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Solid-State Lighting on a Shoestring Budget: The Economics of Off-Grid Lighting for Small Businesses in Kenya
Radecsky, Kristen; Johnstone, Peter; Jacobson, Arne; … - 2009
superior lighting services to low income people in off-grid areas of developing countries, many of whom currently rely on fuel based lighting sources such as kerosene. If this potential is to be achieved in the near term, however, manufacturers must produce off-grid lighting products that are...
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CALiPER Exploratory Study: Accounting for Uncertainty in Lumen Measurements
Bergman, Rolf; Paget, Maria L.; Richman, Eric E. - 2011
With a well-defined and shared understanding of uncertainty in lumen measurements, testing laboratories can better evaluate their processes, contributing to greater consistency and credibility of lighting testing a key component of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Commercially Available LED...
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Determining the Capacity Benefits of Real-time Signal Control at Intersections
Skabardonis, Alexander; Gallagher, Brian R.; Patel, … - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2000
Traffic responsive control strategies are increasingly being implemented to improve intersection performance. Critical intersection control (CIC) is using real-time traffic data to better assign green times to conflicting movements. However, the benefits of CIC have not been assessed, and...
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Design Of A Machine Vision-based, Vehicle Actuated Traffic Signal Controller
Cassidy, Michael; Coifman, Benjamin - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 1998
This project presents a signal controller algorithm to capitalize on the extended information provided by wide-area detection at isolated intersections. Using computer simulation, different control strategies are evaluated and the performance of the proposed wide-area detection system with...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize 2008 Final Report DOE Award # DE-FG36-07GO17110
2011
visibility, it was believed we could achieve this goal in a very efficient and effective manner. The grand prize of $200K was …
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Operationalising IoT for reverse supply: the development of use-visibility measures
Parry, Glenn C; Brax, Saara A.; Maull, Roger S.; Ng, … - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 21 (2016) 2, pp. 228-244
consumption. In the consumer context, the ways to generate and access such use-visibility data are in their infancy. The purpose … – The study proposes four generic measurement categories for operationalising the concept of use-visibility: experience … demonstrates how these measures can be operationalised to achieve visibility of the context of use in the home. The potential of …
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The EU's Voice Beyond its Borders: The European Union's External Communication
Soproni, Luminita; Horga, Ioan - In: CES Working Papers 8 (2016) 3, pp. 490-504
The EU’s developing global role demands a new approach to communications outside the Union. Besides communicating its policies to its citizens in order to enhance their trust in the idea of the United Europe, it is also extremely important to provide information regarding its policies and...
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WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation
Evangelista, Rafael; Bruno, Fernanda - In: Internet Policy Review 8 (2019) 4, pp. 1-23
In the 2018 presidential election, Brazil elected a fringe congressman, Jair Bolsonaro, despite his radical rhetoric that would suffice to shake the public image of any candidate in the world and the lack of traditional resources of his campaign. One of the hypotheses for this electoral success...
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Wind turbine placement and externalities
Hoffmann, Patrick; Mier, Mathias - 2022
,000 potential placement cells. We calculate distance-dependent noise and visibility damages for each placement cell by using …
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It Wasn't Me! Visibility and Free Riding in Waste Sorting
Bucciol, Alessandro; Montinari, Natalia; Piovesan, Marco - 2014
of visibility in social dilemmas. We compare the sorting behavior of households sharing (or not) their bin for unsorted …
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