Case Study: Mapping Mangroves and Coastal Wetlands

Mapping the Mangroves (MTM), a project of MapWorks Learning, provides formal and informal education, and gives citizen scientists and the larger scientific community the ability to engage with and explore mangroves and their ecosystems. Mangroves are a cornerstone species and play important roles in habitat formation, stabilization of coastal environments, and carbon sequestration. The MTM open curricula and GIS tool provide opportunities for anyone to learn about authentic applications of GIS in the field, explore mangroves and their ecosystems, and share their findings. Learners develop an understanding and appreciation for the role mangroves play in a healthy environment and how GIS can aid in conservation

The Specification of a Reference Implementation for the Unified Modelling Language

Syntax Semantics Denotational Mapping Figure 2: Profile semantics 3.1 Meta-modelling sub-language An essential component of the proposed architecture is a meta-modelling sublanguage. This is used to characterise all aspects of a profile and the kernel library. It provides all the facilities necessary to write profiles, including: simple class diagrams, a simple constraint language, packages (to represent models), an enhanced version of package imports, and a notion of package realisation. Like any other profile, the meta-modelling sub-language imports a number of concepts from the kernel library (see figure 3). StaticBasics (from KernelLibrary) Constraint Basics (from KernelLibrary) Meta-Modelling Sub-Language ModelManagement Basics (from KernelLibrary) Figure 3: The meta-modelling sub-language package As an example, figure 4 shows some of the classes that might belong to 6 the abstract syntax of the sub-language. These deal with two fundamental static modelling con..

Evaluating the Mentor-Mentee Relationship in the 4-H Tech Wizards Program

Youth rely on mentors to provide camaraderie, encouragement, and guidance. The authors asserted that the measurement of youth-mentor relationship would vastly improve the reaching effects of mentorship and expose areas of potential improvement. A questionnaire was given to youth at the beginning and end of a small group mentoring program. The Mentor-Youth Inventory survey exposed levels of emotional engagement, revealed satisfaction levels, and uncovered the breadth of relationships within the program. The study provides evidence that measuring and establishing a benchmark for the quality of youth-mentor relationships facilitates the opportunity to increase the value of small group mentoring in Extension

A feasibility study in rearchitecting UML as a family of languages using a precise OO meta-modeling approach.

This report describes a feasibility study in rearchitecting UML. It develops a theory of precise OO meta-modeling in order to fulfil this task, and checks the feasibility of that theory by developing the meta-model of various aspects of UML