The city avoided indictment in large part because of a legal concept known as sovereign immunity, which holds a municipality immune from prosecution absent a specific waiver.
In practice, the moves meant U.S. companies and researchers seeking a government permit to share technologies with foreign partners faced "a presumption of denial," says Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C. "If you want to export something the answer is no unless you have a specific waiver or exemption".
As this is a retrospective study utilizing de-identified data that was collected for the New York State and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) databases, specific waiver of the need for individual patient consent was granted by the Institutional Review Board.
Finally, 2 steroid drugs, dexamethasone and triamcinolone, were refused the granting of a product-specific waiver on the grounds that the clinical studies cannot fulfil a therapeutic need of the paediatric population.
Teams can be fined $250,000 for commenting on the specifics of waivers.
-- If you think you may have been exposed to a bug that will render you too sick to fly, check out specific airline waiver policies before you select a carrier, or consider purchasing an unrestricted, totally refundable ticket (These may be unaffordable but you can sometimes snag them using frequent flyer miles).
Individual consent for this specific project was waivered by our ethics committee because the research was performed on 'waste' material, stored in a coded fashion.
Individual consent for this specific project was waivered by the Academic Medical Center (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) ethics committee because the research was performed on 'waste' material, stored in a coded fashion.
On 18 October, dubbed adoption day, Iran will begin taking steps to meet its obligations under the nuclear accord and the US will issue some waivers for specific sanctions.
While the secretary said it was premature to lay out specific plans for potential waivers, his aides said that the 100 percent proficiency standard would be the main target, and that restrictions on how federal money is spent could be relaxed.
