An uncommon and extremely attractive 1852 map of the Russian in Asia by Victor Levasseur. Covers the Russian empire in Asia from european Russia the Pacific and from the Arctic Circle south as far as the Chinese empire. Throughout, the map identifies various cities, towns, rivers and assortment of additional topographical details. Various governments' boundaries are marked. During this time in Russia, around 1825, Russian army officers, called the Decembrists, protested against Nicholas I's ascension to the throne. They were however defeated and some were exiled to Siberia. There, against all odds, the Decembrists thrived making significant contributions to the cultural and economic growth of Siberia. In 1856, when the Decembrists received amnesty, only some returned to european Russia. The map features a beautiful frame style border. Prepared by Victor Levasseur for publication as plate no. 20 in Maison Basset's 1852 edition of Atlas Illustre Destine a l'enseignement de la Geographie elementaire.
Very good. Blank on verso. Minor foxing throughout. Small discoloration over the European part of Russia.


Channel your inner Woody Allen and rock these super soft, stretchy washed denim pants in a major way. Also, Sally from "When Harry Met Sally" would totally approve.
Model is 5'4" and wearing size 0, made of stretch corduroy & sewn in California.
High Waist: measure the smallest part of your waist between your ribs and your hips | Hips: measure the widest part of your hips | Rise: distance from your pelvic floor to where the pants will sit on your body | Inseam: distance from your pelvic floor to where the pants will end down your leg.


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Нервна плоча је кључна развојна структура која служи као основа за нервни систем. Насупрот примитивној прузи у ембриону, ектодермално ткиво се згушњава и спљошти да би постало нервна плоча. Подручје испред примитивног чвора може се генерално назвати нервном плочом. Ћелије добијају стубасти изглед у процесу док настављају да се издужују и сужавају. Крајеви неуралне плоче, познати као нервни набори, гурају крајеве плоче нагоре и заједно, савијајући се у нервну цев, структуру критичну за развој мозга и кичмене мождине. Овај процес у целини назива се примарна неурилација.

Сигнални протеини су такође важни у развоју нервне плоче и помажу у разликовању ткива које је предодређено да постане нервна плоча. Примери таквих протеина укључују коштане морфогенетске протеине и кадхерине. Експресија ових протеина је неопходна за савијање нервне плоче и касније формирање нервне цеви.

Укљученост у примарну неуролацију

Генерално подељен на четири, процес примарне неурулације укључује нервну плочу у прва три корака. Формирање и савијање нервне плоче је први корак у примарној неурулацији. Ово је праћено пречишћавањем и растом ћелија нервних плоча. Трећи корак примарне неурулације не укључује нервну плочу саму по себи, већ ивице плоче, које се спајају, претварајући плочу у почетак нервне цеви. Са нервном плочом која је пресавијена у цев, нервни набори се спајају како би довршили фузију нервне цеви. Овај процес је илустрован на слици десно, где је нервна плоча приказана љубичастом бојом. Лимета зелена означава ивице нервне плоче, које постају нервни набори, укључени у савијање плоче да би се створила нервна цев. Слика показује развој нервне плоче у нервну цев, одакле потичу и ћелије нервног гребена.

У примарној неурулацији, слој ектодерма се дели на три сета ћелија: нервна цев (будући мозак и кичмена мождина), епидермис (кожу) и ћелије нервног гребена (повезују епидермис и неуралну цев и мигрирају да праве неуроне, глију, и пигментација ћелија коже).

Плакоде
Неурогени плакод је област задебљања епитела у слоју ектодерма главе ембриона која ствара неуроне и друге структуре чулног нервног система.

Плакоде су ембрионалне структуре које стварају структуре као што су фоликули длаке, перје и зуби. Израз "неурогени плакод" се генерално односи на кранијалне плакоде који имају неурогени потенцијал - тј. оне који доводе до неурона повезаних са посебним чулима и кранијалним ганглијама. Кранијални плакоди обухватају разноврстан спектар структура пронађених код хордата, али неурогени плакоди пронађени код кичмењака настали су касније у еволуцији.

