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Biological resource centers and biorepositories provide the underpinning for advancing research and development in the life sciences. While biorepositories have been providing biological materials for many years, advancements in genomics, proteomics, and other high-technology areas are creating demands for better quality biological materials. The International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) was founded in 1999 to provide a forum for biorepository managers, users, and supporters to communicate and contribute to improving the quality of biological materials. The members of ISBER include biorepositories at commercial entities, universities and hospitals, and government facilities, as well as organizations that are in the business of biological materials management such as ATCC. In 2003, ISBER published Best Practices for Repositories I, covering collection, storage, and retrieval of biospecimens, which is currently being expanded and updated. The National Cancer Institute used ISBER's best practices to initiate the development of their First-Generation Guidelines for NCI-Supported Biorepositories, published in 2006, to try to optimize procedures and standardize management practices. ISBER is currently reaching out to other organizations that share the desire to ensure wider use of biospecimens in advancing science and medicine, and to improve the management of biological materials. ABRF can take advantage of ISBER's role in enhancing the management and use of biological materials to provide its member organizations and their ultimate end-users with access to available biological resources.

Measures to establish formal legal systems and to formalize informal arrangements have ignored the overlaps and interactions between formal and informal systems, and have increased tensions and conflicts between different resource users, as well as between government and villagers. Conflicts occur at different levels, with some of them embedded in marital and familial relations. The different levels and types of conflicts call for the coexistence of a variety of institutions to manage them. (Inwent/DÜI)

This paper provides an improved stopping boundary for open sequential selection of the normal population with the largest mean when all populations have common known variance. The proof relies on the theory of Brownian motion processes with drift.

Tests a model that examines the impacts of characteristics of the situation, beliefs about the situation, and identity on the sense of injustice. Survey data were gathered among college undergraduates. The effects of the situation were tested by the experimental manipulation of race, performance, class and scholarship funding in a vignette about going to college. Finds that when assessing distributive fairness, people appear to strike a balance between the context of the situation and social, moral, and political identity. (Original abstract-amended)