From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon May 01 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!stir.ac.uk!cb5 From: cb5@stir.ac.uk (Dr Carlos Barata) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: answer to Lev Yampolsky "Asking individual life history traits related to population" Date: 2 May 1995 02:33:55 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 68 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Lev Yampolsky wrote: > In article , > cb5@stir.ac.uk (Dr Carlos Barata) wrote: > > The way to calculate individual (commonly used in Daphnia studies) > is to solve the following equation: > > 1 = sum(Lx*Mx*exp(-rx)), > > where Lx and Mx are survival to and reproduction at age x. You got to do > iterations to solve this; I have programs in C and Basoc to do so; one in > Pascal can be found in Stearns' 'Evolution of Life Histories'. Mx values > you get from a life-table experiments; Lx is usually 1 (or close to 1, if > you don't count accidental losses of individuals) in such experiments, so > you calculate the highest possible r with no mortality. > A slightly different approach was used by Ken Spitze (Genetics, > 135:367-374). He calculated the population by means of solving the > above equation with Mx from the whole data set and then calculated > > w = sum(Lx*Mx*exp(-rx)) > > using indivudual Mx and population . This w is, of coarse, relative > growth rate for this individual. > > There is no problem with calculating rate of population increase for an > individual: this is just the rate of population increase in case that the > population consisted of the individuals with life-histories identical to > this particular one. > > Let me know if you need my programs. > > -- > Lev Yampolsky > Section of Ecology and Systematics > Cornell University > Thank you very much for you help, sorry for the delay of my answer but these days I have been running an experiment with Daphnia and I have no time available for answer you. First I will apreciate very much if you could send to me you programs. I do not know how you are going to send them, if you want to sent them by email its fine. If you prefer send them by current mail is alse fine, in that case my address is: Carlos Barata Institute of Aquaculture Univ of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland, U.K. Second, If I am understood you explanation. I can calculate the lx function for the whole group of individuals that I am studied (in my particular case will be 10), and then for every individual I can determinate the lxFx values and so on the r values. Is this OK?. Thank you very much. Third. By the time that I was asking for the above information, looking at recent literature about the ecological relevance of the different life table parameters currently in use, I have found that Stearns as well as Spitze and other authors claim that the reproductive value at birth is a better predictor of fitness than r. What do you think?. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon May 01 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!TEMPEST.ADSNET.NET!e5079021 From: e5079021@TEMPEST.ADSNET.NET (Mike Pearson) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: why human population biology can't be discussed Date: 2 May 1995 09:52:48 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 11 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9505021657.AA22207@tempest.adsnet.net.adsnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Population biology in human context is still hostage to nonscientists. In the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany _and many countries still,_ science is still evaluated for its meaning in terms of current ideology, rather than whether it is accurate and serviceable to the future health of man and biosphere. Mike Pearson e5079021@tempest.adsnet.net From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue May 02 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.gun.de!news.hamburg.pop.de!nordwest.pop.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!hydra.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!joaccigh From: joaccigh@hydra.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Joachim Dagg) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: look inside my head Date: 3 May 1995 08:10:09 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3o7dp1$l1v@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.zrz.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I've been off the net for a while. Now I'm back and found jet another flame-mail on the pill-post. The "desperatrly want to"-misunderstanders note this: 1. I was thinking about population explosion in abstract ways. 2. I was convinced that having children too early and too many in the following, is *the poverty trap* for individuals. 3. The solution was clear. Individuals needed to start their reproductive phase later and consequently have less children. 