It proposes an Intelligent Car Initiative with three specific objectives: Coordination of the work of stakeholders through the eSafety Forum, supporting research and development and raising the user's awareness about intelligent vehicle systems and their potential benefits, and to accelerate their deployment in the market.

Officers from the Epidemic Intelligence Service, EIS, are front line in most American states.

Today, for example, NRC's latest bio-sensor technologies for the detection of biological warfare agents, its vaccines against biological weapons, its intelligent diagnostic systems for real-time monitoring in aircraft, its technologies for anti-fabrication and counterfeiting, its fire suppression techniques, and its world-leading 3D laser scanning vision systems for facial recognition and vehicle identification, not to mention its Canadian Police Research Centre, can play important roles in new and innovative national security efforts ...[+++].

Project co-ordinated by Dr. Ulises Cortés and Steve Willmott of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona (Spain) in association with researchers from the Portuguese Association for the Development of Telecommunications and Computer Technology in Lisbon (Portugal), BTexact in London and the Universities of Bath and Liverpool (UK), Comtec in Sendai (Japan), the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrücken (Germany), the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausa ...[+++]nne, Ehltestein Technologies AG in Zurich and the University of Geneva (Switzerland), Fujitsu Laboratories of America and Hewlett-Packard in California, Maryland University (USA), Motorola S.A.S in Gif-sur-Yvette (France), RMIT University School of Computer Science and Information Technology in Melbourne (Australia), the University of Girona and the University Rovira I Virgili of Tarragona (Spain), the University of Otago in Dunedin (New Zealand), and Parma University (Italy).

This factor should be monitored, and the possibility of a test to determine the susceptibility of individuals to CJD using this knowledge is suggested; - it is proposed to examine whether it may be possible to generate BSE resistant cattle and sheep; - a number of areas of research are also proposed with a view to improving the knowledge and understanding of the nature of the infectious agent known as the "prion".

The paper also makes a useful summary of the state of knowledge in the key areas. The following is a list of areas considered by the group as worthy of research : - research aimed at establishing whether or not BSE has been transmitted to man; - working on the hypothesis that BSE may be transmissible to man, a number of suggestions are put forward aimed at establishing a risk assessment such as work on determining whether multiple dosing is cumulative and an estimation of the utilisation of offal in different human food products prior to the ban and the consumption of those products by individual age groups and socio-economic criteria; ...[+++] - is there infectivity in BSE-infected cattle derived products other than SBO (Specified Bovine Offal) ?; - further research to establish the precise reason or route for maternal transmission of BSE in some cases; - establish if it is possible that BSE originated as a (rare) spontaneous event in cattle and that the BSE agent is different from the scrapie agent; - can BSE be transmitted orally to pigs ?; - research into the development of diagnostic techniques for BSE and CJD; - establish the efficiency of BSE inactivation procedures used in the food and pharmaceutical industry; - certain areas are suggested for research into developing therapeutic treatment for victims of the CJD disease and also into developing a test which would indicate those people susceptible to the disease; - predictive research is also proposed as it has been shown that CJD occurs rarely in individuals with certain genes.