Референце

Неуроанатомија
Ембриологија човека
Ембриогенеза

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Harrison Drury solicitors has made Allan Sumner the new head of its Lancaster office.
Allan, a specialist in commercial property and development law, joined Harrison Drury in April 2016 and will now spearhead the firm's growth in the city and wider region.
John Chesworth, managing director of Harrison Drury, said: "Our Lancaster office has grown rapidly in the last three years, going from one lawyer when we opened here in 2014 to a team of eight lawyers and support staff.
Allan added: "It's an honour to be given this opportunity to build on the success we've already had in improving the depth and breadth of commercial legal services in the Lancaster and Morecambe region.
Harrison Drury opened an office in Dalton Square in 2014 and moved to offices at 21 Castle Hill in 2015 due to its rapid growth. The firm offers a comprehensive range of corporate and commercial legal services and personal legal services.


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St. Patrick's Day Parade Tolerance Bid Draws Ire
Rachel Stoltzfoos Staff Reporter
February 18, 2015 10:10 PM ET
New York St. Patrick's Day parade organizers tried to appease gay and lesbian activists without compromising the parade's Catholic heritage this year — and the move backfired.
Thousands of gay and lesbian people march in the parade every year, but organizers do not allow them to march as an explicit group, in an effort to keep the parade non-political. It's traditionally a broader celebration of Irish Catholic heritage.
But after losing several big sponsors and the support of the mayor last year, organizers tried to cater to gay activists without losing Catholic support by allowing one gay group and one pro-life group to march as their own entities in 2015.
Gay activists are still planning a boycott of the parade, saying it's still not inclusive enough and calling the move an empty gesture. The only group allowed to march is affiliated with NBC, which just so happens to broadcast the parade.
Rather than march behind the generic Out@NBCUniversal banner, or behind the county or heritage organization banners, various Irish gay and lesbian groups want to march under their own separate banners. "This never was about just having any old gay group," city councilman Daniel Dromm told The Wall Street Journal. "It was always about having an Irish group."
A pro-life group is also unhappy, because organizers reneged on their promise to allow a pro-life group to march. "One group each — that was the deal," Elizabeth Rex, president of the Children First Foundation, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "Our mission is to promote adoption and safe havens. It's not controversial."
The group had to get a lawyer just to find out what the status of its application to march was. Finally the organizers rejected its application, saying another group will be allowed to march. But Rex contacted other pro-life groups, and has not heard of anyone else planning to march.
"That's not treating this other pro life group fairly because the gay group has had four months to tell everyone they'll be marching and recruiting support."
A coalition of gay activists announced Tuesday they are organizing a boycott. "To suggest again, for the 25th year, that we have to closet ourselves in order to be allowed into the parade is outrageous," Emmaia Gelman of the group Irish Queers told The Wall Street Journal.
Parade organizers indicated more groups might be able to sign up next year, and NBC Universal called the move only a "first step towards an increasingly inclusive era" for the parade.
"We have to take it one step at at a time, reassess and then make a judgment," top parade official Hilary Beirne said Tuesday.
Rex told TheDCNF she hopes a pro-life group is allowed to march, and that all the fuss doesn't ruin the parade. "You don't force people to go against their beliefs or the purpose of the parade," she said. "I think we need to show tolerance and mutual respect, and I hope everyone will behave themselves and make it a happy day."
The parade organizers did not respond to a request for comment.
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This is an interesting color for a fossil... ruby red. The following are images of the Thrinacodus sp shark fossil tooth. Thrinacodus was named by Susan Turner in 1982 and this genus is known for its three hook like cusps. It was found in the Big Clifty Formation of the Indiana Springs Shale Member of Crawford County, Indiana, USA. The creature existed in the Mississippian Period.
Why is this fossil so red? Iron content maybe?
Thanks to Mark for showing me this fossil.


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Q: What does poor audience mean? Here is the statement..

We did a show at the party and hardly anyone came.
  Great show great place but poor audience.

What does poor audience mean here?
Thaks.

