Introduction This paper is all about a paradox. How indeed can we associate the notion of standardisation, which is all about fixing rules for a given field of knowledge, with scholarly work, which, on the contrary, is basically about departing from existing knowledge and the discovery of new concepts? It may be even more paradoxical to address the issue of standardisation in the humanities, wh...

The legitimacy of formal international standards foremost rests on the inclusiveness of the standards process. Therefore, the overall absence and lack of influence of ‘political minority’ stakeholders such as smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and consumers pose a problem. In this paper, we use political theory to analyse issues of minority representation in standardisation. We focus on t...

We have developed a quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method, using both internal and external standardisation, to quantitate fg amounts of pre-pro-thyrotropin releasing hormone (pre-pro-TRH) mRNA in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of individual laboratory rats. A constant amount of internal standard is coamplified with both the cDNA of each unknown specime...