From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Mar 03 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!wnfeed!worldnet.att.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!152.163.199.19!portc03.blue.aol.com!audrey02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: haroldb786@aol.com (HaroldB786) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: re: gibbons(Hylobates lar) Date: 4 Mar 1998 20:54:07 GMT Lines: 8 Message-ID: <19980304205401.PAA08212@ladder02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder02.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Sorry, I got interrupted.... this is for the person looking for gibbon dna for three base repeats..... I found 62 dna's in EBI.... not all of them are genomic, but it is a start.... you may need to be more specific in your needs..... good luck, harold berninghausen From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Mar 05 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!dcs.st-and.ac.uk!len From: len@dcs.st-and.ac.uk ("Len Thomas") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Workshop announcement: Wildlife population assessment Date: 6 Mar 1998 08:09:28 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 77 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9803061558.AA21851@dolphin.dcs.st-and.ac.uk> Reply-To: "Len Thomas" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net _____________________________ R U W P A W O R K S H O P S _____________________________ ----------------------------- Three international workshops on wildlife population assessment _______________________________________________________________ Hosted by the Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment (RUWPA), University of St Andrews, Scotland August 4-14 1998 Design and Analysis of Distance Sampling Surveys The design and analysis of line and point transect surveys. Many assessments of abundance of terrestrial and marine vertebrates are carried out using distance sampling methods. The workshop will be a blend of theory and practice, and participants will be trained in the use of the new, windows version of the software DISTANCE. Instructors: Steve Buckland, David Borchers and Len Thomas (University of St Andrews) Dates: August 4-7 Survival Estimation from Data on Populations of Marked Animals The theory and application of band recovery and capture-recapture models for estimating survival rates from marked animals. Participants will be trained in the use of state-of-the-art software MARK. Instructors: Gary White (Colorado State University), David Anderson and Ken Burnham (Colorado Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit) Dates: August 10-13 Latest Developments in Distance Sampling An introduction to recent advances in distance sampling methodology and to a new, windows-based release of DISTANCE. Participants should already be familiar with distance sampling methods. Both biologists and statisticians are welcome. Instructors: Len Thomas, Steve Buckland, David Borchers Discussants: David Anderson, Ken Burnham Date: August 14 The workshops will comprise lectures, computer sessions and special topic discussion groups. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data sets. We do not recommend attendance at both distance sampling workshops due to overlap. Further details and registration information from: Workshop organiser Tel: +44 (0) 1334 463813 RUWPA Fax: +44 (0) 1334 463748 Mathematical Institute North Haugh e-mail: steve@mcs.st-and.ac.uk St Andrews Fife KY16 9SS Scotland OR via www at: http://www-ruwpa.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/workshop/ From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Mar 06 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-penn.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!denver-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!coop.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!yuma!usenet From: Andy P Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: SOIL ans SEDIMENT projects for IBOY Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 16:20:02 -0700 Organization: NREL Lines: 95 Message-ID: <3501D5F0.412F@cinna.nrel.colostate.edu> Reply-To: andy@nrel.colostate.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: threeawn.nrel.colostate.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Dear Colleagues: As you may know, the international biodiversity program, DIVERSITAS is planning an International Biodiversity Observation year (IBOY) http://www.lmcp.jussieu.fr/icsu/DIVERSITAS/. probably to begin in 2001 and to last one or, perhaps, two years. The SCOPE (the Scientific Committee on Problems in the Environment) Soil and Sediment Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (SSBEF) Committee is starting to assemble ideas for research/synthesis projects within the IBOY context. Criteria for these projects include: (1) They must relate SOIL and/or SEDIMENT biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (2)They must be international in scope, (3) They should be conceptually broad (4) Ideally, they should be fundable locally as finding international funding may prove to be difficult. Thus, it is hoped individual scientists and volunteers will see themselves as contributors to a global project. (5) They should be able to produce results over the time period, but not necessarily (indeed, almost certainly will not) be expected to be completed. Thus, an IBOY project might launch a longer-term global research effort. In consultation with other colleagues we have begun to assemble a possible list of projects to be discussed more broadly at a Diversitas planning session in three weeks, in Mexico City. We would, first, like to share some possible ideas with you, and get your reaction to them; and second, to solicit any other ideas you might have. 1. World-wide sporocarp (toadstool) survey. A worldwide truffle hunt. In the woodlands of Europe, mushrooms and other fungi are being heavily impacted by human activities. A survey during IBOY will evaluate the degree of the problem. As part of this effort we will tap into the huge and un tapped knowledge base provided by indigenous peoples. Scientists will assess what the loss of fungi could mean for the soil decomposing processes needed by forest ecosystems - and for the humans who depend on forests for erosion control, water purification and other ecosystem services. In the woodlands of Europe, mushrooms are shifting their range, a change that may put pressure on shrubs and trees that depend on certain types of soil fungi. A survey during IBOY will evaluate the role of mushrooms, truffles and other soil-decomposing organisms in ecosystem processes around the world. 2. Comparison of decomposition rates 2(a). Cross-regional comparisons of decomposition rates. This study would look at decomposition rates in soils, freshwater and marine sediments. Within each domain, a 'universal' labile and recalcitrant (wood) substrate would be decomposed at sites at different latitudes. Causal factors that may vary with latitude including climate, precipitation and functional group and species richness and composition will be examined. 