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An Intelligent SQL Tutor on the Web
13 (2): "Part II of the Special Issue on Adaptive and Intelligent Web-Based Systems "
The paper presents SQLT-Web, a Web-enabled intelligent tutoring system for the SQL
database language. SQLT-Web is a Web-enabled version of an earlier, standalone ITS. In this paper we
describe how the components of the standalone system were reused to develop the Web-enabled system.
The system observes students' actions and adapts to their knowledge and learning abilities. We describe
the system's architecture in comparison to the architectures of other existing Web-enabled tutors. All
tutoring functions are performed on the server side, and we explain how SQLT-Web deals with multiple
students. The system has been open to outside users since March 2000. SQLT-Web has been evaluated in
the context of genuine teaching activities. We present the results of three evaluation studies with the
University of Canterbury students taking database courses, which show that SQLT-Web is an effective
system. The students have found the system a valuable asset to their learning.
Keywords. Web-based ITS, architectures for adaptive and intelligent Web-based educational systems,
intelligent problem solving support via the Web, student modelling and student model servers in the Web
context, empirical studies of Web-based adaptive and intelligent educational systems.
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) offer the advantage of individualized instruction without the
expense of one-to-one human tutoring. Although numerous ITSs have been developed to date,
they are mostly used in research environments, and only a few have been used by large numbers
of students in real classrooms. The main cause of such limited use of existing systems is the
complexity of ITS development, and the difficulties with providing robust and flexible systems.
Despite the fact the area is not young, there are no well-established methodologies or
development tools. Furthermore, the hardware platforms available in most schools are not the
ones developers prefer, and porting systems between platforms is in no way a straightforward
task. Fortunately, Web-enabled versions of ITSs have the potential to reach a much wider
audience as they face significantly fewer problems with hardware and software requirements.
We have developed SQL-Tutor, a standalone system for teaching SQL (Structured Query
Language) (Mitrovic, 1998a). The system has been used by senior computer science students at
the University of Canterbury and has been found easy to use, effective and enjoyable (Mitrovic
& Ohlsson, 1999). The system has been developed in Allegro Common Lisp (Allegro, 1998) and
is available on MS Windows and Solaris. Besides local users, two thousand people worldwide


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Director of Technology Stephen Bannasch describes the complex algorithms that he's been programming behind the scenes to get virtual atoms to behave like real atoms, forming gases, liquids and solids while you manipulate temperature and the attractive forces between atoms. See salt crystallize and explore how the intermolecular attractions affect melting and boiling points. Imagine what chemistry class would have been like (or could be like today) if the foundation of your chemical knowledge started here.
Interested in this innovative programming? Great! We're looking for software developers.

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Black Book Research Survey Indicates that Mobile Technology is Improving Patient Safety
The results of a recent survey conducted by Black Book Research show that 90% of hospitals and 94% of physicians have implemented mobile technology and believe that it is helping to enhance patient safety and outcomes,.
The survey was carried out on 770 hospital-based users and 1,279 physician practices from Q4, 2017 and Q1, 2018.
The survey showed 96% of hospitals are planning on purchasing a new clinical communications platform in 2018 or have already adopted a new, thorough communications platform.
85% of surveyed hospitals and 83% of physician practices have already implemented a secure communication platform to enhance communications between care teams, patients, and their families. Safe text messaging platform are quickly becoming the number one choice due to the convenience of text messages, the security provided by the platforms, and the improvements they make to productivity and profitability.
98% of hospitals and 77% of physician practices said they have adopted secure, encrypted email and are using intrusion detection systems to ensure breaches are detected swiftlly.
Many providers of safe text messaging solutions have designed their platforms specifically for the healthcare sector. The platforms incorporate all the necessary security measures to meet HIPAA requirements and ensure PHI can be transmitted safely. Text messaging is familiar to almost all staff members who are provided access to the platforms and they make communication quick and simple.
However, 63% of those surveyed said they are still facing ongoing challenges with buy-in of general mobile adoption strategies and related enterprise technology execution.
30% of respondents answered saying that even though secure methods of communication have been adopted such as encrypted text messaging platforms and safe email, they are still receiving communications every day from unsecured sources that contain personally identifiable information such as patients' names and birth dates.
Part of the study included an assessment of cybersecurity and privacy software and services, allowing the company to name the vendors that are most highly regarded by consumers. TigerText, the market leading supplierr of secure text messaging solutions for the healthcare sector, was rated highly across the board, as were Vocera, Spok, Doc Halo, and Imprivata.
Doc Halo received the highest ratings among secure communications platform provider among physician groups, with Perfect Serve, Patient Safe Solutions, OnPage, Telemediq, and Voalte also scoring well. Spok ranked highest among hospital systems and inpatient groups, with Qlik and Cerner also receiving high ratings.
Doug Brown, president of Black Book Market Research said "Stakeholders across the healthcare industry are in the quest of finding solutions to use comprehensive real-time data and connectivity cleverly to advance patient safety, productivity and profitability. Organizations are adopting secure text messaging platforms because texts are convenient, as well."


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The IE parole program provides a temporary immigration pathway for foreign entrepreneurs who have founded companies in the United States attracting venture capital or other funding that may benefit the nation by growing and adding jobs to the U.S. economy.
Under the IE program, parole may be granted to up to three entrepreneurs per start-up entity, as well as their spouses and children. Parole authorizes the beneficiary the right to enter and stay in the United States, for a specific period of time granted by DHS. The IE program is not a typical immigration pathway, but it fills a gap for entrepreneurs that more common immigration statuses do not satisfy. Entrepreneurs granted parole are eligible to work only for their start-up business, and their spouses may apply for employment authorization in the United States, though their children are not eligible for such authorization based on this parole.
International Entrepreneur parole program applicants must show that they:
- Possess a substantial ownership interest in a start-up entity created within the past five years in the United States that has substantial potential for rapid growth and job creation.
- Have a central and active role in the start-up entity such that they are well-positioned to substantially assist with the growth and success of the business.
- Will provide a significant public benefit to the United States based on their role as an entrepreneur of the start-up entity by showing that:
- The start-up entity has received a significant investment of capital from certain qualified U.S. investors with established records of successful investments;
- The start-up entity has received significant awards or grants for economic development, research and development, or job creation (or other types of grants or awards typically given to start-up entities) from federal, state, or local government entities that regularly provide such awards or grants to start-up entities; or
- They partially meet either or both of the previous two requirements and provide additional reliable and compelling evidence of the start-up entity's substantial potential for rapid growth and job creation.
- Otherwise merit a favorable exercise of discretion.


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^ Operator (Visual Basic)
Raises a number to the power of another number.
number ^ exponent
Required. Any numeric expression.
Required. Any numeric expression.
The result is number raised to the power of exponent, always as a Double value.
Double. Operands of any different type are converted to Double.
Visual Basic always performs exponentiation in the Double Data Type (Visual Basic).
The value of exponent can be fractional, negative, or both.
When more than one exponentiation is performed in a single expression, the ^ operator is evaluated as it is encountered from left to right.
The ^ operator can be overloaded, which means that a class or structure can redefine its behavior when an operand has the type of that class or structure. If your code uses this operator on such a class or structure, be sure you understand its redefined behavior. For more information, see Operator Procedures.
The following example uses the ^ operator to raise a number to the power of an exponent. The result is the first operand raised to the power of the second.
Dim exp1, exp2, exp3, exp4, exp5, exp6 As Double
exp1 = 2 ^ 2
exp2 = 3 ^ 3 ^ 3
exp3 = (-5) ^ 3
exp4 = (-5) ^ 4
exp5 = 8 ^ (1.0 / 3.0)
exp6 = 8 ^ (-1.0 / 3.0)
The preceding example produces the following results:
exp1 is set to 4 (2 squared).
exp2 is set to 19683 (3 cubed, then that value cubed).
exp3 is set to -125 (-5 cubed).
exp4 is set to 625 (-5 to the fourth power).
exp5 is set to 2 (cube root of 8).
exp6 is set to 0.5 (1.0 divided by the cube root of 8).
Note the importance of the parentheses in the expressions in the preceding example. Because of operator precedence, Visual Basic normally performs the ^ operator before any others, even the unary operator. If exp4 and exp6 had been calculated without parentheses, they would have produced the following results:
exp4 = -5 ^ 4 would be calculated as –(5 to the fourth power), which would result in 625.
exp6 = 8 ^ -1.0 / 3.0 would be calculated as (8 to the –1 power, or 0.125) divided by 3.0, which would result in 0.041666666666666666666666666666667.
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And here's what my Gparted says about my clone SD (it should be identical to the internal SD, except for the bottom unallocated space):
Which version of gparted are you using? Mine is 0.9.1, ran under Fedore 15. The differences are that it does reports ext4 for 3 partitions (as Kobo's "mount" command), but it agrees with you on /data being ext2, and KOVOBOX being fat32. Why on earth are they using fat32 on the internal SD card? WHat advantage can it have compared to ext* file systems, given that it is Linux?


