REPORTS ON THE PANEL DISCUSSIONS

The outcome of these panel discussions and of the whole Seminar will provide material which may be used by Member States to provide impetus into the waste management safety convention. The papers presented at the Seminar and reports of the respective chairmen on the panel discussions will be published as an lAEA-TECDOC which will be available as a reference document. 

This book is a result of the first symposium on the Maillard reaction held in this country (the second in the world2). Panel discussions with audience participation were held on the subjects of food and nutritional benefits of Maillard reaction products and the toxicology of Maillard reaction products but are not reported here. Interaction between participants during this meeting helped cement relations for continued help and perhaps will promote some new areas for cooperative research between American and foreign scientists. This symposium was also an important element in the training of graduate students it provided them with increased awareness of the breadth of the scientific field. We hope that it is true of each of you ... 

As an example of the NEGF-DFT formalism discussed in the last section, we now report an analysis on the transport properties of an Au-Ceo-Au molecular tunnel junction whose device structure is shown in the lower panel of Fig. 1. So far a considerable amount of effort has been devoted to investigate transport properties of Ceo and other fullerene molecules both experimentally [54-59] and theoretically [25,60-62]. However, to obtain a complete picture of the transport properties of such junctions, many details have yet to be clarified, including how conductance and I-V curves depend on the lead material and geometry, and on the position and orientation of the Cgo molecule. Ceo tunnel junctions with Au leads have not been studied before. 

M. Kieman, Panel discussion on Sustainability Social and Environmental Factors in Financial Reporting, held at Cap Gemini Ernst Young Measuring the Future Conference, Cambridge, MA, October 1-3, 2000. Available at http //www.cbi.cgey.com/events/ pubconf/2000-10-4/ session/breakout/index.html sustainability. 

To address the issues discussed previously in this chapter, the NCEP convened expert panels to consider various aspects of diagnosis and treatment of hypercholesterolemia and develop guidelines for reliable lipid and lipoprotein mea-surements Two separate laboratory panels considered issues related to blood lipid and lipoprotein measurement. The first, the NCEP Laboratory Standardization Panel, was concerned with the measurement of total cholesterol, gnd the second, the NCEP Working Group on Lipoprotein Measurement, addressed the measurement of triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol. The recommendations of both panels include extensive reviews of lipid and lipoprotein methodology, and the interested reader is referred to the original reports for details. Here we summarize the principal considerations and recommendations for clinical lipid and lipoprotein measurements. 

The studies of the Iraqi, Amazon, Seychelles, and Faroe Islands populations were reviewed by an expert panel that met in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the Workshop on the Scientific Issues Relevant to Assessment of Health Effects from Exposure to MeHg. A report of that workshop has been published (NIEHS 1998). In suggesting possible explanations for the discrepant findings of the Seychelles and Faroe studies, the panel pointed to differences in sources of exposures or exposure measures, differences in the neurobehavioral tests used or their administration or interpretation, influences of confounders and covariates, and biostatistical issues involved in the analysis of the data. The differences between those studies are discussed further in Chapter 6. 

One S T issue which received considerable attention in the run-up to the meeting and to which the above quote from the SAB report explicitly refers, was almost completely suppressed during the Conference the question of chemical incapacitants and so-called non-lethal chemical weapons, in which some CWC states parties recently have shown a renewed interest. Although two states parties -New Zealand and Switzerland - made explicit reference to non-lethal weapons during the General Debate, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), whose statement was focusing on chemical incapacitants, was not allowed to address the plenary. As a result, the only opportunity to discuss these matters publicly arose with the Open Forum on the Chemical Weapons Convention, hosted by the TS and supported by a number of NGOs. The Open Forum included a panel discussion on The Chemical Weapons Ban and the Use of Incapacitants in Warfare and Law Enforcement. 80... 

In summary, the panels and committees evaluating the available data noted a significant lack of exposure data on the population or populations at risk. Given these constraints, limited conclusions could be drawn concerning exposme and outcome relationships. The following sections discuss the population at risk and various subsets and provide an overview of outcomes reported in these populations. 

Ross, T. K., and B. Haqjoo, "The Effect of Redistribution and Wetting on the Performance of Packed Distillation Columns, in Sawistowski, H. (ed.) Final Report by the ABCMIBCPMA Distillation Panel, Chem. Ind. Assoc., London, 1964, p. 217 also, discussion of the paper. 

The panel of authors who wrote the interim report on dermal absorption (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1992) reviewed several earher experimental studies comparing permeability coefficients of human and animal skin, especially the review by Bronaugh et al. (1982), which was discussed separately in this appendix. No new data were presented in this report. The opinion of this panel was that the numerical differences between human skin and animal skin permeability coefficients vary with the test compound. Thus, they concluded that it was not possible to find a constant factor for adjusting the permeabihty coefficient from a specified animal to reliably represent the permeabihty coefficient for human skin. Major conclusions of this report were that animal skins are generally more permeable than human skin, and that dermal absorption data from animals could be used as a conservative estimate of absorption in humans. 

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