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B. Ratier, B. Lucas, and C. Moreau. I thank particularly M. Moreau for his help during the writing of this chapter. We have also worked closely with R. H. Friend and his group at Cambridge, and also with G. Froyer (Nantes University) and B. Francois (Strasbourg University). This work was partly supported by the European Commission (project Napoleo under the Brite-Euram program). 

As intimated above, reaching this point, that is publication of this book, has not been a straightforward task the road has been sometimes rocky, with various professional and personal problems causing both the need to refine our original outline and the need along the way to commission late in the project new authors. To all our chapter authors, we are therefore truly indebted. For those whose chapters we have "sat on" for nearly two years, we especially thank you for your understanding and patience For those who "stepped into the breach" near the end, we especially thank you for coming to our aid We are also very thankful to the publishers, Elsevier Science B.V., for their patience too ... 

The authors are most grateful to Jacques Buffle and Kevin Wilkinson (University of Geneva), Jaume Puy and Josep Monne (University of Lleida), and Raewyn M. Town (Queen s University of Belfast) for their suggestions and assistance. Part of the preparation of this chapter was performed within the framework of the BIOSPEC project funded by the European Commission (contract EVK1-CT-2001-00086). This chapter is developed from [35], copyright Elsevier, 2003. 

Our work was supported by grants of the Austrian Science Fund (projects P-12963-GEN, START Y-158), the osterreichische Nationalhank (project 789), the University of Innsbruck, the Industriellenvereinigung Tirol and the European Commission (contracts F14W-CT96-0019 and FIS 1999-00130). I wish to thank all my students and postgraduate students involved in the work described in this Chapter for their dedication and enthusiasm. 

Acknowledgements. Some of the work described in this chapter was financed by the European Commission under contract numbers JOR3-CT97-0147 ( Indoor Dye PV ) and JOR3-CT98-0261 ( LOTS-DSC ). The collaboration with the co-authors from the partners in the Indoor Dye PV and LOTS-DSC projects listed in the references is gratefully acknowledged. 

I like to thank my (partly former) colleagues at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie (formerly Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin) for their contributions during the last years in the context of our research on the ALILE process, in particular J. Berghold (formerly J. Klein), W. Fuhs, O. Hartley (formerly O. Nast), K.Y. Lee, M. Muske, B. Rech, A. Sarikov, J. Schneider and I. Sieber. Especially, the intensive collaboration with J. Schneider and W. Fuhs has provided the basis for this chapter. The research on the ALILE process has been financially supported by the European Commission in the framework of the projects METEOR and ATHLET. I have highly appreciated the collaborations with the project partners and also with other external colleagues. 

The Electroanalytical Chemistry Commission, which is a subdivision of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC), provides authoritative guidance on nomenclature, terminologies, symbols, units, and procedures used in electroanalytical chemistry. Use your Web browser to connect to http //cliemistry.brookscoIe.coin/skoogfac/. From the Chapter Resources menu, choose Web Works. Locate the Chapter 19 section, and click on the link to the Commission for Electroanalytical Chemistry Web site. Then click on the link to projects, choose one of the published reports, and view the Adobe Acrobat PDF file containing the report. Write a short summary of the report and describe its purpose. 

The genesis of this book can be traced back to July 2003, the date of the Carbon 2003 Conference. This presented Eduardo J. Bottani and myself with an excellent opportunity to introduce our project to Iain Craig, the Commissioning Editor with whom we discussed the scope and contents of the book. Soon afterwards, the publication of the book was approved by Elsevier Science and we established initial contacts with some prospective authors. However, the unexpected death of Eduardo J. Bottani on October 24, 2003, meant that I now had a dual responsibility, not only to the publisher and the authors who had already agreed to contribute chapters, but also to the memory of Eduardo, to whom I wish to dedicate this book. Needless to say, I accept fuU responsibility for any faults in the editing as Eduardo passed away before we began the work in earnest. 

Under the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD), a further specified practice guidance to the ISO 14040 series standards is currently being developed. This is co-lead by the European Commission s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and consulted with a number of national LCA projects and industry associations worldwide. For more information see chapter 8.3 Latest developments and related www links. 

In this chapter, we will describe the make-up of just three textile materials, all natural fibres, and will further present the mechanisms of degradation of their principal components. Our selection of two of them is somewhat indulgent as they are each the focus of current research projects. However, since all three compose the fabric of key historic textiles which were recently the subjects of commissions completed by Conservation Services at the Textile Conservation Centre, our choice was all the more easily made. Here we are keen to place the science in context, and so use these artefacts to introduce the fibres and their chemistry of ageing through a conservation science perspective. 

LocusLink is an NCBI project to link information applicable to specific genetic loci from several disparate databases. Information maintained by LocusLink includes official nomenclature, aliases, sequence accessions (particularly RefSeq accessions), phenotypes. Enzyme Commission numbers, map information, and Mendelian Inheritance in Man numbers. Each locus is assigned a unique identification number, which additional databases can then reference. LocusLink is described in greater detail in Chapter 7. 

This chapter presents regional hydrogen demand and supply build-up scenarios over time which were created for Europe by considering the available resources as well as national policies and stakeholder interests. The purpose is to evaluate different infrastructure options in economic terms and to derive recommendations for introducing hydrogen as a transport fuel in the next decades. This chapter is based on the EU project HyWays. The objective of HyWays, an integrated project co-funded by research institutes, industry and the European Commission under the... 

The material in this book is based on work in the context of two research projects, Ascis (Architecture Synthesis for Complex Integrated Systems) and Nana (Novel parallel Algorithms for New real-time Architectures), both sponsored by the Esprit program of Directorate XIII of the European Commission. The chapters are partly based on material presented at the final project workshops, which took place at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium, on the 29th and 30th of April, 1992, marking the completion of three successful years of project cooperation. 

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