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It is interesting to note that even though the studies of atmospheric effects in physical stores have been abundant, knowledge of ambient factor effects in the online retailing context has been limited. This study investigates the influence of webmospheric effect, web page color displays on respondents’ emotional reactions and subsequent online impulse buying intention. A Stimulus-Organism-Responses (S-O-R) model was used as the basic framework and a laboratory experiment was conducted to test the hypotheses in this study. The results demonstrated that web page color displays had a significant effect on participants’ emotional response, eventually influencing their intention to purchase impulsively online. Specifically, respondents felt more aroused and experienced greater pleasure when they were exposed to chromatic web page displays than achromatic one. Additionally, both pleasure and arousal emotions played an intervening role between web page color displays and online impulse purchasing intention. Personality traits and product involvement were proved to moderate the relationship between atmospheric cues and impulse shopping intention. These findings suggest that the website design with effective web page color displays would create a desirable environment and thus prompt consumers to buy impulsively. Finally, research implications of the model and proposition are presented.

Abstract. Based on the results of a pilot study in 2007, which found high mixing ratios of molecular iodine (I2) above the intertidal macroalgae (seaweed) beds at Mweenish Bay (Ireland), we extended the study to nine different locations in the vicinity of Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station on the west coast of Ireland during a field campaign in 2009. I2 mixing ratios from 104 to 393 ppt were found above the macroalgae beds, implying a high source strength of I2. Such mixing ratios are sufficient to result in photochemically-driven coastal new-particle formation events. Mixing ratios above the Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus beds increased with exposure time – after 6 h exposure to ambient air the mixing ratios were one order of magnitude higher than those initially present. This contrasts with the emission characteristics of Laminaria digitata, where most I2 was emitted within the first half hour of exposure. Discrete in situ measurements (off-line) of I2 emission from ambient air-exposed chamber experiments of L. digitata, A. nodosum and F. vesiculosus substantially supported the field observations. Further online and time-resolved measurements of the I2 emission from O3-exposed macroalgal experiments in chamber confirmed the distinct I2 emission characteristics of A. nodosum and F. vesiculosus compared to that of L. digitata. The emission rates of A. nodosum and F. vesiculosus were comparable to or even higher than L. digitata after the initial exposure period of ~20–30 min. We suggest that A. nodosum and F. vesiculosus may provide an unaccounted and important source of photolabile iodine in the coastal boundary layer and that their impact on photochemistry and coastal new particle formation should be reevaluated in light of their longer exposure at low-tide and their widespread distribution.

Abstract. Based on the results of a pilot study in 2007, which found high mixing ratios of molecular iodine (I2) above the intertidal macroalgae (seaweed) beds at Mweenish Bay (Ireland), we extended the study to nine different locations in the vicinity of Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station on the west coast of Ireland during a field campaign in 2009. The mean values of I2 mixing ratio found above the macroalgae beds at nine different locations ranged from 104 to 393 ppt, implying a high source strength of I2. Such mixing ratios are sufficient to result in photochemically driven coastal new-particle formation events. Mixing ratios above the Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus beds increased with exposure time: after 6 h exposure to ambient air the mixing ratios were one order of magnitude higher than those initially present. This contrasts with the emission characteristics of Laminaria digitata, where most I2 was emitted within the first half hour of exposure. Discrete in situ measurements (offline) of I2 emission from ambient air-exposed chamber experiments of L. digitata, A. nodosum and F. vesiculosus substantially supported the field observations. Further online and time-resolved measurements of the I2 emission from O3-exposed macroalgal experiments in a chamber confirmed the distinct I2 emission characteristics of A. nodosum and F. vesiculosus compared to those of L. digitata. The emission rates of A. nodosum and F. vesiculosus were comparable to or even higher than L. digitata after the initial exposure period of ~20–30 min. We suggest that A. nodosum and F. vesiculosus may provide an important source of photolabile iodine in the coastal boundary layer and that their impact on photochemistry and coastal new-particle formation should be reevaluated in light of their longer exposure at low tide and their widespread distribution.

