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Ano Liosia (în greacă: Άνω Λιόσια) este un oraș în Grecia. Acesta este o suburbie și o fostă municipalitate din partea de nord a orașului Atena. Din 2011, conform unei reforme a administrației publice locale acesta face parte din municipalitatea Fyli. Are o suprafață de 38 447 km pătrați.

Vezi și

Listă de orașe din Grecia

Orașe din Grecia

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Vodafone's intention to build a long-term relationship with LiveHire is signalled by it committing to a 3-year term.
LiveHire Ltd (ASX:LVH) has secured its largest direct enterprise agreement to date with Vodafone Hutchison Australia for empowering their talent acquisition process through the LiveHire platform.
The LiveHire technology is expected to facilitate the end-to-end sourcing, engagement and talent acquisition process for Vodafone through a platform-based approach.
LiveHire's platform makes managing the flow of talent into and through businesses seamless, underpinned by a single unified candidate profile and visibility of existing employees.
The new agreement represents an annualised recurring revenue (ARR) of over three times the current average ARR across LiveHire clients, in addition to other non-recurring upfront revenue in the form of implementation and integration fees.
Vodafone's intention to build a long-term and collaborative relationship with LiveHire is signalled by it committing to a 3-year term (subject to termination rights).
LiveHire considers that the Vodafone enterprise agreement signals significant progression in the company's direct sales strategy and the ability of the direct sales team to solve complex solutions for larger clients.
LiveHire CEO Christy Forest said" "Up to now, LiveHire has been very focused on building a platform and architecture for global scale, to satisfy the most innovative practitioners in the market - recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firms.
"As successful RPO implementations continue to accelerate, we have been expanding and mobilising our direct sales channel, to bring the award-winning LiveHire platform to the mid-market of 500-5,000 FTE companies who primarily manage recruitment through their own internal teams.


The Blues explode against the Oilers in a 7-2 home win.
The Blues strong defense allows only 17 shots and the offense is lead by Jaden Schwartz with 3 goals and David Perron's 2 goals. The Blues jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second period, but the Oilers came back late in the period with 2 goals of their own. The Blues would not let up and scored 3 more goals in the third period for the 7-2 win.
St. Louis Blues The Drop Podcast. - The Blues explode against the Oilers in a 7-2 home win.


Villa Puigmal is a traditional four bedroom detached property located within close proximity of the charming resort of Tamariu.
Villa Puigmal is a traditional four bedroom detached property located within close proximity of the charming resort of Tamariu. Set over two levels, the ground floor consists of an open plan lounge with dining facilities and fully equipped kitchen, a double bedroom and a twin bedroom both with a shower ensuite, and a further twin bedroom and separate shower room. An additional studio is accessed externally with a double bedroom complete with an ensuite shower room and terrace with comfortable rattan furniture. Patio doors from the main lounge lead out to a mature and enclosed lawned garden with your own private swimming pool set in the centre. The charming seaside resort of Tamariu is only a comfortable 10 minute walk downhill. Villa Puigmal is the perfect choice for those not wanting to drive whilst on holiday.


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Swiss, Italian
Swiss, Italian - Religion and Expressive Culture
Religious Beliefs. In the Swiss Italian region there was space for an autonomous, anarchistic, esoteric monte verità. Newspapers give a good view of popular beliefs, as they are full of advertisements by fortune-tellers, therapists, and problem solvers. Officially, most Swiss Italians are Catholic. Archaeological remains from graves provide evidence of Etruscan, Celtic, Gallic, and Roman customs and goddesses. The Swiss Italians were Christianized already in the fourth century and some villages still celebrate Ambrosian rites. In the alpine valleys (Leventina, Bienio) people were Christianized from the north. During the Reformation, Italian refugees were accepted in Mesolcina, Bregaglia, Poschiavo, and Locarno. As the Grigioni Italiano were under foreign domination, the Reformation could develop freely but it did not have a lasting influence. Catholic Ticino was influenced considerably by the Catholic Swiss cantons, which by law prohibited the Reformed church from remaining in dominated areas. Until the formal separation of church and state, the population was under the control of the churches and monasteries. Recently, many monasteries and community churches have been abandoned because of a shortage of priests. Italian priests are often found in the valleys.
Arts. The cultural (linguistic, intellectual, architectural, art-historical, and artistic) center of Swiss Italy lies in Italy (Milan). The sculptor Giacometti from Bregaglia (Stampa), who was known locally, had to exhibit first in Paris and Milan before he was recognized in Ticino. The same can be said of Brignoni, the artist and ethnographic collector. Swiss Italian literature emphasizes regional culture and identity. There are regional programs for theater, music, and arts education. There is no Swiss Italian university (four American universities around Lugano and business centers in nearby Lombardia were recently opened).
In the last thirty years nearly every valley has opened a local ethnographic museum. Many of the objects are also sold as souvenirs: wooden backpacks ( gerla); copper pots; bast-covered chairs; pergolas, peperonis, and maïs of plastic; open wooden shoes ( zoccoli); and special mugs ( boccalino ).
Medicine. Because of the climate, a growing segment of the economy focuses on the construction of private hospitals and old-age homes. At the beginning of the century hospitals for the treatment of tuberculosis were famous. Because of a lack of confidence in modern medicine, there is a movement among the middle class toward traditional methods of healing. Traditional knowledge about medical plants and healers is being studied. Modern medicine is still regularly used for major health problems.
Death and Afterlife. Beliefs about the afterlife are shaped by the Christian tradition. In villages today the deceased are no longer kept at home until the funeral, and wakes are less common. A community room is now used for this purpose. At funerals the church is more or less filled, depending on the public status of the dead. At times there is a "fanfare" played. After the service the procession goes to the churchyard, where the last prayers and rites take place. The churchyard is built at the edge of the village and protected by walls. The burial places show differences depending on traditional, Economic, political, and social status.
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The impact of screen time on cardiovascular disease, cancer incidence and mortality may be greatest in people who have lower levels of grip-strength, fitness and physical activity, according to a study published in the open access journal, BMC Medicine.
Researchers at Glasgow University, UK, found that the amount of leisure time spent watching a television or computer screen had almost double the impact on the risk of mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer in people with low grip strength or low fitness levels than on participants who had the highest levels of fitness and grip strength. Increasing strength and fitness may offset the adverse health consequences of spending a large proportion of leisure time sitting down and watching a screen, according to the authors.
Dr. Carlos Celis, corresponding author of the study said: "Our study shows that the risks associated with sedentary behaviour are not the same for everyone; individuals with low physical activity experience the greatest adverse effects. "This has potential implications for public health guidance as it suggests that specifically targeting people with low fitness and strength for interventions to reduce the time they spend sitting down may be an effective approach."
Dr. Celis explained: "While fitness testing can be difficult in healthcare and community settings, grip strength is a quick, simple and cheap measure, therefore it would be easy to implement as a screening tool in a variety of settings."


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.ORG, The Public Interest Registry Advances and Makes Strides With Domain Name Security Extensions
Jul 22, 2009 8:40 AM PDT
By PIR
Alexa Raad, CEO of .ORG, The Public Interest Registry and Ram Mohan, CTO and EVP of Afilias provide a brief video statement on the need for Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the community and their dedication to widespread adoption and deployment within the Domain Name industry..ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) announces today the achievement of key milestones with Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC). PIR is dedicated to transparency in its implementation and sharing lessons learned with the Internet infrastructure community, with the goal of widespread adoption of DNSSEC (see pir.org/dnssec). DNSSEC is a very important starting point that will allow companies to evaluate how to secure the many applications that are intertwined with DNS.
"DNSSEC is a critical part of our mission to lead the upgrade of Internet infrastructure and ensure online safety for current and future generations of users," says Alexa Raad, CEO of .ORG, The Public Interest Registry. "We are committed to lead the way and demonstrate the feasibility of this important security measure for the rest of the industry."
Key Milestones for DNSSEC within the .ORG Domain include:
.ORG was successfully signed with DNSSEC on June 2, 2009
The .ORG key was pushed to the Interim Trust Anchor Repository (ITAR) on June 26, 2009 and picked up by the DNSSEC Look-Aside Validation (DLV) on July 6, 2009.
Successful manual insertion of DNSSEC data for 18 domains in the Friends & Family phase
The first scheduled Zone Signing Key (ZSK) rollover was successfully completed on July 2, 2009.
PIR has successfully signed 18 domains that will be tested in a controlled environment during its Friends & Family phase. PIR will work closely with each domain holder through every phase of the testing to mitigate risks and capture lessons learned prior to the scheduled 2010 full production launch.
"We are happy to be PIR's technical provider in its DNSSEC enablement, ensuring that .ORG is a pioneer in improving Internet security not only for .ORG site owners, but for the billions of people who visit their sites daily," said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and CTO at Afilias.
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The Anhydrous Calcium Chloride vapor emission test quantifies the volume of water vapor radiating from a concrete slab surface over time. Use this test to model the amount of moisture that emits from 1000 square feet (92.9 m²) of slab surface in 24 hours. The result is then compared to the manufacturer's specifications for floor covering. The calcium chloride container is weighed before and after exposure to the concrete slab. This test requires the use of a gram-weight scale with a gradation of 1/10th (0.1) gram (purchase separately, LA-0466-200). The calcium chloride desiccant container is made from high quality PETG plastic with a preinstalled gasket system. The dessicant container has a label that easily allows for the recording of all pertinent facts related to the test. Calcium chloride tests come as a 12-Pack. All packs contain pH test kits.


