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The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe

This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to complement the Journal's feature articles and Briefing Notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe

This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal's feature articles and Briefing Notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

WITHDRAWN: The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe

The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in CLSR , 24/1 (2008) 33–40, doi: 10.1016/j.clsr.2007.11.009 . The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn.

A conceptual model for the internet's impact on marketing in Iran

PurposeThe potential impact of the internet on marketing is a common topic of discussion in marketing literature. However, there is still much debate on exactly what impact it will have on developing countries. To perceive this impact world‐wide, it is essential to spread some light to the less investigated parts of the globe as well. This study aims to reach a better conceptual model for the internet's impact on marketing in Iran, by examining Iranian marketing managers' perceptions of the internet's impact on their key marketing activities and comparing the results with other parts of the world.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs a cross‐sectional research design involving self‐administered delivery and collection surveys to Iranian marketing decision makers.FindingsThe findings suggest that the impact of these new media will be to cause firms to redefine markets, marketing activity and value creation, although these changes are not dramatic.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings reported here are snapshots in time. The internet's rapid evolution and growth demand that regular tracking with longitudinal designs be implemented.Practical implicationsFirms need to make changes in the marketing activities and market definitions and to try to reach the new ways that are created through the internet.Originality/valueA modified model for the world wide web marketing that seems to be more realistic for developing countries is presented.

Modifying Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescent Obesity

Obesity affects at least 1 in 6 children and adolescents in this country and should be considered the most common chronic disease in childhood. The complications of obesity also represent a group of chronic conditions that pediatricians must face and should be identified by their persistence over time and not at a single visit. Guidelines for hypertension, another complication of obesity, recommend that a diagnosis should be made after multiple elevated measurements taken over at least 3 visits.1 Diabetes mellitus guidelines also recommend repeat testing for confirmation of elevated fasting blood glucose in asymptomatic patients. Article p 2316 Expert recommendations for identification and management of childhood obesity endorse regular tracking of body mass index (BMI) and medical assessment for complications of obesity.2 They recommend the collection of information on history, symptoms, and physical findings, as well as a screening for abnormalities in lipids, glucose, insulin, and liver enzymes. The ubiquitous nature of childhood obesity (17%) contrasts with the rarity of severe complications such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (<0.5%), which suggests that a group of obese youth exists with additional abnormalities that elevate their risk for future cardiovascular disease (CVD) and/or type 2 diabetes mellitus. Obese youth who persistently have multiple, moderately abnormal cardiovascular risk factors should be identified for aggressive lifestyle counseling as an essential part of primordial prevention.3 Pediatric studies have modeled the adult metabolic syndrome (MetS) definition to describe the epidemiology and generate hypotheses for obese children, and the studies have found associations with other adult CVD risk factors such as C-reactive protein and smoking.4–6 A recent article by Jolliffe et al used a statistical technique on a national database of adolescents to develop a growth curve approach for MetS.7 This definition has an advantage over previous definitions because it translates abnormal …

Baker & McKenzie's regular article tracking developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications

This is the latest edition of Baker & McKenzie's column on developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications. This article summarises recent developments that are considered important for practitioners, students and academics in a wide range of information technology, e-commerce, telecommunications and intellectual property areas. It cannot be exhaustive but intends to address the important points. This is a hard copy reference guide, but links to outside web sites are included where possible. No responsibility is assumed for the accuracy of information contained in these links.

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe

This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal's feature articles and Briefing Notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe

This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal's feature articles and Briefing Notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

Baker & McKenzie's regular article tracking developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications

This is the latest edition of Baker & McKenzie's column on developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications. This article summarises recent developments that are considered important for practitioners, students and academics in a wide range of information technology, e-commerce, telecommunications and intellectual property areas. It cannot be exhaustive but intends to address the important points. This is a hard copy reference guide, but links to outside web sites are included where possible. No responsibility is assumed for the accuracy of information contained in these links.

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe

This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal's feature articles and Briefing Notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

Baker & McKenzie's regular article tracking developments in EU law relating to IP, IT & telecommunications

This is the latest edition of Baker & McKenzie's column on developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications. This article summarises recent developments that are considered important for practitioners, students and academics in a wide range of information technology, e-commerce, telecommunications and intellectual property areas. It cannot be exhaustive but intends to address the important points. This is a hard copy reference guide, but links to outside web sites are included where possible. No responsibility is assumed for the accuracy of information contained in these links.

Baker & McKenzie's regular article tracking developments in EU law relating to IP, IT & telecommunications

This is the latest edition of Baker & McKenzie's column on developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications. This article summarises recent developments that are considered important for practitioners, students and academics in a wide range of information technology, e-commerce, telecommunications and intellectual property areas. It cannot be exhaustive but intends to address the important points. This is a hard copy reference guide, but links to outside web sites are included where possible. No responsibility is assumed for the accuracy of information contained in these links.

Baker & McKenzie's regular article tracking developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications

This is the latest edition of Baker & McKenzie's column on developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications. This article summarises recent developments that are considered important for practitioners, students and academics in a wide range of information technology, E-commerce, telecommunications and intellectual property areas. It cannot be exhaustive but intends to address the important points. This is a hard copy reference guide, but links to outside web sites are included where possible. No responsibility is assumed for the accuracy of information contained in these links.

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe

This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal's feature articles and Briefing Notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe

This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal's feature articles and Briefing Notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe

This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal's feature articles and Briefing Notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU-level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European national news is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

3D SSD tracking with estimated 3D planes

We present a tracking method where full camera position and orientation is tracked from intensity differences in a video sequence. The camera pose is calculated based on 3D planes, and hence does not depend on point correspondences. The plane based formulation also allows additional constraints to be naturally added, e.g., perpendicularity between walls, floor and ceiling surfaces, co-planarity of wall surfaces etc. A particular feature of our method is that the full 3D pose change is directly computed from temporal image differences without making a commitment to a particular intermediate (e.g., 2D feature) representation. We experimentally compared our method with regular 2D SSD tracking and found it more robust and stable. This is due to 3D consistency being enforced even in the low level registration of image regions. This yields better results than first computing (and hence committing to) 2D image features and then from these compute 3D pose.

Status and perspectives of the “Specially Monitored Track”

Deutsche Bahn AG has developed and continuously improved over the last decade a system called “Specially Monitored Track”. It is based on the fact that the noise emission from railways can be reduced by rail grinding and has been confirmed officially in 1998 by the German Federal Railway Office (EBA) as a noise reduction system with an effectiveness of −3 dB(A). Meanwhile almost 1000 km of DB's network are specially monitored. In order to comply with this legislation, intensive grinding and monitoring is required. The latter is done by a dedicated monitoring car and supplemented by roughness measurements using a modified roughness-measuring device in connection with a newly developed algorithm for data analysis, enabling a prediction of the noise emission on the basis of roughness measurements. Future developments will aim at increasing the performance of the system “Specially Monitored Track”. This will particularly include grinding at high working speeds (“High Speed Grinding”) with two targets: (1) reducing costs for rail grinding and (2) merging rail grinding for acoustic reasons with grinding for regular track maintenance.

Baker & McKenzie's regular article tracking developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications

This is the latest edition of Baker & McKenzie's column on developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications. This article summarises the recent developments that are considered important for practitioners, students and academics in a wide range of information technology, e-commerce, telecommunications and Intellectual Property areas. It cannot be exhaustive but intends to address the important points. This is a hard copy reference guide, but links to outside web sites are included where possible. No responsibility is assumed for the accuracy of information contained in these links.

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe

This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the journal's feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.