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Writing the Historical Mystery
No full textOne of the current stars of the mystery world, medieval historian Sharan Newman is the author of the acclaimed Catherine LeVendeur series, set in Medieval France, the first of which (Death Comes As Epiphany) won the Macavity Award as the best new mystery of 1993. Author of the Guinevere Trilogy and mystery fiction on the Kansas prairies during the 1890s, she has three times been nominated for the Agatha Award
G20 2014: perspectives from business, civil society, labour, think tanks and youth
No full textThis paper brings together policy contributions from a wide cross-section of society interested in feeding into the G20 process.
Summary
G20 engagement partners from Business (B20), Civil Society (C20), Labour (L20), Think Tanks (T20) and Youth (Y20) have each provided a contribution for this issue of the Monitor. Each address how the groups are organising their contribution to the G20 process in 2014, their priorities for the G20, and thoughts on what would constitute ‘success’ in terms of possible outcomes from the Brisbane Summit. The Australian G20 Sherpa, Heather Smith, has provided an opening comment.
Key points
One characteristic that all engagement partners share is their recognition of the importance of strengthening the G20.
Through their engagement with the G20 presidency, the G20 engagement partners have an important role to play in communicating the G20’s work to the wider public for greater understanding.
The engagement partners can use their networks to help convey what the G20 is doing, and why the involvement of the non-government sector is important
Cropping in Arid Area Greenhouse
No full textIn hot, arid regions, yields are low and unstable, growing season limited to one. Greenhouses can stabilize and improve yields and extend seasons. But their adoption is impeded by the requirement of large amount of water for (evaporative) cooling. Arid Area Greenhouse (AAG) is being developed to reduce or eliminate this need by employing earth-tube-heat-exchanger (ETHE). A prototype AAG was installed in the year 2002 at village Kothara (ƒ� 23�X 14 N, ƒ� 68�X 45 E, at 21 m a.s.l.). AAG is of 20 X 6 X 3.5 m size. ETHE is buried 3m deep and coupled to AAG in closed-loop. ETHE provides 20 air changes per hour. There is provision of closable vents - two along the base of long sides and one along the ridge. A retractable shading curtain is provided over the roof. By now five rounds of cropping have been done. ETHE was able to heat the greenhouse from 9�X C to 22-23�X C in half hour in the cold winter nights. Static ventilation along with shading was effective for day time control till early March. Subsequently ETHE was operated. It limited the greenhouse temperature gain to just 2.5�X C. Yield of tomato was 1.5 to 2 times, water used 44% of that in open-field. Water used was mostly for plants, only a small part was for foggers which were some times needed as supplement. ETHE and natural ventilation hold promise as environmental control devices for greenhouses in hot arid regions.
Dew Harvest
No full textDew Harvest deals with dew harvesting as a feasible solution to the chronic water scarcity in arid areas near the coastline. It substantiates the methodology of dew harvesting based on a case study from the Kothara village in the Kutch region. The book provides insights into the simple and people friendly technology of dew harvesting. It explains the exemplary procedure that Prof. Sharan followed: study of the dew resource of the site, chemical analysis of dew water to verify potability, test of dew harvesting materials, construction of small and pilot-sized dew condensers, and ultimately the construction of a large dew production plant. The author describes the methodology involved in the measurement of dewfall throughout India, especially in the coastal regions. The author recommends that dew harvesting be part of the curriculum at colleges and urges hydrologists and engineers to seriously consider its utility as an innovative technology.</jats:p
Group Leader Self-Assessment (GLSA): Reliability and Validity
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
Understanding outcomes can inform best practices for group training in occupational therapy. A reliable and valid tool can help evaluate outcomes to determine ways to effectively educate group leaders. The Group Leader Self-Assessment tool shows promise in terms of psychometric properties.
Primary Author and Speaker: Mary Alicia Barnes
Additional Authors and Speakers: Elizabeth Marfeo
Contributing Authors: Sharan L. Schwartzberg, Gary Bedell</jats:p
Development and Some Applications of Earth Tube Heat Exchanger in Gujarat
No full textThis write-up describes the development and some applications of earth tube heat exchangers in Gujarat. Work outlined here was delivered as Nanubhai Amin Memorial Lecture at Electrical Research and Development Association, Vadodara as part of Technology Day, 11 May 2004.
