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doi:10.1038/280345a0
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| | Universities accused of inefficient book-keeping 346
David Dickson reports on continued skirmishing between US politicians, administrators and scientists over use of research funds
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/280346a0
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| | SRC tries apprenticeship scheme 347
Robin McKie
doi:10.1038/280347a0
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| | Max Planck production venture fails 347
Klaus Höpfner
doi:10.1038/280347b0
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| | Scientists protest at US tycoon's Amazonian project 347
Maurice Bazin reports from Brazil on the return of the exiles for the country's major scientific conference
Maurice Bazin
doi:10.1038/280347c0
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| | West German nuclear deal heavily criticised 348
doi:10.1038/280348a0
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| | Where have all the flowers gone? 348
David Bousfield
doi:10.1038/280348b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in Brief 349
doi:10.1038/280349a0
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| | Egypt: divided and uncertain 350
Ziauddin Sardar
doi:10.1038/280350a0
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| | Israel: a one-sided love affair 350
Nechemia Meyers
doi:10.1038/280350b0
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| | Hungary steers a course without UN aid 351
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/280351a0
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| | Fine-tuning for British technology — or will political pressures put a spanner in the works? 352
The Finniston report on engineering and education could be crucial for the UK's industrial revival, but its proposals may run counter to Conservative policy. Robin McKie reports
Robin Mckie
doi:10.1038/280352a0
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| | Airey Neave Memorial Trust 354
JOHN TILNEY
doi:10.1038/280354a0
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| | Costs of toxicity testing 354
D. M. CONNING
doi:10.1038/280354b0
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| | Attack on paranormal is unscientific 354
M. WHIPPMAN
doi:10.1038/280354c0
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| | West Germany does not pursue Berufsverbote 354
F. MILLER
doi:10.1038/280354d0
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| | Degree-day values 354
P. A. WOOD
doi:10.1038/280354e0
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| | The caddish salamander 354
S.A. BARNETT
doi:10.1038/280354f0
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| | Erratum 354
doi:10.1038/280354g0
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| | Decline of the calcium hypothesis of visual transduction 355
P. Fatt
doi:10.1038/280355a0
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| | New wave of superfluid 4He 356
P.V.E. McClintock
doi:10.1038/280356a0
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| | Measuring weak absorption spectra 357
T.F. Hunter
doi:10.1038/280357a0
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| | Eukaryotic transcription in vitro
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Eleanor Lawrence
doi:10.1038/280357b0
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| | Implications of immunological heterogeneity of tumours 358
Robert S. Kerbel
doi:10.1038/280358a0
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| | Is NGF an enzyme? 359
PIETRO CALISSANO & RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI
doi:10.1038/280359a0
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| | Stellar rotation in Erice 360
Evry Schatzman
doi:10.1038/280360a0
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| | A hundred years ago 360
doi:10.1038/280360b0
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| | Population biology of infectious diseases: Part I 361
Roy M. Anderson & Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/280361a0
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| | Possible optical observation of the companion star to the binary pulsar PSR1913 + 16 367
Philippe Crane, Jerry E. Nelson & J. Anthony Tyson
doi:10.1038/280367a0
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| | A  -immunoglobulin gene is formed by site-specific recombination without further somatic mutation 370
J. G. Seidman, Edward E. Max & Philip Leder
doi:10.1038/280370a0
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| | Persistent emission from X-ray burst sources and the nature of galactic bulge X-ray sources 375
J. VAN PARADIJS, P. C. Joss, L. COMINSKY & W. H. G. LEWIN
doi:10.1038/280375a0
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| | The ring systems of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus 377
R. SMOLUCHOWSKI
doi:10.1038/280377a0
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| | Cyclic reaction mechanism in the electrodeposition of aluminium 378
T. E. G. DAENEN
doi:10.1038/280378a0
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| | Effects of acetylene and soil water content on emission of nitrous oxide from soils 380
J. M. BREMNER & A. M. BLACKMER
doi:10.1038/280380a0
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| | Non-uniform vertical distribution of fine sediment in the Amazon River 381
WILLIAM F. CURTIS, ROBERT H. MEADE, CARL F. NORDIN JR, N. BRIAN PRICE & EDWARD R. SHOLKOVITZ
doi:10.1038/280381a0
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| | Palaeomagnetism of stalagmite deposits 383
A. G. LATHAM, H. P. SCHWARCZ, D. C. FORD & G. W. PEARCE
doi:10.1038/280383a0
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| | Growth rate of a clam from the Galapagos Rise hot spring field using natural radionuclide ratios 385
KARL K. TUREKIAN, J. KIRK COCHRAN & Y. NOZAKI
doi:10.1038/280385a0
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| | Eucalyptus fruits in stratigraphic context in Australia 387
G. J AMBROSE, R. A. CALLEN, R. B. FLINT & R. T. LANGE
doi:10.1038/280387a0
