Public Electricity Supply in Portuguese Guinea, 1930-1974
HoSTGuinea-Bissau has a chronically underperforming electricity sector that fails to provide most of the population outside of the capital, Bissau, with access to electricity – nowadays considered a basic human need.
Stoppok Manfred
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The Evolution of American Microtargeting: An Examination of Trends in Political Messaging [PDF]
, 2014 The usage of targeted messaging by political campaigns has seen a drastic evolution over the past half-century. Through advancement in campaign technology, and an increasingly large amount of personal information up for sale, campaigns have continually ...
Bunting, Luke
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Graphical Reconstruction of the Lost Paper Mill at Locks 11–12 of the Canal de Castilla
HeritageNear the 11–12 locks of the Canal de Castilla, there once stood a paper mill built in the 18th century and dismantled in 1983. Despite the scarce physical remains, the absence of original plans, and the limited availability of data, this research aims to
José M Geijo-Barrientos +3 more
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Surveillance, integrity and metadata in the information age
LychnosIn August 1994, the Prime Minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, publicly announced the formation of The Information and Communication Technology Commission.
Peter Bennesved
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Technology Push, Demand Pull And The Shaping Of Technological Paradigms - Patterns In The Development Of Computing Technology [PDF]
An assumption generally subscribed in evolutionary economics is thatnew technological paradigms arise from advances is science anddevelopments in technological knowledge.
Dolfsma, W.A., Ende, J.C.M. van den
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The anglocentric tendency in the history of information engineering [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines the anglocentric nature of much writing on the history of technology, taking as an example important research results from the first half of the last century published in German and Russian in the field of information engineering. By ‘
Bissell, Christopher
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The role of technology and institutions for growth: Danish creameries in the late nineteenth century [PDF]
We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic growth through the investigation of a natural experiment in history: the almost simultaneous introduction of the automatic cream separator and the cooperative ...
Ingrid Henriksen +2 more
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Under the historian’s radar: Local water-supply practices in Nairobi, 1940-1980
Water Alternatives, 2020 By presenting oral history material from two informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, the article illustrates how inhabitants during the period 1940 to 1980 acquired and used water on a daily basis.
Jethron Ayumbah Akallah, Mikael Hård
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The role of fuel cells in NASA's space power systems [PDF]
A history of the fuel cell technology is presented and compared with NASA's increasing space power requirements. The role of fuel cells is discussed in perspective with other energy storage systems applicable for space using such criteria as type of ...
Been, J. F.
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