cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of Supplier Relationship Management on the Timely Delivery and Quality of Products in Commercial Banks in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Abebe, Adugna
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: This study was concerned on Supplier Relationship Management and its effect on timely delivery and quality of goods and services acquired by commercial Bank's Operating in Ethiopia. The main objective of the study is to examine the level of the supplier relationship management practice of Commercial Banks on their procurement activities and its effect on the quality and timely delivery of goods and services procured. The study was designed to be conducted on all the Seventeen Commercial Banks Operating in Ethiopia focusing on their procurement units. From these populations, a total sample of 385 participant size was determined using Cochran equation for determining the proportionate sample size then a stratified random sampling was employed as a sampling technique. Each Bank's procurement unit was considered as a stratum. The study has also used both primary and secondary sources. A Likert scale questionnaire was used to collect the primary data. The collected data then has been inserted in to a computer program and processed with the help of SPSS version 20.00 software packages and was analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis to detect whether the stated variables are related or not. The major findings of the study indicate that the level of the supplier relationship management in most commercial Banks is very low and the major aspects of supplier relationship management are not yet institutionalized and practiced in the Banking industry in general in that attributes constituting to supplier relationship management and its manifestations are missing in their supplier identification, selection, development, measurement and risk management. The study also reveals that Supplier Relationship Management has a significant positive relationship with quality and timely delivery of goods and services procured by those commercial Bank's studied in this research, however the regression result of supplier relationship management on timely delivery is not as strong as it has been observed on quality indicating existence of other factors explaining timely delivery of goods and services for which suggestion is provided for future researches in this regard. The researcher finally recommends the need for adapting the concept of supplier relationship management by identifying and institutionalizing the concepts of SRM in all the procurement process and thereby improves timely delivery and quality. Keywords: supplier Relationship Management, Quality, Timely Delivery
Leveraging Industry Energy Flexibility to Enable Higher Shares of Renewable Energy in the Power System – an Experimental Case Study
Creators: name: Aamoume, A.
name: Da Costa Fernandes, J.S.
name: Gasper, R.
name: Hartmann, N.
name: Kenoussi, Y.
name: Schmidt, M.
name: Schmitt, E.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Energy System Integration; Storage

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1600-1604
description: One of the major challenges impeding the energy transition is the intermittency of solar and wind electricity generation due to their dependency on weather changes. The demand-side energy flexibility contributes considerably to mitigate the energy supply/demand imbalances resulting from external influences such as the weather. As one of the largest electricity consumers, the industrial enterprises present a high demand-side flexibility potential from their production processes and on-site energy assets. In this direction, methods are needed with a focus on enabling the energy flexibility and ensure an active participation of such enterprises in the electricity markets especially with variable prices of electricity. This paper presents a generic model library for an industrial enterprise implemented with optimal control for energy flexibility purposes. The components in the model library represent the typical technical units of an industrial enterprise on material, media, and energy flow levels with their operative constraints. A case study of a plastic manufacturing plant using the generic model library is also presented, in which the results of two simulation with different electricity prices are compared and the behavior of the model can be assessed. The results show that the model provides an optimal scheduling of the manufacturing system according to the variations in the electricity prices, and ensures an optimal control for utilities and energy systems needed for the production.
Pacific Centre for Alternative Journalists
Creators: name: Pacific Centre For Alternative Journalists
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Communication--Political aspects
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/869984
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Social groups
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122482
subject: Mass media--Political aspects
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1011278
subject: Journalism--Political aspects
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/984078
subject: Democracy
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/890077
subject: Mass media
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1011219
subject: Anarchism--Societies, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808396
subject: Journalism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/984032
subject: Democratization
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/890123

description: A pamphlet describing the Centre, its objectives and goals, a brief outline of plans for Spring mini-courses, and contact information.
Педагогические науки,Выпуск 1 (64) 2022
Creators: name: АО «КазУМОиМЯ им.Абылай хана»
Publisher: name: АО «КазУМОиМЯ им.Абылай хана»
Year: 2022

