Atlas of Butterflies and Diurnal Moths in the Monsoon Tropics of Northern Australia

"Northern Australia is one of few tropical places left on Earth in which biodiversity—and the ecological processes underpinning that biodiversity—is still relatively intact. However, scientific knowledge of that biodiversity is still in its infancy and the region remains a frontier for biological discovery. The butterfly and diurnal moth assemblages of the area, and their intimate associations with vascular plants (and sometimes ants), exemplify these points. However, the opportunity to fill knowledge gaps is quickly closing: proposals for substantial development and exploitation of Australia’s north will inevitably repeat the ecological devastation that has occurred in temperate southern Australia—loss of species, loss of ecological communities, fragmentation of populations, disruption of healthy ecosystem function and so on—all of which will diminish the value of the natural heritage of the region before it is fully understood and appreciated. Written by several experts in the field, the main purpose of this atlas is to compile a comprehensive inventory of the butterflies and diurnal moths of northern Australia to form the scientific baseline against which the extent and direction of change can be assessed in the future. Such information will also assist in identifying the region’s biological assets, to inform policy and management agencies and to set priorities for biodiversity conservation.

Atlas of Butterflies and Diurnal Moths in the Monsoon Tropics of Northern Australia

"Northern Australia is one of few tropical places left on Earth in which biodiversity—and the ecological processes underpinning that biodiversity—is still relatively intact. However, scientific knowledge of that biodiversity is still in its infancy and the region remains a frontier for biological discovery. The butterfly and diurnal moth assemblages of the area, and their intimate associations with vascular plants (and sometimes ants), exemplify these points. However, the opportunity to fill knowledge gaps is quickly closing: proposals for substantial development and exploitation of Australia’s north will inevitably repeat the ecological devastation that has occurred in temperate southern Australia—loss of species, loss of ecological communities, fragmentation of populations, disruption of healthy ecosystem function and so on—all of which will diminish the value of the natural heritage of the region before it is fully understood and appreciated. Written by several experts in the field, the main purpose of this atlas is to compile a comprehensive inventory of the butterflies and diurnal moths of northern Australia to form the scientific baseline against which the extent and direction of change can be assessed in the future. Such information will also assist in identifying the region’s biological assets, to inform policy and management agencies and to set priorities for biodiversity conservation.

Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association (OCEESA) Report, Special Issue, February 2005

This OCEESA report, which is special issue of OCEESA Journal (Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association Journal), is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Thomas To Shen 沈鐸博士. This report is OCEESA report number: OCEESA/JL-2005/22011, February 2005, ISSN 1072 -7248. Yung-Tse Hung, Permanent Executive Director, OCEESA, is editor of this report. This issue includes OCEESA profiles, OCEESA directors. This report also includes: (1) eulogy for Dr. Thomas To Shen, (2) Call for Abstracts, 10th MTEPC , (3) Report on the 20th Modern Engineering & Technology Seminar (METS) 2004, and (4) the 27th Biennial ROC-USA Business Conference 2004,November 11-16, 2004,Taipei, Taiwan, CIE-USA National Council Meeting Report. The report also includes 7 papers. (1) Lecture Trip Report: International Symposium on Environmental Management for Human Development, Baku, Azerbaijan, March 16, 2005, Pao-Chiang Yuan, (2) Birth of a Municipal Drinking Water Industry Users Group, Paul C. Li, (3) Recycling Technologies for Mercury Bearing Materials ,Yei-Shong Shieh, (4) Environmental Impact and Economic Development in China (in Chinese), Rubin Yu, (5) Report on Sabbatical Leave at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, in Spring Semester 2004, Yung-Tse Hung, (6) Disposal and Reuse of Treated Wastewater Effluents in Western Australia, Yung-Tae Hung, Brad Raymond, Howard H. Lo, (7) Water Contamination in Australia from Mining and Milling of Uranium Ores, Yung-Tae Hung, Matthew Coppen, Howard H. Lo. This report also includes OCEESA membership data, constitutions and by laws of OCEESA (5 November 2000 edition), constitutions and by laws of OCEESA (14 February 2006 edition), constitutions and by laws of OCEESA (27 October 2013 edition), membership application form, letter from Wen-Chi Ku to confirm Yung-Tse Hung OCEESA permanent executive director, letter from Lawrence Kong-Pu Wang to confirm Yung-Tse Hung OCEESA permanent executive director

Large-scale discovery of enhancers from human heart tissue

Development and function of the human heart depend on the dynamic control of tissue-specific gene expression by distant-acting transcriptional enhancers. To generate an accurate genome-wide map of human heart enhancers, we used an epigenomic enhancer discovery approach and identified ∼6,200 candidate enhancer sequences directly from fetal and adult human heart tissue. Consistent with their predicted function, these elements were markedly enriched near genes implicated in heart development, function and disease. To further validate their in vivo enhancer activity, we tested 65 of these human sequences in a transgenic mouse enhancer assay and observed that 43 (66%) drove reproducible reporter gene expression in the heart. These results support the discovery of a genome-wide set of non-coding sequences highly enriched in human heart enhancers which is likely to facilitate down-stream studies of the role of enhancers in development and pathological conditions of the heart