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The document discusses how engineering and technology can be used for social impact. It makes three key points: 1. Technology stems from knowledge and science, but assessing the value of knowledge is difficult. However, the importance of technology is clear through its fruits. Education fosters gaining knowledge and leads to technological development. 2. While technology increases wealth, it also widens inequality gaps. However, technology can indirectly address inequality through education by providing universal access to learning and bringing universities to people everywhere. 3. Diversity among countries should be embraced, and late innovations building on existing technologies can be particularly impactful, as was the strategy of a racing champion who overtook opponents in the final round through close observation and
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‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
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at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
We also compare the observed phase-space distribution to FIRE-2 Latte simulations of GSE-like mergers, using a quantitative
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1–2 Gyr after collision, and certainly not later than 3 Gyr. This is further evidence that the progenitor of the ‘last major merger’
did not collide with the MW proto-disc at early times, as is thought for the GSE, but instead collided with the MW disc within
the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
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Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
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Engineering for Social Impact
- 1. Engineering for Social Impact Prof. Dr. Loc Nguyen, PhD, PostDoc Founder of Loc Nguyen’s Academic Network, Vietnam Email: ng_phloc@yahoo.com Homepage: www.locnguyen.net Engineering Social Impact - Loc Nguyen - IRConTECS2023 17/10/2023 1 The 4th International Research Conference on Technology, Culture, and Society (IRConTECS) ICEPD - BISCAST, Villa Caceres Hotel, Naga City, Philippines, October 17 – 19, 2023
- 2. Axiom of technology • Base of technology is science and material of science is knowledge. It is possible to conclude that material of technology is knowledge too. • But how can we assess price of knowledge, it is not easy but, a short sentence about a secret recipe is invaluable. Such short sentence expresses exactly technology. • Therefore, technology is fruit from root “knowledge” and trunk “science”. It is not easy to assess knowledge, but the importance of technology is proved. • In general, education is sustainable and effective way to foster the knowledge tree to bloom and result out technological fruit. 17/10/2023 Engineering Social Impact - Loc Nguyen - IRConTECS2023 2
- 3. Paradoxes of technology • It is undoubtful that technology helps our world to be rich and wealthy, but technology also deepens the gap between the rich and the poor. It is not difficult to recognize this paradox of technology, which is the price we must pay for development. • It seems that the paradox is opposite to this topic mentioning the engineering and technology can help us to solve the problem of inequality. • Fortunately, besides the paradox, technology can really solve the inequality problem by an indirect way. Such indirect way is education. • Yes, technology can give studying chances to everyone at anywhere as well as bring universities back to home, which change educational form in essence. When a person who can obtain good knowledge as well as technology from such amazing education, she/he can create more wealth besides moving up upper classes in society. We must accept that society classification is motivation of development although we have to narrow distances between classes. • This is a miracle effect of technology when it causes two paradoxes about the inequality as well as its indirect solution via educational key. 17/10/2023 Engineering Social Impact - Loc Nguyen - IRConTECS2023 3
- 4. Super last racing round • Every ASEAN country has own special cultures and strong points and so, the diversity is really a strong point. If you focus on purity, you may not reach power of purity while you may loss power (adaptiveness, high skill, etc.) of diversity. • There is a story that a race champion has a racing strategy that he is never the first in race, but he always sticks close on the first until the last round at that time he overcomes the first by a super skill in such last round. His success is based on good observation and extreme effort beside high skill. • About technology and engineering, strategy of super last racing round is suitable to development in diversity. We should apply and take advantages of technologies into raising citizen lives and solving problems of environment and society, as well as, joining in global/area supply chain. Let leading and highest technologies such as space exploitation for other ones, as an important hinge. 17/10/2023 Engineering Social Impact - Loc Nguyen - IRConTECS2023 4
- 5. Practice, experiment, and innovation • Swinging in the hinge, there are many chances for innovations as modifying or improving core technologies so as to be appropriate to native situations. • Practice and experiment, which are essential results of decision process, become more necessary. Indeed, decisive character and solidarity become more important even though solidarity is seemly apposite to diversity. However, the diversity is incorporated with the solidarity in a dialectic manner. • As an example of modification which is a kind of innovation, I will present shortly my recent research about artificial intelligence (AI) generative model in which some different generative models are integrated together in order to produce a hybrid generative model. It is not a new core innovation, but it can be considered as a derivative innovation. This is an effectively applicative advantage of the strategy of super last race round. 17/10/2023 Engineering Social Impact - Loc Nguyen - IRConTECS2023 5
- 6. Thank you for listening 6 Engineering Social Impact - Loc Nguyen - IRConTECS2023 17/10/2023