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bermaksud untuk mengetahui pengaruh variabel perceived ease of use terhadap behavioral intention dengan trust sebagai variabel intervening pada penggunaan aplikasi m-banking bank umum syariah. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode path analysis dan melibatkan 50 responden yang merupakan nasabah salah satu bank umum syariah sekaligus pengguna aplikasi m-banking bank yang bersangkutan dengan metode purposive sampling secara online, serta menggunakan metode analisis jalur dengan program AMOS untuk mengolah data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perceived ease of use dan trust berpengaruh signifikan terhadap behavioral intention, demikian juga perceived ease of use terhadap trust. Penelitian ini juga berimplikasi pada ilmu pemasaran Islam, yaitu mengenai niat perilaku konsumen yang akan berefek pada penggunaan aplikasi m-banking bank umum syariah saat ini dan di masa mendatang, seperti perekomendasian aplikasi tersebut ke orang lain. Maka dari itu, bank umum syariah diharapkan dapat meningkatkan kualitas fitur yang terdapat di aplikasi m-banking, mempromosikan secara gencar kemudahan dan manfaat yang akan didapat dari penggunaan aplikasi m-banking agar nasabah tertarik untuk menggunakannya, serta menyederhanakan baik tampilan dan cara penggunaan, sehingga aplikasi tersebut bisa digunakan dengan mudah oleh berbagai kalangan.Kata Kunci: Perceived ease of use, trust, behavioral intention, aplikasi m-banking. ABSTRACTThe intention of this study is to discover perceived ease of use’s impact on behavioral intention with trust as the intervening variable in the usage of Islamic commercial banks’ m-banking applications. This research uses a quantitative approach with path analysis method and involves 50 participants who are customers of one of Islamic commercial banks as well as users of m-banking application of the bank concerned with online purposive sampling method. It also uses path analysis method by using AMOS program to analyze the data. The result of this study indicates both perceived ease of use and trust significantly affect behavioral intention, and so is perceived ease of use to trust. This study also implies to Islamic marketing, which refers to consumers’ behavior that will affect the current and future usage of Islamic comercial banks’ m-banking applications, such as recommending it to other people. Therefore, Islamic commercial banks are expected to improve their applications’ features, promote its convenience and benefits vigorously to attract customers to use it, and simplify both its appearance and usage method, so it can be used by anyone easily.Keyword: Perceived ease of use, trust, behavioral intention, m-banking application. DAFTAR PUSTAKAAlrawashdeh, T. A., Elbes, M. W., Almonani, A., & ElQirem, F. T. A. (2019). User acceptance model of open source software: An integrated model of OSS characteristics and UTAUT. 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Healthcare at your fingertips: The acceptance and adoption of mobile medical treatment services among chinese users. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(6895). 1-21. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17186895Meeprom, S., & Silanoi, T. (2020). Investigating the perceived quality of a special event and its influence on perceived value and behavioural intentions in a special event in Thailand. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 11(3), 337-355. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEFM-09-2019-0043Mostafa, R. B. (2020). Mobile banking service quality: a new avenue for customer value co-creation. International Journal of Bank Marketing, 38(5), 1107-1132. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBM-11-2019-0421Namahoot, K. S., & Laohavichien, T. (2018). Assessing the intentions to use internet banking: the role of perceived risk and trust as mediating factors. 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Resumo A disponibilidade de venda de alimentos no território pode influenciar no consumo alimentar da população. Entretanto, é importante compreender como as pessoas percebem o seu ambiente alimentar para se entender como essa disponibilidade afeta seu consumo em contextos distintos. O objetivo foi avaliar a percepção dos moradores de favelas brasileiras sobre o ambiente alimentar em suas vizinhanças. Estudo qualitativo, em que foram realizados grupos focais online guiados por um roteiro para reunir discursos coletivos sobre o acesso aos alimentos em favelas brasileiras. O convite ocorreu por meio das redes sociais e do contato com líderes comunitários e organizações não governamentais que atuam em favelas, por meio da técnica de amostragem “bola de neve”. Para a análise, foi utilizada a abordagem grounded theory (teoria fundamentada) e, como técnica, foi empregada a análise de redes temáticas. O acesso aos alimentos por moradores de favelas é permeado pela falta de recursos e elementos fundamentais para uma alimentação adequada e saudável, como: a falta de informação sobre alimentação; a renda insuficiente; e a baixa disponibilidade de estabelecimentos que comercializam alimentos saudáveis a preços acessíveis. São necessários programas e políticas públicas que incentivem a ampliação de equipamentos de segurança alimentar e nutricional, como hortas e feiras, e que aumentem a oferta de alimentos saudáveis com valores baixos nas favelas. Também são necessárias ações que abordem a complexidade das barreiras enfrentadas por moradores de favelas para ter acesso aos alimentos saudáveis.