A: The phrase poor audience on its own can mean a few things: an unresponsive audience, a small audience, or (if taken literally) an audience of people without much money.
In this case, the meaning is made clear from the first sentence:

We did a show at the party and hardly anyone came. Great show great place but poor audience.

So, few people showed up. Depending on the nature of the show and how it was funded, that can either be just disappointing or it could result in less money being made.

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Google and Ken Burns create virtual classroom field trip about Jackie Robinson
Apr 11, 2016 | 6:35 PM
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (right) and joins 5th graders from P.S. 375 Jackie Robinson School. (Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News)
Brooklyn grade schoolers are first to test drive a high-tech classroom tool celebrating legendary ballplayer and activist Jackie Robinson.
Frequent squeals of "Wow!" by the kids on Monday afternoon made it pretty clear that it was a home run.
That excited cry, along with shouts of "Look at that!" and "Turn this way!," popped up frequently as fifth graders at P.S. 375 — also known as Jackie Robinson School — took the "trip" via Google Expeditions, a virtual classroom excursion accessible with Google Cardboard, a gizmo that looks an old View Master or toy goggles. Add a smartphone and a special app and you're ready to roll.
Launched in September, Google Expeditions has already ferried kids from Philadelphia to the White House to Mars. Along with Google brainiacs, this new virtual experience was created in about two months in partnership with documentarian Ken Burns, whose new "Jackie Robinson" miniseries airs tonight and Tuesday on PBS.
"There's no better place than Jackie Robinson School to premiere this," Burns told the Daily News before the afternoon test drive.
JACKIE ROBINSON'S CONTRACTS DISPLAYED IN TIMES SQUARE
Jackie Robinson's extraordinary life is showcased in Google Expedition.
Addressing the enthusiastic 10- and 11-year-olders, he called Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers star, the "original civil rights fighter."
Robinson's daughter, Sharon, also was on-hand and spoke to the kids about what it meant to break "the color barrier."
As kids looked into toylike goggles, they saw a picture of that very moment in 1947 when the world turned a corner at Ebbets Field — which was once a stone's throw from the classroom.
On that day, Robinson, the first black player in Major League Baseball walked up to the plate and into history books.
Past and present merge for viewers in this Google Expedition.
What kids saw Monday was a historic image of Ebbets field overlaid atop a contemporary image of the area. Past and present fused in 3-D, high-definition 360-degree glory.
As kids held the cardboard goggles to their eyes they turned left and right, looked up and down — in order to take in the full scope of the panoramic view inside the cardboard visor.
They squealed and wriggled to enjoy the full view.
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Sharon Robinson, daughter of legendary African American baseball player Jackie Robinson, joins 5th graders from P.S. 375. (Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News)
Esther Powell, their teacher, saw the same images on an Android connected to the gizmos. She directed students to visuals inside the viewfinders and periodically paused the tour. The words "Paused by teacher" appeared inside the goggles, prompting groans from kids eager to see Robinson's story unfold.
Powell, who has taught at the school for 15 years, used the breaks to underscore the imagery and quotes. The teacher discussed how he left a legacy that people needed to follow.
Fifth-grader Amy Menjivar, 11, was just one student impressed by the Expedition and the subject. "Jackie Robinson fascinates me," she told the News. "He knew he couldn't play baseball because of this skin color. But he stood up for his rights and did."
Powell added, "Visuals make clear what words don't." Google is planning to roll the Jackie Robinson Expedition out to other schools, but doesn't have an exact timeline yet.
P.S. 375 Principal Schwanna Ellmann was also impressed — by the field trip and the reaction — and happy to be at the premiere. "A 'wow!' from a student," she said, "is always a great thing."
jdziemianowicz@nydailynews.com


