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 is most commonly discussed in its relationship to economic development and as an alternative to transfers of capital-intensive technology from industrialized nations to developing countries.

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.

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.

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.

This was introduced to the House as the Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism ( PATRIOT ) Act of 2001, and was later passed by the House as the Uniting and Strengthening America ( USA ) Act ( H. R.

Appropriate tissue matching, implant selection, and proper implantation technique, the re-operation rate was 3. 0 % at the 7-year-mark, compared with the re-operation rate of 20 % at the 3-year-mark, as reported by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration.

CAT was previously aligned to the Urban Centre for Appropriate Technology ( UCAT ), which was based in Bristol and has since evolved into the Centre for Sustainable Energy.

During that decade, Bender was also the co-editor of RAIN: A Journal of Appropriate Technology, and among the theorists and practitioners of the " green " approach to planning and design, has been a popular essayist since that time.

Appropriate efforts were taken to minimise the damage to this fragile environment, but where the vegetation was damaged, increased depths of summer thaw occurred.

The " BARF " diet, an acronym for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones And Raw Food was created by Billinghurst.

The final single to be taken from No Need to Be Downhearted, " Appropriate Ending ", was released on 26 November as a digital download.

The WAAS Developmentally Appropriate WASL ( DAW ) was also introduced in 2005-2006.

EDAT ( or Engineering Design and Appropriate Technology ) was an undergraduate university course offered at the University of Warwick since 1980, the final students of which graduated in 2007.

The " Resolution on Appropriate Affirmative Responses to Sexual Orientation Distress and Change Efforts " also advises that parents, guardians, young people and their families avoid sexual orientation treatments that portray homosexuality as a mental illness or developmental disorder and instead seek psychotherapy, social support and educational services " that provide accurate information on sexual orientation and sexuality, increase family and school support and reduce rejection of sexual minority youth.

Appropriate extensions must be added to cover the inner magnetosphere, where magnetic drifts and ionospheric conduction also need to be taken into account.

Appropriate use criteria on coronary revascularization have also been developed.

Appropriate irradiation doses are also used to produce sterile insects to be used in the sterile insect technique.

They also arrange for Appropriate Adults to accompany under 17's after their arrest in order to advise and support the young person, and observe that they are treated fairly.

He also filmed Appropriate Adult, a series about serial killer Fred West which focuses on the events between the Wests ' arrests in 1994, and Fred's suicide in Birmingham's Winson Green Prison on New Year's Day, 1995.

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

According to the DoD the MIL-STD-188-200 series “ contains current tactical communications, technical standards and design objectives … series includes appropriate unclassified design objectives and tactical communications systems technical standards … Appropriate communications-electronics systems standards and design objectives developed under joint projects … are integrated in the tactical communications standards .”

According to proponents, Appropriate Technologies can greatly reduce the labor required to prepare food, compared to traditional methods, while being much simpler and cheaper than the processing used in Western countries.

Appropriate experiments showed that this is, indeed, possible.

* Appropriate materials and methods that aim to be reversible to reduce possible problems with future treatment, investigation, and use.

Appropriate geometrical correspondence of hydrogen bond donors and acceptors allows only the " right " pairs to form stably.

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.

Therapeutic Exercise, b. Functional Training in Self-Care and Home Management, c. Functional Training in Work ( Job / School / Play ), Community, and Leisure Integration or Reintegration, d. Manual Therapy Techniques ( including Mobilization / Manipulation Thrust and Nonthrust Techniques ), e. Prescription, Application, and, as Appropriate, Fabrication of Devices and Equipment, f. Airway Clearance Techniques, g. Integumentary Repair and Protection Techniques, h. Electrotherapeutic Modalities,

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 security personnel should investigate the area of attempted penetration within 15 minutes of discovery.

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.

Appropriate music symbols, depending upon the intended effect, are placed on the staff according to their corresponding pitch or function.

Appropriate mallets for the instrument depend on the range.

Appropriate amounts of supplemental zinc and potassium should be added if available.

* Appropriate referrals for further diagnosis and management of the above.

Appropriate caution should be taken regarding any medical condition that results in bleeding, such as cuts and sores.

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 clothing helps to prevent hypothermia.