description: Педагогические науки,Выпуск 1 (64) 2022
Corso Breve di Teoria del Controllo. Lezione 2 - APPENDICE 2 - Tipologia ed Esempi di sistemi di controllo a una leva, con simulazioni
Creators: name: Mella, Piero
Publisher: name: ----
Year: 2022

description: Questa Appendice 2 – Tipologia ed esempi di sistemi di controllo – integra la Lezione 2 del Corso Breve di Teoria del controllo e presenta una Tipologia minima dei Sistemi di controllo a una leva e qualche modello di simulazione. Prendendo come base il modello generale, nella struttura [s-o-s], presetnato nella Lezione 2, pag. 868, in questa Appendice saranno presentate varianti e tipi di sistemi di controllo, con alcuni esempi.
description: ----, Vol 13, No 4 (2022): ISSUE 4/2022
LENSES Observatory
Creators: name: Draxis Environmental Technologies (Greece)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: LENSES Project aims to enhance system understanding, gather and structure knowledge to unravel complexity and manage uncertainty in WEF systems, with their dynamic evolution. To build resilient Nexus systems that recognize climatic, social, technological or environmental change, it is important to assess how actions in one area may affect the coordination of institutions and policies for resource management in another area.

LENSES Observatory is a data repository that stores all data collected from the pilots and makes them accessible to the LENSES project partners. Beyond data storage, the LENSES Observatory offers advanced visualization capabilities. Integrated tools such as Dashboards and GIS Maps enable users to explore interrelationships between water accounting data, land-use data, Earth observation-derived indicators, climate projections, and climate risk indicators. These tools effectively display the indicators through a variety of formats, including maps, tables, charts, time-series graphs, and key metrics. By providing this dedicated knowledge hub, the LENSES Observatory empowers key stakeholders associated with the pilot cases to access information on climate-related risks, water accounting and land use suitability under different future climate scenarios in order to make informed decisions.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, specifically the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA Foundation), under grant agreement No 2041.
Analysis of the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Solar Radiation and its Use in the Design of Energy Systems
Creators: name: Langenecker, J.
name: Schmitt, E.
name: Aamoume, A.
name: Schmidt, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Energy System Integration; Storage

