... may be of importance The legal status of the step-by-step principle State of science and technology Reflecting that the principle is part of considerations but not of the working text of Directive ... authorization regime for food and feed, including also GMOs for cultivation of food and feed, Art (4) and Art 18 (4) of the same regulation refer to the environmental safety requirements of Directive 2001/18/EC ... of the term ‘step-by-step’ in the GMO regime Besides the levels of containment, the phases of risk assessment (hazard identification, evaluation of adverse effects, evaluation of likelihood of...
... o g y Content MolecularNutritionResearch as a Basis for Disease Prevention and Health The German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke – Our Research Focus Health andNutrition at the ... initiative of the state of Berlin and the state of Brandenburg under the umbrella of the TSB Innovationsagentur Berlin GmbH BioTOP is funded by the federal state of Berlin, the federal state of Brandenburg ... challenging area ofresearch for which the bioregion BerlinBrandenburg has strong credentials The close links that exist here between genome research, molecularand clinical nutritionresearchand plant...
... of work in progress All RAND occasional papers undergo rigorous peer review to ensure that they meet high standards for research quality and objectivity The Legaland Economic Implicationsof ... new research on e-discovery This paper presents the results of an exploratory study to identify the most important legaland economic implicationsof e-discovery and to develop a plan ofresearch ... implicationsof our results for future research ix x The Legaland Economic Implicationsof Electronic Discovery: Options for Future Research Results of Interviews Our interviews highlighted a number of...
... Roeser, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson (Eds.) Handbook of Risk Theory Epistemology, Decision Theory, Ethics, and Social Implicationsof Risk With 85 Figures and 62 Tables Editors ... Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands and Philosophy Department University of Twente Enschede The Netherlands Rafaela Hillerbrand Human ... This handbook provides an overview into key topics in a major new field ofresearch It addresses a wide range of topics, from decision theory, risk perception, to ethicsand social implications of...
... To understand some of the challenges facing China in the implementation and enforcement of its environmental laws, it is important to first understand the Chinese system of government and the dynamics ... standards and must report their standards to the State Council.80 Using the WEQ standards and the country’s economic and technological conditions, the State Council shall establish national standards ... and regulations to handle local discharges.39 33 Law on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution (promulgated by the Standing Comm Nat’l People’s Cong., May 11, 1984, amended May 15, 1996, and...
... to the history of land concessions in Laos, with an assessment and review of laws and policies related to forestry and land, and an analysis of the process of authorization of land concessions ... development of the meaning of “land”, the history of the land concessions, from the first beginnings to the present, rights and powers in the management and use of land, and the process of granting land ... to land and forest in 19791 with the objective of protection and preservation of the forest This Regulation defined land and forest as “land and forest land in the entirety of the territory of...
... Standard National Wildlife Federation Oil and gas Outer Continental Shelf Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (EPA) Oil & Gas Accountability Project Office of Policy, Economics, and ... Region and the individual states’ environmental programs Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Following enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), EPA entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ... disposal of drilling waste, along with further disturbance of surface areas due to oil and gas production (e.g., through construction of roads and operation of drilling rigs in wilderness and undeveloped...
... active peptide The goal of this study was determination of the 3D solution structure of preCbnB2 to assist in obtaining a molecular level understanding of the reduced activity of preCbnB2 (relative ... expression of a fusion of MBP and preCbnB2 in E coli This system allows use of (15NH4)2SO4, or alternatively (15NH4)2SO4 and 13 D-[U- C]glucose, as sole nitrogen and carbon sources Purification of substantial ... biochemical production, and solution structure of preCbnB2, and compare it with the structure of the mature bacteriocin, CbnB2 [26] [27] [28] Materials and methods Chemical synthesis of preCbnB2 with...
... binding and affinity for I-Au because of occupation of the P1 pocket Recent thermodynamic and kinetic studies of the binding of TCRs to peptide–MHC ligands suggested that the low affinity of the ... Comparison of the conformation of active and nonactive backbone cyclic analogs of substance P as a tool to elucidate features of the bioactive conformation: NMR andmolecular dynamics in DMSO and water ... the side chain of Arg78 (Hg) and Glu82 (Hc1) and the medium-range NOE between the side chains of Asp81 (Hb) and Arg78 (Hg and Hc)] In addition, Glu82 interacts with the side chain of Lys75 The...
... corporation Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Office of Thrift Supervision savings and loans Securities and Exchange Commission Summary of Deposits Department of the Treasury This is a work of ... availability and allocation of credit, the stability of the financial system and the economy, and the safe and sound operations of such institutions To determine the number of certain types of financial ... other hand, accounted for about percent of credit card loans, but they accounted for less than percent of construction and land development loans and almost none of any other type of loan Grandfathered...
