Showing papers in "Endeavour in 1990"

TL;DR: The mechanism of dispersal of coastal marine organisms has long been of interest to marine biologists but until the beginning of this century much importance was attached to rafting but later greater emphasis was laid on the role of pelagic larval stages.

TL;DR: Plants and insects have been co-evolving for at least 300 million years; during this time plant species have been under continuous selection pressure from herbivorous insect predators, and, in the absence of the ability to avoid predators by movement, have been forced to rely on physical and chemical defensive mechanisms.

TL;DR: Soil micromorphology has been a recognized technique in soil science for some 50 years and experience from pedogenic and palaeosol studies first permitted its use in the investigation of archaeologically buried soils.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the properties of metals may be very different when metals exist as clusters of relatively small numbers of atoms, either free or stabilized by ligands, and that such clusters are not only of great theoretical interest but present important possibilities as catalysts.

TL;DR: In this article, a new prospecting technique, developed over the last decade, capable of recording ore deposits at greater depths than is possible with conventional methods, even when covered with younger formations, is presented.

TL;DR: The importance of treating public water supplies to destroy pathogenic micro-organisms has long been recognized, but the hazard posed by certain protozoan parasites is being increasingly recognized.

TL;DR: In the European Community, the most sophisticated techniques have been developed, of which the most powerful is based on isotope fractionation as discussed by the authors, which not only makes it possible to estimate precisely the degree of chaptalization or dilution with water, but the region from which a wine has come and even the year in which it was made.

TL;DR: A number of quasicrystalline alloys have been discovered and their investigation is still at an early stage but important advances, both theoretical and practical, seem certain this article.

TL;DR: This article describes a conceptual model--at the molecular level--for the four basic taste modalities, using apparent specific volume as a fundamental parameter, and considers possible practical applications.

TL;DR: It is realized that the triggering of the aggressive sequence provides a valuable focus for an inter-disciplinary attack on understanding the early evolution of individuality, and for an examination of allorecognition specificity.

TL;DR: A fragment, consisting of 20 amino acids, of one of the four proteins of the particle, which elicits neutralizing antibodies in experimental animals and in cattle and pigs, holds out promise for its future as a vaccine.

TL;DR: This article suggests that the coelacanths discovered off the coast of South Africa remains enigmatic but quite unique in several ways, including a mobile joint within the skull and a peculiar headstanding behaviour.

TL;DR: The past is the key to the future: as discussed by the authors argues that it is important to know how much climate has varied in the past in order to quantify the size and significance of natural fluctuations of the climate system.

TL;DR: Gilland and Gilland as discussed by the authors presented an engineer's view of energy for the 21st century: an engineer view by Bernard Gilland, 1990. MICAH, Canberra.

TL;DR: The perovskite family has a wide range of useful properties for the manipulation of electrons and photons, see as mentioned in this paper for a review of the reasons why perovskiy materials have such useful properties.

TL;DR: The long-term energy problem as mentioned in this paper, which is the problem of how to develop non-fossil energy sources is studied quantitatively, is a classic example of the problem.