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A ruling this week by the US Patent Office's Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) has set the stage for clarifying the relationship between inter partes review (IPR) proceedings and district court patent litigation.
Ultratec, Inc. brought a patent infringement suit in the Western District of Wisconsin against Baker Botts client CaptionCall LLC on eight Ultratec patents. Both litigants are providers of communications and telephone equipment to the hearing impaired. After Ultratec filed suit in Wisconsin, CaptionCall LLC pursued IPRs of those eight patents before the PTAB. The PTAB instituted IPRs on all but one of the contested claims in the eight patents. While the IPRs were pending, the parties tried the district court case to a jury, which found that the eight patents were not invalid and were infringed, and the court entered judgment on the verdict on November 4, 2014. Post-judgment motions are currently pending before the district court.
On November 19, 2014, the parties argued the IPRs before the PTAB. On March 3, 2015, the PTAB ruled in CaptionCall LLC's favor on all claims before the PTAB, finding that the claims were not patentable.
"We are obviously pleased with the PTAB result," said B.C. Boren, a Senior Partner with Baker Botts and lead lawyer for CaptionCall LLC. "The decisions confirm our client's position throughout the course of this dispute."
It is anticipated that both the district court judgment and the PTAB decisions will be contested in both forums and will be appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
"The PTAB process is still relatively new," said Brian Oaks, the Baker Botts partner who successfully argued all eight IPRs before the PTAB.
"The interplay between IPRs and related district court patent litigation is a very hot issue right now. The scope and timing of these decisions are unique, and I expect that we will be addressing a lot of the questions practitioners are asking in this new environment over the next several months." "One thing is certain," said Boren. "A unified approach to district court litigation and inter partes review proceedings will be critical going forward."


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Discussion in 'On Topic' started by one66stang, Apr 10, 2006.
If you do post up I have a question to ask about a "noise" I`m hearing
What kind of noise is it?
With the slide locked back. if you tilt the gun back and forth you can hear movement. When you tear the gun down you can see the moving part on the gas tube. It has about 3/4" movement. Best I can tell its supposed to move. I have never noticed it before though. I will look up a drawing and get the names of the piece that is moving.
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Dude, that's ancient, was probably released around the time of the vikings ;)
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I'm the motherfucking techno viking.
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I am the walrus
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I was born in 1964, I could be a reincarnate Paul Macarney......who-ever the fuck he is.
@Manny, if you slacken off the banana, the falling of the nonsense will slide gently around about yesterday I think it was enough to change the essence of what you choose will inevitably lead to the tomato sauce bottle.
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To kiss my ass (to kiss my ass)
Everybody (everybody)
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Whatever weather, cold or warm
His toenails are limp, sphincter flaccid, ball sack are tight
There's food on his bra already, great great great great great great great great grandma's kebab
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to kiss my ass,
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And I am, outstanding
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You better touch myself
You own it, you better never let it go
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This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
You better touch myself
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This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
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Follow the my nose as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through Firth Street
I once used to call home sweet home
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Rejoice every time you hear the sound of my limp toenails
Just know that I'm looking down on you wanking
And I didn't feel a thing, So baby don't feel no pain
Just touch myself
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Rejoice every time you hear the sound of his flaccid sphincter
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Now……..it's time to ditch the diapers! The best way for your child to be more aware of their own peeing and pooping occurrences is to put them in some underwear. So invest in some fun and interesting underwear that they can start wearing. If your child is younger and likes Spongebob or Mickey Mouse, get some character underwear. If your child is artistic, you could decorate some plain underwear with fabric pens together to prepare for wearing them. If they like letters and numbers, you could sew some on the underwear or use an iron on transfer. If your child is older, perhaps you could include them in the selection of the underwear you buy. Try different types, briefs, boxers, natural fibers if your child is sensitive, etc. If you are not ready to completely ditch the diapers yet, you could start with them wearing the underwear over the top of their pull-up or diaper to get used to this transition.
Letting go of the diapers is a really great way for your child to actually experience the feel of not having something that locks away the pee when they go. They will feel lighter and freer and could become more aware of what their body is telling them and how it feels when they are ready to go.
Prepare for some accidents – they will happen. If you have a nice Persian rug or leather couch you want to protect and it helps you, bring in some dustsheets or a cover to protect them and make sure you have plenty of extra clothes, underwear, old towels, wipes, plastic bags hand-sanitizer, etc on hand in each room so that you are never far away from an easy clean up. Doing this in the Son-Rise Program playroom is going to be the most suitable environment to do this because you will be able to be more present with your child and the cleanup will be confined to just one room.
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One topic leads to another! How many of you think cork taint is less common than it was a few years ago? I think things have gotten better and I know of at least one cork broker who has a method of purging the TCA out of the corks before delivery. Plus, they work with a very sophisticated wine lab and the QC is much better. What do you think? Read More
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In Italy the M&A process that has involved the banking system in the '90s has revived the question about the real gain of these operations in terms of operative costs reduction for the institutions involved. The studies on scale and scope economies, however, do not provide univocal answers about such question. In this article we define an ad hoc model to study Italian cooperative banks' costs when output level and its composition are modified. This kind of bank deserves attention because of the variety of M&A processes in which they have been involved and the recent debate about the evolution of their model of governance. The basic elements of the model are: i) a new definition of bank output (which explicitly considers the fact that it is a bundle of services); ii) the specification and the inclusion of the distributive channels; iii) a functional form to represent the cost function which needs to be more flexible than the Cobb Douglas or translog functions usually adopted in literature; iv) indexes suitable to the study and consistent with the assumptions. In particular, the cost functional form adopted here is "Fourier flexible" (FF), an analytical form rarely used in the literature on the Italian banking system. The FF presents some problems about the cutting off of the series, that we solve with an a priori assumption on the interaction between the variables considered and the introduction of a number of parameters which make the estimate normally and asymptotically consistent. The results show that only small and medium size cooperative banks (regionally distributed) are characterised by positive scale economies. The small and the big ones (locally and nationally distributed) show instead diseconomies of scale. Nevertheless some of them have a good profitability. Finally, the analysis of economy of scale and subadditivity expansion path indexes does not reveal significant gains in terms of costs for banks that modify their bundle of products.
