Financial support

Part of this work has been carried in the frame of BRITE-EURAM Project 6056 SIMON , with the financial support of the EU Commission. 

The financial support of the EU Commission to the in-plant testing and validation work packages, in the frame ofthe BRITE-EURAM Project 6056 "SIMON" is gratefully acknowledged. 

The financial support of the UE Commission to the work presented in this paper, in the frame of the BRFTE-EURAM Project 6056 "SIMON", is gratefully acknowledged. 

We wish to thank all our colleagues who collaborated with us in the calculations presented in the calculations presented in this chapter. One of us (M.P.) likes to thank the Deutsche Forschungsge-meinschaft for financial support. 

This project began in the summer of 1992 with the support of a course development grant from DePauw University s Faculty Development Fund. Additional financial support from DePauw University s Presidential Discretionary Fund also is acknowledged. Portions of the first draff were written during a sabbatical leave in the Fall semester of the 1993/94 academic year. A Fisher Fellowship provided release time during the Fall 1995 semester to complete the manuscript s second draff. 

General support for science and technology remains strong in the United States (19,20), but actual financial support for scientific research remains under increased pressure from competing critical needs, including health cate, crime prevention, education, pollution control, and national defense. 

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

EA.E.T thanks the financial support by the University of Valencia for the V Segles" grant provided and W.C.S. the industrial case award by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in collaboration with LGC limited. 

This work was performed with financial support of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant No. 04-03-96095), grant Leading scientific schools HILL-1997.2003.3, Ural scientific-education center Perspective materials , supporting by Ministry of education and Civilian Research Development Foundation (grant EK-005-XI), BRHE 2004 (grant Y2-C-05-08). 

This work was performed with financial support of the grant Leading scientific schools" HIU-1997.2003.3. 

The authors are grateful to Russian Foundation of Basic Research for the financial support (Projects 03-03-32923 and 05-03-32976). 

This work was financially supported by the Greek Ministry of National Education and Religious affairs (25%) and the European Union (75%) in the framework of EPEAEK program. 

The financial support of INTAS (00-273) and RFBR (05-03-33162) is gratefully acknowledged. 

Authors are indebted to EAPESP for financial support and fellowships to EM, MSPE and AMSL... 

The authors wish to thank NATO (Grant 4LSTNUKR.CLG.980621), and INTAS (Grant 03-51-6278) for financial support of this research... 

This work is financially supported by Programme of Eundamental Researches of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Investigations in the field of sensor systems and technologies (grant No. 3-13/SD-2005). 

The financial support through INTAS Young Scientist Fellowship - 04-83-3911 is greatly acknowledged. 

Researches are carried out at financial support of the Russian Fund of Basic Researches and the Government of the Kaluga District (grant No. 04-03-97210). 

The authors would like to thank Dr Mark Taylor, Dr Raquel Duarte-Davidson and the other participants who contributed to our understanding during a workshop on the ecological effects of sex hormone disrupters held at the Institute in January 1998. We also acknowledge the financial support provided by the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions for the work at lEH on endocrine disruption. However, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of any government department or agency. 

I am pleased to acknowledge that the simulation results presented in this chapter were obtained from calculations carried out in collaboration with Kechuan Tu, Mike Klein, and Kent Blasie. The calculations and fitting of the neutron scattering spectra benefited from discussions with Mounir Tarek. Financial support was provided by the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California at Irvine and a grant from the donors of The Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS-PRF 33247-G7). 

The authors wish to recognize financial support under grants NAG 3-154 and NAG 3-95 from the NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio. 

The authors would like to thank Pascal Deprez, Martial Deruelle, David P. Smith, Matthew Tirrell, Alphonsus V. Pocius, and Frank S. Bates for their input on this subject over the course of the last several years. They would also like to thank 3M and the Center for Interfacial Engineering, a National Science Foundation sponsored engineering research center at the University of Minnesota, for financial support. 

Information provided by Mr. Juan Jose Hemandez-Gonzalez from Adhesivos Heman (Leon, Mexico) on water-borne polychloroprene adhesives is greatly acknowledged. The financial support for research in rubber adhesives from the Spanish Research Agency (MCYT) and the University of Alicante is greatly appreciated. Finally, my deep recognition and acknowledgement to my wife and children for the time I took from them to write this chapter. 

Acknowledgements—Financial support from the National Science Foundation, Grant No. DMR-9106374, is gratefully acknowledged. 

Acknowledgement—We thank Raz Abeysinghe, Lawrence Dunne, Thomas Ebbeson, Mauricio Terrenes, and David Walton for their help. We are also grateful to the SERC and the Royal Society for financial support. 

Acknowledgements—The author is most grateful to W. de Heer for invaluable discussions and advice. We are indebted to R. Monot and A. Chatelain for several useful remarks. We thank the Brazilian National Council of Science and Technology (CNPq) and Swiss National Science Foundation for financial support. 

We are grateful to financial support from the project of Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, supported by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science -Research for the Future Program (JSPS-RFTF98P00206). 

The authors are very grateful to P. Wachter for the generous support in providing the access to the technical facilities, and to K. Sattler and D. Ugarte for fruitful discussions, and to J. Muller for technical assistance. One of us (L.D.) wishes to acknowledge the financial support of the Swiss National Foundation for the Scientific Research and of the ETH Research Council. 

Electron microscopy studies were performed at the Centre Interdepartamental de Microscopie Electronique (CIME), Ecole Polytechnique Fdddrale de Lausanne. We are grateful to the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technologic Research (CNPq) and the Swiss National Science Foundation for financial support. 

KT is grateful to financial support from the project of Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, supported by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science -Research for the Future Program (JSPS-RFTF98P00206). ME thanks the support from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area (Carbon Alloys, No. 09243105, 1997). W-KH and MT thank The Royal Society for financial assistance. 

Thanks are due to the staffs of the companies where the incidents occurred for allowing me to describe their mistakes to many colleagues, past and present, especially to Professor F. P. Lees for his ideas and advice and to the UK Science and Engineering Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust for their financial support. 

M.B. and S.S. thank KBN for financial support under Grant No. 3T09A-062-10. 

O.P. acknowledges support of the Ministry of Science and Technology (CONACyT) of Mexico (Grant No. 25301-E) and the National University of Mexico (project INI 11597). O.P. is also grateful to Silicon Graphics Inc.-Cray Research of Mexico for partial financial support and generous allocation of computer time. 

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