Detention – the grey area

Assessing flood risk for a rural detention area

Flood detention areas serve the primary purpose of controlled water storage during large flood events in order to decrease the flood risk downstream along the river. These areas are often used for agricultural production. While various damage estimation methods exist for urban areas, there are only a few, most often simpler approaches for loss estimation in rural areas. The loss assessment can ...

From and to a very grey area.

the scandal surrounding the former german Defence Minister Karltheodor von und zu guttenberg, who resigned after facing accusations of plagiarism in parts of his doctoral thesis, raises troubling issues for all of us in academia. guttenberg was an easy target: first, because he is a well-known politician; second, because his plagiarism was blatant, even though questions remain as to whether the...

Detention Centres—The First Phase

Pseudo-dementia: An Artefact or a Grey Area of Geropsychiatry?

Pseudodementia is a phenotype approximated by a wide variety of underlying disorders. The history of disturbance in pseudodementia is often short and abrupt onset, while dementia is more often insidious. Clinically, people with pseudodementia differ from those with true dementia when their memory is tested. On other terms the relationship between dementia and depression has been so intricate an...

Novel foods: an explorative study into their grey area.

European Union Regulation 258/97 defines novel foods as food products and food ingredients that have not been consumed to a significant degree in the European Union before May 1997. However, there are new foods that for some reason are not considered as novel foods, though we think that safety of these products is not always a priori established. We defined a 'grey area' which consists of such ...