4. Now comes the most stupid assumption: 3. would automatically prevent poverty. The result was my pill-post. All abstract and fine, but when Jan Wesenberg forced me to think more practical about my "solution", I realized it was an utopian idea. Yes, maybe it wouldn't be possible to apply it in a democratic way. I guess, that's the essence of all utopian ideas. As soon as they are applied, they get rubbish. BUT THAT RUBBISH WAS NOTHING I HAD IN MIND!!! ---- You can't throw Karl Marx's vision of a better world in one pot with the leninism-stalinism realization or others. It's nothing old Karl would have liked. ---- I allow myself a *different* thinking mistake every day. And you - how about something different? From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed May 03 23:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!swrinde!pipex!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!leeds.ac.uk!news From: pabjmw@leeds.ac.uk (J.M. Wortley) Subject: Call for information: Drosophilidae Message-ID: Organization: University of Leeds Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 01:08:00 +0100 (BST) References: X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Lines: 25 I'm working as a graduate student under Bryan Shorrocks at the University of Leeds, England, on the distribution and ecology of drosophilds. I hope to combine as much data as is possible in three years on the ecological charcacteristics of the drosophilidae into a database. I have so far spent most of my time examining faunistic records worldwide,and the results look encouraging, but more data would greatly help my study. If anyone has information that they feel would be helpful,I would greatly appreciate a copy or the relevent reference. Substancial contributers will recieve a free copy of the database, although it will eventually be provided on line. Thank you in advance, Jonathan Wortley Population Ecolgy Unit Ecology and Evolution Research Group Pure and Applied Biology The University of Leeds From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed May 03 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!SERVIDOR.DGSCA.UNAM.MX!caviedes From: caviedes@SERVIDOR.DGSCA.UNAM.MX (Francisco Caviedes) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND NEUROCONTROL SEPTEMBER 5-10 QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO 1995 Date: 3 May 1995 20:36:19 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 90 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9505040336.AA14914@servidor.dgsca.unam.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND NEUROCONTROL SEPTEMBER 5-10 QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO 1995 CALL FOR PAPERS The Organizing Committee invites all persons interested in fuzzy sets, evolutionary programming, and neural networks applied to the engineering=20 fields related to control systems, to submit papers for presentation at the conference. All papers accepted for presentation will be published in the conference proceedings. To ensure a high-quality conference and proceedings, all paper submissions will be reviewed for technical merit and content by three senior researchers in the field. Authors are requested to submit a letter of intent, the information sheet=20 (that includes full name (s) of the author(s), title, address, phone/fax numbers, e-mail address), and an abstract (up to 250 words) no later than May 15,= 1995. TOPICS OF INTEREST Architecture - ANN Paradigms - Associative Memories - Hybrid Systems Learning - Gradient-Based Learning - Stochastic Learning - Adaptive Methods - Supervised Learning - Reinforcement Learning Systems Analysis - Time Series - Signal Processing - Systems Modeling - Systems Identification - Process Monitoring - Fuzzy Models Control & Design - Optimization - Neurocontrol - Adaptive Control - Learning Control - Fuzzy Control - Intelligent Control AWARDS Sian Ka=92an International Conference plans to present a Best Paper Award in the areas of=20 =93Novel Applications=94 and =93Theoretical Development=94. Fellowships and partial financial support will be available on a competitive basis.=20 Please request application forms from the Organizing Committee Chairs. Notice of acceptance of papers will be sent by June 5, 1995. Authors are requested to submit full camera-ready manuscripts no later than July 20, 1995. Authors should forward the letter of intent, information sheet, and abstract= to: Prof. Benito Fernandez-Rodriguez Mechanical Engineering Department, ETC 5.160, MC C2200 The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1063 Phone/Fax: (512) 471-7852-7682 E-mail: benito@NERDLab.me.utexas.edu or Dr. Nydia Lara-Zavala Centro de Instrumentos, Laboratorio de Neurocomputaci=F3n=20 UNAM, Apdo. Postal 70-186 M=E9xico, 04510, D.F. Phone: (525) 652 5920 Fax: (525) 550 0357 E-mail: nydia@aleph.cinstrum.unam.mx or caviedes@servidor.unam.mx From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu May 04 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!mcshub!informer1.cis.McMaster.CA!muss.CIS.McMaster.CA!not-for-mail From: