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THE Government of Palestine Board for Scientific and Industrial Research, which is the successor of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Palestine War Supply Board formed in 1942, has issued a "Report of Activities, April 1945-March 1948" accompanied by summaries of research and a list of publications of the Board (Jerusalem : P.O. Box 607 and the Hebrew University. Pp. 56. 150 mils. ; 3s.). A list of standing advisory committees and subcommittees and their personnel is included, as well was of the projects carried out during 1946-48 and the institutions in which the research was located. Most of the investigations are being published in scientific periodicals, but full reports of all of them are available on request at the Office of the Board. The Sub-Committee for Citrus Products has compiled a card index of scientific literature on citrus products to serve as a reference work for further research. The index covers the period 1927–46 and will be published in book form. The Sub-Committee for Water Research has dealt mainly with physicochemical aspects of the problems, and a literature survey on the influence of ions on plants and soils has been published. Dr. M. Reiner, while studying methods of testing asphalt and bitumen used at the Road Research Laboratory in Britain, commenced investigations which led to the discovery of an important phenomenon in the deformation of asphalt, and visited England again in 1947 to follow up this discovery. A summary of his report on the rheological properties of bitumen and asphalt is included among the research summaries, as well as a joint note with A. Arnstein and M. Teinowitz on the loading test of reinforced concrete structures. Other research reports deal with bovine leptospirosis, the chemical composition of fodder plants in Palestine, chemical composition and nutritive value of foodstuffs produced in Palestine, citrus products, thermostable thromboplastin from human placenta, metabolic disturbance in diabetes, work hardening of polycrystalline metals, and several chemical investigations.
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Scientific and Industrial Research in Palestine. Nature 161, 800–801 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161800d0
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