From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Jul 04 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!london-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!diablo.theplanet.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!grapool30.rz.uni-frankfurt.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: minisender Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 21:16:59 +0700 Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <359F8ADB.2ED06B9C@stud.uni-frankfurt> NNTP-Posting-Host: nafp2-045.rz.uni-frankfurt.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [de] (Win95; I) Lines: 11 hi all, is there anyone who allready had the chance to test mini-senders (for gps, physiological parameter) on small animals (reptiles, amphibians)??? -Where to get -costs -reliability Thanks for answering!! Peter From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Jul 10 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 11 Jul 1998 02:00:12 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 233 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199807110900.CAA19703@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. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. For those of you with local USENET news systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new newsgroups and recent postings. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper procedures below. Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it will be ignored. 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For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list the USENET newsgroup name is bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, thus the appropriate commands are sub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts unsub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts These commands are included in a message addressed to mxt@dl.ac.uk, NOT to the newsgroup mailing addresses. As usual, include the text in the body of the message as text on the Subject: line is ignored. To unsubscribe from all the lists at the UK node, use unsub bionet-news Please note that if the address in the list is different than the one in your mail message header, you will not be able to unsubscribe by this method. If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have not already done so. You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jul 12 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!24.128.1.125!chnws03.mediaone.net!24.128.1.107!chnws04.ne.mediaone.net!not-for-mail From: "Lelia C. Orrell" Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Need help finding reference Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:52:46 +0000 Organization: Dept. of Biology, UMass Boston Lines: 31 Message-ID: <35A9E6F6.768BFDD7@umb.edu> Reply-To: lelia.orrell@umb.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: orrell.ne.mediaone.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 (Macintosh; U; PPC) Hello all, I am desperately trying to find the complete reference of a something given to me long ago that was copied from a book. The copy I have has no other information except the author, book chapter, and page numbers. 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So get your credit card ready and order today. http://www.pamporn.com AEXEBXRKFCAOGOKTCDMEBWXGATGPEBELUXZKEYDF From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Jul 27 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!rutgers!rockyd.rockefeller.edu!news-nysernet-5.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news-east.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-backup-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!192.249.1.30!utk.edu!not-for-mail From: pigliucci@utk.edu (Massimo Pigliucci) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: MS and PhD opportunities Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:13:02 GMT Organization: University of Tennessee Lines: 37 Message-ID: <35bdea76.11289030@newsserver.utcc.utk.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bot28.bio.utk.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Opportunities are available for admission in the Masters or PhD programs in the Department of Botany, University of Tennessee-Knoxville (http://fp.bio.utk.edu/botany), to work in ecological and evolutionary genetics with Dr. Massimo Pigliucci (http://fp.bio.utk.edu/pgl). Possible areas of research include (but are not limited to): * Search for genes affecting plasticity genes in recombinat lines from natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. * Studies on multiple environmental stresses (e.g., heat and drought), based on the evidence from molecular literature. * Studies on phenotypic plasticity to extremes of the same environmental factor (e.g., very low and very high temperatures). * Characterization of reaction norms of various types of known mutants (e.g., mutations affecting nitrogen pathways, photoperiod responses, etc.). * Phenotypic plasticity and hormones: studies using mutants and ectopic application of plant hormones. * Experimental and comparative studies of genetic constraints Please, direct your inquiries to: Massimo Pigliucci Department of Botany University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 phone 423-974-6221, email mailto:pigliucci@utk.edu Please, inquire ONLY if seriously (and demonstrably - track record required) interested in ecological and evolutionary genetics. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Jul 29 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!CLEMSON.EDU!aabbott From: aabbott@CLEMSON.EDU ("Albert G. Abbott") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Research assistantship available in applied ecological genetics Date: 30 Jul 1998 16:34:13 -0700 Organization: Clemson University Lines: 21 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <35C102DB.714A5F73@clemson.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Graduate research assistantship (renewable for up to two years) in Applied Ecological Genetics available at Clemson University, starting fall semester 1998 (August) or spring semester 1999 (January). We seek an individual with an interest in utilizing molecular markers to assess gene flow (by pollen and seed) from cultivated plants to wild relatives. The long term goal is to assess ecological risks of transgene escape from bioengineered crops to wild relatives. Current research focuses on strawberries, is funded by the Biotechnology Risk Assessment Program of USDA, and involves a team of scientists at Clemson including Drs. Abbott and Rajapakse (molecular biology), Spira (population biology) Tonkyn (theoretical ecology), and Westman (postdoctoral associate coordinating the research). Candidates should have background and interest in plant genetics/ecology and experience using molecular techniques. Contact Dr. Albert G. Abbott (aalbert@clemson.edu) or Dr. Anne L. Westman (awestma@clemson.edu), Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson SC, 29634-1903; Phone 864-656-3060; Fax 864-656-0435. Clemson University is an equal opportunity /affirmative action employer. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Jul 31 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!stern.nyu.edu!aweigend From: aweigend@stern.nyu.edu (Andreas Weigend) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Computational Finance Jan 6-8 1999 at NYU/Stern: CFP and Registration Date: 1 Aug 1998 06:50:37 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 204 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199808011346.JAA05386@sabai.stern.