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, ranging from the desired storage, linked network compatibility, and configuration. As versatile blocks that can be immediately assembled if and when the requirements occur, IaC should present itself.
- Dynamic Design: Although it's always a sure bet that a change in the form of an upgrade would require some part or another, it's not always easy to make those improvements to the current structure. We can't predict how a system's requirements may change over time. That's why one of IaC's fundamental concepts is that there is always a shift in the design. So to be as lucid as possible, you can build your Infrastructure and applications.
Tools used in IaC
For IaC setup and automation, Puppet takes a more holistic approach. For many big businesses, such as Reddit, Dell, and Google, this tool operates the data centers and runs on all OS systems. It has one of the most sophisticated interfaces on this list, too. This tool uses DSL based on Ruby as the primary language for defining the Infrastructure's desired end state.
Then the Puppet will work out the best way for you to reach the end state. It also tracks the system for any modifications that deviate away from the specified end state. It corrects those modifications automatically. This is a tool designed exclusively for system managers which offer substantial business and community support for credit.
Among CI/CD professionals, Chef is a fairly common IaC method. It uses DSL based on Ruby, and this is definitely a big plus. From the outset, it has "cookbook" versions and helps you to maintain a consistent setup. Even when the Infrastructure has to keep up with the rapid development of the app that it hosts, this is possible.
At the center of its nature, the Chef offers recipes and cookbooks. There are self-styled template appellations and template sets you can use out of the box. A single task should usually be connected to one cookbook, but it can offer various server configurations depending on the resources involved. Chef also fits very well with other IaC platforms, including Terraform and many other cloud environments, since it supports cloud provisioning APIs.
Ansible is a system constructed from the beginning with the perspective of automation. This tool focuses on providing the configuration language "radically simple" and handling cloud instances instantly without modifications. It is also useful for arbitrary IT orchestration, such as zero downtime rolling changes, hotfixes, and so on, instead of being fundamental configuration management. You only explain how components and the system, in general, communicate with each other instead of handling systems as individual units, and Ansible can handle the rest.
Right now, Ansible is also one of the most versatile IaC resources on the market. You are not confined to the characteristics it offers. Instead, you can create your own modules and routines to suit particular needs. For setup and control, it also has an elegant Interface.
Azure Resource Manager:
Using this tool, users can provide Infrastructure and manage dependencies through Azure Resource Manager templates in one seamless cycle (ARM templates). In JSON, the resources that your template uses are defined declaratively to build complete project environments.
To visually track all your builds and updates, use a VSTS dashboard and get a quick overview of your settings' overall health and your models' consistency. The Resource Manager also supports the aggregation of instances of servers together with community centralized management.
Benefits of IaC
Now let's see some of the benefits of IAC,
- Sometimes, manual procedures result in errors. No matter how hard you try, manual infrastructure maintenance can result in inconsistencies. By making the config files themselves be the only source of fact, IaC solves the problem. That way, you ensure that the same settings are deployed over and over again, without inconsistencies.
- One of the key advantages of IaC is, without a doubt, the reduction in infrastructure maintenance costs. You significantly reduce the costs by employing cloud computing along with IaC. That's because you don't have to spend money on machinery, hire people to run it, and build or lease physical space to store it.
- The first important advantage that IaC provides is speed. With Infrastructure as code, by running a script, you can easily set up your complete Infrastructure. For every setting, from growth to development, through staging, QA, and more, you can do that.
- The modifications each configuration has undergone are entirely traceable—no more games of guessing on who did what and when.
- IaC can make the entire lifecycle of software development more effective. You can deploy the infrastructure architectures in several phases by employing Infrastructure as code. That makes the life cycle of entire software development more effective, raising the team's productivity to new levels.
IaC best practices
- Use little or no Documentation: In configuration files, define specifications and parameters. Additional documentation that gets out of step with the configurations in use is not required.
- Version control all configuration files: Place all your configuration files under the control of the source. When handling technology, versioning gives flexibility and accountability. It also allows previous manifests to be monitored, controlled, and restored.
- Constantly test Configurations: Until moving any changes to output, test, and control environments. Consider setting up automated tests to run if the configuration code gets altered to save time.
- Modular approach: Divide the Infrastructure into different components and then, by automation, merge them. The segmentation of IaC provides many benefits. You also restrict the number of modifications to manifests that can be made.
That's it, Folks!! I hope you found the "Infrastructure as a Code" blog interesting. Please share your thoughts in the comment section of the "Infrastructure as a Code" blog. Now that you have Understood What IaC is, how it works, popular tools, and to learn more about IaC and DevOps methodology, you should consider pursuing a popular DevOps Foundation Certification training from Invensis Learning.


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...The usual justification for trying to make all professors researchers is the argument that teaching and research are inextricably linked, to an extent that the first cannot be done well in the absence of the second. This argument is a strange one. Its proponents - usually academicians, trained in scientific method and the rules of logical inference - offer it with unbounded conviction, passion, and a total absence of evidence. They argue that only researchers are aware of recent developments in their field, so that courses taught by nonresearchers must be irrelevant or obsolete. They add that nonresearchers whom students rate as good teachers must be merely "entertainers," providing style without substance. When challenged to produce some evidence for the linkage between research and teaching, they name professors they know who have both admirable research records and teaching awards, which is like claiming that you can only be a world-class organist if you practice medicine in Africa and pointing to Albert Schweitzer to prove it.
In this essay I want to take a closer look at the purported linkage between teaching and academic research, to see how it stands up to the tests of common sense and educational research. I will argue that it stands up to neither....
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Hat tip: Guru, whose post has another interesting quote from Partha Dasgupta about "why university teachers are expected to be researchers." [Dasgupta's book is not available online, though].


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I enjoy a lively discussion. Perhaps that was my objective, rather than my original position regarding the direction and source of the force which causes the tides.
Each particle of each body "attracts" every other particle. The actual number of forces may be near infinity. If we assume both bodies to be emitting separate forces (which they do) not just one force between them (which the formula implies), then the total force between two bodies becomes the sum of the two (or vector sum) of the many individual forces.
Those two resultant forces are exactly equal in magnitude and exactly opposite in direction. Therefore they are calculated as if they were one force.
Because the two (or many) forces are calculated on different properties of the two bodies, and as there has always been discussion regarding the difference between the gravitational mass and the inertial mass, I'm wondering if we shouldn't assume a body to be both a gravitational and an inertial mass and be mindful of the separate forces.
Perhaps the formula for gravitational force could be rewritten to include those ideas.
Hopefully you can see how I've made the total force of gravity between two bodies proportionate to the sum of the two resultant forces, and then inverse to the single distance between them squared. What that does is change our presently accepted value of G = 6.6726e-11 using mks units to G = 3.3363e-11 using mks units.
The Physics book says 'that "attract" means that a body exerts a force on another body that is directed back to the first body along the line joining the two bodies'.
But, the law of gravity says that 'any two bodies "attract" each other'.
Therefore, there are separate forces exerted by each of the two bodies.
Gravity is not unlike russ_watters "skateboarders", IF BOTH PULL.
There is only one rope or line of force. The action and reaction to each force is equal and opposite.
When you talk about a tide on a celestial body, that body becomes the reference frame, and the force comes from within that body.
Yes it is true the other bodies are doing the same thing, it's just a matter of which one is the reference.
The Earth's oceans tides are caused when the Earth's oceans "attract" or gravitate towards the Moon and Sun. Those waters are the source of the gravitational force which moves them.
I have a copy of Newton's Principia (translation) here on the desk. Newton used the term "mutual attraction" more than once. He also stressed the fact that the force of gravity diminishes the farther away from the source you go.
And to perhaps clarify the direction he said this:
Please note where Newton said "each towards the other". This is my argument that the tides gravitate towards the Moon and Sun. Yes the Moon and Sun are cute and "attractive", but the tides gravitate or attract themselves to those other cute attractive bodies. Any body has the force of gravity and it uses that force to bootstrap or move itself unless it is restrained in some manner, such as the apple restrained by the tree.Originally Posted by Isaac Newton
Newton also said:
Can you see in that theorem that the moon "gravitates" or is the source of the gravitational force it bootstraps or causes itself to be moved or "drawn off"?Originally Posted by Isaac Newton

