Publications

This report within the COST Transport and Urban Development Domain examines the issues involved in making coach and long distance bus travel, meet the needs of disabled and older people.

The book is an asset to researchers wishing to study the health benefits of their foods and food bioactives of interest and highlights which in vitro/ex vivo assays are of greatest relevance to their goals, what sort of outputs/data can be generated and, as noted above, highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the various assays. It is also an important resource for undergraduate students in the ‘food and health’ arena.

COST Action 621 ‘Groundwater management of coastal karstic aquifers’ was set up in April 1997, with the aim of increasing the knowledge required to establish criteria for improving groundwater use in karst aquifers and for recovering groundwater resources in overexploited and salinised aquifers.

This book, as the outcome of the COST-728/NetFAM workshop, focuses on the follow­ing main topics: 1) on-line coupled meteorology-chemistry modelling with two-way feedbacks, 2) off-line coupled modelling and interfaces, 3) validation and case studies including air quality related episodes, and 4) integration of atmospheric chemical transport (ACT) models with numerical weather prediction (NWP).

This book is one of the first attempts to give an overall look on such integrated meso-meteorology and chemistry modelling approach. It reviews the current situation with the on-line and off-line coupling of mesoscale meteorological and ACT models worldwide as well as discusses advantages and shortcomings, best practices, and gives recommendations for on-line and off-line coupling of NWP and ACT models, implementation strategy for different feedback mechanisms, direct and indirect effects of aerosols and advanced interfaces between both types of models. The book is oriented towards numerical weather prediction and air quality modelling communities.

The COST 917 Action ‘Biogenic Amines in Food’ has been running for 5 years, from September 1996 to September 2001. Six volumes of COST 917 proceedings have been published. Volume I deal with ‘Biologically Active Amines in Transgenic Plants’. The ‘Metabolic Effects of Biologically Active Amines in Food’ are discussed in Volume II. The two topics in Volume III are ‘Biologically Active Amines in Food Processing and Amines Produced by Bacteria’ and ‘Polyamines and Tumour Growth’. Volume IV contains contributions to the first General Workshop, in which all Working Groups participated. Volume V contains papers presented at the second meetings on ‘Polyamines and Tu mour Growth’ and ‘Biologically Active Amines in Food Processing and Amines Produced by Bacteria’. In Volume VI are papers from the meeting on ‘Biologically Active Amines: Metabolism and Physiology and the third meeting devoted to Biologically Active Amines in food processing and Amines Produced by Bacteria.
The contents of Volumes I-VI are in Appendix II. This, the last volume in the series, contains papers presented at the final meeting of COST Action 917, ‘Biologically Active Amines in Food’ held in Krems, Austria, from October 10th to October 14th, 2001. The sessions included the second workshop of Working Group 1, ‘Biologically Active Amines in Transgenic Plants’; the fourth workshop of Working Group 2, ‘Polyaminesand Tumour Growth’; the fourth workshop of Working Group 3, ‘Physiology and Metabolism of biologically active amines’; the sixth workshop of Working Group 4 ‘Biologically Active Amines in Food Processing and Amines Produced by Bacteria’.
Biogenic amines in food can be important indicators of food spoilage and food safety. Some foods may contain biogenic amines at levels that may cause acute food intoxication.
The Management Committee of COST Action 917 has collected data from participating laboratories on the amine content of foods and this data is included as Appendix I in this volume.