OBJECTIVES To show that a Local Research Ethics Committee (LREC) can carry out an audit of ethical standards in research. To find out if a researcher met certain ethical standards in recruiting subjects for clinical trials and in obtaining their consent. DESIGN Postal questionnaire. SETTING Clinical research by one doctor during one year. SUBJECTS Eleven patients entered in clinical trial...

same people as those attending the Conference on Mental Hygiene, and this meeting, which was the longest of the three, was also by far the most experimental and interesting. The Preparatory Commissions, of which there were some 350 in 27 different countries, were perhaps the most important part of the whole Congress activity. The reports from these interprofessional discussion groups were edite...

Should multi-unit auctions be used to sell multiple identical and indivisible units? In this paper we show that with sufficiently many bidders, the multi-unit format is more efficient than the bundle format in a broad range of situations. However, the revenueperformance depends on the fraction of demand that is met asymptotically. We also examine the absolute performance of the multi-unit aucti...

The challenges of the marketplace are met by product developers in two ways: development of innovative products and reducing product costs. Cost reduction alone is not a substitute for innovation. Cost-oriented product development is systematical engineering work, which requires an interdisciplinary approach, and needs to be efficient and effective. The costs that are of interest here are those...

This article reports on the findings of a study that investigated the impact of manipulating task performance conditions on listening task performance by learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The study was designed to explore the effects of changing complexity dimensions on listening task performance and to achieve two aims: to see how listening comprehension task performance was aff...

The review process has issues, reviews take too long and many are not sufficient for authors to improve their submissions. In this paper, I present the root causes for these problems and stipulate that any proposed solutions will need to address these issues to create sustainable improvement. Additionally, I list five basic activities that need to form the basic actions for proposed solutions. ...

In this paper, we review the literature on efficient task scheduling on multi-core system. The number of cores on one chip are increasing very rapidly. For achieving high performance without more power consumption and without heating up the system, multi-core processing technology is used. In addition for fully utilization of system resources in more efficient way task scheduler are developed, ...

objectives: the present study aimsed to examine the reliability of forceplate parameters under both single and dual task conditions and in different levels of postural difficulty. methods & materials: the healthy elderly+65, were assessed with aone-week interval, with a random combination of three levels of postural difficulty (i.e., standing on a rigid surface with eyes open, standing on a rig...

This section provides theoretical support for the strategy outlined in §2.2. For convenience, to ease the presentation of the case in which auctioneer a’s reservation price is not met, we imagine there arema+1 “reservation” dedicated bidders installed in auction a at the market’s outset, where each such bidder’s valuation equals auctioneer a’s reservation price. Thus in this section of the appe...