Essays on Hive

Discussion Question

Hive was discovered by Jeff Hammerbacher during his tenure at Facebook. Facebook was receiving huge volumes of data daily, and there was a need to create a mechanism to help in data storage, mining, and analysis. It is this tool that allows Facebook to process thousands of Terabytes of Data with ease on a daily basis. Hive employs a language called HQL which works in a similar way as SQL. Irrespective of the limitations of commands that HQL understands, the language is still useful. Hive gives users with little programming knowledge the capacity to process, extract and analyze data ...

The photomorpogenesis research project at Clemson University is very interesting. Photomorphogenesis means light-mediated growth, and photomorphogenesis research looks at how the manipulation of light sources effects plants. This regulation of plant growth is independent of photosynthesis and it is controlled by the pigment phytochrome. Phytochrome exists in two forms, Pr and Pfr and has peak absorptions at 660nm and 730nm red-range light. It’s the conversion of the pigment between the two forms that ultimately influences the plant growth, the morphology, flowering, and germination.

The photomorphogenesis research program at Clemson University was founded in 1985. The initial research ...

Introduction

Adam Smith is one of the most revered economists that influenced the development of modern economic thought. Adam Smith is famous for coining the term “the invisible hand of the market” which is the perfect metaphor for market movements driven by supply and demand. However what makes Adam Smith’s thinking unique is how it ties is yet contradicts the teachings of great thinkers ahead of him such Aristotle and Saint Thomas Aquinas on their ideas of wealth accumulation and self-motivation. He also thought similarly but contrasted with his contemporaries such as Bernard Mandeville.

Adam Smith was a Scottish ...

Introduction:

The process of harvesting honey is usually a dangerous and risky one. It involves displacing bees, which are honey making insects for some time to get enough space for the harvester to collect the honey. When the harvester is done, the bees return to their hives. Sometimes, this process involves, a lot of challenges like being stung by bees causing the infliction of sharp pain.

Such like scenario was witnessed one afternoon after students identified a hive with a swarm of bees in a nearby tree. Due to their mediocrity, they had to inform two brave men who according to them were courageous enough ...

Problem Solving

Today, societies are more global than they have ever been in human history. Currently, there is a major exchange of knowledge and culture among various different groups of people. Sometimes problems may arise which can cause problems for a certain group or groups of people. A problem such as the color of a person's skin can lead to racism and cause a split in society. Oftentimes, the solution to these problems can be found when different groups, both large and small, come together in order to exchange ideas on problem solving. In their essay, James Surowiecki's "Committees, Juries, and Teams: The Columbia Disaster ...

Honey Bee Collapse Disorder

Honey bees play a significant role in human consumption as well as in ecology. They are primarily known for producing honey which is widely used in our foods. They also serve a major role in ecology as pollinators. Their ability to produce honey is one of primary reasons why we humans culture them. There are a number of ways to extract honey from the hive. The first step before any extraction is to remove the bees from their combs. After that, the most easiest and fastest would be to use an extractor. It achieves this by using centripetal force wherein inside a barrel, ...

ESSAY 17

If we look in natural domains, we find that social insects, including ants and bees, have the capability to incorporate themselves into the world, develop their niches, and give rise to progeny. In fact, the term "super organism" was first used for social insects in a book in 1928, and the thought has waxed and waned over the long years, occasionally producing bitterness. It denotes a grouping of individual members that form a colony with many attributes of a sole organism. Members of a colony, for example, can be considered as an organism's cells, and a number of different castes can be organized similar to ...

Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that enables distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers. Hadoop can handle a single server and it can handle multiple machines. This means that scalability is not a problem. It is open source software that is reliable scalable and allows distributed computing. It is being used across enterprises in the storage of big data analytics and it also enables top managers in making business decisions.

Background

There has been a great need by the organizations to store and manage large amount of data referred as Big Data. There is a need to have the storage ...

Introduction

Honeybees which have its origin based in South East Asia came into USA via European settlers in 1600s. Honeybees are extensively used in the US for the production of honey and pollination of a wide-ranging variety of farm grown crops including vegetables, fruits and nuts. But in recent times starting from around 2006, honeybee populations in the US have dwindled by 70% and the afflicted colonies showcase similar uncanny symptoms of a consistent reduction of worker bees. Since the sustenance of hives without worker bees is not possible, eventually all the bees including the queen and brood die. The collapse of ...

Colony collapse disorder refers to a phenomenon which entails a sharp, unusual decline in the number of bees in a colony. This phenomenon has raised great concerns in the USA in the recent past given that honey bees are a significant part of the US economy. Honey bees are involved in pollination therefore contributing to about one third of the US diet. Several causes have been identified as triggers of the phenomenon; most of which are under investigation. Among the causes identified are: genetically modified foods, pathogens, pesticides and antibiotics. Pesticides in particular are deemed to be a leading cause since pesticides such as ...

Introduction

“Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.”[ CITATION Kid02 \p 148 \l 1033 ], Sue Monk Kidd ‘s The Secret Life of Bees is much more than simply learning about secrets, it’s a tale where several themes and social issues are highlighted and the impact of all those on a young girl ‘Lily Owens’ is discussed, who is just 14 years old white girl, she says that “People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.”[ CITATION Kid02 \p ...