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1605-1608
description: Solar energy plays a central role in the energy transition. Clouds generate locally large fluctuations in the generation output of photovoltaic systems, which is a major problem for energy systems such as microgrids, among others. For an optimal design of a power system, this work analyzed the variability using a spatially distributed sensor network at Stuttgart Airport. It has been shown that the spatial distribution partially reduces the variability of solar radiation. A tool was also developed to estimate the output power of photovoltaic systems using irradiation time series and assumptions about the photovoltaic sites. For days with high fluctuations of the estimated photovoltaic power, different energy system scenarios were investigated. It was found the approach can be used to have a more realistic representation of aggregated PV power taking spatial smoothing into account and that the resulting PV power generation profiles provide a good basis for energy system design considerations like battery sizing.
Processing of X-ray Microcalorimeter Data with Pulse Shape Variation using Principal Component Analysis
Creators: name: Yan, Daikang
name: Cecil, Thomas
name: Gades, Lisa
name: Jacobsen, Chris
name: Madden, Timothy
name: Miceli, Antonino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method using principal component analysis (PCA) to process x-ray pulses with severe shape variation where traditional optimal filter methods fail. We demonstrate that PCA is able to noise-filter and extract energy information from x-ray pulses despite their different shapes. We apply this method to a dataset from an x-ray thermal kinetic inductance detector which has severe pulse shape variation arising from position-dependent absorption.
description: Accepted for publication in J. Low Temperature Physics, Low Temperature Detectors 16 (LTD-16) conference
Quantum backaction and noise interference in asymmetric two-cavity optomechanical systems
Creators: name: Yanay, Yariv
name: Sankey, Jack C.
name: Clerk, Aashish A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of cavity damping asymmetries on backaction in a "membrane-in-the-middle" optomechanical system, where a mechanical mode modulates the coupling between two photonic modes. We show that in the adiabatic limit, this system generically realizes a dissipative optomechanical coupling, with an effective position-dependent photonic damping rate. The resulting quantum noise interference can be used to ground-state cool a mechanical resonator in the unresolved sideband regime. We explicitly demonstrate how quantum noise interference controls linear backaction effects, and show that this interference persists even outside the adiabatic limit. For a one-port cavity in the extreme bad-cavity limit, the interference allows one to cancel all linear backaction effects. This allows continuous measurements of position-squared, with no stringent constraints on the single-photon optomechanical coupling strength. In contrast, such a complete cancellation is not possible in the good cavity limit. This places strict bounds on the optomechanical coupling required for quantum non-demolition measurements of mechanical energy, even in a one-port device.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Measuring Supply Chain Performance in Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Industry Using BSC Model: the Case of Addis Pharmaceutical Factory
Creators: name: Alemu, Adane
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The objective of this research is to measure the supply chain performance of pharmaceuticals manufacturing companies of Ethiopia by studying the supply chain performance of Addis pharmaceutical factory as a unit of analysis. Descriptive and quantitative methods of research were used and data were collected by interview questions, document review and questionnaires. Document review was conducted to study especially the financial performance as factual data was needed. The performance of the supply chain was measured using balanced score card model. Based on questionnaires data were collected from employees of Addis pharmaceutical factory and distributors to measure the supply performance of APF. The findings of the study suggested that financial, learning and growth and customer perspectives have statistically significant result. Generally, the study findings have suggested that the levels of supply chai performance is approximately moderate in the case of Addis pharmaceutical factory in terms of the four dimensions. It has also discovered that, among the four performance measurement dimensions financial perspective is comparatively in a better position in the company. From the survey conducted and filled by customers, It was found also that the company did not respond to customer orders, have no good communication system and the company does not conduct customer survey to evaluate customer satisfaction level. The study advocated that a lot of emphasis need to be directed to customer perspective and learning and growth perspective in order to achieve customer satisfaction and employee learning and growth through efficiency or productivity, consequently improving the organizational performance as a whole. Key words: supply chain performance, Balanced score card
Letter from E.M. Forster to Alec Randall, [1930-1931?]
Creators: name: Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Modernism (Literature)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024455
subject: Literature, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1000172
subject: Diplomatic and consular service
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/894202
subject: Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/40913
subject: Authors, English--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821953
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Novelists, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039718
subject: Randall, Alec, 1892-
subject: Ambassadors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/806713
subject: Novelists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039684
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Diplomats
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/894415

description: Part of a collection of letters written by E.M. Forster to Sir Alec Randall. They concern, firstly, his trip to Rumania, where he stayed with the Randalls; a tour in France in 1928; and his journey home. Later letters include references to such literary people as Herbert Read, Harold Monro and T.S. Eliot, plus a mention of reading James Joyce's "Ulysses". He also refers to his visit to Africa and his sentiments about the Spanish Civil War and W.W.II. Most of the later letters are signed "Morgan". E. M. Forster was born in London. He is principally known as a novelist and was associated with the Bloomsbury Group, which included Virginia Woolf. Among his best known works are "A Room With A View" (1911) and "A Passage To India" (1924). Many of his novels have been dramatized. He also wrote short stories, drama, non-fiction and criticism. He died at King's College, Cambridge, where he had resided since the mid 1940s. His friend, Sir Alec Randall was with the British legation in Bucharest, Rumania, and was later appointed to serve in Rome. Forster is traveling around France looking at cathedrals.
A Deep Structured Model with Radius-Margin Bound for 3D Human Activity Recognition
Creators: name: Lin, Liang
name: Wang, Keze
name: Zuo, Wangmeng
name: Wang, Meng
name: Luo, Jiebo
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Understanding human activity is very challenging even with the recently developed 3D/depth sensors. To solve this problem, this work investigates a novel deep structured model, which adaptively decomposes an activity instance into temporal parts using the convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our model advances the traditional deep learning approaches in two aspects. First, { we incorporate latent temporal structure into the deep model, accounting for large temporal variations of diverse human activities. In particular, we utilize the latent variables to decompose the input activity into a number of temporally segmented sub-activities, and accordingly feed them into the parts (i.e. sub-networks) of the deep architecture}. Second, we incorporate a radius-margin bound as a regularization term into our deep model, which effectively improves the generalization performance for classification. For model training, we propose a principled learning algorithm that iteratively (i) discovers the optimal latent variables (i.e. the ways of activity decomposition) for all training instances, (ii) { updates the classifiers} based on the generated features, and (iii) updates the parameters of multi-layer neural networks. In the experiments, our approach is validated on several complex scenarios for human activity recognition and demonstrates superior performances over other state-of-the-art approaches.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, to appear in International Journal of Computer Vision 2015
Effect of Low-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage on the Hybrid PV-compressed Air Energy Storage Operation
Creators: name: Bazdar, E.
name: Nasiri, F.
name: Haghighat, F.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Energy System Integration; Storage

