cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Container-Based Cloud Virtual Machine Benchmarking
Creators: name: Varghese, Blesson
name: Subba, Lawan Thamsuhang
name: Thai, Long
name: Barker, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the availability of a wide range of cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) it is difficult to determine which VMs can maximise the performance of an application. Benchmarking is commonly used to this end for capturing the performance of VMs. Most cloud benchmarking techniques are typically heavyweight - time consuming processes which have to benchmark the entire VM in order to obtain accurate benchmark data. Such benchmarks cannot be used in real-time on the cloud and incur extra costs even before an application is deployed. In this paper, we present lightweight cloud benchmarking techniques that execute quickly and can be used in near real-time on the cloud. The exploration of lightweight benchmarking techniques are facilitated by the development of DocLite - Docker Container-based Lightweight Benchmarking. DocLite is built on the Docker container technology which allows a user-defined portion (such as memory size and the number of CPU cores) of the VM to be benchmarked. DocLite operates in two modes, in the first mode, containers are used to benchmark a small portion of the VM to generate performance ranks. In the second mode, historic benchmark data is used along with the first mode as a hybrid to generate VM ranks. The generated ranks are evaluated against three scientific high-performance computing applications. The proposed techniques are up to 91 times faster than a heavyweight technique which benchmarks the entire VM. It is observed that the first mode can generate ranks with over 90% and 86% accuracy for sequential and parallel execution of an application. The hybrid mode improves the correlation slightly but the first mode is sufficient for benchmarking cloud VMs.
description: Accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IEEE IC2E), Berlin, Germany, 2016 - 10 pages
Worldwide Competition Architectural Award Building-Integrated Solar Technology 2014 - Best Practice Solar Buildings
Creators: name: Becker, G.
name: Flade, F.
name: Krippner, R.
name: Schiebelsberger, B.
name: Weber, W.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV in Architecture and as Building Material

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2882-2885
description: In the year 2014 it is the sixth time the Bavarian Association for the Promotion of Solar Energy
(abbreviated as SeV) has sponsored a competition dedicated to integrating solar technology into architecture. This
architectural award for building-integrated solar technology aims at promoting excellence in planning and designing
of building-integrated solar power systems. This award makes accessible the exemplary solutions in qualitatively
sophisticated architecture to the greater public. The entries submitted for the competition in 2014 show how architects
have become increasingly interested in solar technology. Within the projects submitted, housing construction
continues to make up the largest share with more than 35 percent, whereby almost three-quarters are detached and
semi-detached homes. The other building types are largely distributed between industrial /commercial (15 per cent),
administration (11 percent) and municipal buildings (10 percent), as well as schools/kindergarten (8 percent). The
majority of submissions are new-build schemes, even if the refurbishment examples show that it is also possible to
successfully integrate solar technology into existing roofs and facades.
A Reinforcement Learning System to Encourage Physical Activity in Diabetes Patients
Creators: name: Hochberg, Irit
name: Feraru, Guy
name: Kozdoba, Mark
name: Mannor, Shie
name: Tennenholtz, Moshe
name: Yom-Tov, Elad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Regular physical activity is known to be beneficial to people suffering from diabetes type 2. Nevertheless, most such people are sedentary. Smartphones create new possibilities for helping people to adhere to their physical activity goals, through continuous monitoring and communication, coupled with personalized feedback. We provided 27 sedentary diabetes type 2 patients with a smartphone-based pedometer and a personal plan for physical activity. Patients were sent SMS messages to encourage physical activity between once a day and once per week. Messages were personalized through a Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm which optimized messages to improve each participant's compliance with the activity regimen. The RL algorithm was compared to a static policy for sending messages and to weekly reminders. Our results show that participants who received messages generated by the RL algorithm increased the amount of activity and pace of walking, while the control group patients did not. Patients assigned to the RL algorithm group experienced a superior reduction in blood glucose levels (HbA1c) compared to control policies, and longer participation caused greater reductions in blood glucose levels. The learning algorithm improved gradually in predicting which messages would lead participants to exercise. Our results suggest that a mobile phone application coupled with a learning algorithm can improve adherence to exercise in diabetic patients. As a learning algorithm is automated, and delivers personalized messages, it could be used in large populations of diabetic patients to improve health and glycemic control. Our results can be expanded to other areas where computer-led health coaching of humans may have a positive impact.
Building a PV Based Microgrid as a Smart Energy Solution for a Small-Size Touristic Village
Creators: name: Marechal, L.
name: Fernández, J.
name: Moncho, G.
name: Montes, C.
name: Delgado, M.
name: Rodríguez, J.
name: Friend, M.
name: Cendagorta, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2804-2807
description: A microgrid system with 100 kW of power and 150kWh of battery storage capacity is being planned
and physically built from scratch at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables, S.A. in Tenerife (Canary
Islands, Spain), in order to provide a smart energy solution for a small-size touristic village which consists of 25
bioclimatic houses, also located at ITER premises, that are commercially rented as accommodation all year round.
The houses, which normally are fully occupied, were designed and built in unique designs which adapt to the
environment, having nowadays become icons of major architectural interest. Each house has its own solar
photovoltaic plant, aesthetically integrated and originally conceived for connecting to the utility grid, so that while
the grid connection guarantees the energy supply, the energy produced by each house provides by itself a certain net
balance in order to reduce the overall CO2 emissions.
Ptenochirus minor Yoshiyuki 1979
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Ptenochirus
Ptenochirus minor

