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Standards, Volume 6, Issue 2

2026 June - 15 articles

Cover Story: This review critically examines ISO 16000-8, the international standard for determining local mean age of air in buildings. Synthesizing 76 studies from 2007 to 2026, it shows that while the standard's core concepts remain valid, its assumptions of homogeneous mixing and steady-state conditions are frequently violated in real buildings, especially in mixed-mode and decentralized ventilation systems. The review proposes a modernized, performance-based framework harmonizing ISO 16000-8 with adjacent ventilation and indoor air quality standards. View this paper
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Articles (15)

  • Review
  • Open Access
361 Views
19 Pages

Global environmental challenges—ranging from climate change to resource depletion—require not only technological innovation but also sustained shifts in household behavior. Two principal policy tools have emerged to promote such shifts in...

(This article belongs to the Section Standards in Environmental Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
528 Views
26 Pages

Building Standards for Agent-Based Models: A Proposal of Guidelines for Decision-Making on the Definition of Parameters and Sensitivity Analysis Methods

  • Thiago Joel Angrizanes Rossi,
  • Murilo Mazzotti Silvestrini,
  • Cecília Stanzani Klapka and
  • Flavia Mori Sarti

Agent-based models (ABMs) require critical decisions regarding the selection of parameters and probability distributions, so that simulations properly represent the phenomena under investigation. In practice, however, researchers employ diverse strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
932 Views
24 Pages

Toward Standardized UV-C Exposure Methods for Polymeric Materials: Coordinated Multi-Laboratory Evaluation and Material Response

  • Norman Horn,
  • John D. Paccione,
  • Sophie Poelmans,
  • Robert Karlicek,
  • Leili Abkar,
  • Michael Bean,
  • Holger Claus,
  • Jerry Eng,
  • Gareth John and
  • Paul A. Uglum
  • + 8 authors

Germicidal UV (GUV) technology, which utilizes light in the UV-C portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, has become a viable alternative to traditional chemical disinfectants to sanitize surfaces in the built environment. However, the degradation of...

(This article belongs to the Topic Measurement Strategies and Standardization in Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
501 Views
15 Pages

Standardization of an Effective Disinfection Methodology Against Microorganisms Isolated from a Pharmaceutical Industry Facility as a Contamination Control Strategy

  • Amanda Silva Costa,
  • Luciana Veloso da Costa,
  • Rebeca Vitória da Silva Lage de Miranda,
  • Talita Bernardo Valadão,
  • Stephen James Forsythe and
  • Marcelo Luiz Lima Brandão

Inadequate surface sanitization represents a significant risk to sterility assurance and regulatory compliance. Therefore, an effective cleaning and disinfection program is a critical component of contamination control strategies in pharmaceutical fa...

(This article belongs to the Section Drugs Standards)
  • Review
  • Open Access
857 Views
16 Pages

Support professionals in organizational domains—encompassing information technology, administrative services, human resources, and records and archives management (RAM)—confront enduring obstacles, including peripheral status, interdiscip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,101 Views
17 Pages

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into private and public-sector decision-making has outpaced the development of standards governing the interaction between human judgment and machine intelligence. Existing frameworks—the EU AI A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,067 Views
15 Pages

Electrical power utilities use a methodology to smartly limit exposure to potential arc-flash hazards at the electrical-service-entrance gear. In modern industries and residential facilities, service voltages are low but pose a threat to individuals&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
748 Views
19 Pages

Germany’s global competitiveness, historically rooted in its high-quality education system, is threatened by a severe investment backlog in its public-school infrastructure. While national estimates of this deficit are substantial, the literatu...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Standards)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
752 Views
26 Pages

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are referred to as a roadmap to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all people and the planet as a whole by 2030. Attaining these goals requires a multifaceted approach that integrates social deve...

  • Review
  • Open Access
954 Views
24 Pages

Standard 16000-8 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 16000-8) specifies the assessment of ventilation performance using age-of-air concepts and tracer gas techniques. Since its publication in 2007, ventilation systems and asses...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Standards)
  • Article
  • Open Access
461 Views
24 Pages

This study investigated injury severity in 18,528 police-reported vehicle-to-pedestrian crashes involving elderly pedestrians in legally classified local areas of South Korea during 2012–2021. Injury severity was coded into four ordered categor...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
756 Views
14 Pages

Scientific publishing is currently constrained by an unstructured narrative bottleneck paradigm, which increasingly diverges from the scale, complexity, and computational nature of modern research. Despite rapid advancements in data generation and an...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
630 Views
10 Pages

From Pipettes to p-Values: A Framework for Companion Statistical Reporting in Experimental Neuroscience

  • Maria Clara Salgado Ramos,
  • Alex Oliveira da Câmara and
  • Hercules Rezende Freitas

Statistical inference in experimental neuroscience is routinely detached from the experimental record: analytic choices are reported in prose summaries that do not expose the code, assumptions, or decision pathways that produced the results. This det...

  • Review
  • Open Access
906 Views
16 Pages

Occupational Health and Safety systems, as well as physical Ergonomics, serve a common goal, which is to eliminate safety-related injuries within production systems. The analysis of potential hazards that could compromise the safety of operations&rsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
775 Views
13 Pages

Intelligence for Regional Development in Maranhão, Brazil: Insights from Logistics Process Management

  • Matheus Fernandes dos Santos Gomes,
  • Antônio Pereira de Lucena Neto,
  • Francircley Sampaio Nobre,
  • Thiago Machado da Silva Acioly,
  • Diego Carvalho Viana and
  • Iracema Rocha Silva

This study analyzes the implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) in logistics process management through a case study of a transportation company in Maranhão, Brazil. Using a qualitative documentary approach, the research examines operatio...

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