Austria and the Transatlantic Agricultural Biotechnology Divide

The Digital Divide in Austria

The transatlantic divide over brain death determination and the debate.

In 1976, the Royal College of Physicians published neurological criteria of death. The memorandum stated that-after preconditions and exclusion criteria were met-the absence of brainstem function, including apnoea testing, would suffice. In the USA, many experts felt that brain death could be only determined by demonstrating death of the entire brain. In the history of further refinement of UK ...

Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment

individuals’ adult labor productivity-to the long-run prevention of famine is somewhat underemphasized. This underemphasis may feed economists’ unfortunate propensity to treat nutritional status solely as an outcome, not as a state variable influencing future productivity and welfare. Chapter 7, on individual households’ natural preventive and responsive behaviors in the face of varying degrees...

The Transatlantic Divide over Democracy Promotion - SPRING 2006

[Agricultural biotechnology safety assessment].

Genetically modified (GM) crops were first introduced to farmers in 1995 with the intent to provide better crop yield and meet the increasing demand for food and feed. GM crops have evolved to include a thorough safety evaluation for their use in human food and animal feed. Safety considerations begin at the level of DNA whereby the inserted GM DNA is evaluated for its content, position and sta...