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McLennan, K. Care and cost. In Current Issues in Health Policy Westview Press Boulder, CO, 1989. 

A far-sighted company policy can do more to save time in making searches than individual searchers can possibly save. When a company develops its own tailored subject index system of classification, covering its entire field of interest, and feeds into this its current literature abstracts and reviews of currently issued patents, the over-all saving of search time will be from 50 to 70%, after the system has been in effect for 20 or more years. When such a procedure is used, the time saved in searching is directly proportional to the number of years covered and the quality of the classification system. For the first year or so, the time saved is small, but it mounts yearly. In time, files of articles and patent references are built up on all subjects likely to interest the company. These files constitute searches in themselves and are kept up to date by the routine abstracting and patent indexing. 

Dose selection for the mouse IgE test is an important issue. In practice the policy currently is to examine test chemicals first in the local lymph node assay, a mouse predictive test for the identification of contact allergens (Kimber and Basketter, 1992 Kimber et al., 1994). Wherever possible application concentrations are selected for use in the mouse IgE test that elicit a positive... 

Well aware of this fact and stimulated by the new policy statements issued by the regulating agencies [1-3], the pharmaceutical industry has, over the past decade or so, systematically begun to develop chiral drugs in enantiomerically enriched and possibly pure form. Currently [3], 68% of the 1200 drugs under development world-wide are chiral, and 75% of these (or an amazing 51% of the total number) are developed as single isomers. ... 

Musson, D.M. and Helmreich, R.L. (2004), Team training and resource management in health care Current issues and future directions, Harvard Health Policy Review,... 

Hoddinott, John, Marc J. Cohen, and Maria Soledad Bos. 2003. Food Aid in the 21st Century Current Issues and Food Aid as Insurance. Washington, DC International Food Policy Research Institute. 

The fire policy currently in place details all the key issues in relation to fire but has not been amended to take into account disabled persons. 

Yu, X., Li, C., Shi, Y. and Yu, M. 2010. Pharmaceutical supply chain in China current issues and implications for health system reform. Health Policy, 97, 8-15. 

Wasem, R. E., and Este, K. (2011) Temporary Protected Status Current Immigration Policy and Issues. Washngton, DC ... 

McGettrick, Andrew. The lEE draft policy on educational requirements for safety-critical systems engineers. Chapman and Hall, London 1993,11,160-166. In Safety-Critical Systems - Current issues, techniques and standards, Ed. Felix Redmill and Tom Anderson, Safety-Critical Systems Club. 

Achievement and Inclusion in Schools offers an up-to-date analysis of current issues, provides practical guidance for practitioners and policy makers, and will be of interest to anyone passionate about inclusive education. 

Efforts are currently under way to more precisely define terms, such as "substantial additional protection," and to coordinate the Backfit Rule with the Safety Goal Policy. These issues are discussed in more detail in Module 2. 

Bubble Policy The bubble concept introduced under PSD provisions of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 was formally proposed as EPA policy on Jan. 18, 1979, the final policy statement being issued on Dec. 11, 1979. The bubble pohcy allows a company to find the most efficient way to control a plant s emissions as a whole rather than by meeting individual point-source requirements. If it is found less expensive to tighten control of a pollutant at one point and relax controls at another, this woiild be possible as long as the total pollution from the plant woiild not exceed the sum of the current hmits on individual point sources of pollution in the plant. Properly apphed, this approach would promote greater economic efficiency and increased technological innovation. 

In combination, these papers provide a comprehensive and detailed review of current knowledge and of the important issues for policy makers in the future. The volume will be of interest to a wide readership, including industrial and environmental scientists, managers and policymakers. We hope that our readers will find this as illuminating as we have during the editorial work. 

For the freshmen and sophomores, the Seminar appears to be the first classroom opportunity to study scientific aspects of a changing global environment in relation to social and humanistic issues and to link these to current public policy discussions reported in the press. Class members have recommended that multidisciplinary global change instruction be made a requirement for all college... 

The students strongly approve of using current press accounts of global change issues, both scientific and policy related, in parallel with basic reference material. Some advised that future classes should require subscription to a high quality newspaper or journal, in addition to purchase of basic texts, for example one of those that were used in class. 

Worldwide, the taxation and payments for resources and emissions are devised in such a manner as to make it more profitable for the manufacturer to resolve the environmental issues in-plant, rather than to shift them off to the consumer area. A combination of sanctions with economic incentives for a cleaner production will make the latter not a recipient from, but rather a donor to the government budget.Yet even domination of a cleaner economy policy will not soon guarantee survival of the population under a deep economic crisis like the current one. The anthropogenic damage already caused to nature may prove too heavy and not lending itself to repair within the life span of one or even more generations. 

Wolbert, G. S., 1979, U.S. Oil Pipe Lines — An Examination of Flow Oil Pipe Lines Operate and the Current Public Policy Issues Concerning Their Ownership. American Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C., 556 pp. 

Although it is scientifically deplorable that more information is not available on a per unit of output basis, it is less problematic for practical EU policy in today s political environment. In a policy environment in which broad consensus seems to be that the area of land used for agriculture should not drastically change and in which food surpluses are still more of an issue than the fear of food scarcity, the best way to express environmental indicators is in terms of per unit of land. Therefore, the food security proponent s question is currently politically irrelevant. 

In 1995, the US-EPA updated and issued the current Agency-wide Risk Characterization Policy (US-EPA 1995). The Policy called for all risk assessments performed at US-EPA to include a risk characterization to ensure that the risk assessment process is transparent. It also emphasized that risk assessments should be clear, reasonable, and consistent with other risk assessments of similar scope prepared by programs across the Agency. 

The purpose of this book is to investigate public policy issues in pharmaceutical innovation. In Section II we first describe the important characteristics of prescription drugs. We emphasize that these characteristics deviate from the standard conditions in a competitive market. In Section III we discuss the current performance of the pharmaceutical market. In Section IV we investigate market failures that persist in allocating research and development (R D) resources and in the utilization of prescription drugs. In Section V we analyze the policy conflict between the economic and health sectors arising from pharmaceutical innovation. The final section discusses the structure of the book and the major content of the chapters. 

During the 180-day exclusivity period, the presence of an authorized generic as a second generic entrant works to intensify price competition. However, an interesting policy issue is whether there are situations where an authorized generic from the branded manufacturer adversely affects the total number of generic competitors in equilibrium. (Reiffen and Ward 2006). This is an issue currently under consideration at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. 

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