Distant Places Research Articles

Design and Implementation of a Smart Home Security System Using Voice Command and Internet of Things

A smart home security system consists of various sensors and recorders to automatically provide data on the conditions of a house. Home electronic equipment may be controlled from distant places using the internet of things technology and speech recognition. This research aims to develop a smart home security system by monitoring fire hazards and theft. It helps also control electronic equipment using voice commands that is useful especially for the disabled. The system design consists of hardware, software, and application design. Hardware design uses ESP8266, Arduino Mega 2560, MicroSD Card module, VC0706 serial camera, DHT22, magnetic door switch, PIR HC SR501, and Google Assistant device. Software design uses Arduino IDE for programming Arduino Mega and ESP8266. Applications used in the design are Adafruit.io, Thingspeak, and IFTTT (If This Then That). Voice commands control home electronic devices (lights), while fire and theft are monitored through the use of sensors and cameras. The system test shows that voice command can control lights on and off at an accuracy of 88%. Temperature and humidity sensors acquire data and send them to Thingspeak application for online fire monitoring. Sensors to detect intruders in the form of door switch and PIR work well and automatically activate cameras that capture objects to store in a MicroSD card.

Managing food storage in the Roman Empire

One of the most remarkable facets of the Roman Empire was its food supply system. The second century grammarian Aelius Aristides described Rome as the warehouse of the world, lauding the capital not only for its wealth of exotic goods, but also for holding all the foods of the world (To Rome 12–13). Many settlements across the Roman Empire's expansive territory were connected to one another via roads and trade routes, and were also able to acquire food from distant places. In addition to having access to different foods, Roman consumers were able to have them almost year-round. When one considers that many agricultural goods were harvested once a year, their year-round availability, storage, and transport are further appreciated. This paper considers how, without technology such as refrigeration, Roman builders constructed warehouses and cellars and potters produced containers that not only protected goods, but also helped stabilize temperatures and humidity levels to store foods properly for potentially long periods of time. Granaries throughout the Mediterranean, for example, were equipped with raised floors, small and secure windows, and thick walls in order to provide cool, ventilated rooms for grain coming into the capital. Farmers and merchants used large ceramic storage containers, such as dolia and pithoi, to stabilize temperatures year-round for goods such as wine, olive oil, and fish sauce (garum). Furthermore, the placement and installation of the vessels, whether in a north- or south-facing room, mostly buried, or mostly exposed, could not only extend the shelf-life of their contents, but also help protect their quality. By processing foods, using ceramic containers, and building well-designed warehouses, inhabitants of the Roman Empire were able to adapt to and have some control over the arid and fragmentary microclimates of the Mediterranean basin.

El vuelo del Angelus Novus por los campos de refugiados de Tinduf. Cavilaciones benjaminianas

Walter Benjamin used to compare quotes with “waylayers” in the path of reading. In the present article, getting distant words out of context will set a constantly interrupted rhythm of writing, emulating the experience of hospitality among nomads. Thus, in an exercise of critical memory whose emblematic figure is the Benjaminian angel of history, we will evoke visits to the refugee camps in Western Sahara. Among Derridian figures of hospitality, authors from distant places such as the Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish, the Argentinian writer Juan José Saer, or the French naturalist Théodore Monod, among others, will be gathered in quotes in these pages that will keep on trying to explain the impossible Angelus Novus flight.

Genesis1:11™

Genesis1:11™ is a distant places plantation and forestation-supporting high-technology concept including but not limited to semi-capsuled ecosystems and various physical and precision software tools making it possible to inject microorganisms and to grow plant roots into extraterrestrial soils contributing to a sustainable future for the humankind in remote places (especially terraforming Mars) having extreme climatic and environmental conditions. In this paper main characteristics and utilization areas of Genesis1:11™ Rocket Capsule and technical specifications of Genesis1:11™ Rooting Pot are being discussed without claiming completeness, including a demonstration how a complex organism like a plant might provide a useful and simple host for large number of microbes.