Editorial published in Hyphenate, Issue One. On the genesis of Hyphenate Magazine, the nature of reading and writing online, and the way in which medium and design affect content.
We believe this socalled debate is not just false, but silly.
feat? Because screens come in myriad sizes, those the other hand a digital copy of the print magazine who work with digital text have come to believe is placed on the web complete with portrait-orithat they should leave layout and design to each ented pages, even though nearly all digital screens device, resulting in a cacophony of styles and aesare landscape-oriented.1 The former allows the thetics. We know what it means to say we have web to eviscerate the form of the print version. read 75 pages, but what does it mean to have read The latter forces the print version into the decid30% of a book? edly non-print environment of the Hyphenate evolved from this conweb. tradiction: we love what print does Almost two years ago, our first disto text, how it corrals it and comcussions of ideas that would become poses it, how it requires considerHyphenate began with this frustraation and forethought; but we also tion with the way writing is typically love what the web does to informa- does to text, but we displayed online. Our objection was tion, how it can allow anyone to dis- also love what the not merely aesthetic: good design tribute their workwriting, images, connects us to the things we use, and videos, soundsaround the world, bad design distances us from those essentially for free. The print and the things. Literature was being contortweb world have been seen as wholed to fit the web, and as a result we ly separate, and indeed competing, does to information. were becoming more removed from realms, but we are not satisfied with the very words, images, and ideas such a simplistic view. that we most wanted to be close to. Even when attempts have been made to put To be clear, design is all about context, and the print-material on the web, they nearly always web is not bad design for all things. The modern seem, to us, clunky; on the one hand, stories that web was built around speed, was designed to be might be 10 pages in a magazine are put in one updated frequently and with little technical excontinuous column of text on the web, while on 1 Or, at least, can be so oriented, as with mobile devices.
pertise required. Using content management systems and cascading stylesheets, the creators of content can publish their work with very little time spent worrying about how an individual post or article will lookthat is, the precise way in which the reader will interact with the text or image. Since rapid updating also means rapid obsolescence, this is not a problem; the intricacies of our relationship to a piece of writing matter only when we our encounter with that piece will be lengthy, or repeated, or profound. Just as the individual posts need not be individually laid out, the organization of those posts within the site itself becomes a decision of default. When timeliness is paramount, the most important posts are the most recent ones, and thus the reverse-chronological structure of blogs is perfectly suited to the values of the online context in which blogs exist. The web is, in fact, a supreme example of form following function; the problem is that the function for which the form was created was not the function of a magazine. The Economist notwithstanding, magazines are not newspapers; their role is not to inform but to illuminatea function that requires more rumination on the part of both writer and reader.


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using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace IBM.Watson.Assistant.V2.Model
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Built-in system properties that apply to all skills used by the assistant.
    /// </summary>
    public class MessageContextGlobalSystem
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The language code for localization in the user input. The specified locale overrides the default for the
        /// assistant, and is used for interpreting entity values in user input such as date values. For example,
        /// `04/03/2018` might be interpreted either as April 3 or March 4, depending on the locale.
        ///
        ///  This property is included only if the new system entities are enabled for the skill.
        /// </summary>
        public class LocaleValue
        {
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant EN_US for en-us
            /// </summary>
            public const string EN_US = "en-us";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant EN_CA for en-ca
            /// </summary>
            public const string EN_CA = "en-ca";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant EN_GB for en-gb
            /// </summary>
            public const string EN_GB = "en-gb";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant AR_AR for ar-ar
            /// </summary>
            public const string AR_AR = "ar-ar";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant CS_CZ for cs-cz
            /// </summary>
            public const string CS_CZ = "cs-cz";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant DE_DE for de-de
            /// </summary>
            public const string DE_DE = "de-de";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant ES_ES for es-es
            /// </summary>
            public const string ES_ES = "es-es";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant FR_FR for fr-fr
            /// </summary>
            public const string FR_FR = "fr-fr";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant IT_IT for it-it
            /// </summary>
            public const string IT_IT = "it-it";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant JA_JP for ja-jp
            /// </summary>
            public const string JA_JP = "ja-jp";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant KO_KR for ko-kr
            /// </summary>
            public const string KO_KR = "ko-kr";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant NL_NL for nl-nl
            /// </summary>
            public const string NL_NL = "nl-nl";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant PT_BR for pt-br
            /// </summary>
            public const string PT_BR = "pt-br";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant ZH_CN for zh-cn
            /// </summary>
            public const string ZH_CN = "zh-cn";
            /// <summary>
            /// Constant ZH_TW for zh-tw
            /// </summary>
            public const string ZH_TW = "zh-tw";

