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Purpose: In Tanzania, data for climate and weather are normally analyzed by Meteorological Agency and then are published through TV, website and radio. Different stakeholders normally obtain the weather and climate data / information in a generalized way. This calls for a need of a system which allows data to be shared openly to different stakeholders so that they can analyze those data as per their specific needs. The paper presents the overview of the developed system, ECAWsoft. Also, it gives some few interfaces showing different outputs from the system. Findings: The goal of this paper has been attained by developing a working data visualization tool for climate and weather called ECAWsoft. The system is current operational and is providing open data for different stakeholders. It is user friendly and interactive with capability of displaying visualization of data as per fine granularity required by user. Development of open data system for data visualization has lead to a transparency system which is helping farmers, researchers, policy makers (etc.) to make informed decision on weather and climate. Practical implications: The system presented in this paper need to be scaled up so that more data from all weather stations in Tanzania can be populated in real time. Originality/value: The development and adoption of open systems for visualizing weather and climate data remains seriously lacking in many countries including Tanzania. This paper provides an overview of some initiative to fill such a research gap.
Drawing on labour process theory and Bourdieu‟s field theory, this study explores the challenges that newspapers face in maintaining their relevance to readers in an age where news has been de-commoditised and made readily available on the web. Empirically the study is based on four case studies of incidents where different newspapers were reported to the Press Ombudsman for inaccurate reporting in recent years. In-depth interviews were conducted with key informants from the selected cases. In addition to that, a key informant from the office of the Press Ombudsman was also interviewed to provide further insight into the effectiveness of the Press Code in regulating accuracy in news reporting as well as the challenges that newspapers are faced with in that regard. It is argued that the digitalisation of media increases the tension between the production of news as a public good vs. its delivery as a commodity that has to ensure profit. Media is an essential pillar of democratic South Africa as it provides news to ensure that citizens are informed about issues that concern them and have the ability to make decisions on matters of concern – i.e. a public good. It is therefore crucial that news be reported in an accurate and professional manner adhering to the standards set by the Press Code. Newspapers are faced with the challenge of ensuring a balance between producing news that is accurate and adheres to the set standards outlined in the Press Code while also ensuring that they remain profitable – i.e. news as a commodity. The findings from this study illustrate that all errors are not due to commercial pressure and that newspapers therefore still have room to manoeuvre, put differently, there is room for agency. This implies that newspapers have to come up with strategies to continue to produce news effectively and attempt to avoid errors in news reporting. As is shown, in some instances quality of news can be compromised in the long run, as in the case of se
This study is Sustainable producing process using the 3D Printing based on sustainable design. Generally, an approach of sustainability is strong to environmental aspects. 3D Printing technology has been in the spotlight of fabrication field as the new sustainable producing system. Additional, the progress of 3d printing will bring results to the personalizing producing system. It means that it can be produced from necessity. Also, it enables to producing part of discontinued models. The power of these advancements prevents over producing and reduces the lifecycle of product. Namely it reduces the term of works and saves the cost curtails the product lunching period. Therefore, it is the solution to the energy problem and resource saving. The guides line for sustainable producing is required to be controlled the problem of environment and social constraints. This research walks you through a few guidelines. And it offers the practical ways of doing sustainable system centered at the 3Dprinting producing system.
Biodiversity is the essence and manifestation of evolutionary history of life on earth and species is the most conspicous form of the biodiversity. Ungulates are the hoofed mammalian species of vertebrates. Exploration of Rakchham- Chhitkul Wildlife Sanctuary present in the Baspa (Sangla) valley, district Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh, India revealed the presence of three species of wild ungulates, belonging to three genera and two Families Moschidae and Bovidae of Order Artiodactyla. It was further observed that no wild member of Order Perissodactyla was present in the study area. It was found that the Bharal or Blue Sheep is the most populous ungulate in the sanctuary area.
