The National Transportation Safety Board report on San Bruno said the pipeline agency's monitoring of state oversight programs and its own enforcement program had been "weak".
"This decision shows that to be effective and fair the monitoring of state aid must cover all the different -- and in some cases highly imaginative -- arrangements used by states to support companies by providing aid that is incompatible with the European competition rules," said Mario Monti, the European competition commissioner.
This is because such an approach involves policy engines, and the associated monitoring of state changes, evaluating policies and taking relevant actions.
But the report and most of the few mainstream media accounts ignored altogether an even more fundamental example of failed oversight: the federal government's lax monitoring of state Medicaid programs dispensing these potentially life-threatening medications to children.
Further studies are warranted to explore real time predictive monitoring of patient state, state transition and clinical decision support toward improved outcomes.
The proposed technique is stable and feasible and shows great potential for in-line monitoring of mixing states of suspensions.
For example, from a practical perspective the monitoring of brain states via EEG is used to determine depth of anaesthesia [39].
The USDA Forest Service and Environmental Protection Agency have cooperatively developed a knowledge base for assessment and monitoring of ecological states and processes in sixth-code watersheds.
This is largely due to the absence of specific and sensitive tests that allow early screening and monitoring of cancerous states.
For example, comparisons included combinations of supportive counselling, regular and frequent monitoring of mental states, and treatment as usual.
