Publications

Abstracts of the Final Evaluation Conference of the Chemistry COST Action D14 on “Functional Molecular Materials”, which took place in San Feliu de Guixols, Spain on 9-12 June 2005.

This volume of APS highlights reviews within the theme ‘Skeletal muscle and Adipose tissue metabolism: Regulation, Exercise, Diabetes and Ageing’. The aim of this theme is to bring forward current research efforts to identify new preventive and therapeutic approaches that may counteract the increasing incidence of diabetes. Specifically, the reviews focus on factors that influence glucose metabolism, insulin action and insulin resistance at the molecular and clinical level. This includes the identification of critical signalling intermediates for carbohydrate and fat utilisation and the validation of molecular targets for drugs known to regulate glucose and lipid metabolism.

Accessibility concepts are increasingly acknowledged as fundamental to understand the functioning of cities and urban regions. In particular, accessibility instruments are able to provide a framework for understanding the reciprocal relationships between land use and mobility. Such a framework has important potential advantages when transferred to the realm of urban planning. However, despite the large number of instruments available in literature, they are not widely used to support urban planning practices.

Neighbour noise is a significant problem having had insufficient attention for decades, both for existing housing and new housing. Time had come to solve the challenges by establishing a common framework in building acoustics throughout Europe. As a consequence, the research network, COST Action TU0901 “Integrating and Harmonizing Sound Insulation Aspects in Sustainable Urban Housing Constructions” was established to initiate and support a process towards such framework.

COST TU0901 considered the main tool to be an acoustic classification scheme for dwellings –implying definition of a number of quality classes– combined with knowledge about housing constructions complying with the class criteria.