A Novel Grid and Place Neuron’s Computational Modeling to Learn Spatial Semantics of an Environment

Health-related limitations prohibit a human from working in hazardous environments, due to which cognitive robots are needed to work there. A robot cannot learn the spatial semantics of the environment or object, which hinders the robot from interacting with the working environment. To overcome this problem, in this work, an agent is computationally devised that mimics the grid and place neuron functionality to learn cognitive maps from the input spatial data of an environment or an object. A novel quadrant-based approach is proposed to model the behavior of the grid neuron, which, like the real grid neuron, is capable of generating periodic hexagonal grid-like output patterns from the input body movement. Furthermore, a cognitive map formation and their learning mechanism are proposed using the place–grid neuron interaction system, which is meant for making predictions of environmental sensations from the body movement. A place sequence learning system is also introduced, which is like an episodic memory of a trip that is forgettable based on their usage frequency and helps in reducing the accumulation of error during a visit to distant places. The model has been deployed and validated in two different spatial data learning applications, one being the 2D object detection by touch, and another is the navigation in an environment. The result analysis shows that the proposed model is significantly associated with the expected outcomes.

Sound Is Round

Can we expand our awareness of remote environments by connecting them to our own bodily experience? “Sound Is Round” takes a winding journey through the superimposed environments of ocean and desert, bringing sounds from the deep ocean of Monterey Bay in California to the high desert of Northern Arizona. In doing so, it brings together experiences of material sensory space expanded by a sonic sense, an amplified listening. The intertwining of these environments and experiences comes together in a notion of roundness, through the form of the Möbius strip. By approaching land-based spaces through a different orientation, thinking through a lens of fluid sounds and listening, a sense of “oceanic consciousness” is explored. A simultaneous experience of relationship to others, to site, and to distant place is reflected through personal stories of participants. The writing reflects the author’s own artistic practice, using the headphones and soundscape from a recent project Melt Me Into the Ocean, which explored connectedness to the deep ocean from land through sound walks. It also discusses the current project From a Whale’s Back, which works with video, sound, and data from the latest scientific research on tagged whales. Our connection to, and understanding of, the deep ocean environments are considered through these displaced remote experiences of place. Colliding sounds from these underwater environments with a research project around Roden Crater—artist James Turrell’s ongoing land-art work inside an extinct volcano—it emphasizes the importance of physical material sensory experience of place.

Response of Broccoli Transplants to LED Light during Short and Long-Term Storage

In broccoli production a big challenge is preparation of seedlings, which must be delivered during a strictly defined period to vegetable producers that are often in distant places. The goal of the present study was to investigate the response of 5-week old broccoli transplants cv. Parthenon F1 to 2 and 6 weeks of storage at 4 °C under two LED light spectra (L1: 29% red 660 nm + 14% red 630 nm + 42% blue 250 nm + 15% green 520 nm and L2: 38% red 660 nm + 18% red 630 nm +26% blue 450 nm + 15% green 520 nm + 3% UV-A 330 nm; photoperiod 16/8 h day/night and PPFD 30 ± 10 µmol m−2 s−1) and darkness. Control 5-week-old seedlings were not stored. Light treatment improved the morphology and physiological parameters of seedlings. The yield of broccoli from control seedlings was similar to that obtained after L2 treatment, regardless of seedling storage duration. The most promising effects were obtained by adding 3% UV-A radiation to the lighting spectrum. The results are applicable to the transport of broccoli transplants to remote locations or storage for several weeks, in cases where it is necessary to delay planting.

Fixed places, shifting distances: remittance houses and migrants’ negotiation of home in Ecuador

Abstract Many case studies on the rationale and purpose of transnational housing initiatives and so-called remittance houses have been published over the past two decades. Still missing, though, is a framework to illustrate the conceptual value of researching these buildings and their ways of mediating the relationships between movers and stayers. With a view to this, the article illustrates what remittance houses ‘do’ to narrow down the gaps that emerge—in space, time, status, and knowledge—between migrants and their communities of origin. As our fieldwork with Ecuadorian migrants in Europe and their left-behind counterparts shows, remittance houses are more than investments, or resources for migrants’ emotional attachment and dreams of return. They are also central to the negotiation of class, status and belonging, and to the very interplay between housing and home along the course of migration. As ‘agents’ in themselves, these houses shape the transnational connections between distant and disparate places, and the circulation of home-related ideas and practices across them. Over time, they embody a variety of meanings and expectations that, unlike the buildings, are far from fixed or immobile.

