Dog Fighting: Raising Awareness to the Issue
According to the ASPCA, dog fighting arrests in the United States have numbered in the thousands between 2003 and 2008. There are certainly many more cases that are never discovered. The types of people involved in dog fighting or those who participate in the audience are a diverse group not limited to urban settings. Other illegal crimes that are associated with dog fighting include but are not limited to drug, alcohol, money laundering, and weapon violations. Aside from the criminal aspects, the toll that the fighting takes on the animals involved is nothing less than horrendous. Rehabilitation is expensive and difficult and many dogs must be euthanized as a result. Along with the felony charges that New Jersey holds for the crime of dog fighting, it should also include the penalty of being required in a registry. This registration process could be a law that is modeled after Megan’s Law where sexual offenders must register in the area in which they reside. Our idea has been sent to two senators from the state of New Jersey in order to complete our service project.
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A Study on Greenhouse Automatic Control System Based on Wireless Sensor Network
The system proposed in this paper collects temperature of leaves and humidity on leaves of crop. As well as greenhouse environmental information such as temperature, humidity, etc. Crop diseases, especially, have deep relationship not only with indoor environmental factors but also with humidity lasting time on leaves and temperature of leaves. Accordingly, monitoring crop itself is as important as monitoring indoor environments. Using these collected greenhouse environmental data, indoor environments can be more effectively controlled, and monitoring crop itself can contribute to improve productivity and to prevent crops from damages by blight and harmful insects. In addition, it will be possible for farmers to do control plant growth through closely studying relationship between indoor environmental information and monitored information on crop itself. Collected data can be stored to database either in server installed in greenhouse or to remote server. It is made possible to collect information and control effectively and automatically greenhouse in the site or from a remote place through web browser. System components are: temperature sensor, humidity sensor, leaf temperature sensor, leaf humidity sensor, Zigbee based wireless sensor node, relay nodes for automatic control, and data server to store greenhouse information. The system is implemented using low power wireless components, and easy to install.