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Bootstrap estimation of community NOEC values
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Recent estimations of NOEC (no observed effect concentration) values for communities use single species effect data to predict the concentration at which not more than some particular acceptable percentage of the species in a community will be affected. This method has a number of difficulties, not the least of which is obtaining effects data for enough of the right species to accurately represent the whole community. Typically one has to make do with existing data sets in which the choice of species tested has been made for convenience rather than representativeness. Usually the raw data alone are not sufficient to make reasonable estimates. Statistical methods have been proposed which deal with this problem by assigning a specific distribution to the data. But assumption of a specific distribution may not be valid. We present an alternative method and an associated computer program which use resampling (bootstrap) methods to estimate the NOEC without assuming a specific distribution. This method has the advantage that no underlying distribution is assumed. Simulated and published data sets were used to compare this approach with published methods. The use of this technique to assess representativeness was also demonstrated
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- Title
- Bootstrap estimation of community NOEC values
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Volume 6, Issue 5 , pp 293-306
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- 1997-09-01
- Print ISSN
- 0963-9292
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- 1573-3017
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers
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- extrapolation
- bootstrapping
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- Michael C. Newman (1)
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- 1. Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, PO Drawer E, Aiken, USA


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Telstra rules out making bid for Nine
PUBLISHED: 09 Jul 2012 17:37:00 | UPDATED: 10 Jul 2012 09:34:31PUBLISHED: 10 Jul 2012 PRINT EDITION: 10 Jul 2012Rick Ellis emphatically rejected reports about a potential move into free-to-air television. Phoot: Jim Rice
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The man in charge of Telstra's multibillion-dollar media portfolio has ruled out a bid for debt-laden Nine Entertainment and dismissed claims the NBN will unleash a wave of competition in pay television.
Telstra has named media as one of three key growth areas (alongside cloud computing/applications and Asia), as it confronts structural declines in its highly profitable fixed-line phones business. The company earlier this year withdrew from talks to acquire James Packer's stake in Consolidated Media Holdings.
Shedding light on the telco's closely guarded content strategy, Rick Ellis, who became Telstra's managing director of media in January, said he wanted Telstra's media assets to become a more significant part of the $46.5 billion telco giant.
"We are changing the model from a telco model . . . to actually positioning that business as a . . . business in its own right," he said.
However, he played down the possibility of sizeable acquisitions to bolster the media division, ruling out a tilt at Nine after preliminary discussions earlier this year.
"We are not looking at Nine Entertainment Co," he said. "We are not contemplating any acquisitions at this point in time."
Mr Ellis said the high cost of the NBN for operators would mitigate potential threats posed by new entrants such as Optus and ii-Net's Fetchtv and Apple's iTunes platform against Telstra's 50 per cent-owned Foxtel.
"In an NBN world, the estimated cost of delivering HD [high definition] linear channels to a television set is going to be like five times cable and satellite and digital terrestrial," Mr Ellis said in his first public comments since joining Telstra in November.
He said the telco had no concerns about imminent changes to Foxtel's ownership structure, with News Limited vying for greater control. Last month, News launched a $2 billion bid for ConsMedia, which would lift its stake in Foxtel to 50 per cent and give it 100 per cent of Fox Sports. ConsMedia's second biggest shareholder, Seven Group, has also asked the competition regulator to review a potential bid for Mr Packer's media investment vehicle.
Mr Ellis said Telstra was a "sideline spectator" in the takeover saga and had a "great" relationship with News and a "very positive" relationship with Seven. Telstra's $150 million deal for exclusive rights to broadcast AFL matches over the internet until the end of 2015 had driven 800 per cent growth in mobile video streams between March and May.
Earnings from Telstra's ailing Sensis business plummeted 22 per cent in the December half. But Mr Ellis was optimistic about prospects for the business, declaring it can resume revenue growth in fiscal 2014. "I'm actually very pleased with where we are at with the Sensis business," he said. "Our predicted decline in print revenues is mapping to plan, our growth in digital revenues is actually exceeding the plan. We are looking at this thing hollowing out in 2014 and moving to a growth trajectory."
News's bid for greater control over Foxtel has led to speculation the pay TV giant will seek Telstra's permission to sell broadband to replicate a successful strategy adopted by BSkyB in the UK to drive subscription growth.