        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The language code for localization in the user input. The specified locale overrides the default for the
        /// assistant, and is used for interpreting entity values in user input such as date values. For example,
        /// `04/03/2018` might be interpreted either as April 3 or March 4, depending on the locale.
        ///
        ///  This property is included only if the new system entities are enabled for the skill.
        /// Constants for possible values can be found using MessageContextGlobalSystem.LocaleValue
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("locale", NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
        public string Locale { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// The user time zone. The assistant uses the time zone to correctly resolve relative time references.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("timezone", NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
        public string Timezone { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// A string value that identifies the user who is interacting with the assistant. The client must provide a
        /// unique identifier for each individual end user who accesses the application. For user-based plans, this user
        /// ID is used to identify unique users for billing purposes. This string cannot contain carriage return,
        /// newline, or tab characters. If no value is specified in the input, **user_id** is automatically set to the
        /// value of **context.global.session_id**.
        ///
        /// **Note:** This property is the same as the **user_id** property at the root of the message body. If
        /// **user_id** is specified in both locations in a message request, the value specified at the root is used.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("user_id", NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
        public string UserId { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// A counter that is automatically incremented with each turn of the conversation. A value of 1 indicates that
        /// this is the the first turn of a new conversation, which can affect the behavior of some skills (for example,
        /// triggering the start node of a dialog).
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("turn_count", NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
        public long? TurnCount { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// The base time for interpreting any relative time mentions in the user input. The specified time overrides
        /// the current server time, and is used to calculate times mentioned in relative terms such as `now` or
        /// `tomorrow`. This can be useful for simulating past or future times for testing purposes, or when analyzing
        /// documents such as news articles.
        ///
        /// This value must be a UTC time value formatted according to ISO 8601 (for example, `2021-06-26T12:00:00Z` for
        /// noon UTC on 26 June 2021).
        ///
        /// This property is included only if the new system entities are enabled for the skill.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("reference_time", NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
        public string ReferenceTime { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// The time at which the session started. With the stateful `message` method, the start time is always present,
        /// and is set by the service based on the time the session was created. With the stateless `message` method,
        /// the start time is set by the service in the response to the first message, and should be returned as part of
        /// the context with each subsequent message in the session.
        ///
        /// This value is a UTC time value formatted according to ISO 8601 (for example, `2021-06-26T12:00:00Z` for noon
        /// UTC on 26 June 2021).
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("session_start_time", NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
        public string SessionStartTime { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// An encoded string that represents the configuration state of the assistant at the beginning of the
        /// conversation. If you are using the stateless `message` method, save this value and then send it in the
        /// context of the subsequent message request to avoid disruptions if there are configuration changes during the
        /// conversation (such as a change to a skill the assistant uses).
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("state", NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
        public string State { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// For internal use only.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("skip_user_input", NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
        public bool? SkipUserInput { get; set; }
    }
}

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Description: Loud cooing of a wood pigeon close by, other birdsong, distant traffic.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x DPA 2006C mics, Sound Devices MixPre-D preamp, Soby PCM M10 recorder.
Location: South of Scrogginhall Wood, Bromley Common.
Description: A tiny stream joins the Ravensbourne near a private fishing lake, birdsong, very faint music.
Location: Hayes Common, just east of Prestons Road.
Description: Birdsong in deciduous woodland, aircraft drone, and distant steady traffic noise from Croydon Road to the south.


