Power from the people: the empowerment of distributed generation of solar electricity for rural communities in Malaysia

This paper describes the decreasing energy security in Malaysia and the likely impact on maintaining power supplies to low income groups. The most vulnerable group is the low-income people in the rural areas, who have limited access to generate their own power supplies. The paper reviews the potential of distributed generation (DG) using photovoltaics as a means of mitigating this problem. Examples from other countries are reviewed and alternative methods of funding PV installations are discussed. Strategies such as community-based approach and innovative financing scheme will be introduced and discussed. The main objective is to utilize solar energy as the main energy resources for generating electricity and places rural people as the main stakeholder to deploy the strategic model. This model is also ideal to be integrated with the distributed generation (DG) system as one of the key components in developing a suitable energy policy that can helps to sustain the energy development of rural community in the future. The paper concludes that distributed generation (DG) is feasible and that innovative funding schemes are required based on local knowledge

IKUWA6. Shared Heritage

Celebrating the theme ‘Shared heritage’, IKUWA6 (the 6th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology), was the first such major conference to be held in the Asia-Pacific region, and the first IKUWA meeting hosted outside Europe since the organisation’s inception in Germany in the 1990s. A primary objective of holding IKUWA6 in Australia was to give greater voice to practitioners and emerging researchers across the Asia and Pacific regions who are often not well represented in northern hemisphere scientific gatherings of this scale; and, to focus on the areas of overlap in our mutual heritage, techniques and technology. Drawing together peer-reviewed presentations by delegates from across the world who converged in Fremantle in 2016 to participate, this volume covers a stimulating diversity of themes and niche topics of value to maritime archaeology practitioners, researchers, students, historians and museum professionals across the world

The Bodies We Write In: Reentry Women Narrate Embodied Experiences of Writing in Graduate Education

This inquiry project explores connections between mind and body in academic writing. What scholars, educators and researchers have noted about the inclusion of the body in academic study illuminates the challenges of understanding the relationship between the two. Using a framework shaped by embodiment and feminist criticality illuminates how the body is elided through schooling and educational systems, reaching a peak in higher education. An interdisciplinary review of the literature supports a broad consideration of embodiment and typical writing practices in academic settings. To better understand the body as a source of knowledge, data construction is holistic, using an embodied methodology with women who reenter graduate school later in life. Mindful awareness of the body guides the relating of writing experiences, and methods are designed with an ethic of care for participants, a spirit of co-creation, and shared experience. A narrative approach to data is used to explore where and how embodiment appears in women’s stories about academic writing. The research process reflects a time of social separation within a pandemic. By better understanding women’s embodied experiences, this project seeks to enrich and enliven the way institutions of graduate study understand writing as an embodied practice and to honor what the body knows alongside the mind

Английский язык для биологии и медицины: бакалавров и магистров

Терминология в условиях ускорения научно-технического прогресса приобретает особое значение. Она является источником получения информации, инструментом освоения специальности. Любая область науки и техники находит своё выражение в терминах. Практически нет ни одной области знания, которая изучается, не владея терминологией. Медицинская терминология является одним из специфических пластов лексики, которая в силу особенностей структурно-семантического, словообразовательного и стилистического характера отличается от общеупотребительных слов и занимает особое место в лексической системе языка. Медицинская терминология – это пласт лексического фонда со своими специфическими особенностями, ибо в каждом профессиональном подъязыке существует номенклатурная лексика, соотносимая с определенными реалиями и объектами. Особенность словарного состава терминологии заключается в том, что её номены представлены в ней шире, многообразнее, чем в других лексических подсистемах. Выбор английского языка в качестве второго языка сопоставительного исследования обусловлен его все возрастающей коммуникативной ролью в мировом сообществе, популярностью, сегодняшней жизненной необходимостью. Учебник предназначен для бакалавров и магистров в сфере биологии и медицины. Он состоит из 4 глав и параграфов. В каждой главе дается целый ряд основных лексических номенов, помогающие понять сложные тексты из неадаптированных источников этой сферы. Также прилагается несколько десятков упражнений для лучшего понимания и усвоения данного материала. Красочные иллюстрации наглядно демонстрируют основные положения и понятия в сфере биологии и медицины