Salvadoran Food: Pupusas

The unit presents a delicious combination between Salvadoran cuisine and Language learning activities. The unit is intended for a cultural lesson in an EAP program and it provides a glance into the history of Salvadoran cuisine, Pupusas. Learner should have B2 level of proficiency or higher. By working through the unit, learners will be able to not only explain what Pupusas are, but also describe how to make them. It includes three projects that can be carried out to deepen and assess leaners’ understanding of this unit

DETERMINING THE EFFECTS OF LAND CHARACTERISTICS ON FARMLAND VALUES IN SOUTH-CENTRAL IDAHO

This study focused on evaluating the effects of different attributes that impact irrigated farmland values in South-central Idaho. Results indicate that study area farmland values are largely determined by agricultural productivity (profiability) related factors. However, estimated "development increment values" for parcels that seemed to be under development pressure in the study area are explainable by nonagricultural variables.Land Economics/Use,

Mixed-integer-linear-programming-based energy management system for hybrid PV-wind-battery microgrids: Modeling, design, and experimental verification

© 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other worksMicrogrids are energy systems that aggregate distributed energy resources, loads, and power electronics devices in a stable and balanced way. They rely on energy management systems to schedule optimally the distributed energy resources. Conventionally, many scheduling problems have been solved by using complex algorithms that, even so, do not consider the operation of the distributed energy resources. This paper presents the modeling and design of a modular energy management system and its integration to a grid-connected battery-based microgrid. The scheduling model is a power generation-side strategy, defined as a general mixed-integer linear programming by taking into account two stages for proper charging of the storage units. This model is considered as a deterministic problem that aims to minimize operating costs and promote self-consumption based on 24-hour ahead forecast data. The operation of the microgrid is complemented with a supervisory control stage that compensates any mismatch between the offline scheduling process and the real time microgrid operation. The proposal has been tested experimentally in a hybrid microgrid at the Microgrid Research Laboratory, Aalborg University.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Responsabilidad social y orden interno de la Policía Nacional del Perú en la seguridad ciudadana en la región Ucayali, 2023

La investigación busca determinar la influencia entre la responsabilidad social y orden interno de la Policía Nacional del Perú con la seguridad ciudadana en la región Ucayali: 2023. Utilizando un enfoque cuantitativo de nivel correlacional y tipo aplicado, el diseño de la investigación es no experimental y de corte transversal. Para obtener los datos, se emplearon tres cuestionarios que previamente fueron validados por ocho profesionales con el grado académico de doctor. En total, 119 colaboradores participaron en el estudio. La fiabilidad de los cuestionarios, que abordan temas de responsabilidad social, orden interno y seguridad ciudadana, tuvo coeficientes de 0.955, 0.949 y 0.965, respectivamente. Tras analizar los datos con el software SPSS, se observó que el 36.13% de los encuestados calificó como "regular" la responsabilidad social y el orden interno de la PNP. En relación a la percepción sobre seguridad ciudadana, el 41.17% también la consideró "regular". Es destacable que, de acuerdo con el índice de Nagelkerke, hay una influencia significativa del 89.9% entre la responsabilidad social y el orden interno de la PNP, impactando en la seguridad ciudadana de la Región Ucayali en 2023