conceptual issues in regulating agricultural biotechnology

... Conceptual Issues in Financial Risk Analysis: A Review for Practitioners Abstract: This paper presents a critical review of the conceptual issues involved in accounting for financial risk in ... approach in dealing with the “intertemporal resolution of uncertainty” in financial risk analysis in a way that may be understood and adopted in carrying out project appraisals.10 PART ONE In carrying ... proposed in this paper involves the daunting challenge of estimating the “intertemporal resolution 31 “Modeling the Intertemporal Resolution of Uncertainty” (Sabin & Tham, in progress) 32 of uncertainty.”...

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... decline Therefore, understanding the tradeoff between the cost of obtaining additional risk information and the cost of mitigation in the absence of such refining informa- 28 REGULATING AGRICULTURAL ... E Just, and David Zilberman INDEX 701 723 Introduction REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECONOMICS AND POLICY Chapter REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Richard ... safety standards) The second main part of the book Part II, is entitled Conceptual Issues in Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology, and comprises nine chapters It begins with two chapters on the...

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... diesel fuel in biotech crops, due to a reduction in pesticide spray applications and a reduction in plowing An increase in the amount of carbon held in the soil due to a reduction in plowing associated ... sustain and nourish an ever-increasing population And, soybean growers take pride in their role in producing one of the healthiest food crops in the world USB has invested millions of dollars into ... No-till farming reduces the use of agricultural machinery in fields, which leads to a significant reduction in greenhouse emissions from farm equipment In fact, crops derived from agricultural biotechnology...

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... unstructured interviews held in 2008–2010 in several locations across India Interviews were conducted with a range of persons knowledgeable about the seed and agbiotech industries in India, including ... Herfindahl-Hirschman index The small number of firms involved in GM field trials in India is measured as a high level of concentration within the portion of the industry where R&D investments in ... significantly in the Bt cotton segment of the market One way of gaining insight into the effects of corporate acquisitory behavior on India’s seed and agbiotech industries is to examine changes in industry...

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... EDITOR: Kathleen McKevitt, IDIOM LAYOUT AND DESIGN: Sharp Des!gns, Inc., Lansing, MI PRINTING AND BINDING: BRD Printing, Inc., Lansing, MI CONTENTS Acknowledgments ... Decision Making CPB, exporting member countries must obtain an ing legislation into line with the new Codex labeling advance informed agreement for GMO importation guidelines when these enter into force ... principles and applications Monitoring Reading is discussed in section five and risk communication, We are preparing a separate instructor’s man- the art and skill of sharing information among inter-...

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... diminished, sparing the patient from PTSD symptoms Conclusions Knowledge of conceptual issues pertaining to HRQOL measurement in critically ill patients appears to be essential for measuring ... possibility of scoring patients at risk before discharging them home, assessing their recovery environment and ensuring that patients are assessed at the critical care follow-up clinic Schelling and colleagues ... response shift in critically ill patients Response shift is important not only in longitudinal observations of HRQOL but also in medical decision making To measure response shift, some investigators...

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... in the context of ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment He writes, ‘Life-sustaining treatment implies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the best possible ... results in the infant becoming involved in a growing number and variety of social relationships In summary, none of the views discussed above provides an adequate account of moral standing In looking ... I 37 G E N ER IC ISSU ES IN P R E G N A N C Y Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten 39 HIV in pregnancy: ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research...

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... encrypted messages being exchanged Such information could be useful to the attacker as it can reveal useful information in guessing the nature of the information being exchanged [2,3] In general, passive ... inserting a record in a file Interception This is an attack on the confidentiality of the network such as wiretapping or eavesdropping to capture data in a network Eavesdropping is easy in a wireless ... eavesdropped from outside the building where the network is operating In most wireless networks, there is a kind of link level ciphering done by the MAC entities Jamming Interruption of service attacks...

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... interventions and cloning trates on practical issues, within the context of licensing clinics for testing speciWc inherited conditions and restricting access through guidelines that limit which ... pertinent Indeed if dignity has to be deWned in any essential manner, as it must be if enshrined in international declarations, it is the unique quality of all human beings, also recognized in ... threatened by cloning In the words of the CCNE report, ‘reproductive cloning would inaugurate a new mode of Wliation, an individual born by cloning would be both a descendant and a twin of an adult’...