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Lewis Hamilton visits the Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen.
Driving skills meet great craftsmanship: Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton visits the Mercedes-Benz plant at Sindelfingen.
At the Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen, he can admire the engineers and mechanics who work hard every day to assemble these outstanding vehicles.
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Roland Garros in the spring
Roland Garros welcomed us with thunder and rain but the weather cleared up quickly and the men's semi finals were on, just 60 minutes delayed.
The match between Swiss Roger Federer and Spanish Raphael Nadal was touted as the "battle of the giants" and it really was. A truly spectacular game with the French audience adding extra spice by cheering on the players both in well and awkwardly chosen moments.
Nadal won 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 which took him to the finals against the Argentine Puerta. A nice touch was the fact that it was Raphael's 19th birthday. He could not have wished for a better birthday present.
Nadal went on to win the French Open last Sunday by beating Puerta 6-7, 6-3, 6-1, 7-5.
Author David KasparPosted on June 5, 2005 Categories TravelTags Federer, French Open, Nadal, paris, Puerta, Roland GarrosLeave a comment on Roland Garros in the spring
La Boheme – Royal Albert Hall, London
La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini is (once again) a story about love and despair; life and death.
The opera is set in Paris, circa 1840. Central characters are the four struggling artists painter Marcello, poet Rodolfo, Colline the philosopher and the musician Schaunard. Marcello has a jealous relationship with the popular cabaret singer Musetta while Rodolfo falls in love with the already dying Mimi.
Royal Albert Hall offers a big area for the stage and it was used well. The stage had a circular composition where sometimes the action was focused to the middle and other times things were happening in various parts of the stage. Something that would not have been possible at a traditional opera stage, e.g. at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
The biggest downfall of the performance is that it is sung in English. While I don't speak much Italian, an opera is always much more powerful in the original language. Especially such beautiful language as Italian. Further more, when an opera is sung in a foreign language, there are always subtitles that let one follow the dialog if necessary.
Author David KasparPosted on February 28, 2004 Categories OperaTags Colline, Giacomo Puccini, la boheme, london, Marcello, mimi, musetta, paris, Rodolfo, royal albert hall, SchaunardLeave a comment on La Boheme – Royal Albert Hall, London


