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| | British university crisis (cont'd) 667
The next phase in the depressing history of British universities is about to open. The only hope is to make the best of what lies in store.
doi:10.1038/320667a0
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| | Insect pests rampant 668
Techniques for managing resistance to pesticides have become essential in the United States.
doi:10.1038/320668a0
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| | News | |
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| | Yellow rain: Canada publishes more equivocal evidence 669
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/320669a0
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| | Yellow rain: British assays negative 669
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/320669b0
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| | French science: Living with budget cuts 670
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/320670a0
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| | Academic copyright: Teacher/student conflicts 670
Karen Wright
doi:10.1038/320670b0
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| | US meteorology: NOAA faces rough passage 671
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/320671a0
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| | Omnistar to rescue? 671
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/320671b0
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| | US physics: Changing pattern in north-east 672
Elizabeth Collins
doi:10.1038/320672a0
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| | Benefits of inaction 672
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/320672b0
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| | Vancouver move 672
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/320672c0
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| | Netherlands research: OECD urges more investment 673
Casper Schuuring
doi:10.1038/320673a0
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| | Canadian research: Tax incentive scheme goes awry 673
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/320673b0
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| | Soviet space: Gagarin year tells more 674
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/320674a0
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| | Tamarins to go home 674
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/320674b0
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| | US space: Titan blows up on pad 674
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/320674c0
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| | Science in Nepal: Poor outlook for development 675
K.S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/320675a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Diagnosis of Huntington's chorea 676
SHIRLEY DALBY
doi:10.1038/320676a0
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| | Diagnosis of Huntington's chorea 676
NATALIE FRANK
doi:10.1038/320676b0
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| | In defence of curiosity 676
MILES BRENNAN & UTE HOCHGESCHWENDER
doi:10.1038/320676c0
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| | Paranormal theories 676
JAMES A. SCOTT & DENNIS YOUNG
doi:10.1038/320676d0
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| | Hans Bethe on solar neutrinos 677
Whatever can account for the much smaller flux of neutrinos from the Sun than the theorists predict? Now, at last, there may be an answer.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/320677a0
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| | Theoretical physics: Superstrings and supersymmetry 678
Alvaro De Rújula
doi:10.1038/320678a0
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| | Theoretical physics: Quantum tunnelling towards an exploding Universe? 679
Malcolm J. Perry
doi:10.1038/320679a0
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| | Strings, strings and, ultimately, strings 679
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/320679b0
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| | Visual System: Mapping of motion perception 680
Oliver Braddick
doi:10.1038/320680a0
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| | Enkephalins: A new approach to pain relief? 681
A.H. Dickenson
doi:10.1038/320681a0
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| | Ecology: The evolution of anti-predatory behaviour in zooplankton 682
Felicity A. Huntingford & Neil B. Metcalfe
doi:10.1038/320682a0
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| | Archaeology: Rediscovering French ice-age art 683
Randall White
doi:10.1038/320683a0
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| | Growth factor A-chain back in train 683
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/320683b0
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| | Electron microscopy: Coulomb explosions in metals? 684
A. Howie
doi:10.1038/320684a0
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| | Neurochemistry: Is GABA the neurotransmitter for some photoreceptors? 685
Stephen Yazulla
doi:10.1038/320685a0
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| | 100 years ago 685
doi:10.1038/320685b0
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| | Oceanography: Respiration down in the depths 686
T. Roger S. Wilson
doi:10.1038/320686a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | The stability of zoological nomenclature 687
Y.Z. ERZINCLIOGLU & D.M. UNWIN
doi:10.1038/320687a0
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| | Interleukin terminology in disarry 687
COLIN J. SANDERSON & GERRY G.B. KLAUS
doi:10.1038/320687b0
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| | Overburdened African women 688
J.W. KOTEN
doi:10.1038/320688a0
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| | Discrepancies in length of myosin head 688
ROGER CRAIG, JOHN TRINICK & PETER KNIGHT
doi:10.1038/320688b0
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| | Cortical convolutions 689
Colin Blakemore reviews Visual Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 3
Edited by
Alan Peters & Edward G. Jones and Models of the Visual Cortex
Edited by
David Rose & Vernon G. Dobson
doi:10.1038/320689a0
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| | Plants and planet back in time 690
Peter R. Crane reviews Geological Factors and the Evolution of Plants.