description: Ptenochirus minor Yoshiyuki, 1979. Bull. Natl. Sei. Mus. Tokyo, Ser. A (Zool.), 5:75. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Mindanao, Davao, Mt. Talomo, Baracatan. DISTRIBUTION: Philippines.
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 145, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Direct Charging of Electrical Vehicles via PV
Creators: name: Krauter, S.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2830-2831
description: Most electrical vehicles are charged via an electrical grid connection, even if PV is present (“solar
carport”). Elevated interface costs (connection, metering, billing) inhibit mass distribution of solar carports, so direct
PV-use should be preferred. The charge received from a solar carport is usually sufficient for a typical home-officehome
commuting. The ability of E-vehicles to be connected directly to PV differs. Some vehicles offer direct access
to the battery so that even at low irradiance, charging occurs. Other vehicles offer access only via an AC terminal,
which requires a PV inverter. Many systems switch off when the PV current reaches below a threshold value.
Probing Out-of-Plane Charge Transport in Black Phosphorus with Graphene-Contacted Vertical Field-Effect Transistors
Creators: name: Kang, Junmo
name: Jariwala, Deep
name: Ryder, Christopher R.
name: Wells, Spencer A.
name: Choi, Yongsuk
name: Hwang, Euyheon
name: Cho, Jeong Ho
name: Marks, Tobin J.
name: Hersam, Mark C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Black phosphorus (BP) has recently emerged as a promising narrow band gap layered semiconductor with optoelectronic properties that bridge the gap between semi-metallic graphene and wide band gap transition metal dichalcogenides such as MoS2. To date, BP field-effect transistors have utilized a lateral geometry with in-plane transport dominating device characteristics. In contrast, we present here a vertical field-effect transistor geometry based on a graphene/BP van der Waals heterostructure. The resulting device characteristics include high on-state current densities (> 1600 A/cm2) and current on/off ratios exceeding 800 at low temperature. Two distinct charge transport mechanisms are identified, which are dominant for different regimes of temperature and gate voltage. In particular, the Schottky barrier between graphene and BP determines charge transport at high temperatures and positive gate voltages, whereas tunneling dominates at low temperatures and negative gate voltages. These results elucidate out-of-plane electronic transport in BP, and thus have implications for the design and operation of BP-based van der Waals heterostructures.
description: 4 figures and supporting information, Published in Nano Letters (2016)
Electron mobility of a two-dimensional electron gas at the interface of SrTiO$_3$ and LaAlO$_3$
Creators: name: Faridi, A.
name: Asgari, R.
name: Langari, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the mobility of a two-dimensional electron gas residing at the interface of LaAlO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ following a three band Boltzmann approach at low temperature, where carrier-charged impurity scattering process is assumed to be dominant. We explain the anisotropic characteristic of the dielectric function, which is a consequence of elliptical bands close to Fermi surface. The screening effect, which weakens the long-range Coulomb interaction of the electron-impurity is considered within the random phase approximation. Working at carrier densities high enough to neglect the spin-orbit induced splitting of the bands, we find that the mobility varies inversely with the cubic power of the carrier density ($n_{2D}^{-3}$) in good agreement with the experimental results. We also investigate the role of variable dielectric constant of SrTiO$_{3}$, the multiband nature of the system and interband interactions in exploring this result.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Role and Potential of Semi-Autonomous (PV) Power Systems - A Simulation Model to Study Feasibility and Economic Impacts
Creators: name: Waegli, P.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2818-2823
