The May 1997 SOHO-Ulysses quadrature

Soho, Yohkoh, Ulysses and Trace: the Four Solar Missions in Perspective, and Available Resources

Four solar observing spacecraft, now in operation, have obtained and continue to obtain data during the late phase of solar cycle 22 and hopefully most of cycle 23. The data are available for scientific analysis, practically in an unrestricted manner. A large pool of software suited for the processing and to help programming any data analysis is freely available. An almost random list of result...

Letters - 31 May 1997

Editor—Five years ago, when we published our research on the discrimination faced by ethnic minority doctors applying for posts as senior house officers, the Department of Health considered using our methodology to monitor progress in tackling discrimination. At a recent BMA conference to discuss racial discrimination in the medical profession several speakers pointed out that racial discrimina...

NAS News - May-June 1997

Fullerene-based Nanoelectronic Devices Show `Tremendous Potential' Researchers at the NAS Facility are examining the role of the fullerene structure -a form of carbon -in creating electronic devices for the next century. In this article, scientists Jie Han and Subhash Saini give a bird's-eye view of the transition from conventional CMOS-based semiconductor devices to quantum devices, and discus...

The Ulysses perspective

Washington University Record, May 15, 1997