Nowadays, LED lights take an important place in our daily lives and they have known a great growth in indoor as well as in outdoor lighting applications. LED (Light Emitting Diode) light sources including their own drivers have excluded many systems fitted with both inefficient light sources. In this paper we present, a LED driver…

The paper describes the control and monitoring systems installed in medium voltage networks by Polish distribution network operators. It also outlines the expected directions of development of these systems, specifies the functions of the individual system components and describes the requirements applicable to them. In particular, attention is paid to the implementation of functions to…

The aim of this research was to prove the effect of online learning on interest and motivation to learn and its effect on student achievement in the Educational Technology Study Program – Ibnu Khaldun University, Bogor. This research method uses descriptive analysis and verification with a quantitative approach. The source of this research uses primary…

Considering the importance of addressing innovation issues that impact the development of economic sectors, this document presents the research work aimed at establishing a state of the art related to technology transfer and intermediation issues, which can be adopted in the innovation systems. In this case, the agro-industrial innovation system is taken as a reference…

The SENSORIA Reference Modeling Language (SRML) aims at modelling composite services at a high level. Continuous time SRML extends SRML so that it can model services whose components can perform both discrete processes and continuous processes. In order to show how continuous time SRML is applied, in this paper, we systematically introduce our study on…

Serious games are at the forefront of discussions about the future of learning. Research shows that they can help improve student motivation and knowledge transfer by making learning experiences more pleasurable. Teaching practices are increasingly enhanced or complemented by serious games; skills and knowledge are developed by recreating realistic situations allowing learners to enhance their…

The ageing of oil-immersed power transformers triggers several defects and damages in the insulating materials, particularly in the cellulose insulation. The decomposition of the cellulose paper produces dissolved gases into the insulating oil, in which the Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) of the oil samples can provide insights to incipient faults sustained by the transformer as…

In the last decade, South Africa has attracted and attained more investment by means of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REI4P), which is, a structured invitation to Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to submit a bid to generate and supply power to the electrical grid. In spite of REI4P’s undeniable triumph, a much-discussed…

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is a renowned approach for boosting operational excellence and competitive advantage through integrated core objectives of value creation and variation reduction. Despite its proven benefits in many leading companies, LSS implementation in the food sector is still behind compared with other sectors. LSS implementation is costly, and most businesses have failed…

The problem of optimal distribution of the current load of a combined heat and power plant with a complex composition of equipment is considered. A multi-criteria approach is proposed for parts of graphs with a constant load in time, considering the factors of economy, reliability and ecology. For sections of the graph with a time-variable…

It is widely known that cities now house more than half of the world’s population. Within this framework, this study presents the possibilities for real-world application of renewable energy sources (RES) in urban areas, as well as their contribution to the urban deployment of the new energy paradigm. A comparison is made between hybrid power…

Data stream gained obvious attention by research for years. Mining this type of data generates special challenges because of their unusual nature. Data streams flows are continuous, infinite and with unbounded size. Because of its accuracy, decision tree is one of the most common methods in classifying data streams. The aim of classification is to…

The persistent difficulties in reading and spelling acquisition are a risk factor for learning motivation. Play-like intervention tools have been developed to face these difficulties. “I read” is a software that seeks to develop and introduce systematic reading and spelling skills training in a playful and complementary way. This software is intended for children at…

The deep learning-based URL classification approach using massive observations has been verified especially in the field of phishing attack detection. Various improvements have been achieved through the modeling of character and word sequence of URL based on convolutional and recurrent neural networks, and it has been proven that an ensemble approach of each model has…

Central authorities have registered economic transactions based on trust since the dawn of time. With the advent of paper, methods for documenting transactions and records became more difficult and detailed. With the widespread use of computers in recent years, digital recording has made record keeping easier and since then every technical advancement has made data…

Discover DaVinci is a novel augmented reality system that incorporates blockchain technology with experiential learning to engage participants in an interactive discovery of Leonardo da Vinci’s oeuvre. The software was created by Marko Suvajdzic, first author of this paper, and it was produced at the University of Florida Digital Worlds Institute. In the true spirit…

In this work we discuss a special technique for powering of sensor systems, based on a low-power primary cell consisting of two electrodes, made from different metals, with water (lake, rain or tap water) used as an electrolyte. Once placed into an aqueous solution, the primary cell generates a small electric current, which may be…

Scientists succeeded in implementing conventional public switch telephone network (PSTN) into internet protocol by launching H.323 IP telephony. The irrelevant and unknown captions in H.323, computer scientists have replaced H.323 by Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for Voice-over-IP (VoIP). However, the security of voice communication over IP is still a major concern. Besides, security and performance…

The article identifies an alternative style of thinking as one of the important components of human intellectual development. It is shown that it can be effectively implemented in mathematics lessons at school. The purpose of this study is to develop and substantiate a strategy for the formation of an alternative style of thinking among students…

Energy Efficiency (EE) plays a key role in decreasing energy consumption at a European level, while it is considered as one of the most cost-efficient means to achieve carbon reduction and reinforce energy sufficiency and security. EE financing is imperative to implement measures that will lead to achieving the desired carbon neutrality and, thus, avert…

Office buildings commonly use fully glazed façades to reflect a luxurious appearance and to maximize natural light of high solar exposure and high-energy consumption due to cooling and heating. There is a great abundance in constructing shading screens as they are part of the modern movement in field of Energy Conservation, renewable energies, and architectural…

A transition towards electrification of the public transport sector is ongoing in many cities around the world, as a response to global warming and pollution. However, the question is whether the current state of technology is already sufficient to replace the conventional buses with electric ones and if the existing charging facilities are appropriate to…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is at a face paced growth in the advanced Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0 in the modern digital world. Considering the current network security challenges and sophistication of attacks in the heavily computerized and interconnected systems, such as an IoT ecosystem, the need for an innovative, robust, intelligent and adaptive malware…

This paper reports the algorithm, the input data and the result of the numeric simulation on the flows of the waves emitted from a rotating object that forms the artificial anti-gravity. First, an object with a heavy mass is placed in the 4-dimensional time and space, which is described by a fundamental tensor. Then the…

The remarkable presence of side lobes levels in ultrasound B-mode imaging significantly decreases the image quality. Therefore, the use of an apodization function is of great importance. Linear windowing functions are among the most efficient techniques used to optimize antenna directivity by suppression of the side lobes. However, the apodization causes the degradation of lateral…