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1609-1616
description: Unlike conventional energy storage, compressed air energy storage (CAES) is a complex system mix of mechanical, electrical, and thermal engineering that causes relatively low efficiency due to multi-step energy conversion and losses. Energy in CAES is partly stored in the form of high-pressure air and partially converted into thermal energy. One way to improve the CAES cycle efficiency and reduce its carbon footprint is recycling the thermal energy by integrating regenerative heat units into CAES. Introducing decentralized CAES for building applications means that the compressor and turbine operation must be adjusted by intermittent solar power and fluctuated energy demand, respectively, to increase solar power penetration and building autonomy. In this study, a novel operation strategy is proposed to investigate the effect of limitation and dynamic behavior of thermal energy storage (TES) on the thermodynamic and techno-environmental performance of CAES and the whole hybrid power system, including PV/CAES/grid. This operation strategy enables the investigation of CAES and hybrid systems' time-dependent operation under several CAES structures characterized by heat management and fuel consumption concept. The results show a strong relationship between TES states with the turbine/compressor operation and the air tank state.
Matching Photovoltaics and Heat Pumps - Against the Peak-8
Creators: name: Grunow, P.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Energy System Integration; Storage

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1585-1588
description: This work motivates the combination of rooftop photovoltaics with electric heat pumps and decentral hydrogen storage. First of all, the efficiency is improved by adding the heat flows from the hydrogen back and forth conversion to those of the heat pump in a single device, the so-called Hybrid Storage CHP. Secondly, the power peaks from any heat pump flattens out completely. Since the electric heat pumps are synchronized by the ambient temperature, this will require countermeasures in the power grid capacities. The more heat pumps, the more pronounced the peaks. In addition, they tend to be unpredictable in winter and periods of frost can last several weeks in Central Europe. This will need additional capacities for residual power. While hydrogen systems for single-family houses are already commercially available, this work addresses multi-family houses in cities with only limited roof space per resident as well. Beyond the area constraint, energy sharing among tenants is complicated, while heat sharing is not. Smart heating with Hybrid Storage CHP is still costly, but covers all system requirements for grid-scale residual power management. These long-term storage devices consume or generate power on site and thus call the expansion of the power grid into question. The cost analysis starts with a one-sector model covering only space heating and is then extended to a full sector coupling system for Germany in 2030. The latter is compared to current energy system models with gas turbines for residual load coverage.
Quantum properties of a binary bosonic mixture in a double well
Creators: name: Mujal, Pere
name: Juliá-Díaz, Bruno
name: Polls, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work contains a detailed analysis of the properties of the ground state of a two-component two-sites Bose-Hubbard model, which captures the physics of a binary mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a double-well potential. The atom-atom interactions within each species and among the two species are taken as variable parameters while the hopping terms are kept fixed. To characterize the ground state we use observables such as the imbalance of population and its quantum uncertainty. The quantum many-body correlations present in the system are further quantified by studying the degree of condensation of each species, the entanglement between the two sites and the entanglement between the two species. The latter is measured by means of the Schmidt gap, the von Neumann entropy or the purity obtained after tracing out a part of the system. A number of relevant states are identified, e.g. Schrödinger catlike many-body states, in which the outcome of the population imbalance of both components is completely correlated, and other states with even larger von Neumann entropy which have a large spread in Fock space.
Smart Property Pricing: A Machine Learning Approach to Real Estate Valuation
Creators: name: Mallavarapu Kesava Naga Satya Manikanta, Naragana Harshitha Padamati Chinna Venkata Chaitanya, Penke Venkata Raghunandan, Vanaparthi Sameer Sri Vathsal Jagadeeswar, Dr.M.Uma Devi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study focuses on predicting real estate prices using machine learning techniques to improve theaccuracy and efficiency of property valuation. The research leverages diverse datasets, including propertyfeatures, location attributes, market trends, and economic indicators, to train machine learning models forreliable price predictions. Popular algorithms such as linear regression, decision trees, random forests, andgradient boosting methods are employed and compared for their predictive performance. Advancedtechniques like hyperparameter tuning, feature engineering, and cross-validation are utilized to enhancemodel accuracy. The study also emphasizes the interpretability of models to ensure that predictions alignwith market realities and stakeholder expectations. By providing data-driven insights, the research aims tosupport stakeholders, including buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals, in making informed decisionsin a competitive housing market.
Assessment of Non-Isolated Microgrid Potential for Increased Reliability in Medium Voltage Feeders
Creators: name: Ferreira Torres, P.
name: Zilles, R.
name: Tavares Pinho, J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Energy System Integration; Storage