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Fast Track Report
The pen is mightier than the word: Object priming of evaluative standards
Article first published online: 8 MAY 2010
Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
European Journal of Social Psychology
Volume 40, Issue 5, pages 704–708, August 2010
How to Cite
Rutchick, A. M., Slepian, M. L. and Ferris, B. D. (2010), The pen is mightier than the word: Object priming of evaluative standards. Eur. J. Soc. Psychol., 40: 704–708. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.753
- Issue published online: 21 JUN 2010
- Article first published online: 8 MAY 2010
- Manuscript Accepted: 18 FEB 2010
- Manuscript Received: 28 JUN 2009
Because red pens are closely associated with error-marking and poor performance, the use of red pens when correcting student work can activate these concepts. People using red pens to complete a word-stem task completed more words related to errors and poor performance than did people using black pens (Study 1), suggesting relatively greater accessibility of these concepts. Moreover, people using red pens to correct essays marked more errors (Study 2) and awarded lower grades (Study 3) than people using blue pens. Thus, despite teachers' efforts to free themselves from extraneous influences when grading, the very act of picking up a red pen can bias their evaluations. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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Dog with Oronasal Fistula Repair
An oronasal fistula is an opening between the oral and nasal cavities that most commonly results from the extraction of a diseased upper canine tooth. The canine teeth are the long sharp teeth found at the anterior corners of the mouth on either side of the front incisor teeth. In this image you can see that the dental probe demonstrates a deep pocket of infection around the base of this canine tooth. It needs to be extracted. In some dogs with infected canine teeth the infection is so bad that it destroys the bone at the base of the tooth and once the tooth is extracted it leaves a hole or fistula between the oral and nasal cavities (an oronasal fistula). To prevent infection this needs to be covered up with a gingival flap. (see dental case August 2008)
Sometimes the gingival flap does not 'take' properly leaving a small oronasal fistula even after healing is completed as is seen in this image. In this case a new flap is required. Why is this important? -so that food material does not get trapped in this opening that would lead to both a local gum infection and a nasal infection leading to a runny nose.
In image 1, Dr. Fisher is using a scalpel blade to freshen the edges around the fistula and to create a new flap. Next a Freer elevator is used to raise the flap away from underlying bone (image 2).
Next, the fistula space is filled with Consil®, a synthetic bone graft particulate that encourages new bone formation.
Consil application is followed by suturing of the gum (gingival) flap to the surrounding gum tissue in order to cover the fistula.
The finished product! All sutures have been placed and the oronasal fistula is covered. This flap of gum tissue adhered well this time and healing was complete, thus preventing a possible source of chronic infection in the mouth and nasal passage.


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In 2014 the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics (DAFRE) celebrated its 100th anniversary. Our teaching and research department was founded in 1914 as the farm management division within the Rutgers Department of Agronomy. In 1923, farm management left the agronomy department to become a freestanding Department of Agricultural Economics. Its current name, adopted in 1999, reflects a research and teaching mission that extends beyond the department's origins in production agriculture.
The Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics (DAFRE) was created in 1914. Since then, its mission has evolved as the needs of society have changed. The department's mission is to:
DAFRE supports society's need for economic analysis and business management in the areas of agriculture, food, resources, and the environment. Our world class teaching, research, and outreach improve businesses, communities, and the lives of people in New Jersey and beyond.
Our mission reflects and supports the missions of the Land-Grant university system, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Enviormental and Biological Science (SEBS) and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES).
The following goals emanate from our mission
1. To achieve scholarly excellence in economic research on emerging issues unique to a urban/suburban environment.
2. To be proactive and to achieve excellence by providing continual, strong, high quality support for stakeholders in analyzing, planning and facilitating adjustments to urbanization.
3. To provide effective, cutting edge undergraduate and graduate education programs in the areas of business economics, environmental and natural resource economics, and economics of the food system including agriculture and the food industry.
4. To foster team efforts including other institutions and stakeholders.
5. To provide a responsible work environment in which the individuality, worth and dignity of each member is respected and personal and professional development are encouraged.
Programmatic Area Missions and Goals
The Programmatic areas include
2. Teaching - Undergraduate & The Graduate level
Teaching and outreach build on research, and the resulting synergy energizes the pursuit of our broader departmental mission to: "Support society's agricultural, agribusiness, food, environmental and natural resource needs for economic analysis through an integrated program of teaching, research and outreach activities designed to improve the quality of public and private decisions."
DAFRE's research mission is as follows:
To advance the frontiers of knowledge within the discipline of economics, and between economics and related disciplines, on current and emerging issues related to agricultural, food, agribusiness, environmental and natural resources multidisciplinary research that draws upon relevant expertise from the fields and upon an outreach program that elicits input from our clientele in the private and public sectors.
Major departmental efforts are directed toward addressing the challenges facing the agriculture, food industry, agricultural policy makers and public and private decision makers on issues related to natural resources and the environment in New Jersey and other urbanizing/suburbanizing regions in the world. The department will continue its frontier research into policy issues such as farmland assessment, sustainability of agriculture, farmland preservation, right-to-farm issues, quality-of-life effects of farming, the structure and performance of the key agriculture and food sectors, technology transfer, effectiveness of public and private research, irrigation financing, solid waste management, environmental quality, land use at the urban fringe, coalition building between agricultural and environmental interests, new use agriculture, other emerging farm products and crops, nutraceuticals, international agricultural development, costs of production, and regulations facing agriculture. Current and evolving research initiatives will emphasize the sustainability of agriculture and include such areas as the:
(i) economics of horticulture,
(ii) new use and value added agriculture,
(iii) economics of biotechnology,
(iv) economics of emerging food technologies,
(v) economics of nutraceuticals,
(vi) economics of biodiversity, and
(vii) linkages between agriculture, food and the pharmaceutical industry.
The research program builds on the New Jersey experience as a frontier state in issues related to rapidly changing agriculture, rapidly evolving food industry, high demands on natural resources and the environment and the urban environment. As a premier department in policy related research, the DAFRE seeks to provide leadership in multidisciplinary research by utilizing a problem-solving approach to address pressing issues in our areas of interest and expertise. The mission-related goals of the research program are as follows:
- To advance the frontiers of knowledge within and between disciplines.
- To develop and conduct research (in areas such as those noted above) that is responsive to the current and future needs of producers, industry, policy makers and society.
- To establish multidisciplinary research teams that draw upon relevant expertise and provide balanced, visionary and synergistic insights and leadership.
- To build upon the New Jersey experience with development at the interfaces of agriculture, agribusiness, food and environmental/natural resources.
The Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics supports an undergraduate major entitled "Environmental & Business Economics" (373), an academic "minor" by the same name, and a graduate program leading to a Masters of Science degree in "Agricultural Economics." The undergraduate program and faculty also provide courses included in the college's requirements for graduation and/or for completion of other majors within the college.
Undergraduate Program Mission
The mission of the undergraduate program is to prepare students for citizenship and employment by fostering the ability to apply economic concepts and principles to the analysis of public and private sector issues and problems, and an understanding of the institutional factors underlying and influencing policy decisions with particular emphasis on the agriculture, food industry, and natural resources.
In pursuit of the mission of the undergraduate program, the curriculum and courses are periodically reviewed, revised, and designed to provide both for our students and for those in other curricula, with:
- a foundation in the principles of economics that is relevant and up-to-date,
- greater facility in the analytical and problem-solving processes through the adoption and application of information and communication technology, and
- an improved capacity for critical reasoning and decision-making.
The "Information Age," advanced technologies, increased competition in the market place, globalization of the economy, and demands for accountability emanating from taxpayers, employers, and other stakeholders compel us to approach curriculum development and instruction in new and exciting ways. Increasingly, computers, software, and other emerging technologies are being integrated in courses to facilitate modeling, analysis and the decision-making processes. Distance learning opportunities and cooperative relationships with other institutions (such as those being developed through the Kellogg Food Systems Professions Initiative and the Mid-Atlantic Consortium) will facilitate educational development by allowing students and faculty alike to benefit from expertise and other resources for learning that would otherwise be unavailable.
The undergraduate curriculum's core courses and three options (i.e., Business Economics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, and Food Industry Economics) qualify students for a broad spectrum of positions in business and government, and/or for continued study at the graduate level. Alumni find positions in companies such as American Express, ADP, AT&T, G.E., ITT, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Merrill Lynch, Commodity Exchange, Dean Witter, Stock Exchange, Farm Credit Corporation, Food Enterprises Inc., Frito-Lay Inc., M&M Mars Company, Nestle Food Corporation, Pepsi Cola Company, USDA, and Wakefern Company.
Graduate Program Mission
The mission of the M.S. program is to deliver graduate education that enables students to apply economic concepts and quantitative techniques to current problems of the agricultural and food industries and those related to natural resources and the environment. Students develop research skills by conducting independent research guided by faculty whose expertise includes the interface between agriculture, food and the environment.
Specific mission-related goals of the graduate program are as follows:
- To provide rigorous training in economic theory, econometrics and applied methods of economic research, while maintaining the flexibility to accommodate important techniques from other disciplines and adapt to a rapidly changing world of available tools.
- To provide opportunities for verbal and written communications, and for collaboration in groups, that permits students to excel in team efforts comprising members from multiple disciplines.
- To maximize the relevance of the curriculum by integrating classroom experience with practical applications.
- To build enrollment, integrated with funded research programs, to the point where the program is self-sustaining.
The outreach mission of the department includes the development, implementation, and evaluation of the impact of outreach programs to industry, policy makers and the general public that address economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, agribusiness, environmental and natural resources in urbanizing areas.
Examples of the department's outreach efforts include our continued commitment to the proactive development of policy tools for agricultural development, the development of the Agricultural Economic Recovery and Development Initiative, the Farm Business Management and Marketing Training Program, coalition building and conflict resolution and public policy education initiatives, work in direct marketing, education programs and support provided farmers and other constituents in financial management and budgeting, and "Think-Tanks" involving departmental and university faculty in support of various agricultural and food industry enterprises in New Jersey. In the environmental area, examples of outreach efforts include collaborations and partnerships with environmental interests groups and organizations (e.g., New Jersey Recycling Forum, ANJR and Environmental Research Associates) as we continue to seek solutions to environmental policy problems. Mission related goals in the area of extension or outreach include the following:
- To develop mechanisms and outreach initiatives, based upon applied research and stakeholder linkages, that are responsive to stakeholder needs.
- To serve as a resource to clientele by conducting, evaluating/gathering, interpreting and disseminating high quality information from economic and policy analysis.
- To serve in an advisory capacity to clientele.
- To disseminate departmental generated research.
- To organize, compile/coordinate expertise, deliver and evaluate educational programs to targeted clientele groups.


