International Reference Service

International Reference Service, Vols. 1-7. 1941, 1945-50. No longer published. Be-... 

The Central Service for Protection against Ionising Radiation (SCPRI), a service of the French Ministry of Public Health, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, was nominated at the end of 1969 as the International Reference Centre (IRC) of the World Health Organisation for Radioactivity measurements. 

Does not collect data, but maintains a collection of statistical publications, a bibliographic program and reference service, and a directory of Latin American and international statistical agencies and statisticians. Office of the Coordinator of International Statistics, Bureau of the Census, Washington 25, D. C. ... 

Maintains a collection of statistical publications of all countries, and a reference service in international... 

The usefulness of this text will be greatly enhanced if you supplement it with information from current periodicals, basic references, statistical collections, abstracting services, indexes, and electronic data obtained from the World-Wide Web. This will allow you to update the data given in the text and—even more important—provide practice in finding the information chemical professionals need in day-to-day analysis and problem solving. The most important sources in this section are labeled with two asterisks and the next most important with one asterisk. If you are using the book for self-directed study, you should subscribe or have access to the doubled-asterisked periodicals and read the single-asterisked periodicals, become acquainted with the contents of the references with asterisks, locate a library with national and international references, and obtain a copy of the Statistical Abstract of the United States (Sections 0.1.1 and 0.1.2). 

References Ihnat (1995), International Atomic Energy Agency and United Nations Environment Programme (1995), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (1995), Analytical Quality Control Services (1998), Quevauviller et al. (1998a), Trahey (1998), European Commission, Joint Research Centre, IRMM (1999). 

Analytical Quality Control Services (1998) AQCS Intercomparison Runs Reference Materials 1998-1999. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna. 

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Acknowledgments. DM would like to thank the Gohierno Vasco for a fellowship Becas para formadon de investigadores . PhD is Chercheur Qualifie du Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS . Authors would also like to thank all their (international) collaborators whose names can be found in the hst of references, and more particularly, J.L. Hedrick and C.J. Hawker from IBM Research Center, San Jose. Acknowledgment is also due to the Service Federaux des Affaires Scientifiques, Techniques et Culturelles (PAl 4-11 Chimie et catalyse supramoleculaire). 

A number of large pharmaceutical companies have been involved with the above vendors (names provided in their respective web sites) but there is stiU a lack of good reference sites and case studies that have been made public. One can gness that to make systems like these deliver what is expected / promised either a company will be strongly dependent on the vendor services or will need to allocate resources internally that are hard to find (i.e., PAT engineers or specialists). 

In the wetted condition, hydrothermal transformations of the waste form may occur at the temperature of service. Changes may occur either by dissolution and re-precipitation or by assimilation of water into the internal structures of the oxide matrices. The thermochemical essentials for hydrothermal recrystallisation have already been referred to previously in this paper. We also need to develop an adequate knowledge of the water-catalysed structural transformations. 

The International Code Council (ICC) was formed by the consolidation of three formerly separate fire code organizations International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO), which had published the Uniform Fire Code under its fire service arm, the International Fire Code Institute (IFCI) Building Officials and Code Administrators (BOCA), which had published the National Fire Prevention Code and Southern Building Congress Code International (SBCCI), which had published the Standard Fire Prevention Code. When the three groups merged in 2000, in part to develop a common fire code, the individual codes became obsolete however, they are noted above since references to them may periodically surface. The consolidated code is IFC-2006, International Fire Code. 

Chemicals are omnipresent in our world today. Chemical risk is a permanent issue in our everyday environment, obviously on work premises, and may also be caused by different circumstances of chemical assaults. Among all chemical accidents, eye projections are a specific issue because of the vulnerability of ocular structures and also because of the risk of major functional after-effects. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is a division of the American Chemical Society. This International database of the American Chemical Society is a worldwide reference registering... 

The best way to learn if a compound is mentioned in the literature after the period covered by the latest semiannual formula index of CA is to use the online services (p. 1261). However, if one lacks access to these, one may consult Chemical Titles and the keyword index (p. 1244) at the end of each issue of CA. In these cases, of course, it is necessary to know what name might be used for the compound. The name is not necessary for Index Chemicus (p. 1254) one consults the formula indexes. However, these methods are far from complete. Index Chemicus lists primarily new compounds, those which would not have been found in the earlier search. As for Chemical Titles, the compound can be found only if it is mentioned in the title. The keyword indexes in CA are more complete, being based on internal subject matter as well as title, but they are by no means exhaustive. Furthermore, all three of these publications lag some distance behind the original journals. To locate all references to a compound after the period covered by the latest semiannual formula index of CA. it is necessary to use CA online. 

The principal advances in the systematization of organic nomenclature have come from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, and from the Chemical Abstracts Service. The IUPAC Definitive Rules for Hydrocarbons and Heterocyclic Systems (1957)4 and for Characteristic Groups (1965)5 have been widely accepted by the chemical community, and, in their latest revised form,6 constitute the standard reference work. These rules are closely related to those developed in parallel by Chemical Abstracts for indexing purposes, and it is fortunate that, as a result of close cooperation between the two bodies, there are few areas of disagreement. 

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