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This book grew out of the Fourth conference on Computers and the Writing Process, held at the University of Sussex in March 1991. Fifteen refereed papers were selected from the conference and the authors were asked to develop them into chapters appropriate for this book, incorporating insights gained from their conference presentations. The book covers all aspects of computers and the writing process, including computer-based collaborative writing, hypertext, computers and writing education, computer and professional authors, evaluation of computer-based writing, computers and technical writing, and computer supported fiction. The resulting collection provides an up-to-date cross-section of this increasingly important interdisciplinary topic -- with computer, cognitive and educational perspectives covered. The book will be of interest to workers and researchers in language, cognition and computer science; especially those interested in hypermedia, human-computer interaction and cooperative technologies.

Foreword. Preface. Self-Assembly in Chemical Systems. Hydrogen Bonding in Supramolecular Functions. New Shapes for Selective Molecular Recognition from Calixaneres. Calixaneres, Molecular Platforms for Supramolecular Structures. Molecules with Large Cavities. Selective Complexation of Inorganic and Organic Guests. Multi-Electron Redox Activity of Supramolecular Coordination Compounds Containing Metallocyclam and Ferrocene Fragments. New Approaches to Anion Coordination Chemistry. Acyclic Quarternary Polybipyridinium Receptors Designed to Bind Anionic Guest Species. Supramolecular Cyclophane Chemistry. New Synthetic Receptors for Complexation and Catalysis. Unimolecular Micelles. Ru(II) and/or Os(II) Trimetallic Complexes of Tris(bipyridine) Bridging Ligands. Absorption Spectra, Luminescence Properties, Electrochemical Behavior, and Intercomponent Energy Transfer. Kinetic and Spectroscopic Investigation of the Influence of Conformation and Orbital-Symmetry on Longe-Range Intramolecular Donor-Acceptor Interaction. Supramolecular Arrays for the Efficient Conversion of Light into Chemical Energy in the Solid State. Into the Third Dimension of Coordination Chemistry: Towards Starburst Arrays. Antenna Effects and Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Polynuclear Metal Complexes. Long-Range Electron and Energy Transfer in Molecular Assemblies. Synthetic Molecular Knots. Proton Transfer Photoreactions in Supramolecular Systems. The Optimization of Photochemical Energy Coversion: Synthetic Supramolecular Devices vis-à-vis Photosynthesis. Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Donor Acceptor Systems Linked by a Flexible Chain. Attempts to Mimic Biomembrane Processes: Function of Phospholipase A2 at Lipid Monolayers. Photochemistry of Crown Ether Styryl Dyes. Towards Synthetic Enzymes Based on Porphyrins and Steroids. Photophysical Properties of Thionine and Methylene Blue when Bound to DNA, Polynucleotides or Nucleotides. Structure andBinding for Cyclophane-Arene Complexes in Water from Monte Carlo Simulations. Photoinduced Electron Transfer Between Intercalated Molecules: Using Polynucleotides to Self-Assemble Donor-Acceptor Systems. Synthesis and Properties of Heterometal Cubane-Type Clusters in Ferredoxins. Binding and Catalysis in Water. Ferrocene as the Central Unit in Novel, Redox-Sensitive Ligands, Monomers, and Receptors. Author Index. Subject Index.