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IndexedUnion <-- You are here.
Goal: To explore the issues and develop tools for implementing IndexedUnion, a new domain constructor proposed by William Sit.
Discussion: The idea of creating a new domain IndexedUnion in Axiom grows out of a discussion on whether the current Union, a primitive type that allows two versions, tagged and untagged, should be generalized to allow a mixed tagged/untagged version. The current implementation specifies that in the tagged version, the tags must be distinct, while in the untagged version, all domains forming the union must be distinct. The compiler does not enforce these restrictions. Also, in the tagged case, the exported functions that construct elements from component domains have identical signatures if the domains are the same, making it only possible to create elements from the first of such identical domains.
Union(a: Integer,b: Integer) is a domain constructor.
Notice that there are two construct: Integer->%. The proposed IndexedUnion domain will be more general, and will avoid such problems. Unfortunately, there are a number of hurdles and an examination of these gives insight into the original design.
Technically, g here is a domain constructor. Whether the implementation should be done as primitive or not depends on the language limitation of Spad. As we shall see, at the Spad level, we would need domains and categories to be first class objects and maps would need to allow input-dependent types as its output. So Axiom may not allow that.
Union(a: Integer,b: String) is a domain constructor.
Note here that the tags a and b are local and not entirely accessible! The tags may be shadowed by a global variable of the same name. The following example shows the poor design of the exported functions in tagged Union (there are also problems with the untagged Union, you can find out the problems as an exercise).
The convenience of tags (in the case of a small, finite index set) is that the user does not have to make the set of tags into a domain (as required to become the source for the function g) and the tags are supposedly more meaningful to the user. Now, is a hybrid Union type desirable? Example 6 below will illustrate a possible use. The "mixed" Union where tags are allowed for a small finite subset of the index set would allow the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, tags are identifiers (that is, symbols or effectively, strings, almost by definition) whereas there is no such restriction on an index set (or the rest of it). In most cases, for the index set to remain a domain, the indices must be homogeneous in type and so if there are tags, then the index set should be a subset of the set of all strings. In the finite case, it would be an element of Set String (and thus, not a domain of SetCategory). But Union should allow infinite index sets as well and an infinite set of strings is difficult to manipulate in code.
What should be exported from IndexedUnion?
Clearly, there needs to be a way to coerce elements from the domains into the union. If we were to adopt Bill Page's idea that the injections (and projections for Product or Record) should be named by tags, then it would be very clumsy to implement them when the Union is over a large finite set and impossible over an infinite set. This may be one reason why Axiom separates Union into two versions, tagged (when the indexed set is finite and small) and untagged (the general case). There are only two purposes of tags: (1) to distinguish cases when a domain occurs multiple times in the arguments of Union, and (2) for convenience of use. The first of these can be handled by the index set and the second, too, but convenience depends on the size of the index set, as illustrated in the previous examples.
Of course this example is contrived. However, one can imagine constructions in mathematics over a set J where for a finite number of (exception) elements of J, there are two cases whereas for every other there is only one. This would necessitate exceptional handling as in Example 6 above.
By generalizing TagsAsDomain, replacing String by any domain, we can create arbitrarily complicated index sets to use in IndexedUnion.
++   to allow for construction such as Union which are based on an index set.
++   (even finite) to be typed.
-- *** Warning: Design may change and limitation in use applies.
--->-->MyDomain((coerce (% (String)))): Not documented!!!!
--->-->MyDomain((coerce (% (SExpression)))): Not documented!!!!
We declared MyDomain as a domain constructor (line 1) when it may be argued that a category constructor is more appropriate. But we are only in the exploration stage. The crash that we shall see may be due to this though. We intend objects in this domain will be constructed from String (line 3) or SExpression (line 4), such as "Integer" (String) or (Integer) (SExpression). We use SExpression for data representation because at this time, we don't know what better domain to use! We already anticipate difficulty ahead (at least at the algebra level) to turn an SExpression into an actual domain. There are differences.
Here p is a genuine domain whereas its SExpression q is simply a nested list of lisp symbols. We need to be able to turn an SExpression into a genuine domain.
Warning: x::Symbol only works for a domain defined with one identifier. It would not make sense for domain constructors with parameters like "SQMATRIX(5, FRAC INT)". The SExpression is a list of the form (f x1 x2 ...) where f is the constructor and x1, x2 are parameters for f, recursively repressented using the same format; constants are either elements of Integer, such as 5, or of Float or of String.
did not work, even when the string x looked like the SExpression (as nested list of lisp symbols). This was because x remained a string, which is an atom in SExpression.
The domain constructor ListAsDomain generalizes the hypothetical TagsAsDomain discussed earlier. As noted earlier, lines 8-12 are needed because coerce to OutputForm does not work for SExpression.
++   to other finite lists. Maps in Axiom need source and target domains.
--->-->ListAsDomain((coerce (% S))): Not documented!!!!
Here is a sample illustration.
ListAsDomain(Integer,[1,2,3]) has been added to workspace.
Note that in the line defining q, a cannot be used instead of Integer because a is really not a domain. Unfortunately, while q works, p does not, since a::p will crash Axiom! Don't know why yet.
Warning: Here the map g is not a domain constructor as specified for IndexedUnion. This could be the source of the crash here and the one mentioned later when SetAsDomain is used.
++   to other finite sets. Maps in Axiom needs source and target domains.
--->-->SetAsDomain((coerce (% S))): Not documented!!!!
There is little difference in terms of the code for ListAsDomain and SetAsDomain. However, ListAsDomain is more general than SetAsDomain in the sense that the indices need not be distinct. One may wonder why that might be useful. Suppose we want to create the set of IntegerMod(n) where n is a certain sequence defined by a formula where need not be distinct. One can use the natural numbers to index, but then we miss the fact that some of objects are equal. Anyway, it is convenient to use List instead of Set (Axiom has many examples where Set should have been used but List is used instead.) While we are at it, we might as well also allow StreamAsDomain as long as things are finite. The finiteness condition is required because we want to make sure that set of objects included in the domain is exactly the given set, list, or stream. If we trust the user, we do not need to test for membership in line 14.
Can anyone help find the problem?
++   to other finite streams. Maps in Axiom need source and target domains.
-- requires that Stream S has finiteAggregate in order to use member?
not member?(x, T) => error "not an element of domain"
--->-->StreamAsDomain((coerce (% S))): Not documented!!!!