| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Structure functions | p. 8 |
| Kinematics and variables | p. 8 |
| Electromagnetic interaction | p. 9 |
| Structure functions | p. 9 |
| Elastic contribution | p. 12 |
| Cross-sections for virtual photons | p. 13 |
| Weak charged current interaction | p. 14 |
| Structure functions | p. 14 |
| Elastic contribution | p. 15 |
| Cross-sections for virtual W's | p. 16 |
| Polarised structure functions | p. 17 |
| Extracting structure functions from experiment | p. 19 |
| Quark parton model | p. 24 |
| Light cone dominance and the impulse approximation | p. 24 |
| Bjorken scaling | p. 25 |
| Quark distributions | p. 28 |
| Electron nucleon scattering via the neutral current | p. 28 |
| Neutrino-nucleon scattering via the charged current | p. 30 |
| Neutrino-nucleon scattering via the neutral current | p. 32 |
| Electron-nucleon scattering via the charged current | p. 33 |
| Sum rules | p. 33 |
| Behaviour of quark distributions at small and large x | p. 35 |
| Small x | p. 35 |
| Large x | p. 36 |
| Information on quark distributions from experiment | p. 38 |
| Information from electromagnetic structure functions | p. 38 |
| Information from weak structure functions in neutrino scattering | p. 39 |
| Polarised structure functions | p. 41 |
| Parton transverse momentum | p. 46 |
| Perturbative QCD | p. 50 |
| Renormalisation group and the running coupling constant | p. 50 |
| Regularisation | p. 56 |
| Operator product expansion | p. 57 |
| An example: leading log behaviour of valence quarks | p. 62 |
| Applying QCD to deep inelastic scattering | p. 65 |
| Moments of structure functions in leading order QCD | p. 65 |
| Non-singlet moments | p. 65 |
| Target mass corrections | p. 67 |
| Singlet moments | p. 68 |
| Altarelli-Parisi equations in leading order QCD | p. 71 |
| Target mass corrections | p. 80 |
| NLO corrections to moments of structure functions | p. 82 |
| Non-singlet moments | p. 83 |
| QCD corrections to sum rules | p. 87 |
| NLO corrections to singlet moments | p. 88 |
| Corrections to sum rules of polarised structure functions | p. 90 |
| NLO corrections to the Altarelli-Parisi equations | p. 92 |
| Inverse Mellin transforms of moment evolution | p. 92 |
| Longitudinal structure function and [sigma][subscript L]/[sigma][subscript T] | p. 94 |
| Heavy flavour thresholds | p. 95 |
| Large and small x | p. 101 |
| Large x: dimensional counting rules | p. 101 |
| Large x: soft gluons beyond the renormalisation group | p. 104 |
| Large x: higher twists | p. 107 |
| Small x region: predictions of theory | p. 112 |
| Very small x: parton-parton interactions | p. 115 |
| The parton distributions | p. 120 |
| Analysing the DIS data | p. 120 |
| The gluon and light quark distributions | p. 124 |
| The strange quark distribution | p. 127 |
| The charm and bottom quark distributions | p. 130 |
| Information on the gluon distribution from other processes | p. 131 |
| Hadroproduction of J/[Phi] | p. 133 |
| Prompt photon production | p. 134 |
| Hadronic jet production | p. 135 |
| Pinning down the small-x gluon distribution | p. 136 |
| Polarised quark and gluon distributions | p. 140 |
| Quarks and gluons in nuclei - structure of the bound nucleon | p. 143 |
| Experimental situation | p. 143 |
| The convolution model | p. 144 |
| Conventional nuclear physics model | p. 149 |
| Alternative convolution model | p. 153 |
| Relations between nuclear properties and QCD | p. 156 |
| Polarised nuclei | p. 157 |
| Parton recombination | p. 159 |
| Parton fusion functions and the recombination contribution | p. 161 |
| Q[superscript 2]-dependence and shadowing of the structure function | p. 164 |
| Radiative corrections | p. 168 |
| Radiation from the electron | p. 168 |
| Radiation from the hadron | p. 170 |
| Results | p. 171 |
| References | p. 174 |
| Index | p. 180 |
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