Harvesting dew to supplement drinking water supply in arid coastal villages of Gujarat
No full textShortage of drinking water is chronic, sever and widespread in Kutch - a hot and very arid region. It is specially acute in coastal villages where surface sources dry up rapidly and groundwater is not potable. Many of these are listed as “no source” villages and are supplied water on tanker-trucks daily from long distances. The conventional efforts to conserve and augment water resources are all in place. But one potential resource - dew - had remained unnoticed. The possibility that it may also be a supplementary resource was first noticed in the summer of 2001 when it was observed that dew condensed frequently on a plastic- clad greenhouse in Kothara, a village 15 km from the coast. That led us first, to carry out systematic measurement, and then to develop practical ways to harvest dew for human use. Measurement at Kothara was followed by measurements at two other locations along the coast - Panandhro and Mithapur. Data showed that dew occurred over an eight-month season (October- May) spanning the entire dry part of the year. Quantity was more in summer months than in winter. Dew water was found potable and safe. In the next three years development of dew harvest systems was carried out, prototypes were made and tested. After successful field trial three models were launched. The key component of the systems is the condenser, made of thin plastic film which can harvest 15 – 20 mm of dew water in the season. Condenser cools itself by radiative exchange with sky, without the use of any external energy. Working installations have been made on large roofs and on open ground. While the devices are specifically engineered to condense dew, these routinely harvest rain as well. These are being promoted as “dewrain” harvest systems that deliver useful but varying amount of water through all the months of the year.
Beginning Java 8 Fundamentals: Language Syntax, Arrays, Data Types, Objects, and Regular Expressions
No full textBeginning Java 8 Fundamentals provides a comprehensive approach to learning the Java programming language, especially the object-oriented fundamentals necessary at all levels of Java development.
Author Kishori Sharan provides over 90 diagrams and 240 complete programs to help beginners and intermediate level programmers learn the topics faster. Starting with basic programming concepts, the author walks you through writing your first Java program step-by-step. Armed with that practical experience, you\u27ll be ready to learn the core of the Java language.
The book continues with a series of foundation topics, including using data types, working with operators, and writing statements in Java. These basics lead onto the heart of the Java language: object-oriented programming. By learning topics such as classes, objects, interfaces, and inheritance you\u27ll have a good understanding of Java\u27s object-oriented model.
The final collection of topics takes what you\u27ve learned and turns you into a real Java programmer. You\u27ll see how to take the power of object-oriented programming and write programs that can handle errors and exceptions, process strings and dates, format data, and work with arrays to manipulate data
Cropping in Arid-Area Greenhouse
No full textIn hot, arid regions, yields are usually low and unstable. Greenhouse technology can stabilize and improve yields. But its adoption is impeded by the requirement of large amounts of water for cooling. Evaporative cooling is the most common method. Arid Area Greenhouse (AAG) is being developed for hot arid regions, particularly to reduce or eliminate the water needed for cooling. To achieve this, AAG employs earth-tube-heat-exchanger (ETHE) and static vents for environmental control. A prototype was installed in 2002 in an arid region, at village Kothara (ƒ� 23�X 14 N, ƒ� 68�X 45 E, at 21 m a.s.l.) for study. The single span saw-tooth greenhouse is 20 X 6 X 3.5 m. The ETHE is buried 3m deep directly below and coupled to it in closed-loop mode. ETHE is made of a bundle of eight mild steel pipes arranged in two tiers. Each pipe is 23 m long and 20 cm diameter. ETHE provides 20 air changes per hour. Initial cost of ETHE (material, fabrication, transport and installation) was $ 5000, nearly equal to that of greenhouse excluding instrumentation. There are three continuous closable vents - two along the base of long sides and one along the ridge. A retractable shading cover is provided over the roof. The aim was to determine (a) the extent to which ETHE and natural ventilation meet the need for environmental control and the associated costs (b) the extent to which productivity is increased, cropping season extended. By summer of 2007 five rounds of cropping have been done. ETHE was able to heat the greenhouse easily from 9�XC to 22-23�XC in half hour in the cold winter nights. Static ventilation along with shading was effective for day time control till February keeping the temperature about 34�XC inside. Subsequently, ETHE was operated. It limited the greenhouse temperature to 36-37�XC with top shaded and crop inside. If grid supply is steady it is operated for five-six hours in the day. House is closed in May-June. Yield of tomato has been close to 2 times that of the open-fields in the province. Water used was 44% of that used in open-field. The water used was mostly for plants, only a small part was for supplementary cooling using foggers. ETHE and static vents hold promise as environmental control device for greenhouses in hot arid regions. There is need to reduce installation cost by substituting plastic pipes for metal. It is also necessary to develop a more easily scalable design than the present one.
Learning theories and interprofessional education: a user's guide
No full textThere is increasing interest in the theoretical underpinning of interprofessional education (IPE) and writers in this field are drawing on a wide range of disciplines for theories that have utility in IPE. While this has undoubtedly enriched the research literature, for the educational practitioner, whose aim is to develop and deliver an IPE curriculum that has sound theoretical underpinnings, this plethora of theories has become a confusing, and un-navigable quagmire. This article aims to provide a compass for those educational practitioners by presenting a framework that summarizes key learning theories used in IPE and the relationship between them. The study reviews key contemporary learning theories from the wider field of education used in IPE and the explicit applications of these theories in the IPE literature to either curriculum design or programme evaluation. Through presenting a broad overview and summary framework, the study clarifies the way in which learning theories can aid IPE curriculum development and evaluation. It also highlights areas where future theoretical development in the IPE field is required
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