Regulatory agencies and citizens have placed great emphasis on sustainability of natural resources. Individuals involved in animal husbandry should understand the basic components associated with air and water quality issues. An increase in regulations governing land, air, and water resources increases the need for educators, researchers, and producers to realize impacts of current and potentia...

DAIRY MICROBIOLOGY. By Edwin M. Foster, F. Eugene Nelson, Marvin L. Speck, Raymond N. Doetsch, and Joseph C. Olson, Jr. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1957. 492 pp. $5.65. There has long been a need in the dairy industry for a text or reference book to fill the gap between texts dealing with public health and theoretical aspects of dairy microbiology for college students and...

We show that there exist bijective translations between polymorphic λ-calculus and a subsystem of minimal logic with existential types, which form a Galois connection and moreover a Galois embedding. From a programming point of view, this result means that polymorphic functions can be represented by abstract data types.

Cybercrime incurs an estimate of $110 billion per annum globally (Norton Cybercrime Report 2012). This excludes the non-financial impact. The combined impact presents an enormous problem worldwide, from the point of view of overall management (detection, monitoring and prevention). While there are lists/categories of cybercrimes published in books, government websites, security and crime-relate...

The holistic role of forests going beyond the economic function, identified in timber production, substantiates the evaluation of forests’ social and environmental dimensions. Consequently, biodiversity, landscape, hydro-geological security, and maintenance of cultures and traditions are among the manifold issues to be addressed in dealing with forests. Touristic and recreational role of forest...

In this work we present the ToCAI (Table of Content-Analytical Index) framework, a Description Scheme (DS) for content description of audio-visual (AV) documents. The idea for such a description scheme comes out from the structures used for indexing technical books (table of content and analytical index). This description scheme provides therefore a hierarchical description of the time sequenti...

At the outset, it is important for me to describe myself as a layperson in this gathering. My background is in art. I have no formal education in science or agriculture. But I am here with a point of view completely opposed to biotechnology in general and to its place within agriculture in particular. I say this out of my own experience. I left teaching art in the early 1970’s, having been deep...

The framework of this paper is a national project known as IPSOM, whose main goal is to improve the access to digitally stored spoken books, used primarily by the visually impaired community, by providing tools for easily detecting and indexing units (words, sentences, topics). Simultaneously, the project also aims to broaden the usage of multimedia spoken books (for instance in didactic applic...

Life annuities provide a guaranteed income for the remainder of the recipient’s lifetime, and therefore, annuitization presents an important option when choosing an adequate investment strategy for the retirement ages. While there are numerous research articles studying annuities from a pensioner’s point of view, thus far there have been few contributions considering annuities from the provider...

DAIRY MICROBIOLOGY. By Edwin M. Foster, F. Eugene Nelson, Marvin L. Speck, Raymond N. Doetsch, and Joseph C. Olson, Jr. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1957. 492 pp. $5.65. There has long been a need in the dairy industry for a text or reference book to fill the gap between texts dealing with public health and theoretical aspects of dairy microbiology for college students and...