The interventions were all drawn from submission by the pharmaceutical companies to the PBAC.
We agree with the reviewer that the key conclusions drawn from the experiments presented in the initial submission required further validation.
While most scientific conferences have a similar financial equation, the vast majority are organized by nonprofits with members drawn from the scientific community, rigorously peer review submissions, and strictly limit the number of presentations.
Speaking about submissions to the revised category, the Board said "that it would be disappointing if an event occurred at 8 a.m. and the first item in an entry was drawn from the next day's newspaper".
Contest submissions will be judged by a panel drawn from the LittleBigPlanet and Spore game playing communities, as well as experts recruited by the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory HASTACC).
Digital Mission received over 120 submissions and the eventual winners were selected by "an advisory board of industry experts drawn from the UK community including: VC's, export specialists, legal experts, journalist and industry pundits".
In addition to receiving 8000 online submissions from hopefuls across Europe, Forbes' skilled reporters combed the region for leading innovators in all ten categories, and also drew from the insights of its wide-reaching community.
The final listing recommendation was determined from the 2006 resubmission, but qualitative statements about surrogates could be drawn from either submission.
The list of targets was drawn from 200 submissions solicited through the Web site of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, based in San Francisco.
The scale of the report – it drew from 170 written submissions and evidence from 73 witnesses who were asked more than 4,350 questions – is without precedent.
A dossier drawn from submissions by 175 individual families affected by the rule includes the case of an Australian who works as a £250,000-a-year chief financial officer of a multinational company in Dubai and has a £3.5m property in Britain.