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Originally from Chicago, Houses is Dexter Tortoriello and Megan Messina. They formed in 2010 after a 3 month stint in Papaikou Hawaii living off the land . With no modern conveniences the couple worked for meals during the day cultivating indigenous microorganisms and learning the basics of sustainable living. They drank, showered and cooked with rain water applying the basics of grassroots, cultivated reality known to few. This was the inspiration behind their first album All Night put out on Lesfe Records. In the time since the couple have moved to Los Angeles, signed to Downtown Records (Major Lazer, White Denim, Cold War Kids, Miike Snow, Santigold) and written their sophomore album A Quiet Darkness with an equally if not more beautiful process. Recorded over the course of 2012 splitting time between their new home and Sonic Ranch, A Quiet Darkness's narrative tells the story of a husband and wife separated in the midst of a nuclear disaster and their attempt to reunite with one another along the Highway 10 in California before their inevitable deaths, each song taking place in different abandoned houses along the way. Tortoriello and Messina made the same trek a couple of times themselves to record sound and video at these abandoned houses that are featured in the album. The album's celestial ambiance and wanderlust concepts are conveyed throughout the recording with techniques employed by Tortoriello's production and the stark contrast between the minimal electronic pulses, found sounds and meandering and melancholy harmonies. The ethereal sound on which Houses was built is woven through A Quiet Darkness, the 2013 release shows a deep and pensive side to a band who clearly encompass a darker side of bliss; a bold new bravado that will resonate with anyone who has ever experienced love and loss.
It's tempting to roll your eyes when a band bursts out of the gate boasting their own invented genre label. On their weirdly intoxicating debut album, Wormfood, Detroit duo Jamaican Queens have branded their particular style "Detroit trap pop," but it's a note-perfect description—over nine familiar-yet-strangely-foreign tunes, vocalist/producer Ryan Spencer and producer/instrumentalist Adam Pressley dole out warbled, snot-nosed indie-pop melodies over hip-hop beats (booming 808 snares, whizzing synths), with a gritty, street-level lyrical approach focused on urban violence, drug parties, and social decay.
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Hello World
I am working on a new mode for a language that has many quirks.
In the token() function, I'm gathering meta information into the state object and this object is nicely available with the lineInfo() method; however, it is not available until the line has been "seen" by CM.
I have been searching for a method to cause the entire document to go through the token() process so that the meta information is collected. And, NO, I do not wish to tell my users to scroll to the bottom and then run the indention routine!
I am not certain that our good friend Marijn had BASIC in mind when creating this wonderful product. QMBASIC has a challenging syntax for indentation.
Any help is always appreciated!
ThanksVielen DankeMerci BeaucoupGraciasDakujemSpasiba
(yes, I am American...)
The getStateAfter method with true as second argument is probably what you're looking for.
What I'm needing is a way to store metadata on each line. I had been trying to put it into the state variable, but this has not been a good approach because it mutates.
For now, I think I'll just use an external array until I get this sorted out.
The methodology will work once the control arrays are stable.
If your mode needs to store something, the state is the proper place for that. I'm not sure what you mean by 'it mutates'.
I need to store 2 arrays for each line. Some of the indentation rules depend upon what was in the preceding lines.
Some statements go to multiple lines:
In this example, we know that we wish to add to the indention level after the ELSE clause, reduce before END THEN, add after and then reduce again before the final END.
This is but 1 way that the syntax allows.
If I capture the keywords on the line in an array:
horizontal[0] = 'READ'horizontal[1] = 'ELSE'vertical[0] = 'READ'
I can now determine when to increase the indention level.
What has been a problem was the pushing and popping of these arrays when they are attached to the state object and when that object is passed into the indent() function.
It almost works.
I've just been reading the documentation and other forum topics.
Apparently, it is improper to try to do anything with line numbers as the data must be a stream.
It would be possible to push and pop the control arrays inside of the CM object during the tokenization phase, but it would require:
Thus, we start with stream.sol(), the tokens are scanned and stored. At stream.eol(), we can now determine if we should indent and how far.
I do not see a state.indent() method. What I will try tomorrow is a state.myIndent being set as an integer at the stream.eol() and before returning. I can then loop through the lines and perform an indent.
Something for tomorrow
OK. I'm stuck yet again.
I'm doing some external operations in JS where I need to process the lines inside the CM object. The problem is that, until the lines have been viewed by the user by scrolling, they do not have data set up in the state object for that line.
For example, I have a 1700-line program. In order to get all the lines tokenized and a state set up, I must first scroll to the bottom of the document, then call the external function.
Is there not a method to have CM scan all lines upon the initial load?
OK. Viewport Margin - set to a high number. That seems to have fixed it.
Yes, there is, as I mentioned before: getStateAfter with true as second argument.


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Prior research has shown that less social support is associated with increased mortality in individuals with chronic illnesses. We set out to determine whether lower propensity to seek support as indicated by relationship style, based on attachment theory, is associated with mortality in patients with diabetes.
A total of 3,535 nondepressed adult patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes enrolled in a health maintenance organization in Washington State were surveyed at baseline and followed for 5 years. Relationship style was assessed at baseline. Patients with a greater propensity to seek support were classified as having an interactive relationship style and those less inclined to seek support as having an independent relationship style. We collected Washington State mortality data and used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate relative risk (RR) of death for relationship style groups.
The rate of death in the independent and interactive relationship style groups was 39 and 29 per 1,000 individuals, respectively. Unadjusted RR of death was 1.33 (95% CI 1.12–1.58), indicating an increased risk of death among individuals with an independent relationship style. After adjustment for demographic and clinical covariates, those with an independent relationship style still had a greater risk of death compared with those with an interactive relationship style (hazard ratio 1.20 [95% CI 1.01–1.43]).
In a large sample of adult patients with diabetes, a lower propensity to reach out to others is associated with higher mortality over 5 years. Further research is needed to examine possible mechanisms for this relationship and to develop appropriate interventions.
The presence of a supportive social network positively affects health by increasing access to instrumental, informational, and emotional support (1). In patients with diabetes, a higher level of social support is associated with improved treatment adherence, better glycemic control, and greater diabetes knowledge (2). Conversely, lower social support has been associated with higher mortality in patients with various chronic conditions (3,4), including patients with diabetes (5).
