BACKGROUND Current, ongoing national surveys do not include questions about end-of-life (EOL) issues. In particular, population-based data are lacking regarding the factors associated with advance directive completion. PURPOSE To characterize U.S. adults who did and did not have an advance directive and examine factors associated with their completion, such as the presence of a chronic condit...

Several European Union Members States exempted the implementation of the EMC Directive for defence contracts. According the lawyers, and validated in a court case, this is illegal, and thus the EMC Directive is applicable for military equipment too, except when an exemption for a clearly defined case has been granted. The European Commission confirmed this conclusion in an interpretative commun...

• Wide supply voltage, 2.2 V to 3.6 V • Wide extended operating temperature range (from -40 °C to 85 °C) • Low voltage compatible IOs, 1.8 V • Low power consumption • Embedded power-down • Sleep mode • Fast turn-on and wake-up • Three selectable full scales up to 2000 dps • 16 bit rate value data output • 8 bit temperature data output • I2C/SPI digital output interface • 2 dedicated lines (1 in...

Paper Session, Espace de Projection Mobile and Public Mobile Music Technology: Report on an Emerging Community Lalya Gaye, Lars Erik Holmquist, Frauke Behrendt, Atau Tanaka A Framework for Spatial Interaction in Locative Media Atau Tanaka, Petra Gemeinboeck CaMus: Live Music Performance using Camera Phones and Visual Grid Tracking Michael Rohs, Georg Essl, Martin Roth Pocket Gamelan: tuneable t...

BACKGROUND/AIMS If the parents of an individual are related, it is possible for the individual to have received at 1 locus 2 identical-by-descent alleles that are copies of a single allele carried by the parents' common ancestor. The inbreeding coefficient measures the probability of this event and increases with increasing relatedness between the parents. It is traditionally computed from the ...

A short overview is given of the current situation regarding the draft seventh amendment to the EU cosmetics directive, Directive 76/768/EEC. Future perspectives are discussed.

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