cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Saccopteryx canescens Thomas 1901
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Emballonuridae
Saccopteryx
Saccopteryx canescens

description: Saccopteryx canescens Thomas, 1901. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 7:366. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Para, Obidos. DISTRIBUTION: Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, N Brazil, Peru. SYNONYMS: pumila. COMMENTS: Includes pumila; see Husson (1962:46).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 159, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Husson, A. M. 1962. The bats of Suriname. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 58: 1 - 282, 30 pls."]}
Saccopteryx gymnura Thomas 1901
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Emballonuridae
Saccopteryx
Saccopteryx gymnura

description: Saccopteryx gymnura Thomas, 1901. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 7:367. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Para, Santarem. DISTRIBUTION: Amazonian Brazil, perhaps Venezuela.
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 159, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Comment on "Curvature capillary migration of microspheres" by N. Sharifi-Mood, I.B. Liu, K.J. Stebe, Soft Matter 11, 6768 (2015), arXiv:1502.01672
Creators: name: Würger, Alois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper, Sharifi-Mood et al. study colloidal particles trapped at a liquid interface with opposite principal curvatures $c_{1}=-c_{2}$. In the theory part, they claim that the trapping energy vanishes at second order in $Δc=c_{1}-c_{2}$, which would invalidate our previous result [Phys. Rev. E 74, 041402 (2006)]. Here we show that this claim arises from an improper treatment of the outer boundary condition on the deformation field. For both pinned and moving contact lines, we find that the outer boundary is irrelevant, which confirms our previous work. More generally, we show that the trapping energy is determined by the deformation close to the particle and does not depend on the far-field.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure
Performance Loss Rates of Different Photovoltaic Technologies After Eight Years of Operation under Warm Climate Conditions
Creators: name: Phinikarides, A.
name: Philippou, N.
name: Makrides, G.
name: Georghiou, G.E.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Operation of PV Systems and Plants

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2664-2668
description: In this paper, the performance loss rates of different technology crystalline silicon (c-Si) and thin-film photovoltaic (PV) systems were estimated and compared over their first eight years of operation at the test site of the Photovoltaic Technology Laboratory, University of Cyprus (UCY) in Nicosia, Cyprus, by applying different statistical trend analysis methods on monthly Performance Ratio, RP, time series. The statistical trend analysis methods include Linear Regression (LR), Classical Seasonal Decomposition (CSD), Holt-Winters exponential smoothing (HW) and LOcally wEighted Scatterplot Smoothing (LOESS) and were applied on monthly constructed time series of RP, calculated from the fifteen-minute average array DC power at the maximum power point, PA, of each grid-connected PV system. The comparison of the estimated performance loss rates for each technology showed that the average performance loss rate of the c-Si systems was 0.75 ± 0.17 %/year. On the other hand, the average performance loss rate for the thin-film systems was 1.95 ± 0.11 %/year for all methods, with a 95 % confidence interval. The good agreement in the results between the different methods for each system also provided evidence that the performance loss rates have started to converge to a steady value. Finally, it was demonstrated that trend extraction techniques produced similar estimates between them and with very low uncertainty, even with less than five years of outdoor exposure, whereas LR was the least robust method for all technologies, since it was greatly affected by the seasonality and outliers of the time series and needed more years of data to produce reliable estimates.
3D Quantum Gravity from Holomorphic Blocks
Creators: name: Livine, Etera R.
name: Pan, Qiaoyin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-dimensional gravity is a topological field theory, which can be quantized as the Ponzano-Regge state-sum model built from the $\{3nj\}$-symbols of the recoupling of the $\SU(2)$ representations, in which spins are interpreted as quantized edge lengths in Planck units. It describes the flat spacetime as gluing of three-dimensional cells with a fixed boundary metric encoding length scale. In this paper, we revisit the Ponzano-Regge model formulated in terms of spinors and rewrite the quantum geometry of 3D cells with holomorphic recoupling symbols. These symbols, known as Schwinger's generating function for the $\{6j\}$-symbols, are simply the squared inverse of the partition function of the 2D Ising model living on the boundary of the 3D cells. They can furthermore be interpreted, in their critical regime, as scale-invariant basic elements of geometry. We show how to glue them together into a discrete topological quantum field theory. This reformulation of the path integral for 3D quantum gravity, with a rich pole structure of the elementary building blocks, opens a new door toward the study of phase transitions and continuum limits in 3D quantum gravity, and offers a new twist on the construction of a duality between 3D quantum gravity and a 2d conformal theory.
description: 42 pages + appendices, 18 figures
Comparative analysis of genome-wide protein-DNA interactions across domains of life reveals unique binding patterns for hypersaline archaeal histones: supplementary material
Creators: name: Schmid, Amy
name: Darnell, Cynthia
name: Vreugdenhil, Angie
name: Martinez-Pastor, Mar
name: Hackley, Rylee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: Microbiology