Clinicians treating patients with chronic conditions generally understand these associations and attempt to encourage patients to seek and receive greater support from patients' family, friends, peers, and social agencies. Clinicians may also encourage greater collaboration in the patient-provider relationship. Although many patients are receptive to such suggestions and efforts, a significant proportion is less receptive or not receptive at all. For example, regardless of the ready availability of a social network, many patients do not benefit from their support at times of need. Among patients who do not collaborate well with others, many have long-term patterns of not doing so, suggesting the influence of stable characteristics. If there are measurable patient characteristics that predict an individual's capacity to use supports over time, such information may be useful for shaping approaches and recommendations that providers make in clinical settings.
Attachment theory provides a theoretical, evidence-based model for understanding the propensity and ability of individuals to reach out to others for support. This theory posits that all individuals develop a cognitive map based on prior experiences that determines one's comfort and ability to interact with or reach out to others, particularly at times of distress (6). On the basis of empirical research in infants, children, and adults over the past 30 years, distinct relationship styles arising from these cognitive maps have been identified (7) and demonstrate high levels of stability and continuity between early childhood and adulthood (8). Two of the styles, "dismissing" and "fearful" attachment style, are characterized by difficulty reaching out for support or trusting others, and patients with these styles and characteristics have been described as having an independent relationship style (9). Among clinical populations with diabetes, 48% of patients are typically found to have an independent relationship style (10). The remainder have an interactive relationship style, comprising those with "secure" and "preoccupied" attachment styles. Patients with an interactive relationship style have greater comfort reaching out to others, although individuals with a preoccupied style are often characterized as being highly dependent on others (11).
In a large sample of primary care patients with diabetes (9,12), an independent relationship style has been associated with more missed primary care visits, lower satisfaction with care, higher A1C levels, and decreased adherence to exercise, quitting smoking, foot care, diet, and oral hypoglycemic medications. Another study showed that having a relationship style characterized by difficulty trusting or reaching out to others is associated with decreased adherence to glucose monitoring and insulin injections among patients with diabetes (13).
In a recent article, we demonstrated that patients with major depression in this epidemiological sample were more likely to die over a 5-year period (hazard ratio [HR] 1.53) (14). In the current study, we set out to determine whether relationship styles are associated with mortality in patients with diabetes. Because depression status is associated with poorer collaboration as measured by relationship style (15), we conducted our analyses in nondepressed patients. In the current study, we hypothesized that among nondepressed patients with diabetes, those with an independent relationship style would have higher mortality over a 5-year period than patients with an interactive relationship style.
Group Health Cooperative (GHC) is a mixed model prepaid health plan serving about 500,000 members in Washington State. Most GHC patients receive medical services within the integrated group practice, which includes 30 primary care clinics in Western Washington. The GHC enrollment is demographically similar to the area population. Nine GHC primary care clinics were selected for the study based on 1) having the largest number of patients with diabetes, 2) geographic proximity to Seattle, and 3) racial and ethnic diversity. All study procedures were approved by institutional review boards at GHC and the University of Washington.
The original cohort for this longitudinal study, the Pathways Epidemiology Study, was sampled from adults aged ≥18 years from the GHC diabetes registry who received care at any one of the nine study clinics between 2000 and 2002. The diabetes registry database includes all GHC members meeting any of the following eligibility criteria in the prior 12 months: filled prescription for insulin or an oral hypoglycemic agent, two fasting glucose levels ≥126 mg/dl in a 12-month period, two random plasma glucose levels ≥200 mg/dl in a 12-month period, two outpatient diagnoses of diabetes, or any inpatient diagnosis of diabetes. Beginning in March 2001, surveys were mailed to 9,064 potentially eligible patients, but 1,222 patients were later found to be ineligible because of death, disenrollment, and erroneous diagnosis of diabetes or cognitive impairment. Among 7,841 eligible patients, 4,839 subjects (61.7% of eligible patients) returned the baseline questionnaire.
Participants completed the four-item Relationship Questionnaire (7) and were categorized as being characterized by one of four attachment styles. This instrument demonstrates convergent and discriminant validity with other self-report and interview ratings (7). The dismissing and fearful attachment styles, which are associated with difficulty trusting others and reaching out for support, were combined to form the independent relationship style group (10). The other two attachment styles, secure and preoccupied, were grouped together because they are associated with a greater propensity to reach out to others and formed the interactive relationship style group.
The baseline questionnaire included demographic characteristics: age, sex, years of education, employment, race/ethnicity, and marital status. Questions about clinical status included age of onset and duration of diabetes, treatment at onset of disease, smoking, height, and weight. Type 1 diabetes was diagnosed in patients if age of onset was ≤30 years, insulin was the first treatment prescribed, and they were currently taking insulin.
GHC conducts an annual automated search of enrollee deaths using death registry files of Washington State. We determined the vital status of our participants using this information, and several additional deaths were ascertained at the time of the follow-up telephone survey. The date of death was obtained from Washington State death records.
Computerized pharmacy records were used to calculate a chronic disease score known as RxRisk, which was a measure of medical comorbidity based on prescription drug use in the previous 12 months (16). The RxRisk score has been shown to predict subsequent hospitalization and mortality rates over the next 1-year period. A higher score indicates more medical comorbidity (16). For this study, insulin, antidepressants, and oral hypoglycemic medications were not included in the RxRisk calculation, and we consider this score to be an index of overall medical comorbidity excluding diabetes and depression.
We searched the computerized medical record for baseline diagnoses in seven categories of diabetes complications (retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, cerebrovascular, cardiovascular, peripheral vascular, and metabolic) to calculate a diabetes complications severity index, which has been shown to predict mortality and hospitalization rates over the next 1-year period in our system (17). We searched GHC automated data for the nearest A1C in the 18 months before the return date of the screening questionnaire.
Evidence of prior macrovascular and microvascular complications and coronary (stent placement, coronary artery bypass surgery, or angioplasty), cerebrovascular (carotid endarterectomy), and peripheral vascular procedures were developed from automated data using ICD-9 and CPT codes and verified by chart review. The specific codes and definitions of events were developed using methods developed in the Women's Health Initiative study (18).
