The EC-Earth climate model is a seamless Earth System Model (ESM) used to carry out climate research in 24 academic institutions and meteorological services from 11 countries in Europe. This model couples several components and it is continuously under development. In this work we present a study regarding the impact of the I/O and data management when using EC-Earth in well-known supercomputin...

In the old ages, spies could enter one’s residence, organizations or companies and collect valuable data information such as personal sensitive data, trade secrets or transaction records. Nowadays, the open architecture of the Internet has generated an environment in which it is much easier, quicker and wider to collect data than it used to be as a variety of sensitive information can be captur...

Traceability of products requires their unique identification. In Germany blood products have been encoded by Eurocode since 1998. EU Directives 2004/23/EC, 2006/86/EC and 2015/565/EC demanded unique identification and safe traceability procedure also for tissues and cells. Eurocode IBLS e.V. and the German Society of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology (DGTI) working parties '!' within t...

Before any medicinal product is authorised for use in adults, it must undergo extensive pharmaceutical consistency and stability tests, toxicological tests and clinical trials to ensure that it is of high quality, safe and effective.The same approach may not always be applied to medicinal products used to treat children.Studies showed that over 50% of the medicinal products used in children may...

OBJECTIVE To investigate CTX-M genotypes among extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) isolated from patients with community-onset and hospital-onset infections in China, their clonality and the distribution of CTX-M variants in different specimens of community-onset and hospital-onset infections. METHODS ESBL-EC isolates were collected from general hospitals from 2...

The paper introduces the potentiality of wireless communications in road safety improvement. New systems based on Vehicle/infrastructure and vehicle/vehicle cooperation are enabled. The results of a recent project “SAFE TUNNEL” and new projects like “SAFESPOT”, “GOODROUTE”,”WATCHOVER”, are described. All these research projects are co-funded by European Commission (EC) and witness the strong co...

Based on the thesis for which Dr Ward was awarded her doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence, Judicial Review and the Rights o f Private Parties in EC Law gives a comprehensive yet succinct account of the limits of judicial review and the extent to which the rights of private parties are adequately protected in European Community law. The author explains at the outset that...

We present the 'HealthGrid' initiative and review work carried out in various European projects. Since the European Commission's Information Society Technologies programme funded the first grid-based health and medical projects, the HealthGrid movement has flourished in Europe. Many projects have now been completed and 'Healthgrid' consulted a number of experts to compile and publish a 'White P...