The principal safety concern for driving for people treated with insulin or insulin secretagogues is hypoglycaemia, which impairs driving performance. Other complications, such as those causing visual impairment and peripheral neuropathy, are also relevant to medical fitness to drive. Case control studies have suggested that drivers with diabetes pose a modestly increased but acceptable and mea...

Software in India are protectable under copyright law as computer programmes, but the scope of a ‘literal’ part of a programme and the limits of substantial copying are not yet settled. Author’s ‘fair use’ rights and licence use rights are similarly not clear. Software per se is not patentable, but there are no guidelines as in when software is patentable under the Patents Act. But they are pro...

This paper will concentrate on presenting a legal analysis of two of the main challenges to open source software: SCO’s litigation and software patents. The paper discusses the validity of such challenges, their possible impact to the future of open source software, and the possible legal defences used against them. DOI: 10.2966/scrip.020205.256 © Andres Guadamuz 2005. This work is licensed und...

WEGENER’S AUTOANTIGEN INDUCES MATURATION OF DENDRITIC CELLS AND LICENCES THEM FOR TH1 PRIMING VIA THE PROTEASE-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR-2 PATHWAY Running head: Maturation of dendritic cells by proteinase 3 Elena Csernok, MaiXing Ai, Wolfgang L Gross, Daniel Wicklein*, Arnd Petersen*, Buko Lindner** , Peter Lamprecht, Julia U Holle, Bernhard Hellmich Department of Rheumatology, University-Hospital of ...

BACKGROUND Previous research shows associations of geographical density of alcohol outlets with a range of alcohol-related harms. Socioeconomic conditions that are associated with both outlet density and alcohol-related outcomes may confound many studies. We examined the association of outlet density with both consumption and harm throughout New Zealand while controlling for indicators of area ...