description: Electricity generated by renewable energy sources, especially photovoltaic, is growing with high pace.
Where penetration of renewables is high, energy production can, depending on weather conditions, exceed demand
during certain times of the day. This causes electricity prices to fall and to become eventually even negative during such
times and it poses considerable challenge to grid stability. Such a scenario is neither economically nor technically
desirable. With prices for batteries falling, new storage technologies evolving and ICT becoming ubiquitous, semiautonomous
systems with a high degree of energy self-sufficiency are coming into reach. Their adoption can have
significant impact on existing business models and energy infrastructures. As experience is limited and field testing
restricted by technical and financial constraints, simulation is the only means to study the technical and economic issues
associated with the realisation of such systems where the roles of producers, distributors and consumers of energy merge.
Here we report on a novel approach to model such heterogeneous systems in a unified simulation environment.
Local Cost of Seawater RO Desalination Based on Solar PV and Wind Energy: Economics, Global Demand and the Impact of Full Load Hours
Creators: name: Caldera, U.
name: Bogdanov, D.
name: Breyer, C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2832-2843
description: Global water demand is increasing whilst the renewable water resource is diminishing. This has resulted in an increase in
demand for seawater desalination, with reverse osmosis (RO) accounting for 65% of the 80.9 million m3/day of desalted
water produced globally in 2013. A prevailing concern is high energy demand and availability of fossil fuel resources,
resulting in the drive for renewable energy powered desalination systems. In the near future, the increasing desalination
demand can be met through SWRO plants powered by hybrid PV-Wind-Battery and Power-to-Gas (PtG) power plants at a
cost level competitive with current fossil fuel powered SWRO plants.Hybrid systems allow for higher full load hours and
optimal utilization of the installed desalination capacity. In this paper, we provide a global estimate of the water production
cost for the 2030 desalination demand with renewable electricity generation costs for 2030. The levelized cost of water
(LCOW), which includes water production, electricity, water transportation and water storage costs, ranges from 0.59 €/m3 –
2.81 €/m3 for the 2030 desalination demand. The global system required to meet the 2030 global water demand is found to
cost about 9790 billion € of initial investments. It is possible to overcome the water supply limitations in a sustainable and
financially competitive way.
The Value of Responsive Demand in Distribution Systems with PV Generation
Creators: name: Araújo, T.F.
name: Uturbey, W.
name: Xie, L.
name: Monteiro, L.G.
name: Boaventura, W.C.
name: Negrao-Macedo, W.
name: Cardoso, E.N.
name: Lopes, B.M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2824-2829
description: High penetration of photovoltaic (PV) generation imposes new challenges to energy management
strategies in distribution energy systems. The stochastic nature of PV power has to be considered in dispatch models
that address load and generation power balance. Responsive demand is considered as an important resource to this
end. This research proposes a new scenario-based stochastic formulation for the economic dispatch with high
penetration of PV power. Conventional generation and responsive demand are scheduled in order to maintain the
energy balance and minimize generation costs. A scenario generation procedure that models the variability of PV
power is implemented. Furthermore, a scenario reduction technique is used in order to attain computational
efficiency. The results obtained are based on the 192-bus Brazilian distribution system. They demonstrate the
potential benefits of the proposed model that propitiates system flexibility, enhancing resource availability in order to
attain power balance.
Pteralopex Thomas 1888
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Pteralopex

