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doi:10.1038/271291a0
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| | Forecasting future transport 292
J. I. Gershuny, of the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, discusses the recommendations of the Department of Transport report of the Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment (HMSO, January 1978)
J. I. Gershuny
doi:10.1038/271292a0
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| | Killer satellites 293
Farooq Hussain traces the history of the Soviet and US development of killer satellites
Farooq Hussain
doi:10.1038/271293a0
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| | 1979 looks like a good year for US science 294
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/271294a0
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| | Anti-relativist draws others into the whirlpool 296
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/271296a0
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| | Polishing a tarnished image 297
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/271297a0
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| | Lederberg named President of Rockefeller University 298
doi:10.1038/271298a0
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| | UK science budget announced for 1978/9 298
doi:10.1038/271298b0
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| | International Ultraviolet Explorer to be launched this week 299
Stuart Sharrock
doi:10.1038/271299a0
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| | Conserving uranium 300
A. T. G. FERGUSON & I. M. BLAIR
doi:10.1038/271300a0
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| | Transposed sentence 300
R. W. J. KEAY
doi:10.1038/271300b0
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| | Anti-Müllerian hormone 300
GERHARD H. MÜLLER
doi:10.1038/271300c0
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| | Essential relativity 300
WOLFGANG RINDLER
doi:10.1038/271300d0
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| | The end of the expanding Earth hypothesis? 301
Peter J. Smith
doi:10.1038/271301a0
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| | Progress on slime mould morphogens 302
Peter C. Newell
doi:10.1038/271302a0
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| | A hundred years ago 302
doi:10.1038/271302b0
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| | Energetic oxygen ions in the magnetosphere 303
D. T. Young
doi:10.1038/271303a0
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| | Thermonuclear reactions confirmed in laser-driven fusion 304
Derek Beynon
doi:10.1038/271304a0
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| | The prevalence of chaos 305
N. MacDonald
doi:10.1038/271305a0
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| | The blind fishes of Persia 305
G. THINÈS
doi:10.1038/271305b0
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| | Natural fission reactors—Oklo style 306
S. A. Durrani
doi:10.1038/271306a0
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| | Telescopes of the future 307
Edward Kibblewhite & John Whelan
doi:10.1038/271307a0
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| | Rift Valley fever 308
Arie J. Zuckerman & David I. H. Simpson
doi:10.1038/271308a0
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| | Plasma waves in the magnetosphere 309
D. J. Southwood
doi:10.1038/271309a0
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| | Limits to the expansion of Earth, Moon, Mars and Mercury and to changes in the gravitational constant 316
M. W. McElhinny, S. R. Taylor & D. J. Stevenson
doi:10.1038/271316a0
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| | West Antarctic ice sheet and CO2 greenhouse effect: a threat of disaster 321
J. H. Mercer
doi:10.1038/271321a0
Abstract & References | PDF (638K)
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| | Can a myosin molecule bind to two actin filaments? 325
Gerald Offer & Arthur Elliott
doi:10.1038/271325a0
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| | X−chromosome inactivation during differentiation of female teratocarcinoma stem cells in vitro
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Gail R. Martin, Charles J. Epstein, Bruce Travis, Georgianne Tucker, Shaul Yatziv, David W. Martin Jr, Shirley Clift & Sara Cohen
doi:10.1038/271329a0
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| | Is Fairall 9 an X-ray Seyfert galaxy? 334
G. R. RICKER
doi:10.1038/271334a0
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| | Infrared light curves of AM Herculis 334
R. F. JAMESON, R. AKINCI, D. J. ADAMS, A. B. GILES & A. McCALL
doi:10.1038/271334b0
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| | Interstellar nitroxyl 335
J. B. PICKLES & D. A. WILLIAMS
doi:10.1038/271335a0
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| | Sorption of phosphate by hydrolytic reaction products of aluminium 336
K. F. NG KEE KWONG & P. M. HUANG
doi:10.1038/271336a0
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| | Limited response of the K−Ar system to the Nordlinger Ries giant meteorite impact 338
E. K. JESSBERGER, TH. STAUDACHER, B. DOMINIK, T. KIRSTEN & O. A. SCHAEFFER
doi:10.1038/271338a0
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| | Alternative 210Pb dating: results from the New Guinea Highlands and Lough Erne 339
F. OLDFIELD, P. G. APPLEBY & R. W. BATTARBEE
doi:10.1038/271339a0
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| | Subaqueous sulphur lake in Volcan Poas 342
F. D. BENNETT & S. M. RACCICHINI
doi:10.1038/271342a0
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| | The Soufriere Crater Lake as a calorimeter 344
J. B. SHEPHERD & HARALDUR SIGURDSSON
doi:10.1038/271344a0
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| | Circular structures of large scale and great age on the Earth's surface 345
JOHN M. SAUL
doi:10.1038/271345a0
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| | Palaeolithic−Neolithic seed remains at Franchthi Cave, Greece 349
