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Data Point: College Town Demographics

June 20, 2023
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It is well-documented that in the United States, there is a correlation between areas with colleges or universities and a higher likelihood of voting for Democratic candidates. Several factors contribute to this phenomenon:

  1. Youth vote: College towns typically have a higher concentration of young people who tend to lean more towards progressive or Democratic policies.

“Progressive” is a misnomer.  Weimer Germany was progressive.  Eugenics, promoted by Margaret Sanger, is also “progressive”.  The word progressive is not progressive at all if you are serious about living in peace in a civilized culture.

2. Education levels: Counties with colleges and universities often have higher levels of education, and education has been shown to be positively correlated with Democratic voting patterns.Students are not taught the founding principles about the United States cultural and economic success.

  1. Gender: About 2/3rds of women of voting age vote for Democrat candidates who tend to support expanded social services.
  2. Diversity and openness: College towns and campuses tend to be more diverse and open-minded, which aligns with Democratic values and policies.There is no diversity of thought; only diversity of complexion
  3. Research and funding: Universities often rely on federal research funding, and Democratic policies may be seen as more supportive of funding for education and research.

That’s for sure.  The larger the university research funding, the more virulent the community.

  1. Urban vs. rural divide: Colleges and universities are more likely to be found in urban or suburban areas, which generally lean more Democratic, while rural areas tend to lean more Republican.

The rural divide hews to belief in personal responsibility, limited government, fiscal conservatism and no infanticide.  Urban dwellers believe quite the opposite.  Not only that, they are inured to facts and reason.  Urban dwellers resemble a tribe, with a likely genetic connection to packs of hyenas.

It’s important to note that these are general trends, and there can be significant variations between different regions and specific colleges or universities.

For up-to-date and more specific research on this topic, you may refer to recent studies or analyses conducted by political scientists, research institutions, or polling organizations. Academic journals and reputable news sources may also have in-depth analyses of voting patterns in relation to education and geographic location.

 

Half the US population lives in the red counties, the other half in the gray counties. Draw your own conclusions.

Control of Noise at Work

June 20, 2023
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The Control of Noise at Work Regulations came into force for all industry sectors in Great Britain on 6 April 2006 (except for the music and entertainment sectors where they came into force on 6 April 2008).  The aim of the Noise Regulations is to ensure that workers’ hearing is protected from excessive noise at their place of work, which could cause them to lose their hearing and/or to suffer from tinnitus (permanent ringing in the ears).

The level at which employers must provide hearing protection and hearing protection zones is 85 dB(A) (daily or weekly average exposure) and the level at which employers must assess the risk to workers’ health and provide them with information and training is 80 dB(A). There is also an exposure limit value of 87 dB(A), taking account of any reduction in exposure provided by hearing protection, above which workers must not be exposed.

Standards impact industrial growth

 

Electric Vehicle Open Charge Point Protocol

June 20, 2023
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Technische Universität Dortmund

Evaluation of OCPP and IEC 61850 for smart charging electric vehicles

 

Jens SchmutzlerChristian Wietfeld

Dortmund University of Technology, Communication Networks Institute

EURISCO Research & Development, Odense, Denmark

 

Abstract: Interoperability of charging infrastructures is a key success factor for E-Mobility. Standards like ISO/IEC 15118 and IEC 61851-1 are developed to ensure base level interoperability of front-end communication and signaling processes for smart charging between electric vehicles and charge spots. With the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) a forum of European industry members also moves towards a common back-end protocol for charge spots intending to reduce and secure overall investment costs. However, in the current form OCPP lacks means for enabling grid services based on smart charging. In this paper the authors provide a review of today’s state of the art in ISO/IEC standardization of the V2G Interface and furthermore detail how OCPP could leverage existing standardization efforts for grid automation from IEC 61850 in order to overcome its shortcomings.

 

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Narrowband Application in Intelligent Fire Protection System

June 19, 2023
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Application of NB-IoT in Intelligent Fire Protection System

Tianxiang Li and Ping Hou

School of Information and Communication, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, China

NB-IoT refers to a cellular-based narrowband Internet of Things, which has become an important part of the Internet of Things. NB-IoT is a new technology emerging in the field of Internet of Things in recent years. It has obvious advantages in technology and application. In addition, the application of narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology in the field of fire protection can fundamentally enhance the combat capability of fire fighting forces, avoid fire and reduce the loss of life and property of the people. This thesis analyses and introduces an intelligent fire-fighting system based on the new industry standard, and a smoke-fire detection and alarm device based on the Internet of Things (IoT) platform and Nb-IoT technology. It also puts forward corresponding solutions to the problem of smart smoke, such as the value, advantages and future expectations of the solution.

 

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Fire Alarm & Signaling Code

Cool Summer Pasta Salad

June 18, 2023
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Flagpoles

June 14, 2023
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The National Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers (NAAMM) provides consensus products for specifications, procedures, and terminology for metal bar grating, expanded metal, hollow metal doors and frames, metal flagpoles, metal stairs and railings, and metal lathing and furring.   As an ANSI accredited standards developer it provides public commenting opportunities on its consensus products; linked below:

NAAMM Standards Home Page

We encourage our colleagues to communicate directly with the standards staff at NAAAM: Vernon (Wes) Lewis, 123 College Place #1101, Norfolk, VA 23510, (757) 489-0787, wlewis7@cox.net.  At the moment we find no public commenting opportunities but on selected holidays we revisit its flagpole standard.  Keep in mind that this document has a scope that is limited to the product and its appropriate application and maintenance only:

NAAMM Flagpole Specification

The University of Michigan Central Campus flagpole was re-located from the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition


LEARN MORE:

The Atlantic: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Flag Pole Design

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Non-Contact Heart Rate Monitoring in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit using RGB Camera

June 12, 2023
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Non-Contact Heart Rate Monitoring in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit using RGB Camera

Quiong Chen, et. al

Center for Intelligent Medical Electronics, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Abstract:  Heart rate (HR) measurement is crucial for newborn infant monitoring in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The widely used contact HR measurement methods based on electrocardiography (ECG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) signals can lead to discomfort and possible skin irritation on neonates, which limit its application in NICU scenarios. In this work, we propose a non-contact HR monitoring method simply using a RGB camera. Eulerian video magnification (EVM) is employed to detect the subtle changes of neonatal faces results from blood circulation. The magnified signal is then transformed to the spectral domain to extract HR information. Compared with the widely investigated independent component analysis (ICA)-based HR measurement method using video recordings, the proposed method can achieve the real time HR measurement, which is a significant superiority in NICU neonatal monitoring. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to employ EVM algorithm in real time neonatal HR monitoring.

 

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