UID:
edocfu_9959228641502883
Format:
xvii, 684 p. :
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ill., maps.
ISBN:
1-281-94810-1
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9786611948108
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981-279-700-9
Series Statement:
Science and culture series. Nuclear strategy and peace technology
Content:
Full Title: Water - Pollution, Biotechnology - Transgenic Plant Vaccine, Energy, Black Sea Pollution, AIDS - Mother-Infant HIV Transmission, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Limits of Development - Megacities, Missile Proliferation and Defense - Information Security, Cosmic Objects, Desertification, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability, Climatic Changes, Global Monitoring of Planet, Mathematics and Democracy, Science and Journalism, Permanent Monitoring Panel Reports, Water for Megacities Workshop, Black Sea Workshop, Transgenic Plants Workshop, Research Resources Workshop, Mother-Infant HIV Transmission Workshop, Sequestration and Desertification Workshop, Focus Africa Workshop.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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1. Opening session. Planetary emergencies - The scientists' jubilee / T. D. Lee, K. M. B. Siegbahn, Antonino Zichichi -- Potential for transgenic plants in vaccine production / Julian K.-C. Ma -- Global energy problems and prospects / David Bodansky -- Global malnutrition / W. Philip T. James -- Mother to infant transmission of HIV: Successful interventions and implementation / Catherine M. Wilfert -- The global burden of disease 1990-2020 / Alan D. Lopez -- MTBE - The megacity public health debacle / Lome G. Everett -- 2. Water - Pollution. Cost benefit analysis for the use of MTBE and alternatives / Arturo A. Keller -- Arsenic in groundwater: A worldwide threat to human health / S. Majid Hassanizadeh -- Arsenic geochemistry and remediation using natural materials / David I. Norman -- 3. Biotechnology - Transgenic plant vaccine. Safety considerations when planning genetically modified plants that produce vaccines / Francesco Sala -- Purified cholera toxin B subunit from transgenic tobacco plants possesses authentic antigenicity / Rong-Xiang Fang -- Development of plant vaccines: The point of view of the mucosal immunologist / Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl -- Plant-derived oral vaccines: From concept to clinical trials / Charles J. Arntzen -- 4. Energy. Status of magnetic fusion research / Jef Ongena -- New trends in Russia's energy strategy / Andrei Yu Gagarinski -- Energy problems and prospects of China / Huo Yu Ping -- 5. Pollution - Black Sea. Problems of control and rational uses of the Black Sea resources / Valery I. Mikhailov -- The suboxic zone of the Black Sea / Ilkay Salihoglu -- Building environmental coalitions and the Black Sea environmental initiative / Kay Thompson -- 6. AIDS - Mother-infant HIV transmission. The tragedy of the mother to infant transmission of HIV is preventable / Guy de The -- HIV and infant feeding: Situation in Brazil / Marina Ferreira Rea -- Mother to child transmission of HIV and plans for preventive interventions: The case of Indonesia / Hadi Pratomo -- Toward pharmacological defeat of the third world HIV-1 pandemic / Lowell Wood -- 7. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the year 2000 / Paul Brown -- Infection control guidelines for TSEs in hospitals and home care settings / Maura Ricketts -- 8. Limits of development - Megacities. Megacities: Water as a limit to development / William J. Cosgrove -- Delhi: A thirsty city by the river / K. C. Sivaramakrishnan -- The question of water in metropolitan Buenos Aires / Juan Manuel Borthagaray -- Sao Paulo: Water as a limit to development / Geraldo Gomes Serra -- 9. Missile proliferation and defense - Information security. Information challenges to security / Vitali Tsigichko -- International information security challenges for mankind in the XXI century / Andrei Kroutskikh -- Threats to information security by computer-based information hiding techniques / Axel Lehmann -- New strategic environment and Russian military doctrine / Andrei Piontkovsky -- Missile defense and proliferation / Gregory Canavan -- 10. Cosmic objects. NEOs: Physical properties / Walter F. Huebner ... [et al.] -- 11. Desertification, carbon sequestration and sustainability. Storing carbon in agricultural soils to help head-off global warming and to combat desertification / Norman J. Rosenberg -- 12. Climatic changes - Cosmic objects, global monitoring of planet, mathematics and democracy, science and journalism. Demographic change and world food demand and supply, some thoughts on sub-Saharan Africa, India and East Asia / Tim Dyson -- The status of climate models and climate change simulations / Warren M. Washington -- From Puztai to perfection: A necessary dream / Robert Walgate -- Mathematics of Indian democracy / K. C. Sivaramakrishnan -- Volcanoes, not Asteroids, caused mass extinctions killing dinosaurs, etc.: Explanation for earth's magnetic field reversals / Douglas R. O. Morrison.