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics were compared between those with independent and interactive relationship styles using χ2 analyses or independent group t tests. Incident death rates per 1,000 individuals were calculated for the entire sample and separately for those with independent and interactive relationship style groups. We used a Cox proportional hazards model without covariates to compute the unadjusted HR that estimates the relative risk (RR) of death for the relationship style groups. A multivariable Cox model was also fit, examining the RR of death for the relationship groups including covariates that were chosen a priori because they are risk factors for mortality in our previous research or were found to have significant univariate relationships to the relationship style groups. Adjusted HRs and their 95% CIs were determined for relationship style and for each covariate.
All subjects were used in the analysis; those who died during the 5-year interval had a dependent variable of the time to death calculated by the difference between their study screening date and date of death obtained from Washington State death records. Patients were censored at their follow-up assessment data at the end of the study or when lost to follow-up, as determined by disenrollment from GHC. The average length of follow-up was 4.5 ± 0.9 years (mean ± SD) for the sample and 4.5 ± 0.9 years for each of the relationship style groups.
The analysis sample consisted of 3,535 participants with type 1 and type 2 diabetes who completed the 5-year assessment, who gave permission for their medical records to be abstracted, who completed the relationship style questionnaire at baseline, and who did not have current major depression at baseline (73.1% of the total respondent baseline sample) (Fig. 1).
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics were compared between the two relationship style groups and are described in Table 1. Compared with patients with independent relationship styles, patients with interactive relationship styles were significantly more likely to be male, white, more educated, and unmarried and have significantly higher BMI.
Overall the incident death rate was 34 per 1,000 individuals. The rate of death in the interactive relationship style group was 29 per 1,000 individuals (n = 251), whereas in the independent style group, the death rate was 39 per 1,000 individuals (n = 282). The unadjusted RR of death for relationship style was 1.33 (95% CI 1.12–1.58), indicating that those in the independent relationship style group had a 33% increased risk of death. Table 2 presents the Cox proportional hazards model used to derive the adjusted RR for relationship style. In the presence of salient sociodemographic, clinical, and disease severity covariates, those with an independent relationship style had a 20% increased risk of death compared with those with an interactive relationship style, the model demonstrating modest significance (HR 1.20 [95% CI 1.01–1.43]). In addition, risk of death within the 5-year period was significantly related to older age, being unmarried, more years with diabetes, using insulin, current smoking, increased medical comorbidity, having at least one macrovascular event or procedure, and having at least one microvascular event or procedure.
Prior studies have demonstrated that lower support-seeking behavior is associated with poorer treatment adherence and poorer diabetes outcomes. For example, an independent relationship style in patients with diabetes is associated with missed primary care visits, higher A1C levels, lower satisfaction with health care, and decreased adherence to foot care, exercise, diet, oral hypoglycemic medication use, insulin injections, glucose monitoring, and smoking cessation (9,12,13). This study adds to these findings by showing that patients with diabetes who are less likely to seek support based on their relationship style have a significantly higher risk of death (HR 1.20) compared with those who are more likely to seek support, even after controlling for potential risk factors of mortality known to also be associated with relationship styles such as age, marital status, medical comorbidity, diabetes complications, and BMI (9).
This is the first known study to demonstrate that relationship styles, or attachment styles, show an association with mortality. It is possible that there are immunological differences between relationship style groups (19) or that the buffering effects of social support on the stress response may have beneficial effects on immune function or neuroendocrine and cardiovascular reactivity (20). However, poorer adherence to diabetes self-care and related lifestyle behaviors in patients with an independent relationship style may be the main mediator of this association. Many self-management behaviors related to diabetes are optimally undertaken in collaboration with support of others—family, peers, and health care providers. For example, smoking cessation is best carried out with the emotional, motivational, and tangible support of others. Changing or maintaining behaviors related to a healthy diet and exercise are best undertaken with supportive others, i.e., those who are actually doing the cooking, or others with whom to exercise also provide motivational support. In addition, as a chronic condition gets more severe or as the number of complications or other medical comorbidities accumulates, a self-reliant approach (i.e., "being a self-starter") that worked initially may no longer be effective or may become a liability. In other words, the proportion of tasks that require support of others for completion begins to outweigh tasks that can be carried out without the support of others. Longitudinal studies using repeated measures of self-management are needed to definitively determine whether decreased levels of self-care and adherence are primary mediators of the association between relationship style and mortality.
Clinicians in medical settings are uniquely poised to help change the trajectory of outcomes in patients with an independent relationship style. However, rather than focusing on changing an individual's relationship style, a clinical team can offer a patient alternative ways of engaging with the health care system in pursuing desired outcomes. For example, in a study that examined depression management in 324 patients with diabetes (10), a collaborative care approach that involved a focus on patient preferences, tailoring of patients' care through outreach or extra telephone calls with a nurse case manager, and facilitation of communication between the patient and the primary care provider was compared with usual primary care. Among patients with an independent relationship style, collaborative care resulted in significantly reduced depression over 12 months and significantly greater satisfaction with care compared with usual care control subjects. Among patients receiving the intervention, those with an independent relationship style also received significantly more case management sessions than patients with an interactive relationship style even though relationship style was not actively used to determine session frequency. Among patients with an interactive relationship style, there was no difference in depression outcomes between the two treatment arms. This somewhat paradoxical outcome points out that patients with an interactive relationship style probably already have an advantage in interacting with providers and health teams to navigate through a relatively fragmented prevailing health care system (i.e., usual care) compared with individuals with an independent relationship style, and the intervention components did not confer any added advantage.
Current initiatives to reduce health care fragmentation are slow in taking shape because of the expense and need for significant system redesign. A focus on relationship style–focused care in the patient-provider relationship may be attractive from the perspective of resource-limited health care systems. Clinical education about the theoretical basis and evidence regarding relationship styles may be followed by clinical use of one of the many validated attachment style measurement instruments (21). Such steps may encourage greater provider empathy and understanding with less collaborative patients who might otherwise be labeled as "difficult" (22) because of missed appointments and lack of adherence to physician recommendations and provoke nihilism or power struggles from busy providers.
In addition to collaborative care interventions (10,23), other existing strategies may be used to address patients' need for autonomy while respecting their potential fear of intimacy. The result may be increases in collaboration, treatment adherence, and outcomes. For example, clinical methods that increase patient empowerment, techniques based on motivational interviewing, relationship-focused problem-solving therapy, assisted navigators (24), patient coaching, or use of prompt sheets (25) in which interpersonal preferences can be stated and addressed all hold promise as potential interventions in this regard.