Implementasi Virtual Private Network Pada Jaringan Multi Protocol Label Switching Traffic Engineering

Along with the development of telecommunications technology, we need a network that provides traffic services to send data to distant places quickly but does not forget about security, some solutions are the Multi Protocol Label Switching method, Virtual Private Network, and Traffic Engineering. MPLS VPN TE is a combination of several methods that can be used for this problem. In this research, simulation is carried out using GNS3 software and the results of the analysis are carried out using a Wireshark software. This scenario uses the measurement load using FTP and HTTP. The measurement parameters of QoS are transfer time, throughput, delay, and packet loss ratio. The measurement results show that QoS value for transfer time of 25 MB file is 16.94s, and transfer time for HTTP is 4.2 s. The Throughput of 25 MB file is 1.606MB/s, and throughput for HTTP is 5.6 MB/s. The Delay of 25MB file is 1.22 ms, and delay HTTP is 105.37 ms

Creative Economy Teaching and Learning–A Collaborative Online International Learning Case

Culture plays a central role in the creative economy, not only in terms of developing creative products and services but also in terms of shaping the processes by which products are crafted. Among various pedagogical approaches for the development of creative products, Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) emerges as a promising vehicle. Educators can leverage audio, visual, and written communications technologies to connect learners from geographically distant cultures and place culture at the center of the creative product development processes. The University of Minnesota Duluth’s introductory class on cultural entrepreneurship, CUE 1001, hosted a semester-long COIL project with Ocean University of China’s Cultural Industries Management program to facilitate such innovation in cross-cultural teams. An ex-post evaluation of the project suggests that learners can appreciate the overall significance of culture when conceptualizing creative services and products. They develop an intercultural mindset and acquire the tools to work effectively in cross-cultural settings. Institutions of higher education can leverage COIL in a variety of domains, while studies comparing traditional and COIL-based approaches can further add to the body of knowledge regarding intercultural awareness and the internationalization of learning in higher education.

Prospects of Custard Apple Value Chain Development in Rajasthan

Custard apple is one of the wildly found perishable crop of forest areas. Rajasthan is one of the top ten custard apple growing states in our country. In Rajasthan, custard apple is mainly found in southern districts of Rajasthan. The present study was carried out to analyze prospects of value chain development in custard apple marketing in Rajasthan. The secondary data has been obtained and analyzed from Directorate of Horticulture, Government of Rajasthan for the year, 2017-18. The perishable nature of custard apple makes difficult to transport it to distant places thereby tribals are forced to sell the fruit at throwaway prices i.e. approx. ` 10/Kg on roadsides. It was observed that interventions involving improved cultivation practices and reduction in post harvest losses would increase the production level by 50 per cent and 20 per cent, respectively, whereas value addition activities through processing would give better returns to the processors as well as to the tribal harvesters The study further highlighted compound annual growth rate of custard apple area and production along with the need of investments in research & development to ensure improved cultural practice to establish custard apple orchards to increase yield per hectare, introduction of improved varieties, processing technology and overhauling of the value chain

What If I Told You the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Not Entirely Bad?

