BACKGROUND: Passing tanning bed legislation restricting underage use has remained challenging. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the resources required to pass tanning bed legislation restricting use to children and identify key barriers to its passage. METHODS: A total of 15 states sought to pass tanning bed legislation in 2006; in-depth ...

Surrogacy has existed since Biblical times when Hagar, the maidservant of the infertile Sarah, acted as a surrogate to bear Sarah and her husband, Abraham, a son. Despite the longevity of the practice of surrogacy, modern society has been reluctant to embrace surrogacy arrangements due to the ethical and sometimes ...

Malta traditionally enjoys a Roman Catholic Society, with the official religion of the country being cited in the second article of the constitution. Recently the government proposed to legislate to regulate human reproductive technology, in particular In Vitro Fertilization, which has been practiced for over two decades without controlling legislation. ...

The Chinese minority plays a dominant role in the economies of Indonesia and Malaysia, a fact that evokes indigenous resentment. However, Indonesia and Malaysia dealt differently with the issue. Malaysia legislated the Malays into the economy and protected Chinese citizenship, making them an integral part of a multicultural state. By ...

The growth of cross-border teleradiology has created legal challenges that are insufficiently addressed by nation health laws. New legislation is currently under development at the European level. This article will look at the details of the existing and proposed legislation and the still unsettled issues and will discuss the implications ...

Crimes on college campuses can "strike fear" into the lives of those in higher education and a shooting is one of the crimes that ranks at the top of the most feared acts of violence. Maybe more direct counseling for clients who have weapons with regard to anticipatory guidance on ...

This was the Center for Business Intelligence's 2nd Annual Summit on Biosimilars. The participants included industry, government, academics and private professionals involved in the myriad issues of biosimilars. Its purpose was to present a dialogue to evaluate the legal, regulatory and economic landscape in the USA and abroad and prepare ...

This paper seeks to outline the challenges of tobacco consumption control in the transitional economy of Croatia. It focuses on issues of taxation, high unemployment, and smuggling while attempting to meet European Union (EU) accession requirements for tobacco control legislation that reduces smoking consumption. The issue of tobacco control is ...

NHS organisation will have to be on their toes to keep abreast of a raft of recent and forthcoming changes to employment law and discrimination legislation. The legislation most affecting NHS middle managers will be implementation of the Age Discrimination Act and amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act. The CIPD ...

Feeding experiments were independently performed with [1-13C]deoxy-D-xylulose triacetate and (RS)-[2-13C]mevalonolactone in the tobacco plant. The labeling pattern for solanesol was elucidated to reveal that the isoprene moiety of solanesol would be derived from deoxy-xylulose. The result strongly suggests that tobacco solanesol is biosynthesized via the 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway.

BACKGROUND: Several formulae exist for estimating total body water (TBW). We aimed to assess their validity in peritoneal dialysis patients by comparison with TBW estimated by deuterium oxide dilution (TBW(D)). METHODS: We compared the equations of Chertow (TBW(Cher)), Chumlea (TBW(Chum)), Hume and Weyers (TBW(HW)), Johansson (TBW(J)), Lee (TBW(L)), Watson (TBW(W)) ...

Published in: Forging a new framework for sustainable forestry - recent developments in European forest law

This paper is about legislation and the forest sector in Russia. The author examines several fields of law identifying what are the most serious shortcomings in legislation hindering a sustainable recovery of the Russian forest sector. The study begins by discussing problems of legislative power and federalism. The division of ...

Ophthalmologist Maximilian Linde (1862-1940) had a passion for contemporary art and owned one of the most important private collections in Europe. He first met little known Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch in 1903, recognized special talent, and welcomed him into his family. With Linde's encouragement, patronage, and friendship, Munich became one ...

Then-Governor-elect George W. Bush hadn't even taken office on January 4, 1995, when he reached across the aisle to tap a conservative Democratic state legislator from rural East Texas to serve as his first commissioner of insurance. A former banker, realtor,and salesman, Elton Bomer, of Montalba, had earned the reputation ...

