Prova de Inglês 1 - Questões e Simulados | CONCURSO

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   Information is a cornerstone of political education and
   socialization. The ability to find out about issues of public
   importance, and the capacity to inform oneself about the
   workings of government and its policies are examples of how
   information can be essential to the education of the informed
   and responsible citizen. Yet in this era of information overload,
   the subtle but vital difference between information and
   knowledge needs to be drawn in order to create virtual places
   that promote political education in the broadest sense. It is not,
   in fact, information per se which is useful but knowledge,
   information which has been distilled and contextualized so that
   it can impart meaning.
   The Internet is the ultimate reference library, chock-full
   of data supplied by individuals and institutions from around the
   world, usually for the free use of all comers. The danger of the
   Internet is that it threatens to overwhelm us with so much
   information that, instead of democratizing and enriching our
   political lives, it is actually drowning us in irrelevancies.
   Internet users know well that the abundance of informational
   riches can have a paralytic effect, rendering the viewer helpless
   to find anything. The huge quantity of information available
   creates an inverse relationship between speaking and listening,
   between information and understanding. The more people
   speak, the fewer people will actually be heard. In fact, the
   deluge of data ensures that we cannot find anything. It has also
   the effect of making us even more dependent than in the days
   before the flood on unaccountable, commercialized search tools
   and information filters to sort information and make it
   meaningful. Although these editors are machines, they are not
   neutral. The values and choices are embedded deep within the
   code and often not obvious to the user.
   Beth Simone Noveck. Paradoxical partners: electronic communication and electronic
   democracy. In: Peter Ferdinand (Ed.). The Internet, democracy, and democratization.
   London: Frank Cass/Routledge, 2000, p. 23-4 (with adaptations).

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The Internet creates a balanced relationship between speaking and listening.

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   Information is a cornerstone of political education and
   socialization. The ability to find out about issues of public
   importance, and the capacity to inform oneself about the
   workings of government and its policies are examples of how
   information can be essential to the education of the informed
   and responsible citizen. Yet in this era of information overload,
   the subtle but vital difference between information and
   knowledge needs to be drawn in order to create virtual places
   that promote political education in the broadest sense. It is not,
   in fact, information per se which is useful but knowledge,
   information which has been distilled and contextualized so that
   it can impart meaning.
   The Internet is the ultimate reference library, chock-full
   of data supplied by individuals and institutions from around the
   world, usually for the free use of all comers. The danger of the
   Internet is that it threatens to overwhelm us with so much
   information that, instead of democratizing and enriching our
   political lives, it is actually drowning us in irrelevancies.
   Internet users know well that the abundance of informational
   riches can have a paralytic effect, rendering the viewer helpless
   to find anything. The huge quantity of information available
   creates an inverse relationship between speaking and listening,
   between information and understanding. The more people
   speak, the fewer people will actually be heard. In fact, the
   deluge of data ensures that we cannot find anything. It has also
   the effect of making us even more dependent than in the days
   before the flood on unaccountable, commercialized search tools
   and information filters to sort information and make it
   meaningful. Although these editors are machines, they are not
   neutral. The values and choices are embedded deep within the
   code and often not obvious to the user.
   Beth Simone Noveck. Paradoxical partners: electronic communication and electronic
   democracy. In: Peter Ferdinand (Ed.). The Internet, democracy, and democratization.
   London: Frank Cass/Routledge, 2000, p. 23-4 (with adaptations).

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The Internet has caused people to become dependent on devices and machines which sort information based on valuefree principles.

