4,990 research outputs found
IoT-Smart Grid Nexus : Home Energy Metering System using Wifi enabled Raspberry Pi, Sensor and User Interface
No full textA key role of Information Technology (IT) to Sustainable Development (SD) is the promotion of energy consumption awareness that could engender changes in the behavioral pattern of people dependent on energy at far lesser cost than previously known. Protecting the Planet for People continual survival while maximizing Profit had since being a deep concern in the IT world. A solution to use energy efficiently by monitoring; to make informed decisions about the way energy is use and can be manage, formed the theme of this thesis.
This thesis, in part, uncovered the link between Smart Grid technology/meter and IoT technology/energy meter; and further illustrated proposed implementation of a simple IoT-based electricity metering, which can be displayed via an Open Energy Application Programming Interface (API), using amazingly inexpensive hardware components and open source software with none of the complexities associated with present and past similar systems. In other words, proposing an implementation methodology with an open design approach for monitoring and managing energy using IoT-based technology.
This system consists of three main components, namely: A Raspberry Pi (wifi enabled), Sensor (sensing circuitry) and a User Interface (UI). The sensor sensed the pulses as emitted from a modern electricity meter and then the signal or digital information sent to the General-Purpose Input-Output (GPIO) pins of the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi, on receiving the signal at it programmed input pin, calculates the power/energy value and then sent this data across the internet to the web/app API for easy users’ access.
Users can at this point, access the amount of energy consumed in minutes, hours, weeks or even in months via their smartphones, laptops and or tablets. This will equip and enable energy consumers to independently monitor their energy consumption and make better choices to use energy efficiently and help reduce energy wastage while saving cost
Rubaies of İbrahim Aczî kendî (The last 180 rubaies)
No full text1881-1965 yılları arasında Konya'da yaşayan İbrahim Aczî Kendî, Konya'nın XX. yüzyılda yetiştirdiği önemli şair, gazeteci, araştırmacı, yazar, mutasavvıf ve folklorculardandır. Konya'da öğretmenlik yapan İbrahim Aczî Kendî, Arapça ve Farsça öğrenerek kendini geliştirmiş, tasavvuf, edebiyat ve tarihle ilgili kitaplar hazırlamıştır. İbrahim Aczî Kendî'nin bizzat kendisinin kaleme aldığı, tek nüshası Yusuf Ağa Kütüphanesinde 10465/1 numara ile kayıtlı olan Devr-i Zaman adlı eseri, 360 Farsça rubâî ve bu rubâîlerin Osmanlı Türkçesiyle yazılmış açıklamalarından oluşmaktadır. Bu çalışmada İbrahim Aczî Kendî'nin hayatı incelenmiş, Devr-i Zaman adlı eserinde bulunan 360 rubâînin son 180 tanesi çalışılmıştır. Her bir rubâînin Farsça ana metinleri bilgisayar ortamına aktarılmış, bazen sadece tercüme, bazen de çeşitli açıklamalar içeren Osmanlı Türkçesiyle yazılan kısımlar ise latin harfleriyle aktarılmıştır. İbrahim Aczî Kendî, bu çalışmada ele alınan rubâîlerinde, genellikle ilahi aşk, toplumsal ahlâk, zamandan şikâyet, riya ve kibirden uzak durmanın gerekliliği gibi birçok konuya değinmiştir.İbrahim Aczî Kendî who lived the years between 1881 and 1965 in Konya is an important poet, a journalist, an investigate author, a mystic and a folklorist who raised by Konya in 20th century. İbrahim Aczî Kendi, worked as a tutor in Konya, improved himself by learning Arabian and Persian, prepared books about mysticism, literature and history. Devr-i zaman, which is written by İbrahim Aczî Kendî by himself and whose only transcript is registered with the number 104657/1 in Yusuf Ağa Library, is made of 360 Persian rubaies and their explanation which is written in Ottoman Turkish. In this study İbrahim Aczî Kendî's life and last 180 of 360 Persian rubaies are studied. Each of rubaies' Persian main texts are transferred to electronic environment. Parts that sometimes include translation, sometimes also include various types of explanations written Ottoman Turkish are transferred with Latin letters. İbrahim Aczî Kendî, rubaies that handled in this study, touches on many topics, such as sociel ethics, complaints about today's youht, hypocrisy and staying away from and arrogance
Determinants of budget deficit in Nigeria / Maimuna M. Shehu and Ibrahim M. Adamu
No full textThis paper investigates the factors governing the determination of budget deficit in Nigeria from 1981q1 through 2016q4. Our methodology is based on Johansen cointegration and Vector Error Correction model (VECM) approach. The result from the Johansen cointegration test suggests one cointegrating vector, which indicates the existence of a long run cointegrating relationship. Evidence from the long run and short run parameters suggest that exchange rate, interest rate and one year lag of budget deficit are the major determinants of budget deficit. Therefore, to achieve a realistic fiscal surplus, the government should determine a high level of accountability in its fiscal operations. In addition, any fiscal surplus should be channeled into productive investments to diversify the economy and reduce the likelihood of potential budget deficits
External interventions and the duration of civil wars
No full textThe authors combine an empirical model of external intervention, with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration, using"expected"rather than"actual"external intervention as an explanatory variable in the duration model. Unlike previous studies, they find that external intervention is positively associated with the duration of civil war. They distinguish partial third-party interventions that extend the length of war, from multilateral"peace"operations, which have a mandate to restore peace without taking sides - and which typically take place at war's end, or at least when both sides have agreed to a cease-fire. In a future paper, the authors will examine whether partial third-party interventions - whatever their effect on a war's duration - increase the risk of war's recurrence. If that proves true, then even if interventions reduce the length of civil war, they may do so at the cost of further destabilizing the political system, and sowing the seeds of future rebellion.Children and Youth,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Social Conflict and Violence,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs
Al-Qaṣāʾid al-ʿAjamiyya (Ajami Poems)
No full textThe entire manuscript is available for download as a single PDF file. Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Mohammed Bara’u Musa & Hauwa Usman (Local Project Managers), Adamu Mohammed, Abacha Kachalla, Abdrra’uf Abdullahi & Falmaa Madu Ibrahim (General Field Facilitators), and Haladu Mamman (Photographer). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Director African Studies Center), and Eleni Castro (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). These Collections of Fulfulde & Kanuri Ajami materials are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library.
Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).
Citation: Materials in this web edition should be cited as: Kurfi, Mustapha Hashim, Ngom, Fallou, and Castro, Eleni (2019). African Ajami Library: Digital Preservation of Fulfulde & Kanuri Ajami Materials of Northeastern Nigeria. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/38242. For Inquiries: Please contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Provenance / Custodial history: The owner is Al-Ḥājj ʿUthmān Nguru (aka El-Fullaty). The condition of the manuscript is intact, though old, but well-preserved. The owner, El-Fullaty is a very old man (probably in his early 90s). He had sung some of the poems and translated them in Hausa. The owner is also the distributor of the manuscript published in 1970.This manuscript is a collection of poems written by the triumvirate: Shehu ʿUthmān b. Fodio, Shehu ʿAbdullāhi b. Fodio (his brother), and Sultan Muhammad Bello (Shehu b. Fodio’s son and Shehu ʿAbdullāhi’s nephew). The majority of the poems were written by Shehu ʿUthmān and are at the beginning of the manuscript. The poems are predominantly about Islamic jurisprudence, including purification, ablution, ritual prayers, obligatory showers, menstruation, alms giving, and how to fix mistakes in ritual prayers. The second set of poems are on the Quran. They discuss the importance of reciting the Quran and sticking to its injunctions. The subsequent set of poems are written by Amir Sultan Muhammad Bello. The scribe has indicated that the set of poems on the Quran and the subsequent ones on fiqh were all written by the Sultan. Finally, there is one last poem on the oneness of Allāh and His attributes. This is the only poem that has glosses. The manuscript is written in Fulfulde Ajami but there are a few comments using Arabic phrases to explain some points.The contents of this collection were developed with support of the Title VI National Resource Center grant # P015A180164 from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government
QUEST FOR THE EXPANSION OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES
No full textThe quest for the expansion of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the most critical issues that has confronted the United Nations (UN) system for the better part of the organization’s existence. To this end, this paper examines the call for the expansion of the UNSC and the challenges thereof. It argues that the attempt to expand the UNSC has been unsuccessful due to fact that the UNSC was not designed to be a democratic organ from its inception. The paper submits that a democratically constituted UNSC will lead to chaos and disorder in the international system
Morphological and grammatical study of the fuctional derived nouns in the six anthologies by Sheikh Ibrahim Inyas / Ibrahim Shaaban
No full textThis research is a morphological, grammatical and analytical study on the multiplicity of the
scale of five derived nouns and their formulas as used in the six anthologies (dawawin) of
Senegalese Sheikh Ibrahim Inyas al-Kaulakhi, based on the chosen rulings, methods and context
used by the author of the six collections. The research focuses and discusses on the subject
noun, the accusative noun, the hyperbolic participles, the attributive participle,
comparative/superlative adjective, and their scales and formulas, both standard and nonstandard,
and the usage of their multiple meanings according to the methods employed in these
six dawawin, including infinitive and augmented noun of three or four lettered origin, with
grammatical rulings associated with alif and lam (al), as selected or chosen according to the
usage of Sheikh Ibrahim Inyas al-Kaulakhi. In order to find out the context of morphological and
grammatical methods, analyses were made that acquaint readers with the taste of Sheikh
Ibrahim's ability in applying morphological and grammatical rules. Through extrapolation, the
morphological and syntactic source of each derivative was separately traced in those six
dawawin. In reviewing the morphological and syntactic language of those derivatives, books and
the theories of ancient and modern linguists, according to consensus and contrast, were used in
shedding light on each derived noun by studying the ancient morphological and syntactic
sources according to the information and theories derived therefrom and made analysis
thereon. In this regard, a morphological or grammatical context was established using a
qualitative rather than quantitative approach based on which the research was conducted and
its structure, sections and chapters arranged accordingly, with clarification and detailed
analyses. Findings of this research have established the functioning of morphological structure
and scales of the five derived nouns as well as the semantic meaning, application and usage of
augmented derived nouns as dealt with in their grammatical rulings associated with the Arabic
definite article - alif and lam (al), to enable them function in the past, present and future tenses,
and what not. The research concluded with a revelation which is indicative of Sheikh Ibrahim
Inyas’ ability and mastery of morphological scales and grammatical expertise as though he lived
