From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Sep 01 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!nntp.msstate.edu!nntp.memphis.edu!nntp.memphis.edu!nntp Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: about aquanet Message-ID: <1995Sep1.215806.57933@msuvx2.memphis.edu> From: mluo@cc.memphis.edu (mingqing luo) Date: 1 Sep 95 21:58:06 -0500 References: <425b1i$no1@susscsc1.rdg.ac.uk> Organization: university of memphis Nntp-Posting-Host: wok-61.memphis.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.1 Lines: 11 Mingqing Luo Phone:(H)901-272-0716 (O)901-678-2581 Fax:901-678-4746 Email:MLUO@MSUVX1.MEMPHIS.EDU Is there anyone can tell me how to subscribe to Aquanet? Thanks, ming From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Sep 01 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!lynx.unm.edu!bubba.NMSU.Edu!alamo-temp-08.NMSU.Edu!ifjed From: ifjed@nmsua.nmsu.edu (Slieve M'Daid) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: human elemental composition Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:03:28 GMT Organization: Alamogordo Branch Community College Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <421pja$o44@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: alamo-temp-08.nmsu.edu In article <421pja$o44@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> aduncan@heartlab.rri.uwo.ca (Anthony Duncan) writes: >From: aduncan@heartlab.rri.uwo.ca (Anthony Duncan) >Subject: human elemental composition >Date: 30 Aug 1995 13:37:46 GMT >Can anyone indicate what is the elemental composition of an average human >being. I assume the principal elements are Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen and >Hydrogen and traces of mineral salt elements. But I do not know in what >percents. I assume the highest would be O since we are made mainly of >water (H2O). Would someone have numbers on that or be able to indicate >where I could find them. Thank you. >Anthony. Any freshman biology text will have this information, usually in Ch. 2. If you don't have access to a text, I will e-mail you the information. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Sep 05 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!bga.com!news From: Wayne Pendley Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: New edition of PlanetKeepers now on web Date: 6 Sep 1995 12:27:42 GMT Organization: earth/usa/tx/colorado.river.basin/austin Lines: 20 Message-ID: <42k43u$5p6@giga.bga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lia-b6.aip.realtime.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) This issue features an interview with Dave Foreman, a concept summary by Howie Richey of Daniel Quinn's novel, _Ishmael_, a few words from the editor on the Earth's carrying capacity, plus the usual on-line guides and nature gifs. To access PlanetKeepers, start with URL: http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Community/Environment.html then select "Environmental Activism" then select "PlanetKeepers" or, you can reconstruct the longer, full URL: http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Community/Environment /Environmental-Activism/wayne-pendley/plankeep.html keep dancing... waynep@tirebiter.com From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 06 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: thomas@cwi.nl (Thomas Hantke) Newsgroups: bionet.announce,bionet.population-bio Subject: Winter School on Population Dynamics, 10-14 January, 1996 Date: 7 Sep 1995 09:28:05 -0700 Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 107 Sender: biohelp@net.bio.net Approved: bionews-moderator@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <42n6il$mpf@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Xref: biosci bionet.announce:2447 bionet.population-bio:1535 ____________________________________________________________________________ SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Winter School on Population Dynamics, 10-14 January, 1996 The winter school on Population Dynamics, which will take place in the conference centre Woudschoten in the Netherlands (10-14th January, 1996), can, due to space limitations, accomodate only a limited number of participants. We would like to remind prospective participants to fill in the application form and to return it BEFORE 1 OCTOBER, 1995, to Thomas Hantke (thomas@cwi.nl). The winter school is part of the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) priority program on "Nonlinear Systems" which has "Population Biology and Epidemiology" as one of its themes. Five experts have been invited to give each five tutorial/introductory lectures on different areas of population biology: * Bryan Grenfell (University of Cambridge): epidemiology * Andre de Roos (University of Amsterdam): structured populations * Karl Hadeler (University of Tuebingen): deterministic tools * Franjo Weissing (University of Groningen): selection models * Valerie Isham (University College London): stochastic tools The aim is to give (beginning) PhD- students in population biology a good understanding of the way mathematics is applied to study problems in their field as well as a thorough background in relevant deterministic and stochastic mathematical techniques. The emphasis of this winter school is on teaching. Participants can introduce their interest and work in five-minute presentations that can serve as the starting point of further exchange and discussion. Odo Diekmann Thomas Hantke Hans Heesterbeek (CWI and EEW) (NWO/CWI) (GLW-DLO) odo@cwi.nl thomas@cwi.nl heesterbeek@glw.agro.nl ____________________________________________________________________________ APPLICATION FORM (to be received BEFORE 1 OCTOBER, 1995) NLS Winter School on Population Dynamics 10-14 January, 1996, Woudschoten I would like to participate in the winter school on population dynamics. name ________________________________________________ institution ________________________________________________ address ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ telephone number ________________________________________________ fax number ________________________________________________ email address ________________________________________________ description of my current work ________________________________________________ current position ________________________________________________ [ ] I will give a 5-minute presentation Diet wishes [ ] vegetarian or: [ ] ____________ Arrival [ ] 10 January, 1996 noon or: [ ] ____________ Departure [ ] 14 January, 1996 noon or: [ ] ____________ The conference centre in Woudschoten can be reached by train (Driebergen-Zeist; 60 minutes from Schiphol Airport) and then group-taxi (15 minutes). PAYMENT Dfl 500.- (which is approximately $ 310, 200 pound Sterling, DM 450) including all meals, lodging (double rooms) and lecture notes; not including travel costs. (Payment before 1 December, 1995.) [ ] For Dutch participants only: payed to bank account 436053705 (ABN-AMRO, giro bank: 2391) by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, "NLS Winter school 1996" [ ] For non-Dutch participants: International money transfer (500.- Dutch Guilders) to bank account 436053705 (ABN-AMRO, P.O. Box 1294, NL-1000 BG Amsterdam) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, "NLS Winter school 1996" Send this form as soon as possible, but NO LATER THAN 1 OCTOBER, 1995, preferably by e-mail, to: Thomas Hantke CWI Kruislaan 413 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands phone +31 - 20 - 592 42 29 fax +31 - 20 - 592 41 99 thomas@cwi.nl From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 06 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!willis.cis.uab.edu!news.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!not-for-mail From: xxia1@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu (Xuhua Xia) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: signifigance for inbreeding coeffs. Date: 7 Sep 1995 08:20:56 -0500 Organization: Louisiana State University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <42mrjo$2vcb@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: unix1.sncc.lsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Chris Troy (cstroy@mail.tcd.ie) wrote: : If you use the formula 1 - Observed Heterozygosity / Expected : Heterozygosity to give a measure of inbreeding, where a positive value : indicates an inbreeding system of mating and a negative value indicates a : mating system where inbreeding is avoided how can you quote a significance : vaule when comparing the inbreeding coefficients from two different : populations. : Which translates into: : Does anybody out there know how to get a signicance interval for a ratio ?? There is a classic by J. L. Fleiss titled "Statistical methods for rates and proportions". Xuhua -- ======================================================================= Xuhua Xia | Museum of Natural Science | Phone: (504) 388-2841 119 Foster Hall | Fax : (504) 388-3075 Louisiana State University | Email: xuhua@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu Baton Rouge, LA 70803 | USA | ======================================================================= From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 06 23:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!news.tcd.ie!gen023.gen.tcd.ie!user From: cstroy@mail.tcd.ie (Chris Troy) Subject: signifigance for inbreeding coeffs. Message-ID: Followup-To: bionet.population-bio Sender: usenet@news.tcd.ie (TCD News System ) Organization: Genetics Department, Trinity College Dublin. Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 14:48:02 GMT Lines: 21 If you use the formula 1 - Observed Heterozygosity / Expected Heterozygosity to give a measure of inbreeding, where a positive value indicates an inbreeding system of mating and a negative value indicates a mating system where inbreeding is avoided how can you quote a significance vaule when comparing the inbreeding coefficients from two different populations. Which translates into: Does anybody out there know how to get a signicance interval for a ratio ?? Yours in confusion ************************************************************************ Ciaran Meghen, E-mail: cmeghen@mail.tcd.ie Genetics Department, Phone: (353)-1-7021265 Trinity College, Fax: (353)-1-6798558 Dublin 2. Ireland. ************************************************************************* From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 07 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!HALCON.DPI.UDEC.CL!ebenavid From: ebenavid@HALCON.DPI.UDEC.CL (Facultad de Biologia) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 7 Sep 1995 17:16:28 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9509080210.AA42798@halcon.dpi.udec.cl> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net suscribe population biology list From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 07 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!HALCON.DPI.UDEC.CL!ebenavid From: ebenavid@HALCON.DPI.UDEC.CL (Facultad de Biologia) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 7 Sep 1995 17:15:05 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9509080209.AA42985@halcon.dpi.udec.cl> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net subscribe population biology From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 07 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!cbr.for.CSIRO.AU!gavin.moran From: gavin.moran@cbr.for.CSIRO.AU (Gavin Moran) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Postdoctoral position Date: 8 Sep 1995 00:18:54 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 35 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199509080712.AA14717@acacia.cbr.for.csiro.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW $38 - 43k + Superannuation CSIRO Division of Forestry Canberra, ACT The Division of Forestry requires a Geneticist for 3 years to undertake research on spatial and temporal changes in the genetic structure within mixed species eucalypt forest under various management regimes. You will join a team which is carrying out research on molecular breeding of forest tree crops and assessment of genetic resources of native forests. The person we are seeking must have a Ph.D in genetics or a related field and have experience in the utilisation of genetic markers in population genetics. You will need the ability to participate in collaborative studies and have excellent communication skills. For further information contact Dr Gavin Moran on (06) 2818208, email gavin.moran@cbr.for.csiro.au The duty statement and selection criteria for the position can be obtained from Keran Niquet (Ph: 06 - 2818 352, Fax 06 - 2818 312). You must address the selection criteria and include the names and contact details of at least two professional referees. Closing date for application is 29th September 1995. Your application should quote reference 95/0309 and be forwarded to: The Divisional Personnel Manager CSIRO Division of Forestry PO Box 4008, Queen Victoria Terreace Canberra, ACT 2600 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 07 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!HALCON.DPI.UDEC.CL!jortiz From: jortiz@HALCON.DPI.UDEC.CL (Juan Ortiz Zapata) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 7 Sep 1995 17:30:32 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9509080224.AA43318@halcon.dpi.udec.cl> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net subscribe list population biology From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 07 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!BUHO.DPI.UDEC.CL!hdiaz From: hdiaz@BUHO.DPI.UDEC.CL (Helen Diaz Paez) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 7 Sep 1995 17:22:11 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9509080215.AA01364@buho.dpi.udec.cl> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net subscribe population biology list From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 07 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Robert R. Klepper <72262.2070@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: bionet.agroforestry,bionet.plants,bionet.population-bio,sci.agriculture,sci.chem Subject: auxin and cytokinin root inhibition Date: 8 Sep 1995 16:09:05 GMT Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736) Lines: 12 Message-ID: <42ppr1$i8r$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> Xref: biosci bionet.agroforestry:1962 bionet.plants:8351 bionet.population-bio:1541 sci.agriculture:5214 sci.chem:38557 To all: I am in need of literature rferences to the possible role of both auxins and cytokinins in inhibition of root elongation. We have already demonstrated this role, but are interested in references from the literature. Anyone with knowledge or even experimnental results to share I would appreciate it. Thanks. Dr. Robert R. Klepper Internet: 72262.2070@compuserve.com Compuserve: 72262,2070 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 07 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!HALCON.DPI.UDEC.CL!jortiz From: jortiz@HALCON.DPI.UDEC.CL (Juan Ortiz Zapata) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 8 Sep 1995 12:30:27 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 1 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9509082124.AA50778@halcon.dpi.udec.cl> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net subscribe From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Sep 09 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in1.uu.net!news.IntNet.net!ppp019.netsrq.com!wild.about.wolves From: wild.about.wolves@netsrq.com (Shane A. Holmes) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: WILD ABOUT WOLVES? Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 12:43:08 Organization: Net Sarasota Lines: 2 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp019.netsrq.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] http://www.netsrq.com/~wild.about.wolves/index.html From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Sep 09 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!mars.efn.org!usenet From: Patrick Bronson Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Never ending Growth Date: 8 Sep 1995 05:48:27 GMT Organization: Eugene Free Net Lines: 71 Message-ID: <42olfb$on3@mars.efn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dynip86.efn.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) I would like to submit the essay below for your consideration, and invite your response. What to me seems obvious, seems to go almost unnoticed by those who have the power to do something about it - the same people who make most of the money from it! Thanks Much. -------------------------------------------- What did one cancer cell say to another? "Growth is Good!" Never-ending growth is bound toward self destruction. In the thousands of years of human history we have only recently become capable of world-wide devastation - due to explosive population, massive resource use and pollution. Many people still don't believe there's a problem - instead believing growth can go on and on and on. Globally, we cannot sustain increasing population, logging old forests, burning oil, taking and polluting water, land and air. We're on the short-term plan, with our want for more-now guiding us! Growth is all we've known, and some influential people don't want that to change. We haven't learned to think and plan globally even though we collectively have a global influence. We act locally, supporting and encouraging growth regardless of the impact on the planet and to future generations. Some people have gained much power from growth and use that power to maintain it's continuation. We are brainwashed by ad's and the media that ON-GOING GROWTH IS GOOD! How often do you hear politicians, business people or the media saying that growth has limits and needs to stop, or decline, at some point? If we don't make our own limits nature eventually will! Let's act in prevention and leave a quality environment for future generations. If this makes sense to you, I urge you to speak out for the environment and the future - call your local and regional representatives. If we continue to satisfy our want for more more more now, we will leave less less less for those who come after us! Patrick Bronson 861 Adams Eugene, OR 97402 E-mail: patrickb@efn.org It no longer makes sense to support and encourage growth - locally or globally. As it is, we are using incredible amounts of natural resources, with resulting pollution, and the rate is increasing! The already enormous population is rapidly growing. A small percentage of the world's population use the vast majority of the resources while the other 3/4 want to use resources like Americans do! All those people who don't have what we have, want it and seek it! And can you blame them? Imagine the impact on the planet if everyone used resources and polluted like most Americans do! For the first time in human history, we live in a world economy and have a global impact. If we are to work toward a world where the environment is pristine and everyone has the life style of middle class Americans, we either need a lot more resources than the planet has (and the planet has to tolerate a lot more pollution), or there needs to be a lot less people. If we are to think of our own needs now, on-going growth makes sense. If we are to think of the long-term welfare of everyone and of the planet itself, the oppisite of growth makes sense. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Sep 09 23:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!agate!