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When the Flowers Arrive
Remove all transportation packaging, containers and materials around the stems then trim an inch from the bottom of each stem.
Place in a vase that allows the stems to reach at least half way down, fill it three quarters full with fresh lukewarm water and add the flower food.
The vase must be completely clean as bacteria from old displays block the tiny tubules carrying water up the stems causing flowers to wilt.
Positioning and Temperature
For best results place flowers in light, cool positions, 18 to 22C (65 to 72F), away from direct sunlight, heating or cooling vents, radiators and other appliances that give off heat.
Keep flowers away from draughts as they can dry the flowers out prematurely. Keep flowers away from ripening fruit as it releases tiny amounts of ethylene gas which makes flowers age faster.
Flowers enjoy being sprayed with a gentle mist of water daily. Remove flower as they fade. Top up the vase with fresh lukewarm water and food regularly. If the water looks cloudy or has developed an unpleasant smell, it should be thrown away and the vase refilled with fresh lukewarm water and new food.


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Orrery, Tellurium & Lunarium - Benjamin Martin, London, circa 1770 Reg. No: ST 023770
- Orrey made Benjamin Martin in London, England circa 1770.
An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system. Generally they were intended to be schematic representations for educational purposes rather than strictly accurate ones. This orrery contains a mechanism that can produce elliptical orbits. Orreries by Benjamin Martin like this one differ from earlier orreries by having the planets on extended arms, rather than fixed on rotating plates. Martin was one of the most important instrument makers of his time and was particularly known for his microscopes.
- Brass circular mechanism 17cm diameter supported on base with 3 folding legs. Plate also has concentric circles near edge showing date & signs of zodiac. Centrally above mechanism is brass ball representing sun. Tellurium or lunarium can be fitted onto axis below sun. At later date a brass circle was added to globe to show longitude. Also a semi-circle on n-s line to show latitude. Howver, this interfered with operation so has been removed and is stored in Orrery's box.
|Dimensions:||250 mm (Height), 330 mm (Width), 415 mm (Length)|
|Tagged with:||astronomical models, orreries|
|Themes this item is part of:||Orreries: Mechanical Models of the Solar System, Science & Measurement Collection|
|Tertiary Classification:||demonstration equipment|
|Inscriptions:||Upper plate of mechanism engraved "B. Martin, London".|
|Maker:||Mr Benjamin Martin, London, England, Great Britain, circa 1770|


LEISTENSTEIN'S WINDOW (also called LEISTENSTEIN'S WELL) is the name given both to the apparatus and to the resulting phenomenon from which gravity beds and sodomite propulsion are derived.
While sometimes used interchangeably, Leistenstein's Well is increasingly applied to the apparatus, with Leistenstein's Window being reserved for the mercury interface effect. This article will follow that use. Dommety, Sodor and Leistenstein's original paper referred to the entire system as "the Window", while later works of the three have only served to confuse the terminology.
While more commonly (and more reliably) encountered in the form of a Gravity Trellis comprising multiple wells, the Leistenstein's Window can be achieved with an individual well of 16 iron rods arranged in three layers. The bottom and top layers are of four rods (of length six units) arranged in a noughts-and-crosses-style grid (two unit squares). The middle layer is another such grid of four rods (of length 3√2 units) rotated by 45 degrees about the centre of the grid. The top and bottom layers are held two units apart, as a cube, with the middle layer sandwiched at the mid-way point. The three layers are joined at the four central nodes of each grid by four'vertical' rods (of length nine units). Each rod describes a (c.4.5 units long) right-handed hyperbolic tangent across the central 22 units of height so as to interact with the node-points of the middle layer (in this way, a rod touching the top layer at the top right will touch the middle layer at the right and the bottom layer at the bottom right). The rods extend vertically by two units above the top layer and two units below the bottom layer. Lengths of the rods in all cases may be approximated, but should approach the appropriate ratios outlined. Crystal size is the only limiting factor (to date the largest viable unit length has been 4"). The resulting structure, called the H-frame, broadly resembles a 3D noughts-and-crosses grid:
Leistenstein's Well: Top view (left); Side view (right)
Middle layer (pink) ; Leistenstein's Window (blue pecked)
The H-frame, thus constructed, serves as an electrode in an electrolytic sodomite solution until triangular crystals span each corner of the frame. Viewed from above, the top layer of crystals will mirror the lattice of the middle layer. The crystals on the middle layer will surround a central window of one unit square (depicted by the blue pecked line in the diagram above).
The crystalised apparatus is removed from the sodomite solution but a current is maintained through the H-frame at a sufficient strength as to gently fluoresce the highly energetic crystals.
Mercury is then poured into the well where an attractive force suspends the liquid metal as a film across the aperture at the centre of the middle layer: the Leistenstein's Window proper. Filming may also occur across other parts of the framework, although such films will not exhibit the more advanced phenomena outlined below.
Development of the apparatus
The H-frame was ascertained by Swarna Dommety at the Plaza in 2014, originally as a personal development exercise to create a sculpture in honour of Hull's UK City of Culture win. She noticed a small but palpable energy discharge from the crystals she'd grown on the frame, and began tinkering with the design to investigate the phenomenon. In this process she was assisted by her colleague, James Sodor, with whom she had previously worked on the sodomite project. Alexander Leistenstein was then invited to overlook the work and it was his suggestion to introduce the mercury in a desperate effort to track possible field effects. What he could not have anticipated was the glazing effect achieved. In an effort to test the resilience of the mercury film, the trio turned the apparatus on its side, and it was at that point that the gravitational effect became apparent. Sodor tested the effect with a ball bearing, before Leistenstein introduced first a plumb-line and later a camera into the experiments. A full account of the trio's original investigations can be found in Dommety, S., Sodor, J.E., and Leistenstein, A.A. (2016). "A laboratory-produced worm-hole phenomenon, and resultant gravity and energy effects", New Journal of Physics, 18 112003.
Gravity effect
A Leistenstein's Window exerts a gravitational pull in line with the location in which the crystals were formed. This pull decays as an inverse Fibonacci sequence at a rate of one step per 22 unit lengths: i.e. the first 44 units from the Window maintain a constant pull of g, reducing rapidly to 1/2 g at 66 units, 1/3 g at 88 units, 1/5 g at 110 units, 1/8 g at 132 units etc.
A Gravity Trellis, consisting of a number of linked H-Frames covered with a floor, is used to provide artificial gravity, not only in space but also in specialist applications on Earth.
A Gravity Trellis masks the effects of Earth gravity, casting an anti-gravitational shadow that ablates in equivalence to the aforementioned Fibonacci decay. This is especially beneficial as it means that any spacecraft built within such a shadow will effectively weigh only as much as the Gravity Trellis on which it stands, therefore requiring less energy to attain escape velocity. The same effect (in conjunction with the Fibonacci decay) can be employed in a spherical arrangement to create a gravity baffle, permitting near-zero-gravity environments on Earth.
Wormhole effect
Without the addition of an intervening floor, an object attracted to a Leistenstein Window will pass through the window and disappear. The mercury of the window is observed to glow a magenta pink when matter passes through; the glow being more intense in proportion to the speed and density of the transmitted object. An object partially passed through the Window will behave in a cohesive way (so a plumb line can continue to be manipulated as such once the plumb has disappeared through the mercury). Experiments with video cameras discovered early on that a second 'world' exists beyond the Window, although the precise location has been a matter of some debate.
The location beyond the window (the so-called Window World) is arid and atmospherically hostile: volcanic rock dominates the landscape, often at some distance below the window; there is a high density, high carbon, and often highly acidic atmosphere that led to early speculation that the location may be Venus. However, the climate is mild in comparison (the recorded temperature generally falls within 250-300°C, below Venus's coldest regions). Limited astronomical observations suggest a celestially local location, but there is debate as to precisely how local (studies are confounded by the atmospheric conditions). Leistenstein himself has speculated that the world may represent a parallel Earth of some kind, although he admits to having no evidential basis for this conjecture.
Energy effect
A Leistenstein Window radiates a small amount of heat from the Window World. Unchecked, the incremental effect of this heat can damage the surrounding sodomite crystals, potentially destroying the Window. However, it appears that most of the heat that ought otherwise to pass through from the Window World is somehow employed in maintaining the Window itself. Attempts to calculate the cooling effect this dissipation has upon the Window World have so far been inconclusive.
Perhaps most astonishingly, the high temperature atmosphere of the Window World can be employed as a heat reservoir energy source: the principle behind what is known as'sodomite propulsion'. While a Leistenstein Window requires a constant supply of electrical energy to remain open, plus the necessary cooling (as well as the initial energy investment in the creation of the apparatus), this may be offset by the energy which can be generated from within the system. Indeed, a Gravity Trellis can be equipped to power and cool itself indefinitely. This, of course, raises significant questions, not least with respect to conservation of energy.
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Givingli Intentions for 2020
Intentions say what we want to achieve and where we want to go. Having a list of intentions can help keep us on track to be a better + happier person!
Here are 3 intentions we are focusing on this year:
1. Gratitude Journal
Start or end every day by writing 3 things you are grateful for.
A gratitude journal is proven to improve your well-being and increase positivity.
By choosing to focus more on the positive we trick our minds to think more optimistic. This is a simple habit can alter the way we think and train our brains to give less power to negative thinking. If we practice this habit in the mornings, we start the day on a positive note and carry this energy throughout our day. If we practice this habit in the evenings, we go to sleep with a clear head and a positive spirit. (AKA get a better night's sleep!)
If you are thankful for a person in your life and find yourself adding them to your gratitude journal— don't be afraid to show them your appreciation. We don't need to wait until Thanksgiving to tell our loved ones why we're thankful for them!
2. Random acts of kindness:
One small act of kindness can go a long way. A random act of kindness has many positive effects on the brain— improves mood, generates happiness and increases energy.
By doing a random act of kindness, we can start a domino effect and improve the day of many people.
If you are feeling extra generous, you can send them a gift card to pay for their next Uber!
3. Choose Healthy + Sustainable:
Drink more waterinvest in a reusable water bottle and use it daily! Drinking more water can help with weight loss, energy levels and brain function! (It can also prevent dehydration which is the main cause of hangovers and headaches!)
Spend more time in naturewalk to the coffee shop instead of driving, take your lunch break at the local park, check out your nearest community garden and see how you can get involved. Challenge yourself to pick up three pieces of garbage when walking in the neighborhood.
Reduce your plastic useditch the plastic bags by bringing reusable bags. Choose brands that use packing made by recycled goods.
Using a sustainable gifting option! Stop wasting paper and plastic by using a digital gifting option. These days, there are a variety digital platformswith Givingli as just one of many!


