From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Feb 04 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!newsfeed.kornet.nm.kr!nntp.kreonet.re.kr!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!204.71.0.51!spamkiller.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!not-for-mail From: mufeedah@internetmci.com (MV) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Ramsey Clark interview on Iraq, the sanctions, war and population control Message-ID: <34d978b0.4317767@news.internetmci.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 304 Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 06:31:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: usr46-dialup44.mix2.boston.mci.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 01:31:14 EST From IMPACT INTERNATIONAL (London), interview with former U.S. Attorney General about American foreign policy, sanctions, militarism, and the "new" cold war against the south. For complete text, please go to http://www.africa2000.com/IMPACT/clark.html ----------------QUOTES: ON SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ: The sanctions have now killed over a million and a half people. The great majority are infants, children, elderly people, chronically ill people, people that every decent society strives hardest to protect. And they are killing people at the rate of about ten thousand a month, which is a lot of people to die. And you cannot do that. It's genocide in the specific terms of the Genocide Convention which speaks of 'acts committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a national or religious group as such' by 'deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.' That's exactly what the sanctions are doing. So the question of whether to continue the sanctions cannot be related to the inspection issue. The sanctions have to be ended because they're genocide. You don't justify genocide on the grounds of some search for something that is probably meaningless anyway. It's hard to see how it could be otherwise. We saw how powerful Iraq was at the time of the assault on it in 1991. It was unable to protect any aspect of its own society and unable to inflict any injury of any significance on anybody else. While we killed more than 100,000 people directly with bombing, our casualties were less than 250, and more than half of them were from our own fire, friendly fire. ON INSPECTIONS TEAMS AND NO-FLY ZONES: We've had planes flying over the so-called no flight zone, which comes within 30 miles of Baghdad on the south and includes all the Kurdish areas of the north, whenever we wanted to. You can't shoot a satellite down. You can shoot a U2 down, as the Soviet Union showed in 1960. When it did, we ought to remember that at first President Eisenhower said it wasn't true, that we didn't fly over the Soviet Union taking pictures, that no plane was shot down. And after Krushev appeared with Gary Powers on television, and with the wreckage of the plane, it became a little hard to explain, and he said, 'I guess we did.' But we didn't threaten the Soviet Union as we threaten Iraq. THE GULF WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH: It was like we were reenacting the Gulf War, our one moment of fame, when we devastated a defenseless country, killing men, women and children. We hit every type of civilian facility in the country from schools and hospitals and public markets, homes, and apartment houses, all the way to mosques and churches and synagogues. It was just relentless bombing of the whole country - 110,000 areal sortees, 88,500 tons of bombs, seven and a half times Hiroshima's equivalency. And 94 per cent were unguided bombs that were less accurate than in World War II for a number of reasons. First, you were dropping them from twice the altitude, which means air currents and all cause greater variation. You are flying at greater speeds and have desert winds that make accuracy extremely difficult. But there was no effort to be accurate. What we were doing was terrorising and drubbing the country into what we thought would be submission. ON ISLAM: Islam has probably a billion and a half adherents today... And it is probably the most compelling spiritual and moral force on earth today. People hate to hear that. I've spent a lot of time with U.S. prisons. What you see there is a lot of kids coming out of bedlam into prison, no family structure, no education, drugs and corruption all their lives, totally disoriented, so that their values are power, violence. Even more than corporate executives, they want money. It's hard to believe they could want it more. But that's how you get to be somebody. There's no other way to be anybody in this country. And there's no discipline. They can't even concentrate. And then you see Islam offered to prisoners, and suddenly there is something else in their life. And they are praying five times a day. And their mental and physical self-discipline becomes of an extremely high order, so that if there is a prison riot, they are the ones that save lives. They are the ones that people turn to for leadership.         So it is not just that we need an enemy. It is that we really fear them. I happened to be in Algiers on the third of March, I think, right after the bombing in 1991, to see a couple of plane loads of workers and medical supplies flying toward Iraq. And I met with the leadership there, from several north African Islamic nations. One of the presidents said, the way he put it was, 'now NATO will face from the east and turn south.' What he really meant was that Islam would be the new enemy. ON WESTERN POLICY TOWARD THE DEVELOPING WORLD:         The way I think it works is that we want their wealth but we don't want them. So it's not a matter of keeping them from getting rich. It's much worse than that. It's a matter of taking their wealth and getting rid of them. That's hardly new. We've been doing it forever... We are willing to let a handful of people in any poor country become a part of the international plutocracy as a part of the cost of controlling and reducing their numbers, and securing and obtaining their wealth. But when you look at the billions to come and the billion or so now who live