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Nuclear Energy

Principles, Practices, and Prospects

This second edition represents an extensive revision of the ?rst edition, - though the motivation for the book and the intended audiences, as described inthepreviouspreface,remainthesame. Theoveralllengthhasbeenincreased substantially, with revised or expanded discussions of a number of topics, - cluding Yucca Mountain repository plans, new reactor designs, health e?ects of radiation, costs of electricity, and dangers from terrorism and weapons p- liferation. The overall status of nuclear power has changed rather little over the past eight years. Nuclear reactor construction remains at a very low ebb in much of the world, with the exception of Asia, while nuclear power’s share of the electricity supply continues to be about 75% in France and 20% in the United States. However,therearesignsofaheightenedinterestinconsideringpossible nuclear growth. In the late 1990s, the U. S. Department of Energy began new programs to stimulate research and planning for future reactors, and many candidate designs are now contending—at least on paper—to be the next generation leaders. Outside the United States, the commercial development ofthePebbleBedModularReactorisbeingpursuedinSouthAfrica,aFrench- German consortium has won an order from Finlandfor the long-plannedEPR (European Pressurized Water Reactor), and new reactors have been built or planned in Asia. In an unanticipated positive development for nuclear energy, the capacity factor of U. S. reactors has increased dramatically in recent years, and most operating reactors now appear headed for 20-year license renewals.

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Exposure of the
Population in the United States and Canada from Natural Background Radia-
tion, NCRP Report No. 94 (Washington, DC: NCRP, 1987). DeVerle P. Harris, “
World ...

The Effects of Standardized Testing

When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept would be examined many years later in Irish schools. While the primary purpose of the experimental study reported in this book was not to investigate the Pygmalion effect, it is inconceivable that a study of the effects of standardized testing, conceived in the 1960s and planned and executed in the 1970s, would not have been influenced by thinking about teachers' expectations and the influence of test information on the formation of those expectations. While our study did pay special attention to teacher expectations, its scope was much wider. It was planned and carried out in a much broader framework, one in which we set out to examine the impact of a standardized testing program, not just on teachers, but also on school practices, students, and students' parents.

Drumcondra Attainment Tests, Level I, Form A: Mathematics and English.
Administration and technical manual. Dublin: Educational Research Centre, St
Patrick's College. —. 1978b. Drumcondra Attainment Tests, Level II, Form A:
Mathematics ...

Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Second Language Learning and Teaching

Studies in Honor of Waldemar Marton

The volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of key issues in second language learning and teaching, adopting as a point of reference both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. The papers included in the collection, which have been contributed by leading specialists in the field from Poland and abroad, touch upon important theoretical issues, report latest research findings and offer guidelines for classroom practice. The range of topics covered and the inclusion of concrete pedagogic proposals ensures that the book will be of interest to a wide audience, not only SLA specialists, but also methodologists, material designers, undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners

Language: Problems and Research Questions Maria Wysocka Abstract The fact
that English has become a means of global communication at present appears to
have been the cause of different changes that can be observed in the language ...

A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody

Perception, Production and Child Acquisition of Consonantal Quantity Distinctions

GTPases in Biology I

The GTPase switch appears to be almost as old as life itself, and nature has adapted it to a variety of purposes. This two-volume work surveys the major classes of GTPases, including their role in ensuring accuracy during protein translation, a new look at the trimeric G-protein cycle, the molecular function of ARF in vesicle coating, the emerging role of the dynamin family in vesicle transfer, GTPases which activate GTPases during nascent protein translocation, and the many roles of ras-related proteins in growth, cytoskeletal polymerization, and vesicle transfer. 80 chapters contain much previously unpublished data and, at the rate the extended family of GTPases is growing, it is unlikely that it will again sit for a group portrait such as this. Thus, this could well become the standard reference work.

... Japan ToH-E, A., Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of
Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113, Japan TORTI, M., ... Bldg. 10, Room 5N-307, National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
20892, ...

