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doi:10.1038/280261a0
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| | Developing world 'a permanent desert for research' 262
Six countries account for 85% of the world's total spending on research and development. This monopoly is a major feature of global inequality, writes Anil Agarwal
Anil Agarwal
doi:10.1038/280262a0
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| | Military research the big spender 263
doi:10.1038/280263a0
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| | New US group calls for gene resource conservation programme 263
John Douglas
doi:10.1038/280263b0
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| | UN studies new science and technology fund 264
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/280264a0
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| | UK energy minister backs conservation and nuclear power 265
doi:10.1038/280265a0
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| | UK fellowship scheme approved — in principle 265
doi:10.1038/280265b0
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| | China eases ideological grip 265
T.B. Tang
doi:10.1038/280265c0
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| | Yugoslavia: no more oil burning 265
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/280265d0
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| | Water quality threatens Polish agriculture 266
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/280266a0
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| | News in Brief 267
doi:10.1038/280267a0
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| | Brazil: is it really safe for the scientists to return? 268
Brazil's stern leader, President Ernesto Geisel (right), has relaxed some of the restrictions on academic freedom that forced many scientists to leave the country. Maurice Bazin reports on the sceptical reaction among the exiles.
Maurice Bazin
doi:10.1038/280268a0
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| | How the military banned 'exotic ideas' 269
M. B.
doi:10.1038/280269a0
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| | Can we afford to make the fast reactor safe? 270
doi:10.1038/280270a0
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| | France minimises risk of 'worst accident' 272
doi:10.1038/280272a0
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| | The oceanography of fjords 273
David M. Farmer & Herbert E. Huppert.
doi:10.1038/280273a0
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| | Changing cometary orbits 274
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/280274a0
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| | Progress in thalassemia research 275
David G. Nathan
doi:10.1038/280275a0
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| | Quark fusion 276
Peter Landshoff
doi:10.1038/280276a0
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| | A new form of electron diffraction by atoms 277
C. B. Lucas
doi:10.1038/280277a0
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| | Correction 277
FRED C. WESTALL
doi:10.1038/280277b0
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| | 100 years ago 278
doi:10.1038/280278a0
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| | Protein methylation in behavioural control mechanisms and in signal transduction 279
Martin S. Springer, Michael F. Goy & Julius Adler
doi:10.1038/280279a0
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| | Riftward younging of volcanic units in the Addis Ababa region, Ethiopian rift valley 284
W. H. Morton, D. C. Rex, J. G. Mitchell & P. Mohr
doi:10.1038/280284a0
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| | Sequences at the somatic recombination sites of immunoglobulin light-chain genes 288
Hitoshi Sakano, Konrad Hüppi, Günther Heinrich & Susumu Tonegawa
doi:10.1038/280288a0
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| | Statistical mechanics of supercoils and the torsional stiffness of the DNA double helix 294
A. V. Vologodskii, V. V. Anshelevich, A. V. Lukashin & M. D. Frank-Kamenetskii
doi:10.1038/280294a0
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| | Weak low-latitude X-ray sources and local galactic structure 298
TERRY MATILSKY
doi:10.1038/280298a0
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| | Differential solar rotation depends on solar activity 299
D. H. CLARK, B. D. YALLOP, S. RICHARD, B. EMERSON & P. J. RUDD
doi:10.1038/280299a0
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| | Origin of the jovian ring and the galilean satellites 300
A. J. R. PRENTICE & D. TER HAAR
doi:10.1038/280300a0
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| | Optical absorption coefficients of water 302
C. K. N. PATEL & A. C. TAM
doi:10.1038/280302a0
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A. C. TAM & C. K. N. PATEL
doi:10.1038/280304a0