If we assume that the impact of independent relationship styles on poor outcomes could be significantly reduced using clinical strategies, it is worth considering the public health benefits of such strategies. One way to explore these is to get a better understanding of the adverse impact that an independent relationship style can have on a population of individuals with diabetes by comparing it to the impact of depression on health outcomes and mortality in patients with diabetes. For example, we have previously found in this same epidemiological sample that the adjusted odds of all-cause mortality in patients with major depression compared with that in nondepressed patients was 1.53 (95% CI 1.19–1.96) (14). With a prevalence of major depression of 12%, the population-attributable risk percent effect is estimated to be 4.94%, i.e., the percentage of the population in whom a given outcome (e.g., death) could be theoretically eliminated by addressing the factor causing the outcome (e.g., depression). In the current analysis, in nondepressed patients with diabetes, 46%, or approximately four times as many individuals, have an independent relationship style, albeit with a lower associated risk of mortality (HR 1.20). From a population attributable risk percent perspective, however, assuming that the adverse impact of an independent relationship style on health outcomes could be significantly reduced, the theoretical percentage of deaths that could be similarly eliminated by addressing the impact of an independent relationship style is 12.48%. In reality, the association between major depression and death or relationship style and death is highly complex. This comparison, however is useful in that it suggests that if there are actions that can reduce the influence of an independent relationship style on outcomes in patients with diabetes, there is a strong possibility of improving outcomes and reducing mortality over time.
Strengths of this study include the following characteristics: clinical diagnosis of diabetes from chart data, automated data-derived indexes of medical comorbidity and complications, automated laboratory data, and automated collection of death data based on state records. In addition to demographic characteristics, our baseline data included a number of clinical characteristics including diabetes duration, specific diabetes treatment type, and treatment adherence. Further strengths include the fact that this is a large representative primary care population sample of patients with diabetes. In addition, the longitudinal nature of this study, with measures of relationship style at baseline with subsequent death data, improves the validity of the results as compared with cross-sectional data.
Limitations of the study include the fact that these data may not generalize to other populations, e.g., rural populations, or populations with lower socioeconomic status or with limitations in insurance coverage. Also, a limitation of these data is that even with a moderately high response rate at baseline, there was some attrition of the sample over the 5-year follow-up period.
In summary, in a large primary care sample of adult patients with diabetes, having a lower propensity to reach out to others is associated with higher mortality over 5 years. Further research is needed to examine possible mechanisms for this relationship and to develop effective interventions.
This study was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (K24-MH-067587 to W.J.K. and MH-073686 to M.V.K.).
P.C. is CEO of Samepage, which is in the business of consulting and creating interventions to improve patient-provider relationships. No other potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.
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The Committee was welcomed by Dr Kevin Bond, Chief
Executive, Yorkshire Water, who provided background on the ARBRE
biomass (short-rotation coppice, SRC) project.
In 1994 the project obtained a NFFO contract and
a grant from the EU's THERMIE programme. Technical design and
planning approval commenced and was completed early in 1997. Following
discussions with several banks, it was found to be difficult to
provide non-recourse finance for the project. Yorkshire Water
had hoped to finance it "off budget", i.e. as a separate
project. Although the technology was straightforward and the individual
elements were well understood, the banks were reluctant to become
involved, primarily due to perceived risk in fuel supplies. Faced
with this difficulty Yorkshire Water incorporated the project
into its balance sheet as an internally supported project. Contracts
were then signed allowing the site construction and fuel supplies
to proceed.
As an aside, Dr Bond observed that assistance under
the NFFO requires that a specific site be identified with deadlines
placed on completion in advance of projects being started. A more
flexible system based on providing capacity was needed for projects
where broad objectives were set, e.g. so many megawatts to be
produced from biomass. This would allow the sites to be determined
Dr Bond said the individual elements of the technology
were well understood; it was simply a matter of sorting out the
logistics of the fuel supply. Fuel transport costs led to the
constraint that the coppice fuel be typically within a radius
of 40 miles of the generating plant.
Doug Everard, the MD of ARBRE Energy Limited, gave
a detailed presentation on the project. Yorkshire Water, as an
environmental services company, will generate a third of its power
from renewable sources, which include wind, landfill gas, waste
to energy and ARBRE. Wind energy and biomass were the two systems
they had examined in detail for future development and the company
plans to develop around 350 MW of biomass projects. The first,
the ARBRE biomass project, was a 10 MW unit with a capital investment
of approximately £25 million. The technology to generate
renewable electricity was clear: the challenge was to make the
economics work.
In addition to growing willow for fuel from short-rotation
coppice - which took four years from planting to first harvest,
and several years to establish agreement with the necessary number
of farmers - they were using forestry residue. They were building
a rail link to transport this from forests, including Thetford
and Keilder.
The generation cost from the NFFO contract was set
at 8p per unit. This was three times that for gas but they expected
improvements to bring the biomass fuel, construction and operation
costs down to produce electricity at around 5-6p per unit in the
next 6-7 years: there would still be a price premium for the product.
However, Government policy measures in supporting energy crops
would have a significant effect on reducing biomass fuel prices,
leading in turn to lower energy prices.
Keith Pitcher, Director, provided more detail on
SRC. The plot sizes are small, often below 10ha, but ARBRE planned
to set a minimum size of 10ha in future contracts. It costs about
£2,250 to establish a coppice, a significant element of which
is the cost of the fencing to keep rabbits out and the supply
of willow cuttings; transportation of the finished product is
also significant. Larger coppices will result in lower establishment
The difficulty with the EU subsidy regimes is that
there is no long-term support for energy crops. Set-aside payments
are only available on certain land and were subject to uncertainty,
especially over the longer term. For a long-term crop which requires
significant initial investment in fencing and which requires specialist
machinery for planting and harvesting etc., this uncertainty is
a major difficulty.
