Final proposal to encode Aegean scripts in the UCS

This is a proposal to encode the Linear B script, the Cypriot Syllabary, and a set of Aegean Numbers in the international character encoding standard Unicode. Linear B, the Cypriot Syllabary, and the Aegean Numbers block were published in Unicode Standard version 4.0 in April 2003

Proposal to encode Kaithi combining enumeration sign

This is a proposal to add one Kaithi characters to the international character encoding standard Unicode. The character was published in Unicode Standard version 11.0 in June 2018

Proposal for PENTAGRAM characters

This is a proposal to add 3 pentagram symbols to the international character encoding standard Unicode. These additions were published in Unicode Standard version 6.0 in October 2010

Final proposal to encode Anatolian Hieroglyphs in the SMP of the UCS

This is a proposal to encode the Anatolian Hieroglyphs script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The script was published in Unicode Standard version 8.0 in June 2015. The script is also known as Luwian hieroglyphs. The script appears on inscriptions and other objects in the area of present-day Turkey and surrounding areas in the second and first millennia BCE

Request for 2 New Cyrillic Characters for the Khanty and Nenets Languages

This is a proposal to add 2 characters to the international character encoding standard Unicode to represent Khanty and Nenets languages in Far North (Siberia). These additions were published in Unicode Standard version 7.0 in June 2014

Proposal for characters for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski

This is a proposal to add characters in the Arabic script to the international character encoding standard Unicode needed to represent the Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski languages. The characters were published in Unicode Standard version 5.1 in March 2008. The languages using these characters are located in northern Pakistan

The feasibility of long range battery electric cars in New Zealand

New Zealand transport accounts for over 40% of the carbon emissions with private cars accounting for 25%. In the Ministry of Economic Development's recently released “New Zealand Energy Strategy to 2050”, it proposed the wide scale deployment of electric vehicles as a means of reducing carbon emissions from transport. However, New Zealand's lack of public transport infrastructure and its subsequent reliance on private car use for longer journeys could mean that many existing battery electric vehicles (BEVs) will not have the performance to replace conventionally fuelled cars. As such, this paper discusses the potential for BEVs in New Zealand, with particular reference to the development of the University of Waikato's long-range UltraCommuter BEV. It is shown that to achieve a long range at higher speeds, BEVs should be designed specifically rather than retrofitting existing vehicles to electric. Furthermore, the electrical energy supply for a mixed fleet of 2 million BEVs is discussed and conservatively calculated, along with the number of wind turbines to achieve this. The results show that approximately 1350 MW of wind turbines would be needed to supply the mixed fleet of 2 million BEVs, or 54% of the energy produced from NZ's planned and installed wind farms

Do Expenditures for Student Support Services Lead to Demonstrable Gains in Student Achievement?

Wood, Allemand, Anderson, and Cheslock present a brief overview and analysis of the article, Relationship between types of school district expenditures and student performance, originally published in Applied Economics Letters. The authors present a summary of the key components of the article including the introduction, method and results of the study. They offer an additional analysis of implications for future practice, including a discussion of legislation and the conflicting evidence that school counseling and support services benefit students in academic and social competencies, as well as evidence that the cost seems to outweigh the benefits