UK Merger Remedies Under Scrutiny

Under Scrutiny

Merger Remedies : A Preliminary Empirical Assessment

EU Merger Remedies: A Preliminary Empirical Assessment

Mergers that substantially lessen competition are challenged by antitrust authorities. Instead of blocking anticompetitive transitions straight away, authorities might choose to negotiate with the merging parties and allow the transactions to proceed with modifications that restore or preserve the competition in the involved markets. We study a sample of 167 mergers that were under the European...

Folic acid under scrutiny

A consideration of the absorption and metabolism of folic acid in human subjects is timely, owing to the recent recommendation by the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition that a mandatory folic acid fortification programme be implemented in the UK. In this issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Wright et al. take us through the processes of absorption and metabolism of...

ContSys under Ontological Scrutiny

EN ISO 13940, commonly known as ContSys, is an international standard that provides a system of concepts to support continuity of care and semantic interoperability of information systems. ContSys provides domain-specific terms, definitions and relationships, but was not developed as an ontology. Nevertheless, we think that it might benefit from the application of more formal, ontological analy...