The assessment of pesticide risk to bees: the work of the ICPBR ‘Bee Protection Group’

The 10th Symposium of the International Commission for Plant-Bee Relationships (ICPBR) Bee Protection Group was held on 8-10 October 2008 in Bucharest, Romania. A major part of this meeting was given over to a revision of the EPPO guideline 170 and the associated risk assessment scheme, which forms the basis of regulatory evaluations for the effects of pesticides on honey bees in the EU. While the current EU risk assessment scheme is considered to be robust and effective, such revisions are considered appropriate as part of an ongoing process of review and appropriate development. The revision process was based on reports presented by three working groups that had been set up at the 9th Symposium of the Bee Protection Group (York, UK; 2005). The three groups had addressed the following issues: (1) higher tier testing (cage and field trials); (2) the risk to bees from the use of plant protection products through seed coating and soil applications (systemic effects); (3) the risk to honey bee brood (including in vitro larval testing methodology). These proceedings present the current proposals for the revised EPPO honeybee testing guidelines and risk assessment scheme. These will be subject to a final review before being submitted to EPPO and also to EFSA for consideration as part of the revision of the Terrestrial Ecotoxicology Guidance Document. Keywords: risk assessment, honey bees, guidelines, revisio

A comparative analysis of strategies for design in Finland and Brazil

This paper reports on work in progress and initial findings of a research project that is comparing existing strategies for design (in promotion, support and policy fields) in four selected countries: Finland, South Korea, Brazil and India. For this specific paper, Finland and Brazil are the case studies compared. The paper explains the criteria for selection of these subjects, based on their stage of development and position on the Global Competitiveness Index (World Economic Forum). The objective of the research project is to investigate how countries with different national contexts adopt different strategies for design in coherence with their positions, weaknesses and strengths. Keywords: Design Policy, Design Strategy, Case Study/Ies, Brazil, Finland, Economic Development.</p

BROAD MATCH CPC ADJUSTMENT

A broad match cost per click (CPC) adjustment system can be used to calculate an overall impression bid based on impression bids from a keyword and its broad matched keywords. The system determines broad match keywords corresponding to an original keyword specified by an advertiser. The system further displays the broad match keywords to the advertiser. The system then identifies and differentiates between the impression bids for the original keyword and each of the broad matched keywords determined from the original keyword. The system further generates an overall impression bid based on impression bids from the broad matched keywords and from the original keyword

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL SHARING OF SUGGESTED CONTENT ITEMS

Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide a data processing system that allows for social sharing of suggested content items configured with an action button. The data 5 processing system generates an online content item (e.g., an online advertisement) to display to a user via an online social network feed. The data processing system identifies one or more friends of the user that may be interested in the content item, and configures the content item with an action button that allows the user to share the content item with the identified one or more friends. The data processing system can determine whether the user shared the content 10 item with an identified friend, and can generate a conversion metric for the content item based on this sharing event

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC NEAR EXACT KEYWORD CANONICALIZATION

This disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatic near-exact keyword canonicalization. In particular, a keyword management system is provided that, based on keywords input by an advertiser, algorithmically derives a set of canonicalized IDs that represent the input keywords and near-exact formulations. The keyword management system also dynamically updates the collection of canonicalized IDs, as necessary, in response to new keywords input by the advertiser. The system is also configured to provide user feedback so as to educate the advertiser about the canonicalization of the entered keywords

Media File Selection and Targeting

A media file selection and targeting system selects and targets media files to one or more groups of people. The media file targeting system displays at least one media files choice to users in a group conversation. The system then presents an option to the users to vote upon the media file choices. Further, the system determines a media file, from the media files displayed, with the most votes and plays the media file with the greatest number of votes from all the users in the group conversation

PROXIMITY BASED SOCIAL SEARCH

The invention discloses a proximity search system. The system receives a search query from a first user to search for a second user. The system then identifies one or more candidate users in proximity to the first user. Further, the system transmits a proximity token to the respective client devices of the one or more candidate users. The system further causes the client devices to broadcast the proximity token. The system then determines that the first user’s client device detects the proximity token broadcasted by a second user’s client device. The system provides the first user with search results that include the second user