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Passive biomonitoring was applied to estimate the air quality in the La Spezia district, Italy, with regard to a coal-fired power plant and other industrial activities (Nimis et al., 1990). The lichen Parmelia caperata collected from Olea sativa trees was meant to biomonitor the SO2 pollution in the study area. The method, adopted by Nimis et al., was designed to avoid subjectivity, to begin with the strategy of sampling and end with the analysis of data. The applied index, based on frequency of species... 

Aromatic compounds are important in industry as well as in living systems and clusters are important in many areas such as photography, catalysis, and quantum dots. Apart from the basic aspects of aromaticity, experts discuss the structures, properties, reactivity, stability, and other consequences of aromaticity of a variety of metal clusters in this volume. The Foreword was written by Professor Paul v. R. Schleyer, an authority in this subject and the originator of the nucleus-independent chemical shift (NICS) index, the most widely anployed measure of aromaticity. This book will be useful for graduate students as well as researchers in this field. 

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