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Scenarios for Educational and Game Activities using Internet of Things Data
Raising awareness among young people and changing their behavior and habits concerning energy usage and the environment is key to achieving a sustainable planet. The goal to address the global climate problem requires informing the population on their roles in mitigation actions and adaptation of sustainable behaviors. Addressing climate change and achieve ambitious energy and climate targets requires a change in citizen behavior and consumption practices. IoT sensing and related scenario and practices, which address school children via discovery, gamification, and educational activities, are examined in this paper. Use of seawater sensors in STEM education, that has not previously been addressed, is included in these educational scenaria
The Potential of an Enhanced Cooperation Measure in the EAFRD (2014-2020): the case of Ireland
This report was funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) through the National Rural Network (February-May, 2012).The current Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on support for Rural Development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) includes Article (36) Cooperation that is potentially instrumental for realising the objectives of FOOD HARVEST 20204. The purpose of this report is to assess the scope and potential of Article 36 in the context of Irish agriculture and its findings have four key aspects. First, the main areas of confluence between Article 36 and primary policy objectives as set out in Food Harvest 2020 are identified. Second, a range of cooperation categories and types relevant to Article 36, many of which are operational in Ireland, are profiled. Third, drawing from case-studies of these co-operation types5, the operational characteristics of each type are presented, focusing on compatibility with Article 36. Possible supports that would encourage and assist the formation and operation of the cooperation types on a broad scale into the future, and also any possible constraints that would prevent success, are indicated. Fourth, a brief discussion of some key implementation considerations arising from the analysis overall is presented.Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marin
Ab Initio No Core Shell Model - Recent Results and Further Prospects
There has been significant recent progress in solving the long-standing
problems of how nuclear shell structure and collective motion emerge from
underlying microscopic inter-nucleon interactions. We review a selection of
recent significant results within the ab initio No Core Shell Model (NCSM)
closely tied to three major factors enabling this progress: (1) improved
nuclear interactions that accurately describe the experimental two-nucleon and
three-nucleon interaction data; (2) advances in algorithms to simulate the
quantum many-body problem with strong interactions; and (3) continued rapid
development of high-performance computers now capable of performing floating point operations per second. We also comment on prospects for
further developments.Comment: Invited paper presented at NTSE-2014 and published online in the
proceedings (see footnote on p.1
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