lessons for the harmonisation of european product liability

... Supported by the Office of the Secretary of Defense Approved for public release, distribution unlimited The research described in this report was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense ... conflict of interest Operation Joint Force Sustainment Operations and Maintenance Army Office of Federal Procurement Policy Office of Management and Budget Office of the Secretary of Defense performance-based ... (FFRDC) sponsored by the iii iv Recent Large Service Acquisitions in the Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Commands, and the defense agencies...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... B11 How you evaluate the impact of the four elements of Action recalled below on the level of compliance, safety of products and functioning of the internal market for the product categories you ... appropriate in the light of the risks presented by a product to the health and safety of consumers If necessary, they must also keep a register of complaints, nonconforming products and product recalls ... (43.4%) - C25 How you evaluate the impacts of the three elements of Action recalled below on the performance of Notified Bodies, safety of products, functioning of the internal market and operational...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... The objective of the Platform is to catalyse voluntary action across the EU by business, civil society and the public sector Members of the Platform include the key EU-level representatives of ... maintain cardiovascular health, the recommended daily amount of exercise is at least 30 minutes for most of the days of the week There is no general agreement on the level of physical activity needed ... the Commission services will assume that they not object to having their responses, or parts thereof, published on the Commission’s website and/or quoted in reports analysing the outcome of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... delegated involves informing them of their responsibilities and the objectives of procedures they are to perform It also involves informing them of matters such as the nature of the entity’s business ... that they will perform their duties honestly, and that the audits they perform are free from any conflicts of interest or other impediments to the fair and objective appraisal of the subject of the ... October In conclusion, the Contact Committee of Heads of the Supreme Audit Institutions of the Member States of the European Union and the European Court of Auditors, during the Meeting on 6-7 December...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... recommend the wearing of a lumbar support for the treatment of nonspecific chronic low back pain C4 (D) Shortwave diathermy Summary of evidence • There is no evidence for the effectiveness of shortwave ... Summary of evidence • There is no evidence for the effectiveness of thermotherapy compared with sham/placebo treatments in the treatment of chronic low back pain (level D) • There is no evidence for ... can define the presence of these lesions (Fisher 2002) The value of these studies is limited by the fact that only motor fibers are monitored, the specificity (for radiculopathy) of the physiological...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... density at the beginning of continuous culture b The amplitude was estimated by subtracting the DO concentration (%) of the valley from that of the peak of the next wave c The number of experiments ... similar to the case of gts1D [16] The growth of tdh2D was disturbed, but the cell density reached 90% of that of the wild-type at the beginning of the continuous culture (Table 2) The culture ... metabolic oscillation Deletion of GTS1 resulted in the loss of the fluctuations in the synthesis of trehalose and cAMP [26], leading to the disappearance of the oscillations These results suggested that...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:21

