title: Visualizing a control strategy for estimating electricity consumption

authors: Ozoh, Patrick

subjects: control measures

abstract: This paper investigates the potential of applying different control measures on low power and high power appliances with the goal of evolving efficiency in electricity consumption. The research involves carrying out simulations on their power consumption readings to set up a control system. The study discovers savings on all appliances under study to be 12.8% Kw, not minding occupancy rate of the building. Air-conditioners have the greatest impact of a 6% Kw contribution on savings. This would lead to a substantial contribution when converted to pricing rates. The results from the study indicate that control measures should be extended to peak periods and power saving measures extended to more appliances.

text: Visualizing a control strategy for estimating electricity consumption This paper investigates the potential of applying different control measures on low power and high power appliances with the goal of evolving efficiency in electricity consumption. The research involves carrying out simulations on their power consumption readings to set up a control system. The study discovers savings on all appliances under study to be 12.8% Kw, not minding occupancy rate of the building. Air-conditioners have the greatest impact of a 6% Kw contribution on savings. This would lead to a substantial contribution when converted to pricing rates. The results from the study indicate that control measures should be extended to peak periods and power saving measures extended to more appliances.

year: 2014

title: Of Drums and Gods: 'Tradition' and Christianity in Oksapmin Church Soundscapes

authors: Macdonald, Fraser

abstract: Based on ethnography undertaken since 2008, this paper seeks to interrogate and probelmatise the relationship between aesthetic form and conceptual meaning within the mainly Baptist church services of the Oksapmin, a group of principally subsistence gardeners living in the mountainous headwaters of the Fly and Sepik Rivers near the Indonesian border, a region home to the Min people known through the work of Barth (1975, 1987), Robbins (2004), Crook (2007) and others. The most striking aspect of these services is their regular employment of walon (wooden hand drums), tiambel (luminescent shells for personal adornment), as well as the plumage of various bird species, again for aesthetic appeal. The paper resists the analytical temptation to treat the use of these instruments and adornments as merely the continuation of indigenous form imbued with a new Christian meaning, thereby becoming mired in the binary of traditional vs Christian culture, and instead seeks to develop a new vocabulary for describing synthetic religious forms such as these that are more in line with the perspectives of the Oksapmin people themselves. Exploratory and experimental in nature, then, the paper moves toward an ontologically nuanced approach with recursive dimensions.

text: Of Drums and Gods: 'Tradition' and Christianity in Oksapmin Church Soundscapes Based on ethnography undertaken since 2008, this paper seeks to interrogate and probelmatise the relationship between aesthetic form and conceptual meaning within the mainly Baptist church services of the Oksapmin, a group of principally subsistence gardeners living in the mountainous headwaters of the Fly and Sepik Rivers near the Indonesian border, a region home to the Min people known through the work of Barth (1975, 1987), Robbins (2004), Crook (2007) and others. The most striking aspect of these services is their regular employment of walon (wooden hand drums), tiambel (luminescent shells for personal adornment), as well as the plumage of various bird species, again for aesthetic appeal. The paper resists the analytical temptation to treat the use of these instruments and adornments as merely the continuation of indigenous form imbued with a new Christian meaning, thereby becoming mired in the binary of traditional vs Christian culture, and instead seeks to develop a new vocabulary for describing synthetic religious forms such as these that are more in line with the perspectives of the Oksapmin people themselves. Exploratory and experimental in nature, then, the paper moves toward an ontologically nuanced approach with recursive dimensions.

year: 2017

title: The Seedling: Students' perceptions of science education-How do our students see their science classes?

authors: Taylor, Simon

abstract: What is learning like in Years 9 and 10 science from a student’s viewpoint? What is really going on? Let’s take the opportunity to get up close to their learning world.

Dr Simon Taylor’s current research examines the perceptions of secondary students – how they see learning in their science lessons. This article centres on what we as teachers can learn from student voice, how personally relevant learning contexts used in lessons were particularly significant for Māori and Pacifica students, and how established collaborative practices influenced student engagement.

text: The Seedling: Students' perceptions of science education-How do our students see their science classes? What is learning like in Years 9 and 10 science from a student’s viewpoint? What is really going on? Let’s take the opportunity to get up close to their learning world.

Dr Simon Taylor’s current research examines the perceptions of secondary students – how they see learning in their science lessons. This article centres on what we as teachers can learn from student voice, how personally relevant learning contexts used in lessons were particularly significant for Māori and Pacifica students, and how established collaborative practices influenced student engagement.

year: 2014