High quality planting stock - has research made a difference?

Thirty years of research on planting stock in Malaysia, coveting the period of a FAO/UNDP pine project, an enrichment planting effort with dipterocarps in natural forest and a compensantory plantation project with fast growing trees, had minimal effect on the course of events. The pine project and the enrichment planting project were both given up after about 75 years of effort and the compensatory plantation project is likely to end in the same way. The interface between research and application was more complicated than what managers and scientists were prepared for and the benefit of research were seldom realized

Manual of Forest Fruits Seeds and Seedling Volume 2

401-997 hal,;ill,;27 c

Notes on the Ebenaceae. VI. Four species to be excluded from the family

In the course of a study on Indo-Malesian Ebenaceae currently being carried out in the Oxford Forest Herbarium, it has been discovered that four species previously accepted as Diospyros do not belong to that genus and must be excluded from the family. They are as follows. 1. Diospyros addita Fletcher, Kew Bull. (1937) 386. — Type: Put 3109 (K, ABD). Is reduced to Vatica philastreana Pierre (Dipterocarpaceae). The fruit is shallowly three-lobed and has a persistent five-lobed calyx. It contains a single large seed the bulk of which consists of four massive cotyledonary lobes. Fletcher mistook the cotyledonary lobes for four separate seeds

Tree Flora of Malaya a manual for Foresters Volume 3

339 hal,;ill,;24 c

The role of international research agencies in strengthening forest research in Africa

Among the range of problems requiring research, some are most relevant for particular countries and require special local knowledge or facilities for research. Others are common to eco-regions or ecosystems which span several countries; for these, a regional approach through networked research groups may be more efficient and effective. CIFOR has identified a set of strategic problems, through surveys of demands, which involve research leading to generalizable results, adaptable to local situations. CIFOR will work through institution-strengthening associations with national partners towards resolution of these strategic problems

ERK1/2 activation is required for resveratrol-induced apoptosis in MDA-MB-231 cells

International Journal of Oncology33181-9

Survival Outcomes With the Introduction of Intravenous Epinephrine in the Management of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Annals of Emergency Medicine506635-64

Comparison of chest compression only and standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Singapore

10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.03.012Resuscitation782119-126RSUS