Is the COVID-19 pandemic entirely bad? Your eyes may be popping out of your head by this statement. What if I told you that this pandemic has allowed me to be a better husband, father, son, citizen, teacher, and residency program director? It has allowed me to speak, teach, and love in ways I have never done before. Previously, death was a very distant concept to this 41-year-old emergency room doctor. This pandemic has brought death to my front door, as this virus is all around me at work. Every time I pull up a chest CT showing those infamous “ground glass opacities,” I say to myself, I was in that room with that COVID-19 patient and I know I picked up the virus. Immediately my mind goes to my family at home, hoping I won't be transporting the virus back to them despite my precautions.What if I told you I have spent the best quality time of my life with my wife, children, parents, friends, and colleagues at work in these last few weeks? I have been able to reach levels of care, respect, compassion, and, yes, love for others more than any kiss or hug achieved in the past. The social distancing phenomenon has forced me to display my emotions through words, facial expressions, emojis, and body language more than ever.What if I told you that my feelings of burnout have essentially vanished? With the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rules and regulations, and hospital protocols adjusted for the pandemic, the practice of medicine has become simpler and easier. We now worry less about computers and paperwork and perform focused patient encounters. This minimizes exposure time in the patient's room and leads to a sense of freedom—to function as a real emergency physician. We are not constantly being harassed by hospital administration to dispo, dispo, dispo! Whether true or false, our vigilance from the constant fear of being sued has gone away because of the distraction of this pandemic.What if I told you the COVID-19 pandemic has made me a better physician? It has taken me out of my usual robotic, mind-numbing Google Calendar and forced me to make more eye contact and communicate more directly. As a program director of an emergency medicine residency, I am now frequently texting, calling, and e-mailing my residents. I ask if there is anything I can do for them. I would rather they vent and get things off their chests than to let worries resonate in their minds. I have purchased safety glasses as part of the personal protective equipment for my residents to make sure they know I have their back, or eyes for that matter. Residents learn the treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis, sepsis, and pneumothorax from faculty, multiple-choice questions, and books, but where are they going to learn about giving, compassion, and empathy? They need to see these qualities in faculty, especially now.What if I told you that the COVID-19 pandemic has led me to strengthen my family bonds? I have struggled in the past to teach my children their daily prayers. Since school, karate, and soccer are cancelled, now I can do this. Most nights we sit together for dinner. I encourage them to use please and thank you and have family conversations. We have built obstacle courses, bird houses, and done countless crafts that are strengthening our family unit. I have talked to my wife about our future as parents and our relationship with each other, with active listening and without my phone in hand. I call my mom and dad to check in daily. I have realized that my parents are getting older, and it's not a far-fetched idea that one day they could be gone. I have reestablished relationships with extended family that I haven't spoken to in a long time.What if I told you the COVID-19 pandemic has been a revelation? I am aware of my mortality more than ever before. I fully realize that I am only temporarily here on earth. Exposure to HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C used to be the main fears while working in the emergency room. These have taken a distant second place to COVID-19. Whether it is the realization that life is short or that death could be right around the corner, I am peeling off a stale shell and exposing a new self.And I say to myself, I should have been doing these things all along.

The Quality Determination of Selected Commercial Online Purchased Edible Pomegranate Seed Oils With New Argentometric Liquid Chromatography Method

The number of online-purchased dietary supplements of diversified origin is exponentially increasing. Pomegranate seed oils (PSOs)—the main dietary source of conjugated linolenic acids (CLnA)—are available as dietary supplements via the Internet. PSO samples (n = 24) were purchased from Internet shops in Poland and China. Chromatographic techniques (gas chromatography coupled with mass spectroscopy [GC-MS] for fatty acids [FAs], liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection for tocopherols, and high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detection for conjugated FAs) were used. The GC-MS method enabled the quantification of 45 FAs, which indicates its superiority to previously used methods. Argentometric liquid chromatography with pre-column mild alkaline hydrolysis for analysis of structural isomers of CLnA does not need preliminary derivatization into volatile compounds, which ensures the absence of artifacts and enables the analysis of the entire conjugated FA profile. PSO differed with tocopherols and FA profile. Some PSOs contained negligible amounts of CLnA, and because of that they did not meet the criteria of valuable, unadulterated nutraceuticals. Obtained results indicate that online purchased PSO shipped from distant places of origin could have been stored in inadequate conditions (temperature, humidity), which caused i.a. deterioration of oxidative quality. Unregulated online availability of dietary supplements of low oxidative quality and nutritive value as well as their intake may be a risk rather than a benefit for consumers. Argentometric liquid chromatography can be a simple, selective, and sensitive tool for screening of dietary supplements containing conjugated FAs and should be considered as an essential way of quality assurance.

