cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Building Shape and Density on Active Solar Energy Potential
Creators: name: Bensehla, S.
name: Lazri, Y.
name: Amaro E Silva, R.
name: Brito, M.C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1968-1971
description: This work aims to assess the energy performance of future urban buildings in Algeria considering a significant integration of photovoltaics (PV). This is particularly relevant due to their considerable energy demand, as well as the expected growth of PV deployment in urban areas. The assessment of the PV energy potential of several simplified neighborhood configurations was carried out, considering two building shapes and two levels of proximity between buildings. For all studied configurations, the solar potential largely exceeds the electrical energy demand. Additionally, the density of buildings has a great impact on electricity demand and PV production, especially in façades. Each building shape has its benefits, either high PV production or low electricity consumption. The neighborhood configurations with circular buildings show optimal energy behavior in all the case studies with high PV production in façades ranging between 193 MWh/year to 209 MWh/year, and low electricity consumption, about 2790 kWh/ building.
Bio-Inspired Design of a Dynamic Solar Photovoltaic Envelope with Evolving Functionalities
Creators: name: Ratovonkery, J.
name: Assoa, Y.B.
name: Ménézo, C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1951-1955
description: Integration of photovoltaic components on building envelope is an essential solution to obtain Nearly Zero Energy Building. In order to permanently optimize electrical and thermal performances of photovoltaic facade, the facade functionalities should adapt and evolve with climatic and weather conditions. Bio-inspired design is a breakthrough approach to provide adaptability to physical, mechanical and optical properties of photovoltaic envelope. Therefore, this paper presents numerical parametric studies of a photovoltaic ventilated facade realized with the purpose to identify the properties that should acquire adaptive feature. In addition, physics related to the identified parameters allow paving the way for the search and the selection of suitable biological adaptive mechanisms. The results of this study indicate that radiative and optical properties of the photovoltaic ventilated facade are the most influential and conflict-inducing parameters on both its electrical and thermal performances. Thus, to provide adaptability to those properties, biological search should be led on live species dealing with extreme heat and radiation and developing adaptive functions aiming to control solar radiation intake.
Energy and Exergetic Analysis of a Photovoltaic-Thermal System Using a Dynamic Bidimensional Model for High Radiation and High Geographical Altitude Conditions
Creators: name: Taquichiri Ayaviri, A.A.
name: Mallco, A.
name: Henriquez, M.
name: Pineda, F.
name: Vergara, V.
name: Portillo, C.
name: Cortes, M.
name: Peñaranda, E.
name: Velasco, J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1956-1963
description: The Bolivian highlands have a high global horizontal solar irradiance that results in a daily irradiation of 7.4 kWh/m2 which makes it an attractive location for the implementation of solar energy-based systems, considering that 57.6 % of the electrical energy is generated in gas-fired power plants and that within the index of consumption of basic services is natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas to satisfy the need for thermal energy consumption, the implementation of photovoltaic-thermal systems (PV-T) could come to minimize the consumption of these fossil fuels, For this reason, in the present work, a bidimensional thermal analysis is carried out in order to estimate the energy conversion of a PV-T system during June 21 (winter) and December 30 (summer), obtaining the temperatures of the components of the PV-T system to quantify the energy and exergy performance during the mentioned dates. Later on, the variation of the energy and exergy performance is also analyzed, considering different fluid input temperatures.
Kholod_О_Parameters of the concept range «processes of social communication» as an object of study
Creators: name: Kholod, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sociology not elsewhere classified

description: The purpose of the studyis to search, identify and clarify the parameters of the range of theconcept of "object of study" in the study of social communication processes. To achieve this goal, the author analyzed 27 sources (scientific papers, electronic resources, brochures, official documents of organizations, bibliographic and biographical records, and historical references) of researchers, social and medical organizations located in 15 countries. Research methods and techniques. Holism (the concept of the unity of tangible and intangible, which is in constant development), methods of analysis and synthesis, abstraction and generalization, axiomatic method, quantitative and qualitative analysis was chosen as research methods. Results and discussion. For ease of analysis, five tables were compiled. According to the results of the research, the conclusions of materialist and holistic substantiation are obtained. From the standpoint of materialism, it is established that the identification of the object of study in the study of social communication in the analyzed sources focuses mainly on the conceptual-terminological and methodological-methodological levels of communication theory (mass communication theory, communicative studies, media studies, medieval studies), communication technologies (marketing, advertising, targetology), concepts of psycholinguistics and ethnopsycholinguistics and knowledge of classical psychology. Conclusions.From the standpoint of holism, it is clear that social communication as a product of social processes reflects the essence of the Whole and its quantum nature. Moreover, researchers and practitioners of social services, medical centers, and commercial organizations do not realize the essence of the Whole. The whole hypothetically forms the idea of researchers and practitioners of social communications (s) about the object of their interest, or research, or educational process of training future professionals, or production and advertising process, PR or HR activities.
