"This year we have seen some truly shocking examples, with sensitive personal information, including health records and court documents, being lost or misplaced, causing considerable distress to those concerned".
Yet there is evidence that when it comes to privacy, consumers are willing to make trade-offs -- for example, parting with personal information to sign up for a supermarket discount card or for one-click ordering at Amazon.com, or, indeed, for a free e-mail service.
For example, registrars with personal experience of racial discrimination were more likely to report the teaching environment as 'poor' (OR = 11.9; 95% CI 1.8 77.1) even when controlling for race.
In a community survey (n = 3 010), for example, although people with personal experience of depression viewed depression as more disabling than other medical conditions, 40% of those with major depression considered antidepressants harmful [ 2, 14].
Friedman explains clearly and convincingly, writes engagingly and laces his text with personal examples.
When "The Dream is Over" blog appeared on the United Nations Web site, teachers in Uruguay responded with personal examples of how OLPC's laptops have helped to improve their students' literacy and reduce truancy.
Mitt has attempted to answer his critics by providing us with personal examples of his blue-collar connections.
I will expound on all of these in the coming weeks with personal examples from my life as a global entrepreneur.
During the implementation period, the NSFs supported sports clubs in different ways, for example, by providing them with personal guidance, financial resources, advice and (promotional) materials.
Knowledge on physical activity, which constitutes a proxy of the inhalation rate (Kawahara et al. 2011), for example, may be integrated with personal air pollution measurements to estimate inhalation dose.
