165 research outputs found
Sistem Kontrol Motor Pompa Pengisi Tower Air (Tandon)
No full textThe need for clean water has become a basic need that must be met every day. The community needs a lot of water consumption but sometimes a little. Due to the irregular use of water, it will result in the supply of water in the reservoir will quickly decrease which results in the volume of water in the tendon will run out. Usually to monitor the water supply in the water storage tank (tower) using an ordinary pump, where humans fill the pump continuously or permanently. This has an impact on the reduction of water supply due to erratic usage. The author with the title "Pump Motor Control System Filling Water Tower (Tandon)" which aims if at the time of use of water expenditure is very much, the volume in the reservoir will quickly decrease. Then the pump motor will accelerate the automatic rotation so that it will quickly fill the volume of water in the reservoir. So that the tendon is not empty due to more use. And if at the time of using a small amount of water discharge, the volume in the reservoir will decrease slowly, the pump motor will automatically rotate slowly. This will be efficient and flexible due to the uncertainty of excessive usage so that the volume of water in the reservoir does not empt
Beyond the Earthly Chariot: Shelley’s Journey from Passion to Spiritual Love
No full textPercy Bysshe Shelley’s exploration of love spans his poetic works, revealing a profound evolution from personal passion to a universal force of redemption and liberation. This paper delves into Shelley’s philosophical journey as depicted in his major works, examining the themes of bondage and freedom in “The Triumph of Life” alongside the transformative power of love in “Prometheus Unbound.” Shelley’s examination of the Promethean legend serves as a backdrop for his exploration of love’s evolving nature. From its initial portrayal as a personal deity in “Epipsychidion” to its broader significance as a universal principle in “Adonais,” love emerges as a redemptive force, transcending individual desires to encompass humanity’s collective aspirations. In “Prometheus Unbound,” Shelley presents love as a heroic vision of rebellion against tyranny, symbolizing wisdom, justice, and peace in the face of oppression. Through meticulous analysis of symbolism and action, the paper illuminates Shelley’s profound insight into the transformative potential of love, culminating in the triumph of love over adversity. “The Triumph of Life” offers a more symbolic view of love, contrasting earthly passion with a spiritual love that grants liberation from the limitations of the material world. Shelley suggests that love, in its purest form, holds the key to individual and societal transformation, offering solace in suffering and rebellion against oppression. In conclusion, Shelley’s concept of love evolves from personal indulgence to mature, symbolic representation, emphasizing its role in individual salvation and societal renewal. The enduring message of Shelley’s works underscores the transformative power of love as a force for redemption and liberation
Inclusive Design for Regaining Lost Identity: Accessible, Aesthetic and Effortless Clothing
No full textInclusive Design for Regaining Lost Identity is a research project that aims to design and develop accessible clothing that is inclusive and fashionable to foster psycho-social well-being and to enhance the self-esteem of women with disabilities. The research explored inclusive design solutions for the saree – a traditional Indian garment for women, through a practice-led iterative methodology of designing and producing pragmatic and aesthetic sarees with enhanced ease of dressing and undressing. These sarees are intended to offer the participants a sense of independence and individuality whilst responding to their needs for self-expression. Clothing for persons with disabilities frequently follows a medical model which focuses on their inabilities. Such experiences tend to aggravate feelings of inadequacy and lower self-esteem due to the limited choices of pertinent fashionable clothing. Ethnographic research was conducted with women in the age range of twenty to forty years with mild to moderate physical disabilities, including those with cerebral palsy, reduced dexterity and limb amputations. Investigations into apparel-related barriers they face and their expectations and desires about clothing pointed to a huge void in terms of designed inclusive clothing for women with physical disabilities. Self-efficacy emerged as a significant criteria for the selection of garments. A series of informed study prototypes of adaptive sarees were designed and developed along with an exploration into the feasibility of 3D printed fasteners intended to alleviate potential feelings of frustration and deprivation while wearing saree is an elaborate garment that requires precise draping, which makes the saree complicated to wear and inconvenient to carry, particularly for women with physical disabilities. For many women in India, the saree remains the customary dress, especially for work and occasions, yet minimal progress and advancement has been made to enhance its accessibility and ease of use. This research aspires to provide inclusive design solutions that seamlessly embrace persons with disabilities, to elevate their agency and to challenge and change prevailing negative attitudes, misconceptions, and stereotypes in relation to their specific needs and desires
Corporate governance and equity prices : evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics
No full textThe 1992 Czechoslavakia mass privatization program involving about 1,500 eneterprises and implemented through a voucher scheme with competitive bidding was a bold step in changing the ownership and governance of a large part of the economy. It represents a clear test case of one approach, and other countries may benefit from its lessons. At the time, much skepticisism was voiced about mass privatization: it would lead to diffuse ownership, and no effective corporate governance would result. But innovative forces led to the emergence of investment funds that collected much of the individuals'voucher points, leading to a much more concentrated ownership structure. It has been expected that this concentrated ownership would lead to improved corporate governance. But the jury is still out. So far, only limited and largely anecdotal evidence is available on the impact investment funds have on the way firms are being managed. Too little time has passed and too many shocks have occurred (for example, the split of the Czech and Slovak Republics) to expect to find discernible changes in corporate governance on measures of actual firm performance. An alternative approach is to investigate whether firms that ended up with more concentratedownership -- and possibly improved governance -- sell for higher prices, either in the last voucher round or in the secondary market since then. In a forward-looking financial market, one can expect prices to incorporate the effects of better ownership on future firm performance and associated dividends to shareholders. Put differently, one would expect that two firms with different shareholding structures, but otherwise identical, would trade at different prices -- with the firm with a more concentrated ownership, and presumably better corporate governance, trading at a higher price. On a cross-sectional basis, ownership structure may thus be significant in explaining (relative) share prices. The author explores this line of reasoning. Controlling for a number of firm and sector-specific variables: he finds: 1) Majority ownership by a domestic or foreign investor has a positive influence on firm prices. 