Abstract Dr. Pereira-Sanchez, Founder and Executive Director of the World Network Psychiatric Trainees (WNPT) responsible for WNPT Human Rights Curriculum Initiative, will present an overview same, which aims at understanding current state human rights education psychiatric trainees across world partnering with relevant organizations to develop international standards on topic. The talk highlig...

A further comparison of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) standard quartz, A9950 (Sikron F600), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1878, standard respirable alpha-quartz, has been carried out for the four principal diffraction peaks. In the earlier comparison by Jeyaratnam and Nagar (1993, Ann Occup Hyg; 37: 167-79), the standards...

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) document EP14-A2—Evaluation of Matrix Effects; Approved Guideline— Second Edition was developed for manufacturers, regulators, and providers of proficiency testing or external quality assessment programs, although it will be useful to clinical laboratories as well. The document will help users to determine whether matrix effects are the source ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Within this chapter, the authors provide two use cases on semantic interoperability in the electric utility industry based on the IEC TR 62357 seamless integration architecture. The first use case on semantic integration based on ontologies deals with the integration of the two heterogeneous standards families IEC 61970 and IEC 61850. Based on a quantitative analysis, we outli...

Health insurance exchanges are the centerpiece of the private health insurance reforms included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. As of May 2012, 13 states, together with the District of Columbia, had taken legal action to establish exchanges, through legislation or executive order. State implementing laws are essential to the translation of broad federal policies into specific...

There is growing interest in many sectors in developing highly autonomous systems such as Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) with significant in-mission executive power. Such systems have the potential to replace humans in a variety of dangerous tasks, but there is concern that the combination of novel technologies with demanding tasks and unpredictable environments will lead to new safety challenges...

Overview. The Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is charged with developing guidelines for neurologists for diagnostic procedures, treatment modalities, and clinical disorders. The present document is intended to provide background for the report “Practice Parameters for Determining Brain Death in Adults” (in this issue), which has been produced by the Qua...

For many years the importance of sharing information on cybersecurity risks, vulnerabilities, and incidents has been understood. Organizations working in isolation are at a disadvantage when facing the types of threats existing in today’s Internet environment. Informal information sharing has been conducted for many years. More formal information sharing organizations were created in response t...

Border pushbacks, including at the European Union’s external borders and by countries such as Australia, Mexico, Turkey, United States, are common—and in fact have become a new normal. These border policing or other operations aim to prevent people from reaching, entering, remaining territory. Screening for protection needs is summary non-existent. Pushbacks violate international prohibitions o...