New approaches for estimating and improving the grain-boundary conduction in stabilized zirconia / Jong-Heun Lee -- Effective elastic moduli of alumina, zirconia and alumina-zirconia composite ceramics / Willi Pabst and Eva Gregorovaجپ -- Progress in bioceramic materials / P.N. De Aza -- Novel bioactive hydroxyapatite-base ceramics and gelatin-impregnated composites / V.S. Komlev and S.M. Barinov -- Thermal stresses in particle-matrix system and related phenomena : application to Sic-Si₃Nâ‚„ ceramics / Ladislav Ceniga -- Novel bone-repairing materials : bioactive organic-inorganic hybrids / Masanobu Kamitakahara -- Effect of sample size and distribution parameters in estimation of confidence lower bounds for Weibull percentiles / Burak Birgoren.