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The problems of gathering papers from authors for any publication is a task fraught with anxiety. To do so with authors from across the globe is an exercise guaranteed to produce stress on all parties. The task of reminding, persuading, enforcing or diplomatically extending deadlines, telexing, telephoning and letter-writing, has fallen to Christine Philbin of Conference Services Ltd. The happiest witness to her unfailing tact and efficiency is the fact that these Proceedings are complete. All authors presenting papers have submitted a full written one ( indeed, some have provided several revised versions over the past few months). The only abstracts are, as intended, for shorter presentations and are at the end of Volume 2.
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