CONTENTS -- 1. OPENING SESSION -- Antonino Zichichi The 32nd Session of the International Seminars and International Collaboration -- MIGRATION -- GLOBAL WARMING -- BRAIN DISEASES AND TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY -- COSMIC OBJECTS -- AIDS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND GLOBAL BIOSECURITY STANDARDS -- WATER -- Richard L. Garwin Science and National Intelligence -- REFERENCES -- Rolf K. Jenny Statement on Migration -- THE BROADER PICTURE OF MIGRATION -- INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION - TRENDS, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES -- MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT -- MIGRATION AND SECURITY -- MIGRANTS IN SOCIETY -- GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION BASED ON SHARED INTERESTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES -- THE GLOBAL COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION -- Purpose and Mandate -- 2. LIMITS OF DEVELOPMENT: MIGRATION -- Ahmad Kamal Migration and Cyberspace -- Hiltrmar Schubert Migration in Europe -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SITUATION IN EUROPE -- History -- Demographic Changes -- Economic Consequences -- IMMIGRATION INTO EUROPE -- Africa -- Turkey and the Arab States -- Others -- INTEGRATION -- CONCLUSION -- Nigel Harris Migration and Development: A Synoptic European Overview -- MIGRATION -- DEVELOPMENT -- AID -- LESSONS FOR EUROPE -- MIGRATION AND ANTI-GLOBALIS ATION -- ENDNOTES -- REFERENCES -- K.C. Sivamarakrishnan Migration From and Within Asia -- INTRODUCTION -- ASIA TO MIDDLE EAST -- EAST ASIA -- SOUTH ASIA -- CURRENT AND FUTURE OUTLOOK -- REFERENCES -- Geraldo G. Serra Migration and Globalization -- ABSTRACT -- GLOBALIZATION: A MANIFOLD CONCEPT -- The Technological basis of globalization -- The information flow -- The movement of capital -- MIGRATION IN THE TIMES OF GLOBALIZATION -- Migration in the past -- Modern migration -- REACTIONS AND CONSEQUENCES -- Cultural consequences -- Social consequences -- Demographic consequences.

EXTERNAL, AND INTERNAL MIGRATION IN BRAZIL -- The Historical importance of immigration -- Internal migration and social improvement -- Rapid urbanization and infrastructural deficits -- Emigration: a new reality -- Rural-urban migration -- Causes, consequences and solutions -- CONCLUSIONS -- Migration as a human promotion process -- How to reduce migration trends -- A scientific approach to migration -- REFERENCES -- 3. CLIMATOLOGY: GLOBAL WARMING -- John S. Perry From Curiosity to Concern: A Chronology of the Quest to Understand Global Climate -- CLIMATE AND HUMANKIND - AN AGE-OLD PARTNERSHIP -- FROM SPECULATION TO SCIENCE -- QUANTIFYING THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Tom M.L. Wigley Simple Climate Models -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BASIC CONCEPTS -- ONE-BOX MODELS -- UPWELLING-DIFFUSION EBMS -- PROBABILISTIC PROJECTIONS -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Garth W. Paltridge Old Physics for New Climate Models - Maybe -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- FEEDBACK AND OTHER MATTERS -- TURBULENCE AND MAXIMUM DISSIPATION -- Hisham Khatib Energy and Electricity Considerations - Global Warming Perspectives -- INTRODUCTION -- DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND GLOBAL WARMING -- Rapid Economic growth -- RESTRICTING FUTURE EMISSIONS THE WAY AHEAD -- EFFICIENCY IN ENERGY UTILIZATION -- THE VALUE OF ELECTRIFICATION -- THE ROLE OF NUCLEAR POWER -- BIOMASS AND RENEWABLE ENERGY AND BIOFUELS - PROSPECTS FOR NEW ENERGY SOURCES -- THE FUTURE OF CARBON EMISSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 4. TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY: PRIONS -- Robert G. Will Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease and Blood Transfusion -- REFERENCES -- Maura N. Ricketts BSE in North America -- PMP TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES: FOCUS ON PFUONS -- TSE BASICS -- EVOLUTION OF THE BSE EPIDEMIC -- CATTLE AND BSE IN NORTH AMERICA -- IMPORTED BSE.

