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While more than half the academic life science researchers responding to a 2007 survey indicated having some relationship with industrial entities, the prevalence of such relationships "" particularly direct funding for research studies "" appears to be dropping. Results of the survey, appearing in the November/December 2009 issue of Health Affairs, also suggest that interest in commercial applications of research appears to be growing, even among investigators without industry funding. The new study is a follow-up to 1985 and 1995 surveys by members of the same team.
"It had been ten years since our last survey, and attitudes about academic-industry relationships have changed, leading many hospitals, universities and other research organizations to institute new conflict-of-interest policies," explains Darren Zinner, PhD, who led the study as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Health Policy. "Additionally, the economics of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries have shifted, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget doubled in that time. All of these factors may have made faculty less dependent on industry funding. Because many of these conflict-of-interest policies are now being re-examined, it was time to repeat the study, establish new data points and analyze any trends that appeared." Zinner is now at the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
In late 2006 and early 2007, the researchers mailed surveys to a randomly selected group of life science faculty members at the 50 U.S. universities receiving the most NIH support in 2004. The survey asked a range of questions about respondents' relationships and activities in the preceding three years. Of more than 2,900 eligible faculty members to whom surveys were sent, almost 2,100 replied, for a response rate of 74 percent. Almost 53 percent of respondents reported some sort of industry relationship in the preceding three years "" most frequently consulting, paid speaking, research grants and contracts, and scientific advisory board membership.
Overall, 20 percent of research faculty received industry funding in 2006, a significant decrease from the 28 percent of faculty in 1995. For those with industry support, the magnitude of per-investigator funding remained essentially unchanged, indicating a decrease in overall corporate spending in academic life-science research. As in the previous studies, industry relationships were more common among senior faculty members, with full professors being up to twice as likely as junior faculty to be involved with industry.
In addition, faculty members with industry relationships were more productive, as measured by the number of publications and the impact of the journals in which their studies appeared. "While it's possible that industry funding and connections increased their academic output," Zinner explains, "it's more likely that companies are seeking out highly productive investigators who are opinion leaders in their fields."
Similar to previous studies, industry-funded scientists were more likely to report that their work resulted in trade secrets "" information kept secret to protect its potential commercial value "" or that publication had been delayed for longer than six months. However, rates of patenting and trade secrecy also more than doubled since 1985 among researchers without corporate sponsorship, suggesting activities previously associated with industry funding are more widespread among all academic scientists.
"Industry relationships may be declining because of increased regulation by universities as well as a general attitude among the public that working with industry is in some way bad," explains Eric Campbell, PhD, director of Research at the MGH Institute for Health Policy (MGH-IHP), the study's senior author. "But the drop in these relationships doesn't mean that institutions can stop paying attention to them. Finding that half of all university scientists "" both clinical and nonclinical researchers "" have some form of industry relationships emphasizes the importance of continued and perhaps more intense reporting and scrutiny."
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20 Jul 2006 (Updated 14 Nov 2013)
Function to locate and measure the positive peaks and valleys in noisy data sets.
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A fast customizable function for locating and measuring the peaks in noisy time-series signals. Adjustable parameters allow discrimination of "real" signal peaks from noise and background. Determines the position, height, and width of each peak by least-squares curve-fitting. It can find and measure 1000 peaks in a 1,000,000 point signal in 8 seconds. Includes two interactive versions, one with mouse-controlled sliders and one with keyboard control, for adjusting the peak finding criteria in real-time. Self-contained demos show how it works. See http://www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/spectrum/PeakFindingandMeasurement.htm for details.
This version includes updated versions of findpeaksfit.m and findpeaksb.m.
This file inspired I Dpeak: Peak Identifier Function and Demo Functions For Peak Detection And Fitting..
Oops, I meant to say that the area/width ratio is 1.06447...
There is a typo there on my part; the number should be 1.06447.... Here's why: The simplest expression for a Gaussian peak is y=exp(-x^2). This has a full-width at half maximum of 2 * sqrt(ln(2)=1.66561 and the area under the curve is sqrt(pi)= 1.77245. So the width/height ratio is 1.06447.... The peak area is proportional to both peak height and width. Therefore the area is 1.06447 * peak height * peak width. Hint: You can use Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com) to do all the algebra for stuff like that.
Dear Tom, Sorry about this really basic question, but could you please explain to me the reasoning behind calculating the area of the peak using 1.0646 * peak height * peak width? I'm not sure where the 1.0646 value comes from.
