Curtis, Richard

This work was primarily supported by contracts TPS 77-747 and RP 1402-2 with the Electric Power Research Institute. Curtis Cavanaugh, Richard Ulrich, Pui Lin, and Michael Ragsdale have contributed experimental data as research assistants. 

Travis, Curtis C., Samantha A. Richter, Edmrmd A. C. Crouch, Richard Wilson, and Ernest D. Klema. 1987. Cancer Risk Management. Environmental Science and Technology 21 (5) 415-20. 

Mantsch, Henry H., 44 Marcott, Curtis, 71225 Mendelsohn, Richard, 24 Muga, A., 56 Rathman, James F 123 Rauch, Deborah S., 225 Ringsdorf, Helmut, 177 Scheuing, David R., 1,87,123,251 Sommer, Andre J., 71 Spooner, Greg J., 177 Story, Gloria M., 225 Stroeve, Pieter, 177 Tripp, C. P., 237 Ulman, Abraham, 144 Weers, Jeffry G., 87 Wong, Patrick T. T 44... 

Submitted by Harold E. Zaugg and Richard T. Rapala. Checked by R. L. Shriner and Curtis M. Snow. 

Submitted by Omer E. Curtis, Jr., Joseph M. Sandri, Richard E. Crocker, and Harold Hart.1 Checked by V. Boekelheide, R. Taber, and D. S. Tarbell. 

C. Freeman Allen A. Bantjes S. F. Bedell R. E. Benson J. Bornstein J. F. Bunnett R. D. Clark J. Colonge Richard E. Crocker W. J. Croxall Omer E. Curtis, Jr. 

It is estimated that 100,000 books have been written on alchemy — possibly more than any other subject in history. Ben Jonson famously satirized it in his play The Alchemist (1610), while the Brazilian writer Paolo Coelho s fable-like book of the same title, which seems to be much more sympathetic to alchemy than Jonson, was one of the best-selling novels of the 1990s. Then of course, we have seen the foibles and failures of alchemy brilliantly sent up by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis in Blackadder the Second, where Percy, much to Edmund s withering disappointment, creates not a lump of gold, but a lump of green. 

Curtis Travis of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and several associates (including Richard Wilson and Edmund Crouch, who will be mentioned in a few pages in connection with our discussion of risk comparisons) reviewed 132 regulatory decisions on carcinogens. These authors generalize as follows ... 

Kang, Seok Ho Luo, Jingdong Ma, Hong Barto, Richard R. Frank, Curtis W. Dalton, Larry R. Jen, Alex K. Y, Macromolecules, 2003,36,4355-4359. 

John Giovanelli (453), Laboratory of General and Comparative Biochemistry, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20205 Curtis V. Givan (329), Department of Plant Biology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NEl 7RU, England Richard H. Hageman (115), Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801... 

I am indebted to my students who have worked in my lab on these projects and ideas over the years - in particular, Marcel Hollenstein, Christopher Hipolito, Curtis Lam, Jason Thomas, Jonathan May, Yoann Roupioz, Leonard Lermer, and Richard Ting. I am particularly thankful to Christopher Hipolito for help in writing on the background and selection of DNA polymerases and to both Christopher Hipolito and Curtis Lam in providing several figures contained herein. 

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