u9114423@muss.cis.McMaster.CA (I. Khalil) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Stuff Needed Date: 5 May 1995 02:46:34 -0400 Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Lines: 4 Message-ID: <3ochka$5j7@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA> NNTP-Posting-Host: muss.cis.mcmaster.ca Does anyone know of any studies done in North-East Africa? The Hab From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat May 06 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news3.near.net!saturn.caps.maine.edu!acad.umm.maine.edu!ekindahl From: "Dr. Eric C. Kindahl" Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Genedrop Software Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 21:38:10 -0400 Organization: University of Maine System Lines: 26 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: acad.umm.maine.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3ochka$5j7@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA> Hello, One of my undergraduate students would like to explore conservation genetics issues using a program called GENEDROP. She found a reference for the program in Haig, Susan M., Jonathan D. Ballou, and Scott R. Derrickson. 1990. Management options for preserving genetic diversity: Reintroduction of Guam Rails to the wild. Conservation Biology 4(3):290-300. The GENEDROP software was referenced as Mace, G. 1986. Genedrop: computer software for genedrop analysis. Zoological Society of London. Does anyone out there know where I can obtain a copy of this software? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ERIC C. KINDAHL UNIV. OF MAINE AT MACHIAS Please respond to ekindahl@acad.umm.maine.edu From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat May 06 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: rwymer@aol.com (Rwymer) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: why human population biology can't be dis Date: 7 May 1995 14:11:51 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 4 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <3oj2h7$583@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <9505021657.AA22207@tempest.adsnet.net.adsnet.net> Reply-To: rwymer@aol.com (Rwymer) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com Your right Mike. For more on how political correctness is effecting science, read `The Bell Curve and its critics' by Charles Murray in the May issue of Commentary (vol 99, # 5) Bob Wymer From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun May 07 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!RCP.NET.PE!imarpe From: imarpe@RCP.NET.PE (IMARPE) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 7 May 1995 17:47:07 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net subscribe pop-bio@net.bio.net From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun May 07 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!RCP.NET.PE!imarpe From: imarpe@RCP.NET.PE (IMARPE) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 7 May 1995 17:47:42 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net help From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon May 08 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!HUMECO1.HUMECO.M.U-TOKYO.AC.JP!minato From: minato@HUMECO1.HUMECO.M.U-TOKYO.AC.JP Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: boundary setting problem Date: 8 May 1995 21:28:51 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 21 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9505090431.AA00021@humeco1.humeco.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hello! This is my first mail for population-biology. I am studying human population biology. Mainly based on demographic data, nutritional data, morbiditity data, and genetic data (obtained from field survey in Papua New Guinea), I am constructing some models (simulation programs of C++) of human population survival. However, the difficult point is the setting of the boundaries of population. For instance, the territory of a human ethnic group is not match the habitat of its game animals. Please tell me any idea on this boundary problem. ================================================== Minato NAKAZAWA Instructor, Dept. Human Ecology, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. Tokyo minato@humeco.