During discussion, the point was made that if the
objective was to encourage the use of renewables, some mechanism
had to be found to incorporate environmental costs into the price
of electricity. The need for a specific policy for energy crops
was also emphasised. Whilst ARBRE staff recognised the advantages
of an annual crop, for example miscanthus, at present combustion
technology was more suited to crops which left minimum residue,
ash etc. Willow had a distinct advantage in this respect as well
as being suited to local growing conditions. However, other crops
including miscanthus would make a valuable contribution to fuel
supplies for projects being developed in the United Kingdom.
The Committee was shown around the approximately
2ha coppice on land owned by Askham Bryan Agricultural College,
near York. This was in its second year. Cuttings are planted using
specially designed machinery in a cleared field free of all perennial
weeds. At the end of the first year, the willow is cut back to
ground level, then allowed to grow for 3 further years before
it is harvested. It is then harvested on a 3 year cycle. Willow
is tolerant of a broad range of conditions although it needs a
slightly alkaline soil. A mix of willow varieties is planted to
improve disease resistance. An incidental difficulty is that,
at present, there is only one supplier of cuttings in the United
Kingdom. Many parts of the process are below the critical size
necessary to create competition within the industry and hence
reduce costs.
When harvested, the crop is approximately 6m high.
Harvested on a 3 year cycle the yield is approximately 9-12 oven-dried
tons per hectare per year at first harvest, rising to 12-15 oven-dried
tonnes per hectare per year in subsequent harvests.
The Committee visited the generating site under construction
at Eggborough, near Selby. The site's layout and steel erection
is almost complete but no equipment is installed. ARBRE hope construction
will be complete "by Christmas" (1999). The process
is to convert the wood chips to gas which will be used in a combined
cycle plant comprising a gas turbine and steam turbine to maximise
The incoming wood chips, after screening and drying,
are gasified at around 850°C under controlled conditions
to provide primarily carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane. After
cleaning the gas is compressed and injected into the gas turbine
and combusted at high temperature. The output is then passed to
a steam boiler to drive a steam turbine. The total output of the
plant is made up of approximately 4MW from the gas turbine and
6MW from the steam turbine. Nearly 20 per cent of the power generated
is used on site, including gas compression and site services,
leaving 8MW to be exported to the local grid. Waste heat from
the boiler is used to dry the wood chips.
During our final discussions Dr Bond emphasised that,
as an environmental services organisation, Yorkshire Water had
a mixed energy policy which encouraged energy efficiency and renewables.
The company concentrates on onshore wind energy and biomass and
plans to develop future projects as part of the Government's plans
for expanding this energy sector. Yorkshire Water already achieves
the equivalent of around 35 per cent of its own energy needs from
renewables and is at the leading edge of its chosen technologies.
A major difficulty at present was not the technologies
themselves but the wood fuel supply chain: all the elements necessary
to sustain a new industry require to be put in place. Financing
the biomass sector was difficult as the banks were not used to
a supply chain which involved many small farmers. They were looking
for a large public entity to guarantee loans, but by its very
nature this was a local industry and cost reduction would flow
from competition between small innovative companies, not big ones
such as Yorkshire Water. Dr Bond advocated a levy on conventional
power generation to support all elements of the renewable energy
sector. If CO2 targets were to be met then all renewable
technologies, including wind, waste and biomass, would be needed.
Members present:
Lord Birdwood
Baroness Hogg (Chairman)
Earl of Selborne
Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
Lord Walton of Detchant
Lord Williamson of Horton
UKREP: Mr Robert Lowson, Minister (Agriculture)
The Minister provided an overview of EU agricultural
policy with particular reference to non-food crops (NFC). He described
an overall change in support policy from commodity pricing to
area payments with more emphasis on regulatory matters. Support
was within an overall financial envelope which essentially restricted
new initiatives until 2006 at the earliest. There were unlikely
to be any great changes in the support regime until after the
WTO meeting in 2003, and then changes were more likely to be evolutionary
than revolutionary. The Minister described the Commission as "talking
a good game"; both the Energy and Environment Directorates
had many aspirations, but if they needed money from Directorate-General
VI (Agriculture) nothing was likely to come of them.
The intent of Agenda 2000 was to bring cereal prices
closer to the world level and hence end the set-aside mechanism.
As most interest in NFC was in growing them on set-aside land,
this interest had waned, but as set aside was to remain there
was now renewed interest in NFC.
Some Member States had initiatives to encourage the
use of sustainable energy; for example Austria was keen to promote
bio-diesel and exempted it from tax to enable it to compete with
regular hydrocarbons for fuel supply. However, the majority of
Member States saw NFC, particularly bio-mass, as simply a mechanism
for providing jobs for farmers (except for tobacco which was a
?1 billion "social policy"). Politically, the Council
had an interest in renewables in general, and the United Kingdom
had specifically promoted their use in electricity generation.
The European Parliament had put considerable pressure on the Commission
to support the development of renewables.
Fischler Cabinet: Mr John Benstead-Smith
Mr John Benstead-Smith responded to a question on
whether the uncertainty over many support mechanisms, notably
set-aside, and the high level of intervention in agriculture created
uncertainty and stifled innovation. Were they mechanisms which
inhibited farmers trying new products? He said that many Member
States had different views on set-aside. For some it was simply
a question of what the land could be used for, for example, growing
energy crops. For others, the significance of renewable energy
was such that they supported tax exemption for renewable sources
and needed land to produce bio-mass. But as tax matters need unanimity,
the mechanism of set-aside could meet both objectives. However,
this meant that NFC were dependent on set aside policy which was
determined by other demands.
Mr Benstead-Smith observed that a policy based on
area payments allowed market conditions to predominate but that
some Member States were nervous of significant changes in market
management. There could be two reasons for a policy of interference
in the market, one driven by environmental logic and the other
by a "dynamic logic", i.e. to pump-prime or support
a project during the initial phases of a new activity. Member
States were clearly divided about intervention in the energy market
based on environmental grounds.
Mr Benstead-Smith tended to the conclusion that if
greater certainty was needed it could best be achieved by each
Member State basing its policy on voluntary set-aside. This would
enable each Member State to tailor its renewable policy to suit
its domestic needs.
