EU statistics on animal experiments for 2014

EU statistics on animal experiments for 2014.

New rules on driver licensing for patients with obstructive sleep apnoea: EU Directive 2014/85/EU.

Affiliations: DiBiMIS, University of Palermo and Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology (IBIM), National Research Council (CNR), Palermo, Italy. Pneumologie und Allergologie Zentrum für Schlaf – und Beatmungsmedizin, Krankenhaus Bethanien, Solingen, Germany. Sleep and Respiratory Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. European Lung Foundation Chair. Medical School, Athens ...

New thinking on animal experiments

National regulations on animal experiments vary widely between countries but growing numbers of researchers in Britain believe that the procedures are in need of an overhaul. And a new report by a group of members of Britain’s upper house of parliament, the House of Lords, advises a shakeup that both speeds up consideration of researchers’ requests but opens up public scrutiny of such work. The...

Recommendations to improve the EU non-technical summaries of animal experiments.

Under the new Directive 2010/63/EC, member states have to publish non-technical summaries (NTS) of the projects involving animals that they authorise. These summaries must include information on the objectives of the project including the predicted harm and benefits and the number and types of animals to be used. Summaries should also demonstrate compliance with the 3Rs. The intention was that ...

Experiments on Element and Document Statistics for XML Retrieval

This paper presents an information retrieval model on XML documents based on tree matching. Queries and documents are represented by extended trees. An extended tree is built starting from the original tree, with additional weighted virtual links between each node and its indirect descendants allowing to directly reach each descendant. Therefore only one level separates between each node and it...