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp ================================================== From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue May 09 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: marchaa@agric.nsw.gov.au (A.Marchant) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: genetic consequences of a hypothetical pattern of family composition Date: 9 May 1995 22:00:35 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 82 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu I have heard that the 'one child' policy in China has an inadvertent consequence of increasing the ration of male to female children, either by the females being selectively aborted (or whatever), or just not officially reported; the motive for this being that families generally want at least one son. It has been suggested that a compromise could be to allow couples to keep on having babies until they produced one son, at which time they would stop. What would the consequences of this be? (I am just interested in this from a theoretical population-genetics point of view, not in any of the social/human etc aspects) Well, firstly, the total number of offspring would increase. It would average out to 2 per couple. Family compositions could be (m=son; f=daughter; composition from first to last born): m; fm; ffm; fffm; ffffm; fffffm; ffffffm; etc The ratios of families with these compositions would be: 1 : 1/2: 1/4 : 1/8 : 1/16 : 1/32 : 1/64 : etc Each family would have one son. ON AVERAGE, each family would also have one daughter; and the sex-ratio in the population would be 1:1 No boy would have a brother. Every girl would have one brother. The average number of girls in a family containing girls would be 2. There would be some families with very large numbers of girls. My question is: what consequences would such a pattern of reproduction have on mitochondrial DNA population genetics? At each generation, half the mitochondrial lineages become extinct (in those families having only a son); The (rare) very large cohorts of sisters would all carry the same mtDNA, and it might only take a short time for one mtDNA type to become fixed in the population. The patterns of fixation and extinction of nuclear genes should be unaffected by this pattern of reproduction. Rates of extinction/fixation of genes are dependant on the variance of numbers of offspring. The variance in numbers of sons/family is 0 (and the average is 1). The average number of daughters in families with a daughter is 2. I have worked out that the variance of numbers of girls in families with a daughter is the sum of the following series, minus 4: sigma n= 1 to n=oo of (n^2/n^n) I haven't been able to evaluate this - can anyone help me with this? And work out the consequences of this on mitochondrial DNA (versus nuclear gene) lineage extinction rates in a population? Could such a pattern of reproduction occur 'naturally' (ie, without coercion by the State)? It is possible to imagine combinations of economic circumstances and social mores which may have encourage such a thing. My ultimate interest in this matter is an explanation of the discrepancy in apparent time to coalescence of mtDNA lineages in the human species (about 250,000 years), with the much greater times to coalescence calculated for nuclear genes. Anyone interested in discussing this please E-mail me. Thanks. Adam Marchant Agricultural Research Institute Wagga Wagga NSW Australia marchaa@agric.nsw.gov.au From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue May 09 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: marchaa@agric.nsw.gov.au (A.Marchant) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: genetic consequences ... a correction Date: 9 May 1995 22:16:54 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 27 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu Subject: genetic consequences of a hypothetical pattern of family composition Sorry folks, I made an important mistake in the last posting: > Rates of extinction/fixation of genes are dependant on the variance of > numbers of offspring. The variance in numbers of sons/family is 0 (and > the average is 1). > The average number of daughters in families with a daughter is 2. > I have worked out that the variance of numbers of girls in families with a > daughter is the sum of the following series, minus 4: > > sigma n= 1 to n=oo of (n^2/n^n) ^^^^^^^^^ THIS SHOULD HAVE READ (n^2/2^n) ie, the variance is [sum 1 to infinity of (n^2/2^n)] - 4 Adam Marchant Agricultural Research Institute Wagga Wagga NSW Australia marchaa@agric.nsw.gov.au From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue May 09 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!MAILLINK.BERKELEY.EDU!richard_golden From: richard_golden@MAILLINK.BERKELEY.EDU ("Richard GOLDEN") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: None Date: 10 May 1995 10:37:48 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 4 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net 10:30 AM 05/10/95 unsubscribe: population-biology@net.bio.net From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu May 11 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!adam.cc.sunysb.edu!