O Campus é uma tecnologia multi-tenant que suporta várias plataformas, caracterizadas por possibilitarem a criação e dinamização de comunidades online, entre as quais se destacam o Campus by Fundação Altice e a plataforma miOne. Apesar de ambas se servirem da mesma infraestrutura tecnológica, estas possuem diferentes objetivos e públicos-alvo distintos. Apresentam ainda, apesar de oferecerem um conjunto abrangente de ferramentas utilitárias e conteúdos, o desafio de fazer crescer a sua rede de utilizadores e de se manterem sustentáveis. Os jogos, como sistemas hedónicos, têm como único propósito o prazer dos seus jogadores. O seu processo de design, por sua vez é focado nas motivações e níveis de engajamento do utilizador, objetivando a sua atenção e dedicação. Considerando o intemporal sucesso alcançado pelos jogos nestes aspetos, os seus componentes e técnicas passaram a ser utilizados em contextos para além do entretenimento, originando um novo conceito: a gamificação. No âmbito desta investigação desenvolveu-se uma estratégia de gamificação dinamicamente aplicável no ambiente multi-tenant suportado pela tecnologia Campus, com o objetivo de satisfazer as necessidades específicas de cada plataforma e das suas respetivas comunidades online. Para isto, foi aplicada a metodologia de investigação de desenvolvimento, tendo o resultado final sido avaliado através de uma amostra por conveniência envolvendo o público alvo das duas plataformas. O processo de investigação, por sua vez, orientou-se através das diferentes etapas: análise e avaliação da situação, conceção e realização de modelo, implementação e avaliação. A aplicação da estratégia desenvolvida foi aplicada e avaliada através da sua integração nas plataformas Campus by Fundação Altice e miOne, ao longo de várias sessões, onde cinco utilizadores de cada plataforma puderam experienciar as diversas funcionalidades desenvolvidas. Verificou-se que a solução desenvolvida é capaz de suportar diferentes plataformas, e que os utilizadores seguiram os vários estímulos da estratégia implementada com satisfação e motivação.
Campus is a multi-tenant technology that supports multiple platforms, characterized by enabling the creation and dynamization of online communities, among which is Campus by Fundação Altice and the miOne platform. Although they are part of the same technology, they have different objectives and target audiences. Despite offering a comprehensive set of utility tools and content, both face the challenge of growing their network of users and remain sustainable. Games, as hedonic systems, are intended for the pleasure of their players rather than having a concrete outcome of the use. Its game design process is focused on the user’s motivations and engagement and, due to its success, game components and techniques started to be used in contexts other than entertainment. This phenomenon is called gamification. Within the scope of this investigation, a dynamic gamification strategy was developed in the Campus multi-tenant environment in order to meet the specific needs of each platform and its respective online communities. For this, the development research methodology was applied, and the final result was evaluated through a convenience sample involving the target audience of the two platforms. The investigation process was guided through the different stages: analysis and assessment of the situation, design and realization of the model, implementation and evaluation. The application of the developed strategy was applied and evaluated through its integration in the Campus by Fundação Altice and miOne platforms, over several sessions, where five users of each platform were able to experience the different functionalities developed. It was found that the developed solution is capable of supporting different platforms, and that users followed the various stimulus of the implemented strategy with satisfaction and motivation.
Mestrado em Comunicação Multimédia