description: Supplementary material accompanying manuscript
Plaidoyer pour la philanthropie : Comprendre l'impact, les défis et l’indispensable évolution du secteur philanthropique canadien
Creators: name: (Canada), Global Philanthropic Inc.
name: Malcolm, Dionne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 389999
subject: Other economics not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 440504
subject: Gender relations
classificationCode: 440599
subject: Gender studies not elsewhere classified

description: Le travail des organismes à but non lucratif est transformationnel, allant de l'impact concret à l’échelle locale dans nos communautés, à l’impulsion donnée au changement par les organismes nationaux aux niveaux les plus élevés.Mais le secteur philanthropique n'existe pas sans examen critique. « La pandémie a mis en lumière l'important travail des OBNL, mais elle a aussi démontré les failles dans notre environnement opérationnel », souligne le document d'Imagine Canada de 2022 intitulé Notre diversité, notre force.Au moment où tous les secteurs de l’économie doivent envisager leur avenir dans un paysage post-pandémique, le secteur philanthropique doit en faire tout autant. Il doit se pencher sur des sujets d’ordre général, tels que les défis du financement; le travail à accomplir en matière d'équité, de diversité et d'inclusion et la manière de créer des espaces sûrs pour les équipes et les parties prenantes; l'attraction et la rétention des meilleurs talents; la transparence au sein des opérations; et l'ajustement de la trajectoire afin d'être pertinent et d'avoir un impact dans l'avenir.En utilisant diverses méthodes de recherche, Global Philanthropic Canada a choisi d’impliquer des praticiens, des dirigeants et des observateurs du secteur philanthropique au Canada.Pour en savoir plus : https://fr.globalphilanthropic.ca/
A Person Re-Identification System For Mobile Devices
Creators: name: Cushen, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Person re-identification is a critical security task for recognizing a person across spatially disjoint sensors. Previous work can be computationally intensive and is mainly based on low-level cues extracted from RGB data and implemented on a PC for a fixed sensor network (such as traditional CCTV). We present a practical and efficient framework for mobile devices (such as smart phones and robots) where high-level semantic soft biometrics are extracted from RGB and depth data. By combining these cues, our approach attempts to provide robustness to noise, illumination, and minor variations in clothing. This mobile approach may be particularly useful for the identification of persons in areas ill-served by fixed sensors or for tasks where the sensor position and direction need to dynamically adapt to a target. Results on the BIWI dataset are preliminary but encouraging. Further evaluation and demonstration of the system will be available on our website.
description: Appearing in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Systems (SITIS 2015)
Produktionskosten und Wirtschaftlichkeit der Milcherzeugung in Deutschland
Creators: name: Hansen, Heiko
name: Lassen, Birthe
name: Hansen, Heiko
name: Lassen, Birthe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Milcherzeugung
subject: Produktionskosten
subject: kalkulatorisches Unternehmensergebnis
subject: Strukturwandel
subject: Milk production
subject: cost of production
subject: profits
subject: structural change

description: ii Zusammenfassung und Abstract A fundamental link between the average cost of production (coverage) of the farms and the decline in dairy farms is not visible in the existing cost of production calculations. The phasing out or abandonment of (dairy) farms is determined by a variety of factors and does not depend solely on the economic success of milk production. At present, the legal and social demands on (dairy) farms are growing and cost increases can be expected. Whether the structural change continues as before or possibly accelerates can not be projected. However, there will cer- tainly continue to be a coexistence of large and small as well as specialised and diversified dairy farms, whose production costs and imputed factor costs show great heterogeneity.
description: DOI:10.3220/WP1647253493000
10 Years Analysis of PV Installation in Lublin Region
Creators: name: Olchowik, J.M.
name: Tomaszewski, R.
name: Gulkowski, S.
name: Adamczyk, J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Operation of PV Systems and Plants

