The returning sophomores were expected to exhibit self-regulation as the primary regulator of their understanding, to educate themselves self-sufficiently, and to wean themselves of the college institution.
But they never talked about alternatives, or a Plan B if living self-sufficiently at home was no longer possible.
The entire province, called Tungurahua in honor of you-know-who, is fully and self-sufficiently powered, thanks to the Tungurahua hydroelectric facility located just outside Baños.
Soon, the field will reach a stage at which cells can be reprogrammed to detect multiple metabolic parameters and self-sufficiently treat any disorder connected to them.
My secret ambition is to return to the land, to live in a house of my own building, and to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with the environment.
For the moment, though, Mr. Cunningham admitted, ''We seem to be a big player in a miniscule market.'' Microhydro, in developed countries like the United States, or France, seems to fit a certain quirky, independent-minded profile: technically proficient people who chose to live self-sufficiently, away from the electricity grid.
What's more, you have to race self-sufficiently – you swim and run in the same gear and carry everything you need for the race from start to finish.
As the Federalist Papers and de Tocqueville's Democracy in America both make clear, our founders expected citizens to be self-sufficiently cognizant of basic facts in the world -- regardless how or where they were schooled -- so they were not prey to the seductions of faction, bamboozlement and demagoguery that had historically plagued democracies.
Off-the-shelf GPUs, meanwhile, aren't designed to act self-sufficiently like normal chips - they're add-ons "that accelerate a CPU like a turbo engine," says Gupta - so they consume much less energy than a CPU would to do the same amount of calculating.
Some smart devices, particularly wearable and outdoor ones, can harvest enough energy from their environments in natural ways to keep functioning self-sufficiently for long periods.
