New Zealand herbarium resources

Methane- to- Gasoline Plant Adds to New Zealand Liquid Fuel Resources

Methane- to- Gasoline Plant Adds to New Zealand Liquid Fuel Resources

Herbarium turns a new leaf

Steven Dakin and colleagues present a detailed analysis of the stimuli used in our study [1] revealing that our method of interpolation is associated with certain changes in the statistical properties of interpolated images. They argue that these changes might represent a possible source of the BOLD signal non-monotonicity that we observed in the primary visual cortex (V1). This finding is inte...

Insights from natural history collections: analysing the New Zealand macroalgal flora using herbarium data

Herbaria and natural history collections (NHC) are critical to the practice of taxonomy and have potential to serve as sources of data for biodiversity and conservation. They are the repositories of vital reference specimens, enabling species to be studied and their distribution in space and time to be documented and analysed, as well as enabling the development of hypotheses about species rela...

Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

On Media A workshop report from US Institute for Peace examined Arab media, August, 05 (http://usip.org/virtual diplomacy/publications/reports/18.html), with special focus on attitudes to US and to the West. The relevant Arab governments play a double role since mostly, they control the media, where they appease the ideological positions of their own threatening insurgencies while focusing publ...