2(b)In a sister study, the relative rate of decomposition for native vs. non-native substrates will be determined. (i)across similar biomes at similar latitudes (ii) across similar vegetation types at different latitudes, and (ii) across different biomes at similar and different latitudes 3. An investigation and listing of non-native soil and sediment species invading into damaged (e.g. by acid deposits, N supply, global climate change etc.) native ecosystems. This effort will tap into indigenous peoples' knowledge. 4. To collate all existing data on soil macroinvertebrate communities collected across comparable experiments and stimulate further data collections. This data will then be organized into a database, used to develop synthetic indexes based on macrofauna communities that will evaluate different aspects of soil quality, e.g. biodiversity, pollution, organic content, physical degredation. These are examples of some of the proposed projects. The SCOPE SSBEF Committee would welcome any comments on the above and any suggestions of further projects. We are particularly interested in projects that can engage scientists in the developing regions of the world and may result in increased capacity building and training in those areas. Please email any comments and suggestions Diana Wall (diana@nrel.colostate.edu) (PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THE LISTSERVER)by March 13 1998. Many thanks in advance for your input. Diana Wall. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Mar 10 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 11 Mar 1998 02:00:06 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 233 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199803111000.CAA14771@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. 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From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Mar 10 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Brett Marshall Newsgroups: phl.jobs.offered,sci.bio.ecology,sci.bio.entomology,sci.bio.entomology.misc,sci.bio.conservation,bionet.sci-resources,bionet.population-bio,bionet.jobs.offered,bionet.jobs,sci.bio.systematics,bionet.women-in-bio,sci.bio.fisheries,sci.bio.misc,phl.announce,phl.jobs.offered,phl.outdoors,sci.environment,talk.environment,nj.jobs,dc.jobs,ny.jobs,Pa.jobs Subject: !aquatic biologist position open Date: 10 Mar 1998 18:34:07 -0800 Organization: The Academy of Natural Sciences Lines: 64 Sender: nospam@net.bio.net Approved: news@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <35058A30.5597958D@acnatsci.org> Reply-To: marshall@acnatsci.org NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win16; I) Xref: biosci bionet.sci-resources:2199 bionet.population-bio:2796 bionet.jobs.offered:8261 bionet.women-in-bio:8104 THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES Patrick Center For Environmental Research AQUATIC BIOLOGIST * DUTIES: Assist with basic and applied research programs focusing on the ecology of macroinvertebrates (especially aquatic insects) in streams and lakes. Responsibilities include: 1) sorting, identifying, and determining the mass of macroinvertebrates collected from streams and lakes; and 2) performing statistical analyses of data and preparing interpretive reports using IBM microcomputers. Occasional field work is also required. Position is expected to open near the beginning of April. QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's degree in Biology or Entomology; appropriate training or course work in the identification of macroinvertebrates; experience with data management and statistical analyses using IBM microcomputers, as well as general microcomputer problem-solving. Experience in genus-level taxonomy of Chironomidae is desirable, but not required. The successful applicant will be well organized, self motivated, and flexible, with excellent communication skills. Applicants should be willing to commit to a minimum 2 year term of employment. THE INSTITUTION: The Patrick center for Environmental Research is located in center city Philadelphia, with 10 PhDs and a staff of 30. The mission of the Patrick Center is to: (1) understand river, lake and wetland ecosystems, including the impacts of human activities; (2) apply this knowledge to assess the health of these ecosystems, and develop watershed-level strategies for enhancing environmental quality; and (3) communicate this information to diverse stakeholders to improve environmental stewardship. The Patrick Center is one of three environmental research labs of the Academy of Natural Sciences. The Academy, founded in 1812, is an internationally recognized, non-profit institution devoted to research and education in the natural sciences. The Patrick Center offers an excellent academic working environment and a competitive salary and benefits package. For more information write Brett Marshall at the address below. To apply, submit resume along with the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three references. Brett D. Marshall Patrick Center for Environmental Research Academy of Natural Sciences 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103 marshall@acnatsci.org * Position availability contingent upon funding. An Equal Opportunity Employer From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Mar 10 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!esat.kuleuven.ac.be!Johan.Suykens From: Johan.Suykens@esat.kuleuven.ac.be Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: International Workshop Date: 11 Mar 1998 05:45:09 -0800 Organization: ESAT, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Lines: 129 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199803111341.OAA00032@euler.esat.kuleuven.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Second call for papers International Workshop on *** ADVANCED BLACK-BOX TECHNIQUES FOR NONLINEAR MODELING: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS *** with !!! TIME-SERIES PREDICTION COMPETITION !!! Date: July 8-10, 1998 Place: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium On-line Info: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/ Organized at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-SISTA) and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Networks (ICNN) in the framework of the project KIT and the Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Pole IUAP P4/02. In cooperation with the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. * GENERAL SCOPE The rapid growth of the field of neural networks, fuzzy systems and wavelets is offering a variety of new techniques for modeling of nonlinear systems in the broad sense. These topics have been investigated from differents points of view including statistics, identification and control theory, approximation theory, signal processing, nonlinear dynamics, information theory, physics and optimization theory among others. The aim of this workshop is to serve as an interdisciplinary forum for bringing together specialists in these research disciplines. Issues related to the fundamental theory as well as real-life applications will be addressed at the workshop. * TIME-SERIES PREDICTION COMPETITION Within the framework of this workshop a time-series prediction competition will be held. The results of the competition will be announced during the workshop, where the winner will be awarded. Participants in the competition are asked to submit their predicted data together with a short description and references of the methods used. In order to stimulate wide participation in the competition, attendance