It is difficult to imagine modern archaeology without radio-carbon dating, geophysics, analytical chemistry, or the input of the social and historical sources. Archaeology is inevitably an interdisciplinary enterprise, perhaps more so than any other field. But with the ever-increasing specialisation of modern research in general, it becomes more and more difficult to communicate across disciplinary doundaries; this is one of the major challenges modern archaeology faces today. This volume is the outcome of a two-day conference held at the University of Oxford that focused on the opportunities...

Die Pharmakologie, eine medizinische Hilfswissenschaft, sonnt sich uberall auf der Welt in dem Anspruch, die rationa le Basis der Therapie zu sein. Der Anspruch gerat allerdings ins Irreale, wenn man sich die gegenwartige Ausbildung der deutschen Medizinstudenten in Pharmakologie und Therapie mit Arzneimitteln vergegenwartigt: die Grundlagen werden in zwei scheinpflichtigen Kursen wahrend des Studiums im 1. und im 2. klinischen Abschnitt gelegt. Danach ist keine wei tere obligate Unterweisung zur Nutzanwendung der Grundla gen fur die Therapie vorgesehen. Dies steht im krassen Ge gensatz zur...

Previous symposia on Metabolic Interconversion of Enzymes were held in 1970 (Santa Margherita-Ligure, Italy), 1971 (Rottach-Egern, Ger- many), 1973 (Seattle, USA) and 1975 (Arad, Israel). The present pub- lication reports the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Metabolic Interconversion of Enzymes, held in Titisee/Black Forest (Germany) from October 1st-5th, 1980. In the last few years, the number of enzymes for which control of activity by enzyme-catalyzed covalent modification, i.e., by intercon- version, is of recognized metabolic importance has increased so much that is was...