Association fran aise de Normalisation AFNOR is the France French national organization for standardization and its International Organization for Standardization member body. The AFNOR Group develops its international standardization activities, information provision, certification and training through a network of key partners in France who are members of the association. They are ACTIA Association of Technical Cooperation for the food industry ADEME French Agency for Environment and Energy Management ADEPT Association for the development of international trade in food products and techniques COFRAC French Accreditation Committee CSTB Scientific and Technical Center Building CTI Center Network industrial technology INERIS National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks LCIE Laboratoire Central des Industries lectriques LNE Laboratoire National Metrology and Testing UTAC Union Technique de l automobile, cycle and motorcycle UTE Union Technique de l lectricit See also International Organization for Standardization Countries in International Organization for Standardization ISO country code External links http www.afnor.fr Official homepage of AFNOR French English Category ISO member bodies Category Organizations based in France France org stub measurement stub de Association fran aise de normalisation fr Association fran aise de normalisation pl AFNOR ... more details
Notability date November 2008 ISO 15292 , Information technology Security techniques Protection Profile registration procedures establishes an international registry operated by AFNOR for Protection Profile s and packages used in computer security evaluation under the Common Criteria framework. The format of these profiles and packages is as specified in ISO 15408 . ISO 15292 assigns registered Protection Profiles and packages labels of the form Entry Type registration Year registration Number , for example PP 2003 0001. External links http www.iso.org iso iso catalogue catalogue tc catalogue detail.htm?csnumber 27170 Link to ISO store page with the document , retrieved on August 9, 2008. ISO standards Category Computer security standards Category ISO standards 15292 Standard stub yo ISO 15292 ... more details
ECU may refer to Automotive terms Electronic control unit , a generic term for any embedded system that controls one or more of the electrical systems or subsystems in a motor vehicle Engine control unit , one type of electronic control unit that manages an engine s operation Currencies European Currency Unit , a former basket of the currencies of the European Community, precursor to the euro French cu , the name of several French coins Universities East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, USA East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, USA Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, Australia Other Ecuador , which is abbreviated to contain the first three letters ECU Extensor carpi ulnaris , a muscle of the forearm Extreme close up , a cinematographic term cu , a paper size prevalent in France , defined in the AFNOR standard CU , the European Independent Film Festival in Paris, France disambig de ECU es ECU fr ECU it ECU he ECU lt ECU nl ECU ja ECU pl Ecu ru ECU sk ECU sv ECU ... more details
. In 2009, EVER TEAM becomes a member of AFNOR standardization committee and releases EverSuite Compliance ... nf z42 013.html AFNOR NF Z42 013 ref name AFNOR cite news url http www2.afnor.org espace normalisation structure.aspx?commid 5574&lang french publisher AFNOR title Applications pour l archivage et la gestion du cycle de vie du document AFNOR CN 171 ref In February 2010, EVER TEAM announces the release ... more details
Virkon is a multi purpose disinfectant . It contains oxone potassium peroxymonosulphate , sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate, sulphamic acid and inorganic Buffer solution buffer s. It is typically used for cleaning up hazardous spills, disinfecting surfaces and soaking equipment. The solution is used in many areas, including hospital s, laboratory laboratories , nursing home s, funeral home s, medical , dentistry dental and veterinary facilities, and anywhere else where control of pathogen s is required. ref name VirkonEPA Antec International 2003 . Virkon Broad Spectrum Disinfectant EPA Label . wayback url http web.archive.org web 20070928201615 http www.homelandsecurity equipment.com EPAVirkonLabelRevised08 12 03.pdf ref Virkon has a wide spectrum of activity against viruses , some fungi , and bacteria . ref Cite journal doi 10.1007 BF01719487 volume 11 issue 2 pages 193 197 last Gasparini first R. coauthors T. Pozzi, R. Magnelli, D. Fatighenti, E. Giotti, G. Poliseno, M. Pratelli, R. Severini, P. Bonanni, L. De Feo title Evaluation of in vitro efficacy of the disinfectant Virkon journal European Journal of Epidemiology accessdate 2009 08 21 date 1995 04 01 pmid 7672075 ref However, it is less effective against spore s and fungi than some alternative disinfectants. ref Cite journal doi 10.1053 jhin.2000.0818 issn 0195 6701 volume 46 issue 3 pages 203 209 last Hernndez first A. coauthors E. Martr , L. Matas, M. Mart n, V. Ausina title Assessment of in vitro efficacy of 1 Virkon against bacteria, fungi, viruses and spores by means of AFNOR guidelines journal Journal of Hospital Infection accessdate 2009 08 21 date 2000 11 url http www.sciencedirect.com science article B6WJP 45F4XFV X 2 98158031342be01b9047962a183ce5e8 pmid 11073729 ref Preparation and use It is sold as tablets or powder which dissolve readily in water. It is intended to be mixed with water to form a 1 to 3 solution by weight, i.e. 10g to 30g per litre . The pink colour is useful in that in helps gauge t ... more details