description: Pteralopex Thomas, 1888. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 1:155. TYPE SPECIES: Pteralopex atrata Thomas, 1888. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Hill and Beckon (1978), with a key to the species.
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 145, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Hill, J. E., and W. N. Beckon. 1978. A new species of Pteralopex Thomas, 1888 (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 34: 65 - 82."]}
Ross's second conjecture and supermodular stochastic ordering
Creators: name: Leskelä, Lasse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E15, 60K25

description: This short note discusses open problems and partial solutions related to Sheldon M Ross's second conjecture about the classical single server queue subject to a randomly time-varying rate arrival rate.
description: This preprint has not undergone peer review or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in Queueing Systems 2022, and is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11134-022-09824-0
Analysis of the Present Situation of Solar Photovoltaic Systems Integration in the Spanish Ports
Creators: name: Villalba, I.
name: Díaz, F.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2844-2847
description: The Spanish port authorities as promoters of sustainable energy patterns, are participating in several
projects at European and national level on the integration of renewable energy into their ports. 46% of the Spanish
ports authorities have within their environments, facilities for renewable energies. Solar photovoltaic installations,
with 53%, are those that have greater presence. In this paper we will discuss the experiences made by the Spanish
port authorities who have opted for the integration of photovoltaic solar energy facilities in their ports, reveling the
potential offered by photovoltaics within ports as an energy tool.
Nanoscale control of rewriteable doping patterns in pristine graphene/boron nitride heterostructures
Creators: name: Velasco, Jairo
name: Ju, Long
name: Wong, Dillon
name: Kahn, Salman
name: Lee, Juwon
name: Tsai, Hsin-Zon
name: Germany, Chad
name: Wickenburg, Sebastian
name: Lu, Jiong
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Zettl, Alex
name: Wang, Feng
name: Crommie, Michael F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanoscale control of charge doping in two-dimensional (2D) materials permits the realization of electronic analogs of optical phenomena, relativistic physics at low energies, and technologically promising nanoelectronics. Electrostatic gating and chemical doping are the two most common methods to achieve local control of such doping. However, these approaches suffer from complicated fabrication processes that introduce contamination, change material properties irreversibly, and lack flexible pattern control. Here we demonstrate a clean, simple, and reversible technique that permits writing, reading, and erasing of doping patterns for 2D materials at the nanometer scale. We accomplish this by employing a graphene/boron nitride (BN) heterostructure that is equipped with a bottom gate electrode. By using electron transport and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we demonstrate that spatial control of charge doping can be realized with the application of either light or STM tip voltage excitations in conjunction with a gate electric field. Our straightforward and novel technique provides a new path towards on-demand graphene pn junctions and ultra-thin memory devices.
description: Accepted at Nano Letters
Overview, Design concepts, and Details (ODD) protocol for agent-based models discussed in the manuscript “A colonial-nesting seabird shows limited heart rate responses to natural variation in threats of polar bears”.
Creators: name: Geldart, Erica A.
name: Love, Oliver P.
name: Barnas, Andrew F.
name: Harris, Christopher M.
name: Gilchrist, H. Grant
name: Semeniuk, Christina A. D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecology not elsewhere classified
Animal Physiology - Biophysics
Animal Physiology - Cell
Animal Physiology - Systems

