Monographing in the 1980s

Monographing in the 1980s

ALISO 11(2), 1985, pp. 231-242 The production of taxonomic monographs is discussed in light of the modem tools that are available for their preparation. There is a great need for more monographs since much of the world's flora is not treated in contemporary revisions. These should be a balance between the traditional aspects that must still be employed such as the nomenclatural framework and th...

Group Rebellion in the 1980s

Nutrition Education in the 1980s

The art and science of nutrition education have reached a milestone in their development. Since the early 1980s, growing attention has been paid to improving the effectiveness of nutrition education. Nutrition education has evolved from local teaching and a concern with simple knowledge and information, disseminated primarily on a one-to-one basis in the classroom or clinic, to focus on strateg...

MT in the 1970s and 1980s

(SK) Well I guess it is a slightly different answer for each of us, but essentially for all of us, it was through the Eurotra project. This was the MT project that was created by the European Commission in the late 1970s. The aim was to produce a high quality, fully automatic machine translation system for use by the EC. The EC had a serious translation problem because of the number of language...

CLOTHING INDUSTRY R&TD IN THE 1980s

The manufacture of clothing, along with the closely associated activities of fibre and textile production, continues to be one of the driving forces of industrialisation throughout the developing world. At the same time, the clothing industries of many developed consumer countries are fighting to maintain their share of the total value (as opposed to volume) which is created throughout the enti...