of the workshop is not mandatory but is of course encouraged. All information about this contest is available at http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/ . * INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed) L. Feldkamp (Ford Research, USA) - Extended Kalman filtering C. Micchelli (IBM T.J. Watson, USA) - Density estimation U. Parlitz (Gottingen, Germany) - Nonlinear time-series analysis J. Sjoberg (Goeteborg, Sweden) - Nonlinear system identification S. Tan (Beijing, China) - Wavelet-based system modeling V. Vapnik (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) - Support vector method of function estimation M. Vidyasagar (Bangalore, India) - Statistical learning theory V. Wertz (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) - Fuzzy modeling A workshop book containing the invited talks will be published by Kluwer and will be available at the workshop. * TOPICS include but are not limited to Nonlinear system identification Backpropagation Time series analysis Learning and nonlinear optimization Multilayer perceptrons Recursive algorithms Radial basis function networks Extended Kalman filtering Fuzzy modelling Embedding dimension Wavelets Subspace methods Piecewise linear models Identifiability Mixture of experts Model selection and validation Universal approximation Simulated annealing Recurrent networks Genetic algorithms Regularization Forecasting Bayesian estimation Frequency domain identification Density estimation Classification Information geometry Real-life applications Generalization Software * REGISTRATION Registration fee: 6500 BF for IEEE members and students, and 7500 BF for others (1 US Dollar is approximately 37.5 BF). It includes the workshop book, proceedings, lunches, dinners, refreshments/coffee. For registration form and payment, see http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/ . * HOTEL INFORMATION A block of rooms has been reserved at Begijnhof Congreshotel, New Damshire, Holiday Inn and Ibis. For more information in order to contact the hotels, see http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/. * IMPORTANT DATES Deadline paper submission: April 2, 1998 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 1998 Workshop: July 8-10, 1998 Time-series competition: Deadline data submission: March 20, 1998 * Chairman: Johan Suykens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Departement Elektrotechniek - ESAT/SISTA Kardinaal Mercierlaan 94 B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium Tel: 32/16/32 18 02 Fax: 32/16/32 19 70 Email: Johan.Suykens@esat.kuleuven.ac.be Program Committee: B. De Moor, E. Deprettere, D. Roose, J. Schoukens, S. Tan, J. Vandewalle, V. Wertz, Y. Yu From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Mar 18 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!howland.erols.net!fci-se!fci!masternews.telia.net!mn6.swip.net!mn5.swip.net!not-for-mail From: Harkonen Harding Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Anybody here? Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:33:12 +0100 Organization: A customer of Tele2 Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3511020F.4DF0@sealproject.pp.se> Reply-To: tero.karin.h@sealproject.pp.se NNTP-Posting-Host: mn8.swip.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: mn5.swip.net 890307168 10842 (None) 192.71.180.98 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@swip.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (Macintosh; I; PPC) Cache-Post-Path: mn8!s-6367@dialup123-1-54.swipnet.se I have several times tried to read this newsgrup, but it is never any messages here. Has this gruop ceased to be? I´m a studying population biology of seals (harbour, ringed and grey seal). I would like to find people who are intersted in discussions about modelling pop. growth, metapop. and similar topics. We have modelled the development of the Baltic Sea populations during this century, using hunting statistics. I wonder if there is any other biologist who have experience, and could give advices, about this kind of "reconstructions" of population development. Karin Harding From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Mar 19 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!newsfeed.wli.net!newsfeed.ecrc.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!univ-lyon1.fr!news.univ-aix.fr!newsup.univ-mrs.fr!news From: "Labo systematique evolutive" Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Myotis capaccinii Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 17:46:49 +0100 Organization: UNIVERSITE MARSEILLE Lines: 17 Message-ID: <6euaoq$qlr@newsup.univ-mrs.fr> References: <3511020F.4DF0@sealproject.pp.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: criup14.univ-mrs.fr X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Hello I study a bat species named Myotis capaccinii, and i'm looking for any informations about original observations on this species. This species is widespread in the mediterranean area and middle east. Thank-you. Emmanuel Cosson Laboratoire de systematique evolutive, case 5 Université de Provence 3 place Victor Hugo 13331 MARSEILLE cedex 03 lsysevol@newsup.mrs-univ.fr From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Mar 21 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!rutgers!rockyd.rockefeller.edu!news-pen-14.sprintlink.net!206.229.87.26!news-east.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-ge.switch.ch!cmir.arnes.si!kanja.arnes.si!not-for-mail From: Andrej Sorgo Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Myotis capaccinii Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 10:44:28 +0100 Organization: ARNES Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3514DD7C.B7991176@guest.arnes.si> References: <3511020F.4DF0@sealproject.pp.se> <6euaoq$qlr@newsup.univ-mrs.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: mb3-5a.dial-up.arnes.si Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) To: Labo systematique evolutive X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Myotys capaccini can be found in Slovenia in Kolpa valley and in the coastal region (Primorska). According to the book: Krystufek, B. Sesalci Slovenije (Mammals of Slovenia) . PMS 1991. (Museum of Natural History) four locations are documented in the literature. Species was found during summer and at hibernation during winter. Andrej Sorgo, Prva gimnazija Maribor, Slovenija Labo systematique evolutive wrote: > Hello > > I study a bat species named Myotis capaccinii, and i'm looking for any > > informations about original observations on this species. This species > is > widespread in the mediterranean area and middle east. > > Thank-you. > > Emmanuel Cosson > Laboratoire de systematique evolutive, case 5 > Université de Provence > 3 place Victor Hugo > 13331 MARSEILLE cedex 03 > lsysevol@newsup.mrs-univ.fr From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Mar 22 22:00:00 1998 From: "JWE" Subject: World Wide need for Decomposition Prediction Software.(Grain Storage.) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 05:43:09 -0500 Lines: 47 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Message-ID: <#xJpk8XV9GA.288@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net> Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!agate!newsfeed.kornet.nm.kr!nntp.kreonet.re.kr!