The following articles cover three of the major issues dealing with federal information management and policy currently being debated in the United States Congress. These articles present the Office of Technology Assessment's evaluation of and suggestions for improving current federal information initiatives...
There has been a lot of talk recently in Papua New Guinea about the K6 billion EXIM bank concessional loan which Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has headhunted to address what he repeatedly highlights as being the country’s failing infrastructure needs. The manner in which these infrastructure nee...
JD Vance closed out tonight's debate by arguing that as vice president, Kamala Harris has had years to tackle the issues at hand and he leaned into his humble biography which has been an important feature on the campaign trail. "I remember when I was being raised by my grandmo...
During the past 15 years, we have learned an enormous amount about the pathogenesis and treatment of unstable angina. In most cases of unstable rest
Avenues do exist for VS to solicit the US Congress for supplemental appropriations to bolster the indemnity budget. However, the current polarized and contentious political climate in the US portends a low probability of success for such requests. In addition, the legislature is unlikely to fund ...
Most recently, some Members of Congress have introduced legislation, or announced elements of potential proposals, framed in the broad context of addressing poverty. These proposals would touch upon numerous existing federal programs. While the specifics differ—and in some cases are still being develo...
The role of carbapenems in infections caused by CRE, mostly KPC-Kp, is still debated. KPC-Kp shows elevated MICs to carbapenem, with a highly variable level of resistance. Meropenem is considered effective in KPC-Kp infections when the MIC is ≤8 mg/L, with appropriate PK/PD considerations...
A change in the current policy environment from the situation that prevailed when the 2014 farm bill was being debated and enacted is the reduced profitability of the U.S. farm economy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts that for 2017 and 2018, net cash farm income—a mea...
in the science within the modelling components, with the advances of how to represent their interaction. This latter aspect of modelling is often overlooked but will increasingly manifest as an issue as the complexity of the system, the time and space scales of the system being modelled increase...
In this chapter we consider the particular preservation storage procedures applied to a range of cell types used to produce cell-based medicines. Specifically, it deals with the scientific considerations for preserving each cell type and the kinds of cry