It Is Time for a Wake-Up Call

WikiLeaks is a wake-up call for openness

WikiLeaks' recent public disclosure of troves of classified U.S. Government records has been big news around the world, but it has been particularly significant in the open government community. For decades, groups like ours that are concerned with open government have been working to reform serious problems associated with pervasive and excessive U.S. Government secrecy, including the overclas...

A wake-up call for nutrition labelling.

In 2011, the European Union issued a new regulation on the provision of information on food for consumers (1). The regulation includes new directives for the provision of nutrition information on processed foods. In response, a number of food manufacturers and retailers recently committed themselves to harmonize the nutrition information on their products (2). In the USA in 2011, the Institute ...

Wake-up call for endothelial cells.

Among all known angiogenic molecules, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is probably the most extensively characterized growth factor that displays broad vascular functions including vasculogenesis, angiogenesis, vascular permeability, vascular survival, and vascular remodeling.1,2 These vascular functions of VEGF are mainly mediated by VEGF tyrosine kinase receptors (TKRs) expressed in ...

Elder abuse--a wake up call.

Challenging Safety Regulation – a Wake-up Call

In presenting a framework for tackling these issues, the paper examines current safety practices. In particular it challenges, from a theoretical perspective, and by reference to recent research, two common misconceptions that safety is largely a matter of equipment reliability and that process-based assurance can provide adequate evidence of system safety. It argues that failure to address the...