Proceedings Inter-Noise 84 (2 Vols.)

International Clinics, 23rd Series, Vols. 1 & 2

are disappointing." The difference in the style of writing is most marked. At tines our interest has been more than held by the lucidity and the simplicity of the papers, whilst at others our amusement has been but stimulated by the very pedantry exhibited. Dr. James Welsh in his article on "Disease Simulation'' inveighs against the use of other than simple words, remarking on page 66 of Vol. 1...

Proceedings of the Hamburg Inter

Progress in Allergy, Vols. 21 and 22

Immunology is blessed with two superb serial publications ofreview articles. It is also interesting that both have misleading titles. Transplantation Reviews has had little to do directly with transplantation and is only now becoming Immunologic Reviews. Similarly, Progress in Allergy is only tangentially related to the clinical discipline of allergy although it began as a much more clinical jo...

Conference Proceedings Volume 2

—While distributed generation (DG) from renewable energy resources is seen as key element of future energy supply, current electricity grids are not designed to integrate a steadily increasing share of distributed generators. The hierarchical network topology was designed for unidirectional power flows and passive operation. In order to avoid excessively expensive grid reinforcements, new solut...

PTH(1-84)/PTH(7-84): a balance of power.

This review considers many new basic and clinical aspects of parathyroid hormone (PTH). We focus especially on the identification of PTH fragments and how they may relate to renal failure, diagnosis, and treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism and renal osteodystrophy. The biosynthesis and metabolism of PTH, measurement of circulating forms of PTH, the effects of PTH on receptor activation a...