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!207.68.152.12!upnetnews01!upnetnews02 I would like to turn your attention to grain storage. In that I believe that with proper air sampling that an evaluation of the bacteria and fungus present in the storage facility, along with attainable data from lab cultures of such grain infecting bacteria and funguses, software can be developed that uses the humidity of a grain storage facility to determin the rate of decomposition. Within the event of decomposition being known the software would be used to predetermin the length of time that grain in storage after harvest will be fit for human consumption. This would be used in conjunction with a De-humidification system to completely dry what is appearantly already dry grain. This would be done to increase the time that grain can be stored, by removing the moisture that is responsible for premature sprouting of grains, growth of funguses, rate of bacterial growth, and the overall rate of decomposition. In order to prevent the risk of grain fires, or grain dust explosions, a properly calibrated humidity sensor. I believe that this can be done at 20 volts using a DC air resistance measuring device prepared to measure resistances up to 100 Tera ohms in order to prevent arcing and the potential of grain fires starting at the sensor. I reassure you that I have done a few calculations and have had some experiance in electronics, and these are close to correct. I know the importance of high impedances in preventing arcs. Second, if the system is designed to preform a second function that ultra low de-humified environments can be utilized. Unless an absolutely de-humidified storage facility is closed, or sealed in such a way grain will not be removed until it can be humidified the eliminate the risk of static electricity's potential of generating enough static electricity for a grain fire or explosion to become eventual, but with a humidifier the problem of opening sealed storage sites is reduced to almost none. I base this solution of prolong storage systems of the longevity of beef jerky, a few seeds found in desert climates carbon dated at 75 years old, and active pollen grains carbon dated around 100 years old. James William Elger. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Mar 23 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!CNS.BU.EDU!cns-cas From: cns-cas@CNS.BU.EDU (Boston University - Cognitive and Neural Systems) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: call for registration Date: 24 Mar 1998 08:53:19 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 529 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199803241633.LAA28911@maverick.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net CALL FOR REGISTRATION and MEETING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS May 27-30, 1998 Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts http://cns-web.bu.edu/cns-meeting/ Sponsored by Boston University's Center for Adaptive Systems and Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems with financial support from DARPA and ONR How Does the Brain Control Behavior? How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence? The conference will include 125 invited lectures and contributed lectures and posters by experts from 25 countries on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. The conference is aimed at researchers and students of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, artificial neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence. A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be highly visible. Costs are kept at a minimum without compromising the quality of meeting handouts and social events. Although Memorial Day falls on Saturday, May 30, it is observed on Monday, May 25, 1998. Over 200 people attended last year's meeting, so early registration is recommended. To register, please fill out the registration form below. Student registrations must be accompanied by a letter of verification from a department chairperson or faculty/research advisor. 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Registration fees will be returned on request only until April 30, 1998. ************************* REGISTRATION FORM Second International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Tutorials: May 27, 1998 Meeting: May 28-30, 1998 FAX: (617) 353-7755 (Please Type or Print) Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof: _____________________________________________________ Name: ______________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code: __________________________________________ Phone and Fax: _____________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________ The conference registration fee includes the meeting program, reception, two coffee breaks each day, and meeting proceedings. The tutorial registration fee includes tutorial notes and two coffee breaks. CHECK ONE: ( ) $70 Conference plus Tutorial (Regular) ( ) $45 Conference plus Tutorial (Student) ( ) $45 Conference Only (Regular) ( ) $30 Conference Only (Student) ( ) $25 Tutorial Only (Regular) ( ) $15 Tutorial Only (Student) METHOD OF PAYMENT (please fax or mail): [ ] Enclosed is a check made payable to "Boston University". Checks must be made payable in US dollars and issued by a US correspondent bank. Each registrant is responsible for any and all bank charges. [ ] I wish to pay my fees by credit card (MasterCard, Visa, or Discover Card only). Name as it appears on the card: _____________________________________ Type of card: _______________________________________________________ Account number: _____________________________________________________ Expiration date: ____________________________________________________ Signature: __________________________________________________________ ************************* MEETING SCHEDULE Wednesday, May 27, 1998 (Tutorials): 7:45am---8:30am MEETING REGISTRATION 8:30am--10:00am Larry Abbott: "Short-term synaptic plasticity: Mathematical description and computational function" 10:00am--10:30am COFFEE BREAK 10:30am--12:00pm George Cybenko: "Understanding Q-learning and other adaptive learning methods" 12:00pm---1:30pm LUNCH 1:30pm---3:00pm Ennio Mingolla: "Neural models of biological vision" 3:00pm---3:30pm COFFEE BREAK 3:30pm---5:00pm Alex Pentland: "Visual recognition of people and their behavior" Thursday, May 28, 1998 (Invited Talks, Contributed Talks, and Posters): 7:15am---8:00am MEETING REGISTRATION 7:55am---8:00am Stephen Grossberg: "Welcome and Introduction" 8:00am---8:45am Azriel Rosenfeld: "Understanding object motion" 8:45am---9:30am Takeo Kanade: "Computational sensors: Further progress" 9:30am--10:15am Tomaso Poggio: "Sparse representations for learning" 10:15am--10:45am COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION I 10:45am--11:30am Gail Carpenter: "Applications of ART neural networks" 11:30am--12:15pm Rodney Brooks: "Experiments in developmental models for a neurally controlled humanoid robot" 12:15pm---1:00pm Lee Feldkamp: "Recurrent networks: Promise and practice" 1:00pm---2:15pm LUNCH 2:15pm---3:15pm PLENARY TALK: Stephen Grossberg: "Adaptive resonance theory: From biology to technology" 3:15pm---3:30pm T.P. Caudell, P. Soliz, S.C. Nemeth, and G.P. Matthews: "Adaptive resonance theory: Diagnostic environment for clinical ophthalmology" 3:30pm---3:45pm Nabeel