The European Registered Toxicologist (ERT) : Current status and prospects for advancement

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the participants of the five workshops in which the issues presented in this paper were discussed and the revised guidelines prepared, as well as the EUROTOX Executive Committee and the societies of toxicology of Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and France for their support which allowed the workshops to take place.

Computing the Oja Median in R : The Package OjaNP

Acknowledgements The work of Klaus Nordhausen was supported by the Academy of Finland (grant 268703). Oleksii Pokotylo is supported by the Cologne Graduate School of Management, Economics and Social Sciences. The work of Daniel Vogel was supported by the DFG collaborate research grant SFB 823