Some articles on standards:
... Emission standards are requirements that set specific limits to the amount of pollutants that can be released into the environment ... Many emissions standards focus on regulating pollutants released by automobiles (motor cars) and other powered vehicles but they can also regulate ... Frequent policy alternatives to emissions standards are technology standards ...
... an influential 1961 report on housing space standards in public housing in the United Kingdom entitled Homes for Today and Tomorrow ... that the quality of social housing needed to be improved to match the rise in living standards and made a number of recommendations ... Out of the report came the Parker Morris Standards, set out in the Ministry of Housing's "Design Bulletin 6 – Space in the Home" ...
... Its primary aim is to avoid duplication of (potentially conflicting) standards between CEN and ISO ... decade CEN has adopted a number of ISO standards which replaced the corresponding CEN standards ...
... In the United States, emissions standards are managed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ... state of California has special dispensation to promulgate more stringent vehicle emissions standards, and other states may choose to follow either the national or California standards ... California's emissions standards are set by the California Air Resources Board, known locally by its acronym "CARB" ...
... The major functions of QEC are to review quality standards and the quality of teaching and learning in each subject area ... promote public confidence that the quality and standards of the award of degrees are enhanced and safeguarded ... define lucid and explicit standards as points of reference to the reviews to be carried out ...
Famous quotes containing the word standards:
“Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)