Outline of Apiary Inspection in Ontario

An Object-Oriented Simulator for the Apiary

This paper describes a simulator for the proposed Apiary, an object-oriented, message passing parallel machine for artificial intelligence applications, using the QCKV model of computation. The simulator implements an interpreter for the lowest level “virtual machine language” of the Apiary, specifying computations in terms of creating objects and sending messages rather than loading and storin...

Reliability of an island mating apiary under routine management

Introduction Islands are widely used to achieve controlled matings of virgin queens because queens and drones are not expected to cross open water during mating flights. However, uncontrolled matings on island mating areas have repeatedly been reported for many islands in close proximity to mainland shorelines (c.f. Neumann et al., 1999b). With increasing distance between island and mainland on...

The Value of Inspection Galleries

The Value of Inspection Galleries

Compulsive buying in outline.

In spite of a hundred year long history of scientific research compulsive buying has been a hardly known phenomenon until today. Ambiguous scientific information makes it impossible to classify compulsive buying as a separate mental disorder. Recently many researchers have noticed phenomenological compatibility of compulsive buying with behavioural addictions. Nowadays, there is reasonable grou...