BACKGROUND Systematic reviews have developed into a powerful method for summarising and synthesising evidence. The rise in systematic reviews creates a methodological opportunity and associated challenges and this is seen in the development of overviews, or reviews of systematic reviews. One of these challenges is how to summarise evidence from systematic reviews of complex interventions for in...

This Working Party was set up under Article 29 of Directive 95/46/EC. It is an independent European advisory body on data protection and privacy. Its tasks are described in Article 30 of Directive 95/46/EC and Article 15 of Directive 2002/58/EC. The secretariat is provided by Directorate C (Fundamental Rights and Union Citizenship) of the European Commission, Directorate General Justice, B-1049...

This paper discusses the validation of the future aeronautical communication system LDACS1 for navigation in order to implement an alternative positioning, navigation, and timing service. The included results originate from flight trials conducted in November 2012. Within the paper the setup of that measurement campaign is outlined. Results for synchronization of the ground stations, ranging an...

The availability of near-real time ozone observations from satellite instruments has recently initiated the development of ozone data assimilation systems. In this paper we present the results of an ozone assimilation and forecasting system, in use since Autumn 2000. The forecasts are produced by an ozone transport and chemistry model, driven by the operational medium range forecasts of ECMWF. ...

The incorporation of local temperature and salinity observations from the Rapid Climate Change– Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heatflux Array (RAPID–MOCHA), as well as the cable estimates of volume transport in the Florida Current (FC), is tested in the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean–Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (ECCO–GODAE) estimation system for their ...

Benzodioxane represents a series of synthetic and natural compounds of considerable medicinal importance. Compounds containing dioxane ring systems exhibited different biological activities such as antihepatotoxic, -adrenergic blocking agent, neuroleptic, anti-inflammatory, hypolipidemic and D 2 antagonist/5-HT 1A partial agonist activity. The literature concerning chemistry of benzodioxanes c...

Policy makers in Europe have been concerned that lack of product market competition have led productivity to lag behind the US. Theoretical models are ambiguous about the direction of the effect that product market competition should have on productivity. On the one hand increasing competition lowers firm’s profits and thus reduces incentives to exert effort (the Schumpeterian effect), on the o...

Regenerating codes are a class of recently developed codes for distributed storage, that permit data recovery from any k of n nodes, and also have the capability of repairing a failed node by connecting to any d nodes and downloading an amount of data, termed the repair bandwidth, that is on average, significantly less than the size of the data file. These codes optimally trade the storage spac...

In this paper we describe a simulation system and investigations for analysis of recorded laser pulses. A simulation setup that considers simulated signals of synthetic objects was developed for exploring the capabilities of recognizing urban objects using a laser system. The temporal waveform of each laser pulse is analyzed for gaining the pulse properties: range, pulse power and number of pea...

The importance of visual communications has increased tremendously in the last decades. The progress in micro{electronics and computer technology together with the creation of networks operating with various channel capacities is the basis of an infrastructure for a new era of telecommunications. New applications are preparing a revolution in every day's life of our modern society. Emerging app...