Lobbyists for Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW - as well as VDA and ACEA, the German and European automobile associations - have prevented up-to-date car testing methods and limits from being put in place since the first EU regulations in 2007.
With corporate defaults on the rise, the prospect of widespread counterparty woes "overhangs the market like a Damocles sword that is bound to fall", George Soros, an outspoken investor, has opined.Efforts to prevent catastrophe date back to 2005, when the Federal Reserve Bank of New York first banged dealers' heads together over sloppy trade processing.
The core activity to prevent phone theft to date has been the blacklisting of phone handsets.
Although tremendous efforts have been devoted to prevent HIV transmission, to date, no effective HIV vaccine is available [ 2].
Studies involving the use of progesterone as an agent to prevent preterm birth date to the 1960's [ 15], although with the recent publication of randomised trials, there has been renewed interest in its use in pregnancy.
The use of transgenic crops, he points out, has to date prevented the spraying of 473 million kilograms of toxic pesticides, reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 23.1bn kg – equivalent to taking 10.2 million cars off the road – and saved 108.7 million hectares of land from being turned into farmland.
However, industry concerns over this design have to date prevented its implementation.
However, several important challenges have to date prevented the widespread commercialization of these materials.
Whilst for air-borne sound a source path receiver model is often employed with success, inherent physical problems have, to date, prevented a similar approach being adopted for structure-borne sound.
However, these studies have reported conflicting results, which has prevented a definitive conclusion to date.
Unfortunately, the quality of the reagents needed for this assessment, combined with the relative shearing resistance of HML and HMR (Teytelman et al. 2009), and the inaccessibility of key positions within HML and HMR to antibodies (Thurtle and Rine 2013) have, to date, prevented a clear resolution.
