A new standard has been developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for evaluating contact lens disinfectants. This paper reviews the ISO 14729 standard and applies it to marketed products. The historical significance, justifications, scope, interpretations, application, and worthiness are discussed. The standard provides a more consistent procedure and a higher standa...

Electrophoretic techniques have been developed and refined over decades, and are now widely used in clinical laboratories. For example, electrophoresis is routinely used to separate many different components, including proteins, lipoproteins, and isoenzymes. More recently, the applications of molecular biology in diagnosis have increased the use of electrophoresis to separate DNA components in ...

The international community, including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), is currently seeking more granular systems of language identifiers than the widely used tags of ISO 639 parts 1 and 2. There is growing need for the more precise identification and annotation of language-based resources. This paper presents a key response to this need, in which the Linguasphere Regi...

An international data archive is critical for understanding the climate system dynamics of the cryosphere. Currently, no such system exists though data collection and integration efforts are ongoing. The Cryosphere Data Archive Partnership (CrDAP) is developing an open system for storing cryospheric observation data and metadata. First stage data handling in CrDAP focused on integrating point o...

*1 HSDPA: A high-speed downlink packet transmission system based on W-CDMA. Used by NTT DoCoMo in the “FOMA High-Speed” service. *2 VGA: A video display resolution of 640×480 dots. *3 MPEG-4 visual: The video encoding part of the MPEG-4 video format specification aimed at the delivery of high-quality video over low-speed circuits defined by International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ...

Azoxystrobin is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approved name for methyl (E)-2-{2-[6-(2-cyanophenoxy)pyrimidin-4-yloxy]phenyl}-3-methoxyacrylate, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), for which the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) No. is 131860-33-8. Azoxystrobin is a β-methacrylate compound that is structurally related to the naturally occurring st...