Two parallel articulated discourses on internationalization, and on higher education are currently involved in a dynamic process. The factors that shape this dimension of internationalizing education in higher education have got its inspiration from the evolving concept, ‗Globalization‘particularly. This essay, however, aims at exploring those dimensions in terms of the rise of new economic powers; regional state alliances; multi-cultural tastes in a given environment; and the accelerating use of academic, and non academic information through accessing more advanced communication technologies. Higher education, as the essay progresses, states that it makes a bridge between a particular entity, and global knowledge sphere. The context of higher education particularizes globalization as being the most important factor that observes challenges and success being greatly visible among many nations. The specializations of higher education reflects on interdisciplinary subjects; academic, and professional knowledge; multilingual learning; research and intercultural skill and attitudes. Exploring these areas of specializations mean responding to the impact of globalization because study resources, and integrating international learning dimension as central to the globalization are set making an infusion that contributes to the making of professionals building careers in teaching, research, service to society, and the like. In this process, I pursue a different approach - deconstructive approach - to illustrate importance of higher education in its focus on students ‘pathways strategically. Literally, the greater opportunity in higher education is to get acquainted with students from different parts of the world. This opportunity could, properly, be experienced through being introduced with others‘ cultures, languages, group works, varied brainstorming, independent, and critical perspectives on any singular topic area though broad discussion can also take place. As
En tant que phénomène social, toute langue dépend de ses usagers pour évoluer. La valeur linguistique d’un mot dépend, dans une large mesure, de la valeur que lui accordent ses usagers. Ceci ne va pas sans rappeler la célèbre phrase de Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889- 1951) : « la signification d’un mot est son usage dans le langage ». Les réalités de l’âge moderne se reflètent dans les objets technologiques qui nous entourent, ceux-ci devenant à leur tour les produits de découvertes scientifiques. La compréhension et la bonne maîtrise du langage scientifique sont les conditions sine qua non pour survivre dans une époque dominée par la science. Les exemples ne manquent pas : imprimantes laser, dispositifs sans fil, appareils portatifs, etc. Tant de nouveaux termes qui doivent être exprimés dans toutes les langues de l’ère moderne.
The main aim of this paper is to explore harmonic properties of functions defined in the product of hypercomplex systems. By means of the generalized translation operators, the precise definition of the product of commutative hypercomplex systems is given and full description for its properties are shown. The integral representations of positive definite function defined in the product of commutative normal hypercomplex systems are given. Furthermore, we present the necessary and sufficient conditions guarantees the property of positive definite function in the product of hypercomplex systems.
SDN (Software Defined Network) is a new networking approach towards current networking industry. S.D.N has attarcted the researchers attention, because there is wide scope of innovation and research. The main concept behind the SDN networks is the separation of controller from data plane. This natural feature makes SDN adaptive of being flexible and scalable. We are mentioning some of the important components those are needed to make current SDN networks even better and efficient that can be managed easily and updated whenever needed, without any interruption of services. Also we have discussed how we can manage the data plane, control plane and how we can identify where fault has occurred.
Emotion Recognition is an important area of work to improve the interaction between human and machine. Complexity of emotion makes the acquisition task more difficult. Quondam works are proposed to capture emotion through unimodal mechanism such as only facial expressions or only vocal input. More recently, inception to the idea of multimodal emotion recognition has increased the accuracy rate of the detection of the machine. Moreover, deep learning technique with neural network extended the success ratio of machine in respect of emotion recognition. Recent works with deep learning technique has been performed with different kinds of input of human behavior such as audio-visual inputs, facial expressions, body gestures, EEG signal and related brainwaves. Still many aspects in this area to work on to improve and make a robust system will detect and classify emotions more accurately. In this paper, we tried to explore the relevant significant works, their techniques, and the effectiveness of the methods and the scope of the improvement of the results.
This study examines the association between board size, independence and firm performance in Saudi nonfinancial listed firms. The sample consists of 329 firms during the period 2013 to 2015. Both between- and within-firms variation analysis are used to test the hypotheses. The study finds that neither board independence nor board size is linked to firm performance, but some evidence (from additional tests) supports the argument that nonexecutive members of the board of directors may lack real independence; in this case they would be both less effective and more costly for firms. Together, these findings are consistent with the view that business structure in Saudi Arabia is dominated by a tribal system that gives more attention to personal relationships instead of skill and competency in selecting member of the board of directors.