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| | Long-term recognition of father's song by female zebra finches 389
DAVID B. MILLER
doi:10.1038/280389a0
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| | Vertebrate and invertebrate predation intensity on freshwater zooplankton communities 391
PATRICIA A. LANE
doi:10.1038/280391a0
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| | Autoradiographic localisation of benzodiazepine receptors in the brains of humans and animals 393
W. SCOTT YOUNG III & MICHAEL J. KUHAR
doi:10.1038/280393a0
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| | Central remyelination restores secure conduction 395
K. J. SMITH, W. F. BLAKEMORE & W. I. MCDONALD
doi:10.1038/280395a0
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| | The optical mechanism of the eye of Limulus
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M. F. LAND
doi:10.1038/280396a0
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| | GTP hydrolysis in intact rod outer segments and the transmitter cycle in visual excitation 398
W. E. ROBINSON & W. A. HAGINS
doi:10.1038/280398a0
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| | Potentiation of Ca2+-dependent K+ activation by theophylline is independent of cyclic nucleotide elevation 400
PETER A. SMITH, FORREST F. WEIGHT & RICHARD A. LEHNE
doi:10.1038/280400a0
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| | Whitefly have the highest contraction frequencies yet recorded in non-fibrillar flight muscles 402
ROBIN J. WOOTTON & DAVID J. S. NEWMAN
doi:10.1038/280402a0
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| | Antiserum specific for motor nerve terminals in skeletal muscle 403
JOSHUA R. SANES, STEVEN S. CARLSON, RANDALL J. VON WEDEL & REGIS B. KELLY
doi:10.1038/280403a0
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| | T-cell-derived helper factor allows Lyt 123 thymocytes to differentiate into cytotoxic T lymphocytes 405
HERMANN WAGNER, MARTIN RÖLLINGHOFF, ROSE SCHAWALLER, CORNELIA HARDT & KLAUS PFIZENMAIER
doi:10.1038/280405a0
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| | Lymphomas with cytotoxic activity 406
TSE WEN CHANG & HERMAN N. EISEN
doi:10.1038/280406a0
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| | The role of glucocorticoid receptor and gene expression in the anti-inflammatory action of dexamethasone 408
SUSUMU TSURUFUJI, KAZUO SUGIO & FUMIHIKO TAKEMASA
doi:10.1038/280408a0
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| | A new proposal regarding the subunit composition of (Na+ + K+)ATPase 410
OTTO HANSEN, JØRGEN JENSEN, JENS G. NØRBY & PAUL OTTOLENGHI
doi:10.1038/280410a0
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| | Semi-synthesis of human insulin by trypsin-catalysed replacement of Ala-B30 by Thr in porcine insulin 412
K. MORIHARA, T. OKA & H. TSUZUKI
doi:10.1038/280412a0
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| | Chlorophyllin−apomyoglobin complexes 413
ROBERT C. DAVIS & ROBERT M. PEARLSTEIN
doi:10.1038/280413a0
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| | An inhibitor protein of nuclear protein kinases 415
FRANCOISE FARRON-FURSTENTHAL
doi:10.1038/280415a0
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| | A chiasma−hormonal hypothesis relating Down's syndrome and maternal age 417
PHILIP H. CROWLEY, DUSHYANT K. GULATI, THOMAS L. HAYDEN, PENELOPE LOPEZ & RUTH DYER
doi:10.1038/280417a0
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| | Specific DNA methylation sites in the vicinity of the chicken  -globin genes 419
JAMES D. MCGHEE & GORDON D. GINDER
doi:10.1038/280419a0
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| | Long regions of single-stranded DNA in human cells 420
GUNNAR BJURSELL, EVA GUSSANDER & TOMAS LINDAHL
doi:10.1038/280420a0
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| | Codon−anticodon interaction at the ribosomal peptidyl-site 423
R. LÜHRMANN, H. ECKHARDT & G. STÖFFLER
doi:10.1038/280423a0
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| | Atmospheric lead pollution of grass grown in a background area in Denmark 425
JENS CHR. TJELL, MADS F. HOVMAND & HANS MOSBÆK
doi:10.1038/280425a0
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| | Defining sociobiology 427
Richard Dawkins reviews Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense?
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Michael Ruse
doi:10.1038/280427a0
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| | Interpreting visual motion 428
K. Prazdny reviews The Interpretation of Visual Motion
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Shimon Ullman
doi:10.1038/280428a0
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| | Protein synthesis inhibitors 428
Eric Cundliffe reviews Inhibitors of Protein Biosynthesis
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David Vazquez
doi:10.1038/280428b0
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| | Human information processing 429
Patrick Rabbitt reviews Strategies of Information Processing
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G. Underwood
doi:10.1038/280429a0
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| | Biological transport 429
S. R. Caplan reviews Mechanics and Energetics of Biological Transport
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E. Heinz
doi:10.1038/280429b0
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| | Semiconductor systems 430
J.C. Inkson reviews Problems of Linear Electron (Polaron) Transport Theory in Semiconductors
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M.I. Klinger
doi:10.1038/280430a0
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E.H. Andrews reviews Science of Materials
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W. Brostow
doi:10.1038/280430b0
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| | Dennis Gabor, 1900-1979 431
Eric A. Ash
doi:10.1038/280431a0
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| | Airey Neave 433
Arthur Palmer
doi:10.1038/280433a0
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| | Recent scientific and technical books 434
doi:10.1038/280434a0
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