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!daresbury!not-for-mail From: mcmullin@eeng.dcu.ie (Barry McMullin) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Paper available: "Replicators Don't!" Date: 12 May 1995 14:46:14 +0100 Lines: 97 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <3ovor6$tm@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> Original-To: pop-bio@dl.ac.uk, mcmullin@eeng.dcu.ie I guess this paper is, at best, only marginally relevant here, but I thought I'd post the announcement here anyway just in case. Apologies if it seems too far off the point, Regards, Barry. -------------------------- ONLINE PAPER ANNOUNCEMENT: -------------------------- The paper described below is available online, in html format, at URL: http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~autonomy/ecal95/rpl-l2h/rpl-l2h.html or as a single HTML archive file (36KByte) which can be downloaded for local and/or offline browsing: http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~autonomy/ecal95/rpl-l2h/rpl-l2h.tar.gz The camera ready version of the paper is available in postscript format via FTP: ftp://ftp.eeng.dcu.ie/pub/autonomy/ecal95/rplctrs.ps.Z This file is approximately 70KByte, and prints as 12 A4 pages. Please also check the files: ftp://ftp.eeng.dcu.ie/pub/autonomy/ecal95/README.TXT ftp://ftp.eeng.dcu.ie/pub/autonomy/ecal95/COPYING.TXT -------------------------- Replicators Don't! Barry McMullin School of Electronic Engineering Dublin City University Dublin 9 Ireland Phone: +353 1 704 5432} Fax: +353 1 704 5508} E-mail: McMullin@EEng.DCU.IE WWW: http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~mcmullin/home.html Presented at the 3rd. European Conference on Artificial Life, 4--6 June 1995, Granada, Spain. ABSTRACT: --------- Replicators don't. Replicate, that is. This is the shocking conclusion to which I have been forced by my attempt to figure out what {\em precisely\/} Richard Dawkins means by the term ``replicator''. Actually, it seems that Dawkins uses the term in at least two fundamentally different ways; but according to Dawkins' own specification of the problem which the ``replicator'' concept was intended to solve (namely, what entities can qualify as things that evolutionary adaptations are ``good for'') then ``replicators'' turn out to be a special form of {\em lineage} (what I shall term a {\em similarity lineage\/}); and these, in turn, do not actually ``replicate'' (in Dawkins' sense of the term) at all! Does this matter to the research programme of Artificial Life? Well yes, I believe it does. Dawkins has explicitly argued that there are principled reasons why Darwinian evolution, {\em in any medium whatsoever}, must rely on the participation of ``replicators''. Within limits I am inclined to agree. But it follows that, if we wish to realize artificial Darwinism, we had better be clear what a replicator actually is---and all the more so if it turns out that it doesn't\ldots -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | Barry McMullin, Autonomous Systems Group, | McMullin@EENG.DCU.IE | | School of Electronic Engineering, | Voice: +353-1-704-5432 | | Dublin City University, Dublin 9, IRELAND. | FAX: +353-1-704-5508 | | http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~mcmullin/home.html | | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat May 13 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!PEMBER.DEMON.CO.UK!ssb From: ssb@PEMBER.DEMON.CO.UK (John Lionel Pember) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: New Bookselling Web Site Date: 14 May 1995 11:06:03 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 24 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <50@pember.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: ssb@pember.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Please would you consider passing on the details of a new web site which we hope will be of interest to members of your mailing list or newsgroup. http://www.demon.co.uk/ssb/ - SPECIALIST SCIENCE BOOKS Suppliers of Specialist Scientific Publications. 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Specific topics that will be addressed will include: * Advanced Computer Architectures * Distributed Computing * High Speed Networking * Models of Parallel Programming * Performance Measurement * Scientific Visualization * Parallel Numerical Methods * High Performance Computing Applications Those registering for the workshop should have: * Fortran or C programming experience or coursework * familiarity with UNIX * a strong foundation in physical or engineering sciences There are no registration fees associated with the workshop. As a part of completing the registration form below, each applicant is requested to include a short statement of his or her research interests. Points of Contact: email: csw@eece.unm.edu World Wide Web Home Page http://www.eece.unm.edu/csw **************************** IMPORTANT !!! ********************************* All information will be posted on the Internet WORLD WIDE WEB. Check the home page often with your browser (NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, etc.) because new information will be added as it becomes available. A tentative speaker schedule is now posted. Phone numbers and email addresses of points of contact, meeting site maps, etc. will be posted. **************************************************************************** -------------------------Registration cut here------------------------------ Advanced Computing Laboratory / EECE Department Los Alamos National Laboratory / Univ of New Mexico 1995 Computational Science Workshop Registration Form NAME:______________________________________________________________________ Last First Middle MAILING ADDRESS:___________________________________________________________ Street Address Line 1 ___________________________________________________________ Street Address Line 2 ___________________________________________________________ City State/Province Postal Code ___________________________________________________________ Country PHONE NUMBER:______________________________________________________________ FAX NUMBER:________________________________________________________________ EMPLOYER/ORGANIZATION______________________________________________________ KIND OF BUSINESS OR ORGANIZATION OF EMPLOYER (e.g. Government, Industry, University)___________________________________ POSITION/TITLE:____________________________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OR GROUP:_______________________________________________________ ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESS:___________________________________________________ MY RESEARCH INTERESTS: ____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ***************************************************************************** PLEASE SEND COMPLETED REGISTRATION FORM TO: EECE, Robert Luke Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-1356 or email to: csw@eece.unm.edu FAX: (505) 277-1413, Attn: Robert Luke From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon May 15 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!deernisse.fullerton.edu!user From: DEernisse@fullerton.edu (Doug Eernisse) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.hiv,bionet.neuroscience,bionet.population-bio,bionet.software,bionet.xtallography Subject: Re: 1995 Computational Sciences Workshop Call for Participation Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 11:18:43 -0700 Organization: CSUF Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <3p814c$og5@lynx.unm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deernisse.fullerton.edu Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.hiv:1208 bionet.neuroscience:7914 bionet.population-bio:1408 bionet.software:12075 bionet.xtallography:1726 In article <3p814c$og5@lynx.unm.edu>, csw@witch.eece.unm.edu (Computer Science WkShop) wrote: [...] The Workshop is a seminar on > high performance computational methods, environments and tools. It will > consist of a one-week intensive overview presenting the technologies, the > methodologies and the applications of high performance computing. > performance computing. Sorry, couldn't help it. Didn't anyone else find this amusing? Actually, it sounds like an interesting workshop. -- Doug Eernisse Dept. Biological Science MH282 California State University Fullerton, CA 92634 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun May 21 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!ftpbox!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!news From: jason@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Jason C. Birnholz) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: menstrual research help Date: 22 May 1995 03:04:09 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA Lines: 8 Message-ID: <3pouv9$lg0@news.acns.nwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aragorn208.acns.nwu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.3 Dear Colleagues, We are trying to use the Internet to develop data about menstrual patterns. We believe that there is a relation between length and intensity of flow and a certain phenotype. We would very much appreciate your soliciting the following information from as many women as possible and e-mailing the material back to me when you have a chance. The fields are: Race: Hair Color: Eye Color: Height: Weight: Ave Length of Flow: Day of Peak Flow: reasonably Regular? Thanks Very Much. We will go to some of the women's issues news groups, although I would think a personal request on the bionet ought to be a good starting place, any suggestions? Jason C. Birnholz, M.D. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA jason@merle.acns.nwu.edu From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon May 22 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: UNSUBSCRIBING, BIOSCI ARCHIVES, ADDRESS DATABASE & BIOSCI FAQ Date: 23 May 1995 02:00:20 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 347 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199505230900.CAA21536@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Four important items follow: How to cancel e-mail subscriptions to BIOSCI newsgroups, BIOSCI archive searching, the BIOSCI FAQ, and the BIOSCI User Address Directory form. If you have not yet listed yourself in our BIOSCI user directory, please take a few minutes to complete and return the form below. If your personal information has changed since you listed yourself, please send us a complete new updated form. We can not make manual revisions to existing entries. 