A bidet, you say?
Oh man-
the best bidet
discussion ever.
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PDFs on anaerobic digestion
Biogas Works has a number of
pdfs on various aspects of anaerobic digestion.
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Anaerobic Digestion
The current in-term for anaerobic composting seems to be
anaerobic
digestion. I guess since anaerobic composting has such a bad rap, and
the process of anearobic compositing is comparable to digestion, it makes
sense.
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Small Scale Anaerobic Composting
Most home composting sites are dead set against anaerobic composting. It’s
nice that this
site provides an idea for how to do it. The advantage of anaerobic
composting, from what I know, is that in anaerobic composting it is
actually desirable to seal everything up, which means that you can compost
things like meat and food scraps- items that are highly desirous to all of
the critters that like things like that and which can be easily accessed
in an aerobic compositing setup.
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The BTA Process
I’m looking into anaerobic composting, with the thought that at some point
it might be feasible for Carleton to set up an anaerobic composting
facility. There’s a anaerobic composting company set up just outside of
Toronto that uses
the
BTA process.
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House Plant Guide
A
nice primer on how to grow houseplants successfully. I’m having a
plant drive for the cognitive science department, so I’m trying to figure
out what plants grow well in office environments and how to take care of
them.
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Origin of Mathematical Terms
I’m always curious about when particular mathematical terms started to be
used. They haven’t been around forever, after all.
Here’s some origins of
mathematical terms.
Here’s some
earliest know uses of some mathematical words.
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Mathworld
According to Wolfram,
Mathworld
is “the web’s most complete mathematical resource, assembled over more
than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W.B Weisstein with assistance
from the mathematics and internet communities.” Cool!
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Accepting Credit Cards on Your Website
A useful
link with some basic information about accepting credit cards on your
website.
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The Electronic Music Guide
There sure are a lot of
different
kinds…
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Handling the need for
approval.
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Distance Learning Graduate Degrees
Here.
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A guide to audio formats
Some useful information on
audio
file formats.
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Another Online PDC
This is the one
recommended by the
Permaculture
Institute.
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Permaculture Correspondence Course
I
would really rather go someplace interesting, but if I had to it looks
like I could take the design course
by correspondence.
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Permaculture design certificate
I think getting a permaculture design certificate would make a lot of
sense. Here’s
a course in Queensland, Australia. I suspect finding a course closer to
home
would make more sense- but I did like Queensland.
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Certificate in Ecological Education
This
looks interesting. Can be completed in as little as 8 months.
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EnviroLink
Wow-
thisis a massive site, with tons
of resources. Internet information about environmental stuff just keeps
getting better and better!
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Environmental Education
Here’s a site that you can
search for different environmental education programs.
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Environmentalism Credentials
I feel like I need some official creds to back up my existing
environmental knowledge. Here’s a list of some
certificate programs.
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Energy Advisor Requirements
Here’s
some more info about the requirements, from one of the companies
contracted out to certify people.
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Retro Ontario
Retro
Ontario seems to be the offical provincial organization for the
energuide for houses program. Again, they are quite vague about what is
required to get a certificate:
“If you are a renovator or contractor, or if you have specialized knowledge about building science or energy-efficient building practices, you may wish to investigate the possibility of becoming an energy advisor.
If you have the right technical background, good oral and written communications skills, and are willing to undertake additional training, contact us to be considered for an energy advisor position. Find out whether candidates are being screened for training, and whether you have the right background or qualifications.
There are a limited number of opportunities available. Only licensed service organizations hire and train energy advisors. If we are not screening candidates when you call, you can ask to be contacted when new opportunities arise.”
But what is this “right technical background” of which they speak? They
seem reluctant to say…
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Ottawa EnviroCentre
It’s possible to become a certified EnerGuide House evaluator, but the
national website was quite vague about the requirements for this
certification. Following some links led me to
the Ottawa
Envirocentre.
