scholarly journals Cornucopia: The Concept of Digital Gastronomy

Leonardo ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 425-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Zoran ◽  
Marcelo Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
And Control

The authors present a new concept of digital gastronomy—Cornucopia, a futuristic cooking methodology based on digital technologies. They discuss how they have merged kitchen tools with science fiction and actual technologies to create this new design space for gastronomy. The Virtuoso Mixer, the Digital Fabricator and the Robotic Chef were conceptualized to enable more flexibility and control over each of the most important elements of cooking: mixing ingredients, modeling food shapes and transforming edible matter from one state to another. The authors discuss related work and ideas, present their designs and propose their vision for the emerging design space of digital gastronomy.

Digital technologies and the violent surveillance of nonbinary gender

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jama Shelton ◽  
Kel Kroehle ◽  
Emilie K. Clark ◽  
Kristie Seelman ◽  
SJ Dodd
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Predictive Policing ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Control

The enforcement of the gender binary is a root cause of gender-based violence (GBV) for trans people. Disrupting GBV requires that we ensure that ‘gender’ is not presumed synonymous with White cisgender womanhood. Transfeminists suggest that attaining gender equity requires confronting all forms of oppression that police people and their bodies, including White supremacy, colonialism and capitalism (Silva and Ornat, 2016; Simpkins, 2016). Part of this project, we argue, includes confronting the structures of GBV embedded within digital technologies that are increasingly part of our everyday lives. Informed by transfeminist theory (Koyama, 2003; Stryker and Bettcher, 2016; Simpkins, 2016; Weerawardhana, 2018), we interrogate the ways in which digital technologies naturalise and reinforce GBV against bodies marked as divergent. We examine the subtler ways that digital technology can fortify binary gender as a mechanism of power and control. We highlight how gendered forms of data violence cannot be disentangled from digital technologies that surveil, police or punish on the basis of race, nationhood and citizenship, particularly in relation to predictive policing practices. We conclude with recommendations to guide technological development to reduce the violence enacted upon trans people and those whose gender presentations transgress society’s normative criteria for what constitutes a compliant (read: appropriately gendered) citizen.<br /><br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Violence against trans people is inherently gender-based.</li><br /><li>A root cause of gender-based violence against trans people is the strict reinforcement of the gender binary.</li><br /><li>Digital technology and predictive policing can fortify binary gender as a mechanism of power and control.</li><br /><li>Designers of digital technologies and the policymakers regulating surveillance capitalism must interrogate the ways in which their work upholds the gender binary and gender-based violence against trans people.</li></ul>

scholarly journals Research on the Evolution of Methodological Approaches to Accounting and Auditing of Estimated Values in the Context of Digitalization

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
I. N. Bogataya ◽  
E. M. Evstaf’eva
Keyword(s):  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Information Base ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Sound Management ◽  
And Control ◽  
Current Stage

The article is devoted to the issues of development of methodological approaches to accounting and auditing of estimated values and their changes in the conditions of digitalization. The purpose of the research is to study modern methodological approaches to accounting and auditing of estimated values, taking into account the specifics of the current stage of digital transformation, and to develop the main directions for their improvement in order to improve the quality of the information base in order to be able to make sound management decisions. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research consists of the evolutionary-adaptive theory, balance sheet theory, risk-based approach, methods contained in IFRS, ISA, FSB in the field of accounting and auditing of estimated values, regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, research in the field of modern international and Russian accounting and auditing practice. The research methodology included a review of accounting and auditing practices in the field of estimated values. The main features of accounting and auditing of estimated values are defined. Methodological approaches to improving accounting and auditing of estimated values that are based on digital technologies are proposed. Implementation of the proposed methodological approaches to accounting and auditing of estimated values in the context of digitalization will significantly improve the quality of accounting and control support for business.

