Remote monitoring of off-grid renewable energy case studies in rural Malawi, Zambia, and Gambia

Increased understanding of off-grid renewable energy technology (RET) performance can assist in improving sustainability of such systems. The technologies for remote monitoring of RET deployments in developing countries are promising with various configurations and usages being tested. Recent applications of remote monitoring technologies in Malawi, Gambia, and Zambia are presented along with their respective strengths and weaknesses. The potential for remote monitoring applications to improve sustainability of off-grid RET is explored along with some theoretical directions of the technologies

Summer Mustang, July 29, 1982

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/studentnewspaper/4060/thumbnail.jp

Archaeology and oral history at the Stanley Mission old village

The Stanley Mission Old Village site (GiNd-11) is located in northern Saskatchewan along the Churchill River. The mission settlement, established in 1851, was situated on the north shore of the river and consisted of several buildings, including Holy Trinity Anglican Church, the parsonage, the schoolhouse, numerous Cree cabins, and the Revillon Frères complex. Previous investigations at the site, both surface surveys and excavations, yielded many artifacts and a Cree cabin foundation. The modern-day settlement of Stanley Mission is now positioned on the south side of the Churchill River, but the history of the community remains rooted at its original location. The only surviving features there are Holy Trinity Church and the cemetery. This thesis focuses on the archaeological data collected from the 2006 and 2007 field seasons during which a Cree cabin was excavated revealing building remains and producing thousands of artifacts. The historical research in this thesis draws upon the information gathered from the oral history interview sessions with local Elders conducted in 2001 and 2006. As well, other sources such as trader and missionary journals, archival photographs, and historic maps were consulted to establish a more holistic and complete history of the mission presenting the views of both local Cree people and Europeans. The information acquired from all lines of evidence was integrated to gain a better understanding of life at Stanley Mission during the later 1800s through to the 1970s. This included daily activities within the community, items purchased at the trading posts, the organization and layout of the Cree cabins, cabin construction, and a specific emphasis on one cabin once thought to be owned by Murdoch McKenzie. After a thorough examination it has been determined that the cabin in question is older than previously thought and likely was one of the first cabins built at the mission

Washington University Record, January 23, 1986

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The Semantic Web … Sounds Logical!

The Semantic Web will be an enabling technology for the future because as all of life\u27s components continue to progress and evolve, the demand on us as humans will continue to increase. Work will expect more productivity; family will demand more quality time, and even leisure activities will be technologically advanced. With these variables in mind, I believe humans will demand technologies that help to simplify this treacherous lifestyle. As patterns already indicate, one of the driving forces of technological development is efficiency. Developers are consistently looking for ways to make life\u27s demands less strenuous and more streamlined. The benefits of the semantic web are two-fold. Conceptually, it will enable us to be productive at home while at work, and productive at work while at home. The Semantic Web will be a technology that truly changes our lifestyle. The Web has yet to harness its full potential. We have yet to realize that in addition to computers, other machines can actually participate in the decision-making process via the Internet. This will allow virtually all devices the opportunity to be a helpful resource for humans via the Web. It must be taken into consideration that the Semantic Web will not be separate from the World Wide Web, but an extension of it. It will allow information to be given a well-defined meaning, which will allow computers and people to work in cooperation. With this technology, humans will be able to establish connections to machines that are not currently connected to the World Wide Web. For the Semantic Web to function, computers must have access to structured collections of information and sets of inference rules that they can use to conduct automated reasoning (Scientific American: Feature Article: The Semantic Web, 3). Using rules to make inferences, choosing a course of action, and answering questions will add functional logic to the Web. Currently the Semantic Web community is developing this new Web by using Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Resource Description Framework (RDF) and ultimately, Ontologies