Murshed, Adnan Amin, and Samir Singh: "Recognition of handwritten Chinese characters with the fuzzy ARTMAP neural network" 3:45pm---4:00pm Yukinori Suzuki and Junji Maeda: "ECG wave form recognition with ART 2" 4:00pm---4:15pm Thomas E. Sandidge and Cihan H. Dagli: "Toward optimal fuzzy associative systems using interactive self-organizing maps and multi-layer feed forward principles" 4:15pm---4:30pm Alan Stocker: "Application of neural computational principles to compute smooth optical flow" 4:30pm---4:45pm Sorin Draghici and Valeriu Beiu: "On issues related to VLSI implementations of neural networks" 4:45pm---5:15pm COFFEE BREAK 4:45pm---7:45pm POSTER SESSION I (see below for details) Friday, May 29, 1998 (Invited and Contributed Talks): 7:30am---8:00am MEETING REGISTRATION 8:00am---8:45am J. Anthony Movshon: "Contrast gain control in the visual cortex" 8:45am---9:30am Hugh Wilson: "Global processes at intermediate levels of form vision" 9:30am--10:15am Mel Goodale: "Biological teleassistance: Perception and action in the human visual system" 10:15am--10:45am COFFEE BREAK 10:45am--11:30am Ken Stevens: "The categorical representation of speech and its traces in acoustics and articulation" 11:30am--12:15pm Carol Fowler: "Production-perception links in speech" 12:15pm---1:00pm Frank Guenther: "A theoretical framework for speech acquisition and production" 1:00pm---2:15pm LUNCH 2:15pm---2:30pm S. Oddo, J. Beck, and E. Mingolla: "Texture segregation in chromatic element- arrangement patterns" 2:30pm---2:45pm Joseph S. Lappin and Warren D. Craft: "The spatial structure of visual input explains perception of local surface shape" 2:45pm---3:00pm Glenn Becker and Peter Bock: "The ALISA shape module: Adaptive shape classification using a radial feature token" 3:00pm---3:15pm Sachin Ahuja and Bart Farell: "Stereo vision in a layered world" 3:15pm---3:30pm A.W. Przybyszewski, W. Foote, and D.A. Pollen: "Contrast gain of primate LGN neurons is controlled by feedback from V1" 3:30pm---3:45pm Bertram R. Payne and Stephen G. Lomber: "It doesn't add up: Non-linear interactions in the visual cerebral network" 3:45pm---4:00pm Larry Cauller: "NeuroInteractivism: Dynamical sensory/motor solutions to exploration inverse problems based upon the functional architecture of cerebral cortex" 4:00pm---4:30pm COFFEE BREAK 4:30pm---4:45pm Rashmi Sinha, William Heindel, and Leslie Welch: "Evidence for retinotopy in category learning" 4:45pm---5:00pm Michele Fabre-Thorpe, Ghislaine Richard, and Arnaud Delorme: "Color is not necessary for rapid categorization of natural images" 5:00pm---5:15pm Timothy C. Pearce, Todd A. Dickenson, David R. Walt, and John S. Kauer: "Exploiting statistics of signals obtained from large numbers of chemically sensitive polymer beads to implement hyperacuity in an artificial olfactory system" 5:15pm---5:30pm A. Wichert and G. Palm: "Hierarchical categorization" 5:30pm---5:45pm Nabil H. Farhat: "Bifurcation networks: An approach to cortical modeling and higher-level brain function" 5:45pm---6:00pm Robert Hecht-Nielsen: "A theory of the cerebral cortex" 6:00pm---8:00pm MEETING RECEPTION Saturday, May 30 (Invited Talks, Contributed Talks, and Posters): 7:30am---8:00am MEETING REGISTRATION 8:00am---8:45am Howard Eichenbaum: "The hippocampus and mechanisms of declarative memory" 8:45am---9:30am Earl Miller: "Neural mechanisms for working memory and cognition" 9:30am--10:15am Bruce McNaughton: "Neuronal population dynamics and the interpretation of dreams" 10:15am--10:45am COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION II 10:45am--11:30am Richard Thompson: "The cerebellar circuitry essential for classical conditioning of discrete behavioral responses" 11:30am--12:15pm Daniel Bullock: "Cortical control of arm movements" 12:15pm---1:00pm Andrew Barto: "Reinforcement learning applied to large-scale dynamic optimization" 1:00pm---2:15pm LUNCH 2:15pm---3:15pm PLENARY TALK: Ken Nakayama: "Psychological studies of visual attention" 3:15pm---3:30pm Emery N. Brown, Loren M. Frank, Dengda Tang, Michael C. Quirk, and Matthew A. Wilson: "A statistical model of spatial information encoding in the rat hippocampus" 3:30pm---3:45pm Michael Herrmann, Klaus Pawelzik, and Theo Geisel: "Self-localization of a robot by simultaneous self-organization of place and direction selectivity" 3:45pm---4:00pm Stefan Schaal and Dagmar Sternad: "Segmentation of endpoint trajectories does not imply segmented control" 4:00pm---4:15pm Stefan Schaal and Dagmar Sternad: "Nonlinear dynamics as a coherent framework for discrete and rhythmic movement primitives" 4:15pm---4:30pm Andrew L. Kun and W. Thomas Miller: "Unified walking control for a biped robot using neural networks" 4:30pm---4:45pm J.L. Buessler and J.P. Urban: "Global training of modular neural architectures in robotics" 4:45pm---5:15pm COFFEE BREAK 4:45pm---7:45pm POSTER SESSION II (see below for details) POSTER SESSION I: Thursday, May 28, 1998 All posters will be displayed for the full day. Cognition, Learning, Recognition (B): #1 A. Tijsseling, M. Casey, and S. Harnad: "Categories as attractors" #2 Vinoth Jagaroo: "Allocentric spatial processing and some of their cortical neural nodes: A neuropsychological investigation" #3 M.J. Denham and S.L. McCabe: "A dynamic learning rule for synaptic modification" #4 M.J. Denham and S.L. McCabe: "A computational model of predictive learning in hippocampal CA3 principal cells of the rat during spatial activity" #5 Nina Emilia Poriet Ramirez and Andreu Catala Mallofre: "Qualitative approximation of neural cognitive maps" #6 Gary C.-W. Shyi: "Computing representations for bound and unbound 3D object matching" #7 Ghislaine Richard, Michele Fabre-Thorpe, and Arnaud Delorme: "On the similarity between fast visual categorization of natural images in monkeys and humans" #8 Robert Proulx and Sylvain Chartier: "Reproduction of the list-length and the list-strength effect in unsupervised neural networks" #9 Jean-Claude Dreher and Emmanuel Guigon: "A model of dopamine modulation on sustained activities in prefrontal cortex" #10 Oury Monchi and John G. Taylor: "Neural modeling of the anatomical areas involved in working memory tasks" Cognition, Learning, Recognition (T): #11 Christophe Lecerf: "The double loop learning model" #12 V. Petridis and Ath. Kehagias: "A general convergence result for data allocation in online unsupervised learning methods" #13 C.S. Liu and C.H. Tseng: "Hierarchical decomposition training algorithm for multilayer Perceptron networks" #14 Antonio Ballarin and Simona Gervasi: "Political surveys and scenario simulations" #15 Regis Quelavoine and Pascal Nocera: "Transients classification, learning with expert interaction" #16 John R. Alexander Jr.: "How technology CAN emulate biological intelligence: Begin at the beginning - a speculation" #17 Maria P. Alvarez: "A supervised learning algorithm for feedforward networks with inhibitory lateral connections" #18 Mark A. Rubin, Michael A. Cohen, Joanne S. Luciano, and Jacqueline A. Samson: "Can we predict the outcome of treatment for depression?" #19 Irak Vicarte Mayer and Haruhisa Takahashi: "Object matching by principal component analysis" #20 Jun Saiki: "A neural network model for computation of object-based spatial relations" #21 Harald Ruda and Magnus Snorrason: "An algorithm for the construction of a hierarchical classifier using single trial learning and self-organizing