Edited by
Bruce H. Tiffney
doi:10.1038/320690a0
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| | Isotopic man 691
Colin A. Russell reviews Frederick Soddy (1877–1956).
Edited By
George B. Kauffman
doi:10.1038/320691a0
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| | Chemical warfare against viruses 692
B.W.J. Mahy reviews Approaches to Antiviral Agents.
Edited By
Michael R. Harnden
doi:10.1038/320692a0
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| | Parasite parts 692
Keith Vickerman reviews The Biology of Trypanosomes.
Edited by
Leslie Hudson
doi:10.1038/320692b0
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| | [Book Reviews 'picture story'] 692
doi:10.1038/320692c0
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| | Commentary | |
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| | Polish science in crisis 693
This article is from a text prepared by the "Social Committee for Learning" (SKN), an unofficial organization of scholars established in Poland after the imposition of martial law. The membership of SKN is secret, but is believed to include some leading members of the Polish Academy of Science.
doi:10.1038/320693a0
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| | cDNA sequence and chromosomal localization of human platelet-derived growth factor A-chain and its expression in tumour cell lines 695
Christer Betsholtz, Ann Johnsson, Carl-Henrik Heldin, Bengt Westermark, Peter Lind, Mickey S. Urdea, Roger Eddy, Thomas B. Shows, Karen Philpott, Andrew L. Mellor, Timothy J. Knott & James Scott
doi:10.1038/320695a0
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| | The AMPTE artificial comet experiments 700
A. Valenzuela, G. Haerendel, H. Föppl, F. Melzner, H. Neuss, E. Rieger, J. Stöcker, O. Bauer, H. Höfner & J. Loidl
doi:10.1038/320700a0
Abstract & References | PDF (452K)
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| | Optical observations of the AMPTE artificial comet from the Northern Hemisphere 704
David Rees, Thomas J. Hallinan, Hans C. Stenbaek-Nielsen, Michael Mendillo & Jeffrey Baumgardner
doi:10.1038/320704a0
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In situ magnetic field observations of the AMPTE artificial comet 708
H. Lühr, D. J. Southwood, N. Klöcker, M. W. Dunlop, W. A. C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz, R. P. Rijnbeek, M. Six, B. Häusler & M. Acuña
doi:10.1038/320708a0
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| | UKS plasma measurements near the AMPTE artificial comet 712
D. J. Rodgers, A. J. Coates, A. D. Johnstone, M. F. Smith, D. A. Bryant, D. S. Hall & C. P. Chaloner
doi:10.1038/320712a0
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| | Plasma waves and wave—particle interactions seen at the UKS spacecraft during the AMPTE artificial comet experiment 716
L. J. C. Woolliscroft, M. P. Gough, P. J. Christiansen, A. G. Darbyshire, H. G. F. Gough, D. S. Hall, D. Jones, S. R. Jones & A. J. Norris
doi:10.1038/320716a0
Abstract & References | PDF (508K)
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| | Dynamics of the AMPTE artificial comet 720
G. Haerendel, G. Paschmann, W. Baumjohann & C. W. Carlson
doi:10.1038/320720a0
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| | How many more discoveries in the Universe? 724
Martin Harwit & Roger Hildebrand
doi:10.1038/320724a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (268K)
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| | Evidence for mass loss from IRAS observations of classical Cepheids 726
Hugh Deasy & C.J. Butler
doi:10.1038/320726a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (297K)
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| | More dark matter around Uranus and Neptune? 729
B. Sicardy, F. Roques, A. Brahic, P. Bouchet, J. P. Maillard & C. Perrier
doi:10.1038/320729a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (327K)
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| | Fractal viscous fingering in clay slurries 731
Henri Van Damme, François Obrecht, Pierre Levitz, L. Gatineau & Claude Laroche
doi:10.1038/320731a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (349K)
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| | Volcanic shards from Santorini (Upper Minoan ash) in the Nile Delta, Egypt 733
Daniel Jean Stanley & Harrison Sheng
doi:10.1038/320733a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (368K)
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| | Impact of the North African drought and El Niño on mineral dust in the Barbados trade winds 735