Fire Performance Assessment of BIPV Facades Equipped with Active Rapid Shutdown
Creators: name: Parolini, F.
name: Bonomo, P.
name: Frontini, F.
name: Caccivio, M.
name: Manzini, G.
name: Traina, G.
name: Cancelliere, P.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1931-1936
description: The debate on climate change is mobilizing research and innovation across all policy areas in EU. The European Green Deal is the roadmap for making the EU's economy sustainable. This will happen by turning climate and environmental challenges into opportunities for a EU Green Deal, accomplishing the growing interest of public opinion in a tangible diffusion of sustainable policies and renewable energies. Solar Photovoltaics (PV) has evolved dramatically to become the most affordable clean energy technology with impressive potentials. The built environment remains a strategic domain in view of the goal of full decarbonisation by 2050, so that Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) is emerging more and more as the opportunity to exploit the surface area available on buildings for power generation and also with strong market prospects. New multifunctional products that can be perfectly integrated into the skin of the buildings (i.e. façades, roofs) are emerging as extremely versatile materials, with multifunctional properties and benefits for solar constructions to realize nearly-zero or plus-energy buildings. However, in addition to the aforementioned advantages, the aspects related to safety are relevant since integrating PV in buildings requires an accurate performance assessment in accordance with construction norms and PV standards. This became evident when, as a result of PV market spread, also an increase of cases of fire was registered, highlighting the need of implementing a proper fire prevention policy including protection systems, especially in cases of PV interaction with the building skin. Fire safety is a topic of primary interest for BIPV systems, in order to guarantee a proper level of safety and reliability during the building life cycle which, in turn, calls into question the need to investigate innovative technologies and approaches to protect the buildings such as rapid shutdown systems. This paper resumes the first part of a research carried out by the authors aimed at developing and set up first test protocols focused on the fire behaviour assessment for electrically active BIPV façade system. Object of investigation are facades equipped with systems capable of a fast electrical potential minimization mainly oriented to ensure the safety of maintenance and, in case of fire, safety of rescue personnel as well as the reduction of fire spread.
Impact of Configurations on the Performance Prediction of Building Integrated Photovoltaic Modules
Creators: name: Assoa, Y.B.
name: Furtado Frazao De Medeiros, J.V.
name: Thony, P.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1937-1940
description: Building integration has a huge impact on photovoltaic modules operating conditions and, then, on their performance compared to rack-mounted systems, according to their locations on roof or façade. Thus, existing detailed and simplified prediction models are suitable for some kind of solar installations but are less accurate for other configurations. In this study, based on an experimental database obtained with the various test benches mounted during the last ten years at CEA INES site, a detailed analysis of performance indicators was realized in order to define simplified equations to predict BIPV modules thermal behaviour and electrical performance according to their integration configuration and technology. Relative errors of up to 0.07 % for the performance ratio equations and 0.30 % for the electrical energy production equations were obtained. Finally, a comparison of each BIPV system according to their locations on building envelope was performed in order to highlight their advantages and limitations. Thus, annual performance ratio values varied between 81 % and 89 % for inclined roof installations and 41% to 66% for façades systems. As further study, more equations would be selected in order to optimize the accuracy of the systems prediction at the thermal and electrical levels.