... haplotypes of the KIAA1109/Tenr/IL2/IL21 gene region These seven haplotypes of the combined five SNPs of the block have a pooled frequency of 96% We observed a nonsignificant undertransmission of the ... observed With the aim to further substantiate the association at the KIAA1109/Tenr/ IL2/IL21 gene region, we therefore took advantage of one of the largest reported European family resources dedicated ... to the rheumatologist in charge of the patient Each family consisted of one RA patient and both parents, with the ethnicity as determined by grandparental origin Characteristics of the 434 RA European...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... ‘stage -of- change’ theories used in the field of implementation research [66] The main strength of the CoP theory is that it is able to provide a basis for the development and delivery of theoryinformed ... communities within the CLAHRCs The paper will start with a brief discussion of the structure and purposes of the CLAHRCs and the main premises of the CoP approach It will then explore the following ... enhance the transition from a team to a CoP Second, in spite of the reports describing the deliberate formation of ‘genuine’ multiprofessional CoPs from scratch, their description is often not informative...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... markers of recovery tests whether it can deliver a proxy-measure of the service users' experiences of care and the institution's promotion of their human rights and recovery The ability of the toolkit ... Acknowledgements The study is funded by the Sixth Framework of the European Commission and the authors gratefully acknowledge this support The authors would also like to acknowledge the contributions of the ... rights such as the right to privacy, choice and dignity The European Commission's Green Paper "Improving the mental health of the population Towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union"...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... Sheldon Teperman of the Jacobi Medical Center, New York, were part of the hospital’s disaster committee and offer some straight-talking criticism of the city’s reaction [7] The lack of communication ... disaster of 11 September 2001 They did not hesitate to place themselves in harm's way to rescue the innocent, and without their efforts many more would have perished They will not be forgotten ... than all other factors combined”, they say, going on to suggest that “time, effort, and resources were wasted … because of lack of direction and information” (page 318) At the time of writing,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... centre In the months before the start of the intervention, all centres organised local training(s) for the research staff being responsible for the adoption of the IDEFICS intervention in the local ... step of the IMP, the information from all previous steps was combined with the intervention program as the final result [13] A proposal for the content of the IDEFICS intervention was made by the ... that the community platform developed and implemented a list of obesity preventive actions within the timeframe of the IDEFICS adoption period, i.e the first year of the intervention (year of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... on the prevalence in the population, and more reflective of the test itself, lessening the impact of any unique features of the VA population Moreover, we might expect that the PPV and NPV of the ... NC) Results The characteristics of the VARA participants measured at the start of each treatment episode were evaluated Because the characteristics of VARA patients at the start of non-biologic ... contrast to other RA therapies where the drugs are typically discontinued if they are not effective Because of similarities in both the descriptive characteristics of the study populations of biologic...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... attempted for three SPT patients in whom the mass was located in the portion of body or tail of the pancreas For tumors of SPT located in the neck and body of the pancreas, resection of the midportion ... midportion of the pancreas and the mass with preserving the rim of the head and tail portion can be achieved However, for the patient in whom the mass was located within the head of the pancreas, ... 311 Fig The CT scan indicated the typical internal or capsular calcification in the SPT Once the diagnosis of SPT is made, surgery is the first choice of treatment, since other adjuvant therapies,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... 100% relief of their pain in 86% of the patients with a median relief period of months The range of relief varied from zero days to up to 13 months for the facet injection group None of the lumbar ... median period of pain relief being months The range of relief for the radiofrequency group was from zero days to 16 months for all 26 patients who underwent the radiofrequency procedure Of the 14 patients ... that the direct visualization of the joint allows better de-innervation of the joint and removal of the entire end-plate receptors that adhere to the bone and capsular tissue Limitations of the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:32

... laminoforaminoplasty, should decrease the risk of major adverse events, allow for same day hospital discharge, and decrease the need for postoperative analgesia and immobility [5] [6] In the current ... and neural structures increases the risk of adverse events with invasive approaches Open surgical correction is the current standard of care for foraminal stenosis of cervical and lumbar vertebrae ... follow-up Results The author acknowledges that there are no conflicts of interest or financial benefits with the results of the study All twelve patients (10 males, females) completed the surgery without...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

... system, in the distal segment of the tubule Inhibition of glucose reabsorption in the kidney, mediated by the SGLT cotransport system, represents a promising therapeutic target for the control of hyperglycemia ... larvae of beetles (Chrysomelidae) Their synthesis has been previously described [31-33] For the purpose of the present study the thioglycosides used were selected and grouped based on their differences ... IC50 values of 30 µM for hSGLT1 and 10 µM for hSGLT2, while thioglycoside VII showed IC50 values of 15 µM for hSGLT1 and 88 µM for hSGLT2 These data confirm the strong inhibitory effects of thioglycoside...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:04

... large inventory of normalized mathematical indexes of abnormality It is the pattern of these mathematical indexes of abnormality, obtained from analysis of multiple cardiac cycles of the resting ... Moreover, to assess the performance of the prediction of stenosis independent of the prevalence of stenosis, the positive and negative likelihood ratios (LR) were calculated [24] A value of p

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:58

... with the supermarkets Along with the actual evaluations of the stores’ performance, the research tries to uncover the shoppers’ expectations of this kind of store In addition, the demographic profile ... fundamental and the role of merchandise management is to match the product offering of the company to the requirements of the target customer group This requires an understanding of customer expectations ... level of 90% (app.D, p 84-86) 4.1.10 Demographic profile of supermarkets’ non-users and heavy-users The demographic profile of heavy users in the sample is similar to the profile described for the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 10:30

... Step 3: The director of the branch will responsible for approving the loan application form or not if the value of the loan does not exceed 500 million In case of an exceed, the director of the branch ... actually the major activity of the bank Therefore, continuing research and offering solutions would bring enormous significance for both theoretical and practical aspects for the diversification of the ... the branch network has been enlarged, expanded the scope and form of lending to customers The orientation of the branch: expanding, strengthening and improving the operational efficiency of the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2013, 11:20