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Teen driver banned after crashing car at busy South Tyneside roundabout
South Shields enjoys spectacular display as Northern Lights illuminate night skies
Sunderland's Lynden Gooch earns international call-up
Lynden Gooch has been called-up to the USA squad for their upcoming friendly against Bolivia.
Monday, 21st May 2018, 10:23 am
Updated Monday, 21st May 2018, 10:26 am
Lynden Gooch
Gooch, who made 28 appearances for Sunderland this season, will jet off to the States to form part of the 22-man squad set to take on Bolivia on Memorial Day.
His last international outing came in November 2016 during a defeat to Costa Rica and Gooch will now be looking to stake his claim for a regular international spot.
Led by interim manager Dave Sarachan, the USA will later head to Europe to face France and the Republic of Ireland - although wholesale squad changes are expected for those games.
The fixture against Bolivia will take place on May 28 at the Talen Energy Stadium, home of Philadelphia Union.
Where YOU want to see trains stop as part of Sunderland and South Tyneside Metro extension
Man located 'safe and well' in South Shields after police search
Signs 'encouraging' that Plan B Covid restrictions will be ditched by end of the month
Dad and son drove teenager to South Shields car park to carry out 'revenge attack'


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Die Rangitoto war ein 1949 in Dienst gestelltes Passagierschiff der britischen New Zealand Shipping Company für den Liniendienst nach Neuseeland. Sie blieb für die Reederei bis 1969 im Einsatz und fuhr anschließend noch 6 weitere Jahre lang als Oriental Carnaval. 1976 ging das Schiff zum Abbruch nach Hongkong.

Geschichte
Die Rangitoto entstand unter der Baunummer 109 in der Werft von Vickers-Armstrongs in Newcastle upon Tyne und lief am 12. Januar 1949 vom Stapel. Nach der Übernahme durch die New Zealand Shipping Company 5. August 1949 nahm sie am 25. August den Liniendienst von London nach Neuseeland auf. Ihr Schwesterschiff war die ebenfalls 1949 fertiggestellte Rangitane.

Nach 20 Jahren im Dienst auf der Neuseeland-Route und steigender Konkurrenz durch Fluglinien wurde die Rangitoto 1969 ausgemustert. Vier Jahre später löste sich die New Zealand Shipping Company auf. Neuer Eigner des in Oriental Carnaval umbenannten Schiffes wurde die Orient Overseas Line, die auch die ehemaligen Flottenschwestern Rangitane und Ruahine von der Reederei aufkaufte. Nach einem Umbau in Hongkong nahm die Oriental Carnaval 1970 den Liniendienst ab Hongkong auf.

Am 7. März 1975 wurde die Oriental Carnaval aufgelegt. Nach fast einem Jahr Liegezeit ging das Schiff im Februar 1976 an die Abwrackwerft Lee Sing Shipbreaking in Hongkong, wo es am 18. Februar eintraf.

Weblinks

 Eintrag zum Schiff auf tynebuiltships.co.uk (englisch)
 Eintrag zum Schiff auf poheritage.com (PDF-Datei, englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Passagierschiff (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Motorschiff
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A breakthrough can seem like the smallest thing, but it can make the world of difference to someone on the autism spectrum. By becoming an Educational/Clinical/Applied Psychologist at Anderson School you'll help make Every Day Breakthroughs happen more often.
We are a forward thinking NAS Independent School for students with autism, seeking an experienced Educational/Clinical/Applied Psychologist to work as part of our multidisciplinary therapies team which provides specialist assessment and interventions for children and young people in our schools as part of the curriculum planning and delivery. We work with the whole school team within a transdisciplinary model to help identify any barriers or enablers to learning and with the aim of achieving the best outcomes for children and young people.
The Anderson school caters for students aged 11-19 and is part of the NAS Enterprise campus that includes one of the Lorna Wing Centre for Autism our national diagnostic and assessment service and an Enterprise Hub. Our aim is to transform lives by preparing autistic students for life, further education and employment. Our curriculum provides the key stages of the national curriculum as well as traditional vocational and academic qualifications such as BTEC, GCSE and A Levels.
The Anderson School is just one of many NAS independent and free schools providing specialist education for children and young people with autism spectrum disorders. Therapeutic and psychological services are embedded within our schools with aim to deliver the highest level of education and experiences to ensure the best life chances become a sustainable reality for every young person (on an individual needs led basis). The therapeutic and psychological services are part of the professionally led clinical services provided by the NAS both within our schools and Lorna Wing Centre diagnostic centres. Professional supervision will be provided as well as opportunities for peer support and participation within a NAS CPD programme designed for clinical staff. There will also be the opportunity to increase your knowledge and skills through participation in school team and wider NAS continuing professional development programmes.
As part of the role the psychologist will be actively involved in staff training for teaching and behaviour support staff within the school as well as occasionally contributing to a developing programme of training for staff across the NAS schools.
To apply for this role please click the 'Apply' button.
When providing a supporting statement, please refer to the job description and person specification and include any information that shows your suitability for the role.
The NAS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and adults who use our services and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.


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Leia From 'Star Wars' Is The Disney Princess Who Could Forever Change How We Define The Phrase
Walt Disney Motion Pictures
Princess Leia is no longer a princess by the time we meet her in Star Wars: The Force Awakens; she's General Leia Organa, thank you very much. But that hasn't stopped fans from asking Disney to make Princess Leia an official Disney Princess. A Change.org petition is asking Disney, who bought the rights to Star Wars in 2012, to make Leia a "full-fledged princess" as a way of honoring the late Carrie Fisher. "We feel that it is only fitting for Disney to do away with the rule that an official Disney princess must be animated," the petition, created by Cody Christensen, states. Clearly, he isn't the only one who would like to see Leia stand side-by-side with Disney's 11 other princesses; the petition only needs a little over 55,000 signatures to hit its goal of 150,000 supporters. But bestowing Leia with this new title doesn't just go against Disney's rules; it goes against type — in a good way. Making Leia an official Disney Princess would change the way young girls forever define the term "princess."
For too long, princess has been shorthand for a beautiful girl who needs saving. Think of the original three Disney princess: Cinderella, Snow White, or Sleeping Beauty herself, Aurora. While Disney princesses have become increasingly more independent since 1989 when Ariel hit the scene, giving way to Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel and Merida, it seems the term hasn't fully been upgraded in public consciousness. But adding Princess Leia to this list seems like the logical step forward.
From the first moment Leia appeared onscreen 40 years ago in A New Hope, blaster in hand to take down a stormtrooper, it was clear she was not your average princess. Despite being captured, she mocks Luke Skywalker when he shows up to help her: "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper?" It was as if Leia wanted to make it clear that she's more than capable of handling herself.
Leia was always the brains of the operation, who also had the ability to toss out a sarcastic one-liner to lighten the mood. It's her smarts that eventually earn her a much deserved title upgrade. This is also what sets her apart from the more traditional Disney princesses that came before her. Leia has never been defined by her purity or goodness, but by her brain. She was a rebel who was filled with conviction and passion for something more.
Her greatest gift was not beauty; it was her ability to lead, which set her apart from Cinderella, Snow White, or Aurora. Leia defied the princess trope by being her own person. She was never defined by anyone else. Even her love story is as modern as she was: Han Solo was her partner, not her prince charming. Leia never played by anyone else's rules, but made her own. She taught young women that they don't have to follow the crowd, but that they can lead it.
In 2017, it's easy to take for granted how revolutionary Leia as princess was. By now, we've become accustomed to strong-willed Disney princesses like Mulan — a warrior who uses her brain to defeat the Huns, added to the official princess line-up despite not being a princess — and Merida, who fought to live life on her own terms. But, 40 years ago before Lucasfilm was owned by Disney, Leia paved the way for princesses to be more than damsels in distress.
It's why Leia fits the bill for what a Disney princess should be as well as any animated princess. The official guide to turning yourself into a Disney princess states that one must be "open to new experiences" and "know her worth." She goes after what she wants and never gives up. Sound familiar?
What this guide also shows is that princesses can be many things, and naming Leia a Disney princess doesn't take away from those who came before her. However, it does set a precedent for those who come after. Young girls should have many options when it comes to their princess role models, and Leia gives them a kick ass alternative.
It's the reason Christensen started his petition in the first place. In an interview with GeekExchange, he explained:
I actually have five daughters and there are constantly princess movies playing in the background. We are big fans of the current princess lineup, but I think that Leia is a really strong, positive, awesome role model for my girls, and she would make a great addition.
For generations Leia has been showing little girls that there isn't just one way to be a princess. She'll continue to do this whether she is officially named a Disney princess or not. But, if Disney was to give Leia the title, it would help redefine the way a new generation of little girls will forever think about princesses. The image won't have to be a crown and a castle, but two buns and a blaster.


HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Four people miraculously escaped injury Tuesday morning after a state-contracted helicopter crashed in Sacred Falls Valley on Oahu's North Shore.
The FAA said the Hughes 369E chopper came down about 11:30 a.m. some 17 miles north of Honolulu.
Paramedics said the four on board the chopper ― a 42-year-old man, a 40-year-old man, a 39-year-old woman and a 34-year-old woman ― were evaluated at the scene.
All of them refused transport to a hospital.
The Department of Land and Natural Resources said the helicopter was being contracted by the Division of Forestry and Wildlife for field work.
In addition to the pilot, there was one state employee on board and two representatives from Pacific Rim Conservation, which conducts forestry work with the state.
The state said the team had just deployed seabird song meters in Kaluanui Natural Area Reserve as part of ongoing population studies when the chopper got into trouble.
Shortly after the return flight began, the helicopter experienced a loss of engine power.
The craft landed in a heavily-wooded gully, and photos showed the wreckage nearly upside down.
A spokesman for DLNR said the state employee credited the pilot with "extraordinary skill" for bringing the helicopter down quickly ― and without injuring anyone.
"They're very lucky. That's an understatement for sure," said DLNR spokesman Dan Dennison.
"When it lands upside down and you lose both of the rotors, it's just really a miracle and we're so thankful that they all basically walked away from it," he said.
The helicopter, with tail number N593C, is registered to K&S Helicopters of Kailua-Kona. The company operates Paradise Helicopters.
Marigold Zoll, Oahu branch manager for the Division of Forestry of Wildlife, said the department follows a set of safety protocols, including "flight following," which meant the incident was reported quickly. "We are thankful everyone walked away from this without injury," she said.


CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- As Lori Lightfoot prepares to take the reins as mayor of Chicago, she'll face a City Council that's more diverse, more independent and maybe stronger.
South Side Alderman Anthony Beale says it's a sign of the times that the new City Council will have one more African-American Alderman and at least one more LatinX member.
As the Council reorganizes, Beale is hoping to be voted in as the next Finance Committee chairman.
But North Side Ald. Scott Waguespack wants the job, too, and Lakeview Ald. Tom Tunney is also said to be in the running.
In recent years, the Mayor has pretty much decided who chairs City Council committees, including Finance.
Ald. Ed Burke gave up his chairmanship of the Finance Committee after the feds charged him with attempted extortion. Ald. Pat O'Connor has the job now, but he just lost his re-election bid.
Expect Lightfoot to be at least part of the conversation.


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Q: Timepicker in jQuery: set a start time before the default time I'm trying to set a jQuery timestamp, so that the time displayed is the current time and the departure time is 11:00.
This is the code I use:
$(document).ready(function () {
    var times = new Date();
    $('.tempo').timepicker({
        timeFormat: 'HH:mm',
        interval: 10,
        startTime: '11:00',
        defaultTime: times.getHours() + ":" + (Math.floor(times.getMinutes() / 10) * 10),
        scrollbar: true
    });
});

The "default time" is displayed correctly, but the "start time" is also set in the same way, instead of 11:00.
How can I solve this?

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The Bronx Excellence Network embraces a culture of accountability. Statewide testing practices are no exception. Our goal is to ensure that our scholars are on a successful pathway to and throughout college. Our curriculum focuses on the content areas of English, Math, History and Science, with additional instruction in Spanish, the Arts, Physical Education, Health, and Technology as well as Advanced Placement courses in sub-specialties such as algebra and trigonometry.
Content Instructional Specialists, the Chief Academic Officer, School Leaders and the data department support teaching staff to ensure they deliver meaningful and impactful lessons that promote achievement to meet and exceed the Common Core Learning Standards.


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import re
import sys
import types
import errno
import threading
import traceback

import pyscgi
import Cookie
import Config

from util import json_dump
from Post import Post
from HTTP import HTTP_Response, HTTP_Error

import __builtin__
__builtin__.__dict__['_'] = lambda x: x

class PostValidator:
    def __init__ (self, post, validation_list):
        self.post            = post
        self.validation_list = validation_list

    def Validate (self):
        errors  = {}
        updates = {}

        for key in self.post:
            for regex, func in self.validation_list:
                if re.match(regex, key):
                    for n in range(len(self.post[key])):
                        val = self.post[key][n]
                        if not val and 'CHECK_ON_NO_VALUE' not in dir(func):
                            continue

                        try:
                            tmp = func (val)
                        except Exception, e:
                            errors[key] = str(e)
                            break

                        if tmp and tmp != val:
                            self.post[key][n] = tmp
                            updates[key] = tmp

        if errors or updates:
            return {'ret': "unsatisfactory",
                    'errors':  errors,
                    'updates': updates}

class ServerHandler (pyscgi.SCGIHandler):
    def __init__ (self, *args):
        self.response = HTTP_Response()

        # SCGIHandler.__init__ invokes ::handle()
        pyscgi.SCGIHandler.__init__ (self, *args)

    def _process_post (self):
        pyscgi.SCGIHandler.handle_post(self)
        post = Post (self.post)
        return post

    def _do_handle (self):
        # Read the URL
        url = self.env['REQUEST_URI']

        # Get a copy of the server (it did fork!)
        server = get_server()

        # Refer SCGI object by thread
        my_thread = threading.currentThread()
        my_thread.scgi_conn   = self
        my_thread.request_url = url

        for published in server._web_paths:
            if re.match (published._regex, url):
                # POST
                if published._method == 'POST':
                    post = self._process_post()
                    my_thread.post = post

                    # Validate
                    validator = PostValidator (post, published._validation)
                    errors = validator.Validate()
                    if errors:
                        resp = HTTP_Response(200, body=json_dump(errors))
                        resp['Content-Type'] = "application/json"
                        return resp

                # Execute handler
                ret = published (**published._kwargs)

                # Deal with the returned info
                if type(ret) == str:
                    self.response += ret
                    return self.response

                elif type(ret) == dict:
                    info = json_dump(ret)
                    self.response += info
                    self.response['Content-Type'] = "application/json"
                    return self.response

                elif isinstance(ret, HTTP_Response):
                    return ret

                else:
                    self.response += ret
                    return self.response

        # Not found
        return HTTP_Error (404)

    def handle_request (self):
        def manage_exception():
            # Print the backtrace
            info = traceback.format_exc()
            print >> sys.stderr, info

            # Custom error management
            #page = error.page (info, desc)
            #response = HTTP_Response (error=500, body=page.Render())
            #self.send (str(response))
            if error.page:
                try:
                    page = error.page (info, desc)
                    response = HTTP_Response (error=500, body=page.Render())
                    self.send (str(response))
                    return
                except Exception, e:
                    print "!!!!!!", e
                    pass

            # No error handling page
            html = '<pre>%s</pre>'%(info)
            self.send (str(HTTP_Error(desc=html)))

        try:
            content = self._do_handle()
            self.send (str(content))

        except OSError, e:
            if e.errno == errno.EPIPE:
                # The web server closed the SCGI socket
                return
            manage_exception()

        except Exception, desc:
            manage_exception()

class Server:
    def __init__ (self):
        self._web_paths = []
        self._scgi      = None
        self._is_init   = False
        self.lock       = threading.RLock()

    def init_server (self, *args, **kwargs):
        # Is it already init?
        if self._is_init:
            return
        self._is_init = True

        # Instance SCGI server
        self._scgi = pyscgi.ServerFactory (*args, **kwargs)

    def sort_routes (self):
        def __cmp(x,y):
            lx = len(x._regex)
            ly = len(y._regex)
            return cmp(ly,lx)

        self.lock.acquire()
        try:
            self._web_paths.sort(__cmp)
        finally:
            self.lock.release()

    def add_route (self, route_obj):
        self.lock.acquire()
        try:
            # Look for a duplicate
            to_remove = []
            for r in self._web_paths:
                if r._regex == route_obj._regex:
                    to_remove.append (r)

            self._web_paths = filter (lambda x: x not in to_remove, self._web_paths)

            # Insert
            self._web_paths.append (route_obj)
            self.sort_routes()
        finally:
            self.lock.release()

    def remove_route (self, path):
        self.lock.acquire()
        try:
            to_remove = []
            for r in self._web_paths:
                if r._regex == path:
                    to_remove.append (r)

            self._web_paths = filter (lambda x: x not in to_remove, self._web_paths)
        finally:
            self.lock.release()

    def serve_forever (self):
        try:
            while True:
                # Handle request
                self._scgi.handle_request()
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
            print "\r", "Server exiting.."
            self._scgi.server_close()

#
# Helpers
#
def cfg_reply_ajax_ok():
    if cfg.has_changed():
        return {'ret':'ok', 'modified': '#save-button'}

    return {'ret':'ok', 'not-modified': '#save-button'}

def cfg_apply_post():
    for k in post:
        cfg[k] = post[k]

    return cfg_reply_ajax_ok()

__global_server = None
def get_server():
    global __global_server
    if not __global_server:
        __global_server = Server ()

    return __global_server

def get_scgi():
    my_thread = threading.currentThread()
    return my_thread.scgi_conn

def init (*args, **kwargs):
    srv = get_server()

    if not 'threading' in kwargs:
        kwargs['threading'] = True

    kwargs['handler_class'] = ServerHandler
    srv.init_server (*args, **kwargs)

def set_synchronous (sync):
    srv = get_server()
    srv._scgi.set_synchronous (sync)

def run (*args, **kwargs):
    init (*args, **kwargs)

    srv = get_server()
    srv.serve_forever()

def step ():
    srv = get_server()
    srv._scgi.handle_request()

class Publish_FakeClass:
    def __init__ (self, func):
        self.__func = func

    def __call__ (self, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.__func (*args, **kwargs)

def publish (regex_url, klass, **kwargs):
    # Instance object
    if type(klass) == types.ClassType:
        obj = klass()
    else:
        obj = Publish_FakeClass (klass)

