Reading annual volume

For more specialized and detailed biochemical information that is not offered by textbooks, reference books must be used. Reference works range from general surveys to specialized series. The best works are multivolume sets that continue publication of volumes on a periodic basis. Each volume usually covers a specialized area with articles written by recognized authorities in the field. It should be noted that reference articles of interest to biochemists are often found in publications that are not strictly biochemical. The best known and most widely used review publication is Annual Review of Biochemistry. Each volume in this series, which was introduced in 1932, contains several detailed and extensive articles written by experts in the field. For shorter reviews emphasizing current topics, Trends in the Biochemical Sciences (TIBS) is widely read. 

Polyethylene is, by a wide margin, the largest volume synthetic polymer made by mankind. As of this writing, about 77 million metric tons are produced annually and the growth rate is expected to continue at about 5% per year into the foreseeable future. Within the three minutes or so it takes to read this preface, over 400 tons of polyethylene will have been manufactured. It is produced in various forms on 6 continents and its applications are ubiquitous in daily life, from the trash bag you placed on the curb this morning to Uncle Fred s artificial hip. 

The Annalens first indexers should not be blamed too much they were amateurs, without experience or precedent, and the small bulk of literature to be covered did not need an elaborate index. Ghemists of 1832 could probably read that year s whole output of chemical literature in less time than we would need now to read one annual index of Chemical Abstracts. The Annalen for 1832 (Volumes 1 to 4) was indexed by the use of less than 800 subject headings. 

This volume is the first in the series of annual Specialist Periodical Reports devoted to the chemistry of the Alkaloids. In preparing this first volume our aim has been not simply to record progress during a selected period, but also to include whatever background material and earlier references are necessary to enable the new work to be placed in perspective in its own particular area in consequence we hope that the reader, whether the alkaloid specialist or the general reader, will be able to read and benefit from the discussions presented here with the minimum of reference to the standard monographs on the subject. 

Another factor contributing to reader variability in mammography is sheer volume of reading (Be a m et al. 2003 Leung et al. 2007 Miglioretti et al. 2007). For example in one study (Smith-Bindman et al. 2005), physicians who interpreted a high annual... 

Another great service that Berzelius rendered to chemistry was the compilation of an annual review of the literature in the physical sciences. The first volume appeared in 1822, and Berzelius continued to compile the sections on chemistry until his death. The Annual Reports were translated Into German by Wohler, and thereby became widely read. As a result of compiling the reports, Berzelius was in a position to make some important generalisations. He realised that, in the case of some reactions, the presence of another material was necessary for change to occur, although this substance was not altered in the process. He coined the term catalysis for this phenomenon. He also introduced the terms isomerism, allotropy, polymer and protein. 

Atkinson, the professor of chemistry at Tokyo University, read a lecture on the history of the theory of elements at the first annual meeting of the Society on April 19, 1879. This was one of the earliest mentions of the periodic law in a Japanese publication. Atkinson referred to Lothar Meyer s paper on the relationship between atomic weights and atomic volumes, but did not mention Mendeleev. ... 

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