Publications

Abstracts of a joint conference of IUFRO Working Groups (Population, ecological and conservation genetics & Genomics) and COST Action E28, which took place in Madrid, Spain on 1-6 October 2006.

Water in and beneath a road pavement has a major impact on the road’s performance and its survivability. This books provides a state-of-the-art on the topic of water in pavements and the adjacent ground. It includes coverage of the basic theory; where the water comes from; how it may (or may not) be drained; the effect of temperature on the movement; how movements may be modelled numerically; and the impact that water content has on pavement material and subgrade behaviour. Sections on instrumentation and monitoring are also provided.
The book also studies environmental aspects of water in roads and their immediate surroundings by describing the leaching action of pavement water; the opportunities for the pavement to sorb contaminants from pavement run-off; water sampling and water quality needs.
It draws on information from a wide variety of sources, particularly in Europe and the USA, both published and unpublished, having been written by a broad team of practising engineers, hydrogeologists, environmental scientists and researchers.

This easy-to-use guide covers the whole of the COST system for research cooperation in Europe, including information about COST governance, contact points and financial instruments plus, most importantly, the COST Actions.

The main objective of the COST Action 853 was to establish and support microarray technology as a new tool for breeding, diagnosis, and high throughput screening in the field of agriculture. A major motivation behind tackling the task was an unsatisfactory situation in diagnostics of agronomically relevant organisms. At the onset of this Action, many different gene fragments of diverse genes were used by differeny laboratories for taxon identification. Thus, each diagnostic laboratory had to master a broad range of different analytical details, making the task of molecular diagnostics cumbersome and laborious. Therefore, simple and economic methods were sought to allow robust identification at the required taxonomic level for a wide range of organisms.