Category: Appropriate technology

* Appropriate technology

Category: Appropriate technology

Category: Appropriate technology

* Appropriate technology

Category: Appropriate technology

# redirect Appropriate technology

Appropriate technology is an ideological movement ( and its manifestations ) originally articulated as " intermediate technology " by the economist Dr. Ernst Friedrich " Fritz " Schumacher in his influential work, Small is Beautiful.

Appropriate technology has been used to address issues in a wide range of fields.

In 1977, the OECD identified in its Appropriate Technology Directory 680 organizations involved in the development and promotion of appropriate technology.

Appropriate technology was also increasingly applied in developed countries.

In 1983, the OECD published the results of an extensive survey of appropriate technology organizations titled, The World of Appropriate Technology, in which it defined appropriate technology as characterized by " low investment cost per work-place, low capital investment per unit of output, organizational simplicity, high adaptability to a particular social or cultural environment, sparing use of natural resources, low cost of final product or high potential for employment.

Appropriate technology frequently serves as an umbrella term for a variety names for this type of technology.

Appropriate technology was meant to address four problems: extreme poverty, starvation, unemployment and urban migration.

Often the type of appropriate technology that is used in developed countries is " Appropriate and Sustainable Technology " ( AST ); or appropriate technology that, besides being functional and relatively cheap ( though often more expensive than true AT ), is also very durable and lasts a long time ( AT does not include this ; see Sustainable design ).

Appropriate technology has been applied extensively to improve agricultural production in developing countries.

Appropriate technology options in water treatment include both community-scale and household-scale point-of-use ( POU ) designs.

* Appropedia – The Sustainability Wiki – World Wide Wiki of Sustainable Technology ( Appropriate technology portal )

* The Appropriate Technology Collaborative – An appropriate technology design and dissemination nonprofit.

Appropriate experiments showed that this is, indeed, possible.

Appropriate use of the diagnostic criteria is said to require extensive clinical training, and its contents " cannot simply be applied in a cookbook fashion ".

Appropriate expression of imprinted genes is important for normal development, with numerous genetic diseases associated with imprinting defects including Beckwith – Wiedemann syndrome, Silver – Russell syndrome, Angelman syndrome and Prader – Willi syndrome.

The title of the act is a ten letter backronym ( USA PATRIOT ) that stands for Uniting ( and ) Strengthening America ( by ) Providing Appropriate Tools Required ( to ) Intercept ( and ) Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.

Appropriate antibiotic treatment should be started immediately when there is a suspicion of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever on the basis of clinical and epidemiological findings.

Appropriate to Chunky's " gentle giant " demeanor, his instrumental attack is the " Triangle Trample ".

# What means of Livelihood is Appropriate for a Philosopher?

Mansur Hoda Scientist and pioneer of Appropriate Technology in India along with E. F. Schumacher of Small is Beautiful fame.

* GrAT – Center for Appropriate Technology – GrAT is a scientific association for research and development of Appropriate Technology in Vienna, Austria.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ( IDEA ) requires that students with special needs be provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education in the Least Restrictive Environment that is appropriate to the student's needs.

* Appropriate school learning theory and educational philosophy is a strategy for preventing violence and promoting order and discipline in schools, put forward by educational philosopher Daniel Greenberg and practised by the Sudbury Valley School.

Appropriate color conversion filters are used to compensate for the effects of lighting not balanced for the film stock's rated color temperature ( usually 3200 K for professional tungstens and 5500 K for daylight ): e. g., the 80A blue filter used with film for daylight use corrects the perceived orange / reddish cast of incandescent photographic photoflood lighting ( for which the usual photographic term is " tungsten lighting "), and significantly improves the stronger cast produced by lower-temperature household incandescent lighting, while the 85B will correct the bluish cast of daylight photographs on tungsten film.

* Patients with PBC have poor lipid-dependent absorption of Vitamins A, D, E, K. Appropriate supplementation is recommended when bilirubin is elevated.

# Transfer to Definitive care: Appropriate specialized care is provided at the hospital.

Appropriate reading instruction is required ( e. g., instruction in phonological awareness skills, phonemic awareness skills, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, text comprehension, and book conventions ), regularly conducted story reading sessions, constructive AT / AAC use to target literacy skills, high expectations of student literacy achievement, and text-rich environments have been found to be important for developing literacy skills in children with CP.

Although the course is no longer directly offered by the University, mainly due to key staff retiring, the main aspects of it have been absorbed by other degrees and can now be studied as Mechanical Engineering with Appropriate Technology.

Appropriate antibiotic administration prevents most such complications.

In the United States, most preschool advocates support the National Association for the Education of Young Children's Developmentally Appropriate Practices.

She has won a number of awards for acting throughout her career, which has encompassed theatre, motion picture and television ; most recently a BAFTA award for her role in ITV's Appropriate Adult.

The " borrowing " of religious rituals from other faith traditions by Unitarian Universalists was discussed at the UU General Assembly in 2001 during a seminar titled Cultural Appropriation: Reckless Borrowing or Appropriate Cultural Sharing by the Religious Education Dept, UUA.

Appropriate programming tools can be used to validate an XML document ( DocBook or otherwise ), against its corresponding schema, in order to determine if ( and if so, where ) the document fails to conform to that schema.

* Eldis OnDisc and The Appropriate Technology Library are projects that use CDs and DVDs to give access to development information in areas without reliable and affordable internet access.

* Darebin Appropriate Development Association, fighting development at All Nations Park / Plaza

* Appropedia, a project for development of Open Source Appropriate Technology