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T. C. Patten, ed.. Pigment Handbook, 2nd ed., 3 vols., Wdey-Interscience, New York, 1979. Written by a number of speciaUsts in the pigment field the three volumes describe pigment chemistry and appHcations. 

Volume I of Adhesion Science and Engineering dealt with the mechanics of adhesive bonds and the rheology of adhesives. Volume II deals with the other two disciplines that make up adhesion science, surfaces and chemistry. In addition, this volume describes several applications of adhesion science and engineering. 

This volume, as well as the four precedent volumes, describes only in part the huge number of original papers on phosphorus-related topics. Some further volumes will be necessary in the future to cover all aspects of this chemistry in perpetual rebirth. 

Therefore, if human administration of MDMA-like compounds is considered clinically efficacious, further studies are needed to determine whether there may be a safe dose range or if there may be related compounds with less potential toxicity and similar beneficial effects. The studies reported here, and in other papers in this volume, describe several methodological approaches and well-characterized parameters to study the effects and... 

The seven chapters of this volume describe recent progress towards drugs acting at a range of draggable targets. One chapter addresses kinases, one covers an ion channel, two feature proteases and three of the chapters cover G-protein coupled receptors, which have historically perhaps been the most fruitful area for medicinal chemists. 

McCarron s paper (this volume) describes the behaviors of 1,000 adults admitted to an inpatient service with acute symptoms of PCP intoxication. She states that some of the patients have appropriate behavior while many have mute and staring episodes, bizarre facial grimacing, localized dystonic reactions, rigidity, tremors, coarse jerky movements, and nystagmus. Thus, there is similarity between the acutely intoxicated adult s behavior and that of the newborn with a positive urine toxic screen for PCP. 

The second section of this volume describes several potentially new liquefaction processes which may have higher efficiencies than today s developing technologies. The theme of the Storch Award Symposium, featured throughout these six chapters, was new process potentials through the use of short-contact-time thermal processes followed by catalytic upgrading. 

The two articles in this current volume describe recent developments with small ring compounds which have not teen compiled in such a context before. T. Hirao discusses selective transformations initiated by transition derivatives in the construction of functionally substituted five-, six- and seven-membered rings as well as open-chair compounds. Cycloadditions onto methylene- and alkylidene-cyclopropane derivatives, described by A. Goti, F. M. Cordero and A. Brandi, not only yield products with spirocyclopropane moieties which can be desirable as such or as potential mimics of gem-dimethyl groupings, but also intermediates which can undergo further transformations with ring-opening of the cyclopropane units. 

Given the apparent relationship between covalence and contraction of the unit cell volume described previously, it should be possible to relate Rv to the reduction in magnetic moment found by resonance and neutron diffraction. In this we are limited to the cations Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, and Ni2+ in octahedral coordination. 

As was the case with the volume The chemistry of organic arsenic, antimony and bismuth compounds, published in 1994, it was clear that the set of five volumes describing organometallic compounds (edited by Professor Frank R. Hartley) did not deal in sufficient depth with organic compounds of germanium, tin and lead. Hence we decided to publish the present volume, which we hope will be a useful and worthwhile addition to the series The Chemistry of Functional Groups. In this volume the authors literature search extended in most cases up to the end of 1994. 

Awareness of immunotoxicology was stimulated by a comprehensive review by Vos in 1977, in which he provided evidence that a broad spectrum of xenobiotics alter immune responses in laboratory animals and subsequently may affect the health of exposed individuals. Several additional reviews, as well as national and international scientific meetings, have reinforced these early observations. In several studies, alteration of immune function was accompanied by increased susceptibility to challenge with infectious agents or transplantable tumor cells, indicating the resulting immune dysfunction in altered host resistance. Clinical studies in humans exposed to xenobiotics have confirmed the parallelism with immune dysfunction observed in rodents. The latter sections in this volume describe studies with xenobiotics that resulted in immune modulation in rodents and man. 

The nucleus contains chromatin within the nucleoplasm. The chromatin is comprised in part of DNA, the genetic information that controls cellular activities through determining which proteins are produced and when. Chapter 20 of this volume describes the electron microscopy of nucleic acids. 

The fluorescence lifetime can be measured by time-resolved methods after excitation of the fluorophore with a light pulse of brief duration. The lifetime is then measured as the elapsed time for the fluorescence emission intensity to decay to 1/e of the initial intensity. Commonly used fluorophores have lifetimes of a few nanoseconds, whereas the longer-lived chelates of europium(III) and terbium(III) have lifetimes of about 10-1000 /tsec (Table 14.1). Chapter 10 (this volume) describes the advantages of phase-modulation fluorometers for sensing applications, as a method to measure the fluorescence lifetime. Phase-modulation immunoassays have been reported (see Section 14.5.4.3.), and they are in fact based on lifetime changes. 

These first three volumes are designed to serve as an advanced text. These volumes describe the more recent techniques and technologies (Volume 1), the principles governing fluorescence and the experimental observables (Volume 2), and applications in biochemistry and biophysics (Volume 3). 

Figure 3.2. Schematic diagram of the different volumes describing pulmonary ventilation.

Two chapters in this volume describe the generation of carbocations and the characterization of their structure and reactivity in strikingly different milieu. The study of the reactions in water of persistent carbocations generated from aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds has long provided useful models for the reactions of DNA with reactive electrophiles. The chapter by Laali and Borosky on the formation of stable carbocations and onium ions in water describes correlations between structure-reactivity relationships, obtained from wholly chemical studies on these carbocations, and the carcinogenic potency of these carbocations. The landmark studies to characterize reactive carbocations under stable superacidic conditions led to the award of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to George Olah. The chapter by Reddy and Prakash describes the creative extension of this earlier work to the study of extremely unstable carbodications under conditions where they show long lifetimes. The chapter provides a lucid description of modern experimental methods to characterize these unusual reactive intermediates and of ab initio calculations to model the results of experimental work. 

A commercial database covers cinnamates, flavonoids, isoflavones, and lignans plus many nonphenolic plant constituents. Chapter 4 in this volume describes the development of a UK-focused database covering primarily anthocyanidins, flavanols, flavanones, flavones, and flavonols. 

Before incubation of the vials, powder should be reconstituted with adapted media (TSB or thioglycolate broth) using aseptic technique under laminar flow. The reconstitution volume is according to the volume described in the original formula. Strict environmental monitoring should be followed through this step. 

Bematowicz, T. J. and Zinner, E. (1997) Astrophysical Implications of the Laboratory Study of Presolar Materials. AIP Conference Proceedings 402. American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, New York, 750 pp. An important volume describing the first decade of research on presolar grains. 

Three chapters in this volume describe expensive and extensive research efforts devoted to images of risk. Stephen Safe assesses the research that fails to find any health from endocrine disruptors in the environment. Bruce Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold review the collapse of the scientific underpinnings for the assertion that environmental chemicals are a major cause of cancer. Bernard L. Cohen contrasts the absence of data to show that nuclear power plants have caused death and disease with the near-total demise of the nuclear power industry because of assertions about cancer risks from the plants. 

William Happer, in his chapter in this volume, describes his... 

The generator matrix treatment of simple chains with excluded volume described earlier S 010) properly reproduces the known chain length dependence of the mean-square dimensions in the limit of infinite chains. The purpose of this paper is to compare the behaviour of finite generator matrix chains with that of Monte-Carlo chains in which atoms participating in long-range interactions behave as hard spheres. The model for the unperturbed chain is that developed by Flory et at. for PE (S 027). 

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