INTRODUZIONE: Il presente progetto di ricerca nasce all’interno di un Dottorato Eureka, sviluppato grazie al contributo della Regione Marche, dell’Università di Macerata e dell’azienda Jobmetoo by Jobdisabili srl, agenzia per il lavoro esclusivamente focalizzata sui lavoratori con disabilità o appartenenti alle categorie protette. Se trovare lavoro è già difficile per molti, per chi ha una disabilità diventa un percorso pieno di ostacoli. Nonostante, infatti, la legge 68/99 abbia una visione tra le più avanzate in Europa, l’Italia è stata ripresa dalla Corte Europea per non rispettare i propri doveri relativamente al collocamento mirato delle persone con disabilità. Tra chi ha una disabilità, la disoccupazione è fra il 50% e il 70% in Europa, con punte dell’80% in Italia. L’attuale strategia europea sulla disabilità 2010-2020 pone come obiettivi fondamentali la lotta alla discriminazione, le pari opportunità e l’inclusione attiva. Per la realizzazione di tali obiettivi assume un’importanza centrale l’orientamento permanente: esso si esercita in forme e modalità diverse a seconda dei bisogni, dei contesti e delle situazioni. La centralità di tutti gli interventi orientativi è il riconoscimento della capacità di autodeterminazione dell’essere umano, che va supportato nel trovare la massima possibilità di manifestarsi e realizzarsi. Ciò vale ancora di più per le persone con disabilità, in quanto risultano fondamentali tutte quelle azioni che consentono loro di raggiungere una consapevolezza delle proprie capacità/abilità accanto al riconoscimento delle caratteristiche della propria disabilità. L’orientamento assume così un valore permanente nella vita di ogni persona, garantendone lo sviluppo e il sostegno nei processi di scelta e di decisione con l’obiettivo di promuovere l’occupazione attiva, la crescita economica e l’inclusione sociale. Oggi giorno il frame work di riferimento concettuale nel campo della disabilità è l’International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), il quale ha portato a un vero e proprio rovesciamento del termine disabilità dal negativo al positivo: non si parla più di impedimenti, disabilità, handicap, ma di funzioni, strutture e attività. In quest’ottica, la disabilità non appare più come mera conseguenza delle condizioni fisiche dell’individuo, ma scaturisce dalla relazione fra l’individuo e le condizioni del mondo esterno. In termini di progetto di vita la sfida della persona con disabilità è quella di poter essere messa nelle condizioni di sperimentarsi come attore della propria esistenza, con il diritto di poter decidere e, quindi, di agire di conseguenza in funzione del proprio benessere e della qualità della propria vita, un una logica di autodeterminazione. OBIETTIVO: Sulla base del background e delle teorie di riferimento analizzate e delle necessità aziendali è stata elaborata la seguente domanda di ricerca: è possibile aumentare la consapevolezza negli/nelle studenti/esse e laureati/e con disabilità che si approcciano al mondo del lavoro, rispetto alle proprie abilità, competenze, risorse, oltre che alle limitazioni imposte dalla propria disabilità? L’obiettivo è quello di sostenere i processi di auto-riflessione sulla propria identità e di valorizzare il ruolo attivo della persona stessa nella sua autodeterminazione, con la finalità ultima di aumentare e migliorare il match tra le persone con disabilità e le imprese. L’auto-riflessione permetterà di facilitare il successivo contatto dialogico con esperti di orientamento e costituirà una competenza che il soggetto porterà comunque come valore aggiunto nel mondo del lavoro. METODI E ATTIVITÀ: Il paradigma teorico-metodologico adottato è un approccio costruttivista: peculiarità di questo metodo è che ciascuna componente della ricerca può essere riconsiderata o modificata nel corso della sua