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!CC.UMontreal.CA!cgat.BCH.UMontreal.CA!burkep From: burkep@cgat.BCH.UMontreal.CA (Peter Burke) Subject: Mark recapture to determine Internet populations? Message-ID: Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews) Organization: Universite de Montreal X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 17:28:32 GMT Lines: 17 Hiya. Years ago I had an ecology lab where we were introduced to the mark-recapture system of estimating population size. I'd like to use the same process to estimate the number of users of various service providers here in Montreal, using Usenet poster email addresses or the Unix tool 'finger'. Can anyone provide directions to online sources of M-R information? If any of the experts out there can spare a few moments to contact me regarding the design of this experiment, I'd of course be very grateful. Virtually, -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Peter Burke burkep@bch.umontreal.ca Montreal, Canada | | http://cgat.bch.umontreal.ca/ | +- Canadian Genome Analysis and Technology Bioinformatics Support Services -+ From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Sep 09 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!worldlinx.com!localhost From: bwinterb@intranet.on.ca (Bruce Winterbon) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Never ending Growth Date: Sun, 10 Sep 95 21:24:41 GMT Organization: Dis Lines: 23 Message-ID: <42vl48$c55@mars.worldlinx.com> References: <42olfb$on3@mars.efn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.intranet.on.ca X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 In article <42olfb$on3@mars.efn.org>, Patrick Bronson wrote: >I would like to submit the essay >below for your consideration, and invite your response. What to >me seems obvious, seems to go almost unnoticed by those who >have the power to do something about it - the same people who >make most of the money from it! Thanks Much. [deleted long essay: I could quibble with a few details, but agree with the thesis] Try reading John Ralston Saul's _The Doubter's Companion_, Viking, 1994. He argues, I think persuasively, that "growth is good" is only one part of the problem: the general case is that we are being run by "experts" who all operate on the basis of little bits of received wisdom, like "growth is good" or "markets should be free", or ... Cultivating sensitive BS detectors and being appropriately disrespectful toward those in power (business or government) is perhaps a first line of defense, but I have no idea what to do that might help the situation. Bruce Winterbon bwinterb@intranet.on.ca http://intranet.on.ca/~bwinterb From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Sep 10 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!CS.CUHK.HK!lxu From: lxu@CS.CUHK.HK ("Dr. Xu Lei") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: wiley!ai-chi@lll-lcc.llnl.gov Date: 11 Sep 1995 02:11:12 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 184 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199509110858.QAA15002@cs.cuhk.hk> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ICONIP96 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 1996 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING The Annual Conference of the Asian Pacific Neural Network Assembly ICONIP'96, September 24 - 27, 1996 Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong The goal of ICONIP'96 is to provide a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to meet and to exchange ideas on the latest developments in neural information processing. The conference further serves to stimulate local and regional interests in neural information processing and its potential applications to industries indigenous to this region. CONFERENCE TOPICS ================= * Theory * Algorithms & Architectures * Applications * Supervised/Unsupervised Learning * Hardware Implementations * Hybrid Systems * Neurobiological Systems * Associative Memory * Visual & Speech Processing * Intelligent Control & Robotics * Cognitive Science & AI * Recurrent Net & Dynamics * Image Processing * Pattern Recognition * Computer Vision * Time Series Prediction * Financial Engineering * Optimization * Fuzzy Logic * Evolutionary Computing * Other Related Areas CONFERENCE'S SCHEDULE ===================== Submission of paper February 1, 1996 Notification of acceptance May 1, 1996 Early registration deadline July 1, 1996 SUBMISSION INFORMATION ====================== Authors are invited to submit one camera-ready original and five copies of the manuscript written in English on A4-format white paper with one inch margins on all four sides, in one column format, no more than six pages including figures and references, single-spaced, in Times-Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, and printed on one side of the page only. Electronic or fax submission is not acceptable. Additional pages will be charged at USD $50 per page. Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete title, author(s), affiliation, mailing, and email addresses, followed by an abstract (no more than 150 words) and the text. Each submission should be accompanied by a cover letter indicating the contacting author, affiliation, mailing and email addresses, telephone and fax number, and preference of technical session(s) and format of presentation, either oral or poster (both are published). All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on quality, clarity, originality, and significance. Authors may also retrieve the ICONIP style, "iconip.tex" and "iconip.sty" files for the conference by anonymous FTP at ftp.cs.cuhk.hk in the directory /pub/iconip96. For further information, inquiries, and paper submissions please contact ICONIP'96 Secretariat Department of Computer Science The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong Fax (852) 2603-5024 E-mail: iconip96@cs.cuhk.hk http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/iconip96 ====================================================================== General Co-Chairs ================= Omar Wing, CUHK Shun-ichi Amari, Tokyo U. Advisory Committee ================== International ------------- Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Caltech Michael Arbib, U. Southern Cal. Leo Breiman, UC Berkeley Jack Cowan, U. Chicago Rolf Eckmiller, U. Bonn Jerome Friedman, Stanford U. Stephen Grossberg, Boston U. Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNC Geoffrey Hinton, U. Toronto Anil Jain, Michigan State U. Teuvo Kohonen, Helsinki U. of Tech. Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton U. Robert Marks, II, U. Washington Thomas Poggio, MIT Harold Szu, US Naval SWC John Taylor, King's College London David Touretzky, CMU C. v. d. Malsburg, Ruhr-U. Bochum David Willshaw, Edinburgh U. Lofti Zadeh, UC Berkeley Asia-Pacific Region ------------------- Marcelo H. Ang Jr, NUS, Singapore Sung-Yang Bang, POSTECH, Pohang Hsin-Chia Fu, NCTU., Hsinchu Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya U., Nagoya Kunihiko Fukushima, Osaka U., Osaka Zhenya He, Southeastern U., Nanjing Marwan Jabri, U. Sydney, Sydney Nikola Kasabov, U. Otago, Dunedin Yousou Wu, Tsinghua U., Beijing Organizing Committee ==================== L.W. Chan (Co-Chair), CUHK K.S. Leung (Co-Chair), CUHK D.Y. Yeung (Finance), HKUST C.K. Ng (Publication), CityUHK A. Wu (Publication), CityUHK K.P. Lam (Publicity), CUHK M.W. Mak (Local Arr.), HKPU C.S. Tong (Local Arr.), HKBU T. Lee (Registration), CUHK M. Stiber (Registration), HKUST K.P. Chan (Tutorial), HKU H.T. Tsui (Industry Liaison), CUHK I. King (Secretary), CUHK Program Committee ================= Co-Chairs --------- Lei Xu, CUHK Michael Jordan, MIT Erkki Oja, Helsinki Univ. of Tech. Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Members ------- Yoshua Bengio, U. Montreal Chris Bishop, Aston U. Leon Bottou, Neuristique Gail Carpenter, Boston U. Laiwan Chan, CUHK Huishen Chi, Peking U. Peter Dayan, MIT Kenji Doya, ATR Scott Fahlman, CMU Francoise Fogelman, SLIGOS Lee Giles, NEC Research Inst. Michael Hasselmo, Harvard U. Kurt Hornik, Technical U. Wien Steven Nowlan, Synaptics Jeng-Neng Hwang, U. Washington Nathan Intrator, Tel-Aviv U. Larry Jackel, AT&T Bell Lab Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Australia Soo-Young Lee, KAIST Todd Leen, Oregon Grad. Inst. Cheng-Yuan Liou, National Taiwan U. David MacKay, Cavendish Lab Eric Mjolsness, UC San Diego John Moody, Oregon Grad. Inst. Nelson Morgan, ICSI Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Lab Ting-Chuen Pong, HKUST Paul Refenes, London Business School Hava Siegelmann, Technion Ah Chung Tsoi, U. Queensland Benjamin Wah, U. Illinois Andreas Weigend, Colorado U. Ronald Williams, Northeastern U. John Wyatt, MIT Alan Yuille, Harvard U. Richard Zemel, CMU From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Sep 10 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!macg417p.bio.purdue.edu!user From: daltshul@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu (Douglas Altshuler) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: primers for wrens (Troglodytidae) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 14:53:11 -0600 Organization: Purdue Lines: 11 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: macg417p.bio.purdue.edu Looking for primers for PCR to use with microsatelite DNA analysis for wrens. Please contact: Carolina Yaber Dept. of Biological Sciences Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1392 ph.# (317) 494-4726 e-mail: myaber@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Sep 11 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!daresbury!