Joseph M. Prospero & Ruby T. Nees
doi:10.1038/320735a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (486K)
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| | Pliocene change in Pacific-plate motion 738
Fred F. Pollitz
doi:10.1038/320738a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (392K)
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| | Oxygen microprofiles measured in situ in deep ocean sediments 741
Clare E. Reimers, Kathleen M. Fischer, Ray Merewether, K. L. Smith Jr & Richard A. Jahnke
doi:10.1038/320741a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (415K)
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| | Microorganisms in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes 744
Christopher D. Winn, David M. Karl & Gary J. Massoth
doi:10.1038/320744a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (348K)
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| | Predation and the evolution of vertical migration in zooplankton 746
Maciej Z. Gliwicz
doi:10.1038/320746a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (373K)
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| | Large adjustments in visually guided reaching do not depend on vision of the hand or perception of target displacement 748
M. A. Goodale, D. Pelisson & C. Prablanc
doi:10.1038/320748a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (428K)
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| | Reduction in number of immunostained GABAergic neurones in deprived-eye dominance columns of monkey area 17 750
S. H. C. Hendry & E. G. Jones
doi:10.1038/320750a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (840K)
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| | GABA and GAD immunoreactiviy of photoreceptor terminals in primate retina 753
Yozo Nishimura, Michael L. Schwartz & Pasko Rakic
doi:10.1038/320753a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (649K)
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| | Evidence that axons are mitogenic for oligodendrocytes isolated from adult animals 756
Patrick M. Wood & Richard P. Bunge
doi:10.1038/320756a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (413K)
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| | Binding of angiotensin and atrial natriuretic peptide in brain of hypertensive rats 758
Juan M. Saavedra, Fernando M. A. Correa, Laura M. Plunkett, Anita Israel, Masaki Kurihara & Kazuto Shigematsu
doi:10.1038/320758a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (379K)
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| | Constitutive c-myc oncogene expression blocks mouse erythroleukaemia cell differentiation but not commitment 760
Joseph A. Coppola & Michael D. Cole
doi:10.1038/320760a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (507K)
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| | A human homoeo box gene specifically expressed in spinal cord during embryonic development 763
A. Simeone, F. Mavilio, L. Bottero, A. Giampaolo, G. Russo, A. Faiella, E. Boncinelli & C. Peschle
doi:10.1038/320763a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (366K)
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| | Homoeo-domain homology in yeast MAT 2 is essential for repressor activity 766
Susan D. Porter & Michael Smith
doi:10.1038/320766a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (297K)
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| | Product Reviews | |
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| | PITC derivatives in amino acid analysis 769
Refined methods for separating PTC-amino acids on reverse phase columns may pose a challenge to traditional ion exchange techniques.
Steven A. Cohen, Brian A. Bidlingmeyer & Thomas L. Tarvin
doi:10.1038/320769a0
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| | Analysis in the ion exchange tradition 771
Amino acid analysis by ion exchange chromatography is just as important an analytical tool in 1986 as it was in the late 1950s, when Moore and Stein first described an automated AAA instrument.
Greg Ogden
doi:10.1038/320771a0
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| | Amino acids challenge chromatography 772
Spurred on by advances in liquid chromatography and derivative chemistry, amino acid analysis systems are beginning to make their mark. Here is a sampling of amino acid specialists along with all-purpose separation supplies.
doi:10.1038/320772a0
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| | Anyone for tennis? 772
doi:10.1038/320772b0
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