conduzione o come conseguenza di cambiamenti introdotti in qualche altra componente e pertanto il processo è caratterizzato da circolarità; la metodologia e gli strumenti non sono dunque assoggettati alla ricerca ma sono al servizio degli obiettivi di questa. Il primo passo del progetto di ricerca è stato quello di ricostruzione dello stato dell’arte, raccogliendo dati, attraverso la ricerca bibliografica e sitografica su: l’orientamento, la normativa vigente in tema di disabilità, i dati di occupazione/disoccupazione delle persone con disabilità e gli strumenti di accompagnamento al lavoro. A fronte di dati mancanti sul territorio italiano relativi alla carriera e ai fabbisogni lavorativi degli/delle studenti/esse e laureati/e con disabilità, nella prima fase del progetto di ricerca è stata avviata una raccolta dati su scala nazionale, relativa al monitoraggio di carriera degli studenti/laureati con disabilità e all’individuazione dei bisogni connessi al mondo del lavoro. Per la raccolta dati è stato sviluppato un questionario ed è stata richiesta la collaborazione a tutte le Università italiane. Sulla base dei dati ricavati dal questionario, della letteratura e delle indagini esistenti sulle professioni, nella fase successiva della ricerca si è proceduto alla strutturazione di un percorso di auto-orientamento, volto ad aumentare la consapevolezza nelle persone con disabilità delle proprie abilità e risorse, accanto a quella dei propri limiti. In particolare, il punto di partenza per la costruzione del percorso è stata l’Indagine Istat- Isfol sulle professioni (2012) e la teoria delle Intelligenze Multiple di H. Gardner (1983). Si è arrivati così alla strutturazione del percorso di auto-orientamento, composto da una serie di questionari attraverso i quali il candidato è chiamato ad auto-valutare le proprie conoscenze, le competenze, le condizioni di lavoro che gli richiedono più o meno sforzo e le intelligenze che lo caratterizzano, aggiungendo a questi anche una parte più narrativa dove il soggetto è invitato a raccontare i propri punti di forza, debolezza e le proprie aspirazioni in ambito professionale. Per sperimentare il percorso di auto-orientamento creato, nell’ultima fase della ricerca è stato predisposto uno studio pilota per la raccolta di alcuni primi dati qualitativi con target differenti, studenti/esse universitari/e e insegnanti di scuola superiore impegnati nel tema del sostegno e dell’orientamento, e utilizzando diversi strumenti (autopresentazioni, test multidimensionale autostima, focus group). CONCLUSIONI: I dati ottenuti dallo studio pilota, seppur non generalizzabili, in quanto provenienti da un campione esiguo, hanno evidenziato come il percorso di auto-orientamento attivi una riflessione sulla visione di sé nei diversi contesti e un cambiamento, in positivo o in negativo, nell’autostima e nella valutazione di sé in diverse aree, ad esempio nell’area delle relazioni interpersonali, del vissuto corporeo, dell’emotività ecc. Tali dati ci hanno permesso soprattutto di evidenziare punti di forza e debolezza del percorso creato e di apportare modifiche per una maggiore comprensione e adattabilità del prodotto stesso. Il valore del percorso orientativo è connesso al ruolo attivo di auto-valutatore giocato dal candidato con disabilità, affiancando a questa prima fase di autovalutazione un successivo confronto dialogico con un esperto, tale da permettere un ancoraggio alla realtà esterna, al contesto in cui il soggetto si trova a vivere. In questo senso, l’orientamento assume il valore di un processo continuo e articolato, che ha come scopo principale quello di sostenere la consapevolezza di sé e delle proprie potenzialità, agendo all’interno dell’area dello sviluppo prossimale della persona verso la realizzazione della propria identità personale, sociale e professionale.