in dire poverty and constant hunger and malnutrition and short lives filled with ignorance and violence, you see that we have a long way to go to take care of all these poor. And the only way we've been willing to address it is by triage - elimination of some percentage of them - and then controlling their sustenance. -------------------------------- COMPREHENSIVE WEB PAGE FOR IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY NORTH SOUTH ISSUES: http://www.africa2000.com From IMPACT INTERNATIONAL (London), interview with former U.S. Attorney General about American foreign policy, sanctions, militarism, and the "new" cold war against the south. For complete text, please go to http://www.africa2000.com/IMPACT/clark.html ----------------QUOTES: ON SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ: The sanctions have now killed over a million and a half people. The great majority are infants, children, elderly people, chronically ill people, people that every decent society strives hardest to protect. And they are killing people at the rate of about ten thousand a month, which is a lot of people to die. And you cannot do that. It's genocide in the specific terms of the Genocide Convention which speaks of 'acts committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a national or religious group as such' by 'deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.' That's exactly what the sanctions are doing. So the question of whether to continue the sanctions cannot be related to the inspection issue. The sanctions have to be ended because they're genocide. You don't justify genocide on the grounds of some search for something that is probably meaningless anyway. It's hard to see how it could be otherwise. We saw how powerful Iraq was at the time of the assault on it in 1991. It was unable to protect any aspect of its own society and unable to inflict any injury of any significance on anybody else. While we killed more than 100,000 people directly with bombing, our casualties were less than 250, and more than half of them were from our own fire, friendly fire. ON INSPECTIONS TEAMS AND NO-FLY ZONES: We've had planes flying over the so-called no flight zone, which comes within 30 miles of Baghdad on the south and includes all the Kurdish areas of the north, whenever we wanted to. You can't shoot a satellite down. You can shoot a U2 down, as the Soviet Union showed in 1960. When it did, we ought to remember that at first President Eisenhower said it wasn't true, that we didn't fly over the Soviet Union taking pictures, that no plane was shot down. And after Krushev appeared with Gary Powers on television, and with the wreckage of the plane, it became a little hard to explain, and he said, 'I guess we did.' But we didn't threaten the Soviet Union as we threaten Iraq. THE GULF WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH: It was like we were reenacting the Gulf War, our one moment of fame, when we devastated a defenseless country, killing men, women and children. We hit every type of civilian facility in the country from schools and hospitals and public markets, homes, and apartment houses, all the way to mosques and churches and synagogues. It was just relentless bombing of the whole country - 110,000 areal sortees, 88,500 tons of bombs, seven and a half times Hiroshima's equivalency. And 94 per cent were unguided bombs that were less accurate than in World War II for a number of reasons. First, you were dropping them from twice the altitude, which means air currents and all cause greater variation. You are flying at greater speeds and have desert winds that make accuracy extremely difficult. But there was no effort to be accurate. What we were doing was terrorising and drubbing the country into what we thought would be submission. ON ISLAM: Islam has probably a billion and a half adherents today... And it is probably the most compelling spiritual and moral force on earth today. People hate to hear that. I've spent a lot of time with U.S. prisons. What you see there is a lot of kids coming out of bedlam into prison, no family structure, no education, drugs and corruption all their lives, totally disoriented, so that their values are power, violence. Even more than corporate executives, they want money. It's hard to believe they could want it more. But that's how you get to be somebody. There's no other way to be anybody in this country. And there's no discipline. They can't even concentrate. And then you see Islam offered to prisoners, and suddenly there is something else in their life. And they are praying five times a day. And their mental and physical self-discipline becomes of an extremely high order, so that if there is a prison riot, they are the ones that save lives. They are the ones that people turn to for leadership.         So it is not just that we need an enemy. It is that we really fear them. I happened to be in Algiers on the third of March, I think, right after the bombing in 1991, to see a couple of plane loads of workers and medical supplies flying toward Iraq. And I met with the leadership there, from several north African Islamic nations. One of the presidents said, the way he put it was, 'now NATO will face from the east and turn south.' What he really meant was that Islam would be the new enemy. ON WESTERN POLICY TOWARD THE DEVELOPING WORLD:         The way I think it works is that we want their wealth but we don't want them. So it's not a matter of keeping them from getting rich. It's much worse than that. It's a matter of taking their wealth and getting rid of them. That's hardly new. We've been doing it forever... We are willing to let a handful of people in any poor country become a part of the international plutocracy as a part of the cost of controlling and reducing their numbers, and securing and obtaining their wealth. But when you look at the billions to come and the billion or so now who live in dire poverty and constant hunger and malnutrition and short lives filled with ignorance and violence, you see that we have a long way to go to take care of all these poor. And the only way we've been willing to address it is by triage - elimination of some percentage of them - and then controlling