Холод_О_14-1-22_для_сайту.pdf
Creators: name: Kholod, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sociology not elsewhere classified

description: The purpose of the studyis to search, identify and clarify the parameters of the range of theconcept of "object of study" in the study of social communication processes. To achieve this goal, the author analyzed 27 sources (scientific papers, electronic resources, brochures, official documents of organizations, bibliographic and biographical records, and historical references) of researchers, social and medical organizations located in 15 countries. Research methods and techniques. Holism (the concept of the unity of tangible and intangible, which is in constant development), methods of analysis and synthesis, abstraction and generalization, axiomatic method, quantitative and qualitative analysis was chosen as research methods. Results and discussion. For ease of analysis, five tables were compiled. According to the results of the research, the conclusions of materialist and holistic substantiation are obtained. From the standpoint of materialism, it is established that the identification of the object of study in the study of social communication in the analyzed sources focuses mainly on the conceptual-terminological and methodological-methodological levels of communication theory (mass communication theory, communicative studies, media studies, medieval studies), communication technologies (marketing, advertising, targetology), concepts of psycholinguistics and ethnopsycholinguistics and knowledge of classical psychology. Conclusions.From the standpoint of holism, it is clear that social communication as a product of social processes reflects the essence of the Whole and its quantum nature. Moreover, researchers and practitioners of social services, medical centers, and commercial organizations do not realize the essence of the Whole. The whole hypothetically forms the idea of researchers and practitioners of social communications (s) about the object of their interest, or research, or educational process of training future professionals, or production and advertising process, PR or HR activities.
Potential of Wind and Solar Energy Available in an Aerial Basin: Taking Advantage of the Integration of Dams Hydrosystems
Creators: name: Valadao, F.M.
name: Da Silva, V.O.
name: Relva, S.G.
name: De Paula, R.
name: Linhares, A.L.
name: Galvao, M.D.
name: Abubakar, A.
name: Udaeta, M.E.M.
name: Ribeiro Galvão, L.C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1941-1950
description: The objective of this work is to evaluate the potential availability of primary energy from wind and sun contained in an air Basin aiming at generating electricity by conventional technologies. Methodologically, the systematic behavior of the wind and the incidence of the Sun is set, through anemometric and solarimetric data in loco using two Anemometric Station measuring 100 and 150 m and one Solarimetric Station. The results show that the local wind profile varies: (i) throughout the year, with the highest velocities and, in turn, potential energy available during the winter months; and (ii) throughout the day with mean velocities greater during night periods than daytime, 5.4 and 6.3 m/s, respectively. The solar resource also features interannual variation and its conversion into energy depends on the type of technology employed considering that the thin-film technology offers better performance during the months of spring and summer and monocrystalline technology (m-Si) in the winter. Another observation is that the solar and wind conversion technologies present daily and annual complementarity. Therefore, we may conclude that there is a need to specify a system with multiple technologies of generation to allow interannual, daily and nightly complementarity of different resources and thus to allow greater integration of generation and security of supply.
How High Albedo Improves Vertical Bifacial PV Performance: Simulations and Measurements on a Solar Noise Barrier
Creators: name: Villa, S.
name: De Jong, M.M.
name: Kester, J.C.P.
name: Burgers, A.R.
name: Folkerts, W.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1923-1926
description: Vertical bifacial PV systems are becoming of great interest, also thanks to their adaptability to new PV systems integration options, such as on solar noise barriers. A substantial part of the extra yield of those systems comes from harvesting diffuse and reflected irradiance, therefore it is crucial to understand, quantify and optimise the effect of albedo on this type of PV systems. The goal of this work is to show that enhanced albedo can significantly contribute to improving the energy yield of vertical bifacial PV systems. The investigation of the albedo effect is performed both from an experimental and modelling point of view, using the case study of Solar Highways (SH), currently the largest bifacial solar noise barrier in the world. More than 1 year of measurements revealed that placing a high-albedo patch on the rear east side of a SH element led to a monthly energy gain of 3%. On sunny days the energy boost reached more than 6%. Simulations performed with the bifacial PV modelling tool BIGEYE showed that the gain associated with enhanced albedo can go up to 10%/year thanks to the optimisation of some configuration parameters such as albedo coefficient and ground slope.
Evaluation of the Solar Resource and Energy Generation in Vehicle Integrated Photovoltaics
Creators: name: Macías Rodríguez, J.
name: Herrero, R.
name: Antón Hernández, I.
name: Núñez, R.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1927-1930
description: Currently, we are faced with a great global challenge whose solution, yet to be found, will allow to achieve a sustainable energy future. This challenge is none other than minimizing the impact that climate change will have on us and on our future generations. Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicle are considered to lead this transition towards a climate-sustainable future, and the combination of both can play a fundamental role in reducing CO2 emissions in one of the most polluting sectors, transportation. Vehicle Integrated PhotoVoltaics seeks, through photovoltaic solar energy, to increase the autonomy of Electric Vehicle from a renewable and clean source. To know the viability of this technology, it is necessary to develop new studies and tools. This paper details the development of a new tool that allows to know the solar resource on the curved car-roof surface of the vehicle along its trajectory and the generation of electrical energy through photovoltaic cells.