with and learnt from Khalil, Sibawayh, Ibn Jinni and Asma'i and their ilk
Correction to: Ptotic Right Retro‑renal Liver Lobe Injury During Supine Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Managed by Hemostatic Sponge (Indian Journal of Surgery, (2022), 84, 3, (555-558), 10.1007/s12262-021-03035-2)
No full textThe article “Ptotic Right Retro‑renal Liver Lobe Injury During Supine Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Managed by Hemostatic Sponge”, written by İbrahim Üntan and Volkan Sabur, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 20 July 2021 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 06 October 2021 to © The Author(s) 2021 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The original article has been corrected. © 2021, The Author(s)
Hausa Visual Genome 1.0
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Hausa Visual Genome 1.0, a multimodal dataset consisting of text and images suitable for English-to-Hausa multimodal machine translation tasks and multimodal research. We follow the same selection of short English segments (captions) and the associated images from Visual Genome as the dataset Hindi Visual Genome 1.1 has. We automatically translated the English captions to Hausa and manually post-edited, taking the associated images into account.
The training set contains 29K segments. Further 1K and 1.6K segments are provided in development and test sets, respectively, which follow the same (random) sampling from the original Hindi Visual Genome.
Additionally, a challenge test set of 1400 segments is available for the multi-modal task. This challenge test set was created in Hindi Visual Genome by searching for (particularly) ambiguous English words based on the embedding similarity and manually selecting those where the image helps to resolve the ambiguity.
Dataset Formats
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The multimodal dataset contains both text and images.
The text parts of the dataset (train and test sets) are in simple tab-delimited plain text files.
All the text files have seven columns as follows:
Column1 - image_id
Column2 - X
Column3 - Y
Column4 - Width
Column5 - Height
Column6 - English Text
Column7 - Hausa Text
The image part contains the full images with the corresponding image_id as the file name. The X, Y, Width, and Height columns indicate the rectangular region in the image described by the caption.
Data Statistics
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The statistics of the current release are given below.
Parallel Corpus Statistics
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Dataset Segments English Words Hausa Words
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Train 28930 143106 140981
Dev 998 4922 4857
Test 1595 7853 7736
Challenge Test 1400 8186 8752
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Total 32923 164067 162326
The word counts are approximate, prior to tokenization.
Citation
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If you use this corpus, please cite the following paper:
@InProceedings{abdulmumin-EtAl:2022:LREC,
author = {Abdulmumin, Idris
and Dash, Satya Ranjan
and Dawud, Musa Abdullahi
and Parida, Shantipriya
and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen
and Ahmad, Ibrahim Sa'id
and Panda, Subhadarshi
and Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej
and Galadanci, Bashir Shehu
and Bello, Bello Shehu},
title = "{Hausa Visual Genome: A Dataset for Multi-Modal English to Hausa Machine Translation}",
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
month = {June},
year = {2022},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {6471--6479},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.694}
Modernization in Tüccarzade İbrahim Hilmi
No full textİbrahim Hilmi Osmanlı Devleti'nin son dönemlerinde ve Cumhuriyet'in ilk yıllarında yaşamış, yayıncı ve yazardır. II. Meşrutiyet döneminde Osmanlı Devleti'nin yeniden eski parlak günlerine dönebilmesi için maddi ve manevi alanda çözümler sunmaya çalışmıştır. Osmanlı Devleti'nin kurtulması için modernleşmeyi gerekli göre İbrahim Hilmi, Batı'nın kötü ahlakının alınmasına karşı çıkmaktadır. Yazılarını Balkan Savaşlarından sonra yazan İbrahim Hilmi'de milliyetçilik akımının etkileri hissedilmektedir. Siyaset, eğitim, ordu, kültür ve edebiyat, kadın, gençlik, aile, din, ekonomi alanlarında görüşler ortaya koyan İbrahim Hilmi'nin görüşleri İttihat ve Terakki tarafından savunulan görüşlerle uyum içindedirIbrahim Hilmi lived in the late Ottoman period and the early years of the republic, the publisher and author. II. Mesrutiyet Period of the Ottoman Empire again return to the old glorious days worked to provide solutions for the material and the spiritual realm. According to the necessary modernization of the Ottoman Empire to escape Ibrahim Hilmi, West opposes the reception of bad morals. Entries after the Balkan Wars by Ibrahim Hilmi felt the effects of nationalism movement. Political, educational, military, culture and literature, women's, youth, family, religion, opinions setting out the areas of economics advocated by Ibrahim Hilmi opinion in keeping with views of ?Ittihat ve Terakki
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