Rapidly increasing interest in the problems of air pollution and source-receptor relationships has led to a significant expansion of knowledge in the field of atmospheric chemistry.
Biotechnology has come to a stage where, by replacing some of the age- old practices of breeding, it can produce novel and improved plants and animals that can better serve human beings and their purposes.
Exposure to polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and -furanes at very low concentrations is of particular interest with respect to possible human health risks.
On May 25,1978, the Commission on Toxicology ofthe Division of Clinical Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) established its Subcommittee on Environmental and Occupational Toxicology of Cadmium following aseries of Commission meetings in Kristiansand, Norway.
The following papers were presented at an international symposium on the mechanisms and treatment of nausea and vomiting in man held in Oxford in 1984.
Report, the editors replaced the term "e;speciation"e; wherever it occurred by "e;identification and quantification,"e; or "e;description of abundance,"e; or "e;reactivity,"e; or "e;transformation"e; of a chemical species, according to whichever one of the four meanings the author had evidently meant to convey.
It will be a long time before the quality of this profusely illustrated book is overtaken and the present spate of books on the subject of obstetric ultrasound may, as a result, suffer a numerical set-back - especially with translation into English which will "e;deliver the milk on everyone's doorstep"e;.
A distinction between contamination and pollution is useful when we wish to consider what strategies to adopt in researching the impact of anthropogenic activities on the marine environment.
From earlier ecological studies it has become apparent that simple univariate or bivariate statistics are often inappropriate, and that multivariate statistical analyses must be applied.
These are the proceedings of an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), sponsored by the NATO Science Panel, entitled "e;Pest Control: Operations and Systems Analysis in Fruit Fly Management"e;.
In most of the developed countries of the,World, significant efforts to control the pollution of surface waters have been underway for decades, and particularly the last 10-15 years.
May I first congratulate, inconditionally, the Association MEDMARAVIS for organizing this symposium and for inviting me re- presenting the Sardinian Ministry of the Environment.
The protection of human health and food and fiber resources against the ravages of pests of many sorts is a continuous struggle by all people in the world.
The present collection of papers forms the Proceedings of the First Meeting on Brain Theory, held October 1-4, 1984 at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.
This second volume of Basic and Clinical Aspects of Neuroscience is devoted to the various transmitter systems of the brain (classical and neuropeptides).
The investigation of the relationships between a behavior pattern and its underlying sensory and neurophysiological mechanisms in both man and animals dates back well into the last century.
The present book contains the original papers and essential points of the general discussion of a meeting organized in a series of tri-annual conferences, initiated by Dr.
Significant progress has doubtlessly been made in the field of cere- bral protection compared to earlier centuries, as recently reviewed by Elisabeth Frost (6).
Compared with forces occurring in soil mechanics problems in civil engineering, the forces that are applied to soil in farming operations generally have a short duration, less than a few seconds, a small loaded area, no more than a few square decimeters, and small intensities, 10 bar being a high value.
Eine Gesamtdarstellung der funktionellen Organisation und Bedeutung der Hirnrinde muß allgemeine Organisations- und Funktionsprinzipien ei nerseits, und die funktionelle Bedeutung einzelner Hirnrindenfelder ande rerseits berücksichtigen.
I am pleased to be able to introduce this book by Monsieur lean-Claude Gall, firstly because it is a book, secondly because its author has been a colleague for 15 years, and finally because it is a book which demonstrates the growing importance of Palaeobiology.
