scholarly journals Removing chromium and lead metals using phytoremediation technique

2018 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 05004
Author(s):  
Riyad Al-Anbari ◽  
Abdul-Hameed Al-Obaidy ◽  
Mahmoud Al-Khafaji ◽  
Tiba Al-Imari
Keyword(s):  
Water Desalination ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Nerium Oleander ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Construction Engineering ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Cr Concentration ◽  
June July ◽  
The University

Phytoremediation technique uses plants parts to remove, extract, and absorb heavy or toxic matter from soil and water. In the present study, Catharanthusroseus (Periwinkle) and Nerium Oleander (Oleander) were used for removing Chromium (Cr) and Lead (Pb) metals. These plant species were seeded in polyethylene pots containing 8kg of soil. Each pot was irrigated with wastewater for four months (May, June, July and August) and accumulation of the considered metals was analyzed after every month for leaf, stem and root by using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS). This experimental work was carried out in the laboratories of Water Desalination Researches Unit - Building and Construction Engineering Department and Environmental Research Centre at the University of Technology in Baghdad City, Iraq. The concentration of Cr was found to be increased with time. High Cr concentration, 20.34 mg/kg, was recorded at August in leaf of Periwinkle and 19.61 mg/kg in root of Oleander in case of using 100% wastewater (WW). While, for Pb, the maximum concentration, 22 mg/kg, was recorded in June in leaf of Periwinkle and 19.5 mg/kg in steam of Oleander. Accordingly, Oleander has the maximum removal efficiency.

scholarly journals Civil Society: Overlapping Frames

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-68
Author(s):  
Bronwen Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Faculty Research ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal ◽  
Civil Societies

The social sciences are bedeviled by terminological promiscuity.  Terms and phrases are used at one time in a certain context and later borrowed and applied in different circumstances to somewhat different phenomena. Sometimes different groups of actors or researchers simultaneously use the same term with somewhat different meanings. Such is the use of the term civil society. In this 5th Anniversary of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, it is timely to trace the evolution of the idea of civil society to its multiple guises in the present. The paper reviews the term’s 18th and 19th century roots, its recent resurrection and the opposing views of civil society, including views that question its applicability to non-western settings. It then discusses prospects for developing agreed approaches to the study of civil society. To guide our thinking the paper presents a brief overview of different approaches to defining civil society taken by some of the major so-called centres for civil society in Australia and internationally. The paper concludes by reflecting on these definitional challenges as it has played out at one particular cross faculty research centre, the University of Technology, Sydney’s Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre.

Innovation in Engineering Mechanics Course Instructions: A Novel Practice

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihua Huang ◽  
Yuefang Wang ◽  
Feng Jiang
Keyword(s):  
College Education ◽  
Hydraulic Engineering ◽  
Teaching System ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Technology Age ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Engineering Mechanics ◽  
Course Innovation ◽  
The University

The course innovation in Engineering Mechanics in the Civil and Hydraulic Engineering Department, Dalian University of Technology is reviewed in this paper. For several decades, a complete system of mechanics teaching has been built up in the University. However, some drawbacks have appeared showing the system not apt to the information-technology age. In order to improve the teaching of Mechanics subjects and make it more suitable for the modern college education, a course innovation has been carried out since 1997 in the Civil and Hydraulic Engineering Department. The innovation includes the following perspectives: the construction of a new Mechanics teaching system, the adoption of new teaching methods, the edition of textbooks and the enforcement of experiments and practices. After a long time of practice, a new teaching system has been formulated and a much class time has been saved. Meanwhile, the qualification-oriented education rather than the examination-oriented education is emphasized. It is demonstrated that students benefit from this course innovation for not only mastering the knowledge from textbooks better, but also for greatly improving their abilities of analyzing and solving engineering problems.

scholarly journals Information Practices in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Civil Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Information Research ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The University ◽  
Constructivist Approaches

What is the nature of information?  What is its role in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Civil Society? What is the basis for the widespread current belief that we live in an ‘information society’? The present article will examine these questions through an examination of the historical origins of established ‘scientized’ views of information in the philosophy of the Enlightenment. It describes how postmodern and poststructuralist critique of such positivist approaches led to profound paradigmatic and methodological shifts in the social and information studies fields in recent decades. It consider how the emergence of social constructivist approaches to information research drawing on discourse analysis, practice theory and ethnographic theories and methodologies has led to a have led researchers to a radically different understanding of central concepts such as: the influence of emergent information and communication technologies on contemporary society; the relationship between knowledge and power, the nature of expertise and authoritative information; a re-thinking of community and consensus; a re-interpretation of notions of space and place in information dissemination, sharing and use and a reconsideration of the role of the researcher. The article illustrates this changing research landscape through reference to the work of scholars in the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney, published in the Centre’s journal.

