It is the issue of "missing persons" that has caused most anger.
Dr. Kouchner seems to have won their support for a United Nations special envoy to be appointed to take charge of the issue of missing people and detainees.
"When you work at the global scale especially, and in the ocean particularly, there is always the issue of missing data," Dr. Halpern said.
· Take practical steps to address the issue of missing and "disappeared" people, particularly through introducing effective systems for the identification and recording of bodies found and to making this information public.
His request that the Security Council also send someone to look specifically at the issue of missing persons -- a source of continued tension and weekly demonstrations in Kosovo -- was also ignored.
Hussein A. Hassouna, the Arab League's representative at the United Nations, said in an interview today that the issue of missing Kuwaiti civilians and soldiers a decade after the end of the Persian Gulf war was still important to Iraq's neighbors as well as a prerequisite to Iraq's freeing itself from United Nations supervision.
It took until 2009 for someone to do an audit, and to show that the journal editors had gone back on their word, and that half of the trials they had published since 2005 hadn't been registered properly and a quarter weren't registered at all.Similarly, laws have been passed to address the issue of missing data, but they haven't been adequately enforced.
As news broke on Thursday that a vigorous police and F.B.I. search had resumed for the remains of Etan Patz, whose disappearance as a 6-year-old in 1979 focused national attention on the issue of missing children, raw emotional reactions flooded Twitter.
We also need regulations that force transparency but avoid legal wrangles that could damage this fascinating ancient trade.Stephen Brawn Principal Locus Capital Art Advisory LondonThe world's missing people* SIR – We are grateful that you chose to highlight the issue of missing persons, which is sadly often neglected ("Dead link", October 5th).
The main challenge we face is that these assays do not report interactions for all compounds and thus, we have to handle the issue of missing labels.
In addressing the issue of missing and noisy distance measurements, a weighting function that was coupled with a soft constraint of minimum distances were introduced.
