Feasibility of a Cold Seawater Facility

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Rojas ◽  
Todd Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Tropical Island ◽  
Site Characteristics ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
The University ◽  
Design Experience

The students who participated in the Fall 2000 “design class” offered by the Department of Ocean and Resource Engineering at the University of Hawaii performed a preliminary design of a cold seawater facility at Kekaha, Hawaii. The course imparted a great deal of design experience, but more importantly it introduced the classmates to cold seawater as a developing resource with high potential. As the two students who participated in the design class, we were particularly impressed with this resource and convinced that cold seawater can feasibly be developed as a valuable resource for island communities. We collaborated to combine, condense and generalize the reports in an effort to familiarize other ocean engineers and island planners to this technology and its potential. This paper discusses several uses for cold seawater in tropical island settings and the site characteristics required to feasibly develop a land-based cold seawater facility. The preliminary design of a cold seawater facility at Kekaha is presented along with an economic analysis of its capital and operating costs.

Thoughts on the Monetary Value of Human Milk

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Nikki Lee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Human Milk ◽  
Peer Counseling ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Breastfeeding Support ◽  
Budget Planning ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Monetary Value

U.S. legislators have recently considered cutting funding for breastfeeding peer counseling. One reason why they might decide to make these cuts is that breastfeeding and human milk are invisible to them. It is easy to get rid of something that isn’t seen or valued. If there were a way to make this valuable resource—human milk—visible, and this information was given to our legislators, perhaps the door could be opened to including breastfeeding support in budget planning. Here is a step-by-step process to generate the value of human milk in your state or community, so that women’s contributions can be part of economic analysis.

Optimization Model for Parking in the Campus Environment

1996 ◽  
Vol 1564 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orikaye G. Brown-West
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Model ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Campus Planning ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Site Characteristics ◽  
Business District ◽  
The University

Parking has long been recognized as a major land use problem in campus planning. Anyone who drives an automobile appreciates the difficulties of finding a parking space in areas of intense academic, administrative, student residential, and recreational activities. This shortage of parking spaces near activity centers has worsened as automobile ownership and registration on campus have increased. The problem is more pronounced and the solution more critical on large urban campuses located in or at the periphery of the central business district. An approach to solving the chronic and prevalent parking problem in the campus environment is addressed. An institution-based and evaluative model is introduced as a tool to determine how best to use existing land in the competitive and oftentimes policy-driven university campus environment. Practical solutions that will assist in the proper planning and design of campus parking spaces and facilities are also developed. The optimization model design takes into account the major operational and site characteristics, as well as parameters that traffic engineers and planners consider conducive to optimal parking. The model will help traffic engineers, campus planners, and university administrators maximize land on the university campus. It will also answer the question of what principles should be adopted in the proper planning of facilities for the vehicle at rest within the context of a diminishing campus environment in general and inadequate funding for facilities renewal and maintenance in particular.

scholarly journals Conceptual provisions of information systematization to analyze the financial sustainability of the university

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 711-724
Author(s):  
Artem V. KRIVOSHEEV
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
Comparison Results ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree

Subject. This article explores the need of public sector organizations, and universities in particular, to classify the source data to conduct a reliable and trustworthy analysis of their financial stability. Objectives. The article aims to develop information support for a comprehensive economic analysis of the financial stability of the university by determining the sources of data used to analyze its financial stability. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of analysis, synthesis, and comparison. Results. Based on the study of accounting (financial) reporting indicators, the article proposes to determine three levels of data systematization, i.e. managerial, departmental, and public ones. The article substantiates proposals to clarify the provisions of the Instructions on the preparation, presentation of the annual, quarterly accounting of State (municipal) budgetary and autonomous institutions for economic analysis of the financial stability of public sector institutions. Conclusions. The current state of the methods used to assess financial stability makes it difficult to widely disseminate and implement them in the analytical activities of public sector institutions, including universities. Practical application of the original developments by grouping data sources to analyze the financial stability of the university, as well as the division of these groups into levels will help provide the most objective assessment, which will have a high degree of confidence in the assessment of the financial sustainability of budgetary and autonomous institutions of higher education.

scholarly journals Assistive Technology for Freshmen Design and K-12 Outreach

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devin R. Berg ◽  
Matthew Wigdahl ◽  
Charis D. Collins
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Design Project ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University ◽  
Design Experience

This Work in Progress paper presents on the design of project-based learning approach focused on assistive technology as applied in a freshmen level engineering course which also integrates outreach with the local K12 system. The university course targets general education topics as well as an introductory engineering design experience and includes content on the engineering design process, societal implications of engineering design, and a participatory lab-based design project. A partnering class of 5th graders from a local elementary school made use of a daily block of time set aside for academic interventions and individual project-based work to collaborate with the university class. A qualitative assessment was conducted and has thus far has revealed that the university students found the assistive technology theme of the semester-long design project to be meaningful. For the K12 students, the survey results and anecdotal observations suggest that we were only moderately successful in constructing a meaningful and purposeful design experience, from their perspective.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinarity as a Valuable Resource of Psycho-Economic Analysis of Pressing Problems of Modern Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
A. D. Karnyshev ◽  
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V. A. Reshetnikov ◽  
I. V. Yaroslavtseva ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Valuable Resource

scholarly journals Novel cellulose-based composites based on nanofibrillated plant and bacterial cellulose: recent advances at the University of Aveiro – a review

Holzforschung ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 603-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen S.R. Freire ◽  
Susana C.M. Fernandes ◽  
Armando J.D. Silvestre ◽  
Carlos Pascoal Neto
Keyword(s):  
Lactic Acid ◽  
Bacterial Cellulose ◽  
Present Article ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Poly Lactic Acid ◽  
Nano Materials ◽  
Paper Coating ◽  
Polymeric Matrices ◽  
Packaging Paper ◽  
The University

Abstract The development of (nano)materials based on the renewable cellulose is a challenge. The present article provides a brief overview of the recent research efforts carried out at the CICECO Laboratory of the University of Aveiro on the development of novel composites based on nanofibrillated plant and bacterial cellulose embedded in natural and synthetic polymeric matrices such as poly(lactic acid), chitosan, starch, and pullulan. These materials have high potential for applications in packaging, paper coating, organic electronics, and biomedical products and devices.

Using Expert Knowledge to Develop a Vulnerability and Adaptation Framework and Methodology for Application in Tropical Island Communities

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Mcleod ◽  
Brian Szuster ◽  
Emma L. Tompkins ◽  
Nadine Marshall ◽  
Thomas Downing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Tropical Island ◽  
Island Communities
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