Examining the Big Bang and Diffuse Background Radiations

1: Invited Reviews 1.- Introductory Remarks.- Backgrounds and the Big Bang: Some Extracts from Their History.- Measurement and Implications of the Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum.- Of Cosmic Background Anisotropies.- Status of the Relict-2 Mission and Our Future Plans.- Fluctuations in the Microwave Sky.- Radio Galaxies and Quasars as Cosmological Probes.- High Redshift Radio Galaxies.- Cold Material in Distant Radio Galaxies.- A Search for Gravitational Milli-Lenses.- The COBE DIRBE Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background.- Galaxy Formation - ISOCAM Counts.- Observations of Diffuse IR Background Radiation by IRTS and IRIS.- Degree Scale Anisotropy - Current Status.- Galaxy Motions in the Nearby Universe.- The Hubble Parameter - A Status Report at EPOCH 1994.5.- The Local Velocity Field and the Hubble Constant.- Large-Scale Flows in the Local Universe.- Spiral Galaxies and the Peculiar Velocity Field.- Formation of the Supercluster-Void Network.- Faint Field Galaxy Counts, Colors, and Redshifts.- Cosmological Applications of Gravitational Lensing.- The HST Medium Deep Survey - Galaxy Morphology at High Redshift.- The Far-Ultraviolet Background.- Evolution of the EUV Background from Quasar Absorption Line Studies.- The X-Ray Background.- The Sources of the Hard X-Ray Background.- The Cosmological Diffuse ?-Ray Background: Myth or Reality?.- Diffuse Gamma Rays of Galactic and Extragalactic Origin: Preliminary Results from EGRET..- Big Bang Scenario and Nature of Dark Matter.- The Hot Big Bang and Beyond.- Inflation, Microwave Background Anisotropy, and Open Universe Models.- The Quasi-Steady State Cosmology.- X-Ray Observations of Galaxy-Quasar Associations.- The Present Status of the Decaying Neutrino Theory.- Background Radiation - Probes and Future Tests.- A Panel Discussion of "Major Unsolved Problems of Cosmology".- Fundamental Observational Problems.- Redshifts of Unknown Origin.- Future Cosmic Microwave and Cosmic Infrared Background Measurements.- Three Cosmological Remarks.- Panel Contribution - IAU Symposium 168.- Knowledge Limits in Cosmology.- 2: Contributed Papers.- Temperature Fluctuations of the Microwave Background in Primeval Isocurvature Baryon Models.- CMB - Anisotropics Due to Non-Linear Clustering.- Planning Future Space Measurements of the CMB.- New Results on CMB Structure from the Tenerife Experiments.- On the Use of COBE Results.- Is the Early Universe Fractal.- A Fractal Model of the Universe.- Powerful Extended Radio Sources - A Goldmine for Cosmology.- On the Use of Fractal Concepts in Analysis of Distributions of Galaxies.- Milliarcsecond Radio Structure of AGN as a Cosmological Probe.- Mapping Large-Scale Structure with Radio Sources.- The Rhodes/Hartrao 2300 Mhz Horn Telescope.- Vacuum-Energy and the Angular-Size/Redshift Diagram for Milliarcsecond Radio Sources.- A Hint to Possible Anisotropy in Radio Universe.- Projected Clustering Around 1 Characteristics of Chance and Non-Chance Compact Groups of Galaxies.- A Dedicated Quasar Monitoring Telescope.- Accurate Measurements of the Local Deuterium Abundance from HST Spectra.- Mutual Interference and Structural Properties of Object Images in the Vicinity of the Gravitational Lens CUSP Point.- Complex Theory of Gravitational Lenses Part I.- Field Spectroscopy Observations the Gravitational Lenses H1413 + 117 and Q2237+030, Preliminary Results.- The Time Delay Between QSO 0957+561 A, B.- Gravitational Macrolensing and Quasar Spectra.- Halo/Thick Disk CVS and the Cosmic X-Ray Background.- Arcs in X-Ray Selected Clusters.- Tauvex and the Nature of the Cosmological UV Background.- Peaks and Periodicities in the Redshift Distribution of Quasi-Stellar Object.- Inflationary Cosmogony, Copernican Relevelling and Extended Reality.- Do Massive Neutrinos Ionize Intergalactic HI?.- Phase Transition at the Metric Elastic Universe.- Non-Singular Metric Elastic Universe.- Stability of Cosmological Models.- Cosmological Models in AP-Spaces.- Cosmological Simul