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Standardization: A Business Approach to the Role of National Standardization Organizations

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Standardization: A Business Approach to the Role of National Standardization Organizations

By: Henk J. de Vries

This study fills a gap in standardization literature. It is the first academic analysis of national standardization organizations. These organizations exist in every country and may be private or governmental organizations. The first national standardization th organizations were founded in the early decades of the 20 century and were aimed at rationalizing industrial production. Their mode of operation reflects the sense of co operation at the national level and - in the telecommunications and electrotechnical field - at the intemationallevel as well. Now, however, the scene has changed, with companies operating internationally. Standards for products, processes, and services are crucial factors in determining success or failure on a fiercely competitive market, especially when functional compatibility is a prerequisite, as is the case in computer and telecommunications technologies. As a consequence, rather homogeneous needs of participants in standardization have given way to conflicting interests. This prompts a discussion about the traditional role of national standardization organizations. They increasingly depend on their exclusive links to the international standardization organizations ISO and IEC, and, in the case of Europe, the regional organizations CEN and CENELEC. In many cases, formal standardization organizations are not the obvious bodies for developing standards to meet business needs. Is this inevitable or could they improve performance and regain their market share? Henk de Vries answers this question against the background of current developments in standardization at the international, European, and national levels.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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147573042X

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9781475730425

Restaurant Chains in China

The Dilemma of Standardisation versus Authenticity

By: Guojun Zeng,Henk J. de Vries,Frank M. Go

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Restaurant Chains in China

The Dilemma of Standardisation versus Authenticity

By: Guojun Zeng,Henk J. de Vries,Frank M. Go

This book explores the paradox of the hospitality industry: customers demand not only personal and innovative tourism products and services, but also cost-effective ones. Enterprises have the option to meet the former demand by offering authentic products and services while the latter could be achieved through standardization. Although it seems ideal to combine both concepts, they seemingly contradict each other leading to suppliers facing an authenticity-standardization paradox. The authors identify, analyze, and provide solutions for this authenticity-standardization paradox based on a series of case studies of restaurants in China. This book will be of interest to scholars, business owners, and consultants.

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137

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Springer

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9811309868

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9789811309861

Reference Information Model for Clinical Laboratories

RILA as Laboratory Management Toolbox

By: Henk M. J. Goldschmidt

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Reference Information Model for Clinical Laboratories

RILA as Laboratory Management Toolbox

By: Henk M. J. Goldschmidt

It is old news that we are in a new information age! And it should come as no surprise that we need new information to help us change our old ways. As clinical laboratory scientists, physicians, and technologists, we need new ideas, processes, tools, and technology to transform our healthcare laboratories from production testing operations into information management organisations. Our future is providing diagnostic and treatment information, regardless where testing is performed and who performs the measurements. To facilitate the transformation to an information management organisation, this publication describes a reference information model for healthcare laboratories. This model allows us to gain new insights into our operations and organisations and helps us to better define and understand our critical information processes. Along with the model, they also provide the computer tools to support that transformation and facilitate the new information management organisation. By coupling theory with technology, they show us the nature of the new organization and start us on the path to the future.

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IOS Press

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9051994141

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9789051994148

Power and Gender in European Rural Development

By: Henk de Haan

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Power and Gender in European Rural Development

By: Henk de Haan

Since the early 1990s, new public and private actors, emphasizing issues such as landscape, nature, environment and food safety, have challenged EU rural development policies. This book looks at this innovative framework and, in particular, the impacts of the interactions between established interests and newcomers in local power relations. Specific attention has been given to the gendered nature of these processes. Case studies from throughout Western Europe analyze local rural power relations and present overviews of the significance of rural gender relations. The book demonstrates that traditional and new forms of social organization in rural areas create new forms of political participation. Changing forms of social capital and political participation not only influence the relation between state and civil society, but also male-female relationships. The book argues that the dynamics of these gendered power relations produce competing discourses, which can often hinder policy making and implementation.