2) Firms with many small owners have lower prices. 3) Ownership by many small scale investors makes it easier for any single investor to establish effective control, but such control does not necessarily translate into higher prices. The author also provides two possible explanations of why higher prices appear to be associated only with majority ownership by a single investor: he finds: 1) The corporate legal framework and the difficulty in collecting proxy votes in the Czech and Slovak Republics may prevent a small investor from making the necessary changes in the way firms are managed, thus keeping prices low; and 2) Commercial banks are both managers of invesment funds and creditors of individual firms. Funds managers may face conflicts of interest and not be interested in increasing the value of equity alone but also the value of credits. This could explain why prices are relatively lower for those firms in which investment funds have effective control.Economic Theory&Research,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Policies,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Environmental Economics&Policies,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research
Recency predicts bursts in the evolution of author citations
No full textThe citations process for scientific papers has been studied extensively. But while the citations accrued by authors are the sum of the citations of their papers, translating the dynamics of citation accumulation from the paper to the author level is not trivial. Here we conduct a systematic study of the evolution of author citations, and in particular their bursty dynamics. We find empirical evidence of a correlation between the number of citations most recently accrued by an author and the number of citations they receive in the future. Using a simple model where the probability for an author to receive new citations depends only on the number of citations collected in the previous 12-24 months, we are able to reproduce both the citation and burst size distributions of authors across multiple decades
Recency predicts bursts in the evolution of author citations
No full textThe citations process for scientific papers has been studied extensively. But while the citations accrued by authors are the sum of the citations of their papers, translating the dynamics of citation accumulation from the paper to the author level is not trivial. Here we conduct a systematic study of the evolution of author citations, and in particular their bursty dynamics. We find empirical evidence of a correlation between the number of citations most recently accrued by an author and the number of citations they receive in the future. Using a simple model where the probability for an author to receive new citations depends only on the number of citations collected in the previous 12-24 months, we are able to reproduce both the citation and burst size distributions of authors across multiple decades
Culture, Dance and Medicine: A Four Year Study
No full textThe author, who has studied Bharatanatyam for over ten years, wrote this thesis as a culmination of her years studying dance at Swarthmore College. Trained in ballet and jazz as well, the author also examined African and Modern styles of dance, finding that each style has been a vital building block for molding her personal style. The author cultivates her personal style in her own choreography and performance. The Bharatanatyam style is greatly influenced by African and Modern dances that are prominent in the Swarthmore Dance program. This thesis illustrates what the author, a member of the Swarthmore dance community, has come away with after four years of study
Data Compression versus Signal Fidelity Trade-off in Wired-OR ADC Arrays for Neural Recording
No full textThis paper investigates the efficacy of a wired-OR compressive readout architecture for neural recording, which enables simultaneous data compression of action potential signals for high channel count electrode arrays. We consider a range of wiring configurations to assess the trade-offs between compression ratio and various task-specific signal fidelity metrics. We consider the fidelity in threshold crossing detection, spike assignment, and waveform estimation, and find that for an event SNR of 7-10 the readout captures at least 80% of the spike waveforms at ∼150x data compression.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.Bio-Electronic
Are University Business Incubators Overprotective Parents?: A Knowledge as a Resource-Based Perspective on Growth of Academic Spinoffs using an Open Innovation and Absorptive Capacity Framework
No full textUniversity business incubators are a global rising phenomenon and have an imprint on the genetics of high technology-based academic spin-offs and are central to the triple-helix model of innovation systems for academia-industry-policy. Research focused on Regional Innovation System of Delft suggest that the high technology-based start-ups face challenges in their growth up to a time period as long as four years due to resource-based obstacles and this can be a factor affecting the mortality rate of start-ups in the regions. University business incubators are a powerhouse of open innovation and support permeable firm boundaries for external knowledge, organizations cannot enjoy competitive advantage just by the virtue of being exposed to it but have to acquire, assimilate (Potential Absorptive Capacity), transform and exploit (Realized Absorptive Capacity) knowledge as a resource. Relatively less is known about how does the incubator support help the start-ups to develop their dynamic capabilities and the possible implications of this parent-spin-off relationship on their growth after graduation from that incubator and removal of the incubator support. Thus, to address this research gap, this research study examines 67 academic startups from Yes! Delft by finding the answer to the research question -” What are the implications of a university incubator’s support to academic start-ups to implement open-innovation & develop dynamic capabilities on the growth of academic start-ups?”. From an extensive literature review, a hierarchal conceptual model is developed where a lower order consists of open innovation based activities and higher-order consists of dimensions of absorptive capacity, tested for outcome variable competitive advantage using three constructs- Innovation, Strategic Flexibility and Product development Related Performance. The data is collected using a questionnaire & analyses is done for PLS-SEM using the software SmartPLS3.0. The findings for three sub-research questions are then interpreted to understand growth implications for navigation critical junctures -opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial commitment, credibility & sustainable returns, followed by suggestions for practitioners.Management of Technology (MoT
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