Many thanks
Iman, you can use File > Import Data to import data files in various format, including three sound formats (.au, .snd, and .wav). These is also a Data Acquisition Toolbox that I would assume has additional data import capabilities.
How can i import the signal from the file? such as sound file or RF signal
As you requested, I have created variants of findpeaks that compute the peak start and end positions. See
http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~toh/spectrum/PeakFindingandMeasurement.htm#PeakStartAndEnd I'll include these in the next update of fileexchange entry. Tom
Tom, it works very well for me. Thank you! The start and the end position of the peaks would also help me… the definition of 1% of the peak amplitude would be great.
Dieter, I would be glad to add that if you could define quantitatively what you mean by peak start and end - for example, when the amplitude of the signal reaches 1% of the peak amplitude. Or would some other definition be more appropriate for your work?
It is really good and easy to use. Only one thing I miss: The start and end position of the peaks would be really helpful.
Andre, iPeak reports only the position, height, and width of peak parameterized as Gaussians, not the parabolic results of polyfit. But you can generate the Gaussian model from height.*exp(-((x-position)./(0.6005615.*width)) .^2) and plot it over the raw data. iPeak does this automatically for the peaks detected in the upper window.
This works really well for me, thanks!
One quick question: I would like to overlay the fitted parabola onto the raw data that I used findpeaks on, for visualization purposes (and to show that the fits are reasonable).
I tried going into the function and doing polyval on the coefs that are returned by polyfit, but this doesn't produce anything sensible.
I would like the drawn parabola to have the same units as the original data. Perhaps I could re-create the parabola from the output of findpeaks (ie the width, height, mean, etc), but it seems that polyval and other parabola drawers parameterize the parabolas in other ways.
Any ideas on which way to go??? Thanks!
Dear MATLAB users, I have x and y as vectors, I plotted them and now I need to detect the peaks and also find the corresponding peak locations. How can I do it? Thanks in advance, Mitra
great code for beginner
thanks a lot Tom this code is so useful
When looking at a signal for the first time, it is best to use iPeak.m, iSignal.m, or ipf.m to inspect the data interactively. All of these can be downloaded from the Matlab File Exchange or from http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~toh/spectrum/SignalProcessingTools.html
Use the "pan and zoom" capabilities of these programs to inspect the whole signal closely. If the signal has important features that cover a very wide amplitude range or are superimposed on a much larger baseline or background, then those features may not be visible when the entire signal is plotted normally. Try using a semilog(x,y) plot, or use iSignal's semilog mode (H key).
i have a .xls file, i saved data of that in a matrix like : r=xlsread(.xls) now its needed to find peaks but this discrete data (r) is noisy data and using of 'findpeaks' command give me a lot of numbers of peaks (because of nois). i think your code can help me. so, could you tell me how can i use this? best regard
I am not exactly sure what you mean by "matrix (discrete) wave" .Please explain.
dear how can i use this for a matrix (discrete) wave?
See http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23850 for a version that includes iterative curve fitting to selected peak shapes.
See http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23850-ipeak-interactive-peak-detector-version-1-2 for a version that uses keyboard control and that works in recent versions of Matlab.
And comment out line 372 of rtslid.m as well... :)
Ah, commenting out line 337 of rtslid.m:
eliminates crashes for later versions of Matlab...
Very nifty idea but it crashes quickly in Matlab 2008b, 2009a, and 2009b. There are clearly some GUI incompatibilities.
Latest version just uploaded corrects a bug in the FindPeakSlidersG script that caused a malfunction when individual peaks are viewed if the x-axis data series does not start with zero.
Just what I needed! Thank you very much!
fast and reliable tool ... thanks for sharing!
Very useful interactive software! Thanks for sharing this.
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This is a good algorithm but can it be changed to give peeks over a certain datum instead of the trough values.
Your algorithm is excellent.But I find a problem in it. Your algorithm is limited only when the data are positive number.If all the data are negative and there is peak points.Your algorithm can't detect the peak points. But I can translate the coordinate axis. It is to make all the y data into positive number. Then using your algorithm we can find the peak points. I think you can modify your algorithm and make it adapt to the situation that the data is all negative number. If you can modify your algorithm,please send the message to my email.(email@example.com) Thank your. A student from BIT of China
You saved my MEng project with this one. I credited you thogh, don't worry. Many thanks Tom, Matt.
Perfect for scientific data processing. Good performance without being overly complicated. You just saved me a week of my time.
Would be greate if it will do deconvolution and gave the areas for deconvolved peaks. In general - great tool!
