technique of measurement
31Air Infiltration Measurement — A building energy auditing technique used to determine and/or locate air leaks in a building shell or envelope …
32PNU — abbreviation for protein nitrogen unit, a measure of the potency of the compounds used by doctors in allergy skin tests. One PNU is defined as 0.01 microgram (µg) of phosphotungstic acid precipitable protein nitrogen. Unfortunately, the… …
33angstrom — (Å or A) a metric unit of length, equal to 0.1 nanometer or 10 10 meter. Angstroms are used most often to measure the wave length of light waves. There is a technique called spectroscopy for identifying chemical substances by the wave lengths… …
34picoliter — (pl or pL) a metric unit of volume equal to 10 12 liter or 1000 cubic micrometers. Engineers at Eastman Kodak recently reported a technique for producing ink droplets as small as several picoliters …
35rms — or RMS an abbreviation for root mean square, a mathematical technique for averaging the values of a changing quantity …
36stanine — a statistical unit used in educational testing. Test scores are normalized (mathematically transformed) so that they have a mean ( average ) of 5 and a standard deviation of 2. This tranformation naturally divides the ranked scores into 9… …
37Infrared spectroscopy — (IR spectroscopy) is the subset of spectroscopy that deals with the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. It covers a range of techniques, the most common being a form of absorption spectroscopy. As with all spectroscopic techniques,… …
38colorimetry — [kul΄ərim′ə trē] n. the analysis or measurement of color by means of a colorimeter colorimetric [kul΄ər ə me′trik] adj. colorimetrically adv. * * * See colorimetric. * * * Measurement of the intensity of electromagnetic radiation in the visible… …
39Protein Nitrogen Unit — The Protein Nitrogen Unit (PNU) measures the potency of the compounds used in allergy skin tests, and is equivalent to 0.01 microgram (µg) of phosphotungstic acid precipitable protein nitrogen.According to Russ Rowlett at the University of North… …
40Leadershipmetrics — is a term used in the Ideal leadership model to describe the theory and technique of measurement of leadership capital elements in an individual and the leadership conditions they are operating in. Leadership Capital is one aspect of the Ideal… …