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   Information is a cornerstone of political education and
   socialization. The ability to find out about issues of public
   importance, and the capacity to inform oneself about the
   workings of government and its policies are examples of how
   information can be essential to the education of the informed
   and responsible citizen. Yet in this era of information overload,
   the subtle but vital difference between information and
   knowledge needs to be drawn in order to create virtual places
   that promote political education in the broadest sense. It is not,
   in fact, information per se which is useful but knowledge,
   information which has been distilled and contextualized so that
   it can impart meaning.
   The Internet is the ultimate reference library, chock-full
   of data supplied by individuals and institutions from around the
   world, usually for the free use of all comers. The danger of the
   Internet is that it threatens to overwhelm us with so much
   information that, instead of democratizing and enriching our
   political lives, it is actually drowning us in irrelevancies.
   Internet users know well that the abundance of informational
   riches can have a paralytic effect, rendering the viewer helpless
   to find anything. The huge quantity of information available
   creates an inverse relationship between speaking and listening,
   between information and understanding. The more people
   speak, the fewer people will actually be heard. In fact, the
   deluge of data ensures that we cannot find anything. It has also
   the effect of making us even more dependent than in the days
   before the flood on unaccountable, commercialized search tools
   and information filters to sort information and make it
   meaningful. Although these editors are machines, they are not
   neutral. The values and choices are embedded deep within the
   code and often not obvious to the user.
   Beth Simone Noveck. Paradoxical partners: electronic communication and electronic
   democracy. In: Peter Ferdinand (Ed.). The Internet, democracy, and democratization.
   London: Frank Cass/Routledge, 2000, p. 23-4 (with adaptations).

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The difference between information and knowledge should not be taken into account in the promotion of political education for that distinction is too subtle.

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   Information is a cornerstone of political education and
   socialization. The ability to find out about issues of public
   importance, and the capacity to inform oneself about the
   workings of government and its policies are examples of how
   information can be essential to the education of the informed
   and responsible citizen. Yet in this era of information overload,
   the subtle but vital difference between information and
   knowledge needs to be drawn in order to create virtual places
   that promote political education in the broadest sense. It is not,
   in fact, information per se which is useful but knowledge,
   information which has been distilled and contextualized so that
   it can impart meaning.
   The Internet is the ultimate reference library, chock-full
   of data supplied by individuals and institutions from around the
   world, usually for the free use of all comers. The danger of the
   Internet is that it threatens to overwhelm us with so much
   information that, instead of democratizing and enriching our
   political lives, it is actually drowning us in irrelevancies.
   Internet users know well that the abundance of informational
   riches can have a paralytic effect, rendering the viewer helpless
   to find anything. The huge quantity of information available
   creates an inverse relationship between speaking and listening,
   between information and understanding. The more people
   speak, the fewer people will actually be heard. In fact, the
   deluge of data ensures that we cannot find anything. It has also
   the effect of making us even more dependent than in the days
   before the flood on unaccountable, commercialized search tools
   and information filters to sort information and make it
   meaningful. Although these editors are machines, they are not
   neutral. The values and choices are embedded deep within the
   code and often not obvious to the user.
   Beth Simone Noveck. Paradoxical partners: electronic communication and electronic
   democracy. In: Peter Ferdinand (Ed.). The Internet, democracy, and democratization.
   London: Frank Cass/Routledge, 2000, p. 23-4 (with adaptations).

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There are reasons to doubt the reliability of the Internet as a source of useful, relevant and neutral information.

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   Information is a cornerstone of political education and
   socialization. The ability to find out about issues of public
   importance, and the capacity to inform oneself about the
   workings of government and its policies are examples of how
   information can be essential to the education of the informed
   and responsible citizen. Yet in this era of information overload,
   the subtle but vital difference between information and
   knowledge needs to be drawn in order to create virtual places
   that promote political education in the broadest sense. It is not,
   in fact, information per se which is useful but knowledge,
   information which has been distilled and contextualized so that
   it can impart meaning.
   The Internet is the ultimate reference library, chock-full
   of data supplied by individuals and institutions from around the
   world, usually for the free use of all comers. The danger of the
   Internet is that it threatens to overwhelm us with so much
   information that, instead of democratizing and enriching our
   political lives, it is actually drowning us in irrelevancies.
   Internet users know well that the abundance of informational
   riches can have a paralytic effect, rendering the viewer helpless
   to find anything. The huge quantity of information available
   creates an inverse relationship between speaking and listening,
   between information and understanding. The more people
   speak, the fewer people will actually be heard. In fact, the
   deluge of data ensures that we cannot find anything. It has also
   the effect of making us even more dependent than in the days
   before the flood on unaccountable, commercialized search tools
   and information filters to sort information and make it
   meaningful. Although these editors are machines, they are not
   neutral. The values and choices are embedded deep within the
   code and often not obvious to the user.
   Beth Simone Noveck. Paradoxical partners: electronic communication and electronic
   democracy. In: Peter Ferdinand (Ed.). The Internet, democracy, and democratization.
   London: Frank Cass/Routledge, 2000, p. 23-4 (with adaptations).