If the Kohl bill is not passed in the 105th Congress, look for the legislative proposal to be reintroduced next year, Lynn Becker, a spokesperson for Sen. Kohl tells Balance. "Hopefully," she adds, "the administration will include the National Background Check Registry as part of its next Budget Proposal, which ...

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether the political action committee of the American Medical Association (AMA) contributed more to pro- or anti-tobacco members of Congress in the 1995/96 campaign and whether representatives' voting records on malpractice reform could explain the AMA's contribution patterns. METHODS: Campaign contributions to House members ...

Tort reform remains top priority in the Society's legislative efforts. While the May 7 Rally for Change played a large part in the passage of liability reform language, only continued pressure by physicians will ensure victory in the Senate as well. Take a look in the Legislative Crystal Ball at ...

In considering the interrelated ethical, legal and social aspects of surrogacy we acknowledge that society has long accepted the delegation of various parenteral functions and explore the role of a surrogate in relationship to this as well as alluding to commoner comparisons with prostitution and adultery. In particular, the "birth ...

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 specify prohibitions concerning discrimination against individuals with disabilities. The ADA is now expanded to cover all employers of 15 or more persons. In addition, the modified ADA provides the right for a person who believes that ...

In 1992, the standby guardianship law, a significant piece of legislation, was enacted in New York State. Amended in 1994, this law enables parents who have progressively chronic or irreversibly fatal illnesses to petition the court to appoint a standby guardian or to sign a designation naming a standby guardian. ...

Rep. Patricia Schroeder vowed yesterday (Sep. 5, 1994) to introduce legislation to ensure that the program adopted at the UN's population conference is carried out in US government policy. Mrs. Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat, told a news conference that legislators meeting on the side of the UN conference were concerned ...

An expression in the exterior algebra of a Peano space yielding Pappus' theorem was originally given by Doubilet, Rota, and Stein [Doubilet, P., Rota, G.-C. & Stein, J. (1974) Stud. Appl. Math. 8, 185-216]. Motivated by an identity of Rota, I give an identity in a Grassmann-Cayley algebra of step ...

A study of 206 injured rear seat passengers was undertaken over two 4-month periods before and after the introduction of legislation enforcing use of rear seat-belts on 1 July 1991. The proportion of both adults and children using rear seat-belts increased after the law. Those wearing belts were less likely ...

A diverse group of users, vendors, employers, insurers and government officials met in Washington in July for the Computer-Based Patient Record Institute's First Annual Meeting. Deemed "the focal point" of legislation demanding automated patient records, their task was to overcome a myriad of differences and form a true coalition that ...

The premises for regulations in the field of ecology demonstrate clear scientific deficiency regarding basic relations in technical and scientific aspects but also a deep political disagreement on how to cope with them. These characteristics result in a new kind of law whose prime notion is to satisfy a social ...

Analysis of clinical data collected by the epidemiological services in both countries showed that each shift or drift in the antigenic structure of the influenza virus resulted in epidemics in both countries. Depending on the degree of antigenic change, both shifts and drifts influenced the speed of epidemic spread and ...

The "Great Society" may be characterized as a loosely knit program of policies for domestic reform, promulgated by the Johnson Administration in adaptation of the general philosophy and strategies of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the New Frontier to certain conditions of the middle 1960s. Among these conditions ...

Papers of Fisher, a Wisconsin Republican Assemblyman representing Florence, Forest, and Oneida counties; including fragmentary correspondence and campaign materials, and transcripts of meetings of the Joint Legislative Committee on Pension and Retirement Plans, 1945-1946, and a subcommittee of the Joint Interim Committee on Veterans' Legislation, 1946.Collection Location: Northern Great Lakes ...

This page provides information from the European Commission with regard to EU policy on fighting illegal logging. Legislative proposals have been published by the Commission to reinforce measures in the 2003 Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan, by reducing the imports of illegally logged timber into Europe. ...

Born male but now a confident woman, Rebecca Phillips wants to be treated with dignity. Her sister Anne Wells is an RCN convener and council member.