neural networks" #22 Gail A. Carpenter and William W. Streilein: "Fuzzy ARTMAP neural networks for data fusion and sonar classification" #23 William W. Streilein and Paolo Gaudiano: "Autonomous robotics: Object identification and classification through sonar" #24 Nabeel Murshed, Ana Cristina de Carvalho, Regiane Aires, and Sergio Ossamu Ioshii: "Detection of carcinoma with the fuzzy ARTMAP NN" #25 Gail A. Carpenter, Sucharita Gopal, Scott Macomber, Siegfried Martens, and Curtis E. Woodcock: "Mapping vegetation ground cover with fuzzy ARTMAP" #26 Siegfried Martens and Paolo Gaudiano: "Mobile robot sensor fusion with an ARTMAP neural network" #27 Tayeb Nedjari and Younes Bennani: "Symbolic-connectionist interaction" #28 Eduardo da Fonesca Melo and Edson Costa de Barros Carvalho Filho: "An autonomous multi feature selective attention neural network model" #29 Wonil Kim, Kishan Mehrotra, and Chilukuri K. Mohan: "Learning collages: An adaptive multi-module approximation network" #30 Christine Lisetti: "Connectionist modeling of emotional arousal along the autonomic nervous system" Neural System Models (B): #31 Roger A. Drake: "Redundant behavioral measures of activation: Leftward visual inattention" #32 Michael Lamport Commons: "Can neural nets be conscious and have a sense of free will?" #33 Fabio R. Melfi and Andre C.P. Carvalho: "Human performance in maze navigation problems" #34 K. Gurney, A. Prescott, and P. Redgrave: "A model of intrinsic processing in the basal ganglia" Neural System Models (T): #35 (presentation withdrawn by the authors) #36 Robert Alan Brown: "Machine bonding" #37 Kit S. Choy and Peter D. Scott: "Reinforcement learning enhanced by learning from exemplary behaviors" #38 Andras Peter: "A neural network for self-adaptive classification" POSTER SESSION II: Saturday, May 30, 1998 All posters will be displayed for the full day. Vision (B): #1 Magnus Snorrason, Harald Ruda, and James Hoffman: "Visual search patterns in photo-realistic imagery" #2 Drazen Domijan: "New mechanism for luminance channel in the network model of brightness perception" #3 Colin W.G. Clifford and Michael R. Ibbotson: "Adaptive encoding of visual motion: Modelling the response properties of directional neurons in the accessory optic system" #4 J.R. Williamson and S. Grossberg: "How cortical development leads to perceptual grouping" #5 Stephen G. Lomber and Bertram R. Payne: "Behavioral dissociations in visual cortex: A multi-dimensional view of the cerebrum" Audition, Speech, Language (B + T): #6 Robert A. Baxter and Thomas F. Quatieri: "AM-FM estimation by shunting neural networks" #7 Lars Koop and Holger U. Prante: "Classification of artificial and natural sounds with stationary and temporal self-organized feature maps" #8 S.L. McCabe: "Synaptic depression and temporal order identification" #9 Fatima T. Husain and Frank H. Guenther: "Experimental tests of neural models of the perceptual magnet effect" #10 Jerome Braun and Haim Levkowitz: "Perceptually guided training in recurrent neural networks based automatic language identification" #11 Shinji Karasawa, Ken-ichi Suzuki, and Jun-ichii Oomori: "The artificial intelligence organized by decoders for language processing" Spatial Mapping and Navigation (B): #12 Herve Frezza-Buet and Frederic Alexandre: "A model of cortical activation for robot navigation" #13 William Gnadt and Stephen Grossberg: "A self-organizing neural network model of spatial navigation and planning" Control and Robotics (T): #14 Jesse Reichler and Clay Holroyd: "An architecture for autonomous control and planning in uncertain domains" #15 Fernando J. Corbacho: "Biologically inspired design principles for autonomous agents" #16 Erol Sahin, Paolo Gaudiano, and Robert Wagner: "A comparison of visual looming and sonar as mobile robot range sensors" #17 J.J. Collins and Malachy Eaton: "Situated pursuit and evasion using temporal difference learning" #18 Kent Thompson and Wayne Lu: "The big eyeballs project" #19 Stevo Bozinovski, Georgi Stojanov, and Liljana Bozinovska: "Learning sparse environments using emotionally reinforced neural network" #20 Catalin V. Buhusi and Nestor A. Schmajuk: "Stimulus selection mechanisms: Implications for artificial life systems" VLSI (T): #21 Richard Izak and Thomas Zahn: "Modeling auditory pathway: A neuromorphic VLSI system with integrate and fire neurons and on-chip learning synapses" #22 Todd Hinck and Allyn E. Hubbard: "Combining featural and boundary information to create a surface representation: A hardware paradigm" #23 Christian Karl and Allyn E. Hubbard: "Pipelined asynchronous communication between large arrays" #24 Catherine Collin and Susanne Still: "Towards a neuronally-controlled walking machine" #25 Radu Dogaru and Leon O. Chua: "Emergent computation in cellular neural networks with FitzHugh-Nagumo cells: A novel approach based on the local activity theory" Hybrid Systems and Industrial Applications (T): #26 Geoffrey N. Hone and Richard Scaife: "The SME Machine: A non-learning network implemented in a commercial spreadsheet delivers Subject Matter Expert judgments" #27 A. Bernatzki, W. Eppler, and H. Gemmeke: "Neural network debugger (NNDB) using local principal component analysis (LPCA) for high-dimensional input data" #28 Peter Sincak, Norbert Kopco, Rudolf Jaksa, and Marek Bundzel: "Computational intelligence tools for environmental applications" #29 Leo Chau-Kuang Liau and Robert W. McLaren: "The application of a neural net to parameter optimization of a continuous stirred tank reactor" #30 Brian M. O'Rourke: "Advanced time series modeling with neural networks" Neural System Models (B): #31 Clay Holroyd, Jesse Reichler, and Michael G.H. Coles: "Generation of error-related scalp potentials by a mesencephalic dopamine system for error processing" #32 Christian W. Eurich, Klaus Pawelzik, and John G. Milton: "Encoding temporal patterns by delay adaptation in networks of spiking neurons" #33 J.F. Gomez, F.J. Lopera, E. Marin, D. Pineda, and A. Rios: "A computer model using neuroimaging of a cyclic cortical wave for brain development, adult-brain-steady-state, and cerebral degeneration" Neural System Models (T): #34 M. Sreenivasa Rao and Arun K. Pujari: "A new neural network architecture with associative memory, pruning and order-sensitive learning" #35 L.M. Gelman and N.I. Bouraou: "Adaptive method for object recognition" #36 Alexandra I. Cristea and Toshio Okamoto: "Deduction of an L-based energy function for SE prediction" #37 Wei Cao and James Burghart: "Pattern-up-mapping method and fractional convergence" #38 Norbert Jankowski: "Controlling the structure of neural networks that grow and shrink" From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Mar 25 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!howland.erols.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!news.uow.edu.au!metro!unsw.edu.au!not-for-mail From: Russell Standish Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: CFP Complex Systems '98 Date: 26 Mar 1998 04:10:32 GMT Organization: University of New South Wales Lines: 54 Message-ID: <6fckfo$mru$3@mirv.unsw.