Awareness raising activities

Development and implementation of a national dissemination strategy, including awareness raising and information activities. 

The Club achieves its goals of awareness-raising and technology transfer by focusing on current and emerging practices in safety engineering, software engineering, and standards that relate to safety in processes and products. Its activities include ... 

Activity prioritization, action plan Activity selection Human capital Skill development Social capital Information dissemination Physical capital Public works Beneficiary selection Identification of beneficiaries Awareness raising Recurring activities Provision of wages, food grains Supervision quality control Personnel Hiring and firing Maintenance... 

The basic ethical questions raised by clinical research should never be underestimated. The pharmaceutical physician will need to be aware that failure, intentionally or because of misguided enthusiasm, to protect the health and well-being of each study subject can have very serious consequences. In an age where the medical profession is constantly under scrutiny, the drug industry is heavily criticised and the communication industry extremely active, mistakes in clinical trials are pimished. Therefore, before a study is commenced, a review should be made that the scientific approach is current, the motivation is clear, the processes are imambiguous, and there should be sufficient data to judge the safety and effectiveness of the interventions proposed. 

In 1958, in response to the increased awareness that chemicals can cause cancer, the US Congress passed the Delaney clause, which prohibited the addition to the food supply of any substance known to cause cancer in animals or humans. Compared with today s standards, the analytical methods to detect a potentially harmful substance were very poor. As the analytical methods improved, it became apparent that the food supply had low levels of substances that were known to cause cancer in either animals or humans. The obvious question was Is a small amount of a substance safe to consume. This question in turn raised many others about how to interpret data or extrapolate data to very low doses. The 1970s saw a flourishing of activity to develop and refine risk assessment methodologies. 

The measures for actively raising awareness at the market entry stage include, among others, advertisements in special-interest magazines, presentations at trade fairs, training programmes, and the participation in information events. The BMLFUW s subsidy schemes also add to the incentives for potential customers to adopt the business model. 

The founding of ChemKit is accompanied by information events about Chemical Leasing. Awareness of this business model is actively raised and accompanied by presentations in special-interest publications and representations at trade fairs. Workshops, conferences and presentations for the relevant sectors will round out the market entry in this regard. The main aim is to clearly structure cost and image benefits (sparing of resources, environmental benefits, sustainability and responsibility) for all parties and to portray ChemKit as a specialised consultancy that provides successful implementation. ChemKit and Chemical Leasing should become synonyms in people s minds. 

Based on the low frequency of raised alanine transaminase activity and the lack of clinical evidence of hepato-toxicity, some clinicians have called for a change in the current practice of monitoring liver function tests. However, a 71-year-old woman taking atorvastatin had raised transaminase activity on two occasions and developed pruritus on rechallenge. Thus, clinicians should be aware of asymptomatic rises in liver function tests in patients taking atorvastatin who do not have known susceptibility factors for liver damage (15). 

So at MIT now there are equity committees in all five schools, and they are collecting data and so on. I think this is a terrific thing. At least we can ensure equity in measurable resources and rewards. The only problem we have is those 800 faculty who have not been involved in these activities at all, at least some of whom either don t know this happened or don t believe it is true. Somehow we have to raise awareness about unintentional gender bias, and that of course is the real challenge. However, I think that, with institutional support and change, we have a real chance at MIT. But the job is hard, and the question is, Can we do more—both at MIT and perhaps also outside MIT What is a more general solution to this problem I don t know, but I would make the following comments. 

Actively promote the production and trade of organic cotton and devise new strategies to raise awareness of organic production techniques and benefits. 

After summarizing our experiences with the quality assurance of chemical data in predictive toxicology, we conclude that the currently available databases and computational chemistry programs are too faulty to be trusted without further inspection. The development of reliable quality control procedures definitely needs more discussion, exchange of experience, and research activity. In this sense, we hope that we will raise some awareness in regard to data quality issues and quality assurance in predictive toxicology. 

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