Yes, said the French culture minister, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, last week after the French government announced changes intended to ease procedures for foreign artists and culture professionals seeking temporary visas.
Qatar has promised to pass legislation by the end of this year that would ease procedures for exit visas and improve recruitment, housing and working conditions for migrant workers who constitute a majority of the Gulf state's population.
But surely growing up in what was still a communist dictatorship cannot have been conducive to creativity? "The worst years of communism were over," Schiff says, "and in the 1970s there was a certain easing procedure, what they later called Goulash Communism.
The methods to create tumor models have eased procedures and yielded high success rates.
"If anything, it is accelerating". Since the July attacks, Blair's government has toughened anti-terrorism laws, making it a crime to "glorify" terrorism and easing procedures for deporting clerics and others who advocate violence.
The new law is a boon to all technical workers, including postdocs, in that it removes what were, up until recently, severe restrictions on the numbers of people who could come to work in the U.S. and eases procedures for lengthening their stays.
Therefore, our results can also ease the procedure of 'guessing the correct limit'.
Ease of procedure was derived by asking the nurse to appraise his/her assessment of the ease of obtaining bloodwork.
However, given the sample size, this may have contributed to the lack of difference in the number of attempts and ease of procedure and possibly to the relatively low success rates of the venipuncture.
The high sensitivity and specificity, ease of operation procedures, and the automatic processing of measured data make the developed assay a useful tool for the rapid and accurate genotyping of M. tuberculosis.
Negotiators could also reform the dispute settlement mechanism and ease customs procedures and handling fees.