Geschwülste / Tumors I

Morphologie, Epidemiologie, Immunologie / Morphology, Epidemiology, Immunology

Research (Medical and pharmaceutical Section). Ministry of Education 1956, vol.
31, p. 209. Tokyo: Jap. Soc. Prom. Sci. 1957. ... KOSAKA, K., YAKAWA, S.: A case
of reticulosarcomatosis with metastasis in the heart [in Japanese]. Rinsho ...

Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part I - The Sea

Frank Motofuji in “The Factory Ship” and “The Absentee Landlord” (Tokyo:
University of Tokyo Press, 1973). 3 4 Trans. ... 5 “Soseki's Kokoro: A Descent into
the Heart of Man,” included in Approaches to the Modern Japanese Novel, ed.

Biology of Brain Dysfunction

The growth of neurochemistry, molecular biology, and biochemical genetics has led to a burgeoning of new information relevant to the pathogenesis of brain dysfunction. This explosion of exciting new information is crying out for collation and meaningful synthesis. In its totality, it defies systematic summa tion, and, of course, no one author can cope. Thus invitations for contributions were given to various experts in areas which are under active investigation, of current neurological interest, and pregnant. Although this project is relatively comprehensive, by dint of size, other topics might have been included; the selection was solely my responsibility. I believe systematic summation a virtual impossibility-indeed, hardly worth the effort. The attempt to assemble all of the sections involved in a large treatise with multiple authors inevitably results in untoward delays due to the difference in the rate at which various authors work. Therefore, the following strategy has been adopted: multiple small volumes and a relatively flexible format, with publication in order of receipt and as soon as enough chapters are assembled to make publication practical and economical. In this way, the time lag between the ideas and their emergence in print is the shortest.

E. Sveinsdottir, P. Thorlof, J. Risberg, D. H. Ingvar, and N. A. Lassen, Regional
cerebral blood flow in man, in “Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium
on Cerebral Blood Flow,” Symposium European Neurology, S. Karger, Basel, ...

Biological Order and Brain Organization

Selected Works of W.R.Hess

The centennial of his birthday (17 March 1881) prompted the publi cation of the Selected Works of Walter Rudolf Hess. Although English translation of several of his monographs have appeared, none of his orig inal papers has ever been published in the English language. During his sci entific career, Hess made pioneering contributions in the field of hemo dynamics, pyhsiological optics, oculomotor diagnostics, regulation of cir culation, respiration and temperature, and finally on the somatomotor, vis ceral, and emotional functions of the diencephalon. His concepts concern ing organization and order in physiology and his views on the important role of the vegetative nervous system in regulating the activity of the central ner vous system are of great interest to science and medicine and were in many respects far in advance of his time. These concepts continue a line of thought which was upheld by such famous physiologists as Xavier Bichat, Claude Bernard, and Walter B. Cannon. Indeed, Walter Rudolf Hess has become one of the rare figures in the recent history of physiology willing to carry out an integrative analysis of bodily functions and to search for the basic principles of regulation and interaction between regulatory systems. In fact, he anticipated such ideas in biology as feedback control and ser vomechanisms long before these notions evolved in the field of engineering and electronics.

1936 1937 1938 1939 Hess, W.R.: Filmdemonstrationen zur Physiologie des
Zwischenhirns. Verh. Schweiz. Physiol. (Juni) pp. 18–19. Basel: Schwabe Hess,
W.R.: Zentrale Vertretung von Hilfsfunktionen des vegetativen Systems. Schweiz.

Self-Regulation of the Brain and Behavior

With contributions by numerous experts

(From “Central Gating Mechanisms That Regulate EventRelated Potentials and
Behavior” by J.E. Skinner and C.D. Yingling. In J. Desmedt (Ed.), Attention,
Voluntary Contraction and EventRelated Cerebral Potentials. Basel, Karger,
1977.