Multi-colour optical photometry of V404 Cygni in outburst
Creators: name: Martí, Josep
name: Luque-Escamilla, Pedro L.
name: García-Hernández, María T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. This observational paper has been prepared in the context of the large multi-wavelength effort by many observers with the aim of following up the transient flaring event of V404 Cygni that took place for several weeks in 2015 June. Aims. Our main original aim was to contribute to the study of this transient source by acquiring broad-band photometric observations during its most active flaring phases. Nevertheless, after a detailed analysis of the data, several interesting results were obtained that encouraged a dedicated publication. Methods. The methodology used was based on broad-band differential CCD photometry. This outburst of V404 Cygni rendered the source a very bright target easily within reach of small educational telescopes. Therefore, the 41 cm telescope available at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Jaén was used in this work. Results. We detected variability at different time scales, both in amplitude and colour. Individual optical flares appear every half hour on average during our 3 h long observation, although large-amplitude (\sim 1 mag) variations are also observed to occur on intervals as short as 10 minutes. Also, colour variations appear to be highly correlated in a colour-colour diagram. Another remarkable finding is the detection of time lag, from about one to a fraction of a minute between light curves in different filters (VRcIc). Conclusions. The observed behaviour is tentatively interpreted in an scenario based on the ejection of non-thermal emitting, relativistic plasmons, with their synchrotron spectra extending up to optical wavelengths. This would render some of the V404 Cygni flares very similar to those of the well-know microquasar GRS 1915+105
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Outdoor Testing Facility for an Experimental Validation of Yield Predictions for Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Modules
Creators: name: Gewohn, T.
name: Koopmeiners, M.
name: Vogt, M.R.
name: Lim, B.
name: Schinke, C.
name: Brendel, R.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1915-1919
description: Existing models for calculating the horizontal irradiation in the module plane are not sufficiently accurate for modules tilted by 90°, i.e. modules on the façade. First, these models are usually empirical and not designed for this application. Second, the irradiation conditions for façade modules are much more complex, since the environment and the albedo have an impact. In order to identify deficiencies in previously established models and to improve the accuracy of yield predictions for façade modules, an outdoor test facility was built on a south façade at our institute. Since January 2019, all environmental parameters that are required for an energy yield prognosis are continuously being measured every minute. This is the global horizontal irradiance, the global and diffuse vertical irradiance on the façade, the ambient temperature and the wind speed. The energy yield, the current-voltage characteristics and the module temperature of three test modules are also measured every minute. The simulated energy yield of a façade module deviates from the measured yield by up to 7.6% per month if the most suitable model is selected. For on-roof modules, the maximum deviation in this period is 5% and thus significantly smaller.
Classical Tradition as a Method and a Way of Approach Note on a Letter from Gertrud Bing to Raymond Klibansky (1947)
Creators: name: Treml, Martin
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2024
Subjects: Gertrud Bing
Raymond Klibansky
Saturn and Melancholy
Warburg Institute
Classical Tradition

description: Martin Treml presents a 1947 letter sent from Bing to Raymond Klibansky who together with Fritz Saxl and Erwin Panofsky edited the influential work Saturn and Melancholy (published in 1964). The letter shed light on lesser-known aspects of Raymond Klibansky’s involvement with the Warburg Institute.
Assessing Logistics Practices In Textile and Apparel Industry The Case Of Industry Parks Around Addis Ababa Area
Creators: name: Seifu, Sewnet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Logistics performance is significant in the textile and apparel industry because it is a valuable way of securing competitive advantage through enhancing operational performances since the sector is more complex, demanding and predicting changing styles and consumer demands is impossible to do. The purpose of this study is to assess and identify the current logistics practices in the textile and apparel industry in the case of industry Parks around Addis Ababa area. For the accomplishment of this study, the study was employed through descriptive design and quantitative and qualitative data was collected related with the extent of factories logistics practices using structured questionnaires and different secondary documents. The target population covers all the fourteen factories around Addis Ababa because the total population is small and seventy questionnaires were distributed but 61 respondents fully filled and return the questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, and secondary document analysis is done for confirming the findings. The result indicates almost all the modern logistics infrastructures like usage of automated system in warehouse activities, wastage free utilization of materials system and using organized marketing research team to find new and potential suppliers are not applied by these factories for ease of logistics operation, and commonly logistics is practiced at the lesser extent. Even though the factories practiced the logistics activities in their day to day operations, most of the factories have no logistics department in their organizational structure. Foreign currency shortages, low efficiency of customs, lack of integrated system and low quantity of vehicles are found to be the critical challenges for industry parks. Finally, the researcher recommends, In order to have a good supply as well as customer integration factories should not accept orders which are above their capacity, familiarize measuring customer satisfaction level by continuous assessment, apply inventory control software and better design of warehouse to handle and manage their inventory and warehouse management generally it would be better for all stakeholders to work with equal commitment and sense of urgency to strengthen the logistics practice of textile and apparel industry and to improve the competitiveness of the sector in the international market level.
