title: Proceedings of the Third Computing Women Congress (CWC 2008): Student papers

authors: Hinze, Annika

subjects: solar exposure

abstract: The Third Computing Women Congress was held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand from February 11th to 13th, 2008. The Computing Women Congress (CWC) is a Summer University for women in Computer Science. It is a meeting-place for female students, academics and professionals who study or work in Information Technology. CWC provides a forum to learn about and share the latest ideas of computing related topics in a supportive environment. CWC provides an open, explorative learning and teaching environment. Experimentation with new styles of learning is encouraged, with an emphasis on hands-on experience and engaging participatory techniques.

text: Proceedings of the Third Computing Women Congress (CWC 2008): Student papers The Third Computing Women Congress was held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand from February 11th to 13th, 2008. The Computing Women Congress (CWC) is a Summer University for women in Computer Science. It is a meeting-place for female students, academics and professionals who study or work in Information Technology. CWC provides a forum to learn about and share the latest ideas of computing related topics in a supportive environment. CWC provides an open, explorative learning and teaching environment. Experimentation with new styles of learning is encouraged, with an emphasis on hands-on experience and engaging participatory techniques.

year: 2008-02

title: Developing a monitoring system for Toyota Prius battery-packs for longer term performance issues

authors: Leijen, Peter

subjects: electric vehicles

abstract: The Toyota Prius battery pack consists of 38 individual battery blades, each blade contains 6 NiMH cells in series. This means that each pack contains 228 NiMH cells. Given this number of individually manufactured cells combined into a large battery pack, any individual cell or a blade getting weaker than all other linearly degrading cells, will become the performance limiting element in the pack. For example in a situation where one blade weakens down to 1200mAh compared to all other 37 blades maintaining approximately 2400mAh capacity will make the car run only 1.3 km in EV mode, compared to 2.6 km if all 38 blades are of 2400mAh capacity. In order to identify such individually weak cells, a supercapacitor based monitoring system is designed and the paper indicates the approach in developing this system, together with some details explaining the general performance of the overall system and how the new monitoring system can help in managing the battery pack life issues in the Toyota Prius.

text: Developing a monitoring system for Toyota Prius battery-packs for longer term performance issues The Toyota Prius battery pack consists of 38 individual battery blades, each blade contains 6 NiMH cells in series. This means that each pack contains 228 NiMH cells. Given this number of individually manufactured cells combined into a large battery pack, any individual cell or a blade getting weaker than all other linearly degrading cells, will become the performance limiting element in the pack. For example in a situation where one blade weakens down to 1200mAh compared to all other 37 blades maintaining approximately 2400mAh capacity will make the car run only 1.3 km in EV mode, compared to 2.6 km if all 38 blades are of 2400mAh capacity. In order to identify such individually weak cells, a supercapacitor based monitoring system is designed and the paper indicates the approach in developing this system, together with some details explaining the general performance of the overall system and how the new monitoring system can help in managing the battery pack life issues in the Toyota Prius.

year: 2013

title: Rejoinder

authors: Kelly, Martin

abstract: Our paper (Kelly et al., 1999) set out to have points recognized as ‘needing to be addressed’ on the agendas of institutions currently providing accounting education. We believe that many institutions are continuing to fail to respond to recognized problems. We are grateful to the Commentators for recognizing our purpose. They note that our paper:
1. raises some important issues which need to be urgently addressed (Commentator 1);
2. illuminates why it is dif  cult to implement change even when there is a consensus to do so (Commentator 2);
3. provides a very important theme which has been neglected by many accounting educators (Commentator 3).

text: Rejoinder Our paper (Kelly et al., 1999) set out to have points recognized as ‘needing to be addressed’ on the agendas of institutions currently providing accounting education. We believe that many institutions are continuing to fail to respond to recognized problems. We are grateful to the Commentators for recognizing our purpose. They note that our paper:
1. raises some important issues which need to be urgently addressed (Commentator 1);
2. illuminates why it is dif  cult to implement change even when there is a consensus to do so (Commentator 2);
3. provides a very important theme which has been neglected by many accounting educators (Commentator 3).

year: 2000