PENGARUH HARGA DAN KUALITAS PELAYANAN TERHADAP LOYALITAS PELANGGAN MELALUI KEPUASAN (STUDI PADA PELANGGAN PT KERETA API INDONESIA DAOP IV SEMARANG)

People nowadays increasingly require transportation services that can deliver to relatively distant places but take less time. One of the alternative is the train. Menoreh Train is an economy class train in DAOP IV Semarang which has been rejuvenated and is known as the Economy New Image. Menoreh Train is expected to provide comfort that will later increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. But there are still problems that customer loyalty has not been created. This type of research is explanatory research, using a questionnaire as a method of data collection. The research method used is the Non Probability Sampling technique with Purposive Sampling and Accidental Sampling methods. Samples collected by 100 respondents of Menoreh Train is selected based on consideration. The study uses a Partial Least Square analysis technique, which is estimated with the WarpPLS 6.0 program. The results of the analysis by WarpPLS explain that the test results of the direct influence on the research model are the effect of prices on customer loyalty shows positive and significant results, the effect of prices on satisfaction shows positive and significant results, the effect of service quality on satisfaction shows positive and significant results, the influence of service quality on customer loyalty shows positive and significant results, the effect of satisfaction on customer loyalty shows positive and significant results. Test the indirect effect of the research model that is the effect of prices on customer loyalty through satisfaction shows positive and significant results, the effect of service quality on customer loyalty through satisfaction shows positive and significant results. There is advice to PT. KAI DAOP IV Semarang based on the lowest recapitulation value given by respondents to the assessment indicators, namely increase ticket price competitiveness, add training programs, certifications, and more mature briefings to provide excellent service starting from the dispatch to the destination, continues to educate customers about quality product and services, optimize product and service quality, and evaluating performance in order to retain customers.

Alerting Spoilage of Food in Refrigerator

The era of smart homes wouldn’t be complete without intelligent refrigerators. Thus we have proposed an idea for detecting the food kept in the refrigerator and alerting the user on their spoilage which involves all the processes of ML and IoT. In places where large stocks of food are stored, manual maintenance is very hard and also when they are transported to long distant places from the cultivated lands to the end-users, they get spoiled due to lack of governance. The existing systems have provided a solution for this and we decided to give this facility for the working women who have very little time to do their household. This system helps in preventing other items in the refrigerator from the fungal attack caused by the affected ones. The solutions provided by the existing systems recommend sensors to detect the food items. Each food item might need a different sensor and hence this might lead to a lot of hardware components to be added to the refrigerator. Thus our system uses ML prediction methods like image processing. Finally, the notification of the spoiled food is intimated to the user by displaying the message in the refrigerator door.

Multifunctional Rendering Swarm Robot

Multifunctional Rendering Swarm robot make a huge impact in this present busy world . This robot works perfectly as an surveillance robot as well as an personal assisting robot for household purposes and most of the work that carried on is swarm mechanism of the personal assisting robots. This have dual mechanism for moment such as mecanum wheel as well as Klann mechanism to the six legs to overcome the hard terrain landscapes in particular house surroundings , with and arm mechanism to pick and place of assigned objects. This robot can be controlled by voice as well as limited hand gestures to perform tasks which use text to speech and speech to text, Convolution Neural Networking (CNN) respectively . This robot have a 3600 night vision camera for surveillance at night times through OpenCV . This will be doing parallel jobs such as talking to you as an assistant , cleaning house , and many more . as the advancement in the world is not up-to the real time applications, this helps in interfacing future and present situations to get updated. As swarm robots, this will be updating its status to the fellow robots and assigning particular task to divide and do faster which depends on deep learning and artificial intelligence. All this can be acknowledged and examined by any nominee of the user who are at distant places in case of any emergency and respond as a speech modulation talk back , digital display available for commands display or any work been processed, time consuming smart work is been done through this robot. This is also equipped with the sanitizer for the people hygiene and safety. This robots can also be used in military, schools, software industries and many more industries.