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Direkoglu, Cem and Nixon, Mark S.
Shape Classification using Multiscale Fourier-based Description in 2-D Space.
At IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP 2008), Beijing, China,
In shape recognition, the boundary and exterior parts are amongst the most discriminative features. In this paper, we propose new multiscale Fourier-based object descriptors in 2-D space, which represents the boundary and exterior parts of an object more than the central part. This representation is based on using a high-pass Gaussian filter at different scales. The proposed algorithm makes descriptors size, translation and rotation invariant as well as increasing discriminative power and immunity to noise. In comparison, the new algorithm performs better than elliptic Fourier descriptors and Zernike moments with respect to increasing noise.
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-part can be included by means of an expression of the form: $self->eval('SUB_PART_NAME') C<$self> designates the instance of the C class. In an expression you can also use the C<$part> which contains the part of the template where the expression is found. Within an expression it is possible to specify only the name of a part to be inserted. In this case a subroutine with the name of this part is generated dynamically. In the example given in the synopsis, the insertion of the C part can thus be rewritten as follows: 'TOP' => q!Text before %%DATA()%% text after! C is placed within C<%%> and is in effect treated as an expression to be evaluated. The subroutines take arguments. In the following example, the argument is used to control the depth of recursive calls of a template: print Parse::Template->new( 'TOP' => q!%%$_[0] < 10? '['. TOP($_[0] + 1). ']' : ''%%! )->eval('TOP', 0); C<$_[0]> initially contains 0. C is included as long as the argument is less than 10. For each inclusion, 1 is added to the argument. The C method permits constructing the environment required for evaluation of a template. Each entry to be defined within this environment must be specified using a key consisting of the name of the symbol to be created, associated with a reference whose type is that of the entry to be created within this environment (for example, a reference to an array to create an array). A scalar variable is defined by associating the name of the variable with its value. A scalar variable containing a reference is defined by writing C<'var'=>EC<\$variable>, where C<$variable> is a lexical variable that contains the reference. Each instance of C is defined within a specific class, a subclass of C. The subclass contains the environment specific to the template and inherits methods from the C class. If a template is created from an existing template (i.e. calling C as a method of the existing template), it inherits all the parts defined by its ancestor. In case of a syntax error in the evalutaion of an expression, C tries to indicate the template part and the expression that is "incriminated". If the variable C<$Parse::Template::CONFESS> contains the value TRUE, the stack of evaluations is printed. =head1 METHODS =over 4 =item new HASH Constructor for the class. C is a hash which defines the template text. Example: use Parse::Template; $t = new Parse::Template('key' => 'associated text'); =item env HASH =item env SYMBOL Permits defining the environment that is specific to a template. C returns the reference associated with the symbol, or C if the symbol is not defined. The reference that is returned is of the type indicated by the character (C<&, $, %, @, *>) that prefixes the symbol. Examples: $tmplt->env('LIST' => [1, 2, 3])} Defines a list @{$tmplt->env('*LIST')} Returns the list @{$tmplt->env('_USER_')} Ditto =item eval PART_NAME Evaluates the template part designated by C. Returns the string resulting from this evaluation. =item getPart PART_NAME Returns the designated part of the template. =item ppregexp REGEXP Preprocesses a regular expression so that it can be inserted into a template where the regular expression delimiter is either a "/" or a "!". =item setPart PART_NAME => TEXT C permits defining a new entry in the hash that defines the contents of the template. =back =head1 EXAMPLES The C class can be used in all sorts of amusing ways. Here are a few illustrations. =head2 HTML Generator The first example shows how to generate an HTML document by using a data structure placed within the evaluation environment. The template consists of two parts, C and C
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part is called within the C part to generate as many sections as there are elements in the array C. my %template = ('DOC' => <<'END_OF_DOC;', 'SECTION' => <<'END_OF_SECTION;'); %% my $content; for (my $i = 0; $i <= $_TAG_; $i++) { $content.= SECTION($i); } $content; %% END_OF_DOC; %% $section_content[$_[0]]->{Content} =~ s/^/
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', $section_content[$_[0]]->{Content}; %% END_OF_SECTION; my $tmplt = new Parse::Template (%template); $tmplt->env('section_content' => [ { Title => 'First Section', Content => 'Nothing to write' }, { Title => 'Second section', Content => 'Nothing else to write' } ] ); print $tmplt->eval('DOC'), "\n"; =head2 HTML generation using functional notation The second example shows how to generate an HTML document using a functional notation, in other words, obtaining the text:
text in boldtext in italic
from: P(B("text in bold"), I("text in italic")) The functions P(), B() and I() are defined as parts of a template. The Perl expression that permits producing the content of an element is very simple, and reduces to: join '', _USER_ The content to be evaluated is the same regardless of the tag and can therefore be placed within a variable. We therefore obtain the following template: my $ELT_CONTENT = q!%%join '', _USER_%%!; my $HTML_T1 = new Parse::Template( 'DOC' => '%%P(B("text in bold"), I("text in italic"))%%', 'P' => qq!
!, 'B' => qq!$ELT_CONTENT!, 'I' => qq!$ELT_CONTENT!, ); print $HTML_T1->eval('DOC'), "\n"; We can go further by making use of the C<$part> variable, which is defined by default in the environment of evaluation of the template: my $ELT_CONTENT = q!%%"<$part>". join('', _USER_). ""%%!; my $HTML_T2 = new Parse::Template( 'DOC' => '%%P(B("text in bold"), I("text in italic"))%%', 'P' => qq!$ELT_CONTENT!, 'B' => qq!$ELT_CONTENT!, 'I' => qq!$ELT_CONTENT!, ); print $HTML_T2->eval('DOC'), "\n"; Let's look at another step which automates the production of expressions from the list of HTML tags which are of interest to us: my $DOC = q!P(B("text in bold"), I("text in italic"))!; my $ELT_CONTENT = q!%%"<$part>". join('', _USER_). ""%%!; my $HTML_T3 = new Parse::Template( 'DOC' => qq!%%$DOC%%!, map { $_ => $ELT_CONTENT } qw(P B I) ); print $HTML_T3->eval('DOC'), "\n"; To benefit from the possibility of using the template parts as procedures, we can inherit from the generated template class: use Parse::Template; my $ELT_CONTENT = q!%%"<$part>". join('', _USER_). ""%%!; my $G = new Parse::Template( map { $_ => $ELT_CONTENT } qw(H1 B I) ); _USER_::ISA = ref($G); *AUTOLOAD = \&Parse::Template::AUTOLOAD; print H1(B("text in bold"), I("text in italic")); The reference to C avoids the warning message: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s() is deprecated Not very elegant. =head2 HTML generation by method call With a slight transformation it is possible to use a method-invocation notation: my $ELT_CONTENT = q!%%shift(_USER_); "<$part>". join('', _USER_). ""%%!; my $HTML_T4 = new Parse::Template( map { $_ => $ELT_CONTENT } qw(P B I) ); print $HTML_T4->P( $HTML_T4->B("text in bold"), $HTML_T4->I("text in italic") ), "\n"; The C permits getting rid of the template object, which we don't need within the expression. =head2 Inheritance of parts In the following example the child template C<$C> inherits the parts defined in its parent template C<$A>: my %ancestor = ( 'TOP' => q!%%"Use the $part model and -> ". CHILD()%%!, 'ANCESTOR' => q!ANCESTOR %%"'$part' part\n"%%!, ); my %child = ( 'CHILD' => q!CHILD %%"'$part' part"%% -> %%ANCESTOR(). "\n"%%!, ); my $A = new Parse::Template (%ancestor); my $C = $A->new(%child); print $C->TOP(); The part defined in C<$A> can be called directly from C<$C>, that derives from C<$A>. =head2 Other examples C was initially created to serve as a code generator for the C class. You will find other examples of its use in the classes C, C and C. =head1 NOTES CONCERNING THE CURRENT VERSION I would be very interested to receive your comments and suggestions. =head1 BUGS Instances are not destroyed. Therefore, do not use this class to create