    # Set internal properties
    obj._kwargs     = kwargs
    obj._regex      = regex_url
    obj._validation = kwargs.pop('validation', [])
    obj._method     = kwargs.pop('method', None)

    # Register
    server = get_server()
    server.add_route (obj)

def unpublish (regex_url):
    # Unregister
    server = get_server()
    server.remove_route (regex_url)

class _Cookie:
    def __setitem__ (self, name, value):
        my_thread = threading.currentThread()
        response = my_thread.scgi_conn.response
        response['Set-Cookie'] = "%s=%s" %(name, value)

    def get_val (self, name, default=None):
        my_thread = threading.currentThread()
        scgi = my_thread.scgi_conn
        cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie(scgi.env.get('HTTP_COOKIE', ''))
        if name in cookie:
            return cookie[name].value
        else:
            return default

    def __getitem__ (self, name):
        return self.get_val (name, None)

class _Post:
    def get_val (self, name, default=None):
        my_thread = threading.currentThread()
        post = my_thread.post
        return post.get_val(name, default)

    def __getitem__ (self, name):
        return self.get_val (name, None)

    def __iter__ (self):
        my_thread = threading.currentThread()
        post = my_thread.post
        return post.__iter__()

    def __str__ (self):
        my_thread = threading.currentThread()
        post = my_thread.post
        return str(post)

    def pop (self, *args):
        my_thread = threading.currentThread()
        post = my_thread.post
        return post.pop(*args)

    def keys (self, *args):
        my_thread = threading.currentThread()
        post = my_thread.post
        return post.keys(*args)

    def get_all (self, *args):
        my_thread = threading.currentThread()
        post = my_thread.post
        return post.get_all(*args)

class _Request:
    def _get_request_url (self):
        my_thread = threading.currentThread()
        return my_thread.request_url

    def _get_scgi_conn (self):
        return get_scgi()

    url  = property (_get_request_url)
    scgi = property (_get_scgi_conn)

class _Error:
    def __init__ (self):
        self.page = None

cookie  = _Cookie()
post    = _Post()
request = _Request()
error   = _Error()
cfg     = Config.Config()

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Since the World Trade Centre attacks in 2001 and the anthrax letters sent shortly thereafter, biosecurity has become an increasingly important issue. The risk that biological agents will be manufactured and used as weapons is taken seriously. At the request of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Academy has therefore drawn up a Code of Conduct for Biosecurity for the Netherlands.
The purpose of the code is to prevent education and research in the life sciences from contributing to the misuse of biological organisms.
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The workgroup (chaired by Lous van Vloten-Doting) surveyed the existing rules and regulations pertaining to biotechnological and microbiological research, both in the Netherlands and abroad. The Code of Conduct for Biosecurity is based on this information and on continuous communication with the target group.
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The Code of Conduct for Biosecurity was presented and discussed during meetings and other events organised at various research organisations, laboratories and educational institutions in the life sciences. Guidance was also provided during its implementation. References to the code have now been included in educational and training material at secondary vocational, higher professional, and university levels. Funding bodies NWO and ZonMW also require applicants in the life sciences to undertake to uphold the Code of Conduct for Biosecurity.
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The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has been asked by the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science to issue an advisory report on how to deal with dual-use research in the life sciences. The report will be issued at the end of 2013. The request was prompted in part by the debate that arose following the H5N1 study carried out by Prof. Ron Fouchier's research group.
The report will also consider whether the 2007 Biosecurity Code requires updating. The Academy Board has installed a Biosecurity Committee to prepare the advisory report. The Committee will be chaired by Prof. Lous van Vloten-Doting, who also chaired the workgroup that drafted the Biosecurity Code.
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Reading week was my halfway point. I was lucky enough to have my parents fly out to meet me in LA and we drove to San Francisco together. We saw everything: Venice Beach, Universal Studios, Haight Ashbury – we even biked the Golden Gate Bridge. California has always been top of my list of places to go and it definitely lived up to expectations. Seeing my parents and getting away for a week was also a welcome break after midterms. Whilst being at university in Guelph is so much fun, being in a small city can definitely get a bit claustrophobic, and by week 7 I was itching to get away.
It was amazing to have a piece of home over in the US and see my parents, but it definitely made returning to Guelph at the end of the week a lot more difficult. I felt properly homesick for the first time the moment I got back into residence. I think I had the mind set of working towards the winter break in my head for so long that I felt lost now that it was over. But after getting a proper sleep and seeing my friends and hearing all about their trips and the memories they had made, I felt much better. I don't know when I'm going to return home because I want to travel after I finish term, which makes things a little harder than having a solid goal or end to work towards, but I'm trying to make the most out of living this way. Enjoying each day as it comes and as I experience it, instead of always looking forwards.
I guess I am very lucky to have hardly struggled with homesickness or culture shock during this semester so far. I think this is partially because Canada is culturally very similar to England, so adjusting was pretty easy aside from a few small differences. However, I have been surrounded by many people who have had different experiences to me, whether more positive or negative. The thing I have seen most is the importance of friendships and keeping busy. If anyone has struggled with feeling low or homesick, the best remedy has always been company and activity. I think being around people, and travelling or exploring (even if it seems like you're just putting yourself in yet another new situation) is a great way to remind yourself of how lucky you are to be having this experience. Despite it being hard away from home, it is always useful to remind yourself how hard you worked to get to where you are, and how incredible it is that you are actually, finally here.
Before I came to Guelph I have to admit I was apprehensive about what kind of experience I was going to have. I love living in Manchester for the city it is: the arts, music, culture and people. Guelph is much smaller, and I would be living on campus compared to being in Fallowfield in Manchester. Not least of my worries was the nauseating idea of moving back into halls after leaving Oak House behind in second year!
I wish I could tell past myself to shut down all those worries. I spent so long concerned about comparing the two universities that I forgot that two completely different things could be just as good as each other. Living on campus has been the most amazing experience so far. Not only can I walk through the snow to get to class instead of catching an overfilled magic bus, I am constantly surrounded by things to do. Every single person I have met has been incredibly welcoming and it has made it so much easier to settle in than expected. There really is a true sense of community at Guelph University, with people of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities mixing. One of my favourite moments so far has been sitting round a table eating dinner with people from five different countries, and realising how easily we got on immediately.
I haven't explored the city itself much yet, but what I have seen so far I love. It is much smaller than Manchester, yes, but I am glad it is small because it means I will be able to know the city completely by the time I leave, as well as having the opportunity to travel to other places without missing out on too much. I am glad now that I chose to come to Guelph, as it has provided me with almost the exact opposite university experience to Manchester and I am enjoying it just as much. I would encourage anyone going on exchange to push themselves to have as different an experience as they possibly can – because why come on exchange to live the same life as you do back home?
I am fortunate to be surrounded by so many other exchange students who are as enthusiastic as I am and willing to try any and all experiences. Already we have visited Toronto and Niagara Falls, and we have so many trips organised for the future. Whether it is going to 'The Frosty Mug' (The annual Varsity Ice Hockey game), eating poutine or celebrating Australia Day, I am learning about so many different cultures and traditions and loving every single second. I guess what I am trying to say in the most roundabout way, is that you have to let go of any expectations when studying abroad. Be prepared for ups and downs, yes, but I prepared myself for too many downs, and so far I haven't had a single one.
Niagara Falls lit up at night!


