Intro -- CONTENTS -- 1. CELEBRATIONS -- Marcelo Sdnchez Sorondo The Pontifical Academy of Sciences -- THE NATURE AND GOALS OF THE ACADEMY -- A HISTORICAL SURVEY: FROM THE ACCADEMIA DEI LINCEI TO TODAY'S PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES -- THE ROLE OF THE ACADEMY IN THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT AND CHRISTIAN FAITH -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Alan Cook Improving Natural Knowledge: The First Hundred Years of the Royal Society, 16661760 -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ASTRONOMY -- BIOLOGY -- WHAT IS MODERN SCIENCE? -- NOTES -- Guy Ourisson The Academie des Sciences and French Centralisation -- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS -- WARNING -- GENERAL -- WHAT DO THESE ACADEMIES DO? -- LA MAIN A LA PATE: -- Antonino Zickichi The 40th Anniversary of the 'Ettore Majorana' Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture -- Arnold Burgen The Academia Europaea -- Rocco ButtigIione The 25th Anniversary of the Apostolate of H.H. John Paul II -- 2. CLIMATE: GLOBAL WARMING -- Nir J. Shaviv Climate Change and the Cosmic Ray Connection -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION - THE ALLEGED COSMIC RAY FLUX-CLIMATE LINK -- LONG TERM CRF VARIATIONS AND THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD -- IMPLICATIONS OF THE CRF CLIMATE LINK - THE FAINT SUN PARADOX -- IMPLICATIONS OF THE CRF CLIMATE LINK - UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL WARMING -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES: -- A. Townsend Peterson Climate Change Effects on Species and Biodiversity -- INTRODUCTION: CLIMATE CHANGE AS A REALITY -- THEORETICAL EXPECTATIONS FOR BIODIVERSITY -- OBSERVED EFFECTS ON BIODIVERSITY -- PROJECTED EFFECTS ON BIODIVERSITY -- SYNTHESIS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES: -- B.D. Santer and T.M.L. Wigley New Fingerprints of Human Effects on Climate -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA AND ANALYSIS METHODS -- GLOBAL-MEAN CHANGES -- CONTRIBUTIONS OF INDIVIDUAL FORCINGS TO TROPOPAUSE HEIGHT CHANGES -- FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.

Michael E. Mann Paleoclimate Implications for Recent Human Influence on Climate -- REFERENCES -- David Parker and Chris.Folland Evidence for Global Warming -- ABSTRACT -- SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY IN TEMPERATURE ANALYSES -- REASONS FOR CONFIDENCE IN TEMPERATURE ANALYSES -- PARADOX OF THE COOLING TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE -- THE STRATOSPHERE -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Appendix 1. -- 3. ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS -- J. P. Myers, L.J. Guillette, Jr., P. Palanza, S. Parmigiani, S.H. Swan and F. S. vom Saal The Emerging Science of Endocrine Disruption -- BACKGROUND -- WILDLIFE AND LABORATORY STUDIES -- ASSESSING RISKS POSED BY EDCS TO HUMAN HEALTH -- SUMMARY -- IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 4. POLLUTION: LONG-TERM STEWARDSHIP OF HAZARDOUS MATERIAL -- Carlo Giovanardi The Italian Policy for Waste Management and the Co-operation with the International Scientific Community -- James H. Clarke, Lome G. Everett and Stephen J. Kowall Containment of Legacy Wastes During Stewardship -- LEGACY WASTE ISSUES -- THE EVOLUTION OF CONTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN APPROACHES -- THE NEED TO FORECAST AND ACCOMMODATE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE -- CONTAINMENT SYSTEM MONITORING APPROACHES -- A SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ROADMAF' FOR LONG-TERM STEWARDSHIP OF LEGACY WASTE SITES -- SYSTEM FUNCTION - CONTAINMENT OF RESIDUAL HAZARDS -- SYSTEM FUNCTION - MONITOR THE SITE AND THE LTS SYSTEM -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- William R. Fmdenburg (presented by James H. Clarke) Public Involvement and Communication in the Long-Term Management of U.S. Nuclear Waste Sites -- THE US. CONTEXT -- MAIN "LESSONS" TO DATE -- REFERENCES -- AIIan G. Duncan A European Perspective on Stakeholder Involvement in Nuclear Waste Management -- THE NUCLEAR LEGACY IN EUROPE -- EARLY ATTEMPTS TO DEAL WITH THE LEGACY -- THE LEGAL BACKGROUND -- STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSENSUS.