their sustenance. -------------------------------- COMPREHENSIVE WEB PAGE FOR IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY NORTH SOUTH ISSUES: http://www.africa2000.com From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Feb 05 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!NIORD.SHSU.EDU!BIO_HDK From: BIO_HDK@NIORD.SHSU.EDU ("Harry Kurtz") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Chair Position Date: 6 Feb 1998 08:12:22 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 41 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199802061612.IAA27505@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Chair of Biological Sciences Sam Houston State University Sam Houston State University invites applications and nominations for the senior position of chair of the Department of Biological Sciences (and Environmental Science Program). Candidates must have a quality record of graduate and undergraduate educational skills, scientific accomplishments, research funding, curriculum development and evaluation, and evidence of administrative and leadership ability. The successful candidate will lead a department whose strengths reside in basic and environmental biology, ecology, and fundamental cell/molecular biology. Located in Huntsville, 70 miles north of Houston, SHSU is a regional university in the Texas State University System. The Department of Biological Sciences offers a broad range of biology courses from freshman general education to upper-level speciality and graduate courses, serving a population of 12,500 students. The department occupies modern teaching and research facilities with large-scale computing capabilities, a small-animal rearing facility and a 270-acre Center for Environmental Field Studies. The University is a collaborative institution with the Houston Advanced Research Center located nearby in The Woodlands, Texas, and a founding member of the Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies. Additional information about SHSU and the Department of Biological Sciences may be obtained at the website http://www.shsu.edu/~bio_www. Applicants should submit a letter of application, current curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy and administrative expertise along with the name and contact information for four references to: Dr. Joan E. N. Hudson, Chair Biology Chair Search Committee Department of Biological Sciences Sam Houston State University Huntsville, Texas 77341 BIO_JXN@niord.shsu.edu The anticipated starting date is 1 August 1998; committee review will commence 16 March 1998 and continue until the position is filled. Sam Houston State University is a member of The Texas State University System and is committed to equal opportunity. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Feb 10 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 11 Feb 1998 02:00:08 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 233 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199802111000.CAA22438@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. 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You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Feb 25 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!24.128.1.125!chnws03.mediaone.net!24.128.1.107!chnws04.ne.mediaone.net!not-for-mail From: "Lelia C. Orrell" Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Protein Electrophoresis on any Gentianaceae? Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:02:12 +0000 Organization: MediaOne -=- Northeast Region Lines: 21 Message-ID: <34F53DA9.39347588@NOSPAMumbsky.cc.umb.edu> Reply-To: orrell@NOSPAMumbsky.cc.umb.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: orrell.ne.mediaone.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Does anyone know of protein electrophoretic (isozyme) work done on any plant in the Gentianaceae or related tribe? I am running starch electrophoresis gels with Sabatia kennedyana (Gentianaceae), and the bands are blurry on ALL enzyme systems and buffer systems, but not so for other, non-related species. I feel there is a perfect pH and buffer system for this species that is so very sensative to this technique. Literature searches have turned up empty. I would appreciate any advice. -- Lelia C. Orrell Department of Biology University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125 U.S.A. E-Mail: orrell@umbsky.cc.umb.edu Web: http://www.nmia.com/~lelia Office: 617-287-6656 Fax: 617-287-6650 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Feb 28 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kodak.com!news-pen-14.sprintlink.net!206.229.87.26!news-east.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!newsfeed.internetmci.com!207.114.4.11!nntp.abs.net!news.fred.net!newsmaster From: Triton Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Hellbenders Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 17:43:18 -0800 Organization: FredNet - Frederick, Md. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <34FA0EB6.25A21F1C@fred.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sorin.fred.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.fred.net 888791963 12888 205.252.223.113 (1 Mar 1998 22:39:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@fred.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Hellbender pictures!!!! Update of the Triton page Please visit the new Triton page at http://www.fred.net/sorin/biodog.htm with the following additions/updates: 1. Hellbender pictures !!!!! 2. Madagascar herpetofauna research (mostly amphibians)- Dr. Franco Andreone, Italy 3. How to take pictures of amphibians and fishes- Edward Nied Jr, USA 4. Massachusetts amphibians photos through the lens Edward Nied Jr, USA Send your feedback, critics, comments or interests to contribute to sorin@fred.net Regards, Sorin Damian From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Feb 28 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!HERMES.FFN.UB.ES!sitges From: sitges@HERMES.FFN.UB.ES (XV Sitges Conference) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity Date: 1 Mar 1998 11:41:45 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 196 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199803011940.UAA24966@hermes.ffn.ub.