Evolutionary dynamics of selfish DNA generates pseudo-linguistic features of genomes
Creators: name: Sheinman, Michael
name: Ramisch, Anna
name: Massip, Florian
name: Arndt, Peter F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the sequencing of large genomes, many statistical features of their sequences have been found. One intriguing feature is that certain subsequences are much more abundant than others. In fact, abundances of subsequences of a given length are distributed with a scale-free power-law tail, resembling properties of human texts, such as the Zipf's law. Despite recent efforts, the understanding of this phenomenon is still lacking. Here we find that selfish DNA elements, such as those belonging to the Alu family of repeats, dominate the power-law tail. Interestingly, for the Alu elements the power-law exponent increases with the length of the considered subsequences. Motivated by these observations, we develop a model of selfish DNA expansion. The predictions of this model qualitatively and quantitatively agree with the empirical observations. This allows us to estimate parameters for the process of selfish DNA spreading in a genome during its evolution. The obtained results shed light on how evolution of selfish DNA elements shapes non-trivial statistical properties of genomes.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Assessment Of Service Quality Of Dry Ports Of Ethiopia :The Case Of Semera Dry Port
Creators: name: Mesfin, Lebassie
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Ethiopia is landlocked. As a result, the country has been compelled to use neighbor countries for its imports and exports. In order to ease some of the problems in the transit countries, Ethiopia has started constructing dry ports in its hinterland along the transit corridors. Among the planned dry ports, Modjo and Semera dry ports have become operational. To reap the maximum benefit from those dry ports, the efficient and effective performance of the dry ports is very crucial and to do that it is important to identify factors which influence the performance of dry ports. Therefore, this study tried to examine factors that influence the performance of dry ports from port users perceptions. This paper assess on Service quality. Primary data was collected from 130 sample customers of the port which are selected based on convenience sampling technique. The data was collected using questionnaire and the data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The result of the analysis indicated that, cargo handling equipment, customs operations, port infrastructure, size of dry port, port staff, reliability of port operations and quality of logistics service are found to be important factors in determining the performance of semeradry port. Based on the findings of the study it were recommended that investment in container handling equipment and other port infrastructure, improvement in efficiency of customs operations, expansion of port area, employing adequate skilled port staff and improving the reliability and quality of logistics service of the ports are important
Organic Photovoltaic Modules Installation: Italy and Algeria Case Studies
Creators: name: Busto, C.
name: Corso, G.
name: Gorni, G.
name: Po, R.
name: Terenzi, A.
name: Trattenero, I.
name: Asses, M.
name: Derennes, C.
name: Hau, D.
name: Pic, G.
name: Vannieuwenhuyse, N.
name: Leva, S.
name: Dolara, A.
name: Ferrazza, F.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1920-1922
description: We here report our latest achievements regarding some installations of ASCA® by ARMOR Organic Photovoltaic Modules realized by roll to roll printing. The performances of ASCA® OPV Modules were measured in two sites, in Italy and in Algeria, and monitored over time. We found that 10-20 kWh/m2 of total irradiation are needed to reach nominal performances due to photo-stabilization behavior. Furthermore, a 1.15 kW OPV power plant was realized, vertically integrated on a building wall, and measurements data were collected for each string. Special attention is paid to compare, in terms of energy yield (kWh/kWp), the OPV Plant with a c-Si PV Plant, already present on the same site: OPV showed a gain of 12% on energy yield during the monitoring period.