description: Overview, Design concepts, and Details (ODD) detailing the construction of a spatially explicit agent-based simulation model of polar bears moving through our camera array to validate the ability of our camera array to detect bears when they were present on East Bay Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Pteralopex acrodonta Hill and Beckon 1978
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Pteralopex
Pteralopex acrodonta

description: Pteralopex acrodonta Hill and Beckon, 1978. Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Zool., 34:68. TYPE LOCALITY: Fiji Isis, Taveuni Isl, Des Voeux Peak, ca. 3,840 ft. (1,170 m). DISTRIBUTION: Fiji Isis.
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 145, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Flexible Offshore Solar Photovoltaic Systems for Marine Applications
Creators: name: Uppada, A.
name: Duttagupta, S.P.
name: Eldho, T.I.
name: Basam, V.R.
name: Ravikumar, G.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2774-2779
description: Flexible Solar Photovoltaic (FSPV) array has been tested as a mobile power source for marine
environment. A multi-purpose testbed has been designed and implemented for experimentation with submerged
FPSV modules. The FSPV system design for such offshore applications requires consideration of the impact of
contoured layout, operating depth, SPV technology and dynamic Non Uniform Illumination (NUI). The experimental
study of characteristics such as short circuit current variation as a function of depth and contour angle have resulted in
comprehensive, technology aware FSPV system models. This facilitates the application of solar power optimization
techniques. Suitable electrical architecture and maximum power extraction techniques are proposed for the offshore
FSPV systems and are validated using the developed system models.
Overview, Design concepts, and Details (ODD) protocol for agent-based models discussed in the manuscript “A colonial-nesting seabird shows limited heart rate responses to natural variation in threats of polar bears”.
Creators: name: Geldart, Erica A.
name: Love, Oliver P.
name: Barnas, Andrew F.
name: Harris, Christopher M.
name: Gilchrist, H. Grant
name: Semeniuk, Christina A. D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology

description: Overview, Design concepts, and Details (ODD) detailing the construction of a spatially explicit agent-based simulation model of polar bears moving through our camera array to validate the ability of our camera array to detect bears when they were present on East Bay Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Streaming Big Data meets Backpressure in Distributed Network Computation
Creators: name: Destounis, Apostolos
name: Paschos, Georgios S.
name: Koutsopoulos, Iordanis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study network response to queries that require computation of remotely located data and seek to characterize the performance limits in terms of maximum sustainable query rate that can be satisfied. The available resources include (i) a communication network graph with links over which data is routed, (ii) computation nodes, over which computation load is balanced, and (iii) network nodes that need to schedule raw and processed data transmissions. Our aim is to design a universal methodology and distributed algorithm to adaptively allocate resources in order to support maximum query rate. The proposed algorithms extend in a nontrivial way the backpressure (BP) algorithm to take into account computations operated over query streams. They contribute to the fundamental understanding of network computation performance limits when the query rate is limited by both the communication bandwidth and the computation capacity, a classical setting that arises in streaming big data applications in network clouds and fogs.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures, accepted in IEEE INFOCOM 2016
The physics case for a neutrino lepton collider in light of the CDF W mass measurement
Creators: name: Yang, Tianyi
name: Qian, Sitian
name: Deng, Sen
name: Xiao, Jie
name: Gao, Leyun
name: Levin, Andrew Michael
name: Li, Qiang
name: Lu, Meng
name: You, Zhengyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a neutrino lepton collider where the neutrino beam is generated from TeV scale muon decays. Such a device would allow for a precise measurement of the W mass based on single W production: nu l to W. Although it is challenging to achieve high instantaneous luminosity with such a collider, we find that a total luminosity of 0.1/fb can already yield competitive physics results. In addition to a W mass measurement, a rich variety of physics goals could be achieved with such a collider, including W boson precision measurements, heavy leptophilic gauge boson searches, and anomalous Znunu coupling searches. A neutrino lepton collider is both a novel idea in itself, and may also be a useful intermediate step, with less muon cooling required, towards the muon-muon collider already being pursued by the energy frontier community. A neutrino neutrino or neutrino proton collider may also be interesting future options for the high energy frontier.
description: 4 pages, 5 plots, accepted version by IJMPA
Pteralopex anceps K. Andersen 1909
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Pteralopex
Pteralopex anceps

