Implications of the Research

The chemical industry is facing a crisis in terms of its sustainability. Public trust in the industry needs to be restored in many EU countries and economic growth in the sector needs to be uncoupled from increased production volumes. REACH only begins to address these two issues. While REACH will generate information on chemical risks and will reset the frame of reference on what constitutes sufficient toxicological data for carrying out hazard assessments, it does not address how to control exposure levels. Apart from the authorisation process, REACH does not even propose specific mechanisms to control the increasing concentrations of synthetic chemicals in human blood and environmental media. 

A key conclusion of the research project is that Germany may play an even larger part in EU decision-making and consequently exert a strong influence on the future of the EU chemical industry. This is the result of a complex mix of the following factors  

Political dimensions of risk management contribute to the quality, type and level of information needed during assessments of hazards, exposures and regulatory impacts. This book illustrates just how Member States may sometimes need to establish different levels of protection within their national territories. The analysis of the national approaches demonstrates why Member States give preference to certain risk management control instruments. 

Apart from the incentive provided by the authorisation process for companies to avoid a small number of substances, EU chemicals policy does not contain many aspects of chemical risk prevention. 

Judging by the interviewee responses, many companies require clear guidance on how to adopt preventive measures, such as coherent and predictable regulation. Companies need a consistent set of regulatory demands that creates a constant and level playing field while promoting best practice. 

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An oral presentation reporting research results After my presentation, the listeners will be able to identify my three major findings and the main implication of the research study. ... 

Emmanuel G. Mesthene, Some General Implications of the Research of the Harvard University Program on Technology and Society, Technology and Culture 10, no. 4 (1969a), 489-92. 

The implications of the research reported here are dependent upon the reliability and validity of the measures. Intensive piloting of the attitudinal instruments and the judicious use of item selection for the cognitive measures resulted in a range of... 

Smith himself stimulated many researchers but, though he wrote a celebrated paper on the evolution of microstructure, did not take any graduate students, and so he did not perhaps initially perceive the implications of the fact that large numbers of doctoral students came from the university s physics and chemistry departments to work with some of the permanent Institute staff... but there were no metallurgically trained students to draw on. Some of the Institute staff became closely involved with the physics or chemistry departments, and one even became chairman of the physics department. A consequence of this situation was that Smith could not attract further metallurgists to join the Institute, and junior metallurgists who came for short... 

Figure 24.4 The decision-analytic model shows the three strategies that were examined by Arnold and researchers [22] to evaluate the financial implications of the direct thrombin inhibitor argatroban for early treatment (<48 hours after thrombocytopenia onset), compared with delayed treatment, of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) with or without thrombosis.

Collins FS, McKusick VA Implications of the Human Genome Project for medical science. JAMA 2001 285 540. (The Feb-ruaiy 7, 2001, issue describes opportunities for medical research in the 21st century. Many articles of interest.)... 

The implications of the foregoing concept have profoundly influenced modern trends in polymer research. If polymers owe their differences from other compounds to the extent and arrangement of their primary valence structures, the problem of understanding them is twofold. It is necessary in the first place to provide appropriate means, both experimental and theoretical, for elucidating their macromolecular structures a[Pg.3]

The results of recent trials conducted at the Cranfield University pilot-scale swimming pool are also presented. This research is based largely on chlorination using hypochlorite, but includes other technologies. Results give a clear indication of the extent to which chlorinated byproducts within the swimming pool, as well as the relative levels of DBPs formed between bromination and chlorination. The implications of this research on the future of the use of chemical biocides in swimming pools is considered. 

Scientists and science writers did not merely turn to occult notions to help describe or even inspire their research. As Modem Alchemy demonstrates, during the period from the turn of the century to just before World War II, the trajectories of science and occultism briefly merged. The stories told here document how and why the nature of matter was so newly important to both scientists and occultists—and they uncover the spiritual and ethical implications of the new material science of radioactivity. 

One important implication of the relationship between classification and theory is that classification systems define and propel research. Classification is a necessary starting point for the vast majority of research that takes place in mental health. Studies would not be funded or published if clinical populations were not first defined on the basis of diagnostic criteria. We are emphasizing that an inadequate classification scheme is likely to create a faulty Starting point that results in considerable expense in terms of time, effort, and research dollars (not to mention the human costs in regard to delaying our ultimate understanding of these disorders). 

The process of tree growth utilizes atmospheric carbon in the production of wood biomass. Furthermore, this sequestered carbon can continue to be held in products that are manufactured from wood. Although much research has been done in investigating forests as actual or potential carbon sinks, there has been rather less work looking at the implications of the use of wood products as a medium-term carbon store. 

Of the Cluster B personality disorders, only BPD has received any significant degree of attention in terms of psychopharmacology research. However, the implications of that research as well as other studies into the treatment of nonspecific aggression may be applicable to antisocial, narcissistic, and histrionic personalities as well. 

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