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2639-2641
description: This paper shows the results of 10 years analysis of PV system work installed in the south-eastern Poland. Multicrystalline modules made by SOLARA, installed on the roof of the auditorium at Lublin University of Technology were subjected to the analysis. The system of continuous record of PV modules work parameters, installed in 2004, allowed to determine amount of electricity produced during 10 years, as well as to evaluate the potential efficiency of PV investments in Lublin Region.
On the origin of facular brightness
Creators: name: Kostik, R.
name: Khomenko, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper studies the dependence of the CaIIH line core brightness on the strength and inclination of photospheric magnetic field, and on the parameters of convective and wave motions in a facular region at the solar disc center. We use three simultaneous datasets obtained at the German Vacuum Tower Telescope (Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife): (1) spectra of BaII 4554 A line registered with the instrument TESOS to measure the variations of intensity and velocity through the photosphere up to the temperature minimum; (2) spectropolarimetric data in FeI 1.56 $μ$m lines (registered with the instrument TIP II) to measure photospheric magnetic fields; (3) filtergrams in CaIIH that give information about brightness fluctuations in the chromosphere. The results show that the CaIIH brightness in the facula strongly depends on the power of waves with periods in the 5-min range, that propagate upwards, and also on the phase shift between velocity oscillations at the bottom photosphere and around the temperature minimum height, measured from BaII line. The CaIIH brightness is maximum at locations where the phase shift between temperature and velocity oscillations lies within 0-100 degrees. There is an indirect influence of convective motions on the CaIIH brightness. Namely, the higher is the amplitude of convective velocities and the larger is the height where they change their direction of motion, the brighter is the facula. Altogether, our results lead to conclusions that facular regions appear bright not only because of the Wilson depression in magnetic structures, but also due to real heating.
description: to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Yield Predictions for Photovoltaic Power Plants: Empirical Validation, Recent Advances and Remaining Uncertainties
Creators: name: Müller, B.
name: Hardt, L.
name: Armbruster, A.
name: Kiefer, K.
name: Reise, C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Operation of PV Systems and Plants

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2591-2599
description: Yield predictions are performed to predict the solar resource, the performance and the energy production over the expected life time of a Photovoltaic (PV) system. In this study we compare yield predictions and monitored data for 26 PV power plants. The monitoring data includes in-plane irradiance for comparison with the estimated solar resource and energy yield for comparison with predicted performance. The results show that, due to increased irradiance in recent years (“global brightening”) the yield predictions systematically underestimate the energy yield of PV systems by about 5%. As common irradiance databases and averaging times were used for the yield predictions analyzed in this paper, it is concluded, that yield predictions for areas where the global brightening effect occurred in general underestimated the energy yield by the same magnitude. Using recent satellite derived irradiance time series avoids this underestimation. The observed Performance Ratio of the analyzed systems decreases by 0.5 %/year in average with a relatively high spread between individual systems. This decrease is a main factor for the combined uncertainty of yield predictions. It is attributed to non-reversible degradation of PV cells or modules and to reversible effects, like soiling. Based on the results of the validation the combined uncertainty of state of the art yield predictions using recent solar irradiance data is estimated to about 8%.
Wellposedness and decay rates for the Cauchy problem of the Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation arising in high intensity ultrasound
Creators: name: Pellicer, Marta
name: Said-Houari, Belkacem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study the Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation in $\mathbb{R}^N$, which is a third order in time equation that arises in viscous thermally relaxing fluids and also in viscoelastic materials (then under the name of \emph{standard linear viscoelastic} model). First, we use some Lyapunov functionals in the Fourier space to show that, under certain assumptions on some parameters in the equation, an energy norm related with the solution decays with a rate $(1+t)^{-N/4}$. But this does not give the decay rate of the solution itself. Hence, in the second part of the paper, we show an explicit representation of the solution in the frequency domain by analyzing the eigenvalues of the Fourier image of the solution and writing the solution accordingly. We use this eigenvalues expansion method to give the decay rate of the solution (and its derivatives), which (for the solution) results in $(1+t)^{1-N/4}$ for $N=1,2$ and $(1+t)^{1/2-N/4}$ when $N\geq 3$.
Photoproduction of $e^{+}e^{-}$ in peripheral isobar collisions
Creators: name: Lin, Shuo
name: Wang, Ren-Jie
name: Wang, JIan-Fei
name: Xu, Hao-Jie
name: Pu, Shi
name: Wang, Qun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the photoproduction of di-electrons in peripheral collisions of $_{44}^{96}\textrm{Ru}+_{44}^{96}\textrm{Ru}$ and $_{40}^{96}\textrm{Zr}+_{40}^{96}\textrm{Zr}$ at 200 GeV. With the charge and mass density distributions given by the calculation of the density functional theory, we calculate the spectra of transverse momentum, invariant mass and azimuthal angle for di-electrons at 40-80\% centrality. The ratios of these spectra in Ru+Ru collisions over to Zr+Zr collisions are shown to be smaller than $(44/40)^{4}$ (the ratio of $Z^{4}$ for Ru and Zr) at low transverse momentum. The deviation arises from the different mass and charge density distributions in Ru and Zr. So the photoproduction of di-leptons in isobar collisions may provide a new way to probe the nuclear structure.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
White-light continuum emission from a solar flare and plage
Creators: name: Berlicki, Arkadiusz
name: Awasthi, Arun Kumar
name: Heinzel, Petr
name: Sobotka, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of flare emissions in the optical continuum are very rare. Therefore, the analysis of such observations is useful and may contribute to our understanding of the flaring chromosphere and photosphere. We study the white light continuum emission observed during the X6.9 flare which occurred on August 09, 2011. This emission comes not only from the flare ribbons but also from the nearby plage area. The main aim of this work is to disentangle the flare and plage (facula) emission. We analyzed the spatial, spectral and temporal evolution of the flare and plage properties by analyzing multi-wavelength observations. We study the morphological correlation of the whitelight continuum emission observed with different instruments. We found that some active region areas which produce the continuum emission correspond rather to plages than to the flare kernels. We showed that in some cases the continuum emission from the WL flare kernels is very similar to the continuum emission of faculae.
description: 9 Pages, 7 Figures, To Appear in the International Astronomical Union#320 Proceedings Series
Estimation of Solar Radiation Income onto Differently Oriented Surfaces for Different Areas of Russia
Creators: name: Arbuzov, Y.D.
name: Evdokimov, V.M.
name: Shepovalova, O.V.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Operation of PV Systems and Plants

