The proceedings of the symposium, sponsored primarily by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, critically evaluate the current state of knowledge concerning the protective role of immune agents found in milk, provide up-to-date information on milk factors with respect to thei

Proceedings of the Waltham Symposium on Taurine and Cat Nutrition, held October 1991, and of the International Taurine Symposium: New Dimensions on its Mechanisms of Action, held October 1991, in Orange Beach, Alabama. The single biggest factor in elucidating the many functions of taurine in the las

Developed from the invited review lectures delivered to the Workshop on Recovery of Function Following Brain Damage, held by the European Brain and Behaviour Society in London, April 1991. The 11 papers include discussions of nutritional factors, neural implants, and animal studies of hemidecorticat

Proceedings of a National Institute of Dental Research workshop held in November, 1991, in Bethesda, Maryland. While exploring the development of vaccines in the prevention of oral diseases, the papers address three key areas: optimizing the mucosal immune response; possible antigen delivery systems

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled "The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center: Structure, Spectroscopy, and Dynamics" was held May 10-15, 1992, in the Maison d'H6tes of the Centre d'Etudes Nuc1eaires de Cadarache near Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. This workshop is the most recent of a string of meetings which started in Feldafing (Germany) in March 1985, soon after the three-dimensional structure of the bacterial reaction center had been elucidated by X-ray crystallography. This was followed, in September 1987, by a workshop in Cadarache and, in March 1990, by a second...

The proceedings of the 6th NATO Advanced Study Institute on title], held at Cape Sounion, Greece, June-July 1991, comprise 11 papers that deal with a variety of approaches to optimize the function of peptides and proteins used either as drugs and vaccines or as drug delivery systems. Annotation cop

Drawn from a June 1992 international conference in Clearwater Beach, Florida, 39 papers report the latest findings and thought concerning the impact of psychotropic drugs on the immune system. Researchers are convinced that the use of recreational drugs must reduce the body's natural immunity; they

Coronaviruses represent a major group of viruses of both molecular biological interest and clinical significance in animals and humans. The proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Coronaviruses, held in Chantilly, France, September 1992, provide a comprehensive view of the state of the a

Considers how physicists apply intuition to problems that appear to defy rigorous analysis, contrary to conventional notions of science, and come up with believable answers. Four review papers on general topics are followed by 23 research reports treating such areas as polymer physics, crystallograp

Proceedings of a symposium held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 1992. Papers are divided into four broad categories on bitumen and coal-derived asphaltenes, asphalt and asphaltene conversion, surface and colloidal aspects of asphaltenes, and thermodynamic and molecular aspects of asphaltenes. Discussi