Some Cypress Hills Floral Rarities

The geography of conflict between elk and agricultural values in the Cypress Hills, Canada.

Complex ecological issues like depredation and its management are determined by multiple factors acting at more than one scale and are interlinked with complex human social and economic behaviour. Depredation by wild herbivores can be a major obstacle to agricultural community support for wildlife conservation. For three decades, crop and fence damage, competition with livestock for native rang...

Rarities in Numeral Systems

We present an extensive survey of rare structural properties in numeral systems in the world's languages, foremostly the question of rare number bases. The survey emphasizes comprehensiveness and status of evidence.

Rarities in ocular sarcoidosis.

OCULAR involvement in sarcoidosis is both varied and frequent (Longcope and Freiman, 1952). The incidence is about 30 to 40 per cent. (Levitt, 1941; Woods and Guyton, 1944; Gifford and Krause, 1949; Longcope and Freiman, 1952). Almost all the structures in and around the eye may become involved: skin of the eyelid, eye muscles, orbit, uvea, and optic nerve. The commonest lesion is uveitis, whic...

Treasure our rarities.

at some point in his or her life, every scientist will encounter the gaussian distribution. it is such a useful statistical tool that it is used regularly, for example, to compare a set of experimental data with controls, or to define the ‘normal range’ of a wide range of observational data. generally, the smaller the difference between the measurements of samples compared with controls, the na...

Early Cypress Performance Experiments