Learn the Beetle & Discover the Blue

Objectives: For children to: Learn basic body parts of a beetle and put their own together./ Observe and relate body parts of a beetle to a live beetle./ Determine how humidity levels affect the color of beetles. Contents: 1 Lesson Overview 3 Lesson Instruction 2 Insect Background 4 - 5 Activity #1 6 - 7 Blue Death Feigning Beetle Info and Care 1 1 - 1 9 Activity #3 8 - 1 0 Activity #2 2 0 Glossary and Reference

Certain Opinions of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party [and the] State Council on Promoting the Stable Development of Agriculture and Continuing to Increase Farmers\u27 Income in 2009

The following is a translation of Certain Opinions of the State Council [and the] Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (“CCP”) on Promoting the Stable Development of Agriculture and Continuing to Increase Farmers’ Incomes in 2009 (“2009 No. 1 Document”), which the CPC Central Committee and the State Council promulgated on December 31, 2008, and made public on February 2, 2009. It calls on “every region and every department” to seriously study the blueprint created by the Third Plenary Session of the CPC’s 17th Central Committee, namely the Decision on Certain Issues Concerning the Advancement of Rural Reform and Development (“2008 Decision”). Compared to the 2008 Decision, the 2009 No. 1 Document covers a narrower range of issues, but provides greater detail. It mainly focuses on support and protection of agriculture, increase of agricultural production, material support and service systems for agriculture, basic rural management systems, and unifying social and economic development of rural and urban areas. It is notable that the 2009 No.1 Document uses language similar to that of the 2008 Decision in several places. The 2009 No. 1 Document contains descriptions of general and specific goals as well as implementation measures related to improving the situation of China’s countryside. This translation only includes content that relates to land-use rights

On the standing wave mode of giant pulsations

Both odd-mode and even-mode standing wave structures have been proposed for giant pulsations. Unless a conclusion is drawn on the field-aligned mode structure, little progress can be made in understanding the excitation mechanism of giant pulsations. In order to determine the standing wave mode, we have made a systematic survey of magnetic field data from the AMPTE CCE spacecraft and from ground stations located near the geomagnetic foot point of CCE. We selected time intervals when CCE was close to the magnetic equator and also magnetically close to Syowa and stations in Iceland, and when either transverse or compressional Pc 4 waves were observed at CCE. Magnetograms from the ground stations were then examined to determine if there was a giant pulsation in a given time interval. One giant pulsation was associated with a compressional wave, while no giant pulsation was observed in association with transverse wave events. The CCE magnetic field record for the giant pulsation exhibited a remarkable similarity to a giant pulsation observed from the ATS 6 geostationary satellite near the magnetic equator (Hillebrand et al., 1982). In agreement with Hillebrand et al., we conclude that the compressional nature of the giant pulsation is due to an odd-mode standing wave structure. This conclusion places a strong constraint on the generation mechanism of giant pulsations. In particular, if giant pulsations are excited through the drift bounce resonance of ions with standing Alfvén waves, ω - mωd = ±Nωb, where ω is the wave frequency, m is the azimuthal wave number, ωd is the ion drift frequency,N is an integer, and ωb is the ion bounce frequency, then the resonance must occur at an even N

A Current Review of Chinese Land-Use Law and Policy: A Breakthrough in Rural Reform?

Three decades ago, China moved from a communal system of farming to a system that granted more extensive land-use rights to individual households, starting rural China on a path to greater prosperity. Today, however, the law and policy promulgated by the Chinese government prevents farmers from fully realizing this prosperity. The Land Administration Law gives farmers thirty-year contractual rights to the land they farm and the Law on Rural Land Contracting strengthens this right by more specifically enumerating requirements for land contracting and the transfer of contractual rights. Nevertheless, the rural-urban gap is the worst it has been in decades and rural Chinese are left behind to watch their urban counterparts enjoy China’s recent economic success. Realizing the need for rural reform, the government has issued two policy directives that outline measures to increase land tenure security with the goals of doubling farmers’ incomes by 2020 and maintaining the country’s grain supply. While these documents are well intentioned, they are insufficient to fully address rural issues surrounding land tenure rights and do not represent a breakthrough in rural land reform. In order for the policy directives to be more effective, the Chinese government should define who exercises collective ownership rights over farmland, implement a rural registration system, and educate farmers concerning that system. By taking these steps, China will better ensure that conditions in its rural areas will begin to match the prosperity that was envisioned for them thirty years ago

Emergent intertransaction association rules for abnormality detection in intelligent environments

This paper is concerned with identifying anomalous behaviour of people in smart environments. We propose the use of emergent transaction mining and the use of the extended frequent pattern tree as a basis. Our experiments on two data sets demonstrate that emergent intertransaction associations are able to detect abnormality present in real world data and that both short and long term behavioural changes can be discovered. The use of intertransaction associations is shown to be advantageous in the detection of temporal associationanomalies otherwise not readily detectable by traditional "market basket" intratransaction mining

Efekti prstenaste struje u opservatorijskim godišnjim srednjacima

The purpose of this study is to identify the physical sources of the major disturbance in the observatory annual means caused by the external geomagnetic field. The observatory annual means are widely used, especially in the modeling of the main field and its secular variations, although it is known that they are contaminated by parts of the field that come from outside the Earth. We consider data from 46 European observatories spanning the time period 1960–2001. The core field was removed using the Comprehensive Model, CM4 (Sabaka et al., 2004). With a suitable parameterization of the POMME model (Maus et al., 2005), we were able to reconstruct the signal of the residuals which can be linked to the ring current. This investigation paves a way for the more detail study of the external field influence on the observatory annual means, which as a consequence can bring a proposal for their correction.Cilj ovog rada je identificirati fizikalne izvore glavnih poremećaja u godišnjim srednjim vrijednostima s opservatorija, a uzrokovanih vanjskim magnetskim poljem. Opservatorijske godišnje srednje vrijednosti su u širokoj uporabi, posebno pri modeliranju glavnog polja i njegovih sekularnih promjena, mada je poznato da sadrže utjecaje polja čiji su izvori izvan Zemlje. Razmatramo podatke s 46 Europskih opservatorija u razdoblju 1960–2001. Polje jezgre je otklonjeno koristeći Comprehensive Model, CM4 (Sabaka et al., 2004). S adekvatnom parametrizacijom POMME modela (Maus et al., 2005) uspjeli smo rekonstruirati signal reziduala koji se može povezati sa prstenastom strujom (ring current). Ovo istraživanje otvara put detaljnijoj studiji utjecaja vanjskog magnetskog polja na opservatorijske godišnje srednje vrijednosti, koja nadalje može pridonijeti njihovoj korekciji