Chemistry

New methods for the determination of the nature, proportion, and distribution of structural defects in microcrystallized lamellar systems are of utmost importance not only to experimentalists but also to theoreticians.

At the annual meetings ofthe "e;Fast Reactions in Solution Discussion Group"e; of the Royal Society of Chemistry, an increasing number of contributions is concerned with reactions in complex liquids, where the solvents cannot be regarded as homogeneous media but where their microstructure has to be taken into account.

Environments at Risk is designed as an introductory text and uses case histories of environmental impact assessment to raise issues important in controlling environmental problems.

A massive phytoplankton bloom, locally termed "e;brown tide"e;, suddenly appeared in Long Island marine bays in 1985, colored the water a dark brown, decimated eelgrass beds and caused catastrophic starvation and recruitment failure of commercially important bay scallop populations.

The progress of materials science depends on the development of novel materials and the development of novel experimental techniques.

Cellular automata are fully discrete dynamical systems with dynamical variables defined at the nodes of a lattice and taking values in a finite set.

A broad overview of recent developments in computer simulation studies of condensed matter systems is provided in this book.

Dieser Tagungsband des vierten Symposiums "Informatik im Umweltschutz" (Karlsruhe, 6.

EJB Reviews 1989 offer the collection of all reviews published in the European Journal of Biochemistry in one handy volume.

Methamphetamine is one of the most widely abused stimulants and together with amphetamine has led to serious social problems.

Nitrogen is a key element in ecosystem processes.

Interest in the biological effects of ionising radiation closely followed the identification of such radiation.

Considerable progress in understanding how inhaled minerals cause disease in man has been made in the past two decades.

This volume appears at a time when the prospects for banishing the threat of nuclear annihilation are brighter than at any time since the first atomic device exploded over the desert at Alamogordo.

Sediments and Environmental Geochemistry is dedicated to Professor German Muller on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

After many years of sterile arms control negotiations between the super powers, which did not produce a single genuine disarmament measure - and sometimes had the opposite effect of stimulating the development of new weapons to serve as bargaining chips - an agreement to abolish completely two categories of nu- clear weapons, the INF Treaty, was signed and is now being implemented.

This book deals with the theory of macroscopic systems.

Photon-Vegetation Interactions deals with the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with vegetation canopies.

In 1977, the Volkswagen Foundation sponsored the first of a series of International Symposia on Fire Ecology at Freiburg University, Federal Republic of Germany.

All over the world, the awareness of the increasing pollution of rivers, estuaries and the sea with its associated impact on these ecosystems, its effect on organisms, food-chains, water supply and finally on man himself is growing.

Bringing together scientists from the various disciplines of chemistry who are actively engaged in developing software and using computers to solve their problems was the main objective of the 4th workshop 'Computers in Chemistry' (November 22-24, 1989) held in Hochfilzen, Tyrol.

"e;An interesting and enlightening book well worth the time for someone who is grounded in the basics of spectroscopy, yet interested in newer techniques and applications.

Die Geschwindigkeit der in der DDR ablaufenden Umwälzungen hat uns bisher den Atem stocken lassen.

The aim of this book is to give a simple, short, and elementary introduction to the second quantized formalism as applied to a many-electron system.

Die Wirkung ionisierender Strahlen im Niedrigdosenbereich mit den möglichen Risiken von Spätschäden wird derzeit noch kontrovers diskutiert.

The effects of heat and light on chemical reactions have long been known and un- derstood.

This book is intended to collect in one place as much information as possible on the use of EPR spectroscopy in the analysis of systems in which two or more spins are magnetically coupled.

Over the past few years there has been a remarkable and rapid development of modern analytical methods, and the fields of nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry have been no exception.

Since the previous Symposium, several exciting new developments and advances have occurred in the field of frequency standards and metrology.

The understanding of pollutant transformations, sorption and transport in soils and uptake by plants is the key to controlling contaminant movement towards groundwater and accumulation in food-chains.

The Fourth International Workshop on "e;In Vitro Effects of Mineral Dusts on Cells"e; was held on September 20 - 23, 1988 in Auberge Estrimont, Orford, Quebec, Canada.

For more than 100 years the Beilstein Handbook has been publishing checked and evaluated data on organic compounds.

This volume sets out to draw together the essential expertise which will provide a technical guide to the practice of Raman spectroscopy.

This book constitutes the Proceedings of the conference 'Chemical Structures: The International Language of Chemistry' which was held at Leeuwenhorst Congress Centre, Noordwijkerhout in the Netherlands, between May 31 and June 4, 1987.

The book treats the C -hydrocarbons and their secondary products as a contribution 4 to chemical engineering economics, applying this field of teaching and research to the technical processes for making and processing this group of products, so important to the chemical industry.

This preface is being written at a time of exceptional public interest in the North Sea, following media head- lines on toxic algal blooms, the mass mortality of common seals, and concern over pollution levels.

This text on the statistical theory of nonequilibrium phenomena grew out of lecture notes for courses on advanced statistical mechanics that were held more or less regularly at the Physics Department of the Technical University in Munich.

The first three chapters of Vol.

Many novel cooperative phenomena found in a variety of systems studied by scientists can be treated using the uniting principles of synergetics.

At the end of the initial meeting on Primary and Secondary Metabolism of Plant Cell Cultures at Schloss Rauischholzhausen, it was decided to convene similar events on a regular basis midway between the International Congress for Plant Tissue and Cell Cul- ture.

The concept of controlled release has attracted increasing attention over the last two decades, with the applications of this technology proliferating in diverse fields in- cluding medicine, agriculture and biotechnology.

In March, 1983 a workshop on Pollutants in Porous Media was hosted by the Institute of Soils and Water of the Agricultural Research Organi- zation in Bet Dagan, Israel.

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Natural product chemistry has undergone an explosive growth during the latter half of the current century.

In this volume the contributions of the 2nd International EBSA (European Biophysical Societies Association) Symposium devoted to the biophysical and biochemical aspects of the structure and interaction of cytoskeletal and extracellular proteins are presented.