Flight to the Stone Age: Investigating the impact of FAA cockpit regulations on kidney stones in American airline pilots

Following the incidents of 9/11, the FAA implemented safety regulations that restricted click here pilots from exiting the cockpit.While pilots and other individuals from the commercial aviation industry speculated that these regulations prevented pilots from using the lavatory, thereby exacerbating dehydration and kidney stone prevalence, the issu

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"Public Purpose or Public Interest" and Third Party Transfers

In this article the difference between public purpose and public interest in section 25(2) of the 1996 Constitution is considered.It is generally accepted that public purpose is a narrower category than public interest and that the distinction between public purpose and public interest does not make any practical difference.However, in this contrib

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Biomarker Acquisition and Quality Control for Multi-Site Studies: The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials

The objective of the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT) is to evaluate a set of lab-based behavioral video tracking (VT), electroencephalography (EEG), Shirt and eye tracking (ET) measures for use in clinical trials with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).Within the larger organizational structure of the ABC-CT, the

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