burgh, has been appointed President. A better choice could not have been made. His researches regarding the antagonism of drugs, the physiological and therapeutic action of strophanthus and the treatment of snake-bite by antivenine indicate his special aptitude for the investigations and inquiries with which the Commission has been charged, and he U known to be a man of great general ability, g...

The evidence reveals that young children are targeted by food and beverage advertisers but are unable to comprehend the commercial context and persuasive intent of marketing. Although the First Amendment protects commercial speech, it does not protect deceptive and misleading speech for profit. Marketing directed at children may fall into this category of unprotected speech. Further, children d...

In Japan, the researches and developments on Time and Frequency (T&F) Standards and Time Transfer Technique are mainly carried out in the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ). NICT headquarters has been keeping UTC(NICT) and Japan Standard Time (JST). A maximum of eighteen Cs atomic clocks and four hydrogen maser...

Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) has developed an optically pumped primary frequency standard CRL-O1 collaborating with NIST (Lee, et al., 1999), and achieved the accuracy of 1.5x10-14(Hasegawa, A., et al. 2000). CRL is now developing an atomic fountain type frequency standard (Fukuda et al., 2000b) and related technologies such as atom trapping, laser cooling, and laser stabilization (...

1 Settlement in this matter precludes the possibility of a litigated record. Thus, the Commission’s understanding of the facts as set forth in this Analysis is based on the record developed during staff’s investigation. The Commission has decided to include discussion of the relevant parts of the investigatory record to provide the best guidance it can on the scope of the state action defense a...

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Abstract: We present in this paper the first empirical comparison of SDC methods for continuous microdata. Based on re-identification experiments, we try to optimize the tradeoff between information loss and disclosure risk. SDC methods compared include additive noise, distortion by probability distribution, microaggregation, resampling, rank swapping and the novel approach based on lossy compr...