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Routledge

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1351151460

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Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion, Volume 2: Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual

By: Henk Versnel

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Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion, Volume 2: Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual

By: Henk Versnel

This is the second of a two-volume collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. While the first volume focused on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism, the present one discusses the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal. After an introduction to the history of the myth and ritual debate (with a focus on New Year festivals and initiation) in the first chapter, the second and third chapters discuss myth and ritual of reversal—Kronos and the Kronia, and Saturnus and the Saturnalia respectively; the fourth treats two women's festivals—that of Bona Dea and the Thesmophoria; the fifth investigates the initiatory aspects of Apollo and Mars. In the background is the basic conviction that the three approaches to religion known as 'substantivistic', functionalist and cultural-symbolic respectively, need not be mutually exclusive.

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BRILL

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9004296735

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9789004296732

Volatile Compounds in Foods and Beverages

By: Henk Maarse

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Volatile Compounds in Foods and Beverages

By: Henk Maarse

Collects the information available in the literature on volatile compounds in foods and beverages. This information is given in 17 chapters, each dealing with a specific product or product group. Only compounds that are major constituents and/or contribute significantly to the flavor of the relevant

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1351405357

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9781351405355

Standards-Battles in Open Source Software

The Case of Firefox

By: I. Oshri,Henk de Vries

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Standards-Battles in Open Source Software

The Case of Firefox

By: I. Oshri,Henk de Vries

Standards wars of open source software products are far from being adequately understood. Through the examination of the Mozilla Firefox case, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the drivers, mechanisms and strategies involved in winning a standards-battle in open source software.

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Springer

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023059509X

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9780230595095

Colonial Empires Compared

Britain and the Netherlands, 1750–1850

By: Bob Moore,Henk van Nierop

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Colonial Empires Compared

Britain and the Netherlands, 1750–1850

By: Bob Moore,Henk van Nierop

During the seventeenth century, the Dutch and English emerged as the world's leading trading nations, building their prosperity largely upon their maritime successes. During this period both nations strongly contested for maritime supremacy and colonial dominance, yet by the nineteenth century, it was Britain who had undoubtedly come out on top of this struggle, with a navy that dominated the seas and an empire of unparalleled size. This volume examines the colonial development of these two nations at a crucial period in which the foundations for the modern nineteenth and twentieth century imperial state were laid. The volume consists of ten essays (five by British and five by Dutch scholars) based on papers originally delivered to the Fourteenth Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference, 2000. The essays are arranged into five themes which take a strongly comparative approach to explore the development of the British and Dutch colonial empires in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These themes examine the nature of Anglo-Dutch relations, the culture of imperialism and perceptions of the overseas world, the role of sea power in imperial expansion, the economics of colonial expansion and the extension of the metropolitan state to the colonies. Taken together, these essays form an important collection which will greatly add to the understanding of the British and Dutch colonial empires, and their relative successes and failures.

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1351950509

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9781351950503

Taming Technology

The Narrative Anchor Reconciling Time, Territory and Technology in Geoinformation Infrastructures

By: H. Koerten,Henk Koerten,IOS Press

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Taming Technology

The Narrative Anchor Reconciling Time, Territory and Technology in Geoinformation Infrastructures

By: H. Koerten,Henk Koerten,IOS Press

It is often assumed that innovative technology is an essential resource for the establishment of an information infrastructure. This study on geoinformation infrastructures convincingly demonstrates that technology is an important and far more complex factor than much geoinformation practitioners want us to believe. Three Dutch cases were studied, of which two were intended to develop an infrastructure deliberately applying innovative technology. Due to a constant stream of innovations these cases failed to bring about a working infrastructure. The third case was aimed at establishing a system of large-scale basemaps. These maps acted as a ‘narrative anchor’, a non-tangible interface between innovating technology and the infrastructure to be developed. Through the narrative anchor, this infrastructure has already existed for over 35 years and is likely to continue. Its success can be attributed to the ability of the narrative anchor to reconcile different types of technology through time, both innovative and conservative. The conclusion of this book is that lasting and reliable future (geo)information infrastructures need to have a narrative anchor that will act as an interface between ever-innovating technology and infrastructure itself.