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The author sees information as having a fundamental function in the political life within a society.

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   Information is a cornerstone of political education and
   socialization. The ability to find out about issues of public
   importance, and the capacity to inform oneself about the
   workings of government and its policies are examples of how
   information can be essential to the education of the informed
   and responsible citizen. Yet in this era of information overload,
   the subtle but vital difference between information and
   knowledge needs to be drawn in order to create virtual places
   that promote political education in the broadest sense. It is not,
   in fact, information per se which is useful but knowledge,
   information which has been distilled and contextualized so that
   it can impart meaning.
   The Internet is the ultimate reference library, chock-full
   of data supplied by individuals and institutions from around the
   world, usually for the free use of all comers. The danger of the
   Internet is that it threatens to overwhelm us with so much
   information that, instead of democratizing and enriching our
   political lives, it is actually drowning us in irrelevancies.
   Internet users know well that the abundance of informational
   riches can have a paralytic effect, rendering the viewer helpless
   to find anything. The huge quantity of information available
   creates an inverse relationship between speaking and listening,
   between information and understanding. The more people
   speak, the fewer people will actually be heard. In fact, the
   deluge of data ensures that we cannot find anything. It has also
   the effect of making us even more dependent than in the days
   before the flood on unaccountable, commercialized search tools
   and information filters to sort information and make it
   meaningful. Although these editors are machines, they are not
   neutral. The values and choices are embedded deep within the
   code and often not obvious to the user.
   Beth Simone Noveck. Paradoxical partners: electronic communication and electronic
   democracy. In: Peter Ferdinand (Ed.). The Internet, democracy, and democratization.
   London: Frank Cass/Routledge, 2000, p. 23-4 (with adaptations).

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In line 27, 'unaccountable' is the same as innumerable.

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   Information is a cornerstone of political education and
   socialization. The ability to find out about issues of public
   importance, and the capacity to inform oneself about the
   workings of government and its policies are examples of how
   information can be essential to the education of the informed
   and responsible citizen. Yet in this era of information overload,
   the subtle but vital difference between information and
   knowledge needs to be drawn in order to create virtual places
   that promote political education in the broadest sense. It is not,
   in fact, information per se which is useful but knowledge,
   information which has been distilled and contextualized so that
   it can impart meaning.
   The Internet is the ultimate reference library, chock-full
   of data supplied by individuals and institutions from around the
   world, usually for the free use of all comers. The danger of the
   Internet is that it threatens to overwhelm us with so much
   information that, instead of democratizing and enriching our
   political lives, it is actually drowning us in irrelevancies.
   Internet users know well that the abundance of informational
   riches can have a paralytic effect, rendering the viewer helpless
   to find anything. The huge quantity of information available
   creates an inverse relationship between speaking and listening,
   between information and understanding. The more people
   speak, the fewer people will actually be heard. In fact, the
   deluge of data ensures that we cannot find anything. It has also
   the effect of making us even more dependent than in the days
   before the flood on unaccountable, commercialized search tools
   and information filters to sort information and make it
   meaningful. Although these editors are machines, they are not
   neutral. The values and choices are embedded deep within the
   code and often not obvious to the user.
   Beth Simone Noveck. Paradoxical partners: electronic communication and electronic
   democracy. In: Peter Ferdinand (Ed.). The Internet, democracy, and democratization.
   London: Frank Cass/Routledge, 2000, p. 23-4 (with adaptations).

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In 'it is actually drowning us in irrelevancies' (L.18), 'it' refers to 'The danger of the Internet' (L.15-16).

