Structural change and environmental impact: Empirical evidence on thirty-one countries in east and west.

Although structural change in many industralized countries has increased since the early 1970s, the environmental policy aspects of this change have hardly been investigated. The more pronounced the positive environmental effects of structural change become, the more positive will be the structure-oriented options of environmental policy.Using a set of four indicators, in this study thirty-one Eastern and Western industrialized countries are being tested with regard to economic structure and environmentally significant structural change. The authors come to the conclusion that the strong correlation between economic performance and environmental pollution, unequivocal in 1970, had become much weaker by 1985. The de-linking of economic growth from material-intensive industrial production processes is particularly evident. In some cases automatic environmental benefits ('environmental gratis effects') were generated in this way.However, the development profiles of the countries investigated differ greatly. There are countries, in particular Sweden, with absolute structural improvement in the ecological sense; countries like Japan and Norway with structural improvement relative to economic growth; and countries, including most Eastern and Southern European states, featuring no structural improvement or even environmentally negative structural change.The question is being left open to what extent the modernized economic structures are accompanied by 'modernized' forms of environmental pollution.

Immunological studies in a case of Evans' syndrome.

Immunological studies in a case of Evans' syndrome (autoimmune hemolytic anemia of the "warm type" associated with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura) are presented in whom the autoimmune nature of both conditions was verified by the demonstration of cell-bound and free serum autoantibodies against red blood cells as well as platelets by a radioimmune technique.

Prolongation of skin graft survival by sodium-copper-chlorophyllin. Inhibition of the first- and second-set phenomenon.

Sodium-copper-chlorophyllin which has a strong anticomplementary and membrane-stabilizing effect also has, by these mechanisms, a strong immunosuppressive competence. In HAN-rotation-breeded Wistar rats there is a time- and dose-dependent prolongation of skin allograft survival by this drug. The first-set and the second-set phenomena are inhibited.