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Thanks again for your cooperation! --------------- please cut here and return portion below --------------- New information or Update to old record (enter N or U): date (DD-MM-YY): first name: middle initial: family name: job title: e-mail address: e-mail network: phone number: FAX number: institution: address1: address2: address3: city: state/province: country: postal code: research interest: research interest: comment: comment: comment: comment: comment: From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue May 23 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!demon!uknet!daresbury!not-for-mail From: Dietmar Tietz Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: WWW Page Biostatistics and Population Genetics Date: 24 May 1995 10:52:03 +0100 Lines: 29 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <3puvk3$cfk@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> X-Sender: gh43@d1.hrz.uni-giessen.de Original-To: pop-bio@dl.ac.uk, bio-www@dl.ac.uk, bioforum@dl.ac.uk Dear Bionetters: We have just established a Home Page for Biometrie und Populationsgenetik - Biostatistics and Population Genetics http://www.uni-giessen.de/~gh43/biometrie.html and would like to include in our page pointers to other departments in this area of research. Please forward your URL to my email address. Thank you for your interest. Sincerely, Dietmar Tietz ****************************************************************** * Dietmar Tietz, Ph.D., Research Scientist * * Biostatistics, Justus-Liebig-University * * Ludwigstr. 27, D-35390 Giessen, Germany * * Phone: +49-(641)-702-9733 * * Fax: +49-(641)-702-9724 * * Email: Dietmar.Tietz@Uni-Giessen.de * * http://www.uni-giessen.de/~gh43/dietmare.html * ****************************************************************** From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri May 26 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!demon!doc.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!news.dcs.warwick.ac.uk!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!news From: swhitfie@gen.cam.ac.uk (Simon Whitfield) Newsgroups: bionet.software,bionet.population-bio,bionet.molbio.evolution Subject: Calculating Nei's Nucleotide Diversity Date: 26 May 1995 12:51:24 GMT Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3q4isc$m06@mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> Reply-To: swhitfie@gen.cam.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: iron.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Xref: biosci bionet.software:12176 bionet.population-bio:1412 bionet.molbio.evolution:2913 I'm trying to get hold of a program (or even a spreadsheet) for estimating the value and variance of pi, the "nucleotide diversity" measure of DNA polymorphism described by Masatoshi Nei in his book "Molecular Evolutionary Genetics". Does anyone have such a thing, or know a gopher/ftp site where I might find it? Thanks, Simon Whitfield Department of Genetics, Cambridge, U.K. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon May 29 23:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!galaxy.ucr.edu!ratatosk.yggdrasil.com!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!EU.net!uknet!festival!udcf.gla.ac.uk!911662fe From: 911662fe@udcf.gla.ac.uk (Neil Fernandez) Subject: Q. re life expectancy Message-ID: <911662fe.801314991@cent.gla.ac.uk> Sender: news@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk (News) Organization: Glasgow University Computing Service Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 11:29:51 GMT Lines: 15 Hi. Can anyone tell me how the world average life expectancy figure (at birth) has gone up or down over, say, the last century? What I'm interested in is the figure resulting from adding up the life expectancy figures for everyone born in a given year, all over the world, and then dividing by the number of people. It seems to me that at the moment, on a world level, this figure might be going down. I wonder if that is true. Cheers, Neil From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon May 29 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!cobra.uni.edu!campbell From: campbell@cobra.uni.edu (R. B. CAMPBELL) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Q. re life expectancy Message-ID: <1995May30.093632.43894@cobra.uni.edu> Date: 30 May 95 09:36:32 -0500 References: <911662fe.801314991@cent.gla.ac.uk> Organization: University of Northern Iowa Lines: 18 In article <911662fe.801314991@cent.gla.ac.uk>, 911662fe@udcf.gla.ac.uk (Neil Fernandez) writes: > Hi. > > Can anyone tell me how the world average life expectancy figure (at birth) > has gone up or down over, say, the last century? > > [stuff deleted] > > Neil Please post any rsponse. Since I assume that the life expectancy is increasing in every country/region (except for effects of transcient genocide), decrease would be due to greater growth in