The organisation created a new prototype bar in 1889 at the first General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM: Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures ), establishing the International Prototype Metre as the distance between two lines on a standard bar composed of an alloy of ninety percent platinum and ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.

Trusted legal bookmakers are members of IBAS, an industry standard organisation to settle disputes.

This is further covered by Article 132: the standard organisation of provinces and municipalities and the composition and competence of their administrative organs is regulated by formal law ( Subarticle 1 ); how they are controlled is regulated by law ( Subarticle 2 ); their decisions shall only be subject to prior supervision in cases determined by law or by force of law ( Subarticle 3 ); their decisions shall only be quashed by Royal Decree and on grounds that they violate the law ( in the broadest sense: the recht ) or conflict with the public interest ( Subarticle 4 ).

ISO 14001 is known as a generic management system standard, meaning that it is applicable to any size and type of organisation, product or service, in any sector of activity and can accommodate diverse socio-cultural and geographic conditions ( Standards Australia / Standards New Zealand 2004 ).

Option 3 is an independent third-party process by an organisation that is not accredited by national standard bodies.

A quiz league is an organisation that runs quizzes, normally in pubs, though such competitions are distinct from the standard pub quiz as they will normally involve two teams and often include a number of individual questions.

In difference to most other business and trade standard committees the UN / CEFACT is an official standard organisation and not a vendor interest group.

On the standard organisation side, the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) ensures that its specifications can be implemented on a royalty-free basis.

The Australian Army allocated a PIAT ( which was also known as Projector Infantry Tank Attack in Australian service ) to each infantry platoon in its ' jungle divisions ', which differed from the standard British organisation, from late 1943.

There is a standard that covers European languages and other languages used in Europe, published by independent ETSI organisation: ETSI ES 202 130 ; first published in 2003 and updated in 2007.

His station designs for London Underground became the corporation's standard design influencing designs by all architects working for the organisation in the 1930s.

As an alternative to the standard Alpha course, the Alpha organisation runs a number of courses designed for specific demographics:

The 1st Polish Army was very similar in organisation to other standard general purpose armies making up the bulk of Red Army's order of battle.

Wroughton ASC Swimming Club is a competitive organisation which aims at training young swimmers, of all abilities, to attain a high standard of competitive achievement and at the same time enjoy themselves.

Together with Fundación Carlos Slim Helú, this organisation announced in the same year that it was to invest more than $ 250 million in Mexican sports programmes, from grass-roots level to Olympic standard.

To receive Royal Patronage, an organisation must prove to be long lasting, and to be of the highest standard in their field.

Lipid raft organisation, region ( 1 ) is standard lipid bilayer, while region ( 2 ) is a lipid raft.

The matrix Standard is the national quality standard for any organisation that delivers information, advice and / or guidance on learning and work.

It was the first crypto machine, developed under one centralized cryptologic organisation as a standard machine for all parts of the armed forces, and it was the first cipher machine to use electronics ( vacuum tubes ).

* As a noun, uniform refers to a standard set of clothing identifying the wearer as a member of an organisation

Rugby started to be played in many local schools and the arrival of a number of Physical Education teachers in the area who were rugby specialists helped both the playing standard and the club organisation.

Dual World Champion Nelson Piquet confirmed the drivers ' positive view on the circuit when he said early in race week " After Detroit and Dallas, we all expected another bad street circuit " while his Brabham team boss ( and the head of the Formula One Constructors Association ) Bernie Ecclestone told the assembled media that he believed that the standard the of the organisation and the circuit itself was bad news for Formula One, explaining that the Adelaide GP had raised the standards of what would be expected in the future and that several tracks in Europe already on the calender, or hoping to be, would have to lift their own games in order to match it.

The Marine Stewardship Council ( MSC ) is an independent non-profit organisation which sets a standard for sustainable fishing.

Those who apply the labels of " crime " or " criminal " intend to assert the hegemony of a dominant population, or to reflect a consensus of condemnation for the identified behavior and to justify any punishments prescribed by the State ( in the event that standard processing tries and convicts an accused person of a crime ).

The space-time coordinates of an event, as measured by each observer in their inertial reference frame ( in standard configuration ) are shown in the speech bubbles .< p > Top: frame F ' moves at velocity v along the x-axis of frame F .< p > Bottom: frame F moves at velocity − v along the x '- axis of frame F '.

On April 30, 1877, he deposited a sealed envelope containing a summary of his ideas with the French Academy of Sciences, a standard procedure used by scientists and inventors to establish priority of conception of unpublished ideas in the event of any later dispute.

The accepted minimum standard for attendance at an SCA event is " an attempt at pre-17th century clothing ", which leads to numerous discussions of the definition of " attempt ".

This and the risks posed by liquid sodium in the event of an accident at sea led Admiral Rickover to select the PWR ( pressurized water reactor ) as the standard US naval reactor type.

Three days before this event, which Microsoft advertised as " a standard in reliability ," a leaked memo from Microsoft reported on by Mary Jo Foley revealed that Windows 2000 had " over 63, 000 potential known defects.

For the 1913 French Grand Prix, an improved L5 ( with engine ) was produced with a pioneering ballbearing crankshaft, gear-driven camshafts, and dry sump lubrication, all of which soon became standard on racing cars ; unfortunately, Zuccarelli was killed during testing on public roads, but Boillot easily won the event, making him ( and Peugeot ) the race's first double winner.

A study by the Environment Agency identified that the current standard of flood protection in those parts of the town was insufficient, being of a 5 – 10 year event standard ; current guidelines require protection of a 50 – 200 year standard.

Some browsers support additional event attributes ( outside the standard ), such as:

: V2: An event which is not part of the standard operation of a service and which causes or may cause disruption to or a reduction in the quality of services and customer productivity.

The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle distance event.

The 800 m consists of two laps around a standard 400 m track, and has always been an Olympic event.

At exactly 8 laps on a standard 400 m track, this event is typically run only in American high schools along with the 1600 m. It is colloquially called the " two-mile ", as the distance is only about 19 metres shorter than two miles.

* The 10, 000 metres is the longest standard track event.

In the event, the most powerful engines on standard gauge in North America and Scandinavia far exceeded the power of any broad-gauge locomotive.

eBay expanded from its original " set-time " auction format to include " Buy It Now " standard shopping ; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU ( via Half. com ); online classified advertisements ( via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds ); online event ticket trading ( via StubHub ); online money transfers ( via PayPal ) and other services.

Most recently, fields using inflatable bunkers, tethered to the ground with stakes, have become standard for most tournament formats ; the soft, yielding bunkers reduce the occurrence of injuries, the bunkers deflate to store in a compact space and anchor to the ground with tent stakes, allowing for temporary fields to be set up and torn down with less impact on the ground underneath, and the arrangement of bunkers can be easily re-configured to maintain novelty of play or to simulate a predetermined field layout for an upcoming event.

In this event he presided the ceremony of " handing over " the new Nazi Sports Office standard ( Bannerüberführung ) to Hans von Tschammer und Osten, marking the further nazification of sports in Germany.

In 1892 the event was doubled in length from 36 to 72 holes, four rounds of what was by then the standard complement of 18 holes.

The event was held over various distances until the 1920 Summer Olympics marked the rise of the 3000 metres steeplechase as the standard event.

The number of figures in many standard religious scenes is greatly increased ; the Magi have large retinues, and the Crucifixion often becomes a crowded event.

* A festival race is typically a sprint event of several hundred metres, with 500 metres being a standard distance in many international festival races.