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   Information is a cornerstone of political education and
   socialization. The ability to find out about issues of public
   importance, and the capacity to inform oneself about the
   workings of government and its policies are examples of how
   information can be essential to the education of the informed
   and responsible citizen. Yet in this era of information overload,
   the subtle but vital difference between information and
   knowledge needs to be drawn in order to create virtual places
   that promote political education in the broadest sense. It is not,
   in fact, information per se which is useful but knowledge,
   information which has been distilled and contextualized so that
   it can impart meaning.
   The Internet is the ultimate reference library, chock-full
   of data supplied by individuals and institutions from around the
   world, usually for the free use of all comers. The danger of the
   Internet is that it threatens to overwhelm us with so much
   information that, instead of democratizing and enriching our
   political lives, it is actually drowning us in irrelevancies.
   Internet users know well that the abundance of informational
   riches can have a paralytic effect, rendering the viewer helpless
   to find anything. The huge quantity of information available
   creates an inverse relationship between speaking and listening,
   between information and understanding. The more people
   speak, the fewer people will actually be heard. In fact, the
   deluge of data ensures that we cannot find anything. It has also
   the effect of making us even more dependent than in the days
   before the flood on unaccountable, commercialized search tools
   and information filters to sort information and make it
   meaningful. Although these editors are machines, they are not
   neutral. The values and choices are embedded deep within the
   code and often not obvious to the user.
   Beth Simone Noveck. Paradoxical partners: electronic communication and electronic
   democracy. In: Peter Ferdinand (Ed.). The Internet, democracy, and democratization.
   London: Frank Cass/Routledge, 2000, p. 23-4 (with adaptations).

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In the text, the expressions 'comers' (L.15) and 'Internet users' (L.19) refer to the same kind of people: those who access the Internet for information.

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   Globalization, and related trade liberalization, is being
   viewed by developing countries as an opportunity to expand the
   industrial base and venture into an exports-led growth.
   However, “Globalization” has been challenged in recent years
   relating to its trade implications for developing countries.
   One of the major problems is the inability of
   developing countries to conform to developed country market
   requirements. These requirements take the form of myriad
   technical regulations imposed through mandatory domestic
   regulations and to some extent international standards.
   Metrology, the science of measurement, and the
   underlying factor for quality in the industrialized world, plays
   a vital role in modern society and in a globalized world. Still,
   the link between metrology and human existence is not always
   easily understood.
   Essentially humankind has been using metrology for
   millennia. The Egyptian architects, for instance, used the length
   of the ruling pharaoh’s forearm from elbow to tip of the
   extended middle finger as well as the breadth of his palm, to
   calibrate the standard unit of length for use in building the
   pyramids. The original measurement was transferred to and
   carved in a block of black granite. The workers at the site were
   given identical replicas of the original granite unit to work with
   (Metrology — in short, EUROMET and Phare 2000).
   Today, metrology is more ingrained in our society and
   is used in all facets of life. Planks of wood and coffee are
   bought by size and weight; water, electricity and heat are
   metered. Gasoline and soft drinks are bought by volume.
   Sometimes we even measure distance in time, i.e. “from A to B
   it should take about 20 minutes”, although that is not advisable.
   Regardless, for a metrology system

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In the text, the verb 'carved' (L.22) means to make something by dividing it into parts, especially wood or stone.

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   Globalization, and related trade liberalization, is being
   viewed by developing countries as an opportunity to expand the
   industrial base and venture into an exports-led growth.
   However, “Globalization” has been challenged in recent years
   relating to its trade implications for developing countries.
   One of the major problems is the inability of
   developing countries to conform to developed country market
   requirements. These requirements take the form of myriad
   technical regulations imposed through mandatory domestic
   regulations and to some extent international standards.
   Metrology, the science of measurement, and the
   underlying factor for quality in the industrialized world, plays
   a vital role in modern society and in a globalized world. Still,
   the link between metrology and human existence is not always
   easily understood.
   Essentially humankind has been using metrology for
   millennia. The Egyptian architects, for instance, used the length
   of the ruling pharaoh’s forearm from elbow to tip of the
   extended middle finger as well as the breadth of his palm, to
   calibrate the standard unit of length for use in building the
   pyramids. The original measurement was transferred to and
   carved in a block of black granite. The workers at the site were
   given identical replicas of the original granite unit to work with
   (Metrology — in short, EUROMET and Phare 2000).
   Today, metrology is more ingrained in our society and
   is used in all facets of life. Planks of wood and coffee are
   bought by size and weight; water, electricity and heat are
   metered. Gasoline and soft drinks are bought by volume.
   Sometimes we even measure distance in time, i.e. “from A to B
   it should take about 20 minutes”, although that is not advisable.
   Regardless, for a metrology system

