This book provides a general overview of virtual power plants (VPP) as a key technology in future energy communities and active distribution and transmission networks for managing distributed energy resources, providing local and global services, and facilitating market participation of small-scale managing distributed energy resources and prosumers. The book also aims at describing some practi…
Gender relations implicate power and male privilege. Prisons largely house underprivileged men. How then do incarcerated men negotiate masculinities when gender relations in society-at-large, power relations inside prisons, and masculine ideas and ideals continue to change? Drawing on a semi-ethnographic study in a men’s prison in Ukraine, I detail how the dynamic nature of gender normative i…
Movements in Organizational Communication Research is an essential resource for anyone wishing to become familiar with the current state of organizational communication research and key trends in the field.
This work briefly discusses the nexuses between digital technology development and adoption across societies, and its potential impact on overall welfare through women’s economic empowerment. In the first section it sets out the context and background. Next, Section 2 demonstrates the state of access to and the use of digital technologies across the world. Section 3 intends to trace the causa…
This chapter argues that AI ethics needs to engage with structures of power and inequalities. It draws lessons learned from critiques AI ethics has received of ineffectiveness and highlights that a key issue is the way mainstream ethics tends to systematically neglect power relations and structures of inequalities. The chapter then argues for a situated ethics. It points to the need to implemen…
This work analyses technological least-cost pathways for deep emission reductions in the European power sector. It seeks a better understanding of the role renewable energies play in the transformation process up to 2050. Therefore, a model is developed which optimises capacity expansion and hourly dispatch of both conventional and renewable power generation, transmission grids and storage faci…
Buku ini membahas topik yang sangat krusial bagi mahasiswa Fakultas Teknik (Teknik Elektro), khususnya mengenai modernisasi sistem tenaga listrik melalui Elektronika Daya dan Smart Grid. Selain itu, buku ini memaparkan secara komprehensif mengenai aplikasi konverter elektronika daya dalam ekosistem smart grid dan sistem energi terbarukan. Cakupan materi dalam karya ini meliputi strategi pengend…
"Cetakan ulang (reprint) ini menyoroti kemajuan terkini dalam teknologi tenaga fluida (fluid power) dengan menyajikan hasil penelitian dari berbagai aplikasi. Studi yang dipaparkan mencakup pengembangan pompa perpindahan tetap (constant) maupun variabel, dengan fokus utama pada peningkatan efisiensi, sistem kontrol, desain, serta reduksi riak tekanan (pressure ripple). Dalam lingkup tenaga flui…
The concept of information freshness has developed over the last few years into an active and rapidly growing area of research. It has become known as the Age of Information (AoI). After its initial formal introduction, it became clear that it was very relevant (if not crucial) for numerous applications, ranging from autonomous vehicle systems, the Internet of Things, real-time computing to dat…
The book examines the signifcant role played by radio in empowering women in three West African countries: Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The choice of these three countries enables a fair comparison: all three face similar social, economic and political problems, share similar religious, traditional and cultural backgrounds and, most importantly for this book, all suffer from similar, part…