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2629-2634
description: Russia represents a vast sales market for solar systems. Therefore, the evaluation of potential conditions and solar plants implementation efficiency are essential. The vast territory of Russia is not provided with required density of meteorological data sampling stations. While designing solar plants the problem of solar energy income definition with the required level of reliability, as well as that of tracking systems use expediency, is crucially important. It is particularly essential for integrated solar plants and remote sites in thinly-populated rural areas that compose the major part of the territory of the country. This work is dedicated to the establishing the calculation formulas for solar radiation income definition and to the analysis of operation efficiency of solar plants having different orientations for any area in Russian territory.
PV Production Forecasts in a Tropical Environment: Cloud Regimes Identification in Reunion Island Using a Ground-Based Cloud Infrared Radiometer
Creators: name: Cros, S.
name: Bertin, C.
name: Lalire, S.
name: Schmutz, N.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Operation of PV Systems and Plants

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2625-2628
description: In tropical areas, PV production can drastically decrease with a passing cloud. In this context, to increase the amount of PV power injected into the insular electricity network, it is necessary to obtain accurate forecasts to react to such brutal changes. All-sky cameras are suitable solutions for observing short-term sky state
evolutions. However, such instruments do not provide directly ceiling cloud altitude. Moreover, mechanical features and data transmission features involve a costly maintenance for a long-term sky state monitoring. Cloud infrared radiometer (CIR-4) is a low-cost and autonomous instrument providing three dimensional cloud time-series properties. We collected such parameters in Reunion Island with collocated global horizontal irradiance (GHI) measurements. We built a 4-month continuous measurement time-series illustrating the complex relationships between solar irradiance variability and cloud regime transitions in a tropical area. The possibility to distinguish several clear-sky index distributions in function of typical variational cloud regimes is shown. Our results permit to consider CIR-4 observations as analogues usable for very short-term solar irradiance forecasting algorithms.
Comparison of Meteorological Operation Conditions Governing the Performance of Grid Connected PV-Plants in Tropical and Moderate Climate
Creators: name: Beyer, H.G.
name: Habyarimana, H.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Operation of PV Systems and Plants