Analytical Methods.- Chromatographic Techniques for Pollution Analyses.- Separation of Large Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Particulate Matter by Liquid Chromatography.- The Effect of Oxygen Addition on the Determination of Cadmium and Lead in Blood and Foods by Graphite Fumace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry.- An Optimization Procedure for the Isocratic High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Separations of Environmental Pollutants.- Some Applications of Freon-22 in Supercritical Fluid Chromatographic Analysis of Environmental Pollutants.- Identification of Residual Pesticides in Water by GC/QPMS.- Direct Coupling of Supercritical Fluid Extraction - Supercritical Fluid Chromatography for the Determination of Selected Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Aqueous Environmental Samples.- Separation of Selected PAHs by Using High Performance Capillary Electrophoresis with Modifiers.- Optimization of the Gradient HPLC Separation of Selected Phthalates Using the Overlapping Resolution Mapping Technique.- Analysis of Priority Substituted Phenols by Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography.- Waste Management.- Incineration of Hazardous Wastes.- Environmental Management in Singapore.- Catalytic CO Oxidation over Manganese-Containing Perovskites.- Water Purification with Magnetic Particles.- Entrapping of Organic Wastes by Coordination Clathrates.- In Search of a Recyclable Sulphur Dioxide Sponge - A New Look at an Old System.- Leachate of Fly Ash Derived from Refuse Incineration.- Mercury Contamination - What We Have Leamed Since Minamata.- The Legal Control of Chlorofluorocarbon and Halon Substances in Hong Kong.- The Effectiveness of Composite Lining Systems in Controlling the Leakage of Leachate from Sanitary Landfills to Groundwater.- Factors Affecting the Leaching of Lead from UPVC Pipes.- Poly(Sodium Acrylamidoalkanoates) in Water Treatment.- Ecosystems Management.- Atmospheric Acidification in the Asian Region.- Improving the Living Environment of Singapore.- The New Environmentalist.- Proposals for the Conservation of Nature in Urban Singapore.- Microplankton Bloom in a Brackish Water Lagoon of Terengganu.- Temporal Variation in a Coral Reef Community at Pattaya Bay, Gulf of Thailand.- Water Quality Planning and Management for Dapeng Bay, China.- Ecology of Marine Fouling Organisms at Eastern lohore Strait.- Exposure/Risk Assessment.- DNA Adducts as Early Bioindicators of Chemical Exposure.- Some Gaseous Pollutants in Nakorn Sri Thammarat.- Management and Control of Pollution in Inner Johore Strait.- A Feasibility Study for Appraising Recreational Water Quality in a Southeast Asian Beach Complex.- Diurnal Models of Traffic-Generated CO for Penang, Malaysia.- Non-Radiological Contaminants from Uranium Mining and Milling at Ranger, Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia.- Environmental and Biological Monitoring of Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK).- The Determination of Chlorofluorocarbons and Extractives in the Expanded and Disposable Polystyrene Ware.- Phenolic Water Pollutants in a Malaysian River Basin.- Lake Destratification and Speciation of Iron and Manganese.- Quality of Stormwater Runoff from an Urbanised Watershed.- The Distribution of Organic Matter in Songkhla Lake Basin (SLB).- Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Peninsular Malaysian Waterways.- A Study of the Heavy Metal Concentrations of the Singapore River.- Wind Flow in an Urban Environment.- Uptake, Distribution and Immunotoxicological Effects of Mercury in Mice.- Noise Surveys of Hand-Held Pneumatic Rock Drills in Hong Kong.- Major Factors of Industrial Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Hong Kong.- Analysis of Pollution Monitoring by Expert Systems.

