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For non-stationary reaction-diffusion problems, the boundary element method (BEM) has been well analyzed in the past. One of the BEM strategies the author focusses on is to employ a time-independent fundamental solution and to use a direct time discretization (e.g. a finite difference method). However, this requires the efficient handling of domain integrals as it is possible with the dual reciprocity method (DRM). If solutions only at large time or a few intermediate time levels are wanted, the transform-space approach seems to be appropriate. For this, the DRM is combined with the Laplace transform, resulting in the LTDRM (Laplace transform dual reciprocity method). The author gives an overview of this method and illustrates it for some (linear and moderate nonlinear) applications such as the heat flow in a glass square or the microwave heating of a square slab. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00013].