Social media such as microblogging services and social networking sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse,looking at online evaluative language, Internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation using a large Twitter corpus (over 100 million tweets) alongside specialized case studies. The author argues that we are currently witnessing a cultural movement from online conversation to what can be termed 'searchable talk' - online talk where people affiliate by making their discourse findable (for example, via metadata such as Twitter hashtags) by others holding similar interests. This cutting edge text will be of interest to all scholars and students dealing with electronically mediated discourse.

The evidence for AMBIT is described, together with our intentions regarding future development and dissemination. Existing evidence, and its limits, is sketched out. Challenges for future data collection/analysis are highlighted in relation to a “model” that is, by design, broad and adaptable, rendering “fidelity” difficult to define in conventional terms. Opportunities for meaningful randomized trials are limited, but possible. A description of AMBIT’s strategy for future model development (referencing open-source computing, learning organizations, and quality improvement models) concludes with a summary of AMBIT’s “evidence-informed” approach. AMBIT’s role as a learning system is supported by innovative web-based collaborations (for instance POD, a pooled online data system). Diverse training methods and reflective self-audit questions for teams considering training are described. Skepticism about how conventional trainings could ever create the necessary “step change” in services is balanced by the opportunities for dissemination offered by web-based learning and devolved engagement of a community of practice.

Chapter 5 deals with the jurisdiction of the criminal courts and the applicable criminal law (the ambit of the criminal law) and contrasts the English common law with German law in cybercrime cases, highlighting the similarity of the challenges and the differences in approach of both countries. As a broad rule of thumb, English common law (largely) restricts criminal jurisdiction to the territoriality principle, whereas German law recognizes the active and the passive personality principle, sometimes coupled with the double criminality rule, meaning that the act must be a criminal offence in the place where it was carried out. Notably, German law has codified the universality principle for certain offences, and by so doing exceeds its obligations under international treaties; for example, in respect of child sexual exploitation and abuse materials. Both countries face the same challenges in applying the territoriality principle and connecting cybercrime offences to their respective territories (eg in respect of the question where illegal content online was published). Criminal jurisdiction (subject to specific statutory exceptions) in England has long been confined by the terminatory approach, but has now been reformed by a substantial measure test. Finally, the chapter examines inchoate offences and the specific provisions on jurisdiction contained in the Computer Misuse Act.

While there is a progress in different sciences, researchers in machine learning working to make the people life more comfortable by interpreting this progress in various life sphere, they introduced new field called Ambient Intelligence (AmI). The main idea behind AmI is to enroll technology in every aspect of our lives to interact with societies in a smooth manner and improves the quality of our lives. During the last two decades, Ambient Intelligence evolved fast toward suitable developing real-life solutions, causing mass evolutions in every aspect of life as learning, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, etc. The paper constrained on the healthcare domain due to its exciting paradigm. In this paradigm, the digital environments will not only interact with human events through sensing and interpreting, but it will also learn and adapt actions to the inhabitant needs, gestures, habits, and emotions. This paper summarizes the requirements to achieve the vision of Ambient Intelligence in healthcare. The paper will analyze and compare some previous case studies and scenarios in the Ambient Intelligence area. Finally, the paper proposes a scenario that focuses on the slice of elderly and disabled people those who are physically disabled and have neurological problems to help them to enhance the facilities of using Ambient Intelligence technologies in healthcare and an associated architecture and support them to interact with the community. The paper proposes an architecture that converts the user’s home to look like smart-homes because of the scattered sensors and devices in it and connecting them all together with some sensors on the user’s body besides providing the user with giraff-robot with a screen with different tasks. Some of the giraff-robot responsibilities are to do some actions according to the sensed data, and to work as an online trainer by displaying videos or displaying an avatar tells the user how to do it. The paper tries to present the benefit of using the AmI and the advantage of E-learning -by providing the online training- to ease the life of this slice of people. The architecture tries to respond to the requirements needed by the user those identified during our work.

Abstract Battery energy storage systems (ESS) have been proven to significantly reduce emissions and fuel consumption on drilling rigs since the industry's first system was deployed in 2018. These systems leverage their stored energy to reduce the number of generators online and operate the remaining generators at high load where they are most efficient. Control methodology has traditionally required at least one generator to be online to follow the grid formed by the generator(s) and bias the load higher or lower. However, during operations where power demand is lower than the capacity of a single generator, the battery becomes fully charged leaving the system with no mechanism to artificially increase generator load. This results in a single generator running at low load for extended periods of time. A new automated energy-saving feature, characterized by the absence of ambient noise typically associated with generators, was developed to address this issue and create opportunities for additional fuel and emissions reductions. When the system determines that the operation will not require significant power consumption for an extended period, it will automatically initiate a shutdown of the last online generator and switch to the automated energy-saving mode, using only the batteries to form the electrical grid and supply power to all rig equipment. The rig will continue to operate in this mode until the battery state of charge drops to a certain threshold, at which point it will automatically launch a generator. When the additional generator comes online, it will run at a high load for a brief period to quickly recharge the battery. This accomplishes both goals of reducing generator runtime and increasing average generator load. A calculated approach was necessary to maximize the time in the energy-saving mode while avoiding any impact to operations. Additionally, the control scheme was designed to minimize the number of generator starts while taking precautions to stay within the discharge limitations of the batteries. This feature was deployed to the fleet of ESS, resulting in additional fuel and emissions savings not possible with the traditional systems. Factors including ambient temperature and the operator-specific drilling program produced a wide range of efficiency improvement across the fleet.