Weather Data Influence on a Photovoltaic Driven Heat Pump System for Net-Zero Energy Multi-Family Buildings
Creators: name: Schmidli, J.
name: Carbonell, D.
name: Haller, M.
name: Biba, C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1906-1910
description: With increased complexity of systems that provide heating and electricity to residential buildings, accurate simulations of said systems become more and more important. An important input of dynamic simulations are weather data files, of which there are many available. Within this paper, the influence of different weather data sets on the system efficiency of NZEBs combining heat pumps with PV is investigated. Three different sources for the heat pump i.e. air, ground and solar with an ice storage as intermediate storage between the source and the heat pump evaporator are considered. Different data sets containing real, i.e. measured, or synthetic weather data, as well as an averaging method of the real weather data are described. Simulations with real weather data, which contain measured data of the last 14 years, are carried out for six different locations in Switzerland. Time series data for one year are generated with the 14-year measurement data and simulations are carried out. Comparisons are provided between simulation results using constructed and synthetic years and those using the real data in order to find the yearly weather data sets that best estimate the degree of self-sufficiency of the 14-years simulation using real weather data for the air source heat pump system. Dynamic simulations are carried out with TRNSYS.
“One talked all European languages” Note on a Letter from Gertrud Bing to Luigi Meneghello (1957)
Creators: name: Velicogna, Chiara
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2024
Subjects: Gertrud Bing
Luigi Meneghello
Arnaldo Momigliano
Donald Gordon
Emma Cantimori
La Nuova Italia

description: We publish here a letter sent by Gertrud Bing to Luigi Meneghello on 16 January 1957, a few months after Bing’s lecture on the Warburg Institute at the Humanist Studies Conference in La Mendola. The letter describes the conference’s “European” atmosphere and represents important evidence to the new historical and intellectual context after the tragic years of the Second World War and the German intellectuals’ diaspora. The text also provides details to the state of art on the Italian edition of Warburg's writings for La Nuova Italia, which Bing edited (and which would only be published after her death in 1966).
Integration of Solar Energy Systems for Increased Societal Support
Creators: name: Reinders, A.H.M.E.
name: Lavrijssen, S.
name: Folkerts, W.
name: Van Mierlo, B.
name: Franco-Garcia, L.
name: Loonen, R.
name: Cornelissen, H.
name: Stremke, S.
name: Van Sark, W.G.J.H.M.
name: Alarcon-Llado, E.
name: Polman, A.
name: Weeber, A.W.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1911-1914
description: How can we integrate photovoltaic (PV) solar energy systems in the built environment and rural landscapes while increasing societal support and making effective use of space? This important research question is inspired by several grand societal challenges, namely humankind’s response to anthropogenic causes of climate change, the required sustainable energy transition and innovations in the design of systems, products, buildings and local infrastructures which enable an optimal use of solar energy. Consequently, new sustainable energy environments must be created which will meet the needs of users, will fit in a societal context, will have an excellent performance in energy production and which will be aesthetically appealing. For this purpose a new interdisciplinary Dutch research consortium has been established, which will evaluate so-called ‘Solar Integration’ from the perspectives of (1) public acceptance, law and governance, (2) biodiversity, ecosystems and spatial quality, (3) PV system configurations in rural and urban landscapes, (4) enabling technologies for integrated PV elements, and (5) design approaches. This research consortium will support Solar Integration by (a) design-driven research on innovations in PV solar energy, (b) the creation of a broad consortium of stakeholders with various backgrounds and interests, (c) execution of the project in both the Netherlands and internationally, and (d) involving adult and young citizens in knowledge utilization.
Simultaneous fits in ISIS on the example of GRO J1008-57
Creators: name: Kühnel, Matthias
name: Müller, Sebastian
name: Kreykenbohm, Ingo
name: Schwarm, Fritz-Walter
name: Grossberger, Christoph
name: Dauser, Thomas
name: Pottschmidt, Katja
name: Ferrigno, Carlo
name: Rothschild, Richard E.
name: Klochkov, Dmitry
name: Staubert, Rüdiger
name: Wilms, Jörn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parallel computing and steadily increasing computation speed have led to a new tool for analyzing multiple datasets and datatypes: fitting several datasets simultaneously. With this technique, physically connected parameters of individual data can be treated as a single parameter by implementing this connection into the fit directly. We discuss the terminology, implementation, and possible issues of simultaneous fits based on the X-ray data analysis tool Interactive Spectral Interpretation System (ISIS). While all data modeling tools in X-ray astronomy allow in principle fitting data from multiple data sets individually, the syntax used in these tools is not often well suited for this task. Applying simultaneous fits to the transient X-ray binary GRO J1008-57, we find that the spectral shape is only dependent on X-ray flux. We determine time independent parameters such as, e.g., the folding energy E_fold, with unprecedented precision.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Cleanvelope – PV and Building Greening Students Design Concepts of Refurbishment in Nuremburg
Creators: name: Krippner, R.