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... certainty Before the issue of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment can be considered, the present condition of the infant must be assessed in the Ethical issues in withdrawing ... termination is often now a logical and legitimate choice for the parents ∑ The third area in which these issues arise are the term babies who are Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining ... be severe gastrointestinal abnormalities and renal agenesis making death inevitable from renal failure within a very few days Consideration of withholding or withdrawing life-saving medical treatment...

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... Opinion in Infectious Diseases 12: 21–6 UK Intercollegiate Working Party for Enhancing Voluntary ConWdential HIV Testing in Pregnancy (1998) Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection in ... disappointing that at the time of writing, President Mbeki of South Africa appears to be reversing this positive trend Rather than endorsing a programme of national funding for perinatal zidovudine ... least in resource-rich countries) since 1994, anonymous antenatal testing inexorably continues in the UK and in several other developed countries (Nicoll et al., 1998) This may be justiWed in countries...

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... moral autonomy Instead we might face ‘egoism’, ‘social alienation’, ‘moral indiVerence’ or even ‘moral incapacity’ within such a culture All in all, I claim that the main problem in Wnding global ... not incompatibility between universalist and relativist reasoning or between individualist and collective ethical positions per se First, within Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine individualist ... that a woman’s rights and interests (in remaining free from outside interference and control) should have priority At other times the child’s rights and interests in having a decent quality of...

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... the administration of infertility drugs, if ultrasound monitoring indicated maturation of multiple follicle cells (Manier, 1998: p 1) At that point, clinicians might have declined to administer ... specialized training in infertility treatment can and prescribe infertility drugs without utilizing techniques that would minimize the risk of high-order multiples Whether administered by generalists ... to ‘termination’ Although ‘termination’ is the more honest description, a fair and adequate deWnition of the procedure needs to include the aim of maintaining the pregnancy by preserving some...

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... to be evaluated in terms of the quality of the additional information obtained and the costs involved in obtaining it It should also be noted that collecting that information in person or over ... the customer is involved in an ongoing relationship with the agency The use of a mail procedure can increase this feeling of anonymity We intentionally avoided using identifying information on ... this type of benchmarking in mind, when it states that "each agency shall use [customer satisfaction] information in judging the performance of agency management and in making resource allocations."...

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... technological advancements in digital circuit and VLSI design have spurred an increase in the range of new adaptive filtering applications in fields ranging from biomedical engineering to wireless communications ... structure in Fig 20.5 that has a lossless mapping T in its feedforward path and an arbitrary mapping F in its feedback path The input/output signals of interest are denoted by {x, y, r, v, e} In this ... sections of this chapter, we discuss the combined issues of robustness and convergence from a deterministic standpoint In particular, the following issues are discussed: • We show that each step...

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... the amplifier gains within the system can be increased [10] In this application, the input signal to the adaptive filter consists of samples of bandlimited speech It has been shown in experiments ... can draw the following two conclusions regarding this quantity: • The misadjustment increases as the step size is increased • The misadjustment increases as the filter length is increased Both results ... requires more information than is typically available in practice Modeling criteria, such as Akaike’s Information Criterion [18] and minimum description length (MDL) [19] could be used in this situation...

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... and international law in related issues Therefore, sometimes, MTH face problems in applying the law to manage the project, which lead to difficulties in inspection and arrange payment among main ... deputy project manger The management of the company including the issues: planning, organizing, leading and controlling is as followed:  Planning The contractor makes the plan and submits to Project ... pipes go through areas that people are living, working and doing business Before laying the pipes, workers must dig and excavate the pavement in front of inhabitants’ houses or shops, which cause...

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... industry counterpart to reverse engineering in industries that manufacture machinery, including computers In hardware industries, reverse engineering is a common practice, but makers of machinery ... Reinstein advocated that all interfaces be classified as "open." Noting that ideas are often an inseparable part of the interface definition, Reinstein said, "The simplest, most disentangling ... consequences of inhibiting independent innovation— a common occurrence, according to Bricklin, in software development— or of discouraging other desirable aspects of the behavior of innovators and investors...

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... title, ‘Emerging Issues in International Business Research’ The purpose of this forum was to bring together both leading scholars and young rising stars in international business studies in order ... Thunderbird International Business Review In the 1997 issue of Journal of Teaching in International Business, Dr Kotabe was ranked the most prolific international marketing researcher in the world in the ... Cataloging in Publication Data Emerging issues in international business research / edited by Masaaki Kotabe and Preet S Aulakh p cm — (New horizons in international business series) “The Institute...

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