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1589-1595
description: This paper presents a methodology for distributed energy resources (DER) valuation on distribution planning, considering the formation of non-isolated microgrids in medium voltage feeders. An algorithm is developed to allocate the microgrid-forming DER and the respective islanding switch to maximize the reliability of a feeder. The proposed DER valuation and allocation approach makes it possible to assess the feasibility of utility-led DER power and energy contracts as non-wires planning alternatives, focusing on reliability improvement, and accounting for other key aspects, such as investment deferral and system services. A set of real medium voltage feeders with low reliability is used to test the approach, considering photovoltaic plants with battery storage as microgrid-forming DER.
One Realization of an Autonomous Measurement System for Verification of the Declared Efficiency and Real-time Monitoring of the Photovoltaic Plant Production based on IOT Platform
Creators: name: Batas Bjelic, I.
name: Atanasijevic, P.
name: Dragisic, P.
name: Dragisic, G.
name: Tomic, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Energy System Integration; Storage

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1596-1599
description: Photovoltaic technology becomes interesting in Serbia from household prosumers, to small business sector entities up to large utility scale plants have been planned and built due to real economic reasoning in the time of disruption of typical fossil fuel energy agendas. In order to meet the expectations of investors, which is increasingly important after the feed-in period is over, the more measurement, monitoring and validation of onsite production are needed. Therefore, a solution based on real-time monitoring of the photovoltaic plant has been designed and realized based on existing Internet of Things platform. The device allows those real-time measurements of each photovoltaic panel string current, voltage and temperature, together with onsite environmental and weather data to be routed by the gateway to the distant cloud server for the advanced processing. Advanced processing is important to diagnose the possible underperformance of photovoltaic plant by calculating indicators such as performance ratio, and weather corrected performance ratio. Such underperformance from temperature factor has been confirmed at the rate of ±2%. Further research will be directed towards inclusion of broader reasoning behind underperformance as a tool to maximize investors assets.
Letter from E.M. Forster to Alec Randall, October 17, [1940-1950?]
Creators: name: Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Novelists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039684
subject: Literature, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1000172
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/40913
subject: Ambassadors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/806713
subject: Modernism (Literature)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024455
subject: Diplomatic and consular service
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/894202
subject: Randall, Alec, 1892-
subject: Diplomats
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/894415
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, English--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821953
subject: Novelists, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039718

description: Part of a collection of letters written by E.M. Forster to Sir Alec Randall. They concern, firstly, his trip to Rumania, where he stayed with the Randalls; a tour in France in 1928; and his journey home. Later letters include references to such literary people as Herbert Read, Harold Monro and T.S. Eliot, plus a mention of reading James Joyce's "Ulysses". He also refers to his visit to Africa and his sentiments about the Spanish Civil War and W.W.II. Most of the later letters are signed "Morgan". E. M. Forster was born in London. He is principally known as a novelist and was associated with the Bloomsbury Group, which included Virginia Woolf. Among his best known works are "A Room With A View" (1911) and "A Passage To India" (1924). Many of his novels have been dramatized. He also wrote short stories, drama, non-fiction and criticism. He died at King's College, Cambridge, where he had resided since the mid 1940s. His friend, Sir Alec Randall was with the British legation in Bucharest, Rumania, and was later appointed to serve in Rome.
Transient Response and Non-Linear Capacity Variation Aware Unified Equivalent Circuit Battery Model
Creators: name: Zhao, D.
name: Taniguchi, I.
name: Catthoor, F.
name: Onoye, T.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Energy System Integration; Storage