THE STAKEHOLDERS AND THEIR POINTS OF VIEW -- CONCLUSION -- Balamurugan Gurusamy Hazardous Waste Management in Southeast Asia -- INTRODUCTION -- SOUTHEAST ASIA -- HAZARDOUS WASTE SITUATION IN SOUTH EAST ASIA -- LEGISLATION -- HAZARDOUS WASTE PROBLEMS -- THE WAY FORWARD -- REFERENCES -- Tomio Kawata Responding to Fermi's Warning: Japanese Approach to Dealing with Radioactive Waste Problems -- ABSTRACT -- FERMI'S WARNING -- NAKASONE SET ON THE START OF JAPAN'S NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM WITH A BUDGET OF 235 MILLION YENS -- JAPANESE NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM TODAY -- GLOBAL PICTURE OF MAN-MADE RADIOACTIVITY PROBLEMS -- A SOCIETAL EXPERIMENT A VOLUNTARY AND STEPWISE APPROACH FOR SITING HLW REPOSITORY -- LEARNING FROM THE ROSETTA STONE... -- REFERENCES -- Stephen J. KowaIl The U.S. Approach to the Science and Technology of Legacy Waste Management -- ABSTRACT -- THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM -- WORKING TO DEFINE A SOLUTION -- MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING -- THE PATH FORWARD -- Vision: -- REFERENCES -- 5. THE CULTURAL PLANETARY EMERGENCY: FOLE OF THE MEDIA -- Michael Stunner Spin in War and Peace -- 6. THE CULTURAL PLANETARY EMERGENCY -- Ahmad Kamal Cultural Intolerance -- Antonio Marzano The Impact of the Planetary Emergencies on Worldwide Productivity and Cooperation with the International Scientific Community -- Victor Kremenyuk War on Terrorism: A Search for Focus -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS "ILLEGAL" TERRORISM? IS IT WHAT WE STUDY? -- WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT? -- WHAT SHOULD AND CAN BE DONE? WHAT SHOULD NOT BE DONE? -- WHAT ARE THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS THAT PRODUCE TERRORISM? -- Hussain Al-Shahristani Iraq After Saddam: An Iraqi Perspective -- HOW THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY CAN HELP -- SOUTHERN IRAQI MARSHES -- THE IRAQI ACADEMY OF SCIENCE -- 7. AIDS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: ETHICS IN MEDICINE.

Diego Buriot Health and Security: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): Taking a New Threat Seriously -- Udo Schuklenk Professional Responsibilities of Biomedical Scientists in Public Discourse -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DISSIDENTS -- HIV-DISSIDENTS' HIGH PUBLIC PROFILE -- CONSEQUENCES OF HN-DISSIDENTS' PUBLIC CAMPAIGNING IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD -- THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT -- ETHICAL ISSUES -- PROFESSIONALISM AND THE PUBLIC GOOD -- POLITICIANS AND THE PUBLIC GOOD -- THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA -- THE ROLE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- J. L. Hutton Ethics, Justice and Statistics -- ETHICS -- JUSTICE -- INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Ivan FranCa-Junior Is Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment a Human Right? Lessons Learned from the Brazilian Experience -- INTRODUCTION -- AIDS IMPACT ON HEALTH -- SOCIETAL AND GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSES TO THE EPIDEMICS -- ACCESS TO ARV DRUGS IN BRAZIL: PRODUCTION AND FREE DISTRIBUTION -- A HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH TO AIDS TREATMENT ACCESS -- REFERENCES -- 8. AIDS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: AIDS VACCINE STRATEGIES -- Jorma Hinkula, Claudia Devito, Bartek Zuber, Franco M. Buonaguro, Reinhold Benthin, Britta Wahren and ULF Schroder Systemic and Mucosal Immune Responses Induced by HIV-1 DNA and HIV-Peptide or VLP Booster Immunization -- ABSTRACT & AIM -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS & METHODS -- RESULTS -- Cell-mediated immunity -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Rigmor Thorstensson Pre-clinical Primate Vaccine Studies -- REFERENCES -- Eftyhia Vardas Preparing for Phase I/II HIV Vaccine Trials in South Africa and Planning for Phase III Trials -- ABSTRACT -- BACKGROUND -- REFERENCES -- 9. WATER CONFLICTS -- Farhang Mehr The Politics of Water -- REFERENCES.