Interface with the Data API via Spark
When you use this processing library, you implement Compilers, mix in the InputLayers and OutputLayers traits. These interfaces define data structures for the catalog and layer IDs. By implementing these interfaces, you tell the processing library which input catalogs and input layers each compiler requires. The processing library queries the input catalogs accordingly and provides the metadata to the compiler. In addition, the processing library requires each compiler to specify the output layers that it produces.
The Data Processing Library uses this information to implement incremental publishing via the Publisher, where output layers specified in each compiler are queried before publishing, to detect:
 - which partitions contain new payloads
 - which partitions are unchanged
 - which partitions are deleted
Since there is only one output catalog, it is not necessary to specify its identifier in application.conf or when you run the application. However, partition keys contain a catalog identified and you have to use the Default.OutCatalogId value when your compiler products output keys.
Input layers and catalogs can be shared across DriverTasks; the processing library optimizes this by querying the Data API only once. However, each layer of the output catalog can be produced by one task only. This is a requirement to implement incremental publishing: the Publisher collects all the metadata of a layer candidate to be published in one single place to perform the comparison, the conditional upload, and the multipart commit properly.
It is a mistake to have two or more tasks specify the same output layer, as the layer would be fully overwritten by the second task, resulting in an invalid output.
The following sections describe important internals of the Catalog and Publisher, which the Driver operates. While you do not need to directly operate these internals, this information is necessary to understand how input catalogs are accessed and how payloads are pushed to the output catalog.
Query a Catalog
The package contains APIs to access catalogs via Spark RDDs.
The Catalog trait provides convenient access to a Data API catalog via Spark.
The following operations are supported, via the Data Client Library:
 - Snapshot queries: construct an RDD of all the metadata of the catalog at a given version, eventually restricted to a set of layers.
 - Change queries: construct an RDD of changed metadata between two versions, eventually restricted to a set of layers.
 - Commit: regroup (Spark coalesce) an RDD of (updated) metadata into a fixed number of parts, upload them in parallel, and perform a multipart commit.
 - Configuration: easily access catalog configuration.
Most queries, except for configuration and queries for the latest version, are performed in parallel by Spark worker nodes. This ensures that metadata is not concentrated in the Driver, preventing a bottleneck that would hinder scalability.
Publish and Commit to a Catalog
The package provides higher-level functionality to publish the output payloads at the end of data processing and then commit the result. The Publisher class provides two methods to publish the output of compilation: full snapshot publishing and incremental publishing. In both cases, the Publisher requires the following input:
 - an RDD of output keys and payloads, which are the candidates to be published
 - an RDD of metadata for the output catalog, which contains what was already published
The Publisher performs the following steps:
 1. Joins the payloads through the keys (partition + layer), that are candidates to be published with the metadata already published.
 2. Calculates the hashes of the payloads.
 3. Discards all the payloads if their hashes correspond to those already published; discarding all output data that has not changed.
 4. Uploads all the payloads that are actually new via an Uploader, generating new metadata entries for them.
 5. Returns an RDD of metadata to be committed to the Catalog.
However, the two publishing methods vary in that:
 - Full snapshot publishing deletes each entry of the output catalog which was not explicitly provided in the input, in the resulting commit.
 - Incremental publishing does not modify partitions that were not provided in the output catalog.
Changes provided to the Publisher, either a new partition content or a delete request, are applied on top of the existing partitions.
The publisher merely performs incremental publishing based on hash differences, it is not an incremental compiler.
In both cases:
 - Payloads of newly-introduced keys are uploaded and committed as new metadata.
 - Payloads of keys already present in the output are discarded if not modified, otherwise they are uploaded and committed as changed metadata.
 - Empty payloads of keys already present in the output become deleted metadata.
It's important to note that all of this processing takes place in Spark worker nodes: hash calculation and comparison, eventual uploading, generation of the metadata to be committed. The RDD with the resulting metadata can then be passed to the Catalog for the actual commit.
State Layer
The library requires the output catalog to have an additional layer configured with generic partitioning scheme, for internal use. Applications cannot publish data to this layer. The layer ID is configurable but, its default name is: state layer.
The state layer is used by stateful compilation patterns to persist some RDDs and retrieve them on the next run.
Typically, within these RDDs, the input-output dependency graph is persisted. This graph specifies which input partition affects which output partition. This information is stored per-DriverTask and is needed in incremental compilation to identify which output partitions are candidates to be recompiled and republished.
Additionally, Fingerprints, that are required to guarantee the correctness of incremental runs, are also stored in this layer.
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Superstitions surround us: Touching wood? Carrying a rabbit's foot? Collecting lucky pennies? Not stepping on any cracks? The list goes on and on.
On one of my many chemical filtration business trips (many people have superstitions making flights safer), I read an interesting article on superstitions in the Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) Magazine. Six luminaries from different walks of life — photography, acting, cooking, writing, directing and music — weighed in. But, alas, there were no chemical engineers. So, I thought I'd remedy that in a blog.
The WSJ article featured various thoughts on superstitions. Some defined superstitions based upon religion and culture passed on from many generations. Another outlined a simple ritual such as "when hearing the title of a Scottish play, one would run outside, turn around three times, then knock on the door to come back inside the theatre." Then, there were "routines" to keep your days identical (i.e. the same workout, the same coffee, etc.). Others talked about superstitions as an attempt at "having control of what you can control."
However, the one overriding theme, as photographer Gregory Crewdson stated, is that a belief in superstition "comes down to order" and wanting "to clear your path of unknowns."
Clearing the Path for Chemical Engineers
So, how does all that relate to chemical engineering?
If you accept Crewdson's view, all chemical engineers are superstitious. We are always trying to clear our paths of the unknown. In every chemical filtration process, it is the unknowns that give us the most headaches. Why does the pump keep plugging? Why does the filtration system not produce a clean filtrate? Why is the process not meeting the production rates? The questions we face are endless! But our job remains the same, we must "clear our paths of the unknown."
Regular readers will know where I'm going with this…Test! Test! Test! Testing is our way of answering questions in controlled environments. To develop a process or troubleshoot an existing one, we need to ask the correct questions, think critically, walk around the plant, etc.
Contact me with your superstitions for solving critical filtration and drying applications. Let's have fun exploring what we all do in chemical filtration.


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Almost everyone today carries a camera wherever they go for capturing the moment and sharing it with others. So, what if you were able to take a snapshot of your marriage, giving you an immediate look at 10 different areas of your marriage? That's why we designed Marriage Snapshot for couples.
The process is quite simple. To begin taking your Marriage Snapshot survey, just follow the next steps:
1. Click on the REGISTER button below to create an account.
2. Enter your user specific code.
3. Begin the Marriage Snapshot survey.
4. Connect with your spouse by sending them a personal "invite".


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Novosibirsk Reservoir or Novosibirskoye Reservoir (Russian: Новосиби́рское водохрани́лище), informally called the Ob Sea (Обско́е мо́ре), is the largest artificial lake in Novosibirsk Oblast and Altai Krai created by a dam on the Ob River near Novosibirsk. The dam, built in 1956, is for generating hydroelectric power. The reservoir is 160 km long and up to 20 km wide. The power of hydroelectric power is 400 MW. During the summer, it is one of the most popular destinations for Novosibirsk residents with many yachts and boats dotting the surface of the lake, and the beaches teeming with people.
Most villages are situated on the western coast. The Karakan Pine Forest is situated on the eastern coast of the reservoir.