Lithuanian is the oldest Indo-European language that is still in use today.
Lithuanian is a member of the Baltic branch of Indo-European languages together with Latvian. It is sometimes grouped with Slavic languages under the Balto-Slavic branch.
Lithuanian is most closely related to Latvian, the only other living Baltic language. 85% of Lithuanian's 3 million inhabitants speak Lithuanian as their first language.
Despite the government's best efforts to avoid the use of loanwords in Lithuanian, many English words have become accepted and are now included in the Lithuanian language. Dictionaries now include such neologisms as "monitories", "kompiuteris" and "faksas" etc.
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Luck is a failing strategy for developers | Opinion
Leverage Partnership's David O'Connor shares a cautionary tale about indies whose first game was a smash hit
David O'Connor
Wednesday 23rd September 2020
I have worked across multiple sectors but in game development there is a repeated story emerging that makes gaming different: the luck trap. I am going to tell you the story.
To protect the innocent, I will use fake names and game titles.
Simon and Tom, two college buddies with a passion for gaming, devoted all their spare time developing a game that expressed their love of medieval history and sword combat. It became all consuming. Their self-published game, Toledo, named after the medieval sword makers of the same name, was an immediate hit amongst the medieval loving community.
David O'Connor, Leverage Partnership
Before long, they were eight guys bound together by the love for the game with great ideas for the next. They were also bound by a lease, salaries, overheads and a very demanding fanbase: something they had not really signed up for. They missed the chaos and freedom of start-up days, where they were accountable only to themselves, where creativity was intuitive and fluid and where pleasing others was not a thing. This was the unspoken rule after all. However, the beast needs feeding so they went back to the well of ideas to develop a new game.
But the next game bombed.
Then Toledo plateaued and started declining.
Then they launched Toledo Royal, an attempt to broaden the Toledo appeal, and got flamed by their loyal fans as sell-outs.
The problem for Simon and Tom is that their first success was just pure luck -- they hit the jackpot without knowing why. And this created what seemed like a precedent of what was to come; they expected every shot they took to hit. This did not play out.
The indie tipping point
Faced with this situation Simon and Tom came to the realisation that without investment they could not take the game to the level it needed and to reach broader audiences.
The deadliest misconception is thinking luck will repeat itself. This is the premise upon which a huge industry is built: it is called gambling
They knew that they had to leave the start-up chaos behind and build a company with a sustainable future. They needed to partner in order to do that. They had reached the indie tipping point: a point where it is not sustainable to rely on luck, where change is required, and where they face a scary, uncertain future.
Understanding the luck trap
The deadliest misconception is thinking that luck will repeat itself. This is the premise upon which a huge industry is built. It is called gambling, where irrespective of the rare but much publicised pay-outs, the house always wins.
You can leave luck to chance when the stakes are low but when in business, where the stakes are high, luck demands a lot of sweat and preparation. Like a lot of things in life that look easy: they rarely are. Truth is, luck happens to those who are most ready for it. As the Roman philosopher Seneca once said, "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
The problem for some developers is that this goes against the artistry of their origins and that sucks because they are now running a business where sustainability and artistry have to live hand in hand. Sustainability however does not have to detract from your artistry. It just means looking at things differently. For Simon and Tom, it meant juggling the dual challenge of building a company for their employees whilst maintain artistic integrity.
So what could they do?
The biggest fear of change is uncertainty, not knowing what lies ahead. There are many books written on the subject, all of which agree that fear of change can be crippling and that the first point in addressing fear is to make the unknown known. You have to take control of your own destiny.
Pro Tip 1: Define your creative core
Central to making the unknown known is defining your creative core: that which informs not just who you are but how you create games, how and why you build your IP -- and how you project and protect your brand. This creative core will become both your sword and your shield while you forge your own path as a company, and protect what is important to you creatively.
The problem with doing everything yourself is you're way too close to understand how to simplify all that genius into something that can be effectively marketed
The logic behind making the unknown known and controlling your own destiny is simple: get together and work out what is important to you, imagine possible futures and map those against what is important to you. Look at the possible compromises you may have to make and assess them in relation to what is important. Realistically. And establish the red lines, define what is not up for compromise. This may mean bringing in an outside facilitator.
Pro Tip 2: It is okay to be stubborn
The biggest fear expressed by the Toledo team, was loss of creative control. But this was actually a symptom of a larger problem; for them, developing the game was a personal expression. Development was centred more on how and why they create games as opposed to for whom, resulting in a stubborn resistance to outside influence; a resistance to what they perceived to be market-led creativity.
Stubbornness is in any parlance a negative trait, but if focused, grounded and reasoned it becomes a strategic asset. The best brands are single-minded exploits of purpose, of creativity. Protecting that creativity requires understanding and nurturing. When you achieve this, two things can happen: you can engage in creative-led marketing and your brand becomes an amplification of your creativity. This is the power you gain through establishing your creative core.
Pro Tip 3: Take a look from the outside in
Making the unknown known by exploring and defining your destiny, then establishing your core can be liberating and a really good foundation for building a sustainable business. But without market context, you are still playing the luck game. You have one huge unknown yet to unravel.
It makes sense that if you want to sell something, you stand a significantly better chance if you know to whom you are selling, what is compelling to them and why. This way you are best positioned to communicate aspects of your game that are relevant to them and help them navigate what you have to offer from their perspective. If you understand what they enjoy, and why, you can communicate with impact and enrich the experience.
Even the first step of identifying your own assumptions about your customers is a very valuable one. At the very least, you will pull together what you know and assume, to create a base to work from. Most likely it will highlight gaps and inconsistencies, which is also valuable. You can then work to test those assumptions and fill the gaps.
Pro Tip 4: Don't assume gameplay is your marketing proposition
Coming back to Toledo, their predominant assumption was that their customers are motivated by gameplay and therefore gameplay should be front and centre of marketing. It seemed completely natural to them because they were so immersed in making the game.
Imagine possible futures and map those against what is important to you. Look at the possible compromises you may have to make and assess them in relation to what is important.
However, a different dynamic comes into play when you want to appeal beyond early adopter audiences. They need to be engaged differently, they need more immediacy and emotional connection. And they need simplicity. They do not want to have to work hard to decipher what you have to offer. If you want to appeal to a mass audience, you need your game proposition to be clear, impactful and emotionally compelling to them. You need to take a look at your game from their perspective.
Pro Tip 5: Let the outside in
If you want to reduce the risk and improve your odds you to need to remove your subjectivity. You need an objective viewpoint, otherwise you will move in ever decreasing circles. Accepted norms need to be challenged. Assumptions need to be challenged. Established ways of doing things need to be challenged. This can be very hard to do in-house when you are so close to the game.
The problem with doing everything yourself is that those who create the game are way too close to the mechanics and technical aspects of the game to understand how to simplify all that genius into something that can be effectively marketed. This is a very specialist discipline.
If you are to make the unknown known effectively, or unearth insights to underpin your positioning to a new market, you are most likely going to need help. And if you are going to craft your marketing with the right level of impact, you are most likely going to need help. This is a real challenge that indies face at the tipping point. A challenge that becomes so much easier to manage and control if you take the time to remove the scary unknowns and establish what is important to you as a company and creatively.
This is the journey that Simon and Tom are on. Success will be determined by many different factors, but one thing is for sure, they are now managing the odds and making their own luck.
Luck can be a cruel mistress. The challenge for indies is not to fight the outside but to take control of your own destiny, improve your odds by defining the unknowns and leverage the outside. This will give you to give you an objective perspective and a better understanding of your audience so that you can connect with what engages them emotionally, with impact.
David O'Connor is a co-founder and head of brand strategy at Leverage Partnership, a company that specialises in helping game studios develop their IP and franchises.
With teens and young adults increasingly choosing mobile for its gaming, PCs and consoles must grow their appeal with older demographics
By Rob Fahey
Creator of Valiant Hearts and 11-11: Memories Retold discusses his break from war games with 90s film-inspired narrative game Road 96
By Rebekah Valentine


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Paula Sullivan
Title: Assistant Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreational Sports
Email: psullivan@stonehill.edu
Previous College: Bridgewater State, '71
Through over four decades of outstanding service to Stonehill College, Paula Sullivan brought excellence in all capacities she has handled. As one of the winningest basketball coaches of all-time, she turned a fledgling program into a national power, then as the College's Director of Athletics, Sullivan put her stamp on the overall excellence that Stonehill still enjoys at a national level, capturing the College's first Northeast-10 Conference Presidents' Cup for overall athletic excellence in the Conference. Now, Sullivan leads the department as Assistant Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreational Sports.
Sullivan has served Stonehill in her current position as Assistant Vice President since July 2008. She oversees the College's highly successful intercollegiate athletics and recreational sports programs, which serves the entire student body on a daily basis. The athletic department has finished in the top three of the Northeast-10 Presidents' Cup standings for nine straight years, a stretch that began during her time as Athletic Director. The athletic department has won four Presidents' Cups in all, including a string of three-straight from 2010 through 2012, and has also performed in the classroom by earning the NCAA Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence each of the first two years of its existence.
Stonehill Rec Sports services students, faculty, staff and administrators within the Stonehill Community in a variety of sports, fitness, wellness and recreational activities. The department is not only responsible for the overall fitness and wellness program at the College, but sponsors 11 competitive club sports programs and over 18 intramural programs.
Sullivan was appointed as Stonehill's Director of Athletics in April 1996, taking over the duties full-time after serving as Interim Athletics Director for six months. She oversaw a program that offers 20 varsity sports as well as some of the top athletic facilities in the Northeast, including W.B.Mason Stadium, for which she was an instrumental piece in the construction. During her tenure as Athletics Director, Stonehill captured Northeast-10 Conference titles in eight sports to go with a pair of NCAA Division II National Championships in women's lacrosse as well as the 2003 IHSA Collegiate Cup equestrian national championship. Skyhawk student-athletes have also excelled in the classroom under Sullivan's watch, as Stonehill has been recognized nationally for its student-athlete graduation rate and for its well-rounded athletics program.
Sullivan served on numerous NCAA and ECAC committees during her time as a full-time athletics administrator and was Interim Commissioner of the Northeast-10 Conference during the 2007-08 academic year, while also maintaining her duties as Director of Athletics at Stonehill.
A 1971 graduate of Bridgewater State (Mass.) College, Sullivan served as the Head Women's Basketball Coach at Stonehill for 25 years from 1971 through 1996. Over that time span, the Skyhawks posted an overall record of 479-159 (.751) and captured six Northeast-10 Conference championships. Paula's squads recorded winning seasons during all of her campaigns at The Hill, and ten of those teams earned berths in the NCAA Division II Tournament. Sullivan's most successful years came from 1993 through 1995, as Stonehill earned a spot in the NCAA Division II Elite Eight in each of those seasons, advancing to the national semifinals in 1995.
A five-time selection as Northeast-10 Coach of the Year, Sullivan was honored in 1994 as the Converse/Women's Basketball Coaches Association Division II National Coach of the Year. During her career, she coached a pair of 2,000 point scorers as well as 14 1,000 point scorers, and two Skyhawks earned Division II All-America accolades. Paula retired in March 1996 as the winningest Division II women's basketball coach in New England history and still ranks 14th in NCAA Division II history for winning percentage and 24th in wins.
Sullivan is a member of six Halls of Fame, including her alma maters at Archbishop Williams High School and Bridgewater State University. She is a charter member of the Stonehill Athletics Hall of Fame and has also been enshrined in the Northeast-10 Conference, New England Basketball Coaches and New Agenda Northeast Halls of Fame. Sullivan has also honored as recipient of Dr. Catherine Comeau Award for Professional Achievement from Bridgewater State, the Moreau Medallion Award for significant contribution to Stonehill's success in the first 50 years and the Gaudete Medal for long and distinguished service to Stonehill. She has also collected the Easton (Mass.) Chamber of Commerce Community Award and the Pathfinder Award from the Massachusetts Association of Physical Education, Health, Recreation and Dance for her contributions to women's athletics.
Sullivan, a native of Braintree, Mass., currently resides in Falmouth.


