Research on viscose (XVI)

XVI International Symposium on Atherosclerosis

Chemokines and their receptors are crucial mediators and regulators of leukocyte trafficking and homeostasis during immune surveillance and inflammation, which underlie the development and progression of atherosclerosis. The abundance of chemokines suggests that specific functional roles, with cooperative or synergistic interactions between the chemokine subfamilies provide a balance between pr...

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-Monetary policy operates in a different environment than it did a decade ago. Financial market innovations have eroded the distinctions among monetary assets, making the definition of money increasingly arbitrary. Deregulation of interest rates and banking activity is changing the behavior of the monetary aggregates, as banks pay interest on monetary assets and nonbanks offer monetary-like ass...

XVI. Miscellaneous

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The stock market crash of 1987 sent shock waves through the world's financial markets. Stock exchanges in New York, Chicago, London, Tokyo, Frankfurt, and a host of other cities suffered major declines. In response, credit markets, commodity markets, and foreign exchange markets registered sharp swings. Not since the Great Depression had the world seen such turmoil in financial markets. But, dr...

Carbon disulphide poisoning in viscose rayon factories.

The manufacture of rayon by the viscose process exposes workers to the hazards of carbon disulphide (CS2) poisoning. When the viscose industry was started the toxicity of carbon disulphide was scarcely known among manufacturers, and the processes used were primitive; this resulted in many cases of CS2 poisoning in all those countries where viscose plants had been established. Since then, techni...