Performance Improvement of a Conventional Hydraulic Elevator by Using Electro-Hydraulic Servo Mechanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5A) ◽  
pp. 748-760
Author(s):  
Jamal AK. Mohammed ◽  
Walaa M. Hashim ◽  
Bahaa S. Beram
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Prototype Model ◽  
Labview Software ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Servo Mechanism ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Hydraulic Servo ◽  
New Type ◽  
The University ◽  
Electrical Components

An electro-hydraulic elevator is a new type of enhanced elevators that are used in low-rise buildings that do not exceed more than three floors. In this paper, an electro-hydraulic servo system for controlling the speed of a hydraulic elevator prototype by using a proportional valve and PID controller was investigated theoretically and experimentally. A three floors elevator prototype model with 76cm height was built including hydraulics components and electrical components. The elevator system is fully automated using the Arduino UNO board based Data Acquisition (DAQ) system. LabVIEW software is used to control the hydraulic elevator system through L298 DC drive via the DAQ board. The best PID gains was obtained experimentally. The elevator system prototype could be emplimented for educational purposes; such as learning the undergraduate students in the Electromechanical Engineering Department in the University of Technology how to structuring the electro-hydraulic elevator as well as the appropriate control strategy. 

scholarly journals Editors' welcome, PORTAL, Vol 7, No 1, January 2010

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Allatson
Keyword(s):  
Culture Wars ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Place Memory ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Intercultural Research ◽  
The University

‘Fields of Remembrace,’ is a special issue of PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies guest-edited by Matthew Graves (University of Provence) and Elizabeth Rezniewski (University of Sydney). The issue focuses on what the guest editors call the ‘world-wide turn to commemoration in recent years,’ which is typified by the diverse drives by states, organisations, institutions and interest groups to reclaim spaces for overlooked, disputed and/or rehistoricised and refashioned memories in ways that appear to place memory at discursive odds with history. Taking a transcultural rather than transnational approach to the memory-history dyad, and attending to the potential abuses of history as pasts are rehistoricised and refashioned in line with contemporary political and cultural paradigms, the special issue makes an important contribution to contemporary memory debates. It is also a timely contribution, given the vituperative qualities of so-called history and culture wars in Australia, the USA, many parts of Europe, and throughout many parts of the decolonised world. The contributions to the special issue were first presented at a workshop entitled ‘Histories of Forgetting and Remembering’ in October 2008. The workshop was jointly sponsored by the faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney, which hosted the event, and the Transforming Cultures Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney. The special issue is dedicated to the memory of François Poirier (1947-2010), Director of the Centre for Intercultural Research in the English- and French-speaking Worlds, at the University of Paris XIII, who showed the way as one of the first scholars in France to work on the transnational dimension of memory studies: ‘Whispering lunar incantations / Dissolve the floors of memory’ (TS Eliot).

scholarly journals “Don’t mention it…”: what government wants to hear and why about multicultural Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Andrew Jakubowicz
Keyword(s):  
Research Policy ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The People ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Multicultural Research ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Multicultural Affairs

Research into migration, settlement, racism and multiculturalism has been a major theme of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney, since its inception in 2006. In this article the author, a scholar with over forty years of research experience in this thematic area, draws on his experience of the interaction between research, policy and politics to argue that independent research that tackles difficult questions can contribute to wider social understanding of difficult issues. He demonstrates the impact both of the investment in and expansion of research, and the contrary contraction and deprivation of resources. Key research exercises discussed include the Henderson Poverty Inquiry, Jean Martin’s 1970s study of the first Indochinese arrivals, the Galbally Report, the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs, the Bureau of Immigration Population and Multicultural Research, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Eureka Harmony reports, the Challenging Racism project, the Scanlon Social Cohesion project, and The People of Australia report.

