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Bangladesh’s energy crisis: A summary of challenges and smart grid-based solutions
No full textSmart grid technologies are an important topic of research and discussion in academia and electrical industries globally. When properly applied, these technologies can enhance the quality, reliability, and availability of electric power while maximizing safety and sustainability. This will both improve economic productivity for industry and quality of life for residents of Bangladesh. Application of smart grid technologies to establish microgrids, based on renewable energy sources as solar and wind power, into the main grid is imperative to ensure the reliability and quality of the electric energy supply to the growing light industries; the driving force of the economic growth for Bangladesh. This paper presents the concurrent condition of energy sector of Bangladesh and discusses the purpose and methods for adopting key smart grid technologies to reach the target put forth by the government of the country in terms of satisfying the demand forecasted in the country's strategic long term plan
Critical Readings of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim
No full textThere are much scholarly readings of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. This paper randomly picks some of the papers according to the various ways the scholars have studied the text for a review. Such critical readings have been examined here, considering the topical, thematic as well as theoretical and conceptual frameworks that have guided the studies. By so doing the paper answers the question on ways through which Lord Jim is read. The paper therefore shows that source study, reader response investigation, aesthetics analysis, modernist view, postcolonial readings, religious and moral approaches, stylistics, queer reading and other heterologous readings have dominated the scholarly works on Lord Jim. The conclusion is that these readings have assumed Lord Jim offers codes for interpreting society or life. Thus, most of the critics read the text as philosophy, while others read the texts as allegory or a testimony of the author or his society. But such interpretations have often offered a less clear view about the texts and as a result, many accuse the author of being obscured. However, few studies have approached the text as an art. The study remains important as it draws together many of these readings that have differently treated Lord Jim (literature) both as ideology, discourse, and art
JIM’S CONFRONTATION WITH FATE IN LORD JIM: A REVIEW
No full textLord Jim by Joseph Conrad highlights the struggle of the narrator, Marlow and the unfavourable fortune of the Protagonist, Jim. Novel develops through the narration and experience of Marlow keeping Jim as the central figure. Jim, the youngest of all children, spent a very exquisite and comfortable childhood. His father was a vicar and know for his humble and kind nature. Their home was very big providing enough space to children to play. During summer, he used to spend his time in reading the sea stories. Jim’s father came to know about Jim’s interst in sea and the stories related to sea voyage. He decided to send Jim to a training ship and wanted him to join merchant navy. He was sent to a training ship packed with boys who were also his co-learners. Jim learned the things very fast as compared to other boys. Maximum of his time was devoted to dreaming about his bravery and saving the drowning passengers from the sinking ship. He always imagined himself as the hero who saved the life of others without thinking of his own life. He is always hero in his dreams who do brave deeds
Blijft het in Den Haag bij smart city of wordt het smart urbanism?
No full textNormaal gesproken somt men bij smart cities de nieuwste gadgets op. Verbeeldt Siemens haar utopie en promoot men het smart grid als de grote oplossing. Echter, tijdens het ‘Actueel Den Haag Debat’ (ADHD) kwam een interessante tegenstelling bovendrijven. Die leidde tot wat ik maar de Wet van Hajer noem: smart city + lokale politieke keuzes = smart urbanism. Wat gebeurde er?Heritage & DesignTeachers of Practic
How Local Policy Priorities Set the Smart City Agenda
No full textpeer reviewedThe smart city concept has emerged as a key subject pursued by local governments. Yet, it is not clear how policymakers narrow down the topics to focus on with respect to their smart city agenda. As a result, the aim of this paper is to propose a theoretical contribution that explains how local governments define their smart city policy agenda. It is suggested that the agenda is influenced by policy priorities at the local level from other urban domains. To support this notion, policy studies literature is used to show that three streams of problems, policy, and politics, when aligned, set the policy agenda. The smart city agenda will be formed from key ideas existing at the local political level, such as policy priorities, that have now been matched with solutions framed in the smart city context, all underpinned by a favourable political environment. In addition, from smart city policy related documents, a topic modelling analysis illustrates a set of topics that are associated to the smart city policy agenda in two cities, London and Melbourne. This shows how some topics on the smart city agenda can be likened to issues that are the primary topic of another policy domain
Smart Grids
No full textThis book was written by Jim Trepka and provides an introduction to smart grids. A smart grid is a range of technologies that allow for more complex interactions between the utility and consumer. This book is written at the community college level for a student planning on earning an A.A.S. in electronics engineering technology. The math used in the book is at the pre-calculus level, but does use complex numbers to explain some A.C. (Alternating Current) concepts
