A Workshop Participants

A workshop participant reported that China has phased out the production and use of five of the POPs covered by the Stockholm Convention—aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, toxaphene and heptachlor. He explained that chlordane and mirex are still produced in limited quantities for termite protection and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) is still produced for use as a chemical feedstock. Mirex... 

Greenberg, R.A. Workshop Participants Focus on (Food) Packaging Waste Management. Food Technology. 42 (January 1991). 

The authors would like to thank Dr Mark Taylor, Dr Raquel Duarte-Davidson and the other participants who contributed to our understanding during a workshop on the ecological effects of sex hormone disrupters held at the Institute in January 1998. We also acknowledge the financial support provided by the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions for the work at lEH on endocrine disruption. However, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of any government department or agency. 

I am a physicist who switched to nuclear engineering for my Ph D. My introduction to PSA was as an original participant in the Reactor Safety Study in 1972. Material for this book was first gathered in 1974 for a workshop on what to expect in WASH-1400 (the results of the Reactor Safety Study). Materials were gathered over the years for EPRI, Savannah River Laboratory, and other workshops. A culmination was in 1988 with "Probabilistic Risk Assessment in the Nuclear Power Industry" with Robert Hall as coauthor. This book updates these materials and adds material on PSA in the chemical process industry. I prepared the material for printing using a word processor... 

CPE IX, held in September 1993 in Alexandria, Cairo/Luxor, Egypt, was a joint conference with EPA/U.S. AID S Fourth International Symposium on Industry in the Developing World. This included a workshop on industrial pollution prevention and clean technologies, and other cooperation and institutional issues. Participants were comprised of a multi-disciplined technical group from 27 countries. 

Prior to the Seattle Workshop, several batches of seawater from Hawaii were distributed to attendees for analysis. It became immediately clear to workshop participants that the key to making valid comparisons was both a common reference material and a uniform blank solution (Hedges et al., 1993 Sharp, 1993). The primary source of discrepancy among analysts was poor blank control, not oxidative capacity. 

The workshop participants concluded that it is premature for the FDA to write a guidance for industry because the science of genomics and its applicability to preclinical toxicogenomics assessment is rapidly evolving. If a guidance were to be developed in the future, questions and concerns would be raised about the following ... 

Most workshop participants recommended that data to be used to support drug safety and efficacy for registration should have a link to the patient record. In addition, samples linked to patients data have potential for use in subsequent validation studies that are unanticipated at the outset of drug development. 

Norton (1998) offers one approach from an ecological risk assessor s perspective. Various experts in statistics and risk assessment at the workshop preferred specific terms over others. The majority of the workshop participants were comfortable with distinguishing between uncertainty and variability in a manner that is consistent with US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) guidance. Other experts, particularly those associated with bounding analyses (see Chapter 6 of this book), preferred the word incertitude instead of uncertainty based on theoretical considerations associated with the bounding methods discussed in the chapter. 

Some authors use incertitude for limitations on knowledge, and uncertainty as a collective term that includes both variability and incertitude. Most of the workshop participants preferred to use the term uncertainty in the more specific sense, referring to limitations on knowledge. 

There seems to be a desire among the workshop participants to develop a series of standard distributions, or distribution parameters, for exposure and effects variables that are generally used in risk assessments. In the case of toxicity data, for example, investigations leading to the quantification of a generic variance for between-species variation from pooled data for many pesticides may be useful (Luttik and Aldenberg 1997). 

Forty-three workshop participants answered a 10-question survey to gather information on the details of Green Chemistry (GC) and Green Engineering (GE) education issues of interest to the attendees. The mix of multiple-choice, yes-no, and open-ended questions cover who is interested, how should it be taught, who benefits, and funding. The questions together with the... 

In Chapter 2, a number of grand challenges for chemists and chemical engineers were delineated to promote national security and homeland defense, based on the views of workshop participants. This chapter goes one step further to identify scientific barriers that prevent those challenges from being met. 

RAND hosted a workshop Decemher 19, 2002, titled FDA and the Common Defense, with participation from FDA, DoD, the pharmaceutical industry, and others, to address some of these issues. 

They got a number, which they did not reveal to us, took the stack of six envelopes, and left. They got into their car and started to drive away. At that point, they were to open the target envelope, drive to the target site, timing their driving (by circling the area if necessary) to arrive there in twenty minutes, at which time the workshop participants would try to remote view. 

In 2001, SET AC sponsored a workshop aimed at advancing the science of TREs, the results of which were released as a SET AC publication (Norberg-King et al., 2005). Included in this book are over 30 case studies provided by the workshop participants, as well as a literature search identifying relevant TRE journal articles published between 1991 and 2003. The following case study was a TRE conducted by Novak et al. (1998, 2002) and was also included in the SET AC publication. 

We are grateful to the workshop participants who agreed to submit a chapter reviewing their work in a pedagogic style that would be accessible to someone who is not an expert in their particular discipline. Certainly without their enthusiasm and diligent efforts, this volume would never have got off the ground. 

B3. Bain, B. J., Moorman, A. V., Johansson, B., Mehta, A. B., and Seeker-Walker, L. M., Myelodys-plastic syndromes associated with 1 lq23 abnormalities. European 1 lq23 Workshop participants. Leukemia 12, 834-839 (1998). 

The workshop followed the familiar Pellston formula. A preliminary review was completed and made available to all participants prior to the workshop. At the workshop, workgroups were assigned to consider specific issues identified in plenary sessions, to gather feedback on the utility of reviewed methods, to suggest new or modified ones, and to consider case study substances in relation to the proposed extrapolation methods. These activities were used to prioritize questions and to help formulate a framework (table of contents) for dealing with extrapolation issues in ERA. We used this framework and, with individual contributions from the workshop participants, developed this book. This book incorporates a review and discussion of the tools currently available for extrapolation of ecological effects and the science upon which these are based. 

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