Mr Ellis said Telstra would not stand in the way of Foxtel selling broadband. "I think it's fair to say Foxtel is going to be focused on growing its market share now from 30 per cent to a percentage of households much greater than that," he said. "Whether a triple-play scenario helps them achieve that is up to Foxtel but we have no objections to them going into that space."
The Australian Financial Review revealed on Monday that NBN Co is planning to lower entry level prices for its multicast service. Multicasting will be exclusively used by telcos and allow them to transmit TV using less data than "over the top" rivals such as Apple's iTunes and Quickflix.
Telstra shares hit a 3½-year high of $3.78 yesterday.
Mr Ellis dismissed the ability of "over the top" players to compete with conventional subscription TV.
"OTT [over-the-top] is internet and internet doesn't deliver you 10 or a dozen high-definition channels just at the flick of a switch when you turn your telly on," he said.
The former head of free to air broadcaster Television New Zealand said Telstra would consider commissioning and buying its own content, as long as content addressed its target market and there was enough critical mass to justify an investment.
"I'd want to have a good landing on this before we go into a summer break, even have made some acquisition and commissioning decisions leading up to the Christmas period and then go into the market in the new year," he said.
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Puerto Rico wants to become the 51st state of the US
Voters in Puerto Rico have supported a non-binding referendum to become a full US state.
The measure will require approval from the US Congress, but President Barack Obama has said he will respect the vote.
The island is currently a US territory, which uses the dollar and whose citizens travel on US passports.
But it does not return senators to the US Congress and is represented in Washington by a non-voting delegate.
Almost 80% of the island's electorate took part in the referendum, the fourth in the past 45 years.
With almost all the votes counted, almost 54% voted to change the island's relationship with the US.
And in reply to a second question on what future they favoured, nearly two-thirds wanted full statehood.
If Congress grants its approval, Puerto Ricans would have the right to vote in all US elections, but would also have to pay federal taxes, something at present they are excused from.
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- In 1898 the Spanish lost the Caribbean Island at the end of the Spanish-American war and it came under US control
- In 1917 its people became US citizens - they are allowed to serve in the military but still do not have the right to vote in US presidential elections
- The country is a self-governing territory of the US but the US Congress and the president have ultimate control, providing social services, foreign policy and defence
- They have a congressional representative who does not have voting rights
- Becoming a state would see the Puerto Ricans having to pay federal taxes - currently they are exempt - but they would have the same rights as those on the mainland
The island came under US control in 1898 when Spain lost the island at the end of the Spanish-American war.
Ties were strengthened in 1917 when Puerto Ricans became US citizens and were allowed to serve in the military.
'No other option'There are now almost a million more Puerto Ricans in the US than on the island.
Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor, singer Jennifer Lopez and the former jazz musician Tito Puente are all of Puerto Rican descent, though all three were born in New York.
Ties between the island and the mainland are strong and many on the island considered it inevitable that a full union be requested.
A young voter in the capital San Juan, Jerome Lefebre, said: "Puerto Rico has to be a state. There is no other option.
"We're doing okay, but we could do better. We would receive more benefits, a lot more financial help."
But that opinion was rejected by Ramon Lopez de Azua: "Puerto Rico's problem is not its political status.
"I think that the United States is the best country in the world, but I am Puerto Rican first."
The island has been hit hard by the current recession - it has debts of $68bn (£42bn) and unemployment is more than 13%.
President Barack Obama, who visited the island last year, has said he will respect the will of Puerto Ricans if there is a clear majority.
Any change would require approval by the US Congress.


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Saginaw, MI – Michigan CardioVascular Institute (MCVI) cardiovascular disease specialists at Covenant HealthCare announced this week they have enrolled their first patient into a clinical trial of a novel gene therapy technique to promote regeneration of the heart in patients suffering from heart failure.
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Heart failure (HF) occurs when the muscle of the heart becomes weakened and cannot pump blood sufficiently throughout the body. The injury is most often caused by inadequate blood flow to the heart resulting from chronic or acute ischemic cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks. Affecting more than five million people in the United States alone, heart failure is a leading cause of death, disability and hospitalization.
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Sponsored by Juventas Therapeutics, the STOP-HF Trial is a randomized, placebo-controlled, double blinded Phase II study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the drug JVS-100 in patients with late-stage heart failure. JVS-100 is a gene therapy that directs the heart muscle to produce Stromal cell-Derived Factor 1 (SDF-1), a protein which has been shown to repair damaged tissue in the body through the recruitment of circulating stem cells to the site of injury, prevention of ongoing cell death and restoration of blood flow.