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IOS Press

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1607506998

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9781607506997

Topological and Ergodic Theory of Symbolic Dynamics

By: Henk Bruin

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Topological and Ergodic Theory of Symbolic Dynamics

By: Henk Bruin

Symbolic dynamics is essential in the study of dynamical systems of various types and is connected to many other fields such as stochastic processes, ergodic theory, representation of numbers, information and coding, etc. This graduate text introduces symbolic dynamics from a perspective of topological dynamical systems and presents a vast variety of important examples. After introducing symbolic and topological dynamics, the core of the book consists of discussions of various subshifts of positive entropy, of zero entropy, other non-shift minimal action on the Cantor set, and a study of the ergodic properties of these systems. The author presents recent developments such as spacing shifts, square-free shifts, density shifts, $mathcal{B}$-free shifts, Bratteli-Vershik systems, enumeration scales, amorphic complexity, and a modern and complete treatment of kneading theory. Later, he provides an overview of automata and linguistic complexity (Chomsky's hierarchy). The necessary background for the book varies, but for most of it a solid knowledge of real analysis and linear algebra and first courses in probability and measure theory, metric spaces, number theory, topology, and set theory suffice. Most of the exercises have solutions in the back of the book.

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American Mathematical Society

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1470469847

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9781470469849

Detection-Oriented Derivatization Techniques in Liquid Chromatography

By: Henk Lingeman,Willy J. M. Underberg

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Detection-Oriented Derivatization Techniques in Liquid Chromatography

By: Henk Lingeman,Willy J. M. Underberg

This book covers the principles, kinetics, and applications of derivatization reactions in liquid chromatography. It emphasizes detection-oriented derivatization procedures that can be used to enhance to detectability of a wide variety of solutes using absorbance and fluorescence detection.

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CRC Press

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1000444627

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9781000444629

A Real Van Gogh

How the Art World Struggles with Truth

By: Henk Tromp

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A Real Van Gogh

How the Art World Struggles with Truth

By: Henk Tromp

Sociologische studie naar de oorzaken en gevolgen van het afwijzen van een kunstwerk als echt, toegespitst op de discussies rond het werk van Van Gogh.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9089641769

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9789089641762

Restaurant Chains in China

The Dilemma of Standardisation versus Authenticity

By: Guojun Zeng,Henk J. de Vries,Frank M. Go

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Restaurant Chains in China

The Dilemma of Standardisation versus Authenticity

By: Guojun Zeng,Henk J. de Vries,Frank M. Go

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Book's by Henk J. de Vries

Standardization: A Business Approach to the Role of National Standardization Organizations

Standardization: A Business Approach to the Role of National Standardization Organizations

Restaurant Chains in China

Restaurant Chains in China

Reference Information Model for Clinical Laboratories

Reference Information Model for Clinical Laboratories

Power and Gender in European Rural Development

Power and Gender in European Rural Development

Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion, Volume 2: Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual

Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion, Volume 2: Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual

Volatile Compounds in Foods and Beverages

Volatile Compounds in Foods and Beverages

Standards-Battles in Open Source Software

Standards-Battles in Open Source Software

Colonial Empires Compared

Colonial Empires Compared

Taming Technology

Taming Technology

Topological and Ergodic Theory of Symbolic Dynamics

Topological and Ergodic Theory of Symbolic Dynamics

Detection-Oriented Derivatization Techniques in Liquid Chromatography

Detection-Oriented Derivatization Techniques in Liquid Chromatography

A Real Van Gogh

A Real Van Gogh

Restaurant Chains in China

Restaurant Chains in China

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