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!annex1p4.sdsu.edu!user From: pescator@mail.sdsu.edu (Linda Pescatore) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Need Some Population Figures Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 20:30:34 -0800 Organization: San Diego State University Lines: 31 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: annex1p4.sdsu.edu Hi. I'm a civil engineering student and my prof in my environmental class (this is by far the best engineering class I've ever taken!!!) gave us the following assignment: a) Obtain census records on San Diego County (CA) population, and make a plot of pop'n vs. time from the date that Imperial County split off from S.D. County (which he estimates to be 1910) until the last available census data...cite your reference documents, title, page and call number. b) Extrapolate the data to estimate the County's population in the year 2050, and justify your extrapolation. c) Repeat steps a and b for the state of California, beginning in 1900. Does anyone know of a reliable source of this information I could find online somewhere? Searching at the library brought me incomplete information; they only had abstracts back to about 1960. If you think you can help, even to say that it doesn't exist online, or to tell me I'm in the wrong newsgroup, please e-mail me at pescator@mail.sdsu.edu. In case that doesn't go through for any reason, try pescator@rohan.sdsu.edu or linda4461@aol.com. Obviously I will do step b on my own; but if you have any suggestions, I will be glad to hear them. thanks a million! I'll owe you big time. -- ciao, baby! --Linda Pescatore. My name is an anagram for "Considerate Pal." From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Sep 12 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!MERLOT.CSE.OGI.EDU!pihong From: pihong@MERLOT.CSE.OGI.EDU (Hong Pi) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Short Course on Neural Networks (announcement) Date: 12 Sep 1995 23:37:38 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 174 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9509130630.AA17070@merlot.cse.ogi.edu> Reply-To: Hong Pi NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net NEURAL NETWORKS: ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS September 25-29, 1995 A Short Course at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (OGI), Portland, Oregon. Course Organizer: John E. Moody Lead Instructor: Hong Pi With Lectures By: Todd K. Leen John E. Moody Thorsteinn S. Rognvaldsson Eric A. Wan Artificial neural networks (ANN) have emerged as a new in- formation processing technique and an effective computational model for solving nonlinear problems involving pattern recogni- tion and completion, feature extraction, function approximation, and prediction. This course introduces participants to the neural network paradigms and their applications in pattern classifica- tion; system identification; signal processing and image analysis; control engineering; diagnosis; time series forecast- ing; and financial analysis and trading. An introduction to fuz- zy logic and fuzzy control systems is also given. Designing a neural network application involves steps from data preprocessing to learning and network model selection. This course, with many examples, application demos and hands-on lab practice, will familiarize the participants with the techniques necessary for building successful applications. About 50 percent of the class time is assigned to lab sessions. The simulations will be based on Matlab, the Matlab Neural Net Toolbox, and other software running on Windows-NT workstations. Prerequisites: Linear algebra and calculus. Previous experience with using Matlab is helpful, but not required. Who will benefit: Technical professionals, business analysts, financial mark- et practitioners, and other individuals who wish to gain a basic understanding of the theory and algorithms of neural computation and/or are interested in applying ANN techniques to real-world, data-driven modeling problems. Course Objectives: After completing the course, students will: - Understand the basic neural networks paradigms - Be familiar with the range of ANN applications - Have a good understanding of the techniques for designing successful applications - Gain hands-on experience with ANN modeling. Course Outline (8:30am - 5:00pm September 25 - 28, and 8:30am - 12:30am September 29): Neural Networks: Biological and Artificial Biological inspirations. Basic models of a neuron. Types of architectures and learning paradigms. Simple Perceptrons and Adalines Decision surfaces. Linear separability. Perceptron learning rules. Linear units. Gradient descent learning. Multi-Layer Feed-Forward Networks I Multi-Layer perceptrons. Back-propagation learning. Generalization. Early Stopping via validation. Momentum and adaptive learning rate. Examples and applications. Multi-Layer Feed-Forward Networks II Newton's method. Conjugate gradient. Levenburg-Marquardt. Radial basis function networks. Projection pursuit regression. Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition and Classification Bayes decision theory. The Bayes risk. Non-neural and neural methods for classification. Neural networks as estimators of the posterior probability. Methods for improving the classification performance. Benchmark tests of neural networks vs. other methods. Some applications. Improving the Generalization Performance Model bias and model variance. Weight decay. Regularizers. Optimal brain surgeon. Learning from hints. Sensitivity analysis. Input variable selection. The delta-test. Time Series Prediction: Classical and Nonlinear Approaches Linear time series models. Simple nonlinear models. Recurrent network models and training algorithms. Case studies: sunspots, economic forecasting. Self-Organized Networks and Unsupervised Learning K-means clustering. Kohonen feature maps. Learning vector quantization. Adaptive principal components analysis. Neural Network for Adaptive Control What is control. Heuristic, open loop, and inverse control. Feedback algorithms for control. Neural network feedback control. Reinforcement learning. Survey of Neural Network Applications in Financial Markets Bond and stock valuation. Currency rate forecasting. Trading systems. Commodity price forecasting. Risk management. Option pricing. Fuzzy Systems Fuzzy logic. Fuzzy control. Adaptive fuzzy and neural-fuzzy systems. About the Instructors Todd K. Leen is associate professor of Computer Science and En- gineering at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1982. From 1982-1987 he worked at IBM Corpora- tion, and then pursued research in mathematical biology at Good Samaritan Hospital's Neurological Sciences Institute. He joined OGI in 1989. Dr. Leen's current research interests include neur- al learning, algorithms and architectures, stochastic optimiza- tion, model constraints and pruning, and neural and non-neural approaches to data representation and coding. He is particularly interested in fast, local modeling approaches, and applications to image and speech processing. Dr. Leen served as theory program chair for the 1993 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, and workshops chair for the 1994 NIPS conference. John E. Moody is associate professor of Computer Science and En- gineering at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology. His current research focuses on neural network learning theory and algorithms in it's many manifestations. He is particularly interested in statistical learning theory, the dynamics of learn- ing, and learning in dynamical contexts. Key application areas of his work are adaptive signal processing, adaptive control, time series analysis, forecasting, economics and finance. Moody has authored over 35 scientific papers, more than 25 of which concern the theory, algorithms, and applications of neural net- works. Prior to joining the Oregon Graduate Institute, Moody was a member of the Computer Science and Neuroscience faculties at Yale University. Moody received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Theoretical Physics from Princeton University, and graduated Sum- ma Cum Laude with a B.A. in Physics from the University of Chi- cago. Hong Pi is a senior research associate at Oregon Graduate Insti- tute. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Univer- sity of Wisconsin in 1989. Prior to joining OGI in 1994 he had been a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist in Lund Univer- sity, Sweden. His research interests include nonlinear modeling, neural network algorithms and applications. Thorsteinn S. Rognvaldsson received the Ph.D. degree in theoreti- cal physics from Lund University, Sweden, in 1994. His research interests are Neural Networks for prediction and classification. He is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Oregon Gra- duate Institute. Eric A. Wan, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technolo- gy, received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1994. His research interests include learning al- gorithms and architectures for neural networks and adaptive sig- nal processing. He is particularly interested in neural applica- tions to time series prediction, speech enhancement, system iden- tification, and adaptive control. He is a member of IEEE, INNS, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa. For more information contact: Linda M. Pease, Director Office of Continuing Education Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology PO Box 91000 Portland, OR 97291-1000 +1-503-690-1259 +1-503-690-1686 (fax) e-mail: continuinged@admin.ogi.edu WWW home page: http://www.ogi.edu ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^**^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Sep 12 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!AXE.ACADIAU.CA!002846M From: 002846M@AXE.ACADIAU.CA ("FLYIN' BRIAN") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 13 Sep 1995 05:28:40 -0700 Organization: Acadia University Lines: 1 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <19E74406C4@axe.acadiau.