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| | Photocatalytically induced fixation of molecular nitrogen by near UV radiation 306
ROGER I. BICKLEY & VENKATARAMAN VISHWANATHAN
doi:10.1038/280306a0
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| | CS2 and COS in the stratospheric sulphur budget 308
NIEN DAK SZE & MALCOLM K. W. Ko
doi:10.1038/280308a0
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| | Thermohaline intrusions lie across isopycnals 310
M. G. GREGG & J. H. MCKENZIE
doi:10.1038/280310a0
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| | Connectance in real biotic communities and critical values for stability of model ecosystems 311
M. REJMÁNEK & P. STARÝ
doi:10.1038/280311a0
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| | Abnormal visual resolution of cats reared in stroboscopic illumination 313
TATIANA PASTERNAK & WILLIAM H. MERIGAN
doi:10.1038/280313a0
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| | An intrinsic factor XII−prekallikrein-dependent pathway activates the human plasma renin−angiotensin system 315
F. H. M. DERKX, B. N. BOUMA, M. P. A. SCHALEKAMP & M. A. D. H. SCHALEKAMP
doi:10.1038/280315a0
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| | Macrophage requirements for mouse B-cell stimulation differ according to the molecular form of anti-IgM antibodies 316
MASAKAZU HATTORI, DUNCAN J. SCRIBNER & JOHN W. MOORHEAD
doi:10.1038/280316a0
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GARY R. GUNTHER & JAMES D. JAMIESON
doi:10.1038/280318a0
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J. F. Y. HOH & G. P. S. YEOH
doi:10.1038/280321a0
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NEAL A. RUBINSTEIN & HOWARD HOLTZER
doi:10.1038/280323a0
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| | Filament geometry and the activation of inisect flight muscles 325
J. S. WRAY
doi:10.1038/280325a0
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| | Transition temperature of excitation−contraction coupling in frog twitch muscle fibres 326
R. MILEDI, I. PARKER & G. SCHALOW
doi:10.1038/280326a0
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| | Inhomogeneous distribution of filipin−sterol complexes in smooth muscle cell plasma membrane 328
ROBERTO MONTESANO
doi:10.1038/280328a0
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| | Visualisation of 11C-flunitrazepam displacement in the brain of the live baboon 329
D. COMAR, M. MAZIERE, J. M. GODOT, G. BERGER, F. SOUSSALINE, CH. MENINI, G. ARFEL & R. NAQUET
doi:10.1038/280329a0
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| | Partial agonists for brain GABA/benzodiazepine receptor complex 331
CLAUS BRAESTRUP, MOGENS NIELSEN, P. KROGSGAARD-LARSEN & ERIK FALCH
doi:10.1038/280331a0
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S. SPRANG, D. YANG & R. J. FLETTERICK
doi:10.1038/280333a0
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| | Evidence for non-spliced SV40 RNA in undifferentiated murine teratocarcinoma stem cells 335
SHOSHANA SEGAL, ARNOLD J. LEVINE & GEORGE KHOURY
doi:10.1038/280335a0
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| | The relationship of degradative and resistance plasmids of Pseudomonas belonging to the same incompatibility group 338
SUSAN A. BAYLEY, DAVID W. MORRIS & PAULA BRODA
doi:10.1038/280338a0
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| | Electron microscopic evidence for the circular form of RNA in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells 339
MING-TA HSU & MIGUEL COCA-PRADOS
doi:10.1038/280339a0
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| | Worthwhile science 341
J. R. Ravetz reviews Science and Its Critics
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John Passmore
doi:10.1038/280341a0
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| | Hückel theory 341
A. J. Stone reviews Hückel Theory for Organic Chemists
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C. A. Coulson, B. O'Leary, R. B. Mallion & K. Yates
doi:10.1038/280341b0
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| | Nature-nurture 342
Paul Light reviews Intelligence: Heredity and Environment
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P. E. Vernon
doi:10.1038/280342a0
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| | Advances in metabolism 343
R.G.G. Russell reviews The Year in Metabolism, 1977
Edited by
N. Freinkel
doi:10.1038/280343a0
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| | Disorder in crystals 343
R. W. Cahn reviews Disorder in Crystals
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N. G. Parsonage & L. A. K. Staveley
doi:10.1038/280343b0
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| | Pollination ecology revived 344
Peter D. Moore reviews The Principles of Pollination Ecology
Third edition. By
K. Faegri & L. van der Pijl
doi:10.1038/280344a0
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