Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday, Gerry Stoker, professor of politics and governance at the University of Southampton, raised questions about the unit's ethical approval practice.
The idea that a reporter must send a written version of a quotation to a source or his press representation for approval or tweaking is the extreme version of the "quote approval" practice and it ought to be banned in a written rule.
We feel that a combination of good clinical trial design and good post-approval practices will allow biosimilar trastuzumab to become an important and trusted component of breast cancer care.
In addition, research analysts should not submit their reports to investment bankers at their firms or to corporate management for approval, common practices at many firms.
But the report about Thales measuring the height of pyramids is only one of several such accounts of Greek intellectuals learning from Egyptians; Herodotus and Plato describe with approval Egyptian practices in the teaching and application of mathematics.
Nancy O'Dowd, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said one of them "was applying" for approval to practice in the United States.
In Monday's Media Equation column, I wrote about the trend toward sources requiring quote approval, a practice that seems to be growing like kudzu.
But as Morris put it, "that is not approval to practice law in Texas".
It cannot put the government stamp of approval on practicing Christians over all others".
Following ethical approval, the practice of measuring GRVs and the subsequent management of EN was retrospectively reviewed over a 3-month period, September to December 2012, and prospectively reviewed over a 3-month period, September to December 2013, following the change in practice.
