Magazine published by iahs reaches out to chinese hydrologists

The Education of Hydrologists (report of an Iahs/unesco Panel on Hydrological Education)

In the late 1987, I began discussion on the education of hydrologists with Dr S. Dumitrescu, Director of the Division of Water Sciences of UNESCO. Our concern is reflected in the following two excerpts from the related correspondence: ".... There has been a growing awareness that hydrology as a geophysical science is making slow progress and has no solid foundations. A major (or perhaps the maj...

NIEHS reaches out with town meetings.

-Human peripheral-blood mononuclear cells, separated by IsopaqueFicoll flotation and E-rosette formation, were tested by the fluorescein fluorescence polarization method of Cercek & Cercek (the SCM test). The response to stimulation with PHA or cancer tissue leads to a decreased polarization value (P). The responding cells were present in the T-cell fraction (E-rosette-forming cells), which con...

Ecohydrology--why hydrologists should care.

Flawed but fair: Brazil's health system reaches out to the poor.

Until the 1970s, Brazilians used to joke that they had to die before the authorities paid any attention to them. Dr Hugo Coelho Barbosa Tomassini recalls how they used to have a full-time “death secretary” to administer funerals in the city of Niterói, where he was once the municipal health secretary, but only one health unit to care for the living. Much has changed since then. While long queue...

Abstract XXXIII IAHS Pretoria South Africa

For many years the urban renewal approach of Rotterdam, executed during the period 19751993, served as an example on the national and international level. With this approach a process of revitalization was initiated, which meant that the urban fabric and building supply had to adapt to changing conditions and accommodate new demands. Due to large financial and social investments in Rotterdam, a...