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13. Permanent monitoring panel reports. Report of the energy permanent monitoring panel / K. M. B. Siegbahn -- Linking the conventions: Soil carbon sequestration and desertification control / Douglas Johnson -- World federation of scientists permanent monitoring panel on pollution / Richard Ragaini -- Progress report on the world federation of scientists activity in Lithuania / Zenonas Rudzikas -- Extending the activities of the world federation of scientist in Ukraine / Gennady Palshin -- Permanent monitoring panel report: Limits of development/sustainability / Hiltmar Schubert -- Nuclear power plants in the next century / Juras Pozela -- Nuclear power plants in the next century / Juras Pozela -- HIV/mother to child transmission / Guy de The -- 14. Megacities workshop - Water as a limit to development. Megacities: Water as a limit to development / William J. Cosgrove. The question of water in metropolitan Buenos Aires / Juan Manuel Borthagaray -- Water use, abuse and waste: Limits to sustainable development in the metropolitan area of Mexico / Alberto Gonzalez Pozo -- Sao Paulo: Water as a limit to development / Geraldo Gomes Serra -- Global water quality, supply and demand: Implications for megacities / Paolo F. Ricci -- Delhi: A thirsty city by the river / K. C. Sivaramakrishnan -- Water resource management in the Texas megacity: A prima facie case for comprehensive resource management / George O. Rogers -- 15. Workshop on environmental impacts of oil pollution in the Black Sea. Environmental impacts of oil pollution in the Black Sea. Summary of the pollution permanent monitoring panel workshop / Richard Ragaini -- Application of geoinformation systems for operative responding to oil spill accidents / Lado Mirianashvili -- The suboxic zone of the Black Sea / Ilkay Salihoglu -- Black Sea environmental information center / Kay Thompson -- Importance of assessment of oil pollution along Black Sea coast and Bosphorous Straight-Turkey / Ender Okandan -- Oil pollution risk assessment in the Black Sea and the Romanian coastal waters / Dumitru Dorogan -- Energetic consumption of different techniques used to purify water from 2-chlorophenol / Vittorio Ragaini -- 16. Transgenic plants as vaccines: Impact on developing countries workshop. Transgenic vaccines in plants - Prospects for global vaccinations / Giovanni Levi -- Plant-derived oral vaccines: From concept to clinical trials / Charles J. Arntzen -- Transgenic plants expressing human glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65), a major autoantigen in type 1 diabetes mellitus / Mario Pezzotti -- Development of plant vaccines: The point of view of the mucosal immunologist / Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl -- Potential for transgenic plants in vaccine production / Julian K-C. Ma -- Genetically engineered therapeutic antibodies / Zelig Eshhar -- Production of vaccine in plant expression of FMDV peptide vaccine in tobacco using a plant virus based vector / Zheng-Kai Xu -- Purified cholera toxin B subunit from transgenic tobacco plants possesses authentic antigenicity / Rong-Xiang Fang -- Safety considerations when planning genetically modified plants that produce vaccines / Francesco Sala -- 17. Research resources workshop. World federation of scientists permanent monitoring panel on climate, ozone & greenhouse effect / William Sprigg -- Intellectual property rights in digital information in the developing world context: A science policy perspective / Paul Uhlir -- Policy issues in the dissemination and use of meteorological data and related information / Glenn Tallia -- 18. Mother-infant HIV transmission workshop. The tragedy of the mother to infant transmission of HIV is preventable / Guy de The -- Successful interventions to reduce perinatal transmission of HIV / Catherine M. Wilfert -- Readiness of perinatal health care providers in dealing with mother-infant AIDS transmission: A case study in Indonesia / Hadi Pratomo -- HIV and infant feeding: Situation in Brazil / Marina Ferreira Rea -- Breastfeeding and transmission of HIV / Rolf Zetterstrom -- Utilizing the climate, water, development, and infectious diseases permanent monitoring panel to evaluate the cofactors fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa / Deborah Birx -- Mother to child transmission - Perspectives from South Africa / Anna Coutsoudis -- 19. Linking the conventions: Soil carbon sequestration and desertification control workshop. Carbon sequestration to combat desertification - Potentials, perils and research needs / Lennart Olsson -- Soil carbon sequestration in Africa / Paul Bartel -- 20. Limits of development: Focus Africa. Food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa due to HIV/AIDS / Curt A. Reynolds -- Migration in Uganda: Measures government is taking to address rural-urban migration / Jane Frances Kuka -- The impact on African economic development of orphans by AIDS in Africa: A case study of Uganda / Margaret Farah -- Limits of development - Focus on Africa constraints and tendencies of rural development in Senegal / Mbareck Diop -- 21. Seminar participants.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 981-02-4669-2
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