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In the text, 'breadth' (L.19) is the same as breath.

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   Globalization, and related trade liberalization, is being
   viewed by developing countries as an opportunity to expand the
   industrial base and venture into an exports-led growth.
   However, “Globalization” has been challenged in recent years
   relating to its trade implications for developing countries.
   One of the major problems is the inability of
   developing countries to conform to developed country market
   requirements. These requirements take the form of myriad
   technical regulations imposed through mandatory domestic
   regulations and to some extent international standards.
   Metrology, the science of measurement, and the
   underlying factor for quality in the industrialized world, plays
   a vital role in modern society and in a globalized world. Still,
   the link between metrology and human existence is not always
   easily understood.
   Essentially humankind has been using metrology for
   millennia. The Egyptian architects, for instance, used the length
   of the ruling pharaoh’s forearm from elbow to tip of the
   extended middle finger as well as the breadth of his palm, to
   calibrate the standard unit of length for use in building the
   pyramids. The original measurement was transferred to and
   carved in a block of black granite. The workers at the site were
   given identical replicas of the original granite unit to work with
   (Metrology — in short, EUROMET and Phare 2000).
   Today, metrology is more ingrained in our society and
   is used in all facets of life. Planks of wood and coffee are
   bought by size and weight; water, electricity and heat are
   metered. Gasoline and soft drinks are bought by volume.
   Sometimes we even measure distance in time, i.e. “from A to B
   it should take about 20 minutes”, although that is not advisable.
   Regardless, for a metrology system

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Common accreditation and testing of measuring standards and laboratories must be met so as to create a trustworthy international system.

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   Globalization, and related trade liberalization, is being
   viewed by developing countries as an opportunity to expand the
   industrial base and venture into an exports-led growth.
   However, “Globalization” has been challenged in recent years
   relating to its trade implications for developing countries.
   One of the major problems is the inability of
   developing countries to conform to developed country market
   requirements. These requirements take the form of myriad
   technical regulations imposed through mandatory domestic
   regulations and to some extent international standards.
   Metrology, the science of measurement, and the
   underlying factor for quality in the industrialized world, plays
   a vital role in modern society and in a globalized world. Still,
   the link between metrology and human existence is not always
   easily understood.
   Essentially humankind has been using metrology for
   millennia. The Egyptian architects, for instance, used the length
   of the ruling pharaoh’s forearm from elbow to tip of the
   extended middle finger as well as the breadth of his palm, to
   calibrate the standard unit of length for use in building the
   pyramids. The original measurement was transferred to and
   carved in a block of black granite. The workers at the site were
   given identical replicas of the original granite unit to work with
   (Metrology — in short, EUROMET and Phare 2000).
   Today, metrology is more ingrained in our society and
   is used in all facets of life. Planks of wood and coffee are
   bought by size and weight; water, electricity and heat are
   metered. Gasoline and soft drinks are bought by volume.
   Sometimes we even measure distance in time, i.e. “from A to B
   it should take about 20 minutes”, although that is not advisable.
   Regardless, for a metrology system

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Geographic and professional boundaries are supposed to be regarded as using a uniform system for measuring.

