Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the world's population has increased threefold. The "demographic revolution" has not only changed the size of the population; it is radically transforming its age structure and its spatial distribution, with attendant problems and contradictions. Despite measurable advances in human welfare, such as increased longevity, more than one billion people--about a third of the total Third World population--live in poverty. Sharply diverging rates of population growth have been accompanied by increasing disparities in income and quality of life across...
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the world's population has increased threefold. The "demographic revolution" has not only changed the si...
List of the Participants Xl Audience of the Holy Father XVll SCIENTIFIC PAPERS Introductory Remarks. Electrostatics and Specificity III Nucleic Acid Reactions (B. Pullman). . . 1 Theoretical Studies of Molecular Recognition and Ca- lysis by Enzymes (H. A. Scheraga) . . . . 21 Molecular Dynamics of the DNA Double Helix (M. Levitt) 43 Simulating the Energetics and Dynamics of Enzymatic Reactions (A. Warshel) . . . . . . . . . . 59 Structural Studies of DNA-Protein Interactions (B. W. Matthews) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions, Models and Reality (W....
List of the Participants Xl Audience of the Holy Father XVll SCIENTIFIC PAPERS Introductory Remarks. Electrostatics and Specificity III Nucleic Acid R...