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2600-2603
description: Besides the efforts to enforce rural electrification by small to micro PV stand alone systems, the option to support the growing nationwide electricity supply system is considered e.g. in the state of Rwanda. Following a first system rated 250kW installed in 2007, systems in the MW range are now under construction. To support this development, knowledge on the expected operation conditions for these systems, partly distinctly different from those in Europe that shaped the current design and performance analyses schemes is needed.
As respective step step, this paper gives a comparison of the irradiance and temperature condition governing the PVsystem operation in Kigali, Rwanda and Stuttgart, Germany, standing for mid-European conditions. Differences in the performance ratio of systems at both locations - as assessed by system simulation - are discussed.
Relationship of schizophrenia, drug and alcohol use, and aggression
Creators: name: Miller, Pauline Anne.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Self organized criticality of magnetic avalanches in disordered ferrimagnetic material
Creators: name: Mondal, Suman
name: Karmakar, Mintu
name: Dutta, Prabir
name: Giri, Saurav
name: Majumdar, Subham
name: Paul, Raja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observe multiple step-like jumps in a Dy-Fe-Ga-based ferrimagnetic alloy in its magnetic hysteresis curve at 2 K. The observed jumps have a stochastic character with respect to their magnitude and the critical field of occurrence, and the jumps do not show any temporal effect. The jump size distribution follows a power law variation indicating the scale invariance nature of the jumps. We have invoked a simple two-dimensional random bond Ising-type spin system to model the dynamics. Our computational work can qualitatively reproduce the jumps and their scale invariant character. It also elucidates that the flipping of antiferromagnetically coupled Dy and Fe clusters is responsible for the observed discrete avalanche-like features in the hysteresis loop. These characteristics indicate that the present phenomenon can be well described within the realm of self-organized criticality
description: 12 pages, 13 figures
Simulation of Power Produced by a Building Added PV System in Indonesia Using Virtual Reality
Creators: name: Veldhuis, A.J.
name: Reinders, A.H.M.E.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Operation of PV Systems and Plants

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2604-2608
description: In this study a PV system will be simulated using virtual reality software for PV system simulations -called VR4PV - to show the effectiveness of the modelling of PV systems on buildings which are placed in the tropics. The PV system used for this study has been installed in Papua, Indonesia and includes a monitoring system which measures among others the power output and weather variables. The power output of the PV system is simulated based on (i) minutely locally measured weather data, and (ii) hourly publicly available weather data measured in the region. The results are compared with the measured power output in order to evaluate the performance of the VR4PV. The RMSE is found to be in between 437 – 679 W for a PV array of 12 kWp, corresponding to 9% and 16% of the average power output for May 2013 – April 2014, based on the minutely measurements. The hourly weather data is found to be more suitable for the estimation of the monthly energy production. The accuracy makes VR4PV extremely appropriate for assessing the performance of PV systems added to buildings in the tropics, before installation and during use.
Evaluation of Pose Tracking Accuracy in the First and Second Generations of Microsoft Kinect
Creators: name: Wang, Qifei
name: Kurillo, Gregorij
name: Ofli, Ferda
name: Bajcsy, Ruzena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Microsoft Kinect camera and its skeletal tracking capabilities have been embraced by many researchers and commercial developers in various applications of real-time human movement analysis. In this paper, we evaluate the accuracy of the human kinematic motion data in the first and second generation of the Kinect system, and compare the results with an optical motion capture system. We collected motion data in 12 exercises for 10 different subjects and from three different viewpoints. We report on the accuracy of the joint localization and bone length estimation of Kinect skeletons in comparison to the motion capture. We also analyze the distribution of the joint localization offsets by fitting a mixture of Gaussian and uniform distribution models to determine the outliers in the Kinect motion data. Our analysis shows that overall Kinect 2 has more robust and more accurate tracking of human pose as compared to Kinect 1.
description: 10 pages, IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2015 (ICHI 2015)
Using an Optimized Analytic Predictor as an Error Indicator in Multi-Megawatt PV-Plants
Creators: name: Kubicek, B.
name: Mütter, G.
name: Voronko, Y.
name: Krametz, T.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Operation of PV Systems and Plants

