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Short message service (sms) based system for monitoring free chlorine concentration and ph in the water reservoirs
No full textA Project Report Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science in Embedded and Mobile Systems of the Nelson Mandela African
Institution of Science and TechnologyChlorine is the most common and affordable chemical reagent used for killing harmful micro-
organisms in the water to eliminate the spread of waterborne diseases such as cholera and
diarrhoea. According to World Health Organization, a free chlorine level within 0.5~1 mg/l
and a pH level within 6.5~8.5 is recommended for human consumption. It is essential to
monitor water quality parameters such as free chlorine in the water since a lower value will not
disinfect water efficiently while extreme values of free chlorine may affect the community’s
health. Zanzibar Water Authority (ZAWA) employs colorimetric approach to manually
measure free chlorine in the water reservoirs and submit the results into the kobocollect mobile
application. However, this approach is prone to human errors, ineffective and time consuming.
The objective of this current project was to develop a SMS-based system for monitoring free
chlorine concentration and pH in the water reservoirs. Extreme Programming (XP) agile
development methodology accompanied with V-Model were employed for developing and
testing of the proposed system. The developed system consists of hardware device and
dashboard for remote monitoring of water quality parameters such as free chlorine
concentration and pH. The hardware device sends sensor data and notification alerts as SMS.
The device is energy efficient since it uses SMS to send sensor data. The device can be
deployed in a noisy environment since it uses RS485 communication protocol to communicate
with the free chlorine sensor. The developed dashboard is used for remote monitoring of the
sensor data. The dashboard is user friendly and practical since it was designed with the end
users. The system was tested and validated by the end users to ensure all requirements were
met. The developed system has a potential capability to improve management of water
reservoirs by enhancing transparency, cooperation, and accountability among stakeholders
Short message service (SMS) based system for monitoring free chlorine concentration and Ph in the water reservoirs
Get PDFA Project Report Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Embedded and Mobile Systems of the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and TechnologyChlorine is the most common and affordable chemical reagent used for killing harmful micro organisms in the water to eliminate the spread of waterborne diseases such as cholera and
diarrhoea. According to World Health Organization, a free chlorine level within 0.5~1 mg/l
and a pH level within 6.5~8.5 is recommended for human consumption. It is essential to
monitor water quality parameters such as free chlorine in the water since a lower value will not
disinfect water efficiently while extreme values of free chlorine may affect the community’s
health. Zanzibar Water Authority (ZAWA) employs colorimetric approach to manually
measure free chlorine in the water reservoirs and submit the results into the kobocollect mobile
application. However, this approach is prone to human errors, ineffective and time consuming.
The objective of this current project was to develop a SMS-based system for monitoring free
chlorine concentration and pH in the water reservoirs. Extreme Programming (XP) agile
development methodology accompanied with V-Model were employed for developing and
testing of the proposed system. The developed system consists of hardware device and
dashboard for remote monitoring of water quality parameters such as free chlorine
concentration and pH. The hardware device sends sensor data and notification alerts as SMS.
The device is energy efficient since it uses SMS to send sensor data. The device can be
deployed in a noisy environment since it uses RS485 communication protocol to communicate
with the free chlorine sensor. The developed dashboard is used for remote monitoring of the
sensor data. The dashboard is user friendly and practical since it was designed with the end
users. The system was tested and validated by the end users to ensure all requirements were
met. The developed system has a potential capability to improve management of water
reservoirs by enhancing transparency, cooperation, and accountability among stakeholders
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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