In Brazil, there are more than 6.5 million people with some visualimpairment. The total or partial loss of vision can cause a significantimpact on the lives of these people. The cane is now the mostwidely available resource accessible to assist the locomotion ofthese individuals. However, it is a limited resource. Once it cannotclassify the objects found, it only detects their existence. This workcontributes to new discussions on location and online mappingon the theme of Assistive Technologies. We developed a systemthat enables users to classify environments, promoting localizationthrough context science. Our solution uses images captured by awebcam, computer vision techniques, and probabilistic analysis.We evaluated on objective metrics showing satisfactory results.

Extensive operational performance data from the Siemens Power Generation V64.3 unit in Obernburg, Germany (operated by Kraftwerk Obernburg GmbH) is evaluated. The unit was commissioned in 1996 and has been running continuously in base load operation with fuel gas to supply heat and power to a nearby chemical plant. In rare cases, fuel oil is used as a backup fuel. During the first major outage after approx. 25000 equivalent operating hours (EOH), the Siemens PG Advanced Compressor Cleaning System (ACCS) was implemented at Obernburg. ACCS features separate nozzle systems for online and offline compressor cleaning accounting for different operating conditions. For online cleaning, the droplet size is optimised for the droplets to remain in the main air flow in order to minimize erosion effects while providing a homogeneous field over the whole air intake. With reduced rotational speed during offline compressor cleaning, erosion is less critical. Offline nozzles, therefore, provide higher mass flow and larger droplets in order to maximize cleaning performance for all compressor stages. ACCS, in its maximum automated version, features operation from the control room, online-washing at low ambient temperatures (officially released down to −15°C without GT Anti-Icing) and minimum use of manpower. The ACCS system in Obernburg was operated according to the recommended online washing procedure. By June 2002, the V64.3-unit in Obernburg reached 50000 EOH and the second major inspection was carried out. For this paper, operational data from the second inspection intervals (24350–49658 EOH) and from three performance tests with calibrated equipment are compared in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the Advanced Compressor Cleaning System. Statistical evaluation of single-wash performance recovery and the evolution of long-term performance are presented. The effects of degradation and fouling are differentiated. It is shown that ACCS has a significant benefit for long-term engine performance.

A Predictive Emission Monitoring (PEM) model has been developed for a non-DLE GE LM2500 gas turbine used on a natural gas compressor station on the TransCanada Pipeline System in Alberta. The PEM model is based on an optimized Neural Network (NN) architecture which takes four fundamental engine parameters as input variables. The model predicts NOx emission in ppmv-dry-O2 corrected and in kg/hr as NO2. The NN was trained using Continuous Emission Monitoring (CEM) measurements comprising two sets of actual emission data collected over two different dates in 2009, when the ambient ambient temperatures were vastly different (∼1° C and 24 °C), respectively. These training data were supplemented by other emission data generated by GE ‘Cycle-Deck’ tool to generate emission data at different ambient temperatures ranging from −30 to +30 °C. The outcome is a total of 1872 emission data of engine emissions at different operating conditions covering the range of the engine operating parameters (402 data points from CEM and 1470 data points from GE Cycle-Deck). The PEM model comprises a simple single hidden layer perceptron type NN with only two neurons in it. The performance of the NN-based model showed a correlation coefficient greater than 0.99, and error standard deviation of 4.5 ppmv of NOx and 1.4 kg/hr as NO2. Uncertainty analysis was conducted to assess the effects of uncertainties in the engine parameters on the NOx predictions by PEM. It was shown that for uncertainty in the ambient temperature of ±1 °C, the uncertainty in the NOx prediction is ± 0.9 to ±3.5%. Uncertainties of the order of ±1% in the other three input parameters results in uncertainties in NOx predictions by ±2.5 to ±6%. Finally, the PEM model was implemented in the station CEHM (Compressor Equipment Health Monitoring) system and NOx prediction were reported online on a minutely basis. These data are presented here over the first three months since implementation.

