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Articles on road safety in technical journals such as Traffic Engineering and Control, The Surveyor and Local Transport Today (Figure 5.1). 

Two thirds of today s oil use of more than 81 million barrel per day is for transportation, of which land transport for people accounts for some 55%, land transport for freight for some 35% and air transport for people and freight for around 10%. Almost 97% of road transport is fuelled by oil. The three most important targets with respect to transportation energy use, which are also increasingly favoured by policy makers around the world, are reduction of local air pollution, greenhouse gas-emissions reduction and energy security.1 As a consequence, there is an enforced search for alternative transport fuels. 

Moreover, despite the many advances in electrochemical measurement and modeling, our understanding of SOFC cathode mechanisms remains largely circumstantial today. Our understanding often relies on having limited explanations for an observed phenomenon (e.g., chemical capacitance as evidence for bulk transport) rather than direct independent measures of the mechanism (e.g., spectroscopic evidence of oxidation/reduction of the electrode material). At various points in this review we saw that high-vacuum techniques commonly employed in electrocatalysis can be used in some limited cases for SOFC materials and conditions (PEEM, for example). New in-situ analytical techniques are needed, particularly which can be applied at ambient pressures, that can probe what is happening in an electrode as a function of temperature, P02, polarization, local position, and time. 

Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. is today the most useful model system in plant research, and in order to be able to generalize results from this species, it is important to investigate its special characteristics, such as the myrosinase-glucosinolate system. In this chapter, we present the localization of the myrosinase-glucosinolate system in Arabidopsis and other plants and discuss in vivo degradation and transport of glucosinolates. 

The cause of these effects is in the spacing of the metal runners, which is 1 to 2 pm in today s circuits, and will be of 0.5 to 1 pm within a decade. Because of the small distances, the electric fields are high and the transport of ions on the surfaces of the microcircuits, when ions are present, is rapid. The electrolytic processes corrode the metal runners and lead to accumulation of certain anions and cations on different regions of the surface. Because some ions are more strongly adsorbed than others, their transport introduces local electric fields that perturb the operation of microcircuits. The metal runners corrode either directly or indirectly. In direct corrosion, the metal, usually aluminum, is electrolytically oxidized to compounds of Al3+. In indirect corrosion, electrolysis causes a local change in pH. Aluminum is attacked both at excessively high and at excessively low pH. 

Although autoradiography Is rarely used today to localize proteins within cells, these early experiments Illustrate the two basic requirements for any assay of intercompartmental transport. First, it is necessary to label a cohort of proteins In an early compartment so that their subsequent transfer to later compartments can be followed with time. Second, It Is necessary to have a way to Identify the compartment In which a labeled protein resides. Here we describe two modern experimental procedures for observing the Intracellular trafficking of a secretory protein In almost any type of cell. 

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