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1579-1584
description: Battery energy storage plays a vital role in the renewable energy system. Battery as the only dynamic element in a PV system, the current, voltage, resistivity, etc. are varying during charging and discharging. With an accurate and efficient battery model, the designer can predict and optimize battery runtime and performance during different working scenarios. However, low-complexity state-of-the-art models are too weak on the transient behavior. The primary purpose of this study is to provide an efficient dynamic battery model for the simulation of stand-alone PV applications. In this study, an enhanced and comprehensive electrical battery model has been proposed and implemented in the SPICE environment. The proposed model accounts for battery non-linear open-circuit voltage and non-linear capacity effect, which are essential for renewable energy storage applications. The proposed model consists of kinetic based runtime estimation model and transient response model. The proposed model was validated with experimental data on Li-ion batteries. The results show that the proposed model can accurately predict the battery runtime and I–V performance with acceptable execution time overhead. Moreover, the proposed model can also be easily extended to other batteries.
Universal behavior of dense clusters of magnetic nanoparticles
Creators: name: Usov, N. A.
name: Serebryakova, O. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed numerical simulation of quasistatic hysteresis loops of dense clusters of interacting magnetic nanoparticles is carried out. Both clusters of magnetically soft and magnetically hard nanoparticles are considered. The clusters are characterized by an average particle diameter D, the cluster radius Rc, the particle saturation magnetization Ms, and the uniaxial anisotropy constant K. The number of particles in the cluster varies between Np = 30 - 120. The particle centers are randomly distributed within the cluster, their easy anisotropy axes being randomly oriented. It is shown that a rare assembly of identical random clusters of magnetic nanoparticles can be characterized by two dimensionless parameters: 1) the relative strength of magneto-dipole interaction, K/Ms^2, and the average particle concentration within the cluster, η = VNp/Vc. Here V is the nanoparticle volume, and Vc is the volume of the cluster, respectively. In the strong interaction limit, Ms*η/Ha >> 1, where Ha = 2K/Ms is the anisotropy field, the ultimate hysteresis loops of dilute assemblies of clusters have been constructed. In the variables (M/Ms, H/Ms) these hysteresis loops depend only on the particle volume fraction η. In the weak interaction limit, Ms*η/Ha << 1, the assembly hysteresis loops in the variables (M/Ms, H/Ha) are close to the standard Stoner-Wohlfarth hysteresis loop.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, submitted to J. Phys. D.: Appl. Phys
The Status of Photovoltaics in Italy and the Prospects for Contributing to the Goal of Energy Decarbonisation
Creators: name: Guastella, S.
name: Terzini, E.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Modelling and Scenarios for Renewables, Policy, Global Challenges

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1574-1578
description: This work aims at describing the status of PV in Italy in correlation with the objectives of the Integrated National Plan for Energy and Climate (PNIEC) to contribute to energy decarbonization. The PV installations' trend in Italy (0.9 GW installed in 2021) is shown highlighting an encouraging recovery signal after several years of market stagnation. The need for a significant acceleration of the market is underlined comparing the current trend to PNIEC's targets and to the more ambitious goals of the new European climate law's package "fit for 55" (for Italy, 64 GW of cumulative PV power by 2030). Government measures and reforms for an Italian PV market boost are illustrated together with the already consolidated assets of PV industrial sector, covering the entire PV value chain, and of Research, Development and Demonstration activities of research institutes and universities supporting the knowledge advancement and industry innovation. The reported information shows the current Italian policies for the widest penetration of PV in the process of decarbonisation of energy production, but also the need of a further effort by the governmental institutions and all the sector stakeholder to reach the national PV target by 2030. The main work needed in very short term is to put in place and to valorise the objectives of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), the stronger source of strategic projects for the energy transition which, in Italy, relies largely on the development and diffusion of photovoltaics.
Zeiss Munich Grand Opening Germany
Creators: name: Berry-Frith, Joanne
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing

description: Grand Opening exhibition and talk with Chief Imaging Officer Tim Self of Nottingham University at Zeiss, Munich, Germany
The Impact of Performance Degradation Curves on the Profitability of Solar PV Projects
Creators: name: Virtuani, A.
name: Morganti, L.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Costs, Economics, Finance and Markets