JULIE HANSEN & JANE M. RENFREW
doi:10.1038/271349a0
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| | Lipid sacs as a buoyancy adaptation in an Antarctic fish 352
ARTHUR L. DEVRIES & JOSEPH T. EASTMAN
doi:10.1038/271352a0
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| | Equalisation of prey numbers by migratory shorebirds 353
DAVID SCHNEIDER
doi:10.1038/271353a0
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| | Separation of seed development from monocarpic senescence in soybeans 354
L. D. NOODEN, D. C. RUPP & B. D. DERMAN
doi:10.1038/271354a0
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| | Regulation of RNA synthesis in early germination of isolated wheat (Triticum aestivum L) embryo 357
CHI P. CHEUNG & ROBERT J. SUHADOLNIK
doi:10.1038/271357a0
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| | Response properties of dipteran giant visual interneurones involved in control of optomotor behaviour 358
HENDRIK E. ECKERT
doi:10.1038/271358a0
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| | Directed outgrowth of optic fibres regenerating in vitro
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PAMELA RAYMOND JOHNS, MYONG G. YOON & BERNARD W. AGRANOFF
doi:10.1038/271360a0
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| | Neuromuscular transmission is adequate in identified abnormal dystrophic muscle fibres 362
J. B. HARRIS & R. R. RIBCHESTER
doi:10.1038/271362a0
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| | Neuromuscular blockade increases motoneurone survival during normal cell death in the chick embryo 364
R. H. PITTMAN & R. W. OPPENHEIM
doi:10.1038/271364a0
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| | Gating properties of acetycholine receptor in newly formed neuromuscular synapses 366
H. R. BRENNER & B. SAKMANN
doi:10.1038/271366a0
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| | Direct or proximate contact between cells and metabolic activation systems is required for mutagenesis 368
T. KUROKI & C. DREVON
doi:10.1038/271368a0
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| | Ascorbate-enhanced Cytotoxicity of misonidazole 370
P. DAVID JOSEPHY, BRANKO PALCIC & LLOYD D. SKARSGARD
doi:10.1038/271370a0
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| | Novel treatment for joint inflammation 372
J. T. DINGLE, J. L. GORDON, B. L. HAZLEMAN, C. G. KNIGHT, D. P. PAGE THOMAS, N. C. PHILLIPS, I. H. SHAW, F. J. T. FILDES, JEAN E. OLIVER, G. JONES, E. H. TURNER & J. S. LOWE
doi:10.1038/271372a0
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| | Relationship between haptoglobin and Streptococcus pyogenes T4 antigens 373
W. KÖHLER & O. PROKOP
doi:10.1038/271373a0
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| | Partial  1 fragment is a 'natural' bovine IgG1 fragment without detectable class-specific determinants 374
B. A. BOKHOUT
doi:10.1038/271374a0
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| | Production of HLA antibody in mice immunised with syngeneic mouse−human hybrid cells containing human chromosome 6 375
DAVID P. ADEN, RACHEL MAUSNER & BARBARA B. KNOWLES
doi:10.1038/271375a0
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| | Lymphocyte induced stimulation of human chorionic gonadotrophin production by trophoblastic cells in vitro
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W. J. DICKMAN & M. N. CAUCHI
doi:10.1038/271377a0
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| | Electrophoretic mobility as a sensitive probe of lectin−lymphocyte interaction 378
PHILIP BLUME, ARTHUR MALLEY, ROBERT J. KNOX & GEOFFREY V. F. SEAMAN
doi:10.1038/271378a0
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| | Amphetamine induces  -adrenergic receptor supersensitivity 380
SHAILESH P. BANERJEE, VIRENDRA K. SHARMA, LILY S. KUNG & SUBIR K. CHANDA
doi:10.1038/271380a0
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| | Antibodies to thaumatin as a model of the sweet taste receptor 381
C. A. M. HOUGH & J. A. EDWARDSON
doi:10.1038/271381a0
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| | Phospholipase A inhibition of opiate receptor binding can be reversed by albumin 383
HUNG-KUANG LIN & ERIC J. SIMON
doi:10.1038/271383a0
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| | Calcium ion-dependent vesicle fusion in the conversion of proalbumin to albumin 384
J. D. JUDAH & P. S. QUINN
doi:10.1038/271384a0
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| | An unusual interaction between the target of nalidixic acid and novobiocin 385
LEE CHAO
doi:10.1038/271385a0
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| | Anthropology and aerial warfare 387
J. Z. Young reviews From Apes to Warlords
The Autobiography (1904−1946) of Solly Zuckerman. By
Solly Zuckerman
doi:10.1038/271387a0
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| | Current neuropeptide perspectives 388
A. G. E. Pearse reviews Peptides in Neurobiology
Edited by
Harold Gainer
doi:10.1038/271388a0
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| | Human and other chromosomes 389
G. Pontecorvo reviews Molecular Structure of Human Chromosomes: Chromosomes in Biology and Medicine
Edited by
J. Y. Yunis
doi:10.1038/271389a0
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| | Liquid crystalline state 389
A. J. Leadbetter reviews Liquid Crystals
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S. Chandrasekhar
doi:10.1038/271389b0
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| | Basic processes in protein biosynthesis 390
J. D. Smith reviews Molecular Mechanisms of Protein Biosynthesis
Edited by
Herbert Weissbach & Sidney Pestka
doi:10.1038/271390a0
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| | Classic work of modern physics 390
M. J. Seaton reviews Quantum Mechanics of One- and Two-Electron Atoms
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Hans A. Bethe & Edwin E. Salpeter
doi:10.1038/271390b0
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