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How to Manage Pests
UC Pest Management Guidelines
Plants affected by shoestringing disorder have narrow, leathery leaves. Holes appear in the middle and margins of leaves as if chewed by insects. Symptoms appear very similar to virus or 2,4-D drift. In severe cases the plants are chlorotic and can be very stunted. This disorder has been observed in fields with and without black plastic mulches, but its appearance seems to coincide with very warm temperatures at certain growth stages.
The cause of this malady is unknown and currently there are no management guidelines.
UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Eggplant


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Ethics and museum professionals' exemplary practices are essential for ICOM.
ICOM Code of Ethics for museums was adopted in 1986 and revised in 2004. It establishes the values and principles shared by ICOM and the international museum community. It is a reference tool translated to 36 languages and it sets minimum standards of professional practice and performance for museums and their staff.
By joining ICOM, each member commits to respect this code.
Checklist on ethics of cultural property ownership
Considering the complexity of the ethical questions affecting the work of museums today, the Checklist is a tool for two purposes: it sets out the 8 organising principles that shape the detailed articles of the ICOM Code, as well as providing orientation and support in dealing with these complex topics; and it offers a list of contacts for further advice on particular questions.


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Via kqedscience, this is a tour of two of our closest galaxies: the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. They are between 163,000 and 200,000 light-years away and hold a few hundred million stars like our sun. HD full screen.
These images are from astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Pennsylvania State University, who used NASA's Swift Ultraviolet/Optical satellite telescope to create the highest resolution, wide field surveys in ultraviolet light.
Sir David Attenborough and chameleons in Madagascar, then and now, a brilliant video that mixes flashbacks from a 1960 television show called Zoo Quest with 2008 color footage shot for the BBC TV series Life in Cold Blood. He has spent six decades presenting programs for the BBC thus far.
There are more wonderful BBC clips, many with Sir Attenborough, in the archives.
In this absolutely incredible footage from EarthTouchTV, watch hundreds of thousands of sardines off the coast of South Africa swarm at the center of an animal feeding frenzy. With Earth-Touch divers right in the middle of the action, large, hungry predators — sharks, dolphins, diving gannets, and a 20 to 30 ton Bryde's whale — all take part in this intense and fascinating sardine run.


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Reduce all objects to lines in 2-D binary image or 3-D binary volume
B = bwskel(A)
B = bwskel(V)
B = bwskel(___,'MinBranchLength',N)
reduces all objects in the 2-D binary image
B = bwskel(
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curved lines, without changing the essential structure of the image. This process,
called skeletonization, extracts the centerline, preserving
the topology and Euler number of the objects, which correspond to white regions in
the image (logical true).
specifies the minimum branch length
B = bwskel(___,'MinBranchLength',
N of the skeleton.
bwskel removes (prunes) all branches shorter than the
bwskel calculates the length as the number of
pixels in a branch using 8-connectivity for 2-D and 26-connectivity for 3-D. The
default value of
equates to no pruning.
Read a 2-D grayscale image into the workspace and display it.
I = imread('threads.png'); imshow(I)
Perform skeletonization of the image using
bwskel and view the result.
out = bwskel(imbinarize(I)); figure imshow(out)
Prune small spurs that appear on the skeleton and view the result.
out2 = bwskel(imbinarize(I),'MinBranchLength',10); figure imshow(out2)
Load a volumetric data set into the workspace. The name of the data set is
You can view this data set using the Volume Viewer,
spiralVol data set to a binary format which is required by the
spiralVolLogical = imbinarize(spiralVol);
Skeletonize the spiral shape in the data set.
spiralVolSkel = bwskel(spiralVolLogical);
Use the Volume Viewer to view the skeletonized volume,
A— Input binary image
Input 2-D binary image, specified as a nonsparse, 2-D logical array.
V— Input 3-D binary volume
Input binary volume, specified as a nonsparse, 3-D logical array.
B— Output image or volume
Output image or volume, returned as a 2-D or 3-D logical array, the same size as the input image or volume.
skeletonize 2-D images, you might get different results using
bwmorph than when using
Because they use different algorithms, the
uses 4-connectivity with 2-D images;
bwskel function uses the medial axis transform.
 Ta-Chih Lee, Rangasami L. Kashyap and Chong-Nam Chu Building skeleton models via 3-D medial surface/axis thinning algorithms. Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, 56(6):462-478, 1994.
 Kerschnitzki, M, Kollmannsberger, P, Burghammer, M. et al.,Architecture of the osteocyte network correlates with bone material quality. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 28(8):_PHONE_, 2013.