description: Pteralopex anceps K. Andersen, 1909. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 3:266. TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Bougainville Isl. DISTRIBUTION: Buka, Bougainville and Choiseul Isis (Solomon Isis).
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 145, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Pteralopex atrata Thomas 1888
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Pteralopex
Pteralopex atrata

description: Pteralopex atrata Thomas, 1888. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 1:155. TYPE LOCALITY: Solomon Isis, Guadalcanal, Aola. DISTRIBUTION: Ysabel and Guadalcanal (Solomon Isis). COMMENTS: Does not include anceps; see Hill and Beckon (1978:67, 68).
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 pages 145-146, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Hill, J. E., and W. N. Beckon. 1978. A new species of Pteralopex Thomas, 1888 (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 34: 65 - 82."]}
Additional Tables for “A colonial-nesting seabird shows limited heart rate responses to natural variation in threats of polar bears”.
Creators: name: Geldart, Erica A.
name: Love, Oliver P.
name: Barnas, Andrew F.
name: Harris, Christopher M.
name: Gilchrist, H. Grant
name: Semeniuk, Christina A. D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecology not elsewhere classified
Animal Physiology - Biophysics
Animal Physiology - Cell
Animal Physiology - Systems

description: Table listing all trail camera settings selected to record polar bear movement behaviour on East Bay Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Pteralopex pulchra Flannery 1991
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Pteralopex
Pteralopex pulchra

description: Pteralopex pulchra Flannery, 1991. Austr. Mus., 43:125. TYPE LOCALITY: Solomon Isis, Guadacanal, Mount Makarakomburu, 1230 m. DISTRIBUTION: Known only by the holotype.
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 146, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Analysis of Characteristics of Solar Photovoltaic Thermal Hybrid Systems
Creators: name: Norsoyan, A.
name: Vardanyan, R.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2767-2769
description: There are two main ways to convert and use the solar energy. The first one is conversation of solar
energy into thermal and the second one is solar energy conversion into electrical energy through semiconductor
photovoltaic cells. In the recent years, numerous researches have been made for the development of solar
photovoltaic and thermal hybrid systems which provide electrical and thermal energy simultaneously. Hybrid systems
are often integrated with solar concentrating devices. In these systems it is important to remove the heat from the
semiconductor converter. The hybrid systems are composed of different knots and quite complicated. Consequently
for the design and moreover for optimal design of the mentioned systems it is necessary to develop an appropriate
mathematical model and a software package. For that propose the mathematical model of the solar hybrid
(concentrated and non-concentrated) systems is considered in this work which enables to estimate the electrical and
the thermal energy produced by a solar hybrid system, the size of the surface and the amount of heated water during a
day. As well as the analysis of characteristics of hybrid systems were performed.
Additional Figures for “A colonial-nesting seabird shows limited heart rate responses to natural variation in threats of polar bears”.
Creators: name: Geldart, Erica A.
name: Love, Oliver P.
name: Barnas, Andrew F.
name: Harris, Christopher M.
name: Gilchrist, H. Grant
name: Semeniuk, Christina A. D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology

