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ZusammenfassungDie vorliegende Übersicht zum Biomarker "eosinophiles kationisches Protein" wird im Rahmen der Serie "Biomarker" des Zentralblatts für Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie publiziert, die sich mit dem immer häufigeren Gebrauch der Bestimmung von spezifischen Markern bei sog. Manager-Vorsorgen und Check-up-Untersuchungen beschäftigt. Das eosinophile kationische Protein eignet sich grundsätzlich nicht für solche Vorsorgen, sondern ist ein Marker zur Therapieplanung und zum Therapiemonitoring von Asthma. Hier zeigt dieser eine hohe Sensitivität und Spezifität, wobei der Marker aber auf keinen Fall als Screeningparameter zur Frühdiagnostik eingesetzt werden soll.

The reason for the birth of the Electoral College in the United State emerged from a genuine concern for legitimate and authentic representation of we the people granted by the people.

For many women, emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) offer an opportunity to prevent unintended pregnancy following contraceptive method failure, rape, or unprotected sex. Access to this safe, effective option remains an essential element of women's quality reproductive health care. However, ECPs remain inaccessible across much of the world, particularly in developing countries where limited commodity supplies, provider competency, public awareness, and misinformation routinely coalesce to restrict availability. While ECPs have been introduced on a pilot basis in many countries, their effective integration into both the public and private sectors has lagged. Successful interventions are guided by the principle that provision of ECPs is not exclusively the responsibility of government family planning programs, and so seek to mainstream delivery of ECPs by developing links with private sector providers and pharmacies, the HIV/AIDS sector, and sexual assault services. Successfully introducing ECPs into a country's health-care system is a complex undertaking. This handbook provides comprehensive guidance to reproductive health program managers and policymakers on introducing and mainstreaming ECPs, including needs assessments and operations research, drug registration, training and logistics, and introduction of ECP scale-up.

This contribution assesses the future Economic Partnership Agreements between African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and the EU and its Member States in the light of their questionable WTO conformity and their goal to promote sustainable development. After a brief outline of the legal framework and political background of the Economic Partnership Agreements, the article depicts their objectives as provided for in the Cotonou Agreement. Thereafter, the criteria for their conformity with Article XXIV GATT as well as the conceivable repercussions of a WTO-compatible design on the achievement of sustainable development are analysed. It will thereby be argued that, against the backdrop of the current uncertainty and the need for clarification of the requirements for North–South regional trade agreements under Article XXIV GATT, WTO-compatible Economic Partnership Agreements calling for a restrictive design of flexibility and asymmetry threaten to subvert the Cotonou Agreement's aim that they shall foster sustainable development and contribute to poverty alleviation. Hence, solutions to mitigate this inherent tension between WTO conformity and sustainability will finally be pointed out.

Over recent decades, UK governments have implemented increasingly repressive immigration controls. Stricter conditions of entry have been accompanied by an expanding immigration detention estate, the increased use of criminal penalties for so-called immigration 'offences', and an increasingly hostile environment for people who have migrated to the UK. The UK can be particularly hostile for migrant sex workers, with the quasi-criminalised and stigmatised nature of the sex industry compounding the negative effects of 'migrant' status. It is in this socio-political context that we set out to explore: 1) what impact, if any, the EU Referendum result had on EU migrant sex workers; and 2) what strategies EU migrant sex workers have adopted to navigate sex work post-Referendum. The findings included in this report draw on the views and experiences of 41 EU migrant sex workers. We show that violence and xenophobia have increased post-Referendum. However, far from being able to rely on the police for support, migrant sex workers are facing harm at the hands of the police, increased criminalisation and - via close working between the police and immigration agencies - an increased risk of deportation. We make a number of evidence-informed recommendations to redress the negative experiences of migrant sex workers in the post-Referendum context.

Students in global service-learning and similar programs frequently encounter substantial social, cultural, political, and ethical differences when working with project partners in different countries and regions. Neglecting such differences can lead to project failures and/or disempowered communities. In response to these challenges, educational resources have been developed to teach students to think about how the people, social structures, and other contextual factors associated with projects can affect, and be affected by, students' designs. Yet, there remains a scarcity of valid and reliable instruments to evaluate the effectiveness of such interventions. The purpose of this study is create a theoretically and empirically grounded instrument, the Energy Conversion Playground (ECP) design task, that is able to provide a meaningful and robust assessment of an individual's ability to identify salient technical and non-technical considerations when approaching an engineering design task situated in a developing country context. We present the scenario and an accompanying rubric that was first developed inductively from student responses to the scenario (specifically 449 discrete items from 93 ECP design tasks submitted by students who attended a Global Engineering Design Symposium). Further development of the rubric involved deductive grounding in relevant literature. To demonstrate the sensitivity of ECP design task to changes in students' thinking, we also performed comparative analysis of responses from a subset of the students (n=37) who completed the same instrument both before and after participating in the GEDS.

Defence date: 3 July 1991 ; Examining board: Dr. Willy de Clerq, President of the Committee for External Economic Relations of the European Parliament, Minister of State ; Prof. Dr. Karl Kaiser, University of Cologne, Director of the Froschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (Bonn) ; Dr. Horst G. Krenzler, Director General for External Relations, Commission of the European Communities ; Prof. Dr. roger Morgan (supervisor) European University Institute ; Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schwarze (co-supervisor) European University Institute ; Dr. William Wallace, Senior Research Fellow in European Studies, St. Antony's College, Oxford University