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To enable them to be identified and located, technical reports are assigned report codes by agencies or organizations involved in their production or distribution. These codes may be referred to as "accession numbers," "agency report series numbers," "contract numbers," "grant numbers" or by other names, and include dates and individual report numbers. Typically, reports are assigned multiple codes and these codes help to identify the sponsoring agency, the organization performing the research or the organization disseminating the report. Most technical reports held by the Library of Congress are not cataloged, and, for these reports, one or more report codes is required for Library staff to check the collections for a report or to locate and retrieve it. For more information about the current Standard Technical Report Number format (STRN) see ANSI/NISO Z39.23- 1997 (S2015) Standard Technical Reports Number Format and Creation .
Standards are specifications which define products, methods, processes or practices, and are known to have existed as early as 7000 B.C., when cylindrical stones were used as units of weight in Egypt. According to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-119 , as revised in 2016, the term "standard" or "technical standard" refers to:
- common and repeated use of rules, conditions, guidelines or characteristics for products or related processes and production methods, and related management systems practices;
- the definition of terms; classification of components; delineation of procedures; specification of dimensions, materials, performance, designs, or operations; measurement of quality and quantity in describing materials, processes, products, systems, services, or practices; test methods and sampling procedures; or descriptions of fit and measurements of size or strength; and
- terminology, symbols, packaging, marking or labeling requirements as they apply to a product, process, or production method.
Technical standards are not "professional standards of personal conduct; or institutional codes of ethics." (p. 15).
Standards are typically generated by governments or by professional associations and organizations interested in or affected by the subject matter of particular standards. For example, U.S. government standards mandated by the Fair Packaging & Labeling Act (FPLA) have standardized the labeling required for packaging in which consumer commodities is sold. Standards set the basis for determining consistent and acceptable minimum levels of reliability and safety, and are adhered to either voluntarily or as mandated by law. For a more complete overview, see the NIST report " The ABC's of Standards Activities " by Maureen A. Breitenberg (2009).
The Library of Congress standards collection includes military and other federal standards, industry standards, and a few older international standards from Russia, China, and South Africa. Material from the collection is available in various formats, including digital, print, and microform materials. The majority of the Library's standards collection held in the Science Section's Technical Reports and Standards Collection. The collection remains largely uncatalogued, and as a result, most items from this collection are not discoverable in the Library's online catalog. Inquires on Library holdings can be sent to the Science Section using the Science and Technical Reports Ask-a-Librarian form . Some standards, however, are housed in the Library's general collections and discoverable by searching the online catalog -- the ASTM standards are one example. Other standards are in custody of appropriate specialized research centers, such as the Law Library , which maintains OSHA standards and some building codes.
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The sustainable materials roadmap, Magda Titirici, Sterling G Baird, Taylor D Sparks, Shirley Min Yang, Agnieszka Brandt-Talbot, Omid Hosseinaei, David P Harper, Richard M Parker, Silvia Vignolini, Lars A Berglund, Yuanyuan Li, Huai-Ling Gao, Li-Bo Mao, Shu-Hong Yu, Noel Díez, Guillermo A Ferrero, Marta Sevilla, Petra Ágota Szilágyi, Connor J Stubbs, Joshua C Worch, Yunping Huang, Christine ...
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Introduction. Materials science was first recognized as a discipline in the late 1950s at Northwestern University, USA [1] and has since grown multifariously.The number of research papers and reviews relating to materials science published annually has increased spectacularly since 1980 to be over a million now [2].The present essay presents a perspective on the trends discernible during this ...
in clean energy, national security, and human welfare. Accelerating the pace of discovery and deployment of advanced material systems will therefore be crucial t. achieving global competitiveness in the 21st century. The Materials Genome Initiative will create a new era of materials innovation that will serve as a foundation.
The aim of this statement is to give a contribution towards the future, where for all, materials are the driven force for the transformations we aim to reach and for which a global common house is imperative to be established, as the International Union of Materials Research Societies, IUMRS aims to be the central vehicle for such, aiming to boost innovation to its maxima, without compromising ...
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About this Document. The Materials Genome Initiative was launched in 2011 to accelerate the discovery, design, development, and deployment of new materials, at a fraction of the cost, by harnessing the power of data and computational tools in concert with experiment. The 2021 Materials Genome Initiative Strategic Plan updates and replaces the ...
France. Germany. India. Italy. Japan. Netherlands. Tsinghua University, located in northwest Beijing, China, is a public institution that traces its roots back to 1911... Stanford University was ...
The 2021 Materials Genome Initiative Strategic Plan. Achieving these goals is essential to our country's competitiveness in the 21 st century and will help to ensure that the United States maintains global leadership of emerging materials technologies in critical sectors including health, defense, and energy. Learn more from this summary of ...
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The volume of China's materials-science research has grown correspondingly. ... a global leader in science and technology by 2049, the centenary of the founding of the People's Republic, is a ...
Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Materials Science and Technology. This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical ...
Convert documents to beautiful publications and share them worldwide. Title: Global Research Report | Materials Science and Technology Jun 2011, Author: mialiravina, Length: 16 pages, Published: 2012-04-08 ... Jonathan adams david Pendlebury evidenCe global researCh rePort MAtEriAlS SciEncE And tEcHnOlOgy June 2011 Less. Read the publication ...
When manufacturing moves offshore, will research and development (R&D) follow? Evidence suggests that, although some middle-stage innovation may move, to date, the leading edge of innovation in most industries has remained in the United States (6, 7).Further, economic theory suggests that shifts in manufacturing may hurt wages in nations that lose manufacturing, but global innovation and ...
Assembling such a global stocktake of effective climate policy interventions is so far hampered by two main obstacles: First, even though there is a plethora of data on legislative frameworks and pledged national emission reductions (8-10), systematic and cross-nationally comparable data about the specific types and mixes of implemented policy instruments are lacking.
Research capacity. Research activity in South and East Asia has grown rapidly since 2000. From an annual regional total of about 12,000 papers (articles and reviews), output has risen ten-fold and now accounts for more than 8% of global publications every year.
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Materials research in India has grown steadily over the past decade, with the total number of publications in materials science and technology increasing by nearly 300% between 2012 and 2022.
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to determine the feasibility of a technology and recommend if research should be continued (and how to evaluate any further progress made) to detail technical specifications (materials, functions, features, operation, market potential, etc.) Technical reports first appeared in the early part of the 20th century.
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We explore human and environmental factors driving the spatial variation in use of SMDWS and generate a global map of subnational estimates of SMDWS use across 135 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).Use of SMDWS and subcomponent estimates in our training set were calculated at subnational district levels using Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) data (16, 17) from 64,723 household ...