name: Flade, F.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1900-1905
description: A task of the future, with regard to the social challenges of the transformation of the energy system and the adaption to the climate change, is to upgrade the energy efficiency of old buildings. The EU has set itself the goal of making the building stock almost climate-neutral by 2050. A forward-looking approach is to combine building greening techniques and photovoltaics (PV), as a number of synergy effects can be expected here. A seminar in the master‘s programme at the Faculty of Architecture of Nuremburg Tech in summer semester 2019 examined how buildings can be upgraded between the conflicting priorities of building culture, renovation, solar technology and building greening. Using the example of the “Nordring“ quarter (12 multi-storey residential buildings built in 1959) in Nuremburg, renovation concepts with building greenery and especially photovoltaics were proposed, which, in addition to a design upgrade, demonstrate that both strategies complement each other effectively. In 20 projects, different approaches, from cautious intervention to strong transformation, were developed and constructively deepened. The results show an enormous potential for upgrading of the building environment and housing stock.
Text from Psalms
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Manuscripts, Medieval
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subject: Bible. Psalms
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1808097
subject: History
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subject: Bible. Psalms, CXX-CXXXIV
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1808100
subject: Bible
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1356024
subject: Manuscripts
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1424060
subject: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1008399
subject: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967326

description: "An early vellum manuscript leaf in latin, apparently from a glossed pslater. Each side with 15 lines in the main text in a fine large proto-gothic hand, with gloss on either side and interlineation, these in smaller but equally careful hands, apparently from the same period. Paragraph flourishes in the glosses, rubrics in red, even versal initias in red." -- Phillip J Pirages
Summary of PV Systems Implemented within SMARTER TOGETHER, an EU-Funded Smart City Project
Creators: name: Gaiddon, B.
name: Gonçalves, F.
name: Cerna, V.
name: Valentin, M.
name: Vignali, E.
name: Stoppel, V.
name: Klassen, B.
name: Hartmann, S.
name: Schneider, L.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1896-1899
description: SMARTER TOGETHER is an EU-funded Smart City project that aims to improve quality of life for citizens in large European cities. The project focuses on finding the right balance between ICT technologies, citizen engagement and institutional governance to deliver smart and inclusive solutions in three urban districts: Confluence in Lyon, Neuaubing-Westkreuz/Freiham in Munich and Simmering in Vienna. Within SMARTER TOGETHER, Lyon, Munich and Vienna implemented many large-scale smart city solutions together with the involvement of local stakeholders such as the comprehensive refurbishment of existing buildings, the development of e-mobility solutions and the development of renewable energy production systems. This includes the implementation of 16 PV systems in three cities for a total power of 2.3 MW. Although each PV system is quite different from each other, they all share the same implementation policy based upon co-creation processes involving all local stakeholders thanks to strong collaboration with the local city administrations.
title: Too hot to handle: the global impact of extreme heat
Creators: name: Brimicombe, Chloe Rachel
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: Heatwaves are the deadliest weather hazard. Extreme heat also impacts cross-sections of society, from health to agriculture to infrastructure. The World Meteorological Organisation and the World Health Organisation recommend that countries should implement early warning systems to reduce the impacts of extreme heat. Despite this mandate no global heat hazard alert system currently exists. In addition, heatwave impacts are often under-reported by meteorological organisation databases and reports and in the English news media. This leads to them sometimes being known as silent or invisible killers. An interdisciplinary approach is taken in this thesis to investigate the impact of extreme heat and policy measures and to explore the development of a global heat hazard early warning system. This is presented through a systems approach framed using an adapted version of the WHO framework Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. There are 4 components addressing different aspects of the system each with an objective and these are: 1. Mobilization and governance: assess policy prioritization and governance,2. Health Information Systems: evaluate the trends and modelling for extreme heat, 3. Essential Technologies: develop new technologies to reduce risk to heat and 4. Service Delivery: consider the communication of heat risks and impacts within wider culture. Overall, the research presented in this thesis provides research for a global heat hazard alert system focused on health impacts. An open-source python library for thermal comfort called thermofeel is developed and evaluated. In addition, the way in which extreme heat and heatwaves are communicated in English language research, policy and news media is explored, to start assessing what the best way to communicate heat stress risk might be on a global scale. All of this raises the profile of heatwave risk to ensure their impacts becomes more visible.