Similar to the adoption of the Internet during the '90s', consumer demand is influencing companies to adopt mobile as a new channel for communications, marketing, service delivery and payment. Internet adoption started with companies providing basic information, which quickly evolved into service delivery, marketing and e-commerce. The same phenomenon and adoption curve is unfolding in the mobile world today, as consumers are demanding information and media whenever and wherever they need it. As a result, companies are looking for new ways to satisfy this increasingly mobile consumer base. Moreover, the arrival of Web 2.0 has led to radical changes as regards not only technical specifications of the net, but in the ways both software developers and end-users use the Web. The next step is now to have Web 2.0 technology implemented on mobile platforms, since it will lead to a further development of them, and will make group communication systems accessible for almost everyone and everywhere, opening at the same time the door for a huge new upcoming market. This thesis focuses on the idea of extending social relationships created in the Web to portable devices, thus making it able for the people to communicate and interact with each other regardless of where they are. These tasks can be carried out by platforms that give support and services to mobile devices through the net. They will also allow people to meet and share experience in new ways, even though they are not always easy to use, especially not with mobile terminals that have limited capabilities. In this aspect, it is important to minimize set up time, since it is always the bottleneck of a communication process. Regarding that, one communication technology which a lot of research is being done in nowadays is NFC (Near Field Communication). It has limited range, but on the other hand its set up time is much faster than other existent technologies, such as Bluetooth. Since NFC enables quick connection establishment it could be a suitable technology to be applied in Social Network building and extending purposes. As a proof of concept, a mobile Social Network platform has been developed with the purpose of providing Social-Network-related services to cell phone common users, such as profiles and users management, storage of relationships between users, privileges and privacy control, multimedia sharing services, etc. In addition of using NFC for building social networks, the platform also takes advantage of third-party APIs offered by external social networks to access them. As for Near Field Communication technology, it has been used in the service maybe where it suited the most, provided its fast connection capabilities, that is friends adding. Finally a solid, modular, and easily extensible prototype has been built. The user can enjoy common social network services, at least in a basic way. Some other services considered to be interesting were added as well. As for future work, next step could be adding innovative features taking advantage of the Web 2.0 possibilities, since the platform base is already implemented.
The work shown next deals with the definition of nodal marginal prices, in the context of an economic dispatch solution with transmission losses. The losses are incorporated through penalty factors obtained from line distribution factors, using a linearization process. This study is applied to the hydrothermal venezuelan system, considering plants with regulation capability and run-of-river dams. The objective function to be minimized includes present and future thermal costs. In addition, a discussion is given about the correct location of the slack node, in order to get similar results to these associated to an OPF solution. © 2006 IEEE.
• A planning facilitating strategy: Distribution Capacity Contracts (DCCs).
• A flexibility enabler technology: Energy Storage.
• A binding methodology: Multistage Stochastic Programming. Stochastic dual dynamic programming (SDDP).
Under the present directive of the European Parliament concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity, distribution companies are not allowed to own DG but entitled to include it as a planning option to differ investment in traditional grid reinforcements. An evaluation of the regulatory context will lead this work to consider DCCs as a planning alternative available in the toolbox. The impact of this type of contract on the remuneration of the DG owner will be assessed in order to provide insight on its willingness to participate. The DCCs might aid the DSO to defer grid i ii investments during planning stages and to control the network flows during operation.
Given that storage solutions help to match in time production from intermittent sources with load consumption, they will play a major role in dealing with uncertainties. A generic storage model (GSM) based on a future cost piecewise approximation will be developed. This model inspired by hydro-reservoirs will help assessing the impact of storage in planning decisions. This model will be tested by implementing it in short-term hydro scheduling and unit commitment studies.
To trace a path towards the future of this research work, a discussion on the planning problem formulation, under consideration of the lead time, the expansion options, the smart strategies, and the regulatory framework will be presented. Special focus will be given to multistage stochastic programming methods and in particular to the SDDP approach.
The purpose of this project was to develop products or prototypes for sensory stimulation of individuals with mental disability. The objective is that with this products improve the overall functioning of persons with mental handicaps. A side objective was to create an illustrative guideline scheme to assist in the development of additional sensory products.The project was systematically executed using problem solving methods and with the support of the people that collaborated with information to the project. A substantial amount of background studies were made to obtain knowledge about mental disabilities, treatments and the functioning of the senses. The work can be summarized by four concepts designed with the intention to stimulation of the sense of hearing, touch and vision, and encourage the improvement of cognitive, communication and motor skills.One of the most important aspects in rehabilitation is, the rate of recurrence of the exercises, and to encourage the user to use the products,they were designed so they can be used both as an exercise tool and as a plaything. These solutions can give a child with disability a chance to continue the rehabilitation work at home, and to improve vital functions that are needed to obtain better possibilities to function independently in society.
Nowadays, many auto-rickshaws used in India are similar in design of the Piaggio Ape C from 1956, based on the Vespa. There are millions of people in need of a low priced and efficient means of transportation. A huge market for these auto-rickshaws exist in India because the population there is over 1,2 billion people. This thesis aims to continue the development of the vehicle platform for a new hybrid auto-rickshaw that is more environmentally friendly and better suited for its users. The goals for this hybrid auto-rickshaw are improving vehicle handling, impact safety, passenger and driver ergonomics. The thesis is focused in the analysis of the available manufacturing processes, in order to propose efficient and economical production methods for the monocoque chassis of the auto-rickshaw. The conceptual design of the hybrid auto-rickshaw has been improved due to the study and analysis of different manufacturing methods. The studies carried out shows which are the most feasible designs for production of each part.The revised structure of the chassis and the manufacturing techniques proposed are used to estimate the cost of the whole vehicle. The estimation of costs gives an idea of the final price of the vehicle, in order to evaluate the economical viability of this project.
The marketing of today is increasingly shifting towards customer orientation, customer understanding and synergistic relationships. This shift has given new possibilities for companies operating in commodity markets to differentiate them selves and no longer be completely dependent on price. The commodity companies can rise above their commodity markets and differentiate their commodity products. Customer loyalty is the factor that can make the relationship between two companies more stabile. A company has a unique advantage over the competitors if its customers want to stay with the company. The purpose of this thesis was to find out how the determinants and moderators of customer loyalty can be characterised and described in a commodity market. A multiple case study has been performed by interviewing four customers of a Swedish chemical commodity company. The factors describing and characterising customer perceived value, customer satisfaction and switching costs, all said to influence customer loyalty, and customer loyalty has been investigated. This study shows that the customer satisfaction perceived by the customers is influencing the customer loyalty. The customer satisfaction is in turn influenced by the customer value perceived. The switching costs only influence the satisfaction-loyalty linkage on this market if they are high.
The purpose of this report is to compare the environmental impact of two alternative ways of manufacturing two different parts of a crane, for HIAB Company. To realize the study it is used the LCA. -The first part of the report is a detailed explanation of what is an LCA. An LCA is a systematic tool that enables the analysis of environmental loads of a product throughout its entire life cycle and the potential impacts of these loads on the environment. The essence of life cycle assessment is the identification, examination, and evaluation of the relevant environmental implications of a material, process, product, or system across its life span from creation to waste or, preferably, to re-creation in the same or another useful form. The LCA will provide the company a new environmental perspective on their manufacturing processes, and help it to choose the most effective process, identifying key environmental issues associated with both alternatives. -The second part is the LCA of the two different ways of manufacturing two different parts of a crane. There are several LCA software tools in the market, but the price of an LCA software tool can be around several thousand Euros and this is the reason that prevented us from carrying out the analysis with any LCA software, so the calculation are made with EXCEL. The studied products are the crane member and the supporting member, so actually are realized two different assessments, that are divided in assessment 1(crane member) and assessment 2 (supporting member). The new designs of both pieces are made with new higher strength steels, with better mechanical properties, therefore the dimensions and weight of the pieces will be reduced, but the company wants to know the environmental impact of them. These assessments are based on public available free resource, because it was impossible to get all the data from the company, so the results are not exactly, but the calculation are made with EXCEL, so is easy to obtain different results only changing the input parameters. After the assessment we can establish the following conclusions. Crane member: The new design is less environmentally friendly due to some elements of the new steel. Supporting member: Every phase analyzed in this study have a less environmental impact in the new design. -The last part of the report is a summary of different LCA software tools and shows an example of what can be done if you have access to an LCA software, the Simapro.
