Social and society mining searches unstructured data like complaint letters, blog posts and tweets.
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The FDA was swayed by some prominent cancer researchers who wrote letters saying the data were lousy.
Each fragment contained about 100 letters encoding the data.
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The scientists, from Norway and the UK, report their innovative data-gathering method in Geophysical Research Letters, published by the American Geophysical Union.
Publishing organizations such as Toxicological Sciences are the guardians of scientific objectivity through accurate representation of published data and cannot ignore the possibility that letters to the editor can be used to circumvent these standards.
They could let data escape, or spend time on personal letters and spreadsheets.
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At precisely the same time, two University of Melbourne scientists published a paper in Geophysical Research letters, studying virtually the same data and finding little significant change.
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In February, ChoicePoint, a large data-collection agency, began sending out letters warning 145, 000 Americans that it had wrongly provided fraudsters with their personal details, including Social Security numbers.
The letters allow the FBI to get data on phone, financial and electronic records without the approval of a judge or grand jury, as long as the head of an FBI field office certifies that the records would be relevant to a counterterrorism investigation.
An FDA panel backed the drug, but then a series of experts wrote letters to the FDA arguing that the data were not adequate for approval.
The Committee sent letters to the companies Monday asking how long user data was stored and whether or not they planned to allay privacy concerns.
Then the system asked me to insert my passport so it could optically scan the special set of letters to identify me with the system and transmit the data to the Department of Homeland Security.
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The letters will go via their head teachers because of concerns about data protection, Universities Minister David Willetts said.
Specifically, the petition asks Skype to spell out its compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act and National Security Letters, both of which can require the handover of private user data to government agencies.
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The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the purpose of National Security Letters (NSL) to allow government agencies to use them to request any data relevant to an investigation of terrorism or an intelligence activity without court oversight.
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On Sept. 22, The Pink Sheet, a medical trade publication, reported the FDA had said that Pfizer received an "approvable letter" from the FDA. Such letters are not approvals but instead a kind of delay, saying that most of the data needed for approval are in but that additional steps need to be taken if the drug is to reach the market.
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