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    SOSIALISASI SEDEKAH SAMPAH TERHADAP GERAKAN PEDULI LINGKUNGAN DI DESA SINGDANGSARI

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    Research in scientific science is something that is familiar to students or students in the world of education. The objects and subjects of education are not only related to competence or human skills. One of the latest objects that really meet the topic of discussion is garbage. This topic does not only explain the form of waste, but how it is managed, technically, financially and the role of the community in different perceptions of the environment. Programs that make environmental care movements based on the identification of problems found. Waste Sedekahs are an alternative to maintaining a green and clean environment. In addition to having a positive impact, the Garbage Sedekah can also help the community's economy by collecting and separating the amount of organic and non-organic waste. This waste Sedekah program can turn unused items into very useful ones. Based on the identification of the problem, it was concluded that the Waste Sedekah program is a form of social engineering in bringing out innovations forcing people to change their perceptions and views about the environment and health

    System Description for a Scalable, Fault-Tolerant, Distributed Garbage Collector

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    We describe an efficient and fault-tolerant algorithm for distributed cyclic garbage collection. The algorithm imposes few requirements on the local machines and allows for flexibility in the choice of local collector and distributed acyclic garbage collector to use with it. We have emphasized reducing the number and size of network messages without sacrificing the promptness of collection throughout the algorithm. Our proposed collector is a variant of back tracing to avoid extensive synchronization between machines. We have added an explicit forward tracing stage to the standard back tracing stage and designed a tuned heuristic to reduce the total amount of work done by the collector. Of particular note is the development of fault-tolerant cooperation between traces and a heuristic that aggressively reduces the set of suspect objects.Comment: 47 pages, LaTe

    Litter on Wheels: An Ocean Garbage Art Car

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    In the Fall term of 2018, Gettysburg College seniors Bill LeConey and Will Gibson created the world\u27s first Ocean Garbage Art Car, by covering an old Ford truck with plastic bottles (and other trash commonly found in our oceans), to raise awareness about anthropogenic pollution in our seas. Since the 1950’s, plastics have been an essential and ubiquitous commodity in nearly every society on the planet. Plastics find their way into just about every aspect of our lives - from water bottles and cell phone cases, to even advanced medical equipment and space shuttles - it’s no secret how prevalent plastic is. Unfortunately, an overwhelming majority of the ≈450 million tons of plastic produced annually ends up in our oceans, posing a substantial threat to our aquatic life and the ecosystems they reside in. Much of this waste coalesces into gyres called garbage patches - some as large as countries - floating within the water column, and harming the tranquility of the environment they are intruding on. Several environmental art forms similar to our Ocean Garbage Art Car were studied and compared to give a more in depth background on our issue. Many other artists have utilized ocean trash, but ours is a one of a kind. An urgent call to action must take place to cleanup our oceans and to stop the excessive waste of plastic before irreversible repercussions occur. It is our hope that the Ocean Garbage Art Car created in the ES 400 seminar will help raise awareness about this dire issue threatening our planet as we know it

    Plastic Revolution: Reuse of Marine Plastic Garbage

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific trash vortex, has been getting more and more attention recently. It is a gyre of marine debris particles in the north central Pacific Ocean, with an estimated size range from 700,000 square kilometers (about the size of Russia). In 1992, 28,000 rubber ducks were plunged into the ocean after a shipping crate was lost at sea on its way to the US from Hong Kong. Many years later, the rubber ducks have become a vital tool in our understanding of ocean currents, as well as teaching us about ocean pollution. This proposal uses abandoned offshore oil rigs as a starting point. By reducing and adding structure and equipment to the oil rigs, they become trash traps and giant 3d building printing facilities. The new structures will float on the water and collect plastic garbage, which will be sorted into two kinds: re-usable, or not re-usable. The re-usable group will be reproduced as 3d-printing materials, which will be used to print a new structure around the original oil rigs. The new structure is also a floating laboratory for collecting ocean and climate data. The floating laboratory will travel all over the world by following the ocean\u27s currents. Some of the new structures will travel randomly; others will be operated by people-they could attach to a harbor and stay for a period. Scientists can access the structures to obtain the information they have collected. The structure could serve as temporary exhibition space for communities around the world. The self-growth floating structure is thus not only a laboratory, but also a form of media that tells people: here is the problem-we have lots of garbage

    Sensing as a Service Model for Smart Cities Supported by Internet of Things

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    The world population is growing at a rapid pace. Towns and cities are accommodating half of the world's population thereby creating tremendous pressure on every aspect of urban living. Cities are known to have large concentration of resources and facilities. Such environments attract people from rural areas. However, unprecedented attraction has now become an overwhelming issue for city governance and politics. The enormous pressure towards efficient city management has triggered various Smart City initiatives by both government and private sector businesses to invest in ICT to find sustainable solutions to the growing issues. The Internet of Things (IoT) has also gained significant attention over the past decade. IoT envisions to connect billions of sensors to the Internet and expects to use them for efficient and effective resource management in Smart Cities. Today infrastructure, platforms, and software applications are offered as services using cloud technologies. In this paper, we explore the concept of sensing as a service and how it fits with the Internet of Things. Our objective is to investigate the concept of sensing as a service model in technological, economical, and social perspectives and identify the major open challenges and issues.Comment: Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies 2014 (Accepted for Publication
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