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1558-1561
description: Recent literature highlights the fact that degradation curves are frequently not linear. This technical knowledge is, however, neglected by the financial world, which continues to use simplified linear degradation rates to assess the profitability of PV projects. In this work we compute the project-IRR (or unleveraged equity IRR) of utilityscale (50 MWp in size) PV projects deployed in different parts of Europe and carry out a sensitivity analysis of how the profitability of the plant is impacted when non-linear performance degradation curves are used in place of constant degradation rates. In general, a 2-step performance loss curve leads to the highest project-IRRs at equal total loss, whereas the lowest IRRs are achieved if module degradation were undergoing a negative logarithmic or exponential degradation trajectory. Further, the sensitivity of profitability to the different degradation trajectories increases at higher latitudes (i.e. in sites with lower solar resources), for which the absolute project-IRR is understandably lower. Finally, based on this analysis, we provide some indications to project developers and investors on how to make more sound and “reliable” BPs. These include, the application of stress test to BPs to assess the risk that non-linear degradation curves may have on the project profitability.
A Solar PV Profitability Study as a Function of Wholesale Market Price Variation Patterns
Creators: name: Macé, P.
name: Bosch, E.
name: Aleman, M.
name: Penas, A.
name: Van Rechem, A.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Costs, Economics, Finance and Markets

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1562-1567
description: Non-incentivized utility-scale PV systems (typically relying on selling the produced electricity on the wholesale spot day-ahead market) have been appearing on the market in the last years. In 2021, 17% of the global annual market was deployed under such business models and it is expected that this share will continue to grow [1][2]. In parallel, key components of the energy transition (higher PV penetration, electrification of heating, cooling and mobility needs, storage, power-to-X, …) may impact wholesale electricity price patterns by altering electricity supply demand imbalance in one direction or the other. Therefore, this study is a prospective analysis which assesses how different variations of electricity price patterns could impact PV profitability. Based on the developed methodology, the impacts of different wholesale electricity price patterns (daily patterns, seasonal patterns and occurrence of negative prices) on the profitability of a 50 MWp PV system under two business models have been assessed. Results take the form of charts displaying the NPV (Net Present Value).
Art-Science Interplay, Solo Exhibition, Coningsby Gallery, London
Creators: name: Berry-Frith, Joanne
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2024

description: I have been working as an artist for over thirty years. I am fascinated by light, colour, lasers, technology and science. My initial curiosity in how artists can work with scientists was piqued in 1998 when I became aware of the SciArt scheme. The ethos of the SciArt scheme encouraged me, as an artist, to seek out Life Scientists to collaborate with because the methods we employ to create images are connected. We both use laser technology (I make laser-cut lightboxes), which requires knowledge of light, optics, and computer visualisation methods and I am fascinated by how I can use scientific image data innovatively. As a result, since 2010, a central part of my practice has involved contributing to scientific research projects as one of the research teams.
Sector Coupled Energy Model for the European Electricity, Heat, and Transport Sectors - Results
Creators: name: Blinn, A.
name: Te Heesen, H.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Modelling and Scenarios for Renewables, Policy, Global Challenges