Maher Salman and Wael Mualla The Utilization of Water Resources for Agriculture in Syria: Analysis of the Current Situation and Future Challenges -- INTRODUCTION -- WATER SUPPLY AND USE IN SYRIA -- PRESSURE ON WATER RESOURCES FOR AGRICULTURE -- MANAGEMENT, INSTITUTIONAL, AND POLICY ASPECTS -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Uri Shavit, Ran Holtzman, Michal Segal, Ittai Gavrieli, Efrat Farber and Avner Vengosh The Lower Jordan River -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Munther J. Haddadin Challenges to Water Management in the Middle East -- 1. BACKGROUND -- 2. DISTORTIONS IN THE WATER MARKET -- 2.1 IMBALANCES IN THE POPULATION - RESOURCE EQUATION -- 3. THE ROLE OF SHADOW WATER IN WATER MANAGEMENT -- 3.1 DISTORTIONS IN THE WATER TARIFF -- 4. ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES -- 4.1 LINKAGE BETWEEN WATER, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 4.2 MANAGEMENT OF GROUND WATER AQUIFERS -- 4.3 TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER -- 4.3.1 EDUCATION AND TRAINING -- 4.3.2 PROTECTION AGAINST SABOTAGE -- CONCLUSION -- Shad Sorek, K Borisov, A. Yakirevich, A. Melloul and S. Shaath Seawater Intrusion into the Gaza Coastal Aquifer as an Example for Water and Environment Inter-linked Actions -- ABSTRACT -- MODELING OF THE VARIABLE DENSITY FLOW REGIME - INTRODUCTION -- APPLICATION TO THE GAZA STRIP COASTAL AQUIFER -- RANKING AND SELECTION OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENT INTER- LINKED ACTIONS ranking -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 10. THE PLANETARY EMERGENCIES: ITALIAN CIVIL PROTECTION -- Guido Bertolaso The Italian Civil Protection Response to Planetary Emergencies and the Co-operation with the International Scientific Community (Kdeo) -- 11. THE CULTURAL PLANETARY EMERGENCY FOCUS ON TERRORISM: MOTIVATIONS -- Ahmad Kamal Report of the Open Forum Debate on Terrorism -- 12. ENERGY.

Hishani Khatib Energy in Developing Countries - Is It a Special Case?.

Anniversary Celebrations: The Pontifical Academy of Sciences 400th — The “Ettore Majorana” Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture 40th — H H John Paul II Apostolate 25th — Climate/Global Warming: The Cosmic Ray Effect; Effects on Species and Biodiversity; Human Effects; Paleoclimate Implications Evidence for Global Warming — Pollution: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals; Hazardous Material; Legacy Wastes and Radioactive Waste Management in USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Japan — The Cultural Planetary Emergency: Role of the Media; Intolerance; Terrorism; Iraqi Perspective; Open Forum Debate — AIDS and Infectious Diseases: Ethics in Medicine; AIDS Vaccine Strategies — Water: Water Conflicts in the Middle East — Energy: Developing Countries; Mitigation of Greenhouse Warming — Permanent Monitoring Panels Reports — Workshops: Long-Term Stewardship of Hazardous Material; AIDS Vaccine Strategies and Ethics. Fourth Centenary of the Foundation of the First Academy of Sciences: “Academia Lynceorum” by Federico Cesi and Pope Clemente VIII. Erice, Italy 18 – 26 August 2003. edited by R Ragaini (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA).

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