Simulated security assessments (a collective term used here for penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and related nomenclature) may need standardisation, but not in the commonly assumed manner of practical assessment methodologies. Instead, this study highlights market failures within the providing industry at the beginning and ending of engagements, which has left clients receiving am...

The need for an authority list of South African names to ensure standardisation of these names on a national level has been expressed on various occasions. This paper investigates the need to standardise South African names to eliminate one of the main obstacles to co-operation and to the delivery of quality products and services in South Africa. Problems experienced with the standardisation of...

Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are a widespread means for description and graphical visualisation of selected system runs within distributed systems, especially telecommunication systems. Various kinds of MSCs with similar expressive power are used frequently within industry and standardisation bodies. Therefore, the CCITT (Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique) attempt...

The standardisation of measurements is of high priority in laboratory medicine, its purpose being to achieve closer comparability of results obtained using routine measurement procedures. At present, there is international cooperation in developing reference measurement systems (reference methods, reference materials, and reference laboratory networks) for analytes of clinical significance. The...

The SoGAT working group for the safety testing of blood, tissues and organs for blood-borne pathogens has played an important role in the standardisation of nucleic acid amplification techniques (NAT) for blood safety. Regular meetings of this group have taken place since 1995, and have provided a valuable and unique forum for the development of WHO International Standards and other reference r...

Non-spectral matrix effects in ICP-MS are often corrected by the method of internal standardisation. In the case of discrete sampling a common algorithm refers to the ratio of either maxima or areas of both analyte and internal standard peaks. The current work describes a protocol for internal standardisation across the transient peak based on the calculation of analyte-to-internal standard rat...

BACKGROUND Standardisation of rates in health services research is generally undertaken using the direct and indirect arithmetic methods. These methods can produce unreliable estimates when the calculations are based on small numbers. Regression based methods are available but are rarely applied in practice. This study demonstrates the advantages of using logistic regression to obtain smoothed ...