The Fifth International Conference on Micro Total Analysis Systems, also known as JlTAS 2001, will highlight the latest exciting events in the world ofminiaturized devices and systems for performing chemical and biochemical experimentation This conference has become mandatory for those of us working in this field as it is indeed helping to define our discipline. We are grateful to the people of the MESA Research Institute of the University of Twente, particularly Piet Bergveld and Albert van den Berg, for starting this meeting in 1994. Their original intention was for the JlTAS meeting to be...

Dear reader, In the past few years we have observed an interesting mutual interest of two fields of research and development in each other. Life sciences area researchers discovered the opportunities offered my micro- and nanotechnology, while people from the microfluidics and BIOMEMS area discovered the application potential of these technologies in cell biology. Unfortunately, these two research communities share little in common: they read and publish in different scientific journals, have incompatible jargons, attend separate conferences, and have a different scientific approach and...

Dear reader, In the past few years we have observed an interesting mutual interest of two fields of research and development in each other. Life sciences area researchers discovered the opportunities offered my micro- and nanotechnology, while people from the microfluidics and BIOMEMS area discovered the application potential of these technologies in cell biology. Unfortunately, these two research communities share little in common: they read and publish in different scientific journals, have incompatible jargons, attend separate conferences, and have a different scientific approach and...

The relationship of national courts and arbitration has been improved by the 1958 New York Convention, arbitration legislation based on the highly successful UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, and an ever-increasing body of arbitration specialists in the legal community. Yet many issues still remain in this never-ending story'. They are explored in ICCA Congress Series no. 10, which contains the proceedings of the ICCA Conference 2000, held in New Delhi in March 2000. This Conference, hosted by the Indian Council of Arbitration, explored four topics covering...

This volume of the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration includes coverage of: draft arbitration laws announced for Sweden and Germany; arbitration awards addressing issues such as bribery, copyright infringement, and applicable law; new legislation for England, India, and Kenya; arbitration awards applying the Arbitration Rules of the Economic Commission for Europe as well as the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules in the framework of the Convention establishing the Inter-Arab Investment Guarantee Corporation; arbitration awards from arbitrations conducted under the auspices of the International...

This 20th volume of the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration completes two decades of comprehensive reporting on current developments in the field of international commercial arbitration. The Yearbook has broadly maintained its original format and continues to publish arbitral awards, both institutional and ad hoc, new and amended rules of arbitral institutions, and accounts of current developments in the law and practice of commercial arbitration worldwide. The Yearbook also includes broad coverage of court decisions applying the UNCITRAL Model Law in International Commercial Arbitration,...