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2609-2611
description: In large multi-megawatt photovoltaic generator plants, usually there exists a fine grained monitoring system that logs various  parameters relevant to the generation, operation and maintenance of the arrays.
Usually, with a reasonable amount of similar units in the plant, failure detection can be performed by continuous comparison of individual parts, e.g. comparison of all strings’ DC powers. Thereby, time-constant deviation factors are expected, e.g. by different power rating or measurement sensor calibration constants. This exhibits influence of various effects on the production power of the plant.
Iterative Precision Measurement of Branching Ratios Applied to 5P states in 88Sr+
Creators: name: Zhang, Helena
name: Gutierrez, Michael
name: Low, Guang Hao
name: Rines, Richard
name: Stuart, Jules
name: Wu, Tailin
name: Chuang, Isaac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a method for measuring the branching ratios of dipole transitions of trapped atomic ions by performing nested sequences of population inversions. This scheme is broadly applicable and does not use ultrafast pulsed or narrow linewidth lasers. It is simple to perform and insensitive to experimental variables such as laser and magnetic field noise as well as ion heating. To demonstrate its effectiveness, we make the most accurate measurements thus far of the branching ratios of both 5P1/2 and 5P3/2 states in 88Sr+ with sub-1% uncertainties. We measure 17.175(27) for the branching ratio of 5P1/2-5S1/2, 15.845(71) for 5P3/2-5S1/2, and 0.05609(21) for 5P3/2-4D5/2, ten- fold and thirty-fold improvements in precision for 5P1/2 and 5P3/2 branching ratios respectively over the best previous experimental values.
Comparing Energy Yield Simulation in Grid-connected 450kWp Parking-integrated Photovoltaics - Case Study: Villa Lobos Project in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Creators: name: Herrero Alonso, R.
name: Melo, E.
name: Shimura, S.
name: Biasi De Moura, C.
name: Mendes Germano Costa, T.
name: Silva Simplicio, R.
name: Baesso Grimonni, J.A.
name: Knörich Zuffo, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Operation of PV Systems and Plants

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2612-2619
description: With the high cost of square meter in urban environment and the necessity of maximize the use of area, parkingintegrated
photovoltaic can offer a attractive solution for photovoltaic plant non-ground mounted in several cities that aims to integrate an existing parking lots without affect another area and also promote sustainable energy supply. This paper presents how shading profiles and solar irradiation affects the resulting energy inject into grid and performance ratio (PR) in a 450kWp parking-integrated photovoltaic (PIPV) system located in an urban environment. To achieve this objective a PIPV system located in a public park in Sao Paulo city and 12 buildings nearby whose had identified as potential cause of partial shading, have been three dimensional modeled and simulated considering 1 year period of local weather data. The PIPV model was analyzed taking into account the solar irradiation and the buildings shading profiles, then results were compared for three different simulation softwares. Results showed that even with a non-optimal orientation, tilt angle and building surrounding, the PIPV system showed good and similar performance. Nowadays, the decision criteria for configuring a PIPV layout is related to length of cables, layout of the combiner DC boxes, number of inverters and basic orientation of the modules. The methodology presented in this article provides more alternatives and detail information for decision making implementing PIPV.
SmartWire Solar Cell Interconnection Technology
Creators: name: Faes, A.
name: Despeisse, M.
name: Levrat, J.
name: Champliaud, J.
name: Badel, N.
name: Kiaee, M.
name: Söderström, T.
name: Yao, Y.
name: Grischke, R.
name: Gragert, M.
name: Ufheil, J.
name: Papet, P.
name: Strahm, B.
name: Cattaneo, B.
name: Cattin, J.
name: Baumgartner, Y.
name: Hessler-Wyser, A.
name: Ballif, C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Performance and Reliability of Solar Cells

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2555-2561
description: The SmartWire Contacting Technology (SWCT) is an innovative interconnection technology for crystalline silicon solar cells: standard busbars and ribbons are replaced by copper wires coated with a thin low melting point alloy layer and supported by a polymer foil. The SWCT provides key advantages: low temperature contacting during module lamination, increase in efficiency by lowering ohmic losses and enabling fine-line printing, reduced consumption of silver by 85 % or more, enhancement of module reliability (1000 to 2000 electrical contact points on each cell), and improved aesthetics. Automated production lines are today proposed by Meyer Burger, with a flip-flop connection avoiding previously used interconnection ribbons. The SWCT is well suited for module implementation of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells: 319.8 Wp and 327 Wp SWCT-SHJ module (20% total area efficiency) are reported, integrating SHJ solar cells produced at Choschu Industry Co. In addition, strong Ag usage reduction for monofacial (down to 10 mg Ag on the front side) as well as for bifacial SHJ cells (down to 15 mg per side) are demonstrated. High reliability is confirmed with < 5 % degradation for up to 4000 hours of damp heat and 800 thermo-cycling tests. Finally, further cost reduction potential is demonstrated with first results of replacement of state-of-the-art InSn wire coating by a BiSn alloy.
Influence of Various P-Type Czochralski Silicon Solar Cell Architectures on Light-Induced Degradation and Regeneration Mechanisms
Creators: name: Cascant, M.
name: Enjalbert, N.
name: Monna, R.
name: Dubois, S.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Performance and Reliability of Solar Cells