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: parallel.acsu.unsw.edu.au User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971224 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.5 (sun4c)) COMPLEX SYSTEMS '98 Conference Announcement and Call for Papers Complexity Between the Ecos - From Ecology to Economics November 30th-December 2nd or 3rd 1998 University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia "Complexity Between the Ecos - From Ecology to Economics" is the fourth in a series of successful conferences on Complex Systems. The inaugural conference "From Biology to Computation" was held at the Australian National University, Canberra in 1992, subsequent conferences were held at the University of Central Queensland, Rockhampton in 1994 ("Mechanisms of Adapation") and at Charles Sturt University, Albury in 1996 ("From Local Interactions to Global Phenomena"). Tom Ray (artificial life and Tierra) and Andy Wuensche (cellular automata, random boolean networks and DDLab) have accepted invitations to give plenary talks at the conference. Information for authors is available from the Web site. The deadline for full manuscripts is the 30th of June. Please feel free to submit abstracts or outlines of potential submissions prior to the deadline if you feel clarification is necessary. Please register on the website to receive further email announcements. Information on registration and payment for the conference will be available later, as well as accomodation options. At this stage, as decision has not been taken between a 3 day and a 4 day conference, as this will depend on how many people register an interest in submitting a paper. The two weeks following the conference will feature a Complex Systems summer school at Bathurst, a small country city about 4 hours drive from Sydney. Researchers, in particular graduate stduents, are encouraged to attend this to broaden their research skills in Complex Systems. Please refer to the Complex Systems '98 Web site http://parallel.acsu.unsw.edu.au/complex/c98 for more details. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Russell Standish Director High Performance Computing Support Unit, University of NSW Phone 9385 2833 Sydney 2052 Fax 9385 1033 Australia R.Standish@unsw.edu.au Room 1410, Library Tower http://parallel.acsu.unsw.edu.au/rks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Mar 27 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!204.253.208.250!korova.insync.net!uunet!in4.uu.net!venus.hkstar.com!hkstar2!news@hkstar.com From: unixon_31@hotmail.com Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: 17-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID-OXIDOREDUCTASE Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 15:23:37 -0800 Organization: Hong Kong Star Internet Ltd. 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Thanks ref: 17-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID-OXIDOREDUCTASE From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Mar 29 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!esat.kuleuven.ac.be!Johan.Suykens From: Johan.Suykens@esat.kuleuven.ac.be Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 30 Mar 1998 04:47:29 -0800 Organization: ESAT, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Lines: 129 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199803301243.OAA23740@euler.esat.kuleuven.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Last call for papers International Workshop on *** ADVANCED BLACK-BOX TECHNIQUES FOR NONLINEAR MODELING: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS *** Date: July 8-10, 1998 Place: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium On-line Info: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/ Organized at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-SISTA) and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Networks (ICNN) in the framework of the project KIT and the Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Pole IUAP P4/02. In cooperation with the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. * GENERAL SCOPE The rapid growth of the field of neural networks, fuzzy systems and wavelets is offering a variety of new techniques for modeling of nonlinear systems in the broad sense. These topics have been investigated from differents points of view including statistics, identification and control theory, approximation theory, signal processing, nonlinear dynamics, information theory, physics and optimization theory among others. The aim of this workshop is to serve as an interdisciplinary forum for bringing together specialists in these research disciplines. Issues related to the fundamental theory as well as real-life applications will be addressed at the workshop. * TIME-SERIES PREDICTION COMPETITION Within the framework of this workshop a time-series prediction competition has been held. The results of the competition will be announced during the workshop, where the winner will be awarded. Information about this contest is available at http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac. be/sista/workshop/ . * INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed) L. Feldkamp (Ford Research, USA) - Extended Kalman filtering C. Micchelli (IBM T.J. Watson, USA) - Density estimation U. Parlitz (Gottingen, Germany) - Nonlinear time-series analysis J. Sjoberg (Goeteborg, Sweden) - Nonlinear system identification S. Tan (Beijing, China) - Wavelet-based system modeling V. Vapnik (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) - Support vector method of function estimation M. Vidyasagar (Bangalore, India) - Statistical Learning in Modelling, Control and Matrix Theory V. Wertz (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) - Fuzzy modeling A workshop book containing the invited talks will be published by Kluwer and will be available at the workshop. * TOPICS include but are not limited to Nonlinear system identification Backpropagation Time series analysis Learning and nonlinear optimization Multilayer perceptrons Recursive algorithms Radial basis function networks Extended Kalman filtering Fuzzy modelling Embedding dimension Wavelets Subspace methods Piecewise linear models Identifiability Mixture of experts Model selection and validation Universal approximation Simulated annealing Recurrent networks Genetic algorithms Regularization Forecasting Bayesian estimation Frequency domain identification Density estimation Classification Information geometry Real-life applications Generalization Software * PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit five copies of the chairman Johan Suykens (see below). Papers have to be submitted in camera-ready form and should not exceed six pages (including references and figures). Authors are asked to use the two-column LaTeX style file kit.sty (see http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop). * REGISTRATION Registration fee: 6500 BF for IEEE members and students, and 7500 BF for others (1 US Dollar is approximately 37.5 BF). It includes the workshop book, proceedings, lunches, dinners, refreshments/coffee. For registration form and payment, see http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/ . * HOTEL INFORMATION A block of rooms has been reserved at Begijnhof Congreshotel, New Damshire, Holiday Inn and Ibis. For more information in order to contact the hotels, see http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/. * IMPORTANT DATES Deadline paper submission: April 2, 1998 (camera-ready form) Notification of acceptance: May 4, 1998 Workshop: July 8-10, 1998 * Chairman: Johan Suykens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Departement Elektrotechniek - ESAT/SISTA Kardinaal Mercierlaan 94 B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium Tel: 32/16/32 18 02 Fax: 32/16/32 19 70 Email: Johan.Suykens@esat.kuleuven.ac.be Program Committee: B. De Moor, E. Deprettere, D. Roose, J. Schoukens, S. Tan, J. Vandewalle, V. Wertz, Y. Yu From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Mar 29 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!server6.netnews.ja.net!daresbury!