Directorate-General Agriculture: Mr Lars Christian
Mr Hoelgaard is responsible for the organisation
of markets in crop products. He disputed the suggestion that there
was discrimination against NFC. The objective of Directorate-General
Agriculture was to support agricultural policy, that is the production
of food. If set aside land was used for other purposes it was
a side effect of that market mechanism. If there were any specific
aid for NFC it would be likely to fall foul of the Blair House
As a general rule, set aside will be around 10%;
certainly it will be at a positive rate. The production of energy
crops or bio-fuels was not economic unless there were other public
policy objectives which could provide a fiscal incentive, for
example, as part of CO2 reduction measures. Forestry
was a matter for national policy: the rural development policy
allowed investment in new forestry which could cover the planting
of short-rotation coppice. But the production of bio-fuels must
rely on Member States paying fiscal incentives for environmental
or other policy reasons for it to be economic.
There were certain areas, for example bio-degradable
oils for chain saws, which would have their own market, but these
were relatively small. Fibre crops (flax, hemp, cotton) were economically
sustainable, and short-fibre flax and hemp were being used in
the paper industry and for car interiors. Here, as in other areas,
the Germans were in the lead in developing the industry.
The sugar market was delicately balanced. There were
different arrangements for "A", "B" and "C"
sugar. If "A" sugar was priced at 100, "B"
was priced at 65 and "C" 15 which was the world market
price. The effect of allowing set aside to be used for growing
sugar or fodder beet would be to increase production of "C"
sugar. This would be undesirable.
Mr Hoelgard acknowledged that basing the definition
of "non-arable land" on 1992 data and excluding it from
set aside arrangements had the effect of excluding it from use
for NFC. But he emphasised again that the purpose of set-aside
was as a supply management tool for cereals. The uncertainty that
resulted from changes to set aside arrangements could be overcome
if NFC were restricted to voluntary set-aside. If Member States
wanted to produce NFC they should not look to make it part of
the agricultural policy and attempt to base it on a side effect
of the cereals market management programme; they should look to
rural development programmes which were decided at Member State
Renewable energy had progressed and there was a policy
that the current level of 6% of energy from renewables on average
throughout the Community should be extended to 12% by 2010. Mr
Hoelgard observed that only Britain and Sweden had any significant
interest in short-rotation coppice: Austria was keen on bio-gas
and Germany favoured using maize for energy. German industry had
also done a lot of work on using NFC in consumer products, such
as washing powders and cosmetics.
The Commission's position was quite simply that there
was a policy for agriculture, there were no excess funds and it
was not Directorate-General VI's remit to deal with CO2
effects. Any balance between environment, energy and agricultural
matters was dealt with under the co-ordinating mechanisms of the
Secretary General. It was not for Directorate-General VI to act
Directorate-General Energy: Mr Emmanuel Xenakis
Mr Xenakis described the Commission Communication
of 1997 and the subsequent White Paper which was, he said, welcomed
by the Council. The objective was to double the contribution of
renewables from 6% to 12% in 2010. He observed that 6% was an
average throughout the Community: the United Kingdom has at present
1% electricity from renewables. The objectives were three-fold:
to meet the Kyoto targets for CO2; to develop
some energy independence; and to create jobs. Bio-mass was the
most important renewable and the Commission had developed plans
to encourage increased use including a campaign with an official
Although bio-mass was most promising, one could not
generalise throughout the Community: different products suited
different countries. For example, in the United Kingdom poplar
and willow were important, in Greece sweet sorgum, in Finland
forestry residue, and in Austria and France liquid bio-fuel from
beet or cereals.
As set-aside looked likely to remain at at least
10% this should be a source of great encouragement for producers
of bio-mass. Member States could support 50% of the cost of starting
bio-mass crops but it was unlikely that there would be any assistance
for growing such crops outside the set-aside area. Similarly,
assistance for maintenance or loss of revenue from planting bio-mass
crops was unlikely as it would create difficulties for those growing
timber for paper production.
Directorate-General Energy: Mr Jean Francois Marchipont
Mr Marchipont is the Chief Adviser responsible for
NFC. He deals with research related to energy, which in practice
means the technologies for energy production, not for the bio-mass
input. The Parliament has asked that 60% of the energy research
budget be devoted to renewables and that of this, 75% go to demonstration
projects. The bulk of the bio-mass work was demonstration projects;
the problem was logistics, the collection and distribution of
the bio-mass material, suggesting that bio-mass for electricity
would only work at a local level. The Framework IV programme concentrated
on the production of electricity but Framework V had a wider remit,
allowing other uses such as transport to be included.
Of the renewable sources of energy production, wind
turbines provide electricity at a cost closest to being competitive
with conventional (fossil fuel) power stations. If the costs to
the environment of CO2 emissions were included in the
price of conventional power, the competitive position of all renewables
would improve.
Mr Marchipont said that Directorate-General XII's
work started after the collection of the bio-mass product. Crop
research was the responsibility of Directorate-General VI. Leaders
in bio-mass research within the Community were probably Germany,
France and the United Kingdom.
The Committee was welcomed by Professor Peter Stanley,
Chief Executive, who provided a brief over-view of the work of
the new laboratory and set the context for the work on non-food
crops (NFC). This work is undertaken in a relatively small group
of the Agriculture and Environment Division and is headed by Mr
Melvyn Askew.
The task of the group was to identify what industry
needed, how agricultural products might meet this need and what
would be their environmental impact. Very frequently industry
did not know what it needed and hence it was difficult to operate
a demand led programme. The Committee was then shown NFC under
three broad headings: oils; fibres; and speciality products.
The Committee was shown a wide range of products
which are produced from oil seeds. We looked only briefly at the
high erucic oil products as we would be visiting the main producer,
Croda, the following day. Some high quality German linoleum produced
from linseed oil was on display. Detergent was produced from the
seed of hemp, more widely known for its fibre products. A wide
range of other products, biodegradable cleaning solvents from
rape, surface coatings from calendula, lubricants from sunflower
oil, and many applications of waxes and polishes, showed the range
of products available from oil seed. Of particular interest in
this and the other exhibits was the large number of products from
Again the leading position of the Germany industry
was demonstrated. Mercedes use hemp fibres to replace glass fibre
for vehicle panelling. We were shown an experimental parcel shelf
produced for Ford but, because of difficulties in meeting the
Ford impact resistance test, it had yet to be put into production.
A wide range of paper and fabric products was derived from hemp,
from cigarette papers to thick absorbent matting.