Earlier this year, Juventas reported 12-month results from its Phase I study of JVS-100 in Class III ischemic heart failure patients. In addition to meeting the primary safety endpoint, patients in the study who received the drug demonstrated clinically significant improvements at 12 months in exercise
MCVI with Covenant HealthCare is one of just a dozen leading US medical sites participating in the STOP-HF Trial. Other prominent institutions involved include the Center for Therapeutic Angiogenesis (Birmingham, Alabama), Columbia University Medical Center, the University of Utah Medical Center, Summa Health System and the University of South Florida. The study will enroll 90 patients nationwide.
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· American Dollars is the native currency.
· Check in time is 4:00 PM
· Check out time is 11:00 AM
· Opened in 1974
· Renovated in 01/01/2007
· 277 rooms.
· 6 suites.
· 12 floors.
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window boxes on this house?
I hope this is the right place to post this, since I've seen some gorgeous window box pictures here. I'm having my front living room windows replaced this year, with three double hungs like the other front windows, and am thining about putting a trough windowbox under each (and maybe also under the front porch windows as well). Hopefully there's a picture of my house attached - the windows to be replaced are on the shed part of the house. (Sorry it's a little dark!) Begonias love it there.
What do you think? I already water there daily in summer, so that should be a non-issue. I'd love a second floor box as well, but watering that would be a pain, because the screens don't slide up, so I'm trying to resist. :(
Anyone have a source for good troughs? The reviews on the Gardeners Supply ones are mixed...
I'm no master gardener, but strictly from a visual standpoint- how tall do the plantings in your beds get? It looks like a tight fit between the tops of your bed plants and the bottoms of your windows.
If you were going to set the window box's bottom level with the window sill, and there was a visual break between that and the bed plantings, I would do it. I would still probably then choose plants that grow 'up' rather than drape over.
If you were going to set the window box's top level with the window sill, and the box would dip behind or be level with your other plants, I would skip it. I think eliminating that visual gap between the beds an the windows will make the house look a little squatty.
If you want to vertical with your visual impact, maybe some hanging baskets at the corners of the porch section or a climber around the new windows?
Adorable house!
You house is so nice - perfect for having window boxes.
For the ground level windows:
I agree with AviaStar in that you need some space between the bottom of your window boxes and the plants growing up from the ground below them or the impact would be lost - they will just blend in with the plants on the ground.
You may have already figured that out, but we just thought we ought to say something.
For the upstairs windows:
You can buy long handled watering wands like they use in greenhouses, but they might be pricey. Dunno.
Of course, you can make one if you are handy with a welding torch and have some hollow, lightweight tubing pipe the same diameter as the wand. - Buy a watering wand. Use a torch to cut off the wand leaving some of the handle pipe. Then wield the new pipe extension onto the wand handle and attach the wand to the other end. It will work.
If you have a wielder, it would be a snap!
Our shop is wired for a wielder, but I don't own one, unfortunately. If I did, I can think of LOTS of things I would "attempt" to create and repair here on the "ranch".
Otherwise, yes, you would have to water through the windows.
I think window boxes would look great though. Green boxes would look pretty against your white house all year round.
That's my two cents worth of ideas on the subject. (LOL)
Your house is so perfect for cottage charm! I love the idea but agree with the above posters! If you do choose to do them, I bought mine at a local nursery for about $12.99 if I recall and the brackets were like $6 at home depot, just a thought that you don't have to pay the high prices online. :)
I kinda think a hanging basket hanging from each side of the porch ( in front of the window divide?) would be nice too ! I like to use baskets by my windows that attract humming birds for an extra dose of nature. ,up close.
I hope you post pictures when you are done! I adore window boxes! So much charm !
I love your window boxes and the shepherd's hook and red rose arbors, too. Goes perfectly with your charming all-American house. The white brackets add to the beauty of your window boxes. Very pretty, and the red geraniums are striking.
Love all your Americana things. (she's a Grand Old Flag...)
Those window boxes (and gardens!) are so pretty. This picture is just the sort of thing that got me thinking about window boxes anyway.