Technology and In/equality, Questioning the Information Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Flis Henwood ◽  
Sally Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Discrimination And Oppression ◽  
And Control ◽  
Key Terms

Abstract At the beginning of the 21st century, we co-edited a book called Technology and In/equality, Questioning the information Society. In that book, we focused on access and control of media technology, education and skills with a particular focus on gender and global economic development. The editors and contributors were all committed to approaching teaching and research about digital technologies and society from an interdisciplinary perspective. In this article, we reflect on how the debates about digital inequalities have developed over the past 20 years, and on our current understanding of “technology” and “in/equality,” the key terms in the title of the book. In this article, we examine what has stayed the same and what has changed, through the lens of gender. We argue that while digital technologies have clearly changed, inequalities have persisted. Contrary to popular belief, access is still an issue for the global south, as well as for marginalised communities throughout the world. We also show how gender inequalities and hierarchies are reproduced in digital spaces, demonstrating that even where women have equal access, possibilities for discrimination and oppression remain. We conclude by arguing that there remain important tasks for scholars of technology and new media, namely to monitor the material and symbolic significance of new technological developments as they emerge and to examine the ways in which they may reflect and re-produce social inequalities.

Modernization of the Safety I&C at the Dukovany VVER 440/213 Nuclear Power Plant

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Palaric ◽  
Philippe Rebreyend ◽  
Philippe Mouly ◽  
Claude Esmenjaud ◽  
Frantisˇek Dalik
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Organization ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Main Design ◽  
And Control

The modernization of the Dukovany nuclear power plant (four VVER 440 MWe reactor units owned by CˇEZ, the Czech national utility) is presented with a special focus on the digital safety instrumentation and control (I&C) system. The first Unit has been successfully modernized in compliance with the initial schedule. The following matters are further discussed in this paper: • Goal, scope and industrial organization of this modernization, • Main design criteria and I&C architecture, • Digital technologies in use, • Design and Licensing processes, • On-site installation strategy and main milestones, • Progress of work.

scholarly journals Counting sleep: Ambiguity, aspirational control and the politics of digital self-tracking at work

Organization ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 135050842097047
Author(s):  
Kasper Trolle Elmholdt ◽  
Claus Elmholdt ◽  
Lars Haahr
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Energy Company ◽  
Remote Management ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
And Control

Existing perspectives on normative and aspirational control have undertheorised how digital technologies such as digital self-tracking might alter what kinds of control is possible in the workplace. This article remedies this lack by studying the affordances of digital self-tracking in the workplace. Empirically, we draw on a case study of digital sleeptracking in relation to a well-being initiative in a private energy company, Encorp. Our analysis reveals how digital self-tracking affords body visibility and remote management but also creates affordance opacity and an ambiguous space of autonomy and control. We theorise how digital self-tracking in the workplace both enables new forms of aspirational control, and creates ambiguity and new limits to control. We conclude by discussing challenges and opportunities for future research on digital self-tracking in the workplace.

scholarly journals Integrated wind farm layout and control optimization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mads M. Pedersen ◽  
Gunner C. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Wind Farm Layout ◽  
Control Optimization ◽  
Mean Wind Speed ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract. Design of an optimal wind farm topology and wind farm control scheduling depends on the chosen metric. The objective of this paper is to investigate the influence of optimal wind farm control on the optimal wind farm layout in terms of power production. A successful fulfilment of this goal requires: 1) an accurate and fast flow model; 2) selection of the minimum set of design parameters that rules the problem; and 3) selection of an optimization algorithm with good scaling properties. For control of the individual wind farm turbines, the two most obvious strategies are wake steering based on active wind turbine yaw control and wind turbine derating. The present investigation is a priori limited to wind turbine derating. A high-speed linearized CFD RANS solver models the flow field and the crucial wind turbine wake interactions inside the wind farm. The actuator disk method is used to model the wind turbines, and utilizing an aerodynamic model, the design space of the optimization problem is reduced to only three variables per turbine – two geometric and one carefully selected variable specifying the individual wind turbine derating setting for each mean wind speed and direction. The full design space spanned by these (2N + Nd Ns N) parameters, where N is the number of wind farm turbines, Nd is the number of direction bins, and Ns is the number of mean wind speed bins. This design space is decomposed in two subsets, which in turn define a nested set of optimization problems to achieve the fastest possible optimization procedure. Following a simplistic sanity check of the platform functionality regarding wind farm layout and control optimization, the capabilities of the developed optimization platform is demonstrated on the Swedish offshore wind farm. For this particular wind farm, the analysis demonstrates that the expected annual energy production can be increased by 4 % by integrating the wind farm control in the design of the wind farm layout, which is 1.2 % higher than what is achieved by optimizing the layout only.