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Computational Finance (CF99) January 6, 1999 (Tutorials) January 7 - 8 (Conference) Stern School of Business, NYU http://www.stern.nyu.edu/CF99 --> Aug 31, 1998: Deadline for submissions --> Oct 31, 1998: Program posted on the web --> Dec 1, 1998: Deadline for early registration The sixth international conference Computational Finance (CF99) will be held at NYU's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, sponsored by the New York University Salomon Center, the Center for Research on Information Systems and the Department of Statistics and Operations Research. Computational Finance has emerged as a genuinely cross-disciplinary research meeting. CF99 is the sixth in a series of conferences that have been sponsored by the California Institute of Technology and the London Business School. In the past, this conference was called Neural Networks in the Capital Markets (NNCM). The expanding set of computational tools has moved this meeting from its original emphasis on neural network techniques to a broad spectrum of different methodologies. With several hundred attendees, this fully refereed conference has become an international forum where original research in advanced computational applications in finance is presented and discussed. CF99 brings together decision-makers and strategists from the financial industries, with academics from finance, statistics, economics, information systems and other disciplines. In the last few years, the conference has seen papers covering many different computational techniques including: statistical machine learning, Monte Carlo simulation, data mining, knowledge discovery, bootstrapping, genetic algorithms, nonparametric methods and information theory. Applications in many different areas are welcome, including but not limited to: risk management, asset allocation, dynamic trading and hedging strategies, forecasting, numerical solutions of derivative PDEs, option pricing and trading cost control. Studies may cover any major international financial market including equity, foreign exchange, bond, commodity and derivatives. The conference emphasizes in-depth analysis and comparative evaluation with established approaches. CF99 begins with a full day of tutorials designed to inform the diverse group of participants on a selection of the latest tools and research results. The tutorial speakers (on January 6) are: o Prof. Stephen Figlewski, Stern School of Business, New York University o Prof. David A. Hsieh, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University o Prof. Benjamin van Roy, Stanford University o Prof. Halbert White, University of California, San Diego. CF99 has two distinguished keynote speakers (on January 7 and 8): o H. Gifford Fong, President of Gifford Fong Associates o David E. Shaw, PhD, Chairman and CEO of D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. CF99 also features several invited speakers sharing their expertise from both the academic and applied perspectives, as well as talk and poster sessions for the accepted papers. A selection of these papers will appear in a book published by Kluwer in summer 1999. _______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS Authors who wish to present papers should submit four copies along with full contact information, including e-mail addresses, to: CF99 / Andreas Weigend Information Systems Department Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University 44 W 4th St., MEC 9-171 New York, NY 10012, USA The final deadline for receiving the four hardcopies is August 31, 1998. Full papers are preferred, but extended abstracts clearly stating the results are acceptable. Only original and relevant research work will be accepted. Each manuscript will be reviewed anonymously by several members of the program committee. The program co-chairs will notify the corresponding authors of the decision by the end of October. _______________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION The registration fees for the conference and tutorials are as follows. They includes all printed materials, breakfasts, lunches, Thursday dinner, as well as the conference proceedings (Kluwer Academic Publishers). Please register by December 1, 1998 in order to avoid late charges of additional 50%. Rates for early registration (if everything received by December 1): Conference only (no tutorials) [i.e., Jan 7 and 8 only] Standard $600 Academic $300 Student $100 Conference with all tutorials [i.e., Jan 6, 7 and 8] Standard $900 Academic $400 Student $150 To qualify for the reduced rates, both of the following is required: 1) a university e-mail address of the registrant, 2) a photocopy of the faculty's, postdoc's or student's university card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CF99 REGISTRATION FORM Name: __________________________________________________________________ Affiliation: ___________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________ City, State, Zip: ______________________________________________________ Phone: __________________________ Fax: __________________________ E-mail: __________________________ Dietary requests (lunches and dinner): _________________________________ Comments: ______________________________________________________________ Attending: Conference only (no tutorials) OR Conference with tutorials Enclosed is a check (payable to New York University) for USD ______ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . To register, please complete the form above and mail it together with a check payable to New York University to: CF99 / Mary Jaffier New York University Salomon Center Stern School of Business 44 W 4th St., MEC 9-160 New York, NY 10012, USA Should you have questions about the registration, please contact Mary Jaffier at the NYU Salomon Center: E-mail: mjaffier@stern.nyu.edu Phone: +1 212 998-0700 Fax: +1 212 995-4220 For registration using a credit card, please e-mail cf99@stern.nyu.edu. _________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZATION General Chair Y. S. Abu-Mostafa, Caltech Organizational Chair A. S. Weigend, NYU Stern Program Co-chairs B. LeBaron, University of Wisconsin A. W. Lo, MIT Sloan Program Committee: A. Atiya, Cairo University J. Cowan, University of Chicago F. X. Diebold, University of Pennsylvania R. Gencay, University of Windsor M. Jabri, Sydney University J. E. Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute C. E. Pedreira, Catholic Univ. PUC-Rio A.-P. N. Refenes, London Business School M. Steiner, Universitaet Augsburg D. Tavella, Align Risk Analysis A. Timmermann, University of California, San Diego H. White, University of California, San Diego L. Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Note: The abstracts of the fourth NNCM conference (Nov 1996, Pasadena, CA) are in http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~aweigend/Books/NNCM96/NNCM96Contents.html The complete volume "Decision Technologies for Financial Engineering" can be obtained through http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/compsci/3463.html _________________________________________________________________________ THE STERN SCHOOL Founded in 1900, the Stern School has grown into one of the most highly ranked business schools in the world. A talented and diverse student body benefits in many ways from Stern's long-standing excellence, top faculty and its central New York City location. Stern offers several specializations in computational finance that include a highly quantitative MBA financial engineering track, an MS in statistics with specialization in financial engineering, and PhD programs in the fields of finance, statistics and information systems. Related conferences, symposia and workshops at Stern in 1999 include Derivatives: What's New?, Market Risk: Advances and Challenges, Data Mining in Finance, as well as the two-day seminar in the Salomon Center's Frontiers in Finance Series in April 1999, Exploiting Nonlinearities in Financial Data: Methodologies and Applications.