The effect of this act was to standardise existing British units of measure rather than to align them with the metric system.
The biggest impact RDF and OWL can have in bioinformatics, though, is to help integrate all data formats and standardise existing ontologies.
Originally, UML was conceived as a way of standardising existing tools used to design computer programs.
Data extraction will be standardised, using existing tools to identify risks for bias in intervention, measurement, qualitative studies and reviews; and adapting criteria for appraising risk for bias in descriptive studies.
Approximately 75% of the 41 hazardous substances for which Europe-wide EQSs have been proposed can be reliably monitored in water with acceptable uncertainty when applying existing standardised methods.
Future work is required to determine whether other existing standardised interfaces such as REST-based APIs, Java Data Objects (JDO) are better suited, and more in-depth research is required toward dedicated, NoSQL-specific abstraction interfaces that can further reduce the cost inherent to database abstraction.
Combining standardised survey modules with existing surveillance infrastructures, especially systems collecting vital registration details, offers a unique opportunity to reduce research costs and efficiently collect needed data in low- and middle-income countries.
As an aid to nurses, the PACT includes a clinical handover checklist, adapted from an existing tool for standardising communication.
Therefore this information was standardised, emphasising that none of the existing treatments is superior.
The successful development of a generic XML-based data set, i.e. a software-independent data set structure that readily integrates with any existing tumour documentation system, enabled standardised, uniform collection and analysis of QA data on BC care.