description: 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion; 1568-1573
description: Europe can ensure a reliable, economical, and environmentally compatible energy supply by moving away from finite fossil fuels to regenerative and sustainable energy production. The extensive substitution of fossil fuels by regenerative energy sources and the associated decoupling of energy production and resource consumption takes the limitation of irreversible climatic changes as its goal. This can be achieved in particular by using photovoltaic systems and wind energy. The transition from a centralized, unidirectional energy system to a decentralized, bidirectional system can be accomplished with photovoltaics and wind power. Due to the characteristics of fluctuating power generation plants, the need for storage increases but can be reduced to a minimum through energy demand reduction measures, such as general technical efficiency improvements and changes in consumer behavior, as well as through load shifting and the expansion of domestic and cross-border transmission grid capacities. In this context, sector coupling combines the electricity, heat, and transport sectors into a comprehensive system. Energy system modeling contributes to understanding and building the future energy supply system. This publication aims to develop an energy system that is 100 percent based on renewable energy by 2050. For this purpose, a complete sector-coupled energy model (UCB SEnMod) of all energy sectors is modeled, where the interaction of energy supply and energy consumption can be investigated with an hourly resolution.
Postcard from A. R. Orage to Hebrert Read, Tuesday, [1921?]
Creators: name: Orage, A. R. (Alfred Richard), 1873-1934
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Anarchists
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subject: Editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902475
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Periodical editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1058064
subject: Orage, A. R. (Alfred Richard), 1873-1934
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/822
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Uspenskiĭ, P. D. (Petr Demʹi︠a︡novich), 1878-1947
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/15966
subject: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1754386
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Art historians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815554

description: Part of a collection of correspondence between Sir Herbert Read and Alfred Richard Orage. Orage is most well-known for editing the magazine “The New Age”. These letters, spanning 1921 and 1922, primarily discuss Read’s work as a Readers and Writers columnist for the magazine in that time. In these letters Orage also frequently mentions P. D. Ouspensky, who studied under philosopher G. I. Gurdjieff. In 1922 Orage sold “The New Age” and moved to Paris in order to also study under Gurdjieff. In this postcard Orage thanks Read for the third instalment of the R. and W. column and says he thinks Read was the right person for the job.
Letter from A. R. Orage to Herbert Read, Monday, [1921?]
Creators: name: Orage, A. R. (Alfred Richard), 1873-1934
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Periodical editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1058064
subject: Uspenskiĭ, P. D. (Petr Demʹi︠a︡novich), 1878-1947
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/15966
subject: Orage, A. R. (Alfred Richard), 1873-1934
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/822
subject: Art historians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815554
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1754386
subject: Editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902475
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945

description: Part of a collection of correspondence between Sir Herbert Read and Alfred Richard Orage. Orage is most well-known for editing the magazine “The New Age”. These letters, spanning 1921 and 1922, primarily discuss Read’s work as a Readers and Writers columnist for the magazine in that time. In these letters Orage also frequently mentions P. D. Ouspensky, who studied under philosopher G. I. Gurdjieff. In 1922 Orage sold “The New Age” and moved to Paris in order to also study under Gurdjieff. In this letter Orage evaluates an R. and W. article.
Improved proper motion determinations for 15 open clusters based on the UCAC4 catalog
Creators: name: Kurtenkov, Alexander
name: Dimitrova, Nadezhda
name: Atanasov, Alexander
name: Aleksiev, Teodor D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proper motions of 15 nearby (d < 1 kpc) open clusters were recalculated using data from the UCAC4 catalog. Only evolved or main sequence stars inside a certain radius from the center of the cluster were used. The results differ significantly from the ones presented by Dias et al. (2014). This could be explained by the different approach to taking the field star contamination into account. The present work aims to emphasize the importance of applying photometric criteria for the calculation of open cluster proper motions.
description: 9 pages, accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Developing an Action Concept Inventory
Creators: name: McGinness, Lachlan P.
name: Savage, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on progress towards the development of an Action Concept Inventory (ACI), a test that measures student understanding of action principles in introductory mechanics and optics. The ACI also covers key concepts of many-paths quantum mechanics, from which classical action physics arises. We used a multi-stage iterative development cycle for incorporating expert and student feedback into successive revisions of the ACI. The student feedback, including think-aloud interviews, enabled us to identify their misconceptions about action physics.
description: 6 pages. This paper started out as arXiv:1507.06075v1, then split into arXiv:1507.06075v2 and this paper as a result of feedback from referees and an editor. arXiv:1507.06075v2 presents the case for teaching action physics, while this paper presents an evaluation tool