Authors Acknowledgements

The author acknowledges the assistance of C. E. Schildnecht. The present article is largely an updated version of his previous article in xhtHn clopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering. 

The author acknowledges the contribution of B, C, Saldadis, editor of this section in the sixth edition of the Handbook. 

Authors acknowledge the financial support of the Direccid General d Universitats i Investigacio de la Generalitat Valenciana (Project GV04B/247 and Grupos 03-118). 

The authors acknowledge helpful discussions with Dr. F. Ducastelle. 

The authors acknowledge the permission of various publishing companies and authors for permission to reproduce figures. They acknowledge with gratitude the permission of Shell Research B.V. and of Shell Oil Company to make the results of this study available to the scientific community. 

The authors acknowledge the work of our colleagues, clinical and nonclinical, whose data have shaped our views. Our work is funded by grants from the Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain, Action Research, the Wellcome Trust, the MRC, and the Royal Society. 

The authors acknowledge the support from Seoul National University (400-20040199). REFERENCES... 

The authors acknowledge the support from Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF ROl-2004-000-10502-0). 

The authors acknowledge the support fiom the NSFC (No. 20376021), the NSFC/China-Petro. major project (No.20490200), and the special fimd of STCSM (No.036505010). 

The authors acknowledge the financial support fiom Univereity of Ulsan (2003-0086) for this work. 

The Chemical Manager and Authors acknowledge the contribution of Dr. Ted W. Simon, U.S. EPA, in applying physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling to the development of minimal risk levels for trichloroethylene. 

The authors acknowledge that the present data are insufficient to allow a detailed mechanism to be given but they reject the possibility of slow 8 2 substitution followed by a rapid redox process. 

The authors acknowledge MURST (Rome, Italy) and NATO for financial support. 

The authors acknowledge the significant contribution of Dr. J. Johnston and Dr. T. MacRury of Union Carbide Corp., South Charleston, W. Va. to this publication. The SEC analyses of the broad MWD PVC standards were done in the Union Carbide Laboratories. The authors also acknowledge the assistance provided by Dr. N. Foster with the initial computer programming. 

The authors acknowledge the help and advice of Ms. Chizuko Sugizaki and Ms. Noriko Hayashi, and the advice and support from Professor Atsuo Urisu, Dr. Reiko Teshima, Dr. Reiko Adachi, and the staff of Division of Novel Foods and Immunocheinistry, National Institute of Health Sciences. This study was supported by Health and Labor Science Research Grants for Research from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan. 

The author acknowledges helpful discussions with Drs R.A. Yokley and K. Lin and assistance with literature searches by Mr J. Stabnau. 

The author acknowledges the generous support of the Fond national Suisse and fruitful discussions at the Faboratoire d Electrochimie of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne with J. Rinuy, A. Piron, P. Galletto, D. J. Fermin, and H. FI. Girault. The Faboratoire d Electrochimie is part of the European Network on Training and Mobility of Researchers Organization, Dynamics and Reactivity of Electrified Liquid-Liquid Interfaces (ODRELLI). ... 

The authors acknowledge financial support of Colciencias through CENIVAM Center of Excellence RC No.432, Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) and CNRS (France). L.M.G. acknowledges a doctoral fellowship from Colciencias. 

The authors acknowledge generous financial support (for R. D. H.) from the University of the Witwatersrand and the Foundation for Research Development. In addition, R. D. H. thanks A E. M. for hosting him as a Visiting Professor to Texas A M, when this review was written. Support was provided by Grant No. CA-42925, National Cancer Institute, U. S. Public Health Service. 

The author acknowledges the contributions of many graduate students and colleagues and also the financial sponsorship of the industrial consortium on Process in Porous Media, NSF CTS-9321887, DOE DE-AC26-99BC15201 and DOE DE-... 

The author acknowledges the assistance of Mr. Israel Engelberg, who performed some of the mechanical tests. The X-ray diffraction data were collected in the laboratory of Professor M. Greenblatt (Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University) by Ms. Aruna Nathan. The author thanks Mr. Chun Li and Mr. Satish Pulapura for their part in the synthesis and characterization of tyrosine derived polymers. 

The author acknowledges many useful discussions with Dr. S.K. Wolff. Financial support was received from the Australian Research Council, QEII fellowship scheme. 

The author acknowledges many stimulating discussions with attendees of the Sagamore XII conference, including with Prof. Lou Massa, Prof. Mel Levy, Prof. Robert Parr, Prof. Wolf Weyerich, Prof. Vedene Smith, Dr. Mark Spackman, Prof. Graham Chandler, Prof. Brian Figgis, Dr. Stephen K. Wolff, and Dr. Harmut Schmider. Thanks to the Australian Research Council QEII fellowship scheme for funds. 

The authors acknowledge the support of the EPSRC and the following companies, Johnson Matthey, Grace Davison, Robinson Brothers, BP-Amoco and Accelerys, as part of the Innovative Manufacturing Initiative (IMI). 

The authors acknowledge financial support from the EU under project number GRD12000-25262 (KEMiCC). 

The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Hungarian OTKA Foundation under the contract number T 043153, from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and FEDER (contract number POCTI/1181) and of the TeT Portugese-Hungarian Foundation (GRICES-OMFB). 

The results from more recent studies have not clarified the issue. In a study of the general population in Belgium in which 2 sets of data were collected at a 6-year interval, Staessen et al. (1996) found that blood pressure was not correlated with PbB or ZPP concentrations in men or women. The study further found that the risk of becoming hypertensive was not associated with PbB or ZPP concentrations measured at the first data collection. Results from the evaluation of participants in the Normative Aging Study showed that an increase in tibia bone lead of about 29 pg/g was associated with an increased odds ratio of hypertension of 1.5 (Hu et al. 1996a). However, the authors acknowledged that the procedures used to... 

The authors acknowledge the expert technical assistance of Margaret Basile, M.S., and Qinjie Ouyang, B.A. This work was supported by USPHS Grant DA06627. 

The author acknowledges funding by the National Science Foundation and the assistance of Dr. K. Jeon and URP student S. Warnock with some of the reproductions. 

Acknowledgment The author acknowledges financial support from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi. 

Beyond the formal comparison of different methods, Kremer16 has put forward an original system whereby governments would acquire the patent from its creators at its social value and transfer it to the public domain. The author acknowledges the difficulty of establishing the social value of an innovation, but proposes an invitation to tender to determine the private value of a patent. 

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