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net unsubscribe From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Sep 12 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!boulder!cr230-mac-12.colorado.edu!user From: ecology@stripe.colorado.edu (Julius Dahne) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Help to save the Endangered Species Act! Date: 13 Sep 1995 10:58:45 GMT Organization: Campus GreenVote - University of Colorado Lines: 103 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: cr230-mac-12.colorado.edu X-Newsreader: Value-Added NewsWatcher 2.0b27.1+ Thursday, September 14 is a National Call-In Day to help save the Endangered Species Act. H.R. 2275, also known as the Young/Pombo "Extinction Bill," basically guts the protections in the Endangered Species Act as we know it. The bill: -Concentrates most of the power of the Endangered Species Act in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior and turns decisions about whether to list species basically into political footballs. Currently, science is supposed to be the only factor in deciding whether most species are listed. In the future, if this bill is passed, it would become a political issue in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior. Remember, James Watt was recently our Secretary of the Interior! -Imposes a costly bureaucracy on the Endangered Species Act, making it more difficult to list species as endangered, increasing the chance that they will become extinct before they are even listed. -Requires that the cost of actions taken to save species be estimated. But no effort is required under the bill to estimate the cost of losing species. In this way, the cost-benefit analyses generated will be flawed from the start. -Allows the Secretary of the Interior to do basically nothing to protect a species, if he or she so chooses, even if the species is endangered. This guts current protections for endangered species. IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE MORE THAN 700 ENDANGERED SPECIES IN THE UNITED STATES, PLEASE CONTACT THE ENDANGERED SPECIES COALTION FOR MORE INFO AT (202)547-9009, or ask for more infor at the e-mail address: jjontz@audubon.org. DO IT NOW. There is no more time to wait. AND PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE HOUSE ON THURSDAY, September 14. Call (202)224-3121 and ask for your Representative. And tell your friends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is the alert I received recently from the Endangered Species Coalition: National Call Congress Day; September 14 KEEP YOUR REPRESENTATIVE FROM SIGNING H.R. 2275 THE YOUNG/POMBO "EXTINCTION" BILL ------------- When to call: ------------- Thursday, September 14 >From 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time ------------ Who to call: ------------ The Capitol Hill switchboard is (202)224-3121; call and ask for your Representative ------------ What to say: ------------ H.R. 2275 WILL "ROLL BACK THE ESA," JUST SAY NO! --------------- H.R. 2275 WILL: --------------- Allow the Secretary of the Interior to choose extinction. The H.R. 2275 would end this Nation's long-standing commitment to ensuring that our great diversity of fish, wildlife, and plant species is passed to future generations. Under the bill, the Secretaries of Interior and Commerce would no longer be required to attempt to recover imperiled species. Pays off landowners for complying with stewardship obligations. The H.R. 2275 contains "takings" language that would create a huge new entitlement program for anyone who complies with the ESA. Under H.R. 2275, the ESA could not be enforced to prevent a landowner from destroying spawning habitat relied upon by endangered salmon and by thousands of downstream commercial and recreational anglers -- unless the landowner is paid off by the government. Eliminates essential habitat protections. The H.R. 2275 would overrule the recent Sweet Home Supreme Court decision. Imposes costly bureaucracy and delay. The H.R. 2275 calls for enormous hurdles before listing a species. The taxpayers would foot the bill for not only these costs, but the costs in recovering more species later. Shrinks protection of habitat on public lands. Under the guise of creating a "National Biological Diversity Reserve" the bill would be able to dramatically eliminate protection of biodiversity on public lands. DON'T DELAY, CALL TODAY!! From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 13 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!rockyd!cmcl2!mcclb4.med.nyu.edu!Meyero01 From: Owen Meyers Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Question on expontential growth Date: 13 Sep 1995 18:41:22 GMT Organization: NYU MEDICAL CENTER Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4378ki$6k3@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: mcclb4.med.nyu.edu X-UserAgent: X-XXMessage-ID: X-XXDate: Wed, 13 Sep 95 19:45:26 GMT I have two questions that I hope you can answer for me. 1. What is the equation for expontential growth? 2. What expontent do I use to calculate the grwoth rate of a binary fission organism? I am a cell biologist and no longer rember these things nor can I find them in any of my references. You can e-mail me at the below address. Thank you, Owen Owen "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Salvor Hardin -Foundation- * E-mail address: Meyero01@mcrcr6.med.nyu.edu * From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 13 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!paperboy.uconn.edu!usenet From: "Douglas S. Lee" Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Question on expontential growth Date: 14 Sep 1995 18:57:19 GMT Organization: University of Connecticut Lines: 69 Message-ID: <439tuf$aq@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> References: <4378ki$6k3@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp01p16.ucc.uconn.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) On 14 Sept. 1995, Owen Meyers wrote: >I have two questions that I hope you can answer for me. >1. What is the equation for expontential growth? >2. What expontent do I use to calculate the grwoth rate of a binary >fission organism? >I am a cell biologist and no longer rember these things nor can I find >them in any of my references. > >You can e-mail me at the below address. > >Thank you, > >Owen >Owen > > >"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." >"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." > Salvor Hardin -Foundation- > > >* E-mail address: Meyero01@mcrcr6.med.nyu.edu * Fit your data to the standard model for exponential population growth: N(time t) = N(time 0)*(e^(r*t)) where: N(time t) is the size of the population at time "t" (a variable). N(time 0) is the size of the population at time "0" (a constant for a given set of observations). e is the natural logarithm base (a constant, approx. 2.71828). r is the intrinsic rate of increase (a constant). t is equal to the elasped time since the start of a set of observations (a variable, single value for _each_ observation of population size). As you can see, the exponent you are interested in is actually the product of a constant (r) and a variable (t) - consequently, it changes with time. To calculate the value of 'r' for a given set of observations (ex. an experimental run in a given growth medium at a given temperature with all other environmental conditions held constant), fit the natural log of the observed population size against time using a linear (Y=(a + bx)) model. The slope of the fitted line is an estimate of 'r' for that organism _for that set of environmental conditions_. A different set of conditions will yield a different estimate of 'r'. The y-intercept will be equal (or close to, depending upon the quality of your experiments) to the natural log of the population size at the start of the experiment. Any good general ecology textbook will lead you through this exercise. The exponential model is only the most basic of population growth models and strictly applies to the situation where environmental conditions are constant with respect to time and there are no population size related limits to growth. There are a whole host of models beyond that of exponential growth. Douglas S. Lee Asst. Professor, Department of Marine Sciences University of Connecticut From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 13 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!psgrain!nntp.teleport.com!ip-longv1-21.teleport.com!user From: fab4fan@teleport.com (Justin Knobel) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Northwest fish population Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 09:23:33 -0800 Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 Lines: 12 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-longv1-21.teleport.com A friend of mine could use some advice on a research project he's currently working on. His question is as follows: > I need statistics on fish populations in the Pacific Northwest of the US, > more specifically at dams and other counting points. No one species in > particular. Trends in population increase or decrease are importance as > well. Any actual statistics OR ideas on where to go to get some would be appreciated. Thanks. Justin From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 14 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!dgis.dtic.dla.mil!sc2c526a.ra.osd.mil!nova.sti.nasa.gov!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!cs.umd.edu!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!usenet From: robinson@darwin.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jon W. Robinson) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Question on expontential growth Date: 15 Sep 1995 15:17:37 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 44 Distribution: world Message-ID: <43c5eh$25t@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <4378ki$6k3@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> Reply-To: robinson@darwin.