However, you've convinced me to rethink the project. No, there absolutely won't be a gap between the boxes and the plantings. That bed has a rhodie in the middle (at least for the moment), a bunch of pink tulips and muscari, followed by pink bleeding hearts, solomon's seal, lily of the valley (that, at least, is short!) and hostas. I add begonias in the summer. The new windows will actually be a bit lower than the old - they'll be about the same height from the ground as the porch windows. Nope, no gap at all.
I love the hanging basket idea though. I'm not sure I can find a 3/4 shade climber, but have a crook kicking around the garage somewhere, along with a very cool ornate white basket. Nothing like a basket full of fushia!
Thanks, all!
I bought these window boxes on E-Bay.But DH had to do lot of work to them made of Uncured lumber.Meaning they split.So he took pattern and made them again.And I use lot of USA flag all over yard.Some we made our self. Go to craft store -couldn't find any made in USA.Oldest Son was in Mid East over 20 times.
rigelkaj - on a practical point. It rather looks as if there are tall trees on the left hand side which would cast shade. If you were wanting all your window boxes to look the same ie same plants and same rate of growth that shade might present problems.
Thanks, Flora.
I love practical points! The cedars on the corner of the house are gone. I wish the guy who cut them for me would have left the stumps like we did for the other two clumps (maybe a little redneck to use stumps for pots of geraniums, but it gives them height! :) ), but he didn't. With them there, that bed was impossibly shady.
I do think I'll pass on the boxes though, at least for now.


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Also, Cindy said kind of quietly and in the beginning, "I love you Caylee. Love you Casey".
Cindy knows that she was watching with her attorney. Why else would she say this?
Be Kind to yourself, you are worth it!
Also, Cindy said kind of quietly and in the beginning, "I love you Caylee. Love you Casey".
I'm not so sure that she knew. I don't think they're as united as it seems.
"I left work around 5pm, and went back to the apartment to pick up my daughter. However, after reaching the apartment, I realized that niether Zenaida, Caylee, or either of her two roomates were home."
-Casey Anthony.
i read on one Foxnews this AM that Casey did not request to watch TV during the service. I'm sure the link is in daily updates, I don't remember which Fox it was (not orlando)?
Keeping the Litterbox Clean! (these are not my cats, they are generic~mine are much cuter)!
11 a.m.: A spokesman for the jail just e-mailed to say Baez does have the ability to bring a laptop and air card into his attorney-client meetings with Casey Anthony, but the jail will not be reported what is happening in the room, unless it violates jail policy. Using a laptop to view media Web sites is allowed, he said.
FOX reported Jose showing up about before the memorial at the jail with his laptop. I am betting the A's knew KC would be watching via the web.
I am sure Casey did watch via Baez's laptop; that's how I watched the whole service, uninterrupted. Would love to have been a fly on that wall.
If Cindy wants to talk to Casey, why doesn't she just go visit her like normal people do? She could talk to her 3 times a week if she felt like it. Why wait for a memorial for someone else entirely to "speak" to your own child?
I think the Anthony's may have known that there was a chance Casey would be watching....but I don't feel like they went out of their way to excuse HER behavior or what she did, on the contrary they stated over and over that they loved her unconditionally. Just using the word unconditional acknowledges what Casey did. I don't remind my children that I love them unconditionally in good times.....I remind them in bad!
of course she did, i'm sorry, i'm obviously having a blonde-fog moment.mea culpa.
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I don't know how to post link.. On the CNN website, this story - More than 1,000 attend Caylee's memorial service - "She met with her attorney, Jose Baez, during the service in a jail interview room, jail officials said. There was no television in the room. Baez was permitted to bring in a laptop, although it was unknown whether they watched the service."
I also think CA knew KC was going to watch it. She could have been told through the mail or JB.
I'm going to be honest and say I wished KC watched the memorial in view of others so we could know what her reactions were.
Since when has Cindy ever worried about being on the 6 o'clock news? She loves it. She sure didn't mind her private message to Casey being broadcast from the memorial today either. She could simply have written a letter if privacy was important to her. It's obviously not.
WESH interviewed Baez at the jail as he was leaving, shortly after the service. He would not comment on whether they watched it or not (attorney/client privilege.)
However, the jail did confirm that if he has a cellphone air card, it would be within their policy for him to use it while consulting with his client.
IMHO....of course they watched it.


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