Steam Thermal Power Plants: Efficiency and Key Technologies

Steam Thermal Power Plants and Efficiency

Steam thermal power plants are one of the pillars of global electricity production and operate using the Clausius–Rankine cycle. In these facilities, the working fluid is water, which changes its physical state throughout the cycle. The process begins in the boiler, where liquid water is progressively heated until it reaches the saturation temperature, at which point evaporation begins. After this stage, the resulting steam continues to be heated and becomes

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Azure Cloud Computing and TinyML for IoT Solutions

Microsoft Azure and On-Premises Computing

Question: Explain what Microsoft Azure is and discuss how cloud computing on Azure differs from traditional on-premises computing.

Answer: Microsoft Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform that provides services like virtual machines, storage, databases, networking, and AI. Compared to on-premises computing (where you buy, own, and maintain servers), Azure lets you rent resources on demand (pay-as-you-go), scale up or down quickly, deploy globally, and use many

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WWW, E‑Governance & Internet Connectivity — IP, ISP, DNS

🌐 WWW, E‑Governance, and Internet Connectivity

This covers the essential concepts of how the Internet and the World Wide Web function, how governments leverage them, and the basic addressing and connection methods used.

I. World Wide Web (WWW) and Addressing

The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information system where resources (documents, images, videos) are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext, and accessed via the Internet.

Website Address and URL

The terms “website address,” “web address,

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Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, and Inter-Process Communication

Cloud Computing Fundamentals

Cloud computing is a technology that allows users to store, manage, and process data over the internet instead of using local computers or physical servers.

Key Features of Cloud Computing

  • Provides on-demand access to computing resources.
  • Reduces the need for expensive hardware.
  • Users pay only for what they use (pay-as-you-go).
  • Data can be accessed from anywhere with internet connectivity.

Types of Cloud Services

  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service): Virtual machines, storage.
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Essential Concepts in Database Management, E-Commerce, and BI

Database Management Systems

  • DBMS Software Components

    A Database Management System (DBMS) contains five important software components. One of these is the: Data Definition Subsystem.

  • Primary and Foreign Keys

    Every primary key can also be used as a: Foreign Key (when referencing another table).

  • Storing Facts About Information (Metadata)

    If you needed to store facts about the information you were collecting, you would use a: Data Dictionary.

  • Unique Identification Field

    If your phone number was used in a clothing

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Korn Shell Scripting, Linux Features, and Editor Basics

Korn Shell Relational Expressions

In Korn shell (and other Bourne-like shells), relational expressions are typically evaluated inside the [[ ... ]] (conditional) construct or using the test (or [) command. The operators use mnemonics for numerical comparison.

1. Numerical Comparisons in Korn Shell

(a) c ≥ d

To check if the numerical value of variable c is greater than or equal to the numerical value of variable d:

[[ $c -ge $d ]]

The -ge operator stands for “greater than or equal to”.

(b) c < d

To

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