lST BSE CASE IN THE NATIONAL HERD -- 2ND BSE CASE IN THE NATIONAL HERD -- MANAGING BSE -- Bernardino Ghetti Role of the Polymorphism at Codon 129 of the Prion Protein Gene in the Phenotypic Expression of Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease Associated with the F198S Mutation -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- Family History and Disease Phenotype -- Subjects -- Clinical Analysis -- Neuropathologic Analysis -- Molecular Genetic Analysis -- Statistical Analysis -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Herbert Budka Update on the Pathogenesis of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies -- REFERENCES -- 5. THE CULTURAL EMERGENCY: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS - ENVIRONMENT -- Axel Lehmann Innovations in Information and Communications Technologies: Benefits and Threats -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS -- FUTURE ICT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS -- CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 6. COSMIC OBJECTS -- Clark R. Chapman Recent Perspectives on the Hazard of an Asteroid Impact -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- DEVELOPMENTS IN 2003 AND 2004 -- REFERENCES -- Donald K. Yeomans Recent Close Approaches of Asteroids to the Earth -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EVOLVING PROCESS OF COMPUTING AND ANNOUNCING FUTURE NON-ZERO EARTH IMPACT PROBABILITIES. -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- FIGURES -- Appendix 1: Milestone events for the near-Earth Obiect (NEO) discovery surveys -- Russell L. Schweickart Asteroid Deflection: Hopes and Fears -- CONSIDERATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- Alan W. Harris The Near-Earth Object Impact Hazard: Space Mission Priorities for Risk Assessment and Reduction -- ABSTRACT -- Hajime Yano Hayabusa and its Follow-up Plans by JAXA -- ABSTRACT -- SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES OF ASTEROID EXPLORATION.

Ground Truth Bridging between Minor Bodies and Meteorites/Cosmic Dust -- Geological Processes and Material Alterations -- Structure of "Undifferentiated" Bodies -- Other Interests: Jinuact Hazards and Future Resources -- HAYABUSA MISSION OUTLINE -- Timeline and Current Status -- Target Asteroid (25143) Itokawa, a Su-km S-twe PHA -- Sample Return Strategy -- Sample Curation and Analyses -- "POST-HAYABUSA", A NEXT GENERATION MINOR BODY EXPLORATION MISSION -- Scientific Themes for Minor Bodv Exploration in the Post-Hayabusa Era -- Spectra-Known NEO Multiple Rendezvous Sample Returns -- Investigation of Asteroid Internal Structures -- Main Belt Asteroid Family Multiple Fly-by and Sample Returns -- Solar Power Sail Mission to Fly-by Main Belt and Jovian-Trojan Asteroids -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 7. AIDS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: ETHICS IN MEDICINE -- Diego Buriot Limiting Access to Dangerous Pathogens - The Need for International Cooperation -- THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Reynolds M. Salerno The U.S. Select Agent Rule and an International Opportunity to Develop Laboratory Biosecurity Guidelines -- LABORATORY BIOSECURITY AND LABORATORY BIOSAFETY -- THE BIOSECURITY REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT IN THE UNITED STATES -- SCIENTIFIC CONCERNS ABOUT THE U.S. REGULATIONS -- SECURITY CONCERNS ABOUT THE U.S. REGULATIONS -- LABORATORY BIOSECURITY RISK ASSESSMENT -- INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS ABOUT THE U.S. REGULATIONS -- PROPOSAL FOR ACHIEVING INTERNATIONAL BIOSECURITY -- REFERENCES -- Lela Bakanidze New Georgian Legislation on Biosafety -- Bradford Kay International Biosecurity Norms and the Role for International Organizations -- ABSTRACT -- BACKGROUND -- Disease threats -- The source of the threat -- Strategies for biological security -- ISSUES AND ANALYSIS -- Regulations -- International models.

Examples of means to prevent the malicious use of bioscience -- Treaties -- Trade and economic organizations -- Technical organizations -- International cooperative agreements: -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Barry Kellman Legal Measures to Prevent Bio-crimes -- SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1540 - CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES -- Gap That S. Res. 1540 Fills -- Committee Monitoring of Compliance - How Is Compliance Enforced? -- S. RES. 1540 REQUIREMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS -- National Legislation To Prohibit WMD Proliferation -- Controlling Trans-National Trade of WMD -- Protection of Sensitive Materials -- PROBLEM: INADEQUATE LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORIZATION AND CAPACITY -- PRIORITIES: COMPLYING WITH S. RES. 1540 -- THE INTERPOL PROGRAM FOR PREVENTING BIO-CRIMES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 8. WATER AND POLLUTION -- Soroosh Sorooshian Overview of the Hydrological Cycle and its Connection to Climate: Droughts and Floods -- INTRODUCTION -- CHANGE IN GLOBAL TEMPERATURE -- POTENTIAL HYDROLOGIC IMPACTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Ronald B. Linsky What is the Real Value of Water? Reaching Beyond the Global Dilemma of Cost and Price -- REFERENCES -- Amir I. Ajami Agrarian Transformation and Shifts in Water Requirements in Rural Iran: A Case Study -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE IRANIAN VILLAGE IN TRANSITION -- 1. The Village Under Landlord Domination -- 2. Land Reform, the Rise of Peasant Proprietorship, and the Development of Capitalist Fanning -- 3. Revolution, the Demise of Capitalist Farming, and Transformation of the Peasantry -- CHANGES IN THE PRODUCTION SYSTEM -- IMPACT ON WATER REQUIREMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Pradeep Aggarwal Sustainable Water Resource Management and the Role of Isotope Techniques -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY -- ISOTOPES IN HYDROGEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS -- ROLE OF THE IAEA.

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