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2570-2573
description: Light-Induced Degradation (LID) and Regeneration (LIR) mechanisms due to the activation and deactivation of the boron-oxygen complexes, are influenced by a wide range of device-related parameters including carrier density distribution within the silicon wafer as well as substrate hydrogenation and thermal history. In order to evaluate the influence of such parameters, standard Al-BSF, PERC and PERT silicon solar cells were manufactured from commercial p-type Cz twin wafers with efficiencies ranging between 17.9-19.0% and initial Voc between 630 mV and 646 mV. The characterization of the degradation process showed significant differences in LID amplitude, including relative efficiency losses of 2.6% for Al-BSF, 3.5% for PERT and 6.1% for PERC. LIR process was successfully applied evidencing, for a given illumination level, faster regeneration kinetics for PERC cells and stabilized performances for the three architectures after 1 week operation. Main causes driving the influence of the architecture in LID amplitude and LIR kinetics were further investigated.
Schizophrenia and schizophrenia like illnesses in the elderly : a study of risk factors, phenomenology and neuroimaging findings
Creators: name: Huang, Chia Yuh.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Solar Radiation Forecasting Based on Artificial Neural Networks Optimized by Genetic Algorithm for Energy Management in Smart Grids
Creators: name: Di Piazza, A.
name: Di Piazza, M.C.
name: Vitale, G.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Operation of PV Systems and Plants

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2574-2579
description: An accurate evaluation of solar energy production in power grids is a crucial aspect for the optimal exploitation of the available resources and for the effective integration of photovoltaic (PV) generators. This is especially advantageous in a smart grid context where a higher penetration of renewable energy sources is expected combined with distributed intelligence and information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures. In this paper the nonlinear autoregressive network with exogenous input (NARX) is used to perform hourly solar radiation forecasting, according to a multi-step ahead approach. Temperature has been considered as the exogenous variable in the analysis. The NARX topology selection is supported by a combined use of two techniques: 1. a genetic algorithm (GA)-based optimization technique for the determination of the best weight set and 2. a method that determines the optimal network architecture by pruning it according to the Optimal Brain Surgeon (OBS) strategy. The considered variables are observed at hourly scale in a seven year dataset and the forecasting is done for several time horizons in the range from 8 to 24 hours-ahead.
Parallel and Distributed Methods for Nonconvex Optimization--Part II: Applications
Creators: name: Scutari, Gesualdo
name: Facchinei, Francisco
name: Lampariello, Lorenzo
name: Song, Peiran
name: Sardellitti, Stefania
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In Part I of this paper, we proposed and analyzed a novel algorithmic framework for the minimization of a nonconvex (smooth) objective function, subject to nonconvex constraints, based on inner convex approximations. This Part II is devoted to the application of the framework to some resource allocation problems in communication networks. In particular, we consider two non-trivial case-study applications, namely: (generalizations of) i) the rate profile maximization in MIMO interference broadcast networks; and the ii) the max-min fair multicast multigroup beamforming problem in a multi-cell environment. We develop a new class of algorithms enjoying the following distinctive features: i) they are \emph{distributed} across the base stations (with limited signaling) and lead to subproblems whose solutions are computable in closed form; and ii) differently from current relaxation-based schemes (e.g., semidefinite relaxation), they are proved to always converge to d-stationary solutions of the aforementioned class of nonconvex problems. Numerical results show that the proposed (distributed) schemes achieve larger worst-case rates (resp. signal-to-noise interference ratios) than state-of-the-art centralized ones while having comparable computational complexity.
description: Part I of this paper can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4754
Classical Nucleation Theory for Active Fluid Phase Separation
Creators: name: Cates, M. E.
name: Nardini, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classical nucleation theory (CNT), linking rare nucleation events to the free energy landscape of a growing nucleus, is central to understanding phase-change kinetics in passive fluids. Nucleation in non-equilibrium systems is much harder to describe because there is no free energy, but instead a dynamics-dependent quasi-potential that typically must be found numerically. Here we extend CNT to a class of active phase separating systems governed by a minimal field-theoretic model (Active Model B+). In the small noise and supersaturation limits that CNT assumes, we compute analytically the quasi-potential, and hence nucleation barrier, for liquid-vapor phase separation. Crucially to our results, detailed balance, although broken microscopically by activity, is restored along the instanton trajectory, which in CNT involves the nuclear radius as the sole reaction coordinate.
Discerning of isatin-based monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors for neurodegenerative disorders by exploiting 2D, 3D-QSAR modelling and molecular dynamics simulation
Creators: name: Kumar, Sunil
name: Jayan, Jayalakshmi
name: Manoharan, Amritha
name: Benny, Feba
name: Abdelgawad, Mohamed A.
name: Ghoneim, Mohammed M.
name: El-Sherbiny, Mohamed
name: Sudevan, Sachithra Thazhathuveedu
name: Aneesh, T. P.
name: Mathew, Bijo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Almost a billion people worldwide suffer from neurological disorders, which pose public health challenges. An important enzyme that is well-known for many neurodegenerative illnesses is monoamine oxidase (MAO). Although several promising drugs for the treatment of MAO inhibition have recently been examined, it is still necessary to identify the precise structural requirements for robust efficacy. Atom-based, field-based, and GA-MLR (genetic algorithm multiple linear regression) models were created for this investigation. All of the models have strong statistical (R2 and Q2) foundations because of both internal and external validation. Our dataset’s molecule has a higher docking score than safinamide, a well-known and co-crystallized MAO-B inhibitor, as we also noticed. Using the SwissSimilarity platform, we further inquired which of our docked molecules would be the best for screening. We chose ZINC000016952895 as the screen molecule with the best binding docking score (XP score = −13.3613). Finally, the 100 ns for the ZINC000016952895-MAO-B complex in our MD investigations is stable. For compounds that we hit, also anticipate ADME properties. Our research revealed that the successful compound ZINC000016952895 might pave the way for the future development of MAO inhibitors for the treatment of neurological disease. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
The Influence of Cell Busbare Pattern on PV Module Reliability
Creators: name: Chen, H.
name: Chen, C.
name: Chang, M.
name: Hsueh, C.H.
name: Yen, E.
name: Ho, K.L.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2014
Subjects: OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (from Cells to Systems)
Performance and Reliability of Solar Cells

