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This volume is dedicated to the study of growth and development from the points of view of public health and epidemiology. On the other hand, physical growth and development can also be viewed as development plasticity and as a strategy for human adaptation.

The complementary session on the nontextual media opened with a discussion of general principles of pictorial communication and included papers on communicating instructions, general information, or religious belief through designs and other pictorial forms, as well as a discussion.

Growth, as we conceive it, is the study of change in an organism not yet mature. Differential growth creates form: external form through growth rates which vary from one part of the body to another and one tissue to another;

Research in the field of personality psychology has culminated in a radical departure. Advances in assessment have brought about more powerful methods and the explanatory tools for extending personality psychology beyond its traditional reaches into the areas of cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, and sociology.

With the increasing costs of international symposia the need for a sponsor soon became apparent and an application to NATO was favourabiy received, following helpful advice from Dr. di Lullo, Advanced Research Workshop Programme Director, to whom all the participants in this Workshop owe a debt of gratitude.

Once viewed as a black box with only a vague influence on cardiovascular performance, the introduction of concepts and techniques of neuroscience into the field of cardiovascular medicine has led to the realization of the critical role of this organ in cardiovascular control.

Control through genetically mediated resistance to diseases and pests, is both cheap and environmentally sa~e and at present most diseases and pests o~ staple ~ood crops are controlled through some form of resistance.

That older patients can be successfully treated has only recently been recognized by professionals and by older persons themselves.

Clinicians have long been fascinated by the rare and exotic in med icine. For this reason, the understanding and insights collected in this volume are likely to have clinical usefulness far beyond those rare occasions when we encounter the exotic in its fully developed form.

This book includes all of the papers presented at the NATO Symposium on Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures held at Roskilde, Denmark on August 4-8, 1980. The goal of the Symposium was to continue the tradition initiated by the NATO Symposium on Monitoring Behavior and Supervisory Control held in Berchtesgaden, F .R.

This NATO Advanced Study Institute was the fourth in a series devoted to the subject of phase transitions and instabilities with particular attention to structural phase transforma~ions.

Consequently, it seemed more appropriate to place our own results within the framework of a general presentation of the evoked-potential field, rather than to have our specific studies govern topic selection.

Advances in Microbial Ecology was established by the International Commis sion on Microbial Ecology to provide a vehicle for in-depth, critical, and, it is hoped, provocative reviews on aspects of both applied and basic microbial ecol ogy.

I first met Ernest Furchtgott twenty-five years ago after joining the faculty of the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 . . . . . . . Construct Validity of Putative Causes and Effects . . . . . . . . . . . Conclusions and Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 . .

Mental retardation has probably existed for as long as mankind has inhabited the earth. however, these early schools did not fulfill their promise, and by the end of the nineteenth century large, inhumane warehouses for retarded persons existed.

The field of bacterial genetics has been restricted for many years to Escherichia coli and a few other genera of aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria such as Pseudomonas, Bacillus, and Salmonella.

Protomer Size and Quaternary Structure . ix X Contents Enzyme Polymorphism and Quaternary Structure . Enzyme Polymorphism and Subunit Size . Drosophila Enzyme Polymorphism . Human Enzyme Polymorphism . Enzyme Polymorphism: Structure and Size .

I am pleased to include this book as Volume 6 of Developmental Biology: A Comprehensive Synthesis. This series was established to create comprehensive treatises on specific topics in developmental biology.