Contents:

• The Intrinsic Shape of Galaxies (F Bertola)
• Theoretical Considerations on the Rotation Curves of Galactic Halos (A Malagoli & R Ruffini)
• Rotation and Vorticity in Galactic Models (F Pacheco et al.)
• Galactic Globular Clusters as Star Systems and Satellites of the Galaxy (P Giannone)
• Black Hole Models for Quasar-Like Objects: Some Selected Topics (S Tsuruta)
• The Infrared Background Radiation: New Observational Approaches, I — The Noise of the Microwave Background, II — Search for Extragalactic Backgrounds (P de Bernardis & S Masi)
• Production of inos in the Big Bang (E W Kolb)
• Hawking's Theory of Quantum Cosmology (L Z Fang & Z C Wu)
• Inflationary Cosmology from a Classical Gauge Field (A Aurilia et al.)
• Ancient Sunspot Observations in China and Solar Variability (Z T Xu)