The phrase "act as standards" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that serves as a benchmark or guideline for comparison or evaluation.
Example: "The new regulations will act as standards for all future projects in the industry."
Alternatives: "serve as benchmarks" or "function as guidelines".
For those looking for glasses that act as standard sunglasses, the company will also market a line of photochromic 3-D glasses under the M3D name, at prices ranging from $99 to $125.
When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer.
Defect catalogues published by Verlag Stahleisen GmbH, Germany [4] act as defacto standards for this purpose.
Given that the C/C pair also serves to assist assignment of elemental composition by signifying the number of carbon atoms present in the analyte, the two samples act as internal standards for each other.
The issue of poorly characterised, or non-representative (recombinant proteins or peptide fragments), reference materials reconstituted in simple assay buffers to act as calibration standards and QCs in LBAs remains a perennial problem (Lee et al, 2006; Nowatzke and Wood, 2007; Findlay, 2009).
The mzIdentML standard (stable version 1.1 [26]) has been developed to act as a standard output format generated from peptide and protein identification tools, such as sequence database search engines, and a standard input to post-processing and quantitation software that are reliant on external tools for performing the identifications.
R3, in addition to gathering a consortium of banks that is developing blockchain standards and protocols, is working to create new software that can act as a standard communication layer that would allow different ledgers, such as Ethereum's public blockchain with Chain's private one, to interact with each other.
"Observations from its radiometer will act as the standard to unify all the other satellite measurements," writes NASA's Ellen Gray, the science writer for the mission.
To summarize, DAT SPECT imaging appears to be the most suitable candidate to act as reference standard in detecting nigrostriatal cell loss in patients with (early stage) parkinsonism.