A time server is a server computing server computer that reads the actual time from a reference clock and distributes this information to its clients using a computer network . The time server may be a local network time server or an internet time server. The most important and widely used protocol for distributing and synchronising time is the Network Time Protocol NTP , though other less popular or outdated time protocols continue in use. The time reference used by a time server could be another time server on the network or the Internet, a connected radio clock or an atomic clock . The most common true time source is a Global Positioning System GPS or Radio clock GPS clocks GPS master clock . Time servers are sometimes multi purpose network server s, dedicated network servers, or dedicated devices. All a dedicated time server does is provide accurate time. An existing network server e.g. a file server can become a time server with additional software. The NTP homepage provides a free and widely used reference implementation of the NTP server and client for many popular operating system s. The other choice is a dedicated time server device. The term stratum is used to label the closeness to a central or high quality time server. The stratum indicates the place of a particular time server in a hierarchy of servers. The scale is 0 to 14 where 0 is the most accurate and likely a highly specialized physical hardware device. Some time clients will reject a time update from a server whose stratum is too high, and most will prefer low strata time sources to higher ones. This can be a pitfall for administrators setting up an in house time server with no true time source. See also Portal Time Network Time Protocol Inter range instrumentation group time codes IRIG AFNOR NFS 87 500 NENA 911 IEEE 1344 IEEE 1588 References http www.ntp.org ntpfaq NTP FAQ for detailed descriptions of reference clocks used by a computer timeserver. External links http www.ntp.org Official site o ... more details
1942 became an engineer at the AFNOR French Association for Standardisation AFNOR . By this time ... , a novel inspired partly by surprise parties of his youth, and partly by his job at the AFNOR ... at Le Tabou . As a result, his financial situation improved, and he abandoned the job at the AFNOR ... more details
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File Swiss Commemorative Coin 1987 CHF 5 obverse.png thumbnail Commemorative Swiss coin showing the modulor . The Modulor is an anthropometric scale ratio scale of Proportion architecture proportion s devised by the List of Swiss people Swiss born List of French people French architect Le Corbusier 1887 1965 . It was developed as a visual bridge between two incompatible scales, the Imperial units Imperial system and the Metric system . It is based on the height of an English man with his arm raised. It was used as a system to set out a number of Le Corbusier s buildings and was later codified into two books. History Le Corbusier developed the Modulor in the long tradition of Vitruvius , Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci s Vitruvian Man , the work of Leone Battista Alberti , and other attempts to discover mathematical proportions in the human body and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture . ref Ostwald, Michael 2001 p146 ref The system is based on anthropometry human measurements , the double unit, the Fibonacci numbers , and the golden ratio . Le Corbusier described it as a range of harmonious measurements to suit the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and to mechanical things. With the Modulor, Le Corbusier sought to introduce a scale of visual measures that would unite two virtually incompatible systems the Anglo Saxons Anglo Saxon Foot length foot and inch and the French Metric system. ref Le Corbusier 2004 p17 ref Whilst he was intrigued by ancient civilisations who used measuring systems linked to the human body elbow cubit , finger Digit length digit , thumb inch etc., he was troubled by the metre as a measure that was a forty millionth part of the meridian of the earth. ref Le Corbusier 2004 p20 ref In 1943, in response to the French National Organisation for Standardisation s AFNOR requirement for standardising all the objects involved in the construction process, Le Corbusier asked an appre ... more details
Image logo ASTM.PNG right thumb 200px ASTM International logo ASTM International ASTM , originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials , is an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical International standard standard s for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services. The organization s headquarters is in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania , about convert 5 mi km 0 northwest of Philadelphia . ASTM, founded in 1898, predates other standards organizations such as British Standards BSI 1901 , Deutsches Institut f r Normung DIN 1917 and AFNOR 1926 , but differs from these in that it is not a national standards body, that role being taken in the USA by ANSI . However, ASTM has a dominant role among standards developers in the USA, and claims to be the world s largest developer of standards. Using a Consensus decision making consensus process, ASTM supports thousands of volunteer technical committees, which draw their members from around the world and collectively develop and maintain more than 12,000 standards. ASTM International publishes the Annual Book of ASTM Standards each year in print, CD and online versions. The online version was available by subscription and cost was based upon usage. For 2008, the complete set of books or CDs cost almost US 9000 and included 81 volumes. For 2010, the complete set of books or CDs cost almost 9700 and included 82 volumes. History A group of scientist s and engineer s, led by Charles Benjamin Dudley formed the American Society for Testing and Materials in 1898 to address the frequent rail tracks rail fracture breaks plaguing the fast growing Rail transport railroad industry. The group developed a standard for the steel used to fabricate rails. In 2001, ASTM changed its name to ASTM International to reflect global participation in ASTM and worldwide use of its standards. In 2009, a joint effort by standards development organizations Association for ... more details
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