Alla är sig själv närmast. Och vi gör oftast som vi är vana att göra. Vi styrs av de normer och värderingar som har format oss - även om vi tror att vi är innovativa. Resultatet riskerar att bli lösningar som diskriminerar och begränsar. En stor utmaning är att förstå andra människors behov. Om vi kan använda ett normkritiskt perspektiv och se bortom våra egna ramar kan vi nå en större potential inom innovation. Men att förverkliga den potentialen är lättare sagt än gjort. Det krävs vad vi kallar normkreativitet. Normkreativitet bygger på en medvetenhet om att normer och värderingar kan begränsa och diskriminera. Men den kräver också ett analytiskt arbete att undersöka människors verkliga situation och djupliggande behov - och samtidigt ett kreativt arbete att omsätta kritik och kunskap i nya lösningar. NOVA innehåller konkreta verktyg och handfasta metoder för alla som vill skapa sådana normkreativa lösningar. Materialet är baserat på praktiskt erfarenhet och forskning från en mängd olika projekt och studier. Formatet är valt för att gynna kreativitet och samverkan. Fokus är på normer som diskriminerar, men egentligen är innehållet användbart i alla innovationssammanhang. All innovation handlar ju om att utmana normer.
Products of high quality are of great interest for industrial companies. The quality of a product can be considered in terms of production cost, operating cost, safety and product availability, for example. Product availability is a function of maintainability and reliability. Monitoring prevents unplanned stops, thus increasing product availability by decreasing needed maintenance. Through monitoring, failures can be detected and/or avoided. Detecting failures eliminates extra costs such as costs associated with machinery damage and dissatisfied customers, and time is saved since stops can be scheduled, instead of having unplanned stops. Product monitoring can be done through searching the data generated from sensors installed on products.Nowadays, the data can be collected at high rates as part of a data stream. Therefore, data stream management systems (DSMS) and data stream mining (DSM) are being used to control, manage and search the data stream. This work investigated how the availability of industrial products can be increased through the use of DSM and DSMS technologies.A review of the data stream mining algorithms and their applications in monitoring was conducted. Based on the review, a new data stream classification method, i.e. Grid-based classifier was proposed, tested and validated. Also, a fault detection system based on DSM and DSMS technologies was proposed. The proposed fault detection system was tested using data collected from Hägglunds Drives AB (HDAB) hydraulic motors. Thereafter, a data stream predictor was integrated into the proposed fault detection system to detect failures earlier, thus gaining more time for response actions. The modified fault detection system was tested and showed good performance. The results showed that the proposed fault detection system, which is based on DSM and DSMS technologies, achieved good performance (with classification accuracy around 95%) in detecting failures on time. Detecting failures on time prevents unplanned stops and may improve the maintainability of the industrial systems and, thus, their availability.
Improving product quality is always of industrial interest. Product availability, a function of product maintainability and reliability, is an example of a measurement that can be used to evaluate product quality. Product availability and cost are two units which are especially important to manage in the context of the manufacturing industry, especially where industry is interested in selling or buying offers with increased service content. Industry in general uses different strategies for increasing equipment availability; these include: corrective (immediate or delayed) and preventive strategies. Preventive strategies may be further subdivided into scheduled and predictive (condition-based) maintenance strategies. In turn, predictive maintenance may also be subdivided into scheduled inspection and continuously monitored. The predictive approach can be achieved by early fault detection. Fault detection and diagnosis methods can be classified into three categories: data-driven, analytically based, and knowledge-based methods. In this thesis, the focus is mainly on fault detection and on data-driven models.Furthermore, industry is generating an ever-increasing amount of data, which may eventually become impractical to store and search, and when the data rate is increasing, eventually impossible to store. The ever-increasing amount of data has prompted both industry and researchers to find systems and tools which can control the data on the fly, as close to real-time as possible, without the need to store the data itself. Approaches and tools such as Data Stream Mining (DSM) and Data Stream Management Systems (DSMS) become important. For the work reported in this thesis, DSMS and DSM have been used to control, manage and search data streams, with the purpose of supporting increased availability of industrial products.Bosch Rexroth Mellansel AB (formerly Hägglunds Drives AB) has been the industrial partner company during the course of the work reported in this thesis. Related data collection concerning the functionality of the BRMAB hydraulic system has been performed in collaboration with other researchers in Computer Aided Design at Luleå University of Technology.The research reported in this thesis started with a review of data stream mining algorithms and their applications in monitoring. Based on the review, a data stream classification method, i.e. Grid-based classifier, was proposed, tested and validated (Paper A). Also, a fault detection system based on DSM and DSMS was proposed and tested, as reported in Paper A. Thereafter, a data stream predictor was integrated into the proposed fault detection system to detect failures earlier, thus demonstrating how data stream prediction can be used to gain more time for proactive response actions by industry (Paper B). Further development included an automatic update method which allows the proposed fault detection system to be able to overcome the problem of concept drift (Paper E). The proposed and modified fault detection systems were tested and verified using data collected in collaboration with Bosch Rexroth Mellansel AB (BRMAB). The requirements for the proposed fault detection system and how it can be used in product development and design of the support system were also discussed (Paper C). In addition, the performance of a knowledge-based method and a data- driven method for detecting failures in high-volume data streams from industrial equipment have been compared (Paper D). It was found that both methods were able to detect all faults without any false alert. Finally, the possible implications of using cloud services for supporting industrial availability are discussed in Paper F. Further discussions regarding the research process and the relations between the appended papers can be found in Chapter 2, Figure 4 and in Chapter 5, Figure 21.The results showed that the proposed and modified fault detection systems achieved good performance in detecting and predicting failures on time (see Paper A and Paper B). In Paper C, it is shown how data stream management systems may be used to increase product availability awareness. Also, both the data-driven method and the knowledgebased method were suitable for searching data streams (see Paper D). Paper E shows how the challenge of concept drift, i.e. the situation in which the statistical properties of a data stream change over time, was turned to an advantage, since the authors were able to develop a method to automatically update the safe operation limits of the one-class data-driven models.In general, detecting faults and failures on time prevents unplanned stops and may improve both maintainability and reliability of industrial systems and, thus, their availability (since availability is a function of maintainability and reliability). By the results, this thesis demonstrates how DSM and DSMS technologies can be used to increase product availability and thereby increase product quality in terms of availability.
Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology, Division of Computing Science.
Improving industrial product reliability, maintainability and thus availability is a challenging task for many industrial companies. In industry, there is a growing need to process data in real time, since the generated data volume exceeds the available storage capacity. This paper consists of a review of data stream mining and data stream management systems aimed at improving product availability. Further, a newly developed and validated grid-based classifier method is presented and compared to one-class support vector machine (OCSVM) and a polygon-based classifier.The results showed that, using 10% of the total data set to train the algorithm, all three methods achieved good (>95% correct) overall classification accuracy. In addition, all three methods can be applied on both offline and online data.The speed of the resultant function from the OCSVM method was, not surprisingly, higher than the other two methods, but in industrial applications the OCSVMs' comparatively long time needed for training is a possible challenge. The main advantage of the grid-based classification method is that it allows for calculation of the probability (%) that a data point belongs to a specific class, and the method can be easily modified to be incremental.The high classification accuracy can be utilized to detect the failures at an early stage, thereby increasing the reliability and thus the availability of the product (since availability is a function of maintainability and reliability). In addition, the consequences of equipment failures in terms of time and cost can be mitigated.
Competition among today's industrial companies is very high. Therefore, system availability plays an important role and is a critical point for most companies. Detecting failures at an early stage or foreseeing them before they occur is crucial for machinery availability. Data analysis is the most common method for machine health condition monitoring. In this paper we propose a fault-detection system based on data stream prediction, data stream mining, and data stream management system (DSMS). Companies that are able to predict and avoid the occurrence of failures have an advantage over their competitors. The literature has shown that data prediction can also reduce the consumption of communication resources in distributed data stream processing.In this paper different data-stream-based linear regression prediction methods have been tested and compared within a newly developed fault detection system. Based on the fault detection system, three DSM algorithms outputs are compared to each other and to real data. The three applied and evaluated data stream mining algorithms were: Grid-based classifier, polygon-based method, and one-class support vector machines (OCSVM).The results showed that the linear regression method generally achieved good performance in predicting short-term data. (The best achieved performance was with a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) around 0.4, representing prediction accuracy of 87.5%). Not surprisingly, results showed that the classification accuracy was reduced when using the predicted data. However, the fault-detection system was able to attain an acceptable performance of around 89% classification accuracy when using predicted data.