Miscarriage and Coping in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century: Private Notes from Distant Places

Miscarriage and Coping in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century: Private Notes from Distant Places

Building on the ruins of empire: the Uganda Railway and the LAPSSET corridor in Kenya

This article explores colonial (dis-)continuities between the planned Lamu Port–South Sudan–Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) development corridor and the Uganda Railway (UR). The historical approach to infrastructure studies highlights the effects of large-scale infrastructures beyond their immediate material impact, and reveals their potential power to structure mobilities, historicities and politics of scale. With reference to relational theories, it is argued that the two projects gain their respective significance not only through their ability to connect distant places, but also by blocking and severing other competing ways of being mobile. Particularly, both infrastructure projects create technologies enabling easier and faster flow of capital and commodities but limit previously prevalent mobilities practised by caravans and semi-nomadic people in the region. Both projects, furthermore, produce particular ways of remembering the past and anticipating the future. The article identifies a major discontinuity in the politics of scale they respectively imply: while the UR aimed at producing a clear scalar hierarchy between empire and colony, the LAPSSET alleges to dissolve hard boundaries between scalar instances. This article is based on qualitative data collected during fieldwork along the proposed route of the LAPSSET corridor, as well as archive work regarding the UR.

What do we mean by Distance Education? Theories and Practices: A Study for New Beginning

Distance education is not a very brand new concept having said that it is taking time to get momentum. But it is true that distance education will take its place very soon. Distance education can be defined as, we see it is delivered through several modalities, using phone, tablet, television, internet, CD-ROM, apps, handouts-worksheets, audio devices etc., a mode of delivering educational topics via a second media to reach the learners at home or in distant place. With its advantages and disadvantages, distance education is so important in the wake of emergencies and as well as during normal situations. As amicable theories and approaches are yet to evolve to a considerable extent on distance education, enthusiasts around the world now trying to define distance education from their independent point of view. This paper will try to focus on the overall thoughts on distance education and will try to make a minimum idea box for the practitioners.

Shelf stability of meat pickle developed from Kadaknath

Purpose This study aims to have a product with enhanced shelf stability from the Kadaknath bird. It is localized to its native tract in India and is unknown to a major part of the world. As in tropical countries, the meat products prepared have limited shelf-life and restricted market access, hence, the pickle was developed to enhance its access to areas other than a native tract of Kadaknath. Design/methodology/approach The product was developed to assess the effect of cooking and dehydration on sensory and microbial features while enhancing shelf stability. A comparison between cooking methods i.e. steam cooking (SC) and microwave cooking (MC) followed by dehydration to get steam cooked + dehydration (SCD) and microwave cooked + dehydration (MCD) were subjected for the study. Findings The study revealed that sensory evaluation, from 0 to 100 days, for all the sensory parameters indicated that SC and MC samples scored more values than SCD and MCD, however, with the storage the values increased initially on the 20th day followed by a gradual decrease. The total plate count (colony forming unit) on 0 day for SC and MC were 2.51 and 2.46, whereas for SCD and MCD the values were 1.94 and 1.98, respectively, indicating significantly (P = 0.01) lower values in dehydrated meat pickle preparations (SCD and MCD) in comparison to samples prepared without dehydration (SC and MC). Similarly, on the 60th day, the meat pickle treatments mentioned as SC and MC had the yeast and mold counts (colony forming unit) detected as 1.79 and 1.88, respectively, however, the organisms were not detectable in treatments SCD and MCD. Practical implications Developed product may be suitable for long distance marketing and making the local delicacy available to distant places. Originality/value The literature review indicated that though meat pickles have been prepared earlier most of the preparations involved chemical preservatives/antioxidants and trials with hurdles such as dehydration and cooking variations were scanty.