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Deals with the research field of naturally occurring gas hydrates (focusing on methane hydrate). This book is designed as a broad introduction to the field of hydrate science, demonstrating the significance of the hydrate cycle to energy resource potential, seafloor stability, and global climate and climate change, along with other issues.

For example, for certain architectures and certain operations, large improvements in performance can be attained by storing a matrix in row major order. A determination must be made whether or not it is the best solution globally to store the matrix in row order, column order, or even have two copies of it, each organized differently.

Supercomputers are the largest and fastest computers available at any point in time. Subsequent improvements depended on developing a new generation of computers employing a new model of computation: single-instruction multiple data (SIMD) processors (Chapters 5-7).

The essential purpose of this book is to provide practitioners and students of the human service professions with a practice approach and methodology that has been developed over the past ten years in both research and clinical work with older persons. It is concerned with the kinds of emotional prob­ lems that are salient and pervasive in the second half of life, that is, from about the ages of 50 on into the 60s, 70s, and 80s. These problems are often related to inevitable developmental and situational events and losses, as well as the decrements and concerns that are prevalent in the latter decades of life: physical decline and illness, loss of loved ones, concerns about one's own mortality, loss of major occupational and family roles, and the issues of meaning in and about one's life which are raised by these losses and concerns. The approach to these problems will include a range of assessment and treatment methods for counseling and psychotherapy. It will, however, em­ phasize two particular kinds of methods for dealing with these problems. The first of these, cognitive methods, tend to focus on how older persons think about or construe these problems whereas phenomenological methods focus on how persons experience or feel about them. What is common to both is that they are oriented toward the person's perception of the prob­ lem.

Safety and Efficacy of Radiopharmaceuticals was established as a very important and comprehensive subject at the First Europe an Symposium on Radiopharmacy and Radiopharmaceuticals in Denmark in 1983.

Mason Sones demonstrated that visualization of the coronary anatomy in living humans was not only feasible but sufficiently safe and reliable to be used as a clinical tool in the evaluation of patients with known or suspected ischemic heart disease, the thus far somewhat neglected area of coronary circulation became the focus of interest.

According to Schopenhauer problems are usually passing through three stages: - in the first stage they are ignored or just smiled at, - in the second stage they are fought, and in the third stage they are considered to be self-evident, just taken for granted.

Proceedings of a Workshop Held Oct. 23-25, 1986, in Cologne, FRG, Sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities as Advised by the Committee on Medical and Public Health Research

Although leprosy is mainly known as an "import" disease in Europe and North America, in the greater part of the world it remains the problem it has always been, one of a stigmatizing disease comparable to the modern day pestilence, namely AIDS.

Papers presented at the International Seminar on the Immunological System as a Target for Toxic Damage - Present Status, Open Problems and Future Perspectives

Spencer, M.D. Normal anatomy, anatomical anomalies and collateral Pathways of the blood supply to the brain 43 Robert Ackerstaff, M.D. Normal blood flow in the arteries 57 Merrill P. Spencer, M.D. Normal physiology and pathophysiology of human cerebral blood fuw ~ P.C.M.

Proceedings of a workshop held at the Institute of Ophthalmology, London, April 1-3, 1985, sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities as advised by the Committee on Medical Research

Apart from risk factors of relevance in primary prevention, secondary prevention is dependent on the extent of the disease itself; This concept truly is the nucleus of secondary prevention, sine only a life worth living generates the motivitation needed to take all the steps necessary in secondary pre vention.

This volume, the last in this series on cancer growth and Moreover, the current status of plant-derived vinca alka- progression, is a companion volume to Volume IX and loids and non-alkaloid natural products is summarized.

The development of monoclonal antibodies to human tumor associated antigens has greatly facilitated the application of immunohistochemical techniques to analyze surgically removed tissues. Phenotypes of tumor cells have been identified which correlate with the biology of tumor cells and with the clinical course of the disease.

The diagnosis and treatment of children suffering from infantile encephalopathy is part of daily childneurological practice. In particular, a study has been made of visual impairment due to dysfunction of the central visual system (from optic chiasm to striate cortex).

Special thanks are also due to those who assisted in the preparation and organization of the Symposium: the UNESCO officers, the interpreters, the secretaries and hostesses, the BEBA Company with the help of Dr.Bernard Martin and Mrs.Jacqueline Bouchy, the WILD- LEITZ-France S.A.

The last 30 years have seen little improvement in the age-adjusted mortality rates for most common types of cancer, and until we develop more effective and less damaging treatment modalities for these tumours, selection of each patient's treatment must depend on prognostic pointers.

Proceedings of the Fourth Anaerobic Discussion Group Symposium held at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, July 26-28, 1985

In this book basic principles of pharmacology, mechanisms of drug resis- tance, new methods of drug delivery, guidelines for studying new agents in children, new biological response modifiers and the pharmacology of the most commonly used chemotherapeutic agents in children are reviewed in depth.

Many of the discoveries from the biological studies have impacted on the pathologist in the form of disturbing evidence for a single stem cell origin for all the cell types of lung cancer and in the shape of new facilitation in diagnosis by appli- cation of immunoperoxidase techniques.

This book - the first multicenter book on orthotopic liver transplantatio- reflects the progress in this field.

This book is a compilation of studies presented at the International Society for Research on Aggression meeting in Chicago 1986, in which leading investigators were invited to cover aspects of ethopharmacological aggression research in a wide variety of species, including studies on humans.

The International Meeting on Brain Oncology in Rennes was organised in honor of Jean Pecker, to pay tribute to his contribution to the development of neurological sciences and to take stock of the current state of knowledge on brain tumors, a domain in which the role of neurosurgery has been and will continue to be primordial.

Proceedings of the Symposium Peptic Ulcer Today, 21-23 November 1984, at the Sophia Ziekenhuis, Zwolle, The Netherlands