Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data bans the processing of medical data owing to their highly sensitive nature. Fortunately the Directive provides that this ban does not apply in seven cases. The paper aims first to explain the rea...

Directive 2009/28/CE establishes, as obligatory objective, a share of renewable energies on energetic consumption of 20%, in European Union, in 2020 However, such European normative gives freedom to member states in the selection of the renewable promotion mechanism that allows them to obtain that objective. In this paper, we analyze the main characteristics of the promotion mechanisms of renew...

In using new media as a means for providing access to cultural heritage collections, it is inevitable that museums, as content providers and facilitators, face the copyright challenge. This is especially so, since copyright, is not apparent in the Internet environment. Copyright can act as a barrier, limiting electronic access to museum content d u e to conditions placed on the use of certain m...

This article considers recent changes to legal provisions governing harassment at work, in particular sexual harassment, in the UK, in the light of EU Directive 2002/73/EC, and the remedies available in the courts and employment tribunals. This article then provides a statistical profi le of a total of 21,335 sex discrimination cases brought to nine employment tribunals in the UK between 2003 a...

In this paper, we examine the disposition policies of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) among three institutions: National Documentation Centre of Greece (NDC), Virginia Tech (VT) and West Virginia University (WVU) of USA. Also, we compare the implemented disposition policies by the three institutions. We analyze their similarities and differences. We select the three institutions beca...

in recent decades, theorists proposed the role of domestic components such as interior active groups, policies and macroeconomic indicators on determination of protection policies. in the context of recent studies, this study has investigated the effect of business cycle fluctuations on import protection for selected developing countries in 1995-2011 by using dynamic panel data method. furtherm...

this paper presents a new formulation for warehouse inventory management in a stochastic situation. the primary source of this formulation is derived from fp model, which has been proposed by fletcher and ponnambalam for reservoir management. the new proposed mathematical model is based on the first and the second moments of storage as a stochastic variable. using this model, the expected value...

1 The Molecular Pathogenesis of Eye Infection Research Center, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Departments of Ophthalmology. 2 The Molecular Pathogenesis of Eye Infection Research Center, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Departments of Ophthalmology, Cell Biology, and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. E-mail: [email protected]...

BACKGROUND Reporting guidelines have been available for the past 17 years since the inception of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials statement in 1996. These guidelines were developed to improve the quality of reporting of studies in medical literature. Despite the widespread availability of these guidelines, the quality of reporting of medical literature remained suboptimal. In this...

BACKGROUND Reporting of health research is often inadequate and incomplete. Complete and transparent reporting is imperative to enable readers to assess the validity of research findings for use in healthcare and policy decision-making. To this end, many guidelines, aimed at improving the quality of health research reports, have been developed for reporting a variety of research types. Despite ...