Multispecies Swarm Electrification for Rural Areas of the Developing World

RURAL ELECTRIFICATION projects in developing countries

OR has traditionally focused on the optimization of commercial companies’ problems in developed countries. However, it can also be used to solve social problems and to promote human development. OR for development deals with classical routing, location, planning and scheduling problems, as well as social constraints and requirements. These OR applications are mathematically as challenging as an...

developing a pattern based on speech acts and language functions for developing materials for the course “ the study of islamic texts translation”

هدف پژوهش حاضر ارائه ی الگویی بر اساس کنش گفتار و کارکرد زبان برای تدوین مطالب درس "بررسی آثار ترجمه شده ی اسلامی" می باشد. در الگوی جدید، جهت تدوین مطالب بهتر و جذاب تر، بر خلاف کتاب-های موجود، از مدل های سطوح گفتارِ آستین (1962)، گروه بندی عملکردهای گفتارِ سرل (1976) و کارکرد زبانیِ هالیدی (1978) بهره جسته شده است. برای این منظور، 57 آیه ی شریفه، به صورت تصادفی از بخش-های مختلف قرآن انتخاب گردید...

Expanding Electricity Access to Remote Areas: Off-Grid Rural Electrification in Developing Countries

Development: The World Bank Group’s mission is to work for a world without poverty. An important part of this mission is expanding access to modern energy services for an estimated two billion people who still lack such services (World Bank 1996, ESMAP 2000c). Expanded access to energy services is inexorably linked to today’s transforming energy sector. Although ongoing reforms are showing succ...

Rural Electrification

CAM: A Mobile Paper-Based Information Services Architecture for Remote Rural Areas in the Developing World

During our work with microfinance groups in rural India, we found that paper plays a crucial role in many local information practices. However, paperbased record keeping can be inefficient, so we need to link paper with the flexibility of modern information tools. A mobile phone can be the perfect bridging device. Here we present the CAM mobile document processing system, in which a camera-equi...