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 FutureTests. - 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 1Characteristics 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 Simulations with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. - Author Index. - Object Index. Language: English