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ACTA IMEKO 
ISSN: 2221‐870X 
April 2016, Volume 5, Number 1, 2 

 

ACTA IMEKO | www.imeko.org  April 2016 | Volume 5 | Number 1 | 2 

Editorial 

Paolo Carbone 

University of Perugia, Italy  

 

Section: EDITORIAL  

Citation: Paolo Carbone, Editorial, Acta IMEKO, vol. 5, no. 1, article 1, April 2016, identifier: IMEKO‐ACTA‐05 (2016)‐01‐01 

Editor: Paolo Carbone, University of Perugia, Italy 

Received April 25, 2016; In final form April 26, 2016; Published April 2016 

Copyright: © 2016 IMEKO. This is an open‐access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits 
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited 

Corresponding author: Paolo Carbone, email: Paolo.Carbone@unipg.it 

 
 

Dear Reader, this first issue in 2016 of ACTA IMEKO 
contains a set of interesting papers associated to 
IMEKOFOODS 2014, the first IMEKO event on metrology in 
the area of food and nutrition (see the following editorial by the 
guest editor Claudia Zoani). Two other papers from the 2015 
IMEKO World Congress and two technical notes complete this 
issue. 

 
N. Medina, J. De Vicente and J. Robles author the first 

paper originating from the IMEKO World Congress. This 
paper deals with magnetic effects in the realization of a primary 
standard for dynamic force calibration. The effect of magnetic 
fields on the sensitivity of the force transducer was 
characterized and measured using various configurations and 
detailed experimental setups. Practical solutions were suggested 
to minimize the influence of these fields on the measured data. 

H. Kjikawa and T. Kobata author the second paper 
originating from the 2015 World Congress. It deals with the 
calibration  of a pressure gauge. A new method is proposed that 
is expected to be precise and low-cost. The paper contains both 
theory and experimental results. 

 
 
Two technical notes conclude this issue. The first one is 

authored by D.M.Toma et al. It deals with marine observations 
of sea temperature, level of acidification and noise pollution. It 
describes the process of quality assurance needed to guarantee 
the validity of data, so that they have the quality required for 
the purpose justifying their collection. 

 
A. Maina, I. Veldman and H. Ploug author the last technical 

note. It reports the results obtained in a trilateral comparison 
regarding vibration. Three laboratories were involved: the 
Kenya Bureau of Standards, the National Metrology Institute of 
South Africa and Brüel & Kjær Calibration Laboratory. Results 
of the comparison are precisely detailed, along with the 
characteristics of the procedure adopted to measure and 
manage the transfer standard. 

 

I wish you a fruitful reading of this first issue of ACTA 
Imeko in 2016!