PV Energy Yield Measurements of Electric Vehicle and Electric Vehicle Charging Station
Creators: name: Muntwyler, U.
name: Zurflüh, D.
name: Schüpbach, E.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1884-1886
description: The current low PV price is a game changer. As opposed to the 1980s, electric vehicles today have the potential to act as important new electricity consumers. With the now very low prices for pho-tovoltaic (PV) installations and solar cells, new PV and EV combinations are emerging. The DC/AC production with PV and the AC/DC-charging of EV battery with solar carports can be viewed as an established technique and an amazing economic advantage. Yet, with the low price even for highly efficient solar cells (>20% efficiency), the EV surface itself today becomes an interesting infrastruc-ture for energy production with solar cells. The research activities of the Laboratory for Photovoltaic Systems (PV LAB) at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) in Burgdorf-Switzerland presented here seeks to quantify both infrastructure approaches (electric vehicle charging station, solar cells on e-vehicle). The project is part of the IEA Technical Collaboration Program (TCP) “Photovoltaic Power Systems PVPS” Task 17 “PV and Transportation”.
Can the diphoton enhancement at 750 GeV be due to a neutral technipion?
Creators: name: Lebiedowicz, Piotr
name: Luszczak, Marta
name: Pasechnik, Roman
name: Szczurek, Antoni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a scenario in which the diphoton enhancement at $M_{γγ}$ = 750 GeV, observed by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, is a neutral technipion $\tildeπ^0$. We consider two distinct minimal models for the dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. In a first one, two-flavor vector-like technicolor (VTC) model, we assume that the two-photon fusion is a dominant production mechanism. We include $γγ\to {\tilde π}^0$ and production of technipion associated with one or two jets. All the considered mechanisms give similar contributions. With the strong Yukawa (technipion-techniquark) coupling $g_{TC}$ = 10 - 20 we obtain the measured cross section of the "signal". With such values of $g_{TC}$ we get a relatively small $Γ_{\rm tot}$. In a second approach, one-family walking technicolor (WTC) model, the isoscalar technipion is produced dominantly via the gluon-gluon fusion. We also discuss the size of the signal at lower energies (LHC, Tevatron) for $γγ$ (VTC) and jet-jet (WTC) final states and check consistency with the existing experimental data. We predict a measurable cross section for ${\tilde π}^0$ production associated with one or two soft jets. The technipion signal in both models is compared with the SM background diphoton contributions. We observe the dominance of inelastic-inelastic processes for $γγ$ induced processes. In the VTC scenario, we predict the signal cross section for purely exclusive $p p \to p p γγ$ processes at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV to be about 0.2 fb. Such a cross section would be, however, difficult to measure with the planned integrated luminosity. In all considered cases the signal is below the background or/and below the threshold set by statistics.
description: 26 pages, 16 figures, 1 table
Wind and Wave Effect on Floating Solar Panel
Creators: name: Hsu, S.-T.
name: Su, K.-C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1887-1890
description: Some countries in Asia are actively promoting floating solar systems, but solar system no matter on land or on water are often damaged by strong wind like typhoons. Generally the solar panel or system on land are subjected to non-uniform wind pressure, and are influenced by wind speed (V), wind direction angle () and module tilt (). Similarly, except of the environmental factors (V, , ), the floating solar system on water is additionally affected by the wave effect such as wave direction angle () and wave period (T). This research studied the floating solar panels on water due to wind-wave effect by three steps. Firstly, survey both the hydrological and meteorological data within typhoon days from three offshore observatories (Longdong, Hsinchu and Qiqi) in Taiwan during 2013 to 2017, and analysis the worst condition like maximum wave height and wave period. Secondly, analyze single floating PV system sport behavior on water. Finally, use CFD simulation to get the wind-pressure coefficient (∆Cp) by the model of solar panel under the above worst conditions, and some extreme condition easily occurs when the wind and wave are in the same direction, lead to the solar panel is subjected to a more concentrated non-uniform pressure near the both edges. Results of this work have successfully delivered a database of Cp distribution on solar panel and transfer ∆Cp into 18 zones then averaging them as Mean Surface Pressure Pattern (MSPP@p1~p18), to fulfil the requirements of non-uniform mechanical loads test.