K. Tampa is correct; extreme.m is the one to use if you want to find ALL the minima and maxima. But "Peak finding and measurement" is intended to distinguish real peaks from noise in experimentally measured signals and to measure their height, position, and width. Two completely different purposes.
Get EXTREME.M in this site and you'll find the ALL peaks (minima and maxima!) of rand(10^6,1) in less than a second, 10^7 in about 10 sec, and from matrix too, so...
Version 1.2, dated August 24, 2006, is even faster than the previous version It can find and measure 1000 peaks in a 1,000,000 point signal in 13 seconds.
It is pretty good and easy to use. Yet some commercial software,such as origin, can do faster.
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Bug fixes and enhancements (Version 1.1)
Enhancements: Version 1.2 is a faster version of the original findpeaks function.
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Fixes a bug in the FindPeakSlidersG script that caused a malfunction in the individual peak viewing mode when the x-axis data series did not start at zero.
The rtslid.m function in this version has been modified by commenting out lines 337 and 373 to prevent crashs on Matlab 20078 and 2009, as recommended by Michael Coen's comment on http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/11755
Includes the version 3.2 update of iPeak and version 4 of findpeaks.m, as well as the older 2008 version with sliders.
Bug fix
This version includes the findvalleys function and version 3.81 of the interactive iPeak function.
This zip file includes version 3.9 of the interactive iPeak function.
Typo correction.
This version includes some additional demos plus version 4 of the interactive iPeak function.
Version 5 has faster jumps between peaks with spacebar and tab keys; other small bug fixes.
This version includes new command-line functions findpeaksplot.m, findpeaksnr.m, and peakstats.m. plus version 5.3 of iPeak.
This version includes findpeaksL.m for Lorentzian peaks, and findpeaksGSS.m and findpeaksLSS that compute the 1% start and end positions.
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Since its bollocking the Sun has obediently pumped out warnings that a minority Miliband government backed by the SNP will be a disaster. Under the screaming headline Tartan Peril, it claimed the SNPs far-left agenda would wreck the economy. To reinforce the point, it showed Nicola Sturgeon dressed in a tartan bikini with her legs wrapped round a Miley Cyrus wrecking ball.
Sturgeon seemed duly appalled. She told ITV breakfast television that these sexist attacks on her would deter young women from entering politics. But oddly her anger does not extend to tackling Murdochs power: there is not a line about media ownership in the SNP manifesto and not one SNP candidate has promised to take Murdoch on.
Scotland goes Stur Crazy A grateful Digger returns the favour; for the attacks on Sturgeon are for English readers only, the Scottish Sun, by contrast, being full of praise. After her success in the televised leaders debates, for example, it gurgled that Scotland had gone Stur Crazy and adoring crowds in Edinburgh had declared her top of the box.
The papers Janus-like attitude was even more apparent last Saturday, when English editions carried a two-page hatchet job on The Scotweiler. As a child, it reported, Nicola Sturgeon is said to have devilishly hacked the hair from her sisters beloved doll. This was an early sign of the ruthlessness which has propelled her to the top and proved she will stop at nothing.
North of the border, however, readers were instead given a spread (which English readers were spared) about David Cameron trying to stoke up a war between Scotland and England rivals claimed his tactics showed he was starting to panic about losing next months election.
The Suns schizophrenic approach reached its logical conclusion on Thursday, when the splash in the Suns English edition gave readers three reasons they should vote Tory, the second being to, er, Stop SNP running the country. The Scottish Suns front page, meanwhile, had a rather different message: May the 7th Be With You: Why Its Time to Vote SNP.
Murdoch-SNP Alliance The Auld Alliance between Murdoch and the SNP goes back a long way. The Leveson inquiry revealed that Alex Salmond had held more than two dozen meetings with Murdoch, his son James and their senior henchmen. Salmond had shown a striking readiness to lobby UK ministers on behalf of Murdochs News Corporation, Leveson said. He was seeking political support from the Scottish Sun at the same time as he was offering to help the Murdoch family drive through its takeover of BSkyB.
Even though the inquiry concluded that there was no evidence of a specific deal, a few brave members of the SNP objected to the partys tawdry influence-peddling. But not Sturgeon. When BBC Scotland asked her about the scandal, she claimed the SNPs enemies had invented a problem where none existed. Labour are clutching at straws. I really dont think the BBC should start doing likewise, she chided.
So while Murdochs English Sun uses the SNP as a reason to stop its readers voting for Miliband and his anti-monopoly laws, his Scottish Sun encourages its readers to switch from Labour to the SNP and so stop Milibands anti-monopoly laws. If we are indeed subjected to the (English) Suns nightmare of a tartan terror forcing a minority Labour government leftwards, the Digger can at least console himself with the thought that Nicola Sturgeon will stop Labour going so far left it threatens his business.
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There were really no surprises for me. The top country for LINCECUM was the United States with 1.3 FPM (frequency per million).
The top region within the USA was the state of Louisiana with 40.71 FPM. Texas followed with 14.57 FPM. My home state pretty much counted me and that was it. :-) The top parish in Louisiana was Grant. Not surprising, since there is actually a town named Lincecum located there.
An interesting note to me was the forenames. Three of the top five are the names of my grandfather, father, and brother.
I tried to do a search on LINSEYCOMB, since that is the spelling supposedly used by my immigrant ancestor before it was changed soon after arriving in the United States. The result was "We could not found an exact match for 'LINSEYCOMB'. Please search again."
Since I've been researching my collateral line of ZUMWALTs a lot lately, I plugged that name in as well. The top countries were the United States (11.94 FPM) and Canada (2.06). Germany was 5th with 0.04 FPM. I expected that to be a good bit higher since the name has German roots.
The top states were Oregon (86.74 FPM) and Oklahoma (79.73 FPM).
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The late Junior Seau was inducted into the San Diego Chargers Hall of Fame in 2011, and the linebacker now is being honored in his home state of Hawaii.
On Wednesday the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame announced its inaugural induction class, and Seau made the cut along with six other past and present players and coaches of Polynesian descent. Former University of Hawaii football coach Dick Tomey, who was on the selection committee, said that the class was chosen out of more than 200 nominees who distinguished themselves on and off the football field.
Seau, who was of Samoan descent, was a two-time All-American at USC and played 20 seasons in the NFL with the Chargers, the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots.
Also honored in the inaugural Hall of Fame class are BYU product Kurt Gouveia, Naval Academy football coach Ken Niumatalolo, former Chicago Bears center Olin Kreutz, the late Herman Wedemeyer, who was the first player of Polynesian descent to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame out of Saint Mary's College, LSU product Kevin Mawae and Jack Thompson, known as the "Throwin' Samoan" during his NCAA record-setting quarterbacking career at Washington State.
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"Today I announce that I am working with a group of fellow citizens to form a party political platform that will focus on rekindling hope that building the country of our dreams is possible in our lifetime," she said in a speech prepared for delivery.
There is what appears to be a full transcript of her announcement here.
Its long but meaty, change to electoral system, government corruption with Chancellor House getting a special mention, it goes on.
This will make the ANC froth at the mouth like rabid dogs.
Awaiting Gwede or Jackson's vitriolic response.
Que popcorn.
By using the term platform she is not committing to starting another opposition party but may in fact join a party or co-ordinate an alliance or framework for co-operative governance. I suspect the announcement will be followed by some developments once the COPE judgment comes out.
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I can't see anything good coming of this. Just more fragmentation of the political landscape in SA.
The fact that she can't pick any one particular party to work with means she will not be easy to get along with.
But hopefully she draws votes away from the ANC rather than from the existing opposition parties.
Was just being facetious
Though that being said, she has enough money that any desire for abusing a public position for her own benefit is drastically reduced. She seems to be the 'reluctant leader' i.e. but for the way things are going, she wouldn't have ever intervened in politics.
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The bin-packing problem asks for a packing of a list of items of sizes from (0, 1) into the smallest possible number of bins having unit capacity. The k-item bin-packing problem additionally imposes the constraint that at most k items are allowed in one bin. We present two efficient on-line algorithms for this problem. We show that, for increasing values of k, the bound on the asymptotic worst-case performance ratio of the first algorithm tends towards 2 and that the second algorithm has a ratio of 2. Both algorithms considerably improve upon the best known result of an algorithm, which has an asymptotic bound of 2.7 on its ratio. Moreover, we improve known bounds for all values of k by presenting on-line algorithms for k = 2 and 3 with bounds on their ratios close to optimal. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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It came a night or two before the draft in 2011, I'm looking for the link for you, but it definitely is what was reported. I don't believe for 1 second Munchak meant this, IMO it was an attempt to make sure he got Locker because it was thought that the Vikings would leapfrog Tennessee for Locker..
This is not the link I was looking for, but it'll suffice http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-titans-are-talking-andy-dalton-with-1st-pick
That's hardly a direct quote from Munch. And the quote of his from last year I mentioned went right along with what actually happened. Just sayin.


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Ex-dictator Musharraf approved to run in Pakistan poll
CHITRAL, Pakistan—Pakistani poll officials Sunday approved former military dictator Pervez Musharraf to run for parliament in the upcoming general election, despite a litany of legal challenges against him.
Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan for nine years after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1999, returned to Pakistan from self-imposed exile on March 24, vowing to run for the May 11 poll in four constituencies.
He remains a hugely controversial figure nearly five years after he resigned in the face of impeachment proceedings and his All-Pakistan Muslim League party is not thought to be a serious contender for power at the polls.
In the far northern town of Chitral, close to the Afghan border, officials approved Musharraf's candidature on Sunday, an AFP journalist witnessed.
"His papers are in order. He is not convicted so far so we cannot disqualify him," returning officer Jamal Khan said.
But in the retired general's home city of Karachi, officials turned down his nomination on charges of violating the constitution and sacking top judges.
Returning officer Ikramur Rehman upheld objections raised by his rivals that Musharraf had violated the constitution and sacked top judges by imposing emergency rule in 2007.
"This is a biased decision," Afzal Agha — an official in Musharraf's party — said, adding that an appeal would be filed.
Musharraf's nomination papers were also rejected in the Punjab town of Kasur on Friday and a decision on his bid to contest a seat in Islamabad is expected late Sunday.
There is no limit to the number of seats a candidate can contest in Pakistan and it is common practice for high-profile politicians to run in more than one at the same time.
Lawyer Sajidullah Khan vowed to challenge Musharraf's candidature in Chitral.
"Musharraf is not eligible and we will lodge an appeal before the election tribunal," he said.
In office, Musharraf was a key US ally in the "war on terror", an alliance that became deeply controversial in Pakistan, and escaped at least three Al-Qaeda assassination attempts.
Since he left power in 2008 his powerbase has shrivelled and last month he suffered the indignity of having a shoe thrown at him in court by an angry lawyer — a deeply insulting gesture in the Muslim world.
He is facing a barrage of legal cases, including conspiracy to murder.
He has been granted bail over the 2007 killing of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and a Baluch rebel leader in 2006, and for sacking and arresting judges in November 2007.
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Allocates, frees, and manages memory.
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Generally, you should not implement IMalloc, instead using the COM implementation, which is guaranteed to be thread-safe in managing task memory. You get a pointer to the COM task allocator object's IMalloc through a call to the CoGetMalloc function.
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Call the methods of IMalloc to allocate and manage memory. The COM libraries and object handlers also call the IMalloc methods to manage memory. Object handlers should call CoGetMalloc to get a pointer to the IMalloc implementation on the task allocator object and use the implementation of those methods to manage task memory.
The IMalloc methods Alloc, Free, and Realloc are similar to the C library functions malloc, free, and realloc. For debugging, refer to the functions CoRegisterMallocSpy and CoRevokeMallocSpy.
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The IMalloc interface has these methods.
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Allocates a block of memory. |
DidAlloc |
Determines whether this allocator was used to allocate the specified block of memory. |
Free |
Frees a previously allocated block of memory. |
GetSize |
Retrieves the size of a previously allocated block of memory. |
HeapMinimize |
Minimizes the heap as much as possible by releasing unused memory to the operating system, coalescing adjacent free blocks, and committing free pages. |
Realloc |
Changes the size of a previously allocated block of memory. |
Minimum supported client | Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only] |
Minimum supported server | Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only] |
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IID_IMalloc is defined as 00000002-0000-0000-C000-000000000046 |
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Dark red meranti (Shorea platyclados)
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Theales |
Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
Genus | Shorea (1) |
Size | Trunk diameter: up to 172 cm (2) |
Classified as Endangered (EN) on the IUCN Red List 2006 (1).
Dipterocarpaceae trees dominate Southeast Asian tropical lowland rainforests (3), and are favourite timber trees because of their hard wood and tall, straight trunks that lack any lower branches (4). Of the dipterocarps, trees of the Shorea genus are considered the largest and most economically important (5). This species is one of several Shorea species that have been grouped into the subgenus Rubroshorea, commonly known as dark red meranti after the colour of their timber (6). This group is characterised by massive trees reaching heights of 200 ft, with straight, cylindrical boles and high buttresses (7). Shorea species spread out their crown of branches and leaves way above the canopy layer (4).
Native to Sumatra, Indonesia (1).
Found on deep, fertile soils in hilly and mountainous areas (1), with an optimum altitudinal range of between 750 and 1,050 m above sea level (2).
Very little has been recorded about the biology of this species, but there are certain characteristics that dipterocarps, and more specifically Shorea species, share. Dipterocarps within a region all flower at the same time once or twice a decade, flowering over several weeks and setting seed in unison. Unlike most dipterocarps, however, Shorea species have a unique pollinator, minute thrips which breed in the young flower buds and mature by the time the flowers open, which occurs at dusk. The thrips move from flower to flower to feed on the flower petals and pollen. Although this doesn't pollinate the flowers, as the tree cannot self-pollinate, the propeller-shaped flower petals drop off by noon the next day laden with pollen-covered thrips. Since these enormous trees grow way above the canopy, the petals are carried off into the forest by the wind. As evening approaches and a new set of flowers open, the thrips fly up to feed on the new flowers, and thereby cross-pollinate with other trees. Dipterocarp trees grow very slowly, usually only flowering and fruiting after 60 years (4).
Dipterocarp forests have become amongst the most endangered in the world, widely logged for use in furniture-making, general construction and boat-building (7). Furthermore, the slow growth of these trees and late flowering mean that many trees are cut down before having a chance to reproduce (4).
Some subpopulations of this species are found in primary forest reserves, where they receive varying levels of protection (1). Furthermore, because of their high economic value, there have been efforts to replant dipterocarp forests, which may include species such as this dark red meranti (4).
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- Bole: The main stem of a tree; trunk.
- Buttress: The flared base of certain tree trunks.
- Thrips: various small to minute sucking insects of the order Thysanoptera, which have narrow feathery wings if any and can be quite destructive.
IUCN Red List (July, 2006)
http://www.iucnredlist.org -
FAO: In Situ Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources in Peninsular Malaysia (September, 2006)
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/R4968E/R4968E09.htm - Kamiya, K., Harada, K., Tachida, H. and Shaw-Ashton, P. (2005) Phylogeny of PgiC gene in Shorea and its closely related genera (Dipterocarpaceae), the dominant trees in Southeast Asian tropical rain forests. American Journal of Botany, 92: 775 - 788.
SZG Docent (September, 2006)
http://www.szgdocent.org/resource/ff/f-tree2.htm -
Pooma, R. (2003) Dipterocarpaceae in Thailand: Taxonomic and Biogeographical Analysis (September, 2006)
http://www.forest.go.th/botany/main/Research/RP_thesis/taxonomy/Shorea.htm -
Tropix (September, 2006)
http://tropix.cirad.fr/asia/merantidr.pdf#search=%22Dark%20red%20meranti%22 -
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Portugal are confident Chelsea midfielder Deco will be fit for international duty on Saturday.
Carlos Queiroz's men face a crunch 2010 World Cup qualifier this weekend as they look to get back on track on the road to South Africa.
They had looked set to be without the services of Deco after the midfielder aggravated a long-standing hamstring problem in Chelsea's recent clash with Manchester City.
Blues boss Guus Hiddink had even suggested in the aftermath of that game that the former Barcelona man could miss the rest of the season.
However, the injury has proved to be less severe than first thought and Deco now looks set to make his return to action in the international arena.
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Good news for the Vancouver Canucks as former Selke Trophy winning center Ryan Kesler is back skating with the team.
Kesler underwent two operations in the offseason and has yet to play this season, but he's feeling good about getting back on the ice as The Province shares.
"It's been an extremely long, hard road for me," said Kesler. "It felt good to be back out there.
"My goal was to get back out there with the guys. I still have a fair bit of way to go."
While he says he's got a long way to go, coach Alain Vigneault is a bit more optimistic about his progress.
This difference of opinion is just like when Kesler's agent and the Canucks differed on how soon he'd be back after being operated on. Either way, Kesler is on his way back and that's good news for the team.
- mp1113 - Feb 3, 2013 at 5:15 PM
Soon to be traded?
- leepetertk - Feb 3, 2013 at 6:01 PM
Canucks have missed Kesler on just about every situation.
They miss his offense as the Sedin line is their only consistent offensive threat.
The powerplay has been sputtering. Neither their first or second power play unit looks particularly effective. They miss his net front presence and his ability to recover loose pucks.
Their penalty kill has been better than the start of the season, but they could use a right-handed faceoff win.
And 5on5 defensively the Canucks have been unable contain another teams #1 centre. Jonathan Toews did everything against them except for score against the Canucks.
I think most obviously to many Canuck number crunchers is their faceoff presence. Kesler takes so many important offensive and defensive zone draws that his absence has really put AV's zone deployment system to test.
Granted Kesler does not solve all these problems, but he does mitigate many of them.
- thehighcountrybear - Feb 4, 2013 at 1:57 AM
Kesler should be in fine form after milking the injury on duty cow dry…? One has to wonder how his mates will react, the ones who slung a picket sign while Kesler, ahem, rehabilitated? Still, two months working out with the Chinese national acrobatics team, a one month side trip to the Bolshoi seasoned with some one-on-one tutoring with the Flying Wallendas and he's good to go…fly me to the moon!
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I love Cosby! First it was Picture Pages as a preschooler and then The Cosby Show! I was about Rudy's age and just loved her. I always thought my dad was kind of like a white Bill Cosby with his sillyness and bad sweaters ;) I don't have kids yet, but can't wait to re-watch episodes that will mean even more to me once we have kids!
Oh, and Lindsey's backpack sounds scary :)LOL! William is awesome! lol....Sounds like something I would've wanted to do as a child, but never dared because my brother would have KILLED me! Go William, go! lol. I love it... but I'm sure it's not always fun to be the mom/referee when it comes to your kids' battles. I'm not there yet. I have one 3 month old and that's it. . . in due time I'll find out what it feels like to be in your shoes. More power to you! I'm sure you're a great mom. =)
AND, that video was SO funny! Thanks for sharing!friend. after a TOUGH day being "a mom"... this made my night. I read this while eating and going to the bathroom ... and when Aaron got home... told him that in order to unwind from the day... we were going to read Bridgets blog... and watch all available Bill Cosby comedy on youtube. and it was awesome.
ReplyDeleteHa!!!! The other night as we stopped at a stop light, my own William made strangling sounds from the back of the miniva.
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A shameless bump as the Fair is less than three months away now ... Hoping that a fair few on Urban are up for it
The Fair's in trouble I'm afraid The local cops have decided to charge the organisers for their services... I'm of the opinion that they should just tell the pigs to fuck off and have the fair anyway. Then if they want to stop it they'll have to mobilise, but it would be for free Not necessarily the safest option, but fuck it. How can the police insist that they be there, but then also insist that they need money for something that they have determined is a requirement. It's well Kafka.
Bollocks , that was threatened last year, the Police charging thing, but some sort of agreement was reached in 2008 though, wasn't it? I'm daring to hope that the Fair is too big and too well established not to happen though ...
The way I look at it, we all pay tax for the police. If they are going to start charging for "policing" any public gathering, a cost that if you refuse to pay, they won't allow you to hold your event, its very close to being a protection racket. What about, say, a protest march? Sorry, we think its going to cost £20,000 to "police" and if you don't cough up, you can't have it..... Its the same principle - we are all the public, their job is to police events as they happen. If they can basically charge a compulsory fee for turning up, they effectively dictate where people can gather together for any purpose (even more than they already do) which is a worrying move. Giles..
we wont be going this year - at a wedding instead. apart from not seeing the fen females, can't say i am too bothered about missing out
I missed the fen females last year, hope we can bump into them this time Spot on comments from Giles. Can Cambridge locals keep an eye out for developments on the Police charging thing? I really hope the Fair isn't in financial jeopardy ...
The usual benefit gigs and stuff are going on, but this is looking like a potentially fatal blow. I don't know the state of negotiations at the moment as I am no longer that friendly with the committee. I totally agree with Giles, I was trying to express that in my angry post but he said it much more eloquently. I'll post up any info I get.
Thanks for that perplexis. I was speculating to myself that that story in the Cambridge Evening Post originated from someone on the Fair Commitee. And that they might be deliberately publicising the Police's change of stance in order to generate negotiating leverage with the help of the publicity ..... In other words lets hope that negotiations and lobbying routes still remain open/ongoing, and that the worst of the blow can be averted.
I'm planning on going this year... I hope the Police aren't so cunty again - I wouldn't fancy being herded through all that with a young baby in tow. I've only made it there one of the about five years I've intended to go (other times I had something else on, and the one free year it was pissing down), and I really enjoyed it.
That site's not been updated for some time, the C.E.N. story about the Police is a good deal more recent than the last website update (which followed their successful efforts to overcome the threat to the 10 pm licence from the Council, a while ago ). I'm in touch with strawberryozzie of the SF Committee, I will post more when I know more ... and I'm sure perplexis will also keep us posted.
BUMP! as the Fair is only in three weeks time. The main SF site has been updated now, with an interesting page setting out in detail the Fair Committee's response to the Police charging threat. And the recent Strawbery Fair Committee's press release titled 'Community events are vital' (tis a PDF mind). I'm taking it that negotiations with the Police about this year's Fair are still 'ongoing', given that the SF site doesn't say one way or the other what the outcome of their lobbying is. And I have no further inside info for now ... For now we can assume the Fair is going ahead ! ETA : And straight from the Fair Committee's mouth, Martin Twiss confirmed this on 12th May -- see below ....
