The Japanese Society of Toxicologic Pathology (JSTP) held a symposium entitled “Panel Discussion: Regulatory Perspective for Pathology Data” on Jan 28, 2009 during the 25th JSTP annual meeting at Hamamatsu (Jan 27–28, 2009) (Meeting President: Dr. Sunao Manabe, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Medicinal Safety Research Labs). The purpose of the panel discussion was to clarify differences between USA, ...

Although web-based survey research of the general population has serious limitations (e.g., non-coverage, lack of a sampling plan), it has been embraced by many who do survey research. It has been shown to be particularly useful when the population surveyed is almost universally connected to the Internet, and is proficient with the medium and the tools to use the medium (computing devices: e.g....

The most recent comprehensive examination of poverty measurement in the United States was conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance (Constance F. Citro and Robert T. Michael, 1995). In their report, the Panel recommended changing the definition of both the poverty thresholds and the resources that are used to measure poverty. In this paper we imp...