In a study comparing different ethics committees [ 6], it was reported that even when consensus exists within an ethics committee on the critical issue for approval, interpretations of the decision-making criteria may differ between committees.
Although there was no response bias with respect to individual studies, there may be a response bias in terms of RECs if the committees that declined to take part somehow differed from participating committees.
Agency officials said that they simply had not wanted to confuse the committee with differing agency interpretations.
As with the environmental differences between the two locals, the origins of the research committees differ, but their objectives are similar.
The nature of the committees differ from their national counterparts as, although smaller in comparison to those of the United States Congress, the European Parliament's committees are unusually large by European standards with between eight and twelve dedicated members of staff and three to four support staff.
With fatalities mounting, various government agencies and committees differed on total deaths.
Reasons for not participating differed, for example committees 'would protect the complainants', 'would not bother the complainants', 'received too few complaints per year', 'temporal vacancy of the committee's secretary' or 'there were objections of the hospital board'.
So when members of advisory committees differ on, say, the minimum chemical disinfectant that should be required in combination with ultraviolet treatment, a public health official needs science to make informed decisions.
Mr. Pataki said he would support mandating conference committees to reconcile differing versions of the budget passed by the Senate and Assembly.
A City Council committee heard sharply differing views yesterday on a bill that would require makers of computers, televisions, digital music players and other electronic devices to set up a free "take-back" system to collect and recycle or reuse the devices.