scholarly journals Digital Technologies in the Organization of Accounting and Control of Calculations for Tax Liabilities of Budgetary Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Syrtseva ◽  
Svitlana Burlan ◽  
Natalia Katkova ◽  
Yuliia Cheban ◽  
Tetiana Pisochenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Tax Administration ◽  
Administration System ◽  
Budgetary Institutions ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
And Control

The purpose of the study is to identify areas and form mechanisms for improving the organization of accounting and control of calculations for tax liabilities of budgetary institutions based on the introduction of digital technologies. The relevance of this study is due to the need to solve the problem of modernization of the tax administration system by implementation modern information and analytical resource of the tax service. The study proved that creation of a modern information and analytical resource of the tax service optimizes the system of accounting and control, which will lead to the introduction of more effective mechanisms for tax administration, de-shadowing of the economy and increasing control over cash circulation. Digitization of accounting and control of calculations of tax liabilities of budgetary institutions will help increase the level of tax culture, which will also significantly contribute to improving tax discipline.

scholarly journals Integrated wind farm layout and control optimization

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1551-1566
Author(s):  
Mads M. Pedersen ◽  
Gunner C. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Wind Farm Layout ◽  
Control Optimization ◽  
Mean Wind Speed ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Full Design ◽  
And Control ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract. The objective of this paper is to investigate the joint optimization of wind farm layout and wind farm control in terms of power production. A successful fulfilment of this goal requires the following: (1) an accurate and fast flow model, (2) selection of the minimum set of design parameters that rules or governs the problem, and (3) selection of an optimization algorithm with good scaling properties. For control of the individual wind farm turbines with the aim of wind farm production optimization, the two most obvious strategies are wake steering based on active wind turbine yaw control and wind turbine derating. The present investigation is limited to wind turbine derating. A high-speed linearized computational fluid dynamics (CFD) Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) solver models the flow field and the crucial wind turbine wake interactions inside the wind farm. The actuator disc method is used to model the wind turbines, and utilizing an aerodynamic model, the design space of the optimization problem is reduced to only three variables per turbine – two geometric and one carefully selected variable specifying the individual wind turbine derating setting for each mean wind speed and direction. The full design space is spanned by these (2N+NdNsN) parameters, where N is the number of wind farm turbines, Nd is the number of direction bins, and Ns is the number of mean wind speed bins. This design space is decomposed into two subsets, which in turn define a nested set of optimization problems to achieve a significantly faster optimization procedure compared to a direct optimization based on the full design space. Following a simplistic sanity check of the platform functionality regarding wind farm layout and control optimization, the capability of the developed optimization platform is demonstrated on a Swedish offshore wind farm. For this particular wind farm, the analysis demonstrates that the expected annual energy production can be increased by 4 % by integrating the wind farm control into the design of the wind farm layout, which is 1.2 % higher than what is achieved by optimizing the layout only.

Engineering real success using digital technologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 586
Author(s):  
Craig Phasey ◽  
Steve Ashfield
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Business Press ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
And Control

The business press is full of articles extolling the benefits of digital transformation. Although no one wants to be left behind, getting caught up in a craze is not attractive either. But oil and gas companies have used digital technologies, such as computers and control systems for years; how is digitalisation different? The key difference between a company with digital systems and a ‘digital company’ is connection. The former is characterised by disparate, unconnected digital systems, whereas the ‘digital company’ integrates the company’s systems, improving the precision of each. This enables integrated solutions, reducing the potential for counterproductive individual initiatives. Integration enables Big Data and Machine Learning, delivering additional insights. However, integration is not a universal good; as knowledge acquisition has accelerated, so has misinformation. There are better and worse ways to digitalise. Acknowledgement that digitalisation is the way of the future will not induce change or ensure success. Digitalisation is an alternative method to achieve business goals; it is not the goal. To achieve real success using digital technologies, first a significant need must be identified. The root cause of the major business problems must be discovered before appropriate digital technologies to address those problems are selected. The challenge must be led and supported at the C-suite and the solutions must have enterprise-wide impact. Systems engineering digitalisation creates value through a set of initiatives rather than single-point optimisation. Selection of a suitable scalable digital backbone is a key element of successful implementation.

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