It has never succeeded because it created its own standard and stayed with it too long.
The slope estimate of change in weight (or BMI) z score over time was standardized by dividing it by its own standard deviation in order to adjust for the variability in the number of observations used to estimate the slope for each subject.
The problem is that contemporary Americans and Europeans won't let you get away with that characterization of truth; so, by its own standard, it cannot be true.
When the cellular industry was vying to set standards for high-speed, cellular Internet connections, China elected to back its own standard so it would not rely on a foreign technology.
By including a Blu-ray optical drive in the PlayStation 3, it hopes to promote its own standard for the next generation of DVDs, and the console as a device for playing them.
The app ships with its own standard transparent GIFs, but it supports transparent PNGs if you want to add your own.
It responded to complaints about the wireless encryption standard by giving companies until June to comply, and it has offered no indication that it plans to back off enforcing its own standard.
It responded to complaints about the wireless encryption standard by giving companies until June to comply, and has offered no indication that it plans to back off on enforcing its own standard.
Now they are concerned because EPA has made clear it plans not to forge ahead with its own standard, but to work through the sluggish ICAO process.
And it is partly because each Japanese network has its own standard, so customers must buy new handsets when they switch.Softbank has managed to reverse Vodafone's steady loss of subscribers but at a cost.
With the struggle of its constituency (hey, even Apple had a sub par quarter by its own standard), LinkedIn is finally getting some credit for what it's been able to accomplish.
