{"id":72,"date":"2010-03-08T15:28:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T15:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ut.ee\/EACH\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:28:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T15:28:31","slug":"what-is-measurement-science-and-why-is-it-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/what-is-measurement-science-and-why-is-it-important\/","title":{"rendered":"What is measurement science and why is it important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measurements must be considered in the broadest sense and have very many applications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>toxic metals in drinking water;<\/li>\n<li>cholesterol level in blood;<\/li>\n<li>strength of construction materials;<\/li>\n<li>protein content in wheat;<\/li>\n<li>octane number of gasoline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Importance of measurements is enormous for economy, society, medical sciences and much more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>40% of the EU directives involve measurements<\/li>\n<li>Critical economical, social, medical decisions are based on results of measurements<\/li>\n<li>Estimated direct annual spending on measurements alone is 80 billion EUR or 1% of the GDP in Europe<\/li>\n<li>Wrong measurements can have major consequences: direct (loss of profit, death of patient, failure of equipment, etc.) and indirect (incorrect environment protection measures, inefficient business plans, etc).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is only one of many practical examples: BSE (mad cow disease)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Constant monitoring is necessary: it is critical to test and isolate BSE-positive animals<\/li>\n<li>170 000 BSE tests per week! are done around Europe for monitoring the disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The key to business success, healthier foods, cleaner and better environment, more reliable medicines is in having educated workers and managers in laboratories.<br \/>\nThis Master&#8217;s programme does.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.is.ut.ee\/pls\/vy\/reg_avaldus.koostamine?tyyp=magister_ing\"> Enroll now! <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measurements must be considered in the broadest sense and have very many applications: toxic metals in drinking water; cholesterol level in blood; strength of construction materials; protein content in wheat; octane number of gasoline Importance of measurements is enormous for economy, society, medical sciences and much more: 40% of the EU directives involve measurements Critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}