The challenges of maintaining high influenza vaccination rates in health care workers have focused worldwide attention on mandatory measures. In 2007, NSW Health issued a policy directive requiring health care workers to be screened/vaccinated for certain infectious diseases. Annual influenza vaccine continued to be recommended but not required. This paper describes the views of NSW Health admi...

We believe the paucity of massively-parallel, shared-memory machines follows from the lack of a shared-memory programming performance model that can inform programmers of the cost of operations (so they can avoid expensive ones) and can tell hardware designers which cases are common (so they can build simple hardware to optimize them). Cooperative shared memory, our approach to shared-memory de...

This article introduces a novel flexible mobile device reconfiguration classes (MDRCs) framework which is expected to be applicable to future generation mass market reconfigurable radio devices. This framework sets the scene for a vision of a smooth evolution of reconfigurability features in mobile devices (MDs), paving the way from the current and mainly static implementation choices toward a ...

This paper gives a brief overview on new tendencies in environmental policy regarding electronic democracy, with two examples of environmental directives. The European Commission proposed Internet technology for the first time for the dissemination of the Solvent Directive (1999/13/EC), in order to display available information for the numerous affected sectors. Moreover, the possibility of an ...

After a rather long period of preparation, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare. It entered into force on 24 April 2011, and had to be transposed by the Member States by 25 October 2013. With this Special Issue we aim to give an overview of whether and how the crossborder healthcare directive has b...

The paper presents a multi-agent model simulating the European decision-making procedure for authorizing voluntay release into the environment and the placing on the market of Genetically Modified Organisms (OGM). The model illustrates the political links between public opinions, lobbying groups and elected representatives at the national scale and at the European scale. It compares the procedu...

Nowadays, versatile human activity requires the development of technologies in the chemical and biological industries that ultimately enable an increase in human activity, and help create the living conditions in the domain of human civilization. Increasing this activity very frequently requires the implementation of new technologies concerning the active elimination of numerous threats and obs...

We investigate real effects of a widespread corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting mandate. In 2014, the European Union (EU) passed Directive 2014/95 (hereafter, “CSR Directive”), mandating large listed EU firms to prepare annual nonfinancial reports beginning from fiscal year 2017 onward. document that within scope directive respond by increasing their CSR activities and they start do...

background: boron neutron capture therapy (bnct) is a very promising treatment for patients suffering gliobastoma multiforme, an aggressive type of brain cancer, where conventional radiation therapies fail. thermal neutrons are suitable for the direct treatment of cancers which are located at near-tissue-surface deep-seated tumors need harder, epithermal neutron energy spectra. materials and me...

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the core legislative instrument in the European Union for the protection of water resources. Adopted in 2000, its objectives were to achieve “good status” for water bodies by 2015 and prevent any further deterioration. However, the European Commission and some stakeholders are rather dissatisfied with the implementation of the Directive so far, in particul...