astounding impact of drug treatments for neurological and especially psychiatric disease, and the avenues that they opened for new experimental investigations into brain structure and function. All the history of neuroscience works mentioned above have their particular strengths, and weaknesses, and the present book is no worse, but also no better. It will no doubt find a home in libraries and ...

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This article outlines a hybrid method, incorporating multiple techniques into an evaluation process, in order to select competitive suppliers in a supply chain. It enables a purchaser to do single sourcing and multiple sourcing by calculating a combined supplier score, which accounts for both qualitative and quantitative factors that have impact on supply chain performance. Keywords—Analytic hi...

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usual MET-EL-S rubber stopper (3.97 and 3.99 mg/litre), as compared to bottles capped with Parafilm (2.32 and 2.26 mg/litre). For the nitric acid wash of the MET-EL-S rubber stopper, a zinc value exceeding 30 mg/litre was found. The contents of a bottle of the MET-EL-S quality-control serum was mixed and left inverted on the rubber stopper for five days, when the zinc value was found to be 6.80...