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Setting bore gage

opticalstuff wrote 19 hours ago: A dial bore gage must be “set” to a reference master that has a known dimension. The master may be a … more →

Tags: technology, gage, gauge

A Summary End-of-Year Philosophical Overview

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 4 days ago: So the end of the year and the start of a new one makes a good time to reflect a bit on just what th … more →

Tags: measurement, Meaning, History, Rasch, Infrastructure, Philosophy, Standards, social capital, Environment

Protocols for Living Capital

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 6 days ago: David Brooks’ December 22, 2009 column, “The Protocol Society,” hits some really great notes. … more →

Tags: Capital, measurement, Actor Network Theory (ANT), probabilistic models, invariance, Business, Infrastructure, Metrics, social capital

Just posted on the LinkedIn Human Performance Discussion on the art and science of measurement

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 1 week ago: Great question and discussion! Business performance measurement and management ought to be a blend o … more →

Tags: Capital, Social capital, human capital, natural capital, measurement, Reference Standards, Harmony, Tuning instruments, Meaning

Information and Leadership: New Opportunities for Advancing Strategy, Engaging Customers, and Motivating Employees

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 2 weeks ago: Or, What’s a Mathematical Model a Model Of, After All? Or, How to Build Scale Models of Organi … more →

Tags: Social capital, measurement, Actor Network Theory (ANT), Econometrics, Data, leadership, Metrics, social capital, performance metrics

From the sources I: yer actual simony9 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 4 weeks ago: All right, when a blogger lacks for content, especially a historical blogger, the best thing to do i … more →

Tags: Catalonia, Currently teaching..., Feudalism, Bernat of Conflent, Charters, Ermengol I, Saint Ermengol, Sal·la of Urgell, Simony

Al Gore: Marshalling the Collective Will is NOT the Problem--The Problem is the Problem!

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 1 month ago: In his new book, former vice-president Al Gore says we have in hand all the tools we need to solve t … more →

Tags: Actor Network Theory (ANT), Business, Capital, Econometrics, Economics, Economy, Environmental management, human capital, Infrastructure

Draft Legislation on Development and Adoption of an Intangible Assets Metric System

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 1 month ago: In my opinion, more could be done to effect meaningful and effective health care reform with legisla … more →

Tags: Infrastructure, Law, legal metrology, legislation, performance metrics, Psychometrics, Quality Assessment & Improvement, Rasch, Reference Standards

Thurstone's Missed Metrological Opportunity

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 1 month ago: Leon L. Thurstone (1959, p. 214), an early psychometrician, founder of the University of Chicago Psy … more →

Tags: measurement, invariance, traceability, Reference Standards, Psychometrics, History, Rasch, instruments, Metrics

Metris Rebrands to Nikon Metrology

Metrology Solutions Provider wrote 1 month ago: Leuven, November 10 – The corporate name of Metris is changed into Nikon Metrology NV. Under the Nik … more →

Tags: Press Release, Nikon, Corporate, Metris NV, rebrands, Nikon Metrology

Best Free Video You'll See This Year

speakingofprecision wrote 2 months ago: Nova produces wonderful scientific specials.  They are sumptuously filmed,  compellingly written, an … more →

Tags: Engineering, break room, alchemy, Chemistry, guillotines, Dangerous experiments, Explosions, Ox Sledges, gas laws

Clarifying the Goal: Submitting Rasch-based White Papers to NIST8 comments

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 2 months ago: NIST does not currently have any metrological standards (metrics to which all instruments measuring … more →

Tags: measurement, Rasch, Reference Standards, traceability, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Efficiency, Metric System, Metrics

VERUS PRECISION LIMITED – YOUR TOTAL PROJECT SOLUTION

desforde wrote 2 months ago: Verus Precision Limited, having traded for only 14 months, has already achieved the prestigious UKAS … more →

Tags: Verus Precision Metrology, technology, plastics, product design, Moldflow Analysis, project management, Measurements, Steels, Medical Devices

How Measurement, Contractual Trust, and Care Combine to Grow Social Capital: Creating Social Bonds We Can Really Trade On2 comments

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 2 months ago: Last Saturday, I went to Miami, Florida, at the invitation of Paula Lalinde (see her profile at http … more →

Tags: Capital, Social capital, human capital, measurement, traceability, Reference Standards, Education, Innovation, Health Care

Posted in response to October 5, 2009 Business Week Viewpoint: "Problems with Obama's Innovation Strategy"

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 2 months ago: Everything you (Jeneanne Rae, the author of the Viewpoint) say is quite true, but in the end you don … more →

Tags: Capital, measurement, Reference Standards, Economy, Economics, Standards, Science, Innovation, Metric System

What Does A Molecule Look Like?

speakingofprecision wrote 2 months ago: As machinists, we are used to handling materials in the bulk world. As machinists, our ease in obtai … more →

Tags: Engineering, break room, molecules, pentacene, IBM Zurich, nanoscale, Phases, Microstructures, Metallurgy

On the alleged difficulty of quantifying this or that

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 2 months ago: That this effect or that phenomenon is “difficult to quantify” is one of those phrases t … more →

Tags: measurement, Ordinal vs Interval, Natural Science, Rasch, Metrics, performance metrics, amounts

Comments on the National Accounts of Well-Being

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 2 months ago: Well-designed measures of human, social, and natural capital captured in genuine progress indicators … more →

Tags: Capital, Social capital, human capital, natural capital, measurement, invariance, traceability, Reference Standards, Meaning

Just posted on www.economist.com in response to Sept 26 Schumpeter article4 comments

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 months ago: Let’s cut through the Gordian Knot to the real issue. That we manage what we measure is as clo … more →

Tags: Capital, Social capital, human capital, natural capital, measurement, traceability, Reference Standards, Musical Scales, Harmony


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