description: 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2562-2565
description: Dash-line pattern busbar is recently introduced in solar cell industry for silver paste usage reduction.
To evaluate and simulate the endurance of soldering condition and stringer process, thermal cycling test is one of the
crucial acceleration approaches for PV module. In this work, traditional full line and various types of dash-line busbar
cell among competitors for both P-Multi and P-Mono are assembled into PV modules and undergo thermal cycling
test. We present the statistic analysis of power degradation after 200-cycle stress and Electro-Luminescence (EL)
inspection for each busbar pattern, and extended thermal cycling testing (600 cycles) is also performed to investigate
the failure mechanism. Silver paste composition also plays an important characteristic impacting the reliability.
Residue thermal stress tends to release and initiate cracks from corners and edges of dash-line patterns, and the
potential risk of cell cracking generation and module power degradation are raised with increasing the dash-line
number and sharp corners for busbar pattern.
3D electron density distributions in the solar corona during solar minima: assessment for more realistic solar wind modeling
Creators: name: de Patoul, Judith
name: Foullon, Claire
name: Riley, Pete
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Knowledge of the electron density distribution in the solar corona put constraints on the magnetic field configurations for coronal modeling and on initial conditions for solar wind modeling. We work with polarized SOHO/LASCO-C2 images from the last two recent minima of solar activity (1996-1997 and 2008-2010), devoid of coronal mass ejections. The goals are to derive the 4D electron density distributions in the corona by applying a newly developed time-dependent tomographic reconstruction method and to compare the results between the two solar minima and with two magnetohydrodynamic models. First, we confirm that the values of the density distribution in thermodynamic models are more realistic than in polytropic ones. The tomography provides more accurate distributions in the polar regions, and we find that the density in tomographic and thermodynamic solutions varies with the solar cycle in both polar and equatorial regions. Second, we find that the highest-density structures do not always correspond to the predicted large-scale heliospheric current sheet or its helmet streamer but can follow the locations of pseudo-streamers. We deduce that tomography offers reliable density distributions in the corona, reproducing the slow time evolution of coronal structures, without prior knowledge of the coronal magnetic field over a full rotation. Finally, we suggest that the highest-density structures show a differential rotation well above the surface depending on how they are magnetically connected to the surface. Such valuable information on the rotation of large-scale structures could help to connect the sources of the solar wind to their in situ counterparts in future missions such as Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe Plus.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures