Stand for a Qur'an Manuscript, open

Zain(?) Hasan Sulaiman Isfahani; 3 ft. 9 in.x 4 ft. 2 in.x 1 ft. 4 1/2 in. (open); carved and inlaid teak

Stand for a Qur'an Manuscript, side a

Zain(?) Hasan Sulaiman Isfahani; 3 ft. 9 in.x 4 ft. 2 in.x 1 ft. 4 1/2 in. (open); carved and inlaid teak

Histoire générale des voyages, ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues : ce qui'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile et de mieux averé dans les pays ou les voyageurs ont penetré, avec les moeurs des habitans, la religion, les usages, arts, sciences, commerce, manufactures, &c, pour former un systême complet d'histoire & de géographie moderne, qui représente l'état actuel de toutes les nations : enrichi de cartes géographiques et de figures; Tome huitiéme.

Premiere partie, Livre sixiéme, Voyages au long de la cote occidentale d'Afrique, depuis le Cap Blanco jusqu'à Sierra Leona, contenant la description de plusieus pays & de leurs habitants. - Table des chapitres & paragraphes contenus dans [volumes V, VI, VII, VIII]. - Avis au relier, pour placer les cartes géographiques... les figures. - [Viajes de Brue desde 1697 a 1715].

Annual report of the Public Utility Administrator

At head of title: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Manual, with rules and orders, for the use of the General Assembly of the state of Rhode Island.

Vols. for 1867/68- include section with special t.p.: Civil government of Rhode Island.

A record of the ceremony and oration on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument commemorating the Great Swamp fight : December 19, 1675, in the Narragansett country, Rhode Island : erected by the Societies of Colonial wars of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, October 20, 1906.

Compiled by Rowland G. Hazard.

How to keep bees /

At head of title: State of Rhode Island and Providence plantations ... Entomological Department.

Annual report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries made to the General Assembly.

Title varies slightly.

[The] most important transactions of the sixth session of the First Parliament of His Majesty King George II. anno domini, MDCCXXXIII : containing ... also in this pamphlet are inserted, The Lords protests in the said session of Parliament : and a compleat list of all those gentlemen of the House of Commons as voted for or against the late excise-bill ... .

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 07160.0-4.

Collection of interesting and important reports and papers on the navigation and trade of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British colonies in the West Indies and America...

The two reports reprinted in this volume were framed by the Earl of Liverpool, President of the Committee on Trade and Foreign Plantations. cf. Introd. p.xiii.

Les ravageurs des forêts et des arbres d'alignement,

"7 ème édition, revue et considérablement augmentée."

Annual report of the Commissioner of Industrial Statistics, made to the General Assembly.

At head of title: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Partitioned likelihood support and the evaluation of data set conflict

In simultaneous analyses of multiple data partitions, the trees relevant when measuring support for a clade are the optimal tree, and the best tree lacking the clade (i.e., the most reasonable alternative). The parsimony-based method of partitioned branch support (PBS) forces each data set to arbitrate between the two relevant trees. This value is the amount each data set contributes to clade support in the combined analysis, and can be very different to support apparent in separate analyses. The approach used in PBS can also be employed in likelihood: a simultaneous analysis of all data retrieves the maximum likelihood tree, and the best tree without the clade of interest is also found. Each data set is fitted to the two trees and the log-likelihood difference calculated, giving partitioned likelihood support (PLS) for each data set. These calculations can be performed regardless of the complexity of the ML model adopted. The significance of PLS can be evaluated using a variety of resampling methods, such as the Kishino-Hasegawa test, the Shimodiara-Hasegawa test, or likelihood weights, although the appropriateness and assumptions of these tests remains debated.

Storage protein mobilization and thiol protease up-regulation by solid matrix priming in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) seed embryos

Experiments were conducted to investigate physiological mechanisms of solid matrix priming (SMP) on germination enhancement of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) seeds. During SMP, osmotic potential in the embryo decreased by 0.65 MPa, concentration of crystalloid proteins decreased to 62% and concentrations of buffer soluble proteins and free amino acids increased by 22% and by 166%, respectively. Observations under an electron microscope demonstrated protein bodies in the embryo were mobilized. Inhibitor analysis indicated thiol protease was the dominant enzyme among endopiptidases to degrade the reserved proteins. A fragment of thiol protease was cloned from the primed seed embryos and it has high identities to those thiol proteases responsive to water stress. RNA get blot analysis showed a 1.5 kb thiol protease gene was up-regulated by SMP. Treatment with E64, a thiol protease inhibitor, negated SMP effects on germination performance, water potentials and protein profiles. Based on the experimental results, reserve protein mobilization induced by SMP in the embryo before radicle emergence might be one of the mechanisms to enhance germination in loblolly pine seeds.

Development of forest structure on cleared rainforest land in eastern Australia under different styles of reforestation

Rainforests in eastern Australia have been extensively cleared over the past two centuries. In recent decades, there have been increasing efforts to reforest some of these cleared lands, using a variety of methods, to meet a range of economic and environmental objectives. However, the extent to which the various styles of reforestation restore structure, composition and ecological function to cleared land is not presently understood. In this study, we develop and apply a method for quantifying the structural attributes of reforestation sites in tropical and subtropical Australia. The types of reforestation studied were plantation monocultures, mixed-species cabinet timber plots, diverse restoration plantings and unmanaged regrowth. Two age classes of reforestation were examined: 'young' (5-22 years), incorporating sites from all categories, and 'old' (30-70 years), in which only monoculture plantations and regrowth were represented. A total of 104 sites were surveyed including reference sites in intact rainforest and pasture. Intact rainforest was characterised by a suite of complex structural features including abundant special life forms (vines, epiphytes, hemi-epiphytes and strangler figs), a dense stand of trees in a range of size classes, a closed canopy, a shrubby understorey and a well-developed ground layer of leaf litter and woody debris. These features were lost on conversion to pasture. While all types of reforestation returned some elements of structural complexity to cleared land, young plantation monocultures, cabinet timber plots and young regrowth had a relatively simple structure. These sites typically had a low density of woody stems, a relatively open canopy and grassy ground cover, and lacked large trees, coarse woody debris and most special life forms. Restoration plantings and old regrowth were more complex, with a high density of woody stems, a relatively closed canopy and shrubby understorey. Old monoculture plantations in the tropics had acquired many of the structural attributes of intact forest, however this was not the case in the subtropics, where plantations were subject to more intensive management. The marked differences in structural complexity between sites suggest that the different types of reforestation practiced in eastern Australia are likely to vary considerably in their value as habitat for rainforest biota. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.