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: darwin.gsfc.nasa.gov Owen Meyers writes > I have two questions that I hope you can answer for me. > 1. What is the equation for expontential growth? > 2. What expontent do I use to calculate the grwoth rate of a binary > fission organism? For a binary Fission organism with no deaths the sequence is 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 .... n*2^t where n = 1 in this sequence. where t is the number of generations if your initial population is n then in the next time interval it is n*2 the time interval after n*2*2 or n * 2^2 at time t generations after the population reaches size n it is as stated above, n*2^t > > I am a cell biologist and no longer rember these things nor can I find > them in any of my references. > > You can e-mail me at the below address. > > Thank you, > > Owen > Owen > > > "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." > "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." > Salvor Hardin -Foundation- > > > * E-mail address: Meyero01@mcrcr6.med.nyu.edu * From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Sep 15 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: powerford@aol.com (PowerFord) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: birth-predicting models Date: 15 Sep 1995 22:03:11 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 43 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <43db8v$oe7@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: powerford@aol.com (PowerFord) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com I need the help of this newsgroup. As a medical economist for a large HMO here in the US, I am looking for ways to enhance a process called risk adjustment, in which the 'illness burdens' of enrollees of competing health carriers are studied, so that transfer payments can be made among and between the carriers to 'level the playing field' for health plan competition. The rest of this e-mail is a request for help in thinking about birth-predicting models. One of the thorniest problems of risk adjustment is the prediction of spending for small and medium sized population groups, such as the employees and dependents of a particular employer, or patients of a certain physician group, or whatever. And one of the most common reasons for poor prediction of medium-sized groups' spending is the birth rate. Prenatal and perinatal spending can sometimes be responsible for over one quarter of all acute care spending for a working-age female population. I am looking for a way of thinking about the problem of predicting births on a woman-by-woman basis, using ordinary administrative data. For example, it makes intuitive sense that if a child is added to the health plan via birth, the chances that another child will be added during the next nine months are practically nil. Similarly, two otherwise-identical 32-year-old women, one with four children and one with no children enrolled, probably have extremely different likelihoods of giving birth in the next year. And so on. I am not looking for an actual model for birth prediction. Rather, I am looking for a WAY OF THINKING about these problems. My research into such areas as 'birth spacing' via Demography magazine etc. has turned up next to nothing. Is there (as I suspect) a whole field of study devoted to predicting births for specific women during a certain timeframe?? If so, I would like the names of authors who have worked in this area, so I can do add'l research. Thanks, in advance, for your help. And if this is clearly the wrong newsgroup in which to seek this advice, please let me know that. Sincerely, Bob Power PowerFord@aol.com Quote from my 5-year-old: "Fair is unlife" From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Sep 15 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in1.uu.net!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!southern.co.nz!not-for-mail From: bsandle@southern.co.nz (Brian Sandle) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Internet Resources on Statistics (P09055) Date: 16 Sep 1995 15:30:02 GMT Organization: Southern InterNet Services Lines: 35 Message-ID: <43eqhq$hr6@southern.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: southern.co.nz X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] [ Article reposted from sci.med.dentistry ] [ Author was Brian Sandle ] [ Posted on 16 Sep 1995 15:11:12 GMT ] Resampling Stats (inquire@ripco.com) wrote: I would be interested to find out about delayed feedback and variance which I could use to look at genetic engineering risk. It would have to be a rather simple treatment. A feedback situation exists where men are killed in war to replenish them with the births of more boys? Does the same thing happen if transgenic changes are made to an ecosystem? A distribution with greater peaks than troughs, when acted upon by a feedback mechanism, could show a return of the mean of a variable whilst leaving the variance different. Looking for variance could then be of value in finding transgenic engineering effects and possible risk. Or perhaps in finding the effects on a population of dental material. Perhaps you can't help me, it's the first time I have written this down, seeing your announcement. Brian Sandle. bsandle@southern.co.nz You wrote: : : : ANNOUNCEMENT : (Internet Resources on Statistics) : : The Resampling Project offers you a variety of free : materials on the practice of resampling and its pedagogy. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Sep 18 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!ratilal From: Peter Turney Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Second and Final CFP: special issue of Evolutionary Computation Date: 19 Sep 1995 19:00:33 GMT Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 31 Message-ID: <43n40h$577@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: ksl0j.ai.iit.nrc.ca X-Newsreader: NCSA Mosaic Second and Final Call for Papers EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION Special Issue on EVOLUTION, LEARNING, AND INSTINCT: 100 YEARS OF THE BALDWIN EFFECT In 1896, James Mark Baldwin proposed that individual learning can explain evolutionary phenomena that appear to require Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics. The ability of individuals to learn can guide the evolutionary process. In effect, learning smoothes the fitness landscape, thus facilitating evolution. A special issue of Evolutionary Computation is planned for 1996, the 100th anniversary of Baldwin's paper. See "http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/baldwin/cfp.html" on the World Wide Web or send a message to peter@ai.iit.nrc.ca. Manuscripts due: February 1, 1996 Acceptance notification: May 1, 1996 Final manuscript due: August 1, 1996 Planned Publication date of issue: December 1996 Guest Editors: Peter D. Turney, National Research Council, Canada Darrell Whitley, Colorado State University, USA Russell W. Anderson, University of California, USA From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Sep 18 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!geomys.botany.iastate.edu!user From: bklaas@iastate.edu (Ben Klaas) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: 16th Midwest Conference on Population Biology Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:08:14 -0500 Organization: Iowa State University Lines: 160 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: geomys.botany.iastate.edu Below is a facsimile of the announcement for the 16th Annual Midwest Population Biology. Please forward this announcement to colleagues who might be interested. Questions regarding the conference or this announcement may be directed to bklaas@iastate.edu. This document can be printed to be used for registration purposes. thanks Ben Klaas Interdepartmental Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Iowa State University ---------------- We are pleased to announce that the 16th annual Midwest Conference on Population Biology will be held November 4-5, 1995 at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The conference is an excellent opportunity for the exchange of ideas within the broad field of population biology, including genetics, ecology, evolution, and behavior, from both empirical and theoretical, botanical and zoological perspectives. This year's conference will include a poster session, eleven invited speakers, and a keynote address and banquet. Invited Speakers Simon Levin, (Keynote Speaker) - Princeton University Scaling from individuals to ecosystems Catherine Bach - Eastern Michigan University Effects of herbivory and sand burial on growth and mortality of Ipomoea pes-caprae Jeff Baylis - University of Wisconsin-Madison Sins of the fathers: The consequences of adult reproductive competition for their offsprings9 life history characteristics Brent Danielson - Iowa State University The relative importance of regional vs. local habitat variables in explaining the distributions of small mammals. Steve Hendrix - University of Iowa Effects of habitat fragmentation on the reproductive biology of prairie forbs Tony Ives - University of Wisconsin-Madison Predicting the response of species to environmental change Mark Kaiser - Iowa State University Estimating the relation between environmental gradients and animal abundance Kirk Moloney - Iowa State University Pattern: a two-fold template for understanding spatial dynamics in an ecological system K. Greg Murray - Hope College (MI) Coexistence of tropical pioneer plants in an intensely competitive environment O.J. Reichman - National Biological Service Inventory strategies for long-term food storage: simulation models and experimental results Steve Tonsor - University of Pittsburgh The genetic basis of inbreeding depression: fluctuating dominance and environmental dependence of gene action Don Waller - University of Wisconsin-Madison When is enough too many? Regional variation in deer abundance and the concept of carrying capacity Schedule of Events Friday, November 3 7:00 p.m. - midnight- Informal welcome reception at the Campanile Room, ISU Memorial Union. Early check-in and conference materials will be available. Saturday, November 4 8:00-8:45 a.m.