hundreds of billions of savings, and will be gained by leveraging the collection of currently unused measurements by widely distributed sensing devices and analytic capabilities. Gathering and processing this unused data will require the combination of the best of IT and OT technologies together, forming the IT/OT convergence, aka the Ind...

ADHD documentation for students requesting accommodations at the postsecondary level: Update on standards and diagnostic concerns.

OBJECTIVE To update primary health care providers on the guidelines and standards for documentation of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at the postsecondary level. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE We synthesized information from consultations with other experts at postsecondary disability offices and from relevant research in this area (specifically, PsycLIT, PsychINFO, and MEDLINE database...

Enacting standards in organic agriculture

Letters to the IEEE Computer Arithmetic Standards Revision Group

The IEEE standards 754 and 854 for floating-point arithmetic have been under revision for some time. The work is pushed forward by the Floating-Point Working Group (ca. 100 scientists) of the Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society. The group meets monthly near Palo Alto/San Jose in California. At present Dec. 2006 is the deadline for the new standard. The author has tried to influence...