CONTEXT In January 2002, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft guidance requiring more detailed financial conflict of interest disclosure at advisory committee meetings. OBJECTIVES To characterize financial conflict disclosures at drug-related meetings, and to assess the relationship between conflicts and voting behavior at meetings that considered specific products. DESI...

The aim of this study was to examine the moderators of (a) general or cross-cultural advisory working alliances and (b) perceived English proficiency on the association between acculturative stress and psychological distress. A total of 143 East Asian international students completed an online survey. Results from a hierarchical regression indicated significant three-way interactions of (a) Gen...

Advisory architecture permits on-the-fly delivery of hyperlinks (and rating codes and annotations) to World Wide Web content, where the links and the target content are created by one or more organizations independent of the organization that created the Web content the user is accessing. The user’s Web browser or proxy server accesses these advisories through a protocol with a special advisory...

Online advisory services have become ubiquitous and are playing a more vital role in people’s lives. From online loan terms exploration to health care eligibility self-assessment, various services are delivered to clients through online advisory tools. Government agencies in particular are offering such services to the public. Due to increased awareness that government service delivery should b...

The problem of evaluation of advisory system quality is studied. Specifically, 18 advisory strategies for operators of a cold rolling mill were designed using different modelling assumptions. Since some assumptions may be more appropriate in different working regimes, we also design a new advising strategy based on the on-line merging of advices. In order to measure actual suitability of the ad...

Abstracts from the Amphibian Ark Biobanking Advisory Committee Workshop Towards a Biobanking Strategy for Amphibian Conservations from the Amphibian Ark Biobanking Advisory Committee Workshop Towards a Biobanking Strategy for Amphibian Conservation