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Office of Energy Efficiency
When I think of behaving ‘environmentally’ I tend to to think lifestyle,
but there is a technical side to it, too.
The Office of Energy Efficiency has some info about this.
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This sounds familiar
I believe
this is how Dan,
Andrew and Colin conduct their arguments…
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How to build a Qunizee
Enough of that school stuff. What’s really interesting is
how to
build a quinzee. Don’t you think?
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Back to biology
with
Pierre
Freon
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Okay- Scratch that
I
found
it. But it looks a little…er…dense.
”
Abstract
A penetrating analysis of the wave dynamic modes of a conceptual
population system described by the ‘reaction taxis ‘diffusion’ and
reaction autotaxis ‘cross-diffusion’ polynomial models is carried out for
the case of
increasing degrees of the reaction and taxis (autotaxis) functions. It is
shown that a ‘suitable’ nonlinear taxis can affect the wave front sets and
generate nonmonotone waves, such as trains and pulses which represent the
exact solutions of the model system. Parametric critical points whose
neighborhood displays the full spectrum of possible model wave regimes are
identified and a wave mode systematization in the form of bifurcation
diagrams is given. This enables standard criteria of approach to
‘dangerous boundaries’ to be developed. As possible applications, ‘pulsing
density patches’ in forest insect populations as well as plankton
communities and some other examples are discussed.”
You gotta love these physics guys…
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Interesting Article- but need to get it
Bifurcations of travelling waves in population taxis models- looks like it
could be good, but I don’t have access permission. :p
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Back to the researchers
Virginia
Pasour
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Another term for MAS
Discrete event simulation.
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Another Researcher- Computer Sciency, though
Kevin
Glass
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Drool. Must get this book.
Title Animal groups in three dimensions / edited by Julia K. Parrish,
William Hamner.
Publisher Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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The Trafalgar effect
In the google summary for the paper: “Pretty patterns but a simple
strategy: predator-prey interatctions between juvenile herring and
atlantic puffins observed with multibeam sonar”, it says something about
the ‘Trafalgar effect’. The Trafalgar effect seems to be related to
animals being alerted to the presence of a predator not by seeing the
predator, but by seeing the animals around it react to the predator. This
is something I put in my ungulate model, so it would be good to know more
about it.
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Another Researcher
James J. Anderson
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For the sake of variety
Let’s throw a physics researcher in!
Dick James.
He’s doing some… fishy stuff… heheh.
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Another…. researcher
Will Wilson
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Animal Behaviour: Orientation and Navigation
I came upon the word ‘taxis’ in an animal aggregation paper.
Here’s
a useful discussion of taxis and kinesis and the difference between the
two.
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A little farther afield
Shay
Gueron
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Another Local
Frithjof Lutscher
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Researcher a bit closer to home
Shane
Richards
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Photogrammetry?
Jon Osborndoes research using photogrammetry. In case you are
wondering, like I was, what exactly that is:
“Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is the science, technology and art of
obtaining reliable geometric and thematic information on the Earth and its
physical environment, and on other physical objects and processes by
acquisition, measurement, analysis and interpretation of images from
non-touching sensor systems.”
(from
a href=”http://www.engr.uaa.alaska.edu/gsa/gsa_photo.htm”>here).
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Another fishbird animal aggregate researcher
Laurent Dagorn
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Prolific Animal Aggregate researcher
Julia Parrish.
She’s with a lab I linked to earlier- the birdfish lab.
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Animal Aggregate Researcher and C programmer
Will Wilson. According
to his website he wrote a book- Simulating Ecological and Evolutionary
Systems in C.
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Animal Aggregate PhD Students
Jason Grear
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And yet more animal aggregate researchers
It’s a new day and time for… you guessed it… more animal aggregation
researchers.
