The picture on the following page is being reproduced here, at the request of the partici pants in the Advanced Research Workshop "Amino Acid Availability and Brain Function in Health and Disease". I displayed this limewood carving, entitled "Neurochemistry", during my closing remarks to this extraordinarily stimulating and productive workshop so ably organized by my collaborator Dr. Gerald Huether. We scientists need two sturdy legs to carry us through all the twists and turns of our academic careers. We should also have, as it were, a reserve leg handy, to help us stay upright when this career ends. My "third leg" is wood carving. The idea for "Neurochemis try" came to me in the plane carrying me to the congress of the International Neuro chemical Society in Jerusalem. We need the hands for our meticulous experimental work, and at least one ear to listen to the messages our neurons send us. A few years ago it would have been premature to hold a workshop on this subject. Now, however, the time was just right to allow an overview of the status of current re search, and to point out the promising new openings it has created. There is no doubt that the book to be published as a result of this workshop will be, for the next years at least, the standard text on the subject. Hearty thanks to all speakers for their brilliant con tributions and to all participants for the lively, uninhibited and stimulating discussion.

Amino Acid Availability and Brain Function in Health and Disease (NATO Asi Series: Series H: Cell Biology)

Medical Books

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Amino Acid Availability and Brain Function in Health and Disease (1987 : Go¨ttingen, Germany)

Basic Sciences

Springer, Verlag

This book is the outcome of a NAill Advanced Study Institute on the contemporary glo­ bal carbon cycle, held in n Ciocco, Italy, September 8-20, 1991. The motivation for this ASI originated from recent controversial findings regarding the relative roles of the ocean and the land biota in the current global balance of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Consequently, the pur­ pose of this institute was to review, among leading experts in the field, the multitude of known constraints on the present day global carbon cycle as identified by the fields of meteorology, physical and biological oceanography, geology and terrestrial biosphere sciences. At the same time the form of an Advanced Study Institute was chosen, thus providing the opportunity to convey the information in tutorial form across disciplines and to young researchers entering the field. The first three sections of this book contain the lectures held in II Ciocco. The first sec­ tion reviews the atmospheric, large-scale global constraints on the present day carbon cycle including the emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use and it provides a brief look into the past. The second section discusses the role of the terrestrial biosphere and the third the role of the ocean in the contemporary global carbon cycle.

The Global Carbon Cycle (NATO Asi Series: Series I: Global Environmental Change)

Science & Math

<p>This volume is a collection of articles at the cutting age of modern structural biology, summarizing the most recent applications of physical methods - notably x-ray diffraction, high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular dynamics - to the study of protein structure and dynamics. Several of the chapters offer a critical review of current thinking on the mechanisms of allosteric transitions and allosteric control, the transmission of information within protein structures and the role of dynamics in determining the specificity of protein - ligand interactions. Emphasis is placed throughout on questions which still remain to be answered and promising methodological innovations - such as Temperature-jump NMR and NMR at high pressures are discussed in this context.</p>

Dynamics, Structure and Function of Biological Macromolecules (Nato: Life Sciences, 315)

Biological Sciences

Ios Pr Inc

<p>Microcomputer-based labs, the use of real-time data capture and display in teaching, give the learner new ways to explore and understand the world. As this book shows, the international effort over a quarter-century to develop and understand microcomputer-based labs (MBL) has resulted in a rich array of innovative implementations and some convincing evidence for the value of computers for learning. The book is a sampler of MBL work by an outstanding international group of scientists and educators, based on papers they presented at a seminar held as part of the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology. The story they tell of the development of MBL offers valuable policy lessons on how to promote educational innovation. The book will be of interest to a wide range of educators and to policy makers.</p>

Microcomputer-Based Labs: Educational Research and Standards (NATO ASI Series / Computer and Systems Sciences)

Computers & Technology

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Microcomputer-Based Labs: Education

Computer Science

Springer

Contains a March 1998 series of 14 lectures that considered how recent advances in DNA technology, most notably polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based technology, have impacted concepts and applications in ecology and evolution. Opening chapters review how frequency data can be analyzed using a phylogenetic approach, and the relative merits of conventional and coalescent approaches to describing population structure and gene flow. The use of variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) as molecular markers is also described. Later chapters deal with the reconstruction of mating and dispersal processes in natural and experimental plant populations, the analysis of highly mobile pelagic fishes, natural selection and hybridization, among other topics. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Advances in Molecular Ecology (NATO Science Series) (NATO Asi Series: Series A: Life Sciences)

NATO Advanced Study Institute on Molecular Biology (1998 : Erice, Italy)

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