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   Globalization, and related trade liberalization, is being
   viewed by developing countries as an opportunity to expand the
   industrial base and venture into an exports-led growth.
   However, “Globalization” has been challenged in recent years
   relating to its trade implications for developing countries.
   One of the major problems is the inability of
   developing countries to conform to developed country market
   requirements. These requirements take the form of myriad
   technical regulations imposed through mandatory domestic
   regulations and to some extent international standards.
   Metrology, the science of measurement, and the
   underlying factor for quality in the industrialized world, plays
   a vital role in modern society and in a globalized world. Still,
   the link between metrology and human existence is not always
   easily understood.
   Essentially humankind has been using metrology for
   millennia. The Egyptian architects, for instance, used the length
   of the ruling pharaoh’s forearm from elbow to tip of the
   extended middle finger as well as the breadth of his palm, to
   calibrate the standard unit of length for use in building the
   pyramids. The original measurement was transferred to and
   carved in a block of black granite. The workers at the site were
   given identical replicas of the original granite unit to work with
   (Metrology — in short, EUROMET and Phare 2000).
   Today, metrology is more ingrained in our society and
   is used in all facets of life. Planks of wood and coffee are
   bought by size and weight; water, electricity and heat are
   metered. Gasoline and soft drinks are bought by volume.
   Sometimes we even measure distance in time, i.e. “from A to B
   it should take about 20 minutes”, although that is not advisable.
   Regardless, for a metrology system

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Distance and time can be advisably measured by the same process.

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   Globalization, and related trade liberalization, is being
   viewed by developing countries as an opportunity to expand the
   industrial base and venture into an exports-led growth.
   However, “Globalization” has been challenged in recent years
   relating to its trade implications for developing countries.
   One of the major problems is the inability of
   developing countries to conform to developed country market
   requirements. These requirements take the form of myriad
   technical regulations imposed through mandatory domestic
   regulations and to some extent international standards.
   Metrology, the science of measurement, and the
   underlying factor for quality in the industrialized world, plays
   a vital role in modern society and in a globalized world. Still,
   the link between metrology and human existence is not always
   easily understood.
   Essentially humankind has been using metrology for
   millennia. The Egyptian architects, for instance, used the length
   of the ruling pharaoh’s forearm from elbow to tip of the
   extended middle finger as well as the breadth of his palm, to
   calibrate the standard unit of length for use in building the
   pyramids. The original measurement was transferred to and
   carved in a block of black granite. The workers at the site were
   given identical replicas of the original granite unit to work with
   (Metrology — in short, EUROMET and Phare 2000).
   Today, metrology is more ingrained in our society and
   is used in all facets of life. Planks of wood and coffee are
   bought by size and weight; water, electricity and heat are
   metered. Gasoline and soft drinks are bought by volume.
   Sometimes we even measure distance in time, i.e. “from A to B
   it should take about 20 minutes”, although that is not advisable.
   Regardless, for a metrology system

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Flat pieces of wood must have a proper way of their own to be measured.

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   Globalization, and related trade liberalization, is being
   viewed by developing countries as an opportunity to expand the
   industrial base and venture into an exports-led growth.
   However, “Globalization” has been challenged in recent years
   relating to its trade implications for developing countries.
   One of the major problems is the inability of
   developing countries to conform to developed country market
   requirements. These requirements take the form of myriad
   technical regulations imposed through mandatory domestic
   regulations and to some extent international standards.
   Metrology, the science of measurement, and the
   underlying factor for quality in the industrialized world, plays
   a vital role in modern society and in a globalized world. Still,
   the link between metrology and human existence is not always
   easily understood.
   Essentially humankind has been using metrology for
   millennia. The Egyptian architects, for instance, used the length
   of the ruling pharaoh’s forearm from elbow to tip of the
   extended middle finger as well as the breadth of his palm, to
   calibrate the standard unit of length for use in building the
   pyramids. The original measurement was transferred to and
   carved in a block of black granite. The workers at the site were
   given identical replicas of the original granite unit to work with
   (Metrology — in short, EUROMET and Phare 2000).
   Today, metrology is more ingrained in our society and
   is used in all facets of life. Planks of wood and coffee are
   bought by size and weight; water, electricity and heat are
   metered. Gasoline and soft drinks are bought by volume.
   Sometimes we even measure distance in time, i.e. “from A to B
   it should take about 20 minutes”, although that is not advisable.
   Regardless, for a metrology system

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Never before has metrology been so firmly settled in our society that it is not likely to change its present status.