Den finkorniga sulfidjorden som finns längs Norrlandskusten är känd för sin stora sättningsbenägenhet och utgör en potentiell miljörisk genom försurning och urlakning av metaller om den inte hanteras rätt. För att förebygga miljörisker och utveckla jordförstärknings- och grundläggningsmetoder måste en ökad kunskap om sulfidjordar tas fram. I ett pågående forskningsprojekt vid Statens Geotekniska Institut studeras sulfidjords kompressionsegenskaper och rekommendationer ska tas fram avseende underlag för sättningsberäkningar. I projektet omfattas ett antal provbankar där ett av dessa områden, Lampen ligger i Kalix i norra Sverige. I detta examensarbete har det utförts numeriska analyser i finita elementprogrammet PLAXIS 2D av sättningar och portryck under en av provbankarna i Lampen och jämförelser görs med tidigare rapporterade fältmätningar.
Tre olika delar analyseras i FE-programmet PLAXIS 2D. I den första delen, som är huvuddelen, utvärderas materialmodellernas, Soft Soil (SS) respektive Soft Soil Creep (SSC), förmåga att simulera de uppmätta sättningarna och porövertrycken för en period av cirka ett års belastning av provbank. Den andra delen består av en analys av de två deformationstillstånden, axialsymmetriskt och plant. De två deformationstillståden jämförs med hänsyn till sättningar och portryck. I den tredje delen utvärderas påverkan på simulerade resultat av olika nivåer på grundvattenytan, en variation som har observerats i provområdet i Lampen.
Vid en jämförelse av de konstitutiva modellerna noteras som förväntat större sättningar vid användning av SSC-modellen i jämförelse med SS-modellen. SSC-modellen visar även ett högre porövertryck. Vid jämförelse med i fält uppmätta värden noteras att de mest överensstämmande sättningarna erhålls från SS-modellen medan portrycksutvecklingen simuleras bättre, men ändå långt från bra, med SSC-modellen (för simulering med dubbelsidig dränering).
Vid analys av deformationstillstånd (axialsymmetriskt kontra plant) noteras en jämnare fördelning av deformationer längs banken vid användandet av axialsymmetriskt tillstånd. Den potentiella brottrörelsen som uppvisas vid släntkrön vid tillämpning av plant deformationstillstånd är inte lika tydlig vid axialsymmetriskt tillstånd. Det axialsymmetriska tillståndet visar även ett lägre porövertryck.
Numeriska simuleringar av den varierande nivån på grundvattenytan som observerats i fältmätningar visar vid fallet en lägre antagen grundvattennivå en marginellt mindre sättning. Potentiella brottrörelser blir inte lika tydliga då den lägre nivån på grundvattenytan simuleras.
Applied Geology Department, College of Science, University of Babylon.
Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Kufa.
A detailed field survey of discontinuity (fractures) was carried out in the proposed Abo-Hederya Quarry Site, 70 km east Missan city, south-east of Iraq, where Al-Mukdadiya Formation (Upper Miocene-Pliocene) is exposed. The discontinuity survey was carried out in 10 stations covering the study area. At each station notes were collected about beds (lithology, thickness and orientation) and discontinuities (orientation, density, spacing, persistence and aperture). The slope stability analysis suggests that there is no real hazard area that could affect the quarry in future. Tectonic analysis demonstrates that tension fractures are common in the study area, while shear fractures (okl, hko, hol and hkl) are the less. The maximum principal stress direction in the study area is N (15 - 40) E, which is compatible with the regional tectonic stress in the area.
Ministry of Science and Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.
Remote Sensing Center, University of Kufa, Najaf, Iraq.
The global impact of shale oil has revolutionized the world's energy markets, resulting in significantly lower oil prices, higher global gross domestic product, changing geopolitics and shifted business models for oil and gas companies. Further and developed research initiative is required to fill critical gaps in knowledge at the interface of shale oil development along with environmental protection, so countries can prepare better for its energy future. This paper explores the characterization of Iraqi originated oil shale using various analytical techniques, such as mass spectrometry (MS), infrared spectroscopy (IR), and Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrography (GC/MS). Based upon analytical results, it is found that the majority of chemical structure is in aliphatic hydrocarbon forms.
Wireless data networks is a growing business and the demand for higher capacity is increasing rapidly. There exist a number of standards for wireless LANs (WLANs) and the most popular one is the IEEE 802.11 family. This thesis investigates the capacity of IEEE 802.11a for a multi-cell environment. The use of many access points (APs) results in a need to reuse the available channels, IEEE 802.11a has 12. A higher reuse factor corresponds to less channels in each AP but larger co-channel distances, hence less interference. There exists an "optimal" cell radius for each reuse, where the capacity per cell and channel is maximized. The total capacity per area unit can be increased by adding more APs, at the cost of decreased utilization of each AP. When two co-channel cells get close enough, they time-share the medium instead of using it separately.
Ferromanganese nodules from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the Barents and Baltic Seas, and the Gulf of Bothnia were analyzed for the isotopic compositions of Ce, Nd and Sr and the abundances of REE, Ba and Sr. REE patterns of Barents, Baltic and Bothnian samples show no Ce anomaly, or even a negative one, in contrast to the positive anomaly observed for the Pacific and Atlantic samples. Moreover, the Baltic and Bothnian samples have distinctly low εNd values; average εNd values of the four regions are as follows: Pacific -5, Barents -10, Atlantic -11 and Baltic inclusive of Gulf of Bothnia -19. The characteristic low εNd values of the Baltic samples are indicative of the influence of Precambrian rocks from the Baltic shield. Of particular interest is the feature of the Ce isotopic composition that εCe values of the samples from the Pacific are negative and those from the other three regions positive. This novel finding might suggest a difference in sources of Ce between the Pacific and other regions. These results demonstrate that Ce isotopic ratios can be a useful tracer in marine geochemistry, in combination with isotopic compositions of Nd and Sr.
In this era of intense competition, one of the key challenges that organisations face is how to manage quality service which is a prerequisite for customer satisfaction. As a result of improved information communication technology, customers have become well informed, discerning and value sensitive. They also have a wide range of choices between service providers. Understanding the need, wants and desires of customers and demonstrated ability to satisfy them efficiently is imperative for success in the market place. The purpose of this research is to assess and analyse service quality and customer satisfaction with banking services at National Investment Bank, Kumasi. Based on detailed literature review of business journals and books, a frame of reference was developed. Five generic service quality dimensions (tangibles, empathy, assurance responsiveness and reliability) were selected and tested in NIB Kumasi operations. A qualitative research approach was used in the study. Data was collected through questionnaire and interview. Data presentation and analysis were done in the accordance with the research questions and the frame of reference. Finally, in the last chapter, findings and conclusions were drawn with the appropriate recommendations. The quality performance of all tested quality dimensions proved to have a strong impact on customer satisfaction. However, tangibles, empathy and assurance were found to be of much significance to customers of NIB Kumasi. Prestige banking and expansion of service portfolio to include more electronic banking products were the new service needs identified in our research.
The basic issue of this thesis concerns one of the fundamental problems of the future of our society: How to meet the energy requirements for a large and growing world population while preserving our environment? This question is important for the world and the answers are complex and interwoven.Conventional energy sources, fossil and fissile, are polluting in the present and in the future: they erode the environment and their resources are limited. Renewable energy (hydro, wind, solar, geothermal) constitutes a minimum of pollution in the different energy systems. The technologies for using renewable energy are well known though further development and progress are made. This development also requires behavioural change, adaptation, and above all political will. The transition from an economy based on fossil energy to an economy based on renewable energy appears necessary for the protection of the environment. The cost of renewable energy is often represented as an obstacle but remains competitive in the long run.The development and availability of renewable energy, which varies because of its spatial and temporal distribution, require an adaptation of lifestyle, habits, habitat design (passive bioclimatic houses), urban planning and transportation.The focus of this thesis was to apply renewable energy in an area with hot summers and cold winter, a climate like that in the northwest of Algeria. In order to provide improved comfort in the buildings and also economic development in this area, the energy demand for heating and cooling was analyzed in the ancient city of Tlemcen. To supply domestic hot water and space heating, water must be simultaneously available at two different temperature levels. Cold water temperature, close to that of the atmosphere, and hot water between 50 and 60°C. An interesting feature of the preparation of hot water is the small variation of requirements during the year, unlike that to heating. The preparation of hot water is one of the preferred applications of solar energy in the building for several reasons. For this reason an experimental study of the thermal behaviour of a domestic hot water storage tank was undertaken. The phenomena that affect the thermal behaviour of tank especially the coupling between the solar collector and storage tank was studied. This study included concentrating solar collector in which optical fibers were used to transport the energy to the storage tank. Another technology was introduced and developed for the heating and cooling of buildings in the desert involving an existing ancient irrigation system called Fouggara. The novel idea is to use the Fouggara as an air conditioner by pumping ambient air through this underground system. Then air at a temperature of about 21°C would be supplied to the building for heating in the winter and cooling in the summer. This study shows the feasibility of using this ancient irrigation system of Fouggara and contributes to reducing and eliminating the energy demand for heating and cooling buildings in the Sahara desert.
Renewable Energy Research Unity in Saharien Middle, 'URER/MS'.
Renewable Energy & Materials Research Unity, 'URMER'.
Unité de Recherche en Energies Renouvelables en Milieu Saharien.
Many works were carried out on heat storage during the 20-30 last years, particularly on solar heat storage applications. Theoretical and experimental studies on internal behaviour storage were made and carried as well on laboratory installations as on a large scale. In order to understand the stratification phenomena, an experimental study of tank thermal behaviour of charge and discharge of domestic heat water storage is undertaken.