Framework Science.- Polymers for Multifunctional Applications: Some General Considerations.- An Objective for Polymers with Unusual Properties: Polymers with Delocalized Electronic States.- Ceramics from Organometallic Polymers: Industrial Perspectives.- The Current State of the Art in the Synthesis of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers.- Polymer Synthesis.- Polymerization of Liquid Crystalline Monomers.- Electrosynthesis, A New Route to Disilanes, Polysilanes and Polycarbosilanes.- Catalytic Dehydro-and Dehydrosilyl-coupling: New Routes to Inorganic and Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Polymers.- Synthesis of Penta-alkoxy-and Penta-aryloxy Silicates Directly from SiO2.- Magnetic Materials.- Molecular Composites of the MPS3 Layered Inorganic Polymers: Chemistry, Magnetic, and Dielectric Properties.- Chemistry, Structures and Magnetic Properties of Mn(II)Cu(II) Molecular Compounds: Heterobinuclear Species, Ferrimagnetic Chains and Molecular-Based Ferromagnets..- Magnetic Molecular Materials.- Conducting And Electronic Materials.- Molecular Solids with Organic Conducting Chains and Inorganic Magnetic Chains: The (Per)2(mnt)2 Family. (M = Ni, Cu, Pd, Pt, Au, Fe and Co)..- Selective Synthesis and Some Electroconductive Properties of Organosilicon Polymers Containing Aromatic Units.- Crystal and Electronic Structure of Cobaltacene Intercalates of the Host Lattices SnS2-xSex (x=O, 0.3, 0.5, 1.3, 1.85, 2).- Approaches to Stacked, Semi-conducting Organometallics.- Supramolecular Organization of Phthalocyanines. Design and Synthesis of Low Dimensional Conductors.- Preceramic Materials.- Synthesis and Pyrolysis Chemistry of Polymeric Precursors to SiC and Si3N4.- A Catalytic Preparation of a New Preceramic Polymer: Transformation into SiC.- Transition Metal Oxo Polymers Synthesized via Sol-Gel Chemistry.- Organically Modified Silicates as Inorganic-Organic Polymers.- Nonlinear Optical Materials.- Resonant Nonlinear Optical Excitations in Glassy Polymers.- Rigid-Rod Transition Metal Acetylide Complexes, Oligomers, and Polymers for Nonlinear Optics.- Characterization.- Spectroscopic Characterization of the Pyrolysis Process of Pre-Ceramics Polymers.- Characterisation of Metallophthalocyanine Polymers for Application as Semiconductor Gas Sensor Material.- Aspects of Polyphosphazene Photochemistry.- Characterizing the Microstructures of New Polymers.- Report To Nato.- Inorganic and Organometallic Polymer with Special Properties. Progress, Potential and Problems.

Comparative fore-gut morphology of Antarctic Amphipoda (Crustacea) adapted to different food sources.- Methods for the study of amphipod swimming: behavior, morphology, and fluid dynamics.- Is the oostegite structure of amphipods determined by their phylogeny or is it an adaptation to their environment?.- The distribution and frequency of the type II microtrichs in somen gammaridean amphipods.- What can vicariance biogeographic models tell us about the distributional history of subterranean amphipods?.- Actual state of gammaridean taxonomy and catalogue of species from Chile.- Gammaridean and caprellidean fauna from Brazil.- Amphipods from hydrotechnical structures in the north-western part of the Black Sea.- Structure of a suprabenthic shelf sub-community of gammaridean Amphipoda in the Bay of Fundy compared with similar sub-communities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.- Amphipod crustaceans as an important component of zoobenthos of the shallow Antarctic sublittoral.- Patterns of abundance of exoedicerotid amphipods on sandy beaches near Sydney, Australia.- Local distributions of sandhoppers and landhoppers (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) in the coastal zone of western Tasmania.- Ingestion of live filamentous diatoms by the Great Lakes amphipod, Diporeia sp.: a case study of the limited value of gut contents analysis.- A comparison of water loss and gill areas in two supralittoral amphipods from New Zealand.- Lack of oxygen and low pH as limiting factors for Gammarus in Hessian brooks and rivers.- Volumetric growth in gammaridean Amphipoda.- Respiration of Orchomene plebs (Hurley, 1965) and Waldeckia obesa (Chevreux, 1905) from Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands, Antarctic).- Eco-physiological characteristics of some common caprellid species in the Possjet Bay (Japan Sea).- A review of the reproductive bionomics of aquatic gammaridean amphipods: variation of life history traits with latitude, depth, aquatic salinity and superfamily.- Two types of maternal care for juveniles observed in Caprella monoceros Mayer, 1890 and Caprella decipiens Mayer, 1890 (Amphipoda: Caprellidae).- Tube-building behavior in Grandidierella, and two species of Cerapus.- Precopulatory mating behavior and sexual dimorphism in the amphipod Crustacea.- Redescription of Caprogrammarus gurjanovae Kudrjaschov & Vassilenko, 1966 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Hokkaido, Japan, with notes on the taxonomic status of Caprogammarus.- A new marine interstitial ingolfiellid (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Ingolfiellidea) from Tenerife and Hierro.