Here’s Stephen
Ratchford. He wrote
Temporal shift in the presence of a chemical cue contributes to a
…. I don’t know what the whole title of the paper is because Google
cut it off. And warning- that link
is
to a PDF document. I always wish the browser would
warn you when that’s the case and say- “Do you really want to download
this PDF document?” . Speaking personally, my desktop
really
doesn’t need another miscellaneous pdf document.
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Fish School References
A whole
bunch.
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Egads, it’s
Yet
another researcher- Mark Belisle.
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Mathematical Ecology
Another new term, which I found
here.
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CiteSeer Paper
The animal aggregation term search is proving quite fruitful. This paper
popped up on citeseer:
C. M. Breder. Equations descriptive of fish schools and other animal
aggergations. Ecology, 35:361— 370, 1954.
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Ecology Guy
This guy- Garry
Peterson- might fit in somehow. At least, he has an old paper titled:
Animal Aggregation: Experimental simulation using vision-based behavioral
rules.
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A mathematician researching animal aggregates
I’ve found a new term- animal aggregates. A search on it led me to
Leah
Edelstein-Keshet. She wrote the book, Mathematical models in biology,
which I recently took out from the library.
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Birdfish Lab Projects
Birdfish project
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Fish school researcher
Hiro.S.Niwa
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Another SOS researcher
Carl Anderson>
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Another (non-biologist?) SOS researcher
David G.
Green
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Another biologist researching self-organizing systems
Mark
Ritchie
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Lotsa Universities
Have you ever wondered what universities were in Canada? If so,
Here you go!
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Ecological Metaphors for MAS
Title The Ecology of computation / edited by B.A. Huberman.
Publisher Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland ; New York, N.Y.,
U.S.A. : Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science
Pub. Co., 1988.
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Distributed AI book at Carleton
Title Readings in distributed artificial intelligence / edited by Alan
H. Bond and Les Gasser.
Publisher San Mateo, Calif. : M. Kaufmann, c1988.
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Modeling Nature
A book that I want that is in the Carleton Library.
Author Kingsland, Sharon E.
Title Modeling nature : episodes in the history of population ecology /
Sharon E. Kingsland.
Publisher Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1985.
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History of Cellular Automata
A
comprehensive history.
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Biology and Cellular Automata
I believe there are two ways that MAS made its way back to biology-
cellular automata models and population dynamics models. Here’s a
page with references for some biological cellular automata models. They go
back to 1988.
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Another biological modeller
I still have yet to pin down how MAS made the leap into biology. I can
list numerious computer scientists and mathematicians who have been
inspired biology to develop computing methods- but I also need to know how
it went in the other direction. In any case, while looking, I came upon
another
biological modeller.
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Back to History of MAS
I always go back to the history of MAS. I have to re-research it about
every six months it seems. Oh yeah- and everytime that I write a paper
about this stuff. For some reason it won’t stick- which suggests to me
that I just don’t have the right framework to stick it on. Each time I
think I get a bit closer, though.
So, once again, Here’s
some history of soc-sci-sim. I like this page quite a lot, since it has
references, and a nice graph of the historical development of socsim, and
also talks about how the introduction of MAS shook things up. So- once
more into the breach…
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The Scene
Dancing, anyone?
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Trans Canada Trail, an update
Every so often I do a search to see if I can find some solid information
on which parts of the Trans Canada trail actually exist.
Here’s some decent
information on that, for a change!
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A whack of cross canada by bike links
Here’s a whole
bunch.
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Biking across Canada- Some helpful tips
This guy has some helpful tips.
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And another one…
Another pretty
speedy guy although he stopped in Montreal. Looks like some useful
route information.
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A serious bike ride across Canada
This guys sounds a
tad
too serious about the whole thing, but he sure was speedy.
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Walking Across Canada
I continue to obsess about the idea of biking across Canada. I’m trying to
figure out how long it would take.
These
guys walked across.
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American Community Gardening Association Conference
This year the
ACGA
conference is being held in Toronto. I really want to go!
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