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1954-03-05

The Girls\u27 Chorus will be traveling to Cleveland on March 21 to perform at three churches. The Men\u27s Glee Club will be performing a concert March 6 in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. James R. Blackwood\u27s three act play, No Matter What, will have its first performance the evening of March 10. Director of Research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dr. Alvin N. Weinberg, will speak on March 11th on the topic of, Present Status of Industrial Nuclear Power. The Metropolitan Opera will be in Cleveland performing from April 19th to the 24th.https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1951-1960/1067/thumbnail.jp

Campus Crier

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for May 3, 1951https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cwu_student_newspaper/1681/thumbnail.jp

Excavations at Gournia, 2010-2012

This article presents previous research at Gournia, the overall goals of our project, a new plan of the settlement, and our 2010-2012 excavations in eight areas: the Pit House, the Northwest Area, the North Cemetery, North Trench, the Northeast Area, House Aa, several rooms in the palace, and House He. Analytical sections discuss the textual evidence; the painted plasters; and the botanical remains. Our excavations indicate that Gournia was first settled in the Final Neolithic period and grew into an industrial town by the Protopalatial period. Following a Middle Minoan II destruction, the town was reorganized in Middle Minoan IIIA to include the palace, which in Late Minoan IB employed Linear A

Magic: The Gathering Card Virtualizer

Any well-versed Magic: The Gathering (MTG) player or collector knows how difficult it can be to keep track of all cards in their collection. Some spend hours searching for that one specific card, and others are constantly scouring the internet for how much their collection costs. However, this issue does not only affect casual fans. Resale companies spend hours a day determining the costs of cards, and tournament judges painstakingly check players’ decks to ensure they are not cheating. To assist with these struggles, the design team proposed to create the MTG Card Virtualizer. This device scans MTG playing cards and virtualizes them into a smart database. Using this smart database, players, collectors, and even resale companies can easily search through their extensive collections and check the market value of their cards. Users can insert up to seventy-five MTG cards and quickly virtualize a full deck in under five minutes. The proposed design utilizes the Nvidia Jetson Nano and a custom-designed circuit board, paired with a SQL database and a user-friendly application to virtualize entire collections. Not only are all of the user’s cards in one location, but they can search for cards, determine the cost of their collection, and find out if their decks are tournament legal

Standard, Meta-Standard: a framework for coding occupational data

Die Debatte über ein angemessenes Schema zur Codierung von beruflichen Daten dauert seit ungefähr 100 Jahren ohne befriedigende Ergebnisse an. Der vorliegende Beitrag geht den Gründen dieses mangelnden Konsens nach. Den entscheidenden Grund sieht der Autor darin, daß jedes entwickelte Schema unvermeidlich die spezifischen Forschungsinteressen und -annahmen mit ihren zeitbedingten Beschränkungen reflektiert. Der gleiche Datensatz führt deshalb zu unterschiedlichen Klassifikationen. Auf dem Hintergrund dieser Problemstellung entwickelt der Autor ein Codierungsschema, das der 'unvermeidlichen' Relativität besser gerecht zu werden sucht. (pmb)'Debate over appropriate schema for coding occupational data has been ongoing without satisfactory resolution since at least the late nineteenth century. It is fuelled by the fact that classifying occupational data whether they are collected by culling the historical record or through precise sociological survey, can never be exact. Some of the relevant data are nearly always ambiguous (when is a 'merchant' merely a small shopkeeper and when a multi-national shipper of luxury goods?). Moreover, any scheme will inevitably reflect its author's particular research interests and/or assumptions about social and occupational structures relevant to the period and place under investigation. Consequently, any two authors faced with the same dataset are likely to produce different and even incompatible coding schemes with which to catagorize occupational information. Authors concerned with similar phenomena which occur in different places or at different times are even more likely to generate incompatible schemes. These well-known problems have far reaching ramifications. If coding schemes are ultimately subjective, then can we ever truly verify the quantitative historical research which employ them? How, without some attempt to standardized coding practices, the quantitative data collected and computerized by others will never be usable in for secondary or comparative analyses?' (author's abstract