- Check-in and refreshments; Molecular Biology Building Atrium 8:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.- First session; Molecular Biology Building Auditorium, Room 1414 1:30-4:20 p.m.- Second session; Molecular Biology Building Auditorium, Room 1414 4:45-5:30 p.m.- Mixer; Cardinal Room, ISU Memorial Union 5:30-7:00 p.m.- Banquet; Campanile Room, ISU Memorial Union 8:00 p.m.- Keynote Address: Dr. Simon Levin, Prinecton University, "Scaling from Individuals to Ecosystems"; Campanile Room, ISU Memorial Union Sunday, November 5 9:00a.m.-12:00p.m.- Third session; Molecular Biology Building Auditorium, Room 1414 Lodging Best Western Starlite Village 515-232-9260 Budgetel 515-296-2500 Comfort Inn 515-232-0689 Heartland Inn 515-233-6060 ISU Memorial Union 515-292-1111 Ramada Inn 515-232-3410 Silver Saddle Motel 515-232-8363 Super8 515-232-6510 University Inn 515-232-0280 For more information on this conference, contact Ben Klaas (515-294-4033/bklaas@iastate.edu) or Paul Wetzel (515-294-3982/prwetzel@iastate.edu) PLEASE COPY, POST, AND DISTRIBUTE THIS FLYER FREELY TO YOUR COLLEAGUES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Registration Please return this form and a check payable to 16th Midwest Conference on Population Biology by 20 October 1995. Late registrants will be charged an additional $10. Name ____________________________________________________ Institution ____________________________________________________ Mailing address ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Telephone (include area code) _______________Email______________________ I will be presenting a poster (circle one) Yes / No Poster title ____________________________________________________ Registration Fees: Student ($15), Faculty ($25) _____________ Banquet (optional; $15) _____________ TOTAL _____________ Please send registration to: Jana Stenback, Registration Coordinator, Dept. of Botany, 353 Bessey Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------- *************&***************&************** Ben Klaas Interdepartmental Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 111 Bessey Hall Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 (515) 294-4033 bklaas@iastate.edu &&&&&&&&&&&&&*&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&*&&&&&&&&&&&&&& From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Sep 19 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!psgrain!rainrgnews0!usenet From: Darrel Wilson Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Questions of a Biology Student Date: 20 Sep 1995 03:27:01 GMT Organization: Electronic Communites Lines: 67 Message-ID: <43o1m5$ghh@news0.rain.rg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.2.205.49 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Questions of a Biology Student I'm not quite sure that is the correct newsgroup to post to, and if so I would appreciate being pointed in the correct direction (URL)-- my apologizes if this is the case. If not, however, the advanced biology class that I'm currently taking has assigned the following problem on which I would like the help/experiences of others on (population issues are key, and I was hoping to recieve advice on this issue particulary, but all questions are left in hopes that users will have information in more than one area) (underscore '_' used to indicate subscript): Problem: To construct, utilizing only the space available in a 37.85 liter (10 gallon) glass aquarium, a sustainable ecosystem for both auto- and hetero- trophs, sealing after completion of the ecosystem. Success will be competitive and based on the mass of living heterotrophs at the end of one year. Sealing is defined as making the aquarium air and water tight. Light (florescent based) will shine for 24 hours a day, and temperature regulated at approximately 22 C, with the standard variations of building environmental control. My own questions, no order: What should the balance of fauna to flora be for a balance to occur, especially concerning photosynthesis/cellular respiration (O_2-CO_2)? (Balance possibly in mass ratio?) What are the best species of both fauna and flora to include for maximum mass in limited volume? (Both aquatic or terrain life is possible.) Questions on suggested organism/species: What are the specific and general needs of that organism; e.g. earth and nutrients for earth worms? For the given organism, are there any specific material/nutrient requirements (e.g. selenium for specific plants)? Any specific requirements for reproduction? What level of nutrients should be included? What will the limiting factors be concerning materials? (P, K, I, S suspected, depending on species inclusion.) Are there specific biotic factors to include; e.g. nitrogen fixing bacteria? What type of soil is recommended? Would an aquatic environment be favored to a terra based one? Would a specific mix/ratio of gasses for air be preferred to the natural one? (10% CO_2 : 40 O_2 : 60 N_2 considered for maximizing flora growth to support fast eating heterotrophs.) Could this balance be maintained if instituted? How much water should be included? Is there a ratio of water to life? Is there a optimum amount? For specific organisms? Should, for increased productivity, the aquarium be pressurized? (Location is at 1 100 meters, 3 600 feet hence a lower availability of oxygen and carbon dioxide) Will, aside from being a sealed container (green house), the glass aquarium have an effect on the contents? (E.g. RTV is used to seal them, could this present a variable?) Absence of light is controllable. Would there be a preference to 24 hour light, e.g. a 12 on 12 off cycle? What are the chances for predatory species to survive in competition? Would a balance with reproducing organisms be maintainable in said environment? What would the maximum size be for an organism to maintain life? Would a mix of organisms from different climates/locations be more productive? Please E-mail responces to . Thankyou. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Sep 19 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!plato.ucs.mun.ca!wbryden From: William Bryden Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Marten Disease Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:35:38 -0230 Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Lines: 9 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: wbryden@plato.ucs.mun.ca I'm looking for a set of checklists that will encompass all possible diseases of pine marten and small rodents and or a news group that might be helpful. These lists must include even atypical ones and those not yet seen in marten/ small rodents but simply have the potential to infect. thanx Bill Nf CANADA 709 753-5860 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 20 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.ACO.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!Newsmaster From: higuet@ccr.jussieu.fr (Higuet) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: research drosophila populations Date: 21 Sep 1995 11:17:36 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Lines: 27 Message-ID: <43rhkg$esr@vishnu.jussieu.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: catherin.ijm.jussieu.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.91.4 In the eighties, we have studied a great number of natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster in regard to the PM system of hybrid dysgenesis. Ten years later, we would like to realise a similar analysis on worldwide natural populations captured after 1992. Would it be possible for you to supply us with addresses of laboratories or scientist that would be likely to detain such Drosophila strains ? Of course, if strains recently collected in natural populations (maintained as isofemale lines or in masse culture) were available in your laboratory or nearby, we would be grateful if you could send samples to us. We would also need the date and country of capture, together with the number of fles at the origin of the strain. My address: D. HIGUET Institute Jacques Monod Laboratoire Dynamique du Genome et Evolution 2, place Jussieu Tour 42 - 4eme etage 75251 Paris cedex 05 France. Thank you very much in advance. Sincerely yours. Dominique Higuet. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 21 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!highway.LeidenUniv.nl!usenet From: Anja Henseler Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: research drosophila populations Date: 21 Sep 1995 18:52:30 GMT Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands Lines: 27 Message-ID: <43sc9e$md3@highway.LeidenUniv.nl> References: <43rhkg$esr@vishnu.jussieu.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: rulc14.leidenuniv.