Mycotoxins contaminate both raw agricultural commodities and processed food. As the world food exporter, Thailand has to be aware of food safety. Both international and local publications of major mycotoxins contamination of food in Thailand published from 20002010 were reviewed. A wide range of contamination levels were found. In Thailand, regulatory limit has been set only for aflatoxins. Glo...

As more and more information extraction techniques emerge, there is a growing demand on addressing the reliability of the produced results. The prominent examples for initiatives addressing this issue are the CEOS CalVal activities, where calibration and validation of satellite imagery and related products is conducted by international space agencies. In the field of airborne hyperspectral remo...

A determinação espectroscópica multivariada da associação lamivudina-zidovudina foi realizada por regressão de mínimos quadrados parciais. O modelo foi desenvolvido a partir de 20 misturas sintéticas utilizando-se dados espectrais centrados na média adquiridos entre 190 e 350 nm e 3 variáveis latentes. A validação externa foi realizada a partir de 6 misturas sintéticas, observando-se erros médi...

This thesis explores the reform of intellectual property regulation policies with respect to computer software within two advanced industrial nations after 1980. A comparative case analysis of the United States and Japan will provide insight as to how advanced industrial nations have responded to market forces, competing private interests, and international pressure for policy harmonization in ...

Harmonization of the instruments used in environmental policy has been considered necessary to guarantee fair competition in international markets. We investigate alternative policy measures for promoting paper recycling in seven European countries and present a theoretical framework for analyzing policy requirements for the minimum amount of recycled material to be used in production. We estim...

Since 1985, UNESCO studies ethical questions arising in genetics. In 1992, I established the International Bioethics Committee at UNESCO with the mission to draft the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, which was adopted by UNESCO in 1997 and the United Nations in 1998. The Declaration relates the human genome with human dignity, deals with the rights of the persons conc...

Abstract—Pathloss estimation is largely frequencydependent and its results indicate the coverage of any mobile network. The accuracy of these estimations is crucial for viable network designs and deployment. The rapid evolution of wireless communication technologies in recent decades has led to diversity in frequency bands. The need for spectrum harmonization for mobile broadband international ...

Patent law has relied in part on ethical considerations since its inception in Europe. Such considerations have been introduced more recently in the United States. Whereas the EU Directive on the protection on the occasion of the Human Genome Project of biotechnological inventions was intended to foster economic development in Europe, its implementation is outweighted by controversy about paten...

In addition to stipulating economic rights, the copyright laws of most nations grant authors a series of “moral rights.” The development of digital information and the new possibilities for information processing and transmission have given added significance to moral rights. This article briefly explains the content and characteristics of moral rights, and assesses the most important aspects o...

Several issues associated with the hazard identification and dose response assessment of trichloroethylene are discussed. These issues include the identification of TCE’s critical effect and overall cancer weight of evidence, the use of the recently harmonized TCE PBPK model for improving extrapolations from experimental animal to humans, an understanding of uncertainty in dose response assessm...