The material contained in this new publication on air quality in Ljubljana presents an interesting, informative, and highly relevant view of the problem of air pollution in the urban environment, in particular with respect to the predominant impacts of road traffic. The authors' thorough analyses of air pollution from nitrogen dioxide and black carbon reflect Ljubljana's successes in combating these environmental problems, shown also in light of the city's award as European Green Capital 2016. The careful presentations of differences within the urban environment and the different types of urban space, and how this affects the spread of polluted air, with an emphasis in this case on traffic related pollution, will undoubtedly be of use to planners of city development and transportation policies.

Dodaten pomen knjige, ki prinaša zanimive izsledke o kakovosti zraka v Ljubljani, je v tem, da se loteva prometnega onesnaževanja, ki za izbrana onesnaževala predstavlja glavni vir. Zrak v Ljubljani je zelo ranljiva okoljska sestavina zaradi lege v kotlini, splošne neprevetrenosti in visokih prometnih obremenitev. Gre za izčrpen prostorski prikaz onesnaženosti zraka, ki ne zajema samo območij ob cestah, pač pa meritve obsegajo tudi območja za prosti čas in rekreacijo, parke, trge, območja za pešce ter stanovanjske soseske. V delu so predstavljene tudi meritve črnega ogljika, kar mu daje še posebno težo in je za Ljubljano novost.

We now find ourselves utilizing luciferase - luciferin proteins, ATP, genes and the whole complex of these interactions to observe and follow the progress or inhibition of tumors in animal models by measuring bioluminescence intensity, spatially and temporally using highly sophisticated camera systems. This book describes applications in preclinical oncology research by bioluminescence imaging (BLI) with a variety of applications. Chapters describe current methodologies for rapid detection of contaminants using the Milliflex system, and the use of bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) technology for monitoring physical interactions between proteins in living cells. Others are using bioluminescent proteins for high sensitive optical reporters imaging in living animals, developing pH-tolerant luciferase for brighter in vivo imaging, and oscillation characteristics in bacterial bioluminescence. The book also contains descriptions of the long-term seasonal characteristics of oceanic bioluminescence and the responsible planktonic species producing bioluminescence. Such studies are few and rare.