In Germany the need for biodegradability, the health
problems of working with glass fibre and the lighter weight of
the fibre-based product were responsible for the increased use
of hemp and flax.
Speciality products
An eclectic mix of plants produced a wide range of
products, from woad for printing to aromatic plants for pest protection,
while evening primrose and others provided extracts for the cosmetics
industry. Mr Askew observed that the pharmaceutical industry frequently
identified the active ingredient in any plant used as a medicine
and synthesised the product.
Miss Sarah Hugo described the IENICA database (Interactive
European Network for Industrial Crops and their Applications).
This is a database giving applications for non-food crops. The
information is plant based and enables the user to identify quickly
the potential of any particular plant. The project is financed
by the Research Directorate of the European Commission and run
by the CSL. There is clearly some overlap with ACTIN database
but the latter is different in that it identifies commercial opportunities
and, for that reason, is a closed user group database. The analogous
databases in other European countries, for example Germany, are
open systems. As part of IENICA, CSL is preparing a report on
the status of each industrial crop in each EU Member State, indicating
markets, barriers and opportunities, for publication in early
The Committee visited the hemp growing programme
under glass. Transgenic hemp is modified so that the gene which
governs the production of the psychotropic chemical THC can be
switched off. This would produce a plant with zero THC, more acceptable
to regulators.
The demonstration fields showed the wide range of
crops grown including miscanthus and willow used as energy crops.
We were told that when the energy crops were scaled up to industrial
sized plantations their susceptibility to pest attack increased.
During our discussions Mr Askew was asked to identify
the key inhibiting factors to the adoption of NFC. Amongst the
leading factors he put a weakness in marketing of the products,
a general reluctance to make any change unless it was absolutely
necessary, and a general scepticism from industry of academic
research. He felt that in Germany, where the use of non-food crops
was much more advanced, and in Netherlands and France, industry
and academia were working much more closely together. There seemed
less inertia and a greater willingness to take risks. But above
all in Germany there was legislation which encouraged recycling
and the use of biodegradable products.
The Committee was welcomed by Dr Ken Dixon, Chairman
of Council. The overall work of the Biology Department was described
by Professor Alistair Fitter, Head of Department. He pointed out
the research credentials of the University (RAE 93% at Grade 4
or higher, with the Biology Department awarded a "5").
It was a highly integrated department spanning from molecular
to community biology. The funding was in excess of £20 million.
Professor Bowles described the cold stress project,
undertaken as a strategic alliance with Unilever. This involved
identifying plant genes encoding proteins that could bind to and
prevent the growth of ice crystals. The work had discovered such
an "antifreeze" protein in carrot and had confirmed
the identity of its gene, by cloning it and expressing it in a
model plant. Plant antifreeze proteins could have applications
in frozen foods or could be used to protect against ice-damage
in storage of organs for transplantation.
Three other projects were described in detail: (1)
a remediation project for "brownfield" sites, when plants
could be used to remove pollutants from the soil; (2) a project
investigating genes that control the development of plants, in
particular the extent of shoot and root branching; and (3) a project
to identify the genes encoding protein glues, in particular those
glues produced by marine mussels which have the ability to stick
under water.
In a more general round-table discussion on the application
of "functional genomics", i.e. characterising the function
of genes identified in the many genome sequencing programmes world-wide,
the discussion turned towards public attitudes to GM products.
The staff of the plant laboratory recognised the current difficulties
in perception of the relative risks and benefits of GM technology,
but emphasised that it was now an essential research tool to understand
living organisms. The application of the technology to crop plants
was an important advance and with increasing sophistication, transgenic
solutions for crop improvement and protection, as well as the
use of plants as factories to manufacture non-food industrial
products, could be designed to minimise the risk to the environment
and the consumer.
Members present:
Baroness Hogg (Chairman)
Lord Middleton
Lord Rea
The Sub-Committee was met at Croda Universal by the
Managing Director Keith Gregersen, and Mike Coverdale, Managing
Director of John L Seatons and Co. Both companies are owned by
the holding company Croda International and produce oleochemical
products for industry. The Croda Universal site produces amides
of fatty acids from high erucic acid rape seed oil (HERO) and
tallow; Seatons produce refined linseed oil and its derivatives,
mainly for use in surface coatings.
Croda International had a turnover of £355M
in 1998; its oleochemicals sector (based almost entirely on animal
and vegetable oils) accounts for 66 % of the turnover and 80 %
of the profits. 68 % of the oleochemicals work is conducted in
the United Kingdom.
Erucamide (the amide from erucic acid) is the main
product of the Croda plant. It is used as a slip agent in plastics
manufacture and injection moulding. Croda have about 40 % of the
world erucamide market and all of their erucamide production takes
place at their Hull site using United Kingdom HERO (approximately
2000 tonnes each month). Problems of changing subsidy levels and
competition with other countries (notably in North America and
China) were discussed. The situation is complicated by the fact
that HERO is banned for food use in the EU (but is used extensively
for cooking in the Far East); however it remains eligible for
both set-aside and main oil seeds regime area payment subsidies
in the European Union.
Following the introduction, we were shown the research
laboratories on site by Dr Adam Maltby. The effects of adding
even very small amounts of erucamide (as little as one part in
one thousand) as a slip agent in various plastics were demonstrated.
Its applications in plastic bags, bottle tops, syringes and injection-moulded
plastics (where the erucamide acts like greasing a cake tin) were
discussed. Dr Paul Wainwright then demonstrated Croda's facilities
for testing the amide components of various plastics. The ability
to offer technical support to Croda's customers was repeatedly
emphasised as a major factor in maintaining Croda's dominant market
share. Other research facilities were demonstrated where work
is conducted on new processing techniques (a recent example had
halved the batch time for making erucamide on site - effectively
doubling the plant capacity) and on developing new products that
build on Croda's experience of amides and plastics additives.
We were taken on a tour of the plant to show the
stages of processing HERO into erucamide:
Dave Parker, Operations Director of Croda Universal,
presented us with more detail of the entire process, including
the source of raw materials, in which farmers are contracted through
John K Kings seed company to produce the volumes of HERO that
the Croda project required. He also discussed Seatons' work with
linseed oil and their worries that CAP reform might bring an end
to linseed growing in the United Kingdom.


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