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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Growing power"”.
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Artificial perspectives: how science fiction grapples with the growing power of artificial intelligence
<p>As Artificial Intelligence grows in its capabilities, Science Fiction works attempt to make sense of our understanding of humanity in relation to our developing understanding of AI. The paper examines this relationship across three perspectives. The colonial perspective — examined through a …
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The Strategic Value of India and Pakistan to the United States
… the Kashmir region, the military and political power associated with nuclear weapons, the danger of weapons transfers to third-party nations, and India and Pakistan's potential value in countering the growing power of the People's Republic of China. To capitalize on the value of India and …
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Community development: the use of corporate social responsibility initiatives by shopping centre landlords
The growing power of shopping centres within communities has changed the economic landscape and has also attracted concerns from society. This has inspired an increasing call for shopping centres landlords to play a substantial role in community development. This study explores the relationship …
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Victorians and the Underground
… desire by men to imprison or enclose the sexual power of women. For the Victorians, tunnels represent not only the thriving age of industrialization, but they also symbolically suggest the social confinement of nineteenth-century women.</p> <p>For the Victorians, change was occurring everywhere. …
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Feudal politics in Yorkshire 1066 - 1154.
… political difficulties of King Stephen and the growing power of William earl of York, and Chapter 5 examines how King David of Scotland exploited Stephen's weakness in the northern England to extend his influence within the area. Chapter 6 considers the nature of some of the new enfeoffment …
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Moche social boundaries and settlement dynamics at Cerro Castillo (c. AD 600-1000), Nepeña Valley, Peru Volume 1
… system that dovetailed with Cerro Castillo’s growing power and economy as its inhabitants embraced the lifestyle of a worldview that brought prestige and innovative cultural features.
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Design Exploration of a Miniaturized Stirling Engine
… exploration has increased demand for small yet powerful energy sources, especially for remote and harsh environments where traditional power sources may be impractical. In such scenarios, space probes and high-reliability systems necessitate innovative solutions to meet their growing power and …
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Korrosionsverhalten metallischer und keramischer Werkstoffe in Prozeßgasen zur Herstellung von Solarsilizium
The increasing emission of CO2, due to the growing power consumption, requires more and more efforts to replace fossile fuels by sophisticated no-emission systems in power generation. Using photovoltaics is one possible option. Producing electricity by solar energy, photovoltaics may contribute to …
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The Bengal School of Art and Nihonga (19021928): Art Toward a Modern Asian Identity
… the same manner, it felt pressure to assert its growing power by adopting and emulating Western aesthetics. In contrast, the Bengal School and nihonga both actively rejected Euro-American art techniques. Instead, the artists active in these movements were inspired by traditional Indian and …
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Power System Dynamic Voltage Management with Advanced STATCOM and Energy Storage System
… to distribution levels. Recently, advances in power electronics technologies, such as the emerging kilohertz high power semiconductor switches, cascaded multilevel converter (CMC) topology comprising modular H-bridge voltage source converter (VSC), and digital control technology, have the …
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Numerical simulations on heterogeneous systems: dynamic workload and power management
… the demand for additional computing power. HPC systems are thus a fundamental tool to allow for a time effective execution of such simulations; performance maximization is therefore a pertinent and crucial subject of research. Over the last decade HPC has undergone a major shift, …
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MESOSCALE MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION, RELIABILITY AND FAILURE ANALYSIS OF HIGH TEMPERATURE TRANSIENT LIQUID PHASE SINTERING JOINTS
… increase in application temperature of power electronic devices, due to the growing power density, miniaturization, and functionality in military and commercial applications, requires new packaging technologies with high temperature and reliability capabilities. Currently, the …
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Experimentally validated multiscale thermal modeling of electronic cabinets
… is becoming increasingly important, due to growing power dissipation and compact packaging. Usually, multiple length scales of interest and modes of heat transfer are simultaneously present. A steady reduced order thermal modeling framework for electronic cabinets was developed to provide an …
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Intelligence versus impulse: William H Seward and the threat of war with France over Mexico, 1861--1867
… An avowed expansionist, Seward saw the growing power of the U.S. in economic rather than military terms. Seward can be seen as the father of the concept of U.S. economic hegemony, in that he believed that an expanding industrial economy inevitably brings not only economic benefits, but …
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The Rise of Romantasy: Female Desire, Monstrous Feminists, Fairy Tale Ideology, and Societal Panic
… are increasingly reframed as sources of power and are free to safely fantasize different choices they can make. I argue that Maas's novel reworks the cautionary structures of horror and fairy tale into a form that privileges female erotic agency, consent, self-possession, and narrative …
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To Err on the Side of Caution: Ethical Dimensions of the National Weather Service Warning Process
… technologies. It is continually troubled by the growing power of computer models to make predictions. Second, I provide an ethnographic account of the concern expressed by forecasters for their publics. I do so to demonstrate how an ethic of care exists alongside accuracy in their forecasting …
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Impact and Utilization of Emerging PHEV in Smart Power Systems
… two important issues for the secure operation of power systems. Electricity grid upgrades, and especially the construction of new transmission lines and loads cannot keep pace with the growing power plant capacity and energy demand for various reasons. The changing characteristics and new loads of …
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Design and Testing of a SiC-based Solid-State Bypass Switch for 1 kV Power Electronics Building Blocks
Over the past two decades, power consumption has increased exponentially worldwide, posing new challenges to power grids to meet the load requirements. With this growing power demand, the need for efficient high-density medium-voltage (MV) power converters has increased to support flexible power …
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The effect of synthetic jet driving parameters on heat transfer in microchips cooling channels
With the growing power dissipation and more densely packed circuits, the issue of efficient thermal management has become crucial. The safe and reliable operations of microchips have a requirement on a junction temperature below 85°C. In order to meet the heat dissipation requirement at the level …
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Early mine and railway housing in South Africa: a two-part study of ideology and design in working-class housing.
… rather than through the exercise of force, the growing power of white labour. Both innovations came to serve as practicable models in the spheres of labour control and social management to other large employers of labour in South Africa, such as the State Railways, and to urban management in …
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