Saving Face: Shared experience and dialogue on social touch, in playful smart public space
No full textCan shared experience and dialogue on social touch be orchestrated in playful smart public spaces? In smart city public spaces, in which physical and virtual realities are currently merging, new forms of social connections, interfaces and experiences are be- ing explored. Within art practice, such new connections include new forms of affective social communication with additional social and sensorial connections to enable and enhance empathic, intimate experience in playful smart public space.This chapter explores a novel design for shared intimate experience of playful social touch in three orchestrations of ‘Saving Face’, in different cultural and geographical environments of smart city (semi-) public spaces, in Beijing, Utrecht, Dessau-Berlin. These orchestrations are purposefully designed to create a radically unfamiliar sensory synthesis to disrupt the perception of ‘who sees and who is being seen, who touches and who is being touched’. Participants playfully ‘touch themselves and feel being touched, to connect with others on a screen’. All three orchestrations show that shared experience and dialogue on social touch can be mediated by playful smart cities tech- nologies in public spaces, but rely on design of mediated, intimate and exposed forms of ‘self-touch for social touch’, ambivalent relations, exposure of dialogue and hosting.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.System Engineerin
Detection of Cognitive Features from Web Resources in Support of Cultural Modeling and Analysis
No full textThe World Wide Web serves as a valuable source of culture-relevant information, which can be used to support cultural modeling and analysis activities. Part of the challenge in exploiting the Web as a source of culture-relevant information relates to the need to detect and extract information about beliefs, attitudes, and values from a variety of different resources. The Web thus features a rich variety of information resources, and these are seldom categorized with respect to the dimensions in which cultural analysts are interested. Exploiting the Web as a source of culture-relevant information therefore requires techniques and approaches that enable cultural analysts to extract relevant information and organize extracted content in various ways. In this paper, we outline an approach to assist cultural analysts in the extraction and organization of relevant information. We show techniques that can be used to extract information about the attitudes, beliefs, and values of individuals, and how this data can, in turn, be used to support cultural modeling and analysis
Strategies for smart building realisation
No full textSmart buildings, as a concept, is now becoming prominent in the vocabulary of Architects,
Engineers, Construction contractors, Technology companies, Property developers and the
Estate or facility management function within organizations. Public or private sector, smart
building goals are now prevalent in corporate strategies whenever new build or retrofit /
refurbishment is planned.
But there seems no common consensus on what this really means. The 1990's and 2000's
witnessed much hype around intelligent buildings concepts. However, in many instances the
hype never produced tangible results. Now the scene has changed. Sustainability and carbon
management is increasingly on the agenda of boardroom decision making and smart in
smart buildings seems to have a purpose, almost as a mission statement.
The lack of clear definitions on what encompasses a smart building and what is to be
expected when utilising a smart building whether as a solitary or group experience is causing
the supply side industry to throttle back the adoption rate. Value structures justifying
adoption are not clear in this early adaptor stage. Thus costs associated with the realisation of
a smart building are quite hard to justify. This is compounded by the rapid pace of technology
advancement and the continual refresh of new products and solutions that purport to provide
an improved functionality or better price to performance advantage.
Thus strategies for smart building realisation need to be formalised into industry accepted
frameworks which can be applied in many market sectors - or verticals, and which can be
applied in the context of small, medium and large buildings or campus premises. This paper
presents some thought leadership in this emerging area of expertise and provides concepts
that may form the fundamentals for a future framework.
The author provides a perspective as a professional in Consulting for the Engineering and
Construction industry with regards to integrating ICT systems into the built environment. ICT
infrastructure comprises much of the building blocks for smart building enablement alongside
automation and controls, electronic security and facility management applications.
Converged IP networks, integrated command and control rooms, utility smart metering and
integrated BMS (iBMS) enables smart building functionalities to be implemented. This paper
presents viewpoints across all of these subject areas in the context of policies, technologies
and obstacles
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No full text‘Smart’ contracts could be the next big thing in construction technology but will developers learn the lessons of BIM implementation? Sometimes it’s better to keep things simpl
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