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or similar things; but 'TIMES' is more versatile than that. The
argument to 'TIMES' is not just a numeric constant, but a numeric
_expression_, so you can do things like
buffer: db 'hello, world'
times 64-$+buffer db''
which will store exactly enough spaces to make the total length of
'buffer' up to 64. Finally, 'TIMES' can be applied to ordinary
instructions, so you can code trivial unrolled loops in it:
times 100 movsb
Note that there is no effective difference between 'times 100 resb 1'
and 'resb 100', except that the latter will be assembled about 100
times faster due to the internal structure of the assembler.
The operand to 'TIMES', like that of 'EQU' and those of 'RESB' and
friends, is a critical expression (*Note Section 3.8::).
3.3. Effective Addresses
An effective address is any operand to an instruction which
references memory. Effective addresses, in NASM, have a very simple
syntax: they consist of an expression evaluating to the desired
address, enclosed in square brackets. For example:
wordvar dw 123
Anything not conforming to this simple system is not a valid memory
reference in NASM, for example 'es:wordvar[bx]'.
More complicated effective addresses, such as those involving more
than one register, work in exactly the same way:
NASM is capable of doing algebra on these effective addresses, so
that things which don't necessarily _look_ legal are perfectly all
mov eax,[ebx*5] ; assembles as [ebx*4+ebx]
mov eax,[label1*2-label2] ; ie [label1+(label1-label2)]
Some forms of effective address have more than one assembled form;
in most such cases NASM will generate the smallest form it can. For
example, there are distinct assembled forms for the 32-bit effective
addresses '[eax*2+0]' and '[eax+eax]', and NASM will generally generate
the latter on the grounds that the former requires four bytes to store
a zero offset.
NASM has a hinting mechanism which will cause '[eax+ebx]' and
'[ebx+eax]' to generate different opcodes; this is occasionally useful
because '[esi+ebp]' and '[ebp+esi]' have different default segment
However, you can force NASM to generate an effective address in a
particular form by the use of the keywords 'BYTE', 'WORD', 'DWORD' and
'NOSPLIT'. If you need '[eax+3]' to be assembled using a double-word
offset field instead of the one byte NASM will normally generate, you
can code '[dword eax+3]'. Similarly, you can force NASM to use a byte
offset for a small value which it hasn't seen on the first pass (see
*Note Section 3.8:: for an example of such a code fragment) by using
'[byte eax+offset]'. As special cases, '[byte eax]' will code '[eax+0]'
with a byte offset of zero, and '[dword eax]' will code it with a
double-word offset of zero. The normal form, '[eax]', will be coded
with no offset field.
The form described in the previous paragraph is also useful if you
are trying to access data in a 32-bit segment from within 16 bit code.
For more information on this see the section on mixed-size addressing
(*Note Section 9.2::). In particular, if you need to access data with a
known offset that is larger than will fit in a 16-bit value, if you
don't specify that it is a dword offset, nasm will cause the high word
of the offset to be lost.
Similarly, NASM will split '[eax*2]' into '[eax+eax]' because that
allows the offset field to be absent and space to be saved; in fact, it
will also split '[eax*2+offset]' into '[eax+eax+offset]'. You can
combat this behaviour by the use of the 'NOSPLIT' keyword: '[nosplit
eax*2]' will force '[eax*2+0]' to be generated literally.
NASM understands four different types of constant: numeric,
character, string and floating-point.
3.4.1. Numeric Constants
A numeric constant is simply a number. NASM allows you to specify
numbers in a variety of number bases, in a variety of ways: you can
suffix 'H', 'Q' or 'O', and 'B' for hex, octal and binary, or you can
prefix '0x' for hex in the style of C, or you can prefix '$' for hex in
the style of Borland Pascal. Note, though, that the '$' prefix does
double duty as a prefix on identifiers (see *Note Section 3.1::), so a
hex number prefixed with a '$' sign must have a digit after the '$'
rather than a letter.
mov ax,100 ; decimal
mov ax,0a2h ; hex
mov ax,$0a2 ; hex again: the 0 is required
mov ax,0xa2 ; hex yet again
mov ax,777q ; octal
mov ax,777o ; octal again
mov ax,10010011b ; binary
3.4.2. Character Constants
A character constant consists of up to four characters enclosed in
either single or double quotes. The type of quote makes no difference
to NASM, except of course that surrounding the constant with single
quotes allows double quotes to appear within it and vice versa.
A character constant with more than one character will be arranged
with little-endian order in mind: if you code
then the constant generated is not '0x61626364', but '0x64636261',
so that if you were then to store the value into memory, it would read
'abcd' rather than 'dcba'. This is also the sense of character
constants understood by the Pentium's 'CPUID' instruction (see *Note
3.4.3. String Constants
String constants are only acceptable to some pseudo-instructions,
namely the 'DB' family and 'INCBIN'.
A string constant looks like a character constant, only longer. It is
treated as a concatenation of maximum-size character constants for the
conditions. So the following are equivalent:
db 'hello' ; string constant
db 'h','e','l','l','o' ; equivalent character constants
And the following are also equivalent:
dd 'ninechars' ; doubleword string constant
dd 'nine','char','s' ; becomes three doublewords
db 'ninechars',0,0,0 ; and really looks like this
Note that when used as an operand to 'db', a constant like ''ab'' is
treated as a string constant despite being short enough to be a
character constant, because otherwise 'db 'ab'' would have the same
effect as 'db 'a'', which would be silly. Similarly, three-character or
four-character constants are treated as strings when they are operands
3.4.4. Floating-Point Constants
Floating-point constants are acceptable only as arguments to 'DD',
'DQ' and 'DT'. They are expressed in the traditional form: digits, then
a period, then optionally more digits, then optionally an 'E' followed
by an exponent. The period is mandatory, so that NASM can distinguish
between 'dd 1', which declares an integer constant, and 'dd 1.0' which
declares a floating-point constant.
dd 1.2 ; an easy one
dq 1.e10 ; 10,000,000,000
dq 1.e+10 ; synonymous with 1.e10
dq 1.e-10 ; 0.000 000 000 1
dt 3.141592653589793238462 ; pi
NASM cannot do compile-time arithmetic on floating-point constants.
This is because NASM is designed to be portable - although it always
generates code to run on x86 processors, the assembler itself can run
on any system with an ANSI C compiler. Therefore, the assembler cannot
guarantee the presence of a floating-point unit capable of handling the
Intel number formats, and so for NASM to be able to do floating
arithmetic it would have to include its own complete set of
floating-point routines, which would significantly increase the size of
the assembler for very little benefit.
Expressions in NASM are similar in syntax to those in C.
NASM does not guarantee the size of the integers used to evaluate
expressions at compile time: since NASM can compile and run on 64-bit
systems quite happily, don't assume that expressions are evaluated in
32- bit registers and so try to make deliberate use of integer
overflow. It might not always work. The only thing NASM will guarantee
is what's guaranteed by ANSI C: you always have _at least_ 32 bits to
NASM supports two special tokens in expressions, allowing
calculations to involve the current assembly position: the '$' and '$$'
tokens. '$' evaluates to the assembly position at the beginning of the
line containing the expression; so you can code an infinite loop using
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Nearly three months after Tolbachik began erupting, lava continues to flow from the Kamchatkan volcano. Over time, the lava flows change location and shift across the landscape. In this image, infrared data is superimposed on a natural-color image to highlight active flows. The image was collected by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on February 14, 2013.
The infrared light detectable by some satellite sensors provides information that is invisible to the human eye. Humans see a spectrum of light in a range of colors from violet to red. The colors are related to the wavelength of the light, which also corresponds to energy. Violet light has the shortest wavelength and highest energy; red light the longest wavelength and lowest energy. Infrared light has a longer wavelength, and even lower energy than red light. Like the individual colors of the visible spectrum, infrared light is also subdivided into categories. From shortest to longest wavelength: near infrared, shortwave infrared, and thermal infrared.
Most of the light we see (and detected by satellites) is reflected light from the Sun or another source; that light bounces off a surface and into our eyes, a camera, or a satellite instrument. In addition to reflecting light, all surfaces also emit light, at a wavelength determined by temperature. The hotter the object, the shorter the wavelength and higher the energy. At room temperature, most emitted light is long wavelength thermal infrared and therefore invisible to humans. Only very hot objects emit visible light (like an electric burner or the filament of an incandescent lightbulb).
Lava hotter than 900° C (1,700° F) glows red. As it cools, lava stops glowing visibly, but will continue to glow in lower energy wavelengths of near infrared and shortwave infrared light.
On Tolbachik volcano, the Advanced Land Imager detected the infrared light emitted from recent and ongoing lava flows. Near infrared light detected by ALI is colored yellow, and shows the erupting vent and an active lava flow, open to the air. Areas glowing in shortwave infrared light, including the fringes of the active flow, are tinted red. These surfaces are hotter than the frigid winter air of Kamchatka, but cooler than the channelized flowing lava. To the east, scattered red pixels reveal residual heat on a flow formed in early February.
- Cascades Volcano Observatory. (2002, April 12) How hot is a volcano? Accessed February 19, 2012.
- Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team. (2013, February 18) VONA/KVERT Daily Report Accessed February 19, 2012.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Robert Simmon.
- EO-1 - ALI


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Increasingly, companies that source from smallholder farmers and governments that regulate global food trade require traceability along the value chain. Tracing the movement of a product from producer to the consumer can offer assurances that value chain actors meet strict market standards for food quality and safety, environmental concerns, trade, and labor. It can help consumers to "see into" their personal food supply chain, if they desire. It can inform efforts to improve value chain efficiency, identify sources of loss, and reward farmers for high-quality production.
With all of these potential benefits, it should come as no surprise that food traceability is an established field; it is a multibillion-dollar industry dating back to the 1930's. However, the use of traceability in smallholder agriculture is an emerging, growing innovation space. Traceability in smallholder agriculture presents a host of unique challenges and opportunities that sets it apart from the well-established traceability industry.
The following report presents Innovation Scan findings on the innovation request presented by TechnoServe: How might we enhance the traceability of mangoes produced by smallholder farmers in Kenya? In Phase I of the scan, the Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI) investigated possible innovation options and key decision-making considerations. In Phase II, GKI used feedback from the Implementing Partners to delve more deeply into specific innovation opportunities poised to positively impact their ongoing YieldWise efforts.
Since the conclusion of the Innovation Scan in December 2016, GKI connected TechnoServe with the traceability innovators profiled in this report. After a strong initial engagement, TechnoServe invited these innovators to propose a plan for a long-term partnership, through which TechnoServe and the innovator would work together to pilot a traceability solution for mango processors in Kenya. TechnoServe is currently engaged in further discussion to select the solution that will be easiest to deploy.
In its role as the YieldWise Innovation Partner, GKI helps Implementing Partners improve their effectiveness and impact through innovation. In addition to scanning for innovations with the potential to reduce food loss, GKI works with Implementing Partners to address their innovation capacity building goals. This effort builds on recent collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation on the post-harvest food loss challenge. GKI served as the Social Innovation Lab for the Foundation's Food Waste and Spoilage Initiative in 2013-15.


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Recurrent neural networks have become popular models for system identification and time series prediction. Nonlinear autoregressive models with exogenous inputs (NARX) neural network models are a popular subclass of recurrent networks and have been used in many applications. Although embedded memory can be found in all recurrent network models, it is particularly prominent in NARX models. We show that using intelligent memory order selection through pruning and good initial heuristics significantly improves the generalization and predictive performance of these nonlinear systems on problems as diverse as grammatical inference and time series prediction.
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1. Meditation Music Can Promote Deeper Meditation
When you talk about Zen music, meditation won't be far behind. Meditation is a practice of intentionally bringing your thoughts to the present for a variety of reasons. It's a lot easier said than done. It's not unusual for thoughts to wander, especially for beginners.
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Sleep is an essential body function. It helps replenish your energy, promote healing and recovery, and sharpen your focus.
The problem is when you're in stressful situations, sleep can be hard to come by. Sleep deprivation can also make you more sensitive to the effects of stress.
You may be able to deal with a lack of sleep and stress with supplements such as Relax & Unwind. It can help normalize your sleeping patterns by decreasing the activities of the brain.
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It may also stimulate sleep because it impacts the parasympathetic nervous system. It is a division of the autonomic nervous system that helps slows down the heart rate, among others.
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Meditation Music can alleviate emotional pain, but it may also work on physical pain. Both chronic stress and chronic pain can have similar symptoms. A 2014 study showed it may help patients suffering from chronic pain like fibromyalgia.
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Zen music such as binaural beats may help improve focus in the following ways:
What are binaural beats? They are the third sound the brain identifies when you listen to two different frequencies on each ear.
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The laws governing the National Park were laid down in 1980, and define the purpose of the Park's existence as follows:
«The Swiss National Park is a reserve in which nature is protected from any human interference, and in particular the entire fauna and flora are left to develop naturally.»
The law provides the framework for the protection of the National Park. Detailed regulations covering the aims of protection, paths, prohibitions and penalties are laid down within the cantonal ordinance.
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