Science-society contract

Evaluation of the Health Sispects of Com Sugar (Dextrose), Com Symp, and Invert Sugar as Food Ingredients, SCOGS-50, DREW contract no. FDA 223-75-2004, Life Sciences Research Office, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Bethesda, Md., 1976. 

Acknowledgements This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, contract FG02-04ER15513FG0, and the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society. 

We acknowledge support of this work by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under contract 83-0372, the National Science Foundation under grant CHE 82-06976 and the donors of the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society under grant 15163-AC3. We acknowledge many useful conversations with Dr. Martyn Poliakoff and Prof. J. J. Turner and thank NATO for a travel grant which facilitated these conversations. We also thank our coworkers in the field for their useful suggestions and comments. 

Work referenced as conducted at Southwest Research Institute was supported under U. S. National Institute of Science and Technology Grant Nos. NB83NADA4015 and 60NANB6D0635, Federal Aviation Administration Contract No. DTFA03-81-00065 and by the Vinyl Institute of the Society of the Plastics Industry, Incorporated. Portions of this text are reprinted with permission from Advances in Combustion Toxicology, G.E. Hartzell, ed., Vol. 1, Technomic Lancaster, PA, 1988, p. 28-30. 

This is supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under the contract JSPS-RFTE 98P00901. This is also partly supported by the innovative basic research program in the field of high-temperature engineering using HTTR conducted by Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. 

We are grateful to the National Science Foundation and the Petroleum Research Fund (administered by the American Chemical Society) for financial support through grants CHE-77-00360 and 7800-AC3,6 respectively. We also thank Joseph Henriques for technical assistance in operating the neutron diffractometers, and the W. C. Hamilton Memorial Fund for providing a scholarship to R.G.T. Research at Brookhaven National Laboratory was performed under contract with the Department of Energy and supported by its Division of Basic Energy Sciences. 

P. E. Siska wishes to acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. H. Haberland wishes to acknowledge support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Y. T. Lee wishes to acknowledge support from the Division of Chemical Sciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U. S. Department of Energy under contract No. W-7405-Eng-48. 

We acknowledge financial support for the University of New Mexico portion of this study from Sandia National Laboratories and from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society (21168-AC5). Electron Microscopy was performed at the Microbeam analysis facility within the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico. Sandia National Laboratories is funded by the United States Department of Energy under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. 

We thank the Wellcome Trust, the Science and Engineering Research Council, and the Commission for European Communities (BAP contract No. 0253UK) for support. P. J. Artymiuk acknowledges receipt of a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and G. C. Ford is a Wellcome Trust-Reader. Studies on recombinant ferritins were carried out in collaboration with A. Luzzago, G. Cesareni, S. Levi, P. Arosio, C. D. Thomas, and W. V. Shaw, and Mdssbauer spectroscopic studies with E. R. Bauminger and I. Nowik. 

Analysis of Adverse Reactions to Monosodium Glutamate, prepared for Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, 20204, under FDA contract no. 223-92-2185, by Life Sciences Research Office, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 9650 RockviUe Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3998, July 1995. 

While there has been considerable recent discussion of the suitability of this form of the contract (Brown 1992 Guston 1999), essentially all practicing scientists would agree with this statement of the bargain between science and society, at least as an ideal. 

We wish to thank our many students, collaborators, and scientific colleagues who have contributed to the work described here, which comes from our own laboratories. Support for energy-transfer research at Columbia has been provided by the National Science Foundation under grants MPS-75-04118 and CHE 77-24343, and by the Joint Services Electronics Program (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force) under contract DAAG29-77-C-0019. At Northwestern support has been provided by the National Science Foundation under grant CHE 76-10333 and the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society. 

Over the past hundred and fifty years, the West has seen a well-documented transformation from a society based on community to one based upon the individual. Whereas we once felt a moral obligation for one another s welfare, we now rely more upon law and contracts to determine how to treat one another. And instead of being connected by stories of meaning—religious teachings, mythic tales, political principles, or other ideals—we now draw our binding principles from science. 

The authors would like to acknowledge with gratitude the support of the National Science Foundation under NSF Contract DMR-7805938, The American Chemical Society under Petroleum Research Fund Grant 11504-AC7, and the help of Drs. A. Hay and D. M. White and Mrs. B. M. Boulette of the General Electric Research Center for their synthesis of the brominated PPO. 

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