Abstract This article deals with the ever-present hot topic of compliance and related standards for a management system ( cms ) in Continental Europe. It covers existing legal regulations, current case law, latest developments Germany, France, Italy regard to requirements an effective . also takes look at criteria that top must fulfil order meet individual – minimize risk liability. In addition...

A puzzling phenomenon of ice-stream flow is the stick–slip motion displayed by Whillans Ice Stream (WIS), West Antarctica. In this study we test the hypothesis that the WIS stick–slip motion has features similar to those of other known stick–slip systems, and thus might be of the same origin. To do so, we adapt a simple mechanical model widely used in seismology to study classic stick–slip beha...

We investigated cue use for object movement in preschoolers and adults. Participants’ task was to predict the direction of an object’s motion: whether the object moves across the floor of a room, or whether it floats to the top. While the direction of object motion stayed the same across trials, the types of cues were manipulated to differ along two factors. The factors were (1) spatial proximi...

The following is a introduction to a method, called signed difference analysis (or SDA), that I have been developing, off and on, over the last seven years. SDA is a general technique for evaluating psychological models using only the “non-metric” or ordinal properties of dependent variables. Although still a work in progress, the following is an outline of its main elements which, hopefully, w...

AIM To assess effectiveness of guidelines for referral for elective surgical assessment. METHOD Systematic review with descriptive synthesis. DATA SOURCES Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Cochrane database up to 2008. Hand searches of journals and websites. SELECTION OF STUDIES Studies evaluated guidelines for referral from primary to secondary care, for elective surgical assessment for adults...

OBJECTIVE To assess changes in the dietary habits and eating practices of a longitudinal cohort of adolescents over a 5-y period living in Soweto and Johannesburg. METHODS An interviewer-assisted questionnaire was used to gather data on the dietary habits and eating practices across three environments: in the home, in the school, and in the community. Participants (n = 1451, 49.1% male, 89% b...