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The article reports on the move of the medical library National Library of Medicine (NLM) to unveil its new versions of the MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus Spanish mobile sites on October 2014. It provides links to access the redesigned sites, designed to optimize for mobile phones and tablets. It notes that the updated site offers complete content needed by users and easier applications on mobile devices.

To determine if convection-enhanced delivery (CED) of glucocerebrosidase could be used to treat targeted sites of disease progression in the brain and brainstem of a patient with neuronopathic Gaucher disease while monitoring enzyme distribution using MRI.

Discusses the high-performance coatings now being used to inhibit corrosion in steel bridges, particularly micaceous iron oxide (MIO). Problems with specifications of coatings; Use of MIO in Europe; Best MIO properties; Use of MIO products in the United States; Tests and evaluations of MIO; Use of inorganic zinc in East Coast bridge projects; Off-site application; Repainting over lead-based paints.

Reports that engineers, in a quest for corrosion protection of steel bridges, are rediscovering that galvanizing is one of the longest lasting methods. The Brooklyn Bridge suspension cables, the best known example; Galvanizing all structural parts of small bridges; Ohio's Ashtabula County Engineer John Smolen's work; Costs and the limited availability of galvanizers; More.

Announces that the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award for 1991 goes to an entire decade's effort by the Portland (Ore.) District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, in response to the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The magnitude of the challenge; Designing against unknowns and devising innovative solutions for approval by numerous other federal, state and local agencies; The outlet tunnel; Retaining sediment; Outlook.

Details the present construction of the Higashi-Kobe Bridge at the head of Japan's Osaka Bay. Complex and made of steel, it is designed to appear simple and graceful and will be one of the world's longest cable-stayed bridges. Aesthetics of the bridge; Earthquake and wind considerations; The construction process and the finishing touches.

Describes constraints and restrictions imposed on workers to make an eight-story concrete building in Seal Beach, Calif. earthquake proof. Obstacles in construction; Types of seismic isolators installed; Risk of isolating the interior columns; Other details.

Details construction of a swing bridge in Seattle whose design engineers are updating to a state-of-art double-leaf concrete segmental structure that will cross Seattle's Duwamish River. Resolving the problem of concrete box girders that were a major concern during design; Swing time when ships must pass.

Bodies similar to acidophilic intracytoplasmic inclusions were found by light microscopy in the pancreatic acinar cells of 56 of 174 (32%) healthy male and female purebred Beagles and 14 of 97 (14%) of healthy male mongrel dogs. The inclusions were ovoid, acidophilic and often granular with basophilic particulates. Many seemed to be enclosed within halos of various widths. Electron microscopically the inclusions consisted of whorls of rough endoplasmic reticulum, vacuoles, and cytoplasmic organelles in various stages of decomposition. These inclusion bodies were interpreted as evidence of focal intracytoplasmic degradation. They appeared similar to the dense ribosomal autophagic vacuoles, hitherto described only in association with various experimental procedures.

J. van der Kroef, Communism in Southeast Asia, McMillan, London, 1981. ix, 342 pp., preface, bibliog., notes, index. Cloth: n.p.g.Tham Seong Chee, Social Science Research in Malaysia, Graham Brash (Pte) Ltd., Singapore, 1981. vii, 151 pp., preface, appendices. Paper: n.p.g.Judith Strauch, Chinese Village Politics in the Malaysian State, Harvard East Asian series No. 95, Harvard U.P., Cambridge, Mass., 1981. xi, 187 pp., tables, bibliog., index. Cloth: US$22.Kenzo Horii, Rice Economy and Land Tenure in West Malaysia: A Comparative Study of Eight Villages, Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, 1981. xii, 217 pp., preface, maps, tables, plates, appendix tables, glossary, bibliog., index. Cloth: ¥ 4000.G.E. Hansen (ed.), Agricultural and Rural Development in Indonesia, Westview Press, Boulder (Col.), 1981. xiv, 312 pp., index. Cloth; n.p.g.H. Rhodius & J. Darling, Walter Spies and Balinese Art, Terra (for the Tropical Musum, Amsterdam), Zutphen, 1980. 96 pp., plates, glossary. Cloth: A$24.95.K.R. Henderson (ed.), Hemisphere Annual-II, Canberra, Australian Government Printing Service, for the Commonwealth Department of Education, 1981. pp. 384, A$12.50 ISSN 0157-9487Samuel L. Popkin, The Rational Peasant; the Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979. xxi, 306 pp., pref., chronol., bibliog., index, maps. $6.95.C.R. Boxer, Portuguese India in the Mid-Seventeenth Century, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Oxford University Press, 1980. x, 54 pp., preface, notes, index. n.p.g.Hiroko Kobayashi, The Human Comedy of Heian Japan, A Study of the Secular Stories in the Twelfth-Century Collection of Tales, Konjaku Monogatarishu, Tokyo, Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1979. Appendices, notes, select bibliography, index, 359 pp. n.p.g.Harold Bolitho and Alan Rix, eds., A Northern Prospect: Australian Papers on Japan, Canberra, Japanese Studies Association of Australia, 1981. 200 pp. $6.95.Alan Rix, Japan's Economic Aid, London, Croom Helm, 1980. 286 pp., glossary, preface, select bibliography, index. Cloth £14.95.H.D.B. Clarke and Motoko Hamamura, Colloquial Japanese, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. Appendices, vocabulary, 337 pp. Cloth, n.p.g.Earl Miner, Japanese Linked Poetry: An Account with Translations of Renga and Haikai Sequences, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1979. xix, 376 pp., preface, glossary, index. Cloth n.p.g.R.J. Moore, Churchill, Cripps and India, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1979. 152 pp. n.p.g.H. Nooy-Palm, The Sa'dan-Toraja: A Study of their Social Life and Religion, Vol. 1, Organization, Symbols and Beliefs, KITLV No. 87, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1979. xii, 338 pp. notes, glossary, index, photos. Softcover, n.p.g.Mohammed Ayoob, ed., The Middle East in World Politics, Croom Helm, London, 1981. 217 pp., hard cover, $22.50.Audrey Donnithorne, Centre - Provincial Economic Relations in China, Contemporary China Papers No. 16, Contemporary China Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 1981. 42 pp., paperback, n.p.g.Raja Proctor, Waiting for Surabiel, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia (Asian & Pacific Writing Series), 1981.M. Chandrasoma, Out, Out Brief Candle. Privately published, Colombo, 1981.

Filtration studies indicate that the causative agent of feline infectious (fibrinous) peritonitis is less than 200 mμ in smallest dimension. Viral particles 94 mμ in diameter, within and budding into the endoplasmic reticulum of the mesothelial cells in areas of inflammation, were found by electron microscopy and may be the etiologic agent. No bacterium or mycoplasma was cultured from peritoneal exudate, nor identified in affected tissues.

Several letters to the editor are presented including one in response to the article "Carbon's Champion" in the June/July 2013 issue, another one offering tip for holding up the stems of young flowers, and another one discussing a technique for keeping gardening twine clean and handy.