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Due to the increases in connectivity capacities prevalent in our nation’s schools, educational administrators are utilizing a variety of resources in their classrooms including the interactive videoconferencing. For videoconferencing to be successful, however, planning for technological infrastructure must occur prior to program implementation. It is important for both schools and providers to be aware of the infrastructure requirements needed in order to provide students with knowledge and learning via videoconference experiences. The purpose of this chapter is to identify the key components of the technological infrastructure needed to support videoconferencing within K-12 the schools such as connectivity needs and essential hardware requirements including computers, cameras, audio essentials, and operating controls, in addition, the chapter provides in easy to read language, an overview of many of the key technical terms used in the videoconferencing literature and provides teachers with a graphical display of use.

There are any number of inspirational accounts of prison reading (such as Malcolm X), so let’s begin with what doesn’t work. Larry E. Sullivan, the leading scholar of this small but enthralling literary subfield, has concluded that probably the favorite author behind bars is Friedrich Nietzsche, and most frequently quoted sentence, “What does not kill me makes me stronger.” Convicts also devour crime and escapist literature, but few read Plato, Boethius, Bunyan, or Dostoevsky. And the reason should be obvious. Typically, prison systems work relentlessly to crush the individuality of their inmates. Physical resistance only brings ever-more brutal punishment, so prisoners resort to the one form of rebellion they can get away with, which is to read the most extreme forms of antisocial philosophy: Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Nietzsche. If you are caged like an animal, these ideologies offer some psychological compensation: you can imagine yourself radically free, infinitely superior to your jailers in terms of intelligence, courage, and authenticity. It all sounds romantically transgressive, but that’s a very costly illusion, because it locks the prisoner into a battle with authority that he cannot win, and amplifies the behavior that got him incarcerated in the first place. Among black female inmates, the counterpart to Nietzsche is “urban fiction,” a new genre where the ubermenschen are inner-city crime lords, as wealthy as they are sadistic. Their women are consistently beautiful, expensively dressed, and obscenely abused. The demand for these novels knows no limit, and they are smuggled in faster than wardens can confiscate them. Their fans want to know why these black-authored books are banned while the equally gruesome thrillers of James Patterson are allowed in, and they have a point. But whereas Patterson is clearly on the side of law and order, urban fiction glamorizes drugs and thugs—and all too many readers admit that they fall for it: . . . “It excites me to read them. I look at all this money they’re making. I can’t wait to see the dollar signs . . . I like how they’re hustlers. How they con someone. It gives me a feeling of oh man, is it that easy? I coulda tried that!” . . .

During the past decade, the installed wind power capacity in the world has been increasing more than 30%. Wind energy conversion system (WECSs) based on the doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) dominated the wind power generations due to the outstanding advantages, including small converters rating around 30% of the generator rating, lower converter cost. Due to the non-linearity of wind system, the DFIG power control presents a big challenge especially under wind-speed variation and parameter’s sensibility. To overcome these major problems; an improved IDPC (Indirect Power Control); based on PID “Proportional-Integral-Derivative” controller, was proposed instead the conventional one (based on PI), in order to enhance the wind-system performances in terms; power error, tracking power and overshoot. Unfortunately using robustness tests (based on severe DFIG’s parameters changement); the wind-system offers non-satisfactory simulation results which were illustrated by the very bad power tracking and very big overshoot (> 50%). In this context; adaptive, robust & intelligent controllers were proposed to control direct & quadrature currents (Ird & Irq) under MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) strategy to main the unity power factor (PF≈1) by keeping the reactive power at zero level. In this case, the new IDPC based on intelligent controllers offered an excellent wind-system performance especially using robustness tests, which offered a big improvement especially using Type-1 Fuzzy Logic Controller (T1-FLC), Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control (T2-FLC; is the New class of fuzzy logic) & Neuro-Fuzzy Logic (NFC). In this sense, I think that this edited book is an important contribution to help students already in mastery of the basis of power electronic circuits and control systems theory to achieve these pedagogical goals. The proposed book describes with easy manner the modeling & control of Wind-turbine DFIG in order to control the stator powers using different topologies of robust, adaptive and intelligent controllers. The book present numerous intelligent control techniques that help in the control design of the DFIG wind-system (WT). The textbook “Improved Indirect Power Control (IDPC) of Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS)” proposes a collection of concepts, organized in a synergic manner such that to ease comprehension of the WT control design. The book’s contribution goes towards completing the already existing literature by offering a useful integration of control techniques, worthy to be read, understood and employed in the various WT applications. Please enjoy reading this book.