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Colleague, Enclosed please find the available information about the Sitges Conference which you can find also at the Conference home page: http://www.ffn.ub.es/~sitges Sincerely, Miguel Rubi, Conference Chairman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SITGES EUROCONFERENCE "Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity" XV Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics Sitges, Barcelona, SPAIN, 8-12 June 1998 UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The conference will be centered on "Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity", with special emphasis on topics like: membranes, vesicles, microtubules, molecular motors, DNA, protein folding, phase transitions in biological systems, evolution, population dynamics, immunology, neural systems, biological oscillators ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A list of confirmed invited speakers: * D. Amit (University of Rome, Italy) "Extended mean-field theory for networks of spiking neurons" * K. Dill (University of California, USA) "Partition Functions for RNA and Protein Molecules" * S. A. Kauffman (Santa Fe Institite, USA) "Molecular Autonomous Agents: A new physical concept" * Y. Kuramoto (Kyoto University, Japan) "Coupled biological oscillators" * S. Leibler (Princeton University, USA) (to be specified) * R. Lipowsky (Max Planck, Germany) "Membranes / Thermal ratchets with disorder" * J. Marko (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) "Statistical Physics of Braided DNAs" * A. S. Mikhailov (Max Planck, Germany) "Self-Organizing Molecular Networks" * D. Nelson (Harvard University, USA) "Localization and population biology" * L. Peliti (University of Naples, Italy) "Transitions in evolutionary models" * J. Prost (Univ. Paris, France) "Examples of primitive motion mechanism in biological systems" * T. Vicsek (Eotvos University, Hungary) "Dynamic phase transitions in systems of self-propelled objects: from rotating bacteria colonies to flocks of birds" Additional Lecturers are being invited. The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the series Lectures Notes in Physics. The number of participants is limited to 100. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadlines: Application for grants March 31, 1998 Registration April 15, 1998 Abstract submission April 30, 1998 Registration fee is 25.000 pesetas and should be paid upon arrival at the Conference site. Hotel accomodation: A number of rooms will be reserved for the Conference participants and family members at a reduced price at the Hotel "Calipolis"****. The prices are as follows: 6.000 pts per night for one bed in a double room; 9.000 pts double room, individual use, (+7% VAT). All rooms have a private bath. Breakfast is included. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact address: Prof. Miguel Rubi Dept. Fisica Fonamental Universitat de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 647 Barcelona 08028 SPAIN Tel. +34-3-402 11 62 Fax: +34-3-402 11 49 sitges@ffn.ub.es http://www.ffn.ub.es/~sitges ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Travel and tourist information ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sitges is a nice beach village at the coast 30Km south of the city of Barcelona, capital of the autonomous region of Catalonia. There are direct flights connecting Barcelona international airport (located 10Km south of Barcelona and 20Km north of Sitges) with most European capitals, as well as Tokyo, New York and other main cities. Further information about Barcelona (Location, territory and climate, Communication and transports, History, Economic data, Education and research, Sports, Culture, Environment, Public holidays, Barcelona in numbers, The map of Barcelona, Images of Barcelona, etc.) can be found here. How to get to Sitges: A: Arriving by plane: >From the airport take the airport train or buses which take you into Barcelona within 20 minutes. The time interval between trains is about 30 min. Get off at Central Railway Station "SANTS". From there take a train to Sitges (trains leaving direction Tarragona or Vilanova i La Geltru). Trains leave about every 30 minutes. If you take a taxi, the cost is about 5500 pesetas. B: Arriving by train: You will arrive at the Railway Station "FRANCA". From there, you should go to the Central Railway Station "SANTS", either by metro or taking a taxi. Once there, take a train to Sitges (trains leaving direction Tarragona or Vilanova i La Geltru). Trains leave about every 30 minutes. If you take a taxi, the cost is about 5500 pesetas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send information requested below before April 15, 1998 by e-mail to sitges@ffn.ub.es ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration form Surname: Given names: Nationality: Country of work: University/Company: E-mail: Phone: Fax: Mailing address: I am interested in attending the Conference (Yes, No) I am interested in presenting a poster communication (Yes, No) I am interested in presenting a talk (Yes, No) I would like to make a hotel reservation (Shared Double, Single) Tentative title of the communication: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Conference can provide financial support to selected young researchers from EC countries (age below 35) to enable them to attend the Conference. In case you wish to apply for a grant, please fill out the following form and send it by e-mail to sitges@ffn.ub.es before March 31, 1998. The support may contribute towards registration fee, subsistence expenses during the Conference, and travel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grant Application Form Professional status: (PhD, Postdoc, ...) Graduation date: Graduation area: Institution of graduation: Age: Brief Vitae (since graduation): Current or projected research activities: Scientific publications (no more than 5): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You could provide academic references to support your application. This is not essential but may help your application. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------