A Computer Column for All Seasons

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Margaret Boone

This Computer Column introduces two development anthropologists. Ron Nunn tells us about the importance of the microcomputer in development consulting both as a research tool and as a form of technology transfer. Adam Koons follows with some interesting news about his use of electronic mail to coauthor a paper with a colleague in the field, halfway around the world.

This paper critically analyzes the symbolic use of rain in A Farewell to Arms (1929). The researcher has applied the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis as a research tool for the analysis of the text. This hypothesis argues that the languages spoken by a person determine how one observes this world and that the peculiarities encoded in each language are all different from one another. It affirms that speakers of different languages reflect the world in pretty different ways. Hemingway’s symbolic use of rain in A Farewell to Arms (1929) is denotative, connotative, and ironical. The narrator and protagonist, Frederick Henry symbolically embodies his own perceptions about the world around him. He time and again talks about rain when something embarrassing is about to ensue like disease, injury, arrest, retreat, defeat, escape, and even death. Secondly, Hemingway has connotatively used rain as a cleansing agent for washing the past memories out of his mind. Finally, the author has ironically used rain as a symbol when Henry insists on his love with Catherine Barkley while the latter being afraid of the rain finds herself dead in it.


Tempo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-481
Author(s):  
Malyn Newitt

Abstract: Portuguese creoles were instrumental in bringing sub-Saharan Africa into the intercontinental systems of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. In the Atlantic Islands a distinctive creole culture emerged, made up of Christian emigrants from Portugal, Jewish exiles and African slaves. These creole polities offered a base for coastal traders and became politically influential in Africa - in Angola creating their own mainland state. Connecting the African interior with the world economy was largely on African terms and the lack of technology transfer meant that the economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world inexorably widened. African slaves in Latin America adapted to a society already creolised, often through adroit forms of cultural appropriation and synthesis. In eastern Africa Portuguese worked within existing creolised Islamic networks but the passage of their Indiamen through the Atlantic created close links between the Indian Ocean and Atlantic commercial systems.


1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-238
Author(s):  
Peter Tanner

The British Technology Group, an organization at the forefront of technology transfer, has recently concluded another highly successful year with expansion in all areas of its business. The key to this is the combination and breadth of technical, commercial, patenting and legal skills which are encompassed in a single organization. The group has recently taken a number of initiatives to license its total portfolio of inventions more widely internationally as well as promoting new areas of business, all directed at consolidating its position as the leading technology transfer organization in the world.


Jurnal Teknik ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Triyono Suryo Atmojo

Technological developments have left people tend to get used to working with the aid of automatic devices. The research that led to the automation has also been developed such as the detection of acid-base degree. The detector uses an Arduino Uno microcontroller components as the brains to run the program, and the pH sensor (Power of Hydrogen) as input that detect the state of a solution. In this solution and research tool used can be planned a new system. The system uses a microcontroller as a liaison between chemistry with the world of electrical technology. Produce percentage is almost close to perfect, as evidenced by the accuracy of the output of which is detected by a detector. In this study, the authors designed a detector-based acid-base arduino uno. The aim is to produce an acid-base detector with high accuracy than litmus paper sold in the market. With the alkaline acid detection devices are expected to ease the food industry, restaurants, and households in the detection of acid-base automatically. With an accuracy of ± 0.5 pH (25˚C).


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Lemley

Traditional justifications for patents are all based on direct or indirectcontribution to the creation of new products. Patents serve the socialinterest if they provide not just invention, but innovation the world wouldnot otherwise have. Non-practicing entities (NPEs) as well asproduct-producing companies can sometimes provide such innovation, eitherdirectly, through working the patent or transfer of technology to otherswho do, or indirectly, when others copy the patented innovation. Theavailable evidence suggests, however, that patent licensing demands andlawsuits from NPEs are normally not cases that involve any of theseactivities.Some scholars have argued that patents can be valuable even withouttechnology transfer because the ability to exclude others from the marketmay drive commercialization that would not otherwise occur. We demonstratethat even if various commercialization theories can sometimes justifypatent protection, they cannot justify most NPE lawsuits or licensingdemands.


Author(s):  
Vardan Mkrttchian ◽  
Serge V. Chernyshenko ◽  
Mikhail Ivanov

Technology transfer is considered as one of the most important instruments of national and regional economic growth in such countries as world leaders such as the United States, Japan, the European Union, China, and others. The importance of developing this direction is not in doubt. It invests a lot of money, is supported at the legislative level. The activity of technology transfer centers is aimed at commercialization of the results obtained in different organizations of the world, ensuring the acceleration of solving technical problems of enterprises, improving the quality and reducing the cost of their products, and developing new types of products. The main goal of the Center is to facilitate the transfer of the Internet intellectual innovative technologies and blockchain technologies developed both in the Republic of Armenia and in the Armenian Diaspora to ensure sustainable growth of the economy, increase the competitiveness of industry, agriculture, science and education, tourism and business attractiveness Republic of Armenia and Artsakh Republic.


2002 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 379-388
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Mazzarella ◽  

AbstractWe live in an exciting era that offers increasing opportunities for people all over the world to make discoveries about the Universe using interconnected archives on the Internet as a primary research tool. We review how NED (http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu) can be used in concert with globally distributed online archives to perform multi-wavelength, crosscorrelated studies of AGNs and other galaxy types. The present status and planned evolution of NED capabilities are discussed.


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