MAKING IT GREEN: THE FOOD PACKAGING PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES OF YOUNG CONSUMERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Norsyamira Shahrin ◽  
Rabiatul Adawiyah Abd Rahman ◽  
Noorliza Zainol ◽  
Noor Saliza Salmi ◽  
Mohd Faisal Abdul Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Food Handler ◽  
Polystyrene Foam ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Young Consumers ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

Food handler still fails to play their part even when the government imposes “No Plastic Bag” campaign and a ban on polystyrene foam to pack foods. This research focuses on eco-friendly food packaging based on the perception and practice of young consumers, especially the undergraduates of Mara University of Technology Penang Campus (UiTMPP). Questionnaire was constructed and distributed to 315 respondents.  The collected data were analyzed with simple descriptive statistic of frequency, mean and standard deviation. Most of the respondents are aware on eco-friendlyfood packaging. They agreed that the university should propose some alternative to control and reduce non-biodegradable foods packaging. 

Numerical Modeling of the RDE

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Folusiak ◽  
Karol Swiderski ◽  
Piotr Wolański
Keyword(s):  
Combustion Chamber ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Rotating Detonation Engine ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Detonation Combustion ◽  
Detonation Engine ◽  
Innovative Economy ◽  
Turboshaft Engine ◽  
The University ◽  
Rotating Detonation

AbstractThe idea of using the phenomenon of rotating detonation to propulsion has its roots in fifties of the last century in works of Adamson et al. and Nicholls et al. at the University of Michigan. The idea was recently reinvented and experimental research and numerical simulations on the Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) are carried in numerous institutions worldwide, in Poland at Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) since 2004. Over the period 2010-2014 WUT and Institute of Aviation (IOA) jointly implemented the project under the Innovative Economy Operational Programme entitled ‘Turbine engine with detonation combustion chamber’. The goal of the project was to replace the combustion chamber of turboshaft engine GTD-350 with the annular detonation chamber.This paper is focused on investigation of the influence of a geometry and flow conditions on the structure and propagation stability of the rotating detonation wave. Presented results are in majority an outcome of the aforementioned programme, in particular authors’ works on the development of the in-house code REFLOPS USG and its application to simulation of the rotating detonation propagation in the RDE.

scholarly journals Interview with Stuart Walker

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (43) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Marilia Riul ◽  
Ingrid Moura Wanderley ◽  
Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Social System ◽  
Design Research ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Design For Sustainability ◽  
The University

Stuart Walker is Professor of Design for Sustainability and Co-Director of the Imagination Lancaster design research Centre at Lancaster University. Focused on design for sustainability; product aesthetics and meaning; practice-based design research and product design that explores and expresses both human values and notions of spirituality. He was interviewed in his second visit to Brazil to attend the Conference and Workshop "Design and the national policy of solid waste: dialogues on sustainability," held in the Sustainability Laboratory (Lassu) at the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2013, an activity of the research project sponsored by CNPq: Product design, sustainability and national policy on solid waste, coordinated by Professor Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos. Through the suggested questions, Professor Stuart Walker built a severe critique of our social system of mass production and reminded us that values really matter to our journey.

scholarly journals Debunking the Apartheid Spatial Grid: Developing a Socially Just Architecture Curriculum at a University of Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Asanda Ngoasheng
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Student Body ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Curriculum Intervention ◽  
Spatial Grid ◽  
The University ◽  
Current Curriculum

Traditional universities are often interrogated on their pedagogic underpinnings, while universities of technology are often left unchallenged on knowledge production. Universities of technology are often assumed to be transformed because they are a post-apartheid creation, with a mainly black, working-class student body. This assumption has led to little interrogation of the university of technology and its relationship with knowledge production. This paper explores the nature of curriculum contestation and reform at a university of technology. It outlines the historical context of a university of technology and its approach to curriculum development, which has implications for current curriculum transformation efforts. Using autoethnographic research methodology, the paper tracks a multi-year journey towards the development of a transformative, socially just curriculum intervention in the extended curriculum programme for the Architecture and Interior Design programme at a university of technology. The paper concludes that curriculum change does not happen in a vacuum, that it is political, difficult and emotionally taxing, and that it is best done in collaboration with different education stakeholders.

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