Contents

Preliminary pages.

Chapter 1: Strategy for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injuries after Complete Section Using Polymeric Implants Synthesized by Plasma.

Chapter 2: Radiopharmaceuticals: radiolabeled nanoparticles as multivalent systems for molecular imaging.

Chapter 3: Advances of the radiosterilized tissue bank of the National Institute of Nuclear Research.

Chapter 4: Mechanisms of action of newly synthesized antineoplastic drugs and its possible use in combination with radiation therapy.

Chapter 5: Radioisotope production used in medical science.

Chapter 6: Applications of Monte Carlo simulation in dosimetry and medical physics.

Chapter 7: Biological dosimetry.

Chapter 8: Contribution of ININ Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory to ionizing radiation dosimetry metrology in Mexico.

Chapter 9: Radiological Protection and Safety at ININ.

Chapter 10: Patents related to reducing toxicity caused by heavy metals.

Chapter 11: Study of the processes of transferring of radionuclides, heavy metals and aeroparticles between the solid, dissolved phase and air.

Chapter 12: Synthesis and characterization of inorganic materials to be used as adsorbents of toxic metals and of nuclear interest.

Chapter 13: Plasma applications in materials modification, environment and medicine.

Chapter 14: Twenty five year study of atmospheric pollution using particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE) microanalysis.

Chapter 15: H2 as a source of renewable energy: Production by catalytic methods by reforming of methanol.

Chapter 16: Ion exchangers and adsorbents of interest in nuclear and environmental processes.

Chapter 17: Radiation induced catalysis.

Chapter 18: Research and development on reactor pressure vessel life extension, master curve and surveillance programme on nuclear power plants.

Chapter 19: Technological evaluation for the operation license extension of Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant.

Chapter 20: Equipment qualification.

Chapter 21: Fuel Management Optimization in Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant.

Chapter 22: Nuclear electronics instrumentation.

Chapter 23: Mobile robots and remote systems in nuclear applications.

Chapter 24: Application of nuclear energy for the improvement of pseudocereals native to México.

Chapter 25: Modern analytical methods applied to art and archeology.

Chapter 26: Controlled growth of silver one-dimensional structures: synthesis, characterization and applications.

Chapter 27: Ionizing radiation effect on polymers.

Chapter 28: Hydrogen as fuel and materials for fuel cells.

Chapter 29: Physicochemical and spectroscopic behavior of actinides and lanthanides in solution, their sorption on minerals and their compounds formed with macromolecules.

Chapter 30: The SOS system of E. coli as a model to study the response to ionizing radiation.

Chapter 31: Structure formation and evolution in the Universe.

Chapter 32: Experiments with nuclear radioactive beams.

Chapter 33: Inverse problems, regularization methods and the electron energy distribution function.

Chapter 34: Software quality assurance at the Nuclear Research National Institute.

Chapter 35: Information systems.