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Contents: Magnetisation Plateaux in Quasi-One-Dimensional Strongly Correlated Electron Systems; Shot Noise of Nanoscale Nickel Dots; Transport in a Mesoscopic Ring with a Quantum Dot: From the Coulomb Blockade Regime to the Kondo Effect; Charged Particle Bilayers: Structure and Dynamics; Formulation of Linear Scaling Methods for Electronic Structure Calculations; Magnetic Vortices in Submicron Nickel Dots and Films; Polaron Weights and Measures; Heat Transport in Superlattices; Ab Initio Calculation of the C/A Ratio of Hexagonal Cu-Zn Alloys; Adsorbed Atoms on Quantum Corrals; Properties of Thin 3He-4He Mixture Films; Diffusion Monte Carlo Calculation of Fully Polarised 3He; Quantum Critical Points in 2-D and 3-D Arrays of Ultrasmall Josephson Junctions; Gas Condensation Within a Bundle of Carbon Nanotubes -- Effects of Screening; Layered 4HE in Hectorite: A New Quasi-Two-Dimensional Environment for Quantum Liquids; Transitions from Non-Colinear to Colinear Structures in a Magnetic Multilayer Model; Excited States of 4He Droplets; Hopping Conductivity in High-Pressure Hydrogen; Microscopic Theory of the Lambda Transition in Liquid Helium; Relativistic Theory of Superconductivity; A