The writer tells us in his preface that an anonymous referee remarked that "care must be taken when presenting historical essays which describe issues that are of current concern" (p. x).
As a handbook, as opposed to a textbook, it contains a large number of useful data tables and basic formulae, but in places it does not go deep enough into the issues that are of current concern in the radiotherapy physics community.
Because exposure history to, and subsequent reinfection with, chlamydia is of current epidemiological concern, we examined the long-term within-host dynamics under four different re-exposure scenarios.
Indeed, perceiving remains of interest to philosophers, and many issues about the process that were originally raised by philosophers are still of current concern.
If restraint of trade in matters relating to China's control and manipulation of the rare-earths market is of current and pressing concern, then focus on the OPEC oil cartel and its impact on the price of oil and gasoline, on our economy and national security is long past due, certainly and at the very least by the number of years that this administration has been in office.
Triggered by evaluations of IARC (2006, 2012), the toxicity and carcinogenicity of formaldehyde are matters of current concern in the scientific and regulatory community.
This has applications in other ares of current concern of course.
Exposure to heavy metals in women and men of reproductive ages is an issue of current concern, since the evidence is rising that even low levels of exposure to these compounds can affect fetal growth and development [ 53, 54].
The use of rodent test diets containing up to 350 μg/g diet of total genistein equivalents (TGE) and various rat strains by the Organisation for Economical Co-operative Development (OECD) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) for conducting uterotrophic assays is a subject of current concern (Kanno et al. 2001, 2003a; Owens et al. 2003; Thigpen et al. 2004a; U.S. EPA. 2003).