Just belatedly seen this though, posted by Martin Twiss (one of the Fair's key organisers) over on efestivals, on a thread I hadn't checked for ages Watch out once more at Cambridge Station on the Saturday for those bastard British Transport Police. Here is what Martin has to say : That BTP alcohol ban is not good AT ALL, but do bear in mind : You can travel other than by train. You can get off your train elsewhere than Cambridge main station if you use some of the stopping trains from Liverpool Street Alcohol will be available both on site (in the lovely beer tents) and in and around town too I guess Some of you can travel up on a day other than Saturday 6th It's a lively and lovely event especially when sunny, that so many peoople really enjoy, don't let British Transport Police obstructiveness grind you down or stop you getting there. Cambridgeshire Police, for all their potential arsiness over charging, will be the ones near and around site and they tend to keep a much lower profile. The SF stewards who do the real work are as cool and laid back as fuck. It'll be fine once you've arrived.
Hope we get good weather - we are mobilising to come along. That really sucks about the trains - I mean, really, how many problems have they actually had due to people drinking on the way? But how enforcable will it be? Plenty of people won't know about it, and unless transport police get on all the trains (I assume some will), I doubt staff will be telling people to stop.
I'll be there. Hopefully I'll actually meet up with some urbs this time and not just stagger around at random like I usually do.
I'm not going cos it's overkill & wasn't worth it last year, let alone this time. I'd go if I lived in Cambridge, obviously.
Just realised I won't be in foreignland I'll be at a wedding in Lincolnshire. Still not going though Overkill would be infinitely superior, I'll wager.
I think the main British Transport Police presence will be around Cambridge station, in other words something of a step up from their already OTT presence at Cambridge station last year. I can only guess, but the risk of them patrolling the actual trains is probably?? far less, and if there's any of them checking Cambridge-bound trains at Kings Cross or Liverpool Street, that really would be overkill. And they'd be subject to righteous complaints from Cambridge bound citzens who are nothing to so with the Fair. Suggest people stock up on alcohol when already in Cambridge (plenty of offies/shops in town!) or when on site. Or employ smart BTP avoidance tactics as suggested by me previous page
We've booked our trains -- arriving in Cambridge a day early -- and we will definitely be there in two weeks time. Hope to meet up with plenty of folks
hey William (and anyone else who'll be around all weekend) if you're in Cambridge on the Friday night before the Fair - there's a Dubzone pre-party with soundsystems and VIBRONICS! cheap n cheerful venue with no noise restrictions! BASS! . i've c&p'd the info cos i can't link it from the facebook page.... We have booked the Funky Fun House warehouse in Cambridge just off Newmarket rd for a friday night session! We promice you a really amazing warm up to the weekend on the very special eve to the strawberry fair, with a NEW venue with BIG capacity. And an amazing16K sound install by Cambridge's very own REVELATION 2000 and The Dub Zone. So expect the volume and the bass to be up there with Jah. The Dub Zone is also pleased to present the mighty *VIBRONICS* .....From their creation in 1995 Vibronics have been at the forefront of the UK Roots and Dub explosion. They served their apprentice through a series of exclusive heavy-weight cuts for Sound Systems such as Jah Shaka, Iration Steppas and Aba-Shanti-I before moving on to releasing music through Zion Train's Universal Egg label. Vibronics have been playing live and DJing across Europe since 1997 where they have earned a reputation for kicking up a musical storm. An exhausting itinerary has taken them from Portugal to Finland with visits to just about every country in between. Their studio work leads the way in contemporary dub productions and has included collaborations with Zion Train, Ranking Joe, Macka.B and The Mad Professor. .... Vibronics is the future sound of Dub...... . Also with selectors and vocalists blessed with sight for sounds, from UPRIZING, REVELATION 2000, and THE DUB ZONE. * Irie M, Ras Paix, TrishnaI, Jimmi Steppa, Roddy Culcha, stevie judah, bagga shines and DylanJah* This session is seriously not to be overlooked, and will take place on Friday 5th June, the night before Cambridges free festival "strawberryfair". The venue is The Funky Fun House, 8 Mercers Row Cambridge, CB5 8HY (just off of Newmarket road). 9pm till 2am .Price: £6 - £8
I wish them well, and it's fantastic that they're putting on a proper free festival against all the odds, but all the fun has been squeezed out of this for me.