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) To: higuet@ccr.jussieu.fr higuet@ccr.jussieu.fr (Higuet) wrote: > >In the eighties, we have studied a great number of natural populations of >Drosophila melanogaster in regard to the PM system of hybrid dysgenesis. >Ten years later, we would like to realise a similar analysis on worldwide ...................... > --------------------- HI ! You should contact the department of Animal ecology at the Leiden University: the adress is: Dierenoecologie Van der Klaauw-Labaratorium Sterrenwachtlaan 2 Leiden The Netherlands They have Drosophila's from the Netherlands, Panama and HongKong Greetings, Anja Henseler From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 21 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!highway.LeidenUniv.nl!usenet From: Anja Henseler Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: research drosophila populations Date: 21 Sep 1995 18:52:09 GMT Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands Lines: 27 Message-ID: <43sc8p$md3@highway.LeidenUniv.nl> References: <43rhkg$esr@vishnu.jussieu.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: rulc14.leidenuniv.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) To: higuet@ccr.jussieu.fr higuet@ccr.jussieu.fr (Higuet) wrote: > >In the eighties, we have studied a great number of natural populations of >Drosophila melanogaster in regard to the PM system of hybrid dysgenesis. >Ten years later, we would like to realise a similar analysis on worldwide ...................... > --------------------- HI ! You should contact the department of Animal ecology at the Leiden University: the adress is: Dierenoecologie Van der Klaauw-Labaratorium Sterrenwachtlaan 2 Leiden The Netherlands They have Drosophila's from the Netherlands, Panama and HongKong Greetings, Anja Henseler From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 21 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!stir.ac.uk!cb5 From: cb5@stir.ac.uk (Dr Carlos Barata) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Determinig Reproductive value at birth in Daphnia Date: 22 Sep 1995 03:48:25 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 44 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I am currently studying the relationship between the energy allocation into growth and reproduction and fitness in different clones of Daphnia magna. Most of the authors have chosen the intrinsic rate of increase (r) as a measure of fitness, however recent publications (Kozlowski,J TREE,1993 8:84-85; Kawecki,T.J.and Stearns, S.C, Evol.Ecol., 1993,7:155-174 and others) have pointed out that in a heterogeneous environment where there are source-sink populations, reproductive value at birth rather than r is the proper measure of fitness. 1)I would like to ask if any one know which of the following expressions are better to calculate the reproductive value given a life table ranging from time 0 (newborn females) to time 26-30 days(six brood adult females), and with a survival of 100 % 1)Va=exp(ra)/la Sum exp(-rx)lxmx, (Fisher's expression) 2)its derivation following Stearns (1992) Va=ma+ la+1/la exp(-r) Va+1 3) Va= exp(r(a-1))/la Sum exp (-rx)lxmx, (Goodman, 1982) 4) its derivation following Stears (1992) Va=exp(-r)ma+ la+1/la exp(-r) va+1 I have already checked all of this expressions with my data and for each expression I found different Va values. I AM ASKING WHY. 2)I would like to ask if is it correct give the row value of the reproductive value at birth. I am asking this because normally the results of Vx are expressed in relation to Vo (Vx/V0). Thank you for you help. Dr Carlos Barata Institute of Aquaculture Ecotox Department Stirling Univ. Scotland, UK From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 21 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!highway.LeidenUniv.nl!usenet From: Anja Henseler Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: research drosophila populations Date: 21 Sep 1995 18:53:04 GMT Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands Lines: 27 Message-ID: <43scag$md3@highway.LeidenUniv.nl> References: <43rhkg$esr@vishnu.jussieu.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: rulc14.leidenuniv.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) higuet@ccr.jussieu.fr (Higuet) wrote: > >In the eighties, we have studied a great number of natural populations of >Drosophila melanogaster in regard to the PM system of hybrid dysgenesis. >Ten years later, we would like to realise a similar analysis on worldwide ...................... > --------------------- HI ! You should contact the department of Animal ecology at the Leiden University: the adress is: Dierenoecologie Van der Klaauw-Labaratorium Sterrenwachtlaan 2 Leiden The Netherlands They have Drosophila's from the Netherlands, Panama and HongKong Greetings, Anja Henseler From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Sep 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 Sep 1995 02:00:34 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 309 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199509230900.CAA24784@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. 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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 Sat Sep 23 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: mescioli@ix.netcom.com (Mike Scioli) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: REACH 5 MILLION INTERNET SUBSCRIBERS CALL 505-821-1945 LOW COST! Date: 24 Sep 1995 14:08:46 GMT Organization: MSE Consultants Lines: 20 Message-ID: <443ope$a3k@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> References: <442sid$smv@newsie.wis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-aus4-02.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Sep 24 7:08:46 AM PDT 1995 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 In article <442sid$smv@newsie.wis.com>, SPAMKING@marketing.com says... > >ATTENTION ALL BUSINESS OWNERS, ADVERTISING AND MARKETING PROFESSIONALS! > >MASS E-MAIL & POST > To Over 5,000,000 (Million) Internet Subscribers >With Your Advertising Message. > > YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO OWN A COMPUTER! > >Remember that your Service Provider will bump you off. A better fate for you, inconsiderate maggot, is to be returned to the dung pile from which you orginially crawled! -- Mike Scioli email: mescioli@ix.netcom.com MSE Consultants voice: 1-512/292-4214 Austin, TX fax: 1-512/292-4272 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Sep 24 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.starnet.net!wupost!spectre.prin.edu!usenet From: *@spectre.prin.edu (**) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Pileated woodpeckers Date: 22 Sep 1995 13:59:04 GMT Organization: Principia Lines: 1 Message-ID: <43uff8$6ks@spectre.prin.edu> Reply-To: *@prin.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: 155.106.1.102 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.2 I'm looking for information associated with pileated woodpeckers and their population numbers in mature oak-history forestland. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Sep 25 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!hades.rz.uni-sb.de!news From: su16pmtw@rz.uni-sb.de (Thomas Weiss) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Information on Bison Farming? Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 07:02:39 GMT Organization: Institute for Biogeography Lines: 29 Message-ID: <448btt$3t5@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: netslip13.rz.uni-sb.de X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hello everybody, Hope you dont feel this is the wrong group for this: Does anybody have information about Bison farming in the US / Canada? Where can I get Information relating to feasability in terms of Prairie Conservation (as opposed to traditional cattle farming)? Adresses anyone? I heard that the idea of bison farming is even exported to Germany (although we have Bison bonasus here)! Thanks everybody, Tom --------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Weiss Institut fuer Biogeographie Universitaet des Saarlandes Breitenbacherstr. 14 D-66115 Saarbruecken e-mail: thwes@stud.uni-sb.de su16pmtw@rz.uni-sb.de Tel: +49-681-49307 C-Serve: 100602,3105 Fax: +49-681-49307 100602.3105@compuserve.com Biogeography at: http://www.uni-sb.de/philfak/fb6/fr66/fr66.htm From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Sep 26 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.rediris.es!power.ci.uv.es!salaific.ific.uv.es!kike From: kike@uv.es (Enrique.Gallego@uv.es) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Information on Bison Farming? Date: 27 Sep 1995 11:33:25 GMT Organization: Universidad de Valencia Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <448btt$3t5@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: salaific.ific.uv.es In article <448btt$3t5@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> su16pmtw@rz.uni-sb.de (Thomas Weiss) writes: >Path: power.ci.uv.es!news.rediris.es!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!hades.rz.uni-sb.de!news >From: su16pmtw@rz.uni-sb.de (Thomas Weiss) >Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio >Subject: Information on Bison Farming? >Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 07:02:39 GMT >Organization: Institute for Biogeography >Lines: 29 >Message-ID: <448btt$3t5@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> >NNTP-Posting-Host: netslip13.rz.uni-sb.de >X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 >Hello everybody, > >Hope you dont feel this is the wrong group for this: > >Does anybody have information about Bison farming in the US / Canada? >Where can I get Information relating to feasability in terms of >Prairie Conservation (as opposed to traditional cattle farming)? >Adresses anyone? >I heard that the idea of bison farming is even exported to Germany >(although we have Bison bonasus here)! > >Thanks everybody, > >Tom > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------- > >Thomas Weiss Institut fuer Biogeographie > Universitaet des Saarlandes >Breitenbacherstr. 14 >D-66115 Saarbruecken e-mail: thwes@stud.uni-sb.de > su16pmtw@rz.uni-sb.de >Tel: +49-681-49307 C-Serve: 100602,3105 >Fax: +49-681-49307 100602.3105@compuserve.com > >Biogeography at: http://www.uni-sb.de/philfak/fb6/fr66/fr66.htm >