... Technology, and Logistics (OUSD/AT&L) and conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded researchand development ... statute and its associated regulatory processes and program cost and schedule outcomes Summary xiii Programs are indeed governed by a large and confusing array of statutes and regulations, and those ... data but never in any of the statutory andregulatory activities of interest (e.g., all “other” data),5 and those who provided data in the statutory andregulatory activities of interest for at...
... trips between the offshore islands and Fujian Province, including 144,234 from the offshore islands to the mainland, and 8,200 from the mainland to the offshore islands as of February 29, 2004 ... allowed residents of the Taiwanese-held offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu to travel directly to the mainland and permitted some direct shipping between the offshore islands and China The mini-three ... between the two offshore islands and the mainland As part of that expansion of the mini-three links, the Taiwanese government also expanded the list of products that the offshore islands can import...
... manufacturing value chain and displaces increasingly advanced sectors of the U.S economy A second concern is off-shoring of R&D facilities to China and other emerging economies Off-shoring of R& D is worrying ... the erosion of the U.S manufacturing base, the loss of U.S R&D facilities, and the rise of China’s financial standing, less attention has been paid to the geo-political implicationsof the increase ... demand at a time of demand shortage This is because manufacturing jobs have historically paid higher wages, manufacturing has a large job multiplier via its demand for inputs and services, and...
... creation of opportunities for the greening of the brick and mortar landscapes of cities, the mitigation of hazard, prospects for bottom-up governance, revitalization of communities and the augmentation ... design and construction of buildings, inadequate protection of assets, lack of public information and awareness, limited official recognition of risks and preparedness measures, and disregard for wise ... the Implicationsof Hazards, Emergencies and Disasters representing the degree of loss/potential damage of the element at risk (see Table 1) The evaluation of vulnerability and the combination of...
... Technology, and Logistics (OUSD/AT&L) and conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded researchand development ... statute and its associated regulatory processes and program cost and schedule outcomes Summary xiii Programs are indeed governed by a large and confusing array of statutes and regulations, and those ... data but never in any of the statutory andregulatory activities of interest (e.g., all “other” data),5 and those who provided data in the statutory andregulatory activities of interest for at...
... National Audit Office Ministry of Defence: the Joint Services Command and Staff College PFI HC 537, session 2001-2002, February 2002, p.24 23 Office of Government Commerce Standardisation of PFI contracts ... provides an example of the political realities of risk transfer in the context of a high profile, essential service The fact that compensation was waived and the allocation of the costs of failure negotiable ... Private Gain? and 42 their passengers.96 And the workforce bore risks in the form of support staff and management cuts of 20% The general public assumed risk through the cancellation of half of the...
... rates of glycolysis from glucose and gluconeogenesis from glycerol The inhibition of glycolysis is consistent with a lowering of the Fru-2,6-P2 concentration and an inhibition of phosphofructokinase-2, ... incubated in the absence of glucose (Table 1), the bolus addition of mM glycerol resulted in an accumulation of intracellular Gro-3-P and depletion of ATP; the concentration of Fru-2,6-P2 fell by ... apparent net synthesis of glucose of 0.62 0.05 lmolámin)1á(g wet weight))1 The rate of glycogen synthesis of 0.13 0.01 lmolámin)1á(g wet Table Eect of a bolus addition of glycerol on hepatic...
... Characteristics of the Panel and Full Samples Incidence of No and Full Limitations by Domain of Physical Functioning Correlation of Scores for Domains of Physical Functioning Disability and Physical ... Measures of Disability and Physical Functioning Correlations of Alternative Measures of Disability to Official Disability Status Probability of Having Official Disability Status Consumption and Disability: ... Predictors of Less-than-Good Health Status Predictors of Employment Predictors of Less-than-Good Health Status of Males Predictors of Less-than-Good Health Status of Females Predictors of Employment of...
... course of one -and- a-half days, they fleshed out the relevant issues in online researchand considered the role of IRBs This report and its action, researchand education agenda are products of the ... subjects research, application of the principle of justice is inextricably linked to fair distribution of the burdens and rewards ofresearch This bears directly on the selection and recruitment of ... diffusion and adoption."5 The ease with which the cyberspace medium facilitates these types of studies also raises issues about the ethical andlegal dimensions of such researchand the norms and policies...
... Regulation of AMPK a2b2c3 complexes by AMP K Lindgren et al all of which are required for its activity [8,9] In the mammalian genome, two isoforms of the a-subunit (a1 and a2) and the b-subunit (b1 and ... with the a2 and b2 isoforms [23] The present study describes bacterial expression of AMPK a2b2c3 trimers, and provides the first characterization of the enzyme kinetic parameters and regulation ... total activity and the AMP dependence (Fig 1C) We measured the activity of the recombinant AMPK a2b2c3 complexes over a range of AMP concentrations, and calculated the concentration of AMP giving...