This paper addresses the on-line application of ATMOS SIM simulation software, integrated with ABB Network Manager WS500, to a subsea pipeline network of 7,800 km (4,847 mile) length — see Figure 1. The pipeline system is operated by Gassco Norway, and it delivers an annual volume of approximately 100 billion standard cubic meters of Norwegian gas to customers in Western Europe. One of the main challenges to such a great subsea pipeline system is the limited measurements available. For nearly all of the pipelines, the only location where flow, pressure and temperature are measured is at the inlet and outlet which could be more than 800 km (497 mile) apart. The following applications will be addressed in this paper: • IT architecture. User controls including Common Alarm List. • Data validation overview. • Pipeline inventory calculation. • Continuous calculation of settle-out-pressures for (sub)sections of pipelines to provide information for emergency shutdown systems. • Integration of ambient seabed temperatures as provided by UK Met. • Composition tracking including the possibility to track user specified trace components. • Estimated arrival times and volumes of “off-specification” gas. • Tracking of the parentage of batches such that the party responsible for off-spec gas can be identified (polluter pays principle). • Facilities to restart models from historic data with the possibility to remove erroneous inputs. • Continuous running of look-ahead cases based on user defined transient time series and nominations for contractual exit points. • Using larger network models to plan and monitor mixing of gasses to prevent off-spec gas. Comparisons between simulated and measured values will be made to illustrate the accuracy of the hydraulic models. In addition, the application of Maximum Likelihood State Estimation will be discussed to demonstrate its effectiveness in overcoming measurement errors.

In order to decrease the false alarm rate and improve the sensitivity of pipeline fault diagnosis system, three artificial intelligence based methods are first proposed. Neural networks with the input matrix composed by stress wave characteristics in time domain or frequency domain is proposed to classify various situations of the pipeline, in order to detect the leakage from pipeline online running data. Context-free grammar of symbolic representation of the negative wave form is used and a negative wave form parsing system with application to syntactic pattern recognition based on the representation is described. New complex thermal and hydraulic models, in which the flow regime, viscosity-temperature characteristics, density-temperature characteristics and specific heat-temperature characteristics, etc., of the running fluid in the pipelines are set up for non-isothermal pipeline carrying higher temperature fluid or in ambient environment.

Abstract The industrial gas turbines must perform better and better with regards to emissions, fuel flexibility, load and ambient range and combustion stability. Industrial gas turbines with DLE (dry low emission) systems use a fuel split control to cope with most of these problems, but with the higher demand for fuel flexibility, it is not enough with fixed split values or quasi-active controls based on the root mean square (RMS) values of predefined filtered frequency bands of the combustion dynamics. An improvement can be done with the help of newer and better measurement systems with online spectral information and data acquisition capabilities used to control the fuel split. This will also allow accommodating a larger range of fuel compositions, variations in gas supply pressure and ambient operating conditions without additional gas turbine downtime. This paper describes how the new adaptive fuel split control, named “emission control trim” has been implemented and tested in a full-scale gas turbine rig and field tested at a customer site with Siemens Energy 3rd generation DLE gas turbines. The following full engine tests with the same burner type showed that the “emission control trim” controller is working as it was designed to, with safety measures included and the possibility to keep a NOx emission set point at different loads with optimized combustion dynamics. It also has the possibility to lower the emissions with up to 25% at certain conditions and still have the combustion dynamics under control. The robustness of the system has been satisfactory over the tested period. The results open the possibility of using the system more widely in all gas turbine configurations using DLE burners.