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: IMGT news Date: 30 Mar 1998 09:58:38 +0100 Lines: 59 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <6fnmru$7m1@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mserv1.dl.ac.uk id JAA07599 Original-To: bionews@dl.ac.uk, bio-www@dl.ac.uk, gdb@dl.ac.uk, genbankb@dl.ac.uk, immuno@dl.ac.uk, mol-evol@dl.ac.uk, molmodel@dl.ac.uk, molreps@dl.ac.uk, pop-bio@dl.ac.uk, proteins@dl.ac.uk, xtal-log@dl.ac.uk, tibs@dl.ac.uk, HUM-MOLGEN@nic.surfnet.nl, bionews@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il, vetimm@lists.umass.edu, kshreder@znet.com, michaelw@ksg1.harvard.edu Dear Colleague, I will be very grateful if you accepted to diffuse this accompanying announcement so that your members be aware of this new and considerable development of IMGT. With many thanks for you help. Best regards. Yours sincerely. Marie-Paule Lefranc ------------------------------------------ IMGT NEWS - January 1998 "Protein display - 3D representation - Sequences analysis" IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics database, announces: - protein displays of human immunoglobulin and T cell receptor variable region, IMGT description of mutations and allele alignments (IMGT NEWS - Août 1997), - the first 3D representations of antibody and T cell receptor variable regions, based on the IMGT unique numbering defined by Marie-Paule Lefranc (IMGT NEWS - Mars 1997), - IMGT/DNAPLOT for the analysis of human immunoglobulin and T cell receptor rearranged sequences and for the subgroup identification of the mouse IGHV sequences. IMGT is freely accessible at http://imgt.cnusc.fr:8104 Flash on IMGT: > 24 000 Ig and TcR sequences of 81 species > 17 000 sites connected since 1st of january 96 > 2 500 requests a week Initiateur et coordinateur de IMGT : Prof. Marie-Paule Lefranc Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire, LIGM UMR 5535 (CNRS - Université Montpellier II) 1919 route de Mende 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 - France Tél. : +33 (0)4 67 61 36 34 - Fax : +33 (0)4 67 04 02 31 lefranc@ligm.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr IMGT references : Lefranc M.-P., Immunology Today, 18, 509 (1997) Lefranc M.-P. et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 26, 297-303 (1998) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _____________________________________________ Laboratoire d'ImmunoGenetique Moleculaire, LIGM UMR 5535 (CNRS, Universite Montpellier II) 1919 route de Mende 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 - France Tel: +33 (0)4 67 61 36 34 - Fax: +33 (0)4 67 04 02 31/45 http://imgt.cnusc.fr:8104 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Mar 30 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.wli.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!Portugal.EU.net!news.rccn.net!ualg.pt!not-for-mail From: Tiago Guerreiro Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Slipper lobsters Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 16:37:26 +0000 Organization: Servico de News da Universidade do Algarve Lines: 7 Message-ID: <35211BC5.56A7FCE9@aaual.ualg.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.11.84.118 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) I am presently doing some research about slipper lobsters (Scyllaridae in particular). If you have any information about these subject please contact me. Thanx for the atention From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Mar 30 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: Larry Gilbert Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Summer Graduate Research Course in Costa Rica (Corcovado National Park) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:37:42 -0600 Organization: University of Texas at Austin Lines: 30 Message-ID: <35214606.6C9C@mail.utexas.edu> Reply-To: lgilbert@mail.utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: gilbertlab.zo.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Summer Graduate Research Course in Costa Rica (Corcovado National Park) Dr. Larry Gilbert is again offering his Graduate Field Course in Rainforest Research (Zoo384L) in Corcovado National Park, Sirena Station, Costa Rica this summer. In order to get credit for the course, you have to register at UT Austin as a Transient Student. If you wish to take it, please contact him directly as soon as possible at If you know of other students who might be interested in taking it, please pass along this notice. You may check out the course website at (please note the final letter is lower case L, not one). The permit process changes frequently and the web pages have to be updated, so be sure to check the date at the bottom of the web page to affirm that you have the most up-to-date information. This is an excellent course for first or second year grad students who are interested in getting experience or beginning research in the tropics. The course is designed to let each student develop a summer project from the ground up. You make your own research plans and apply for permits yourself (very important experience to have for doing foreign field work). Dr. Gilbert will help you through the processes and assist you in refining experimental methodology in the field. The course also involves informal readings and discussions on the ecology and natural history of lowland tropical rainforests. Sirena station is one of the few places left in Central America where you can easily access an enormous variety of tropical habitats in a place that is reasonably far from human impact. This is excellent opportunity for gaining field experience. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Mar 31 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!leto.ou.edu!news.nodak.edu!prairie.NoDak.edu!abeltran From: abeltran@prairie.NoDak.edu (Alicia Beltran) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: genetic info on manatees Date: 1 Apr 1998 21:24:39 GMT Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Lines: 14 Message-ID: <6fuban$ssc$1@node2.nodak.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: prairie.nodak.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, I am an undergraduate at the University of North Dakota and I have been looking for genetic information on the Caribean Manatee (trichechus manatus), Florida Manatee, and West African Manatee (Trichechus senegalensis), family Sirenia. I am looking for genetic information on these animals to be able to fin the genetic variability of these populations. I would appreciate any publication that would have such data or at least some of it. is there any publication that publishes thinks like these? I need this information for a paper in population Biology and i need to know the genetic differences on these populations. I would appreciate any reference on this. Please respond to abeltran@prairie.Nodak.edu Thank you very much Alicia Beltran