countries/regions with low life expectancies. This would be a nice example to file away. Thanks. R. Campbell From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon May 29 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: worldpal@ix.netcom.com (D.C. Anderson ) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: ENVIRO-CRUISE ON 260' SAILING VESSEL Date: 30 May 1995 15:03:44 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3qfc4g$s5c@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-stm1-23.ix.netcom.com Please visit our URL. It's a new site and we offer an exciting yet meaningful way to address the world's population and resource dilemma. URL: http://ingress.com/kunosoura Please send your comments to: worldpal@ix.netcom.com and thanks for your interest. -- WPC  Zg7C!?"WǙ\ =AVCaJij"GTC$ڋm2̀?97%ƾʶWC  'pW%>-]j.n)88rD%/0_ֻ#zsԊ[SZ` 4b34H9GC+{ lgx@]_Z/` ș'uUGoxB V{1wТDZ QJAʥul8; nb%9yFsjHbb|Y*58bʘ5~Pv =',7#h:jHAs]'&6#JML\:G̝= u6aR*#PpxvHT1`XWڱh?r 'YLϧ):I~ 1 9diih^ӤBARB4IUċg) o#pUN %D 0(JU:r4Okidata OL-400HPPCL,hh,0P w2E^1l1 (9 Z 6Times New Roman RegularX($,rAZ"Arial RegularAl3|x! !  *XX%%XX* From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed May 31 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!world!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.mcgill.ca!usenet From: jen@parasit.lan.mcgill.ca Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: the African wild dog Date: 31 May 1995 23:54:02 GMT Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3qiviq$jj9@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: jackdaw.parasitology.mcgill.ca X-Newsreader: AIR News 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) We are investigating the posibility of studying, as a PhD project, the African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) and the factors threatening its survival, with special emphasis on infectious disease and epidemiology. If you have any information relating to the natural history of the African wild dog (especially possible bottlenecks which have occured), or the factors affecting its survival it would be greatly appreciated if you could forward this to us at jen@parasit.lan.mcgill.ca. Also if you are aware of any individuals studying or having studied this species, or institutions possibly interested in supporting such a project these names would be of great benefit to us and our pursue to gain information about this endangered species. Thanking you in advance for your help........ Jennifer M. Groody and Birgitt Bossen From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed May 31 23:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!bcm!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!unixhub!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!news.fujitsu.com!amdahl.com!amd!amd.com!txnews.amd.com!news From: John Glover Subject: largest city in the world? Message-ID: Sender: news@txnews.amd.com Nntp-Posting-Host: slic50 Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX, USA Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 13:28:25 GMT Lines: 6 I was wondering whatis the largest city in the world and how big is it? john glover@mopac.amd.com From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed May 31 23:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!bcm!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!EU.net!uknet!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!citi2.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!news.unige.ch!usenet From: sanchez@sc2a.unige.ch (Alicia Sanchez-Mazas) Subject: SEARCH FOR DNA CONTENTS ! Message-ID: <1995Jun1.160408.16826@news.unige.ch> Sender: usenet@news.unige.ch Organization: Dpt. Anthropology, U of Geneva X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 16:04:08 GMT Lines: 33 >>>> SURELY YOU CAN SAVE ME !!!!!!!!!! Who can tell me - the DNA content (either pg or kb) - the 2N number for a list of individual species belonging to - insects (mostly butterflies, but also dipters, coleopters and hymenopters) - ARACHNIDS: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this information is especially lacking ! - molluscs, mostly SNAILS, also octopus - other invertebrates like the sea star and the sponges - bony fishes - BIRDS: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this information is especially lacking ! - reptiles - mammals (mostly small ones) - some flowers - some fungi - some protists This is for a scientific exhibition on biodiversity in Geneva. Please give the latin name, possibly also the common name, the DNA content PER HAPLOID GENOME (1C) and the chromosome number (references would be welcome). Any species is welcome...what I need is...DIVERSITY ! THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH IN ADVANCE. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< NB: I recently send another message asking for caryotypes. Thank you for those of you who answered. I still need info, and this time you probably can give it directly to my mail. Please give me references if you have.