description: Supplemental figures showing a map of the study area with distribution of trail cameras on East Bay Island, Nunavut, Canada; a panel of images showing examples of different methods of trail camera placement on East Bay Island; and a panel of images showing trail camera footage of a polar bear on East Bay Island and the same bear plotted on a mosaic of East Bay Island
The hierarchies of "witnesses" and the properties and characterization of entangled states as super entanglement witnesses
Creators: name: Wang, Bang-Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum entanglement lies at the heart of quantum mechanical and quantum information processing. Following the question who \emph{witnesses} entanglement witnesses, we show entangled states play as the role of super entanglement witnesses. We show separable states play the role of "super super entanglement witnesses" and "witness" other observables than entanglement witnesses. We show that there exists a hierarchy structure of witnesses and there exist "witnesses" everywhere. Furthermore, we show the properties and characterization of entangled states as super entanglement witnesses. By the role of super witnesses of entangled states, we immediately find the question when different entanglement witnesses can detect the same entangled states [{\it Phys. Lett. A }{\bf 356} 402 (2006)] is the same as the question when different entangled states can be detected by the same entanglement witnesses [{\it Phys. Rev. A} {\bf 75} 052333 (2007)]. By the role of "witnesses", we define finer entangled states and optimal entangled states. The definition gives a nonnumeric measurement of entanglement and an unambiguous discrimination of entangled states, and the procedure of optimization for a general entangled state $ρ$ is just finding the best separable approximation (BSA) to $ρ$ in [ {\it Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 80} 2261 (1998)].}
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, comments are welcome
New conformal field theories by gauging electric and magnetic currents
Creators: name: Nakayama, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Old folklore says that there is no non-trivial renormalization group fixed point with $U(1)$ gauge symmetry in four dimensions, but it can be circumvented by the existence of magnetic monopoles. We propose to construct (potentially infinitely many) novel types of field theories with $U(1)$ gauge symmetry by gauging $U(1) \times U(1)$ global symmetry electrically and magnetically. If the construction is consistent, the resulting theory will most likely possess a non-trivial renormalization group fixed point for the $U(1)$ gauge coupling constant and it will be a non-trivial conformal field theory without the $U(1)\times U(1)$ global symmetry in the infrared upon tunings of other relevant deformations. If the construction is CP-violating, a renormalization of the $θ$-parameter is accompanied.
description: 12 pages, v2 some improvement
Analysis for the Integration of a PV System in the Energy Concept at a German Airport
Creators: name: Becker, V.
name: Lichius, A.
name: Schulitz, B.
name: Te Heesen, H.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2762-2766
description: The support of the energy consumption by integration of a PV system is a main issue for residential
and industrial users. We present an evaluation where the integration of a PV system is analyzed in order to increase
the own consumption ratio under consideration of a flat annual load duration curve. The airport is using combined
heat and power units (CHP) based on natural gas to support their energy demand. The power is fed-in to an internal
grid and the waste heat is used in absorption refrigeration for air conditioning. The current load profile and the annual
load duration curve are rather constant. The task is to integrate a free-mounted PV system on the airfield and to
evaluate the influence of the PV power production to the load curves. The analysis shows that a PV system concept
neither supplies the power system nor supports the power supply of the absorption refrigeration. Due to the PV
specific daily and annual load profile the photovoltaic system would destabilize the power supply. Thus, the
efficiency of the CHP would decrease significantly. This means that the integration of a PV system to an inefficient
energy supply system of the airport and thus to a reduction of the profitability.
Pteropus Erxleben 1777
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Pteropus

description: Pteropus Erxleben, 1777. Syst. RegniAnim., p. 130. TYPE SPECIES: Vespertilio vampirus niger Kerr, 1792. COMMENTS: Originally named Pteropus by Brisson, 1762, in Regnum Animale, which is not available (Hopwood, 1947). Formerly included arquatus and leucotis which were transferred to Acerodon by Musser et al. (1982a).
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 146, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.", "Brisson, M. J. 1762. Le regnum animale in classes IX distributum, sive synopsis methodica sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, & duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet & cetaceorum, particularem dibvisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera & species. T. Haak, Paris, 296 pp.", "Hopwood, A. T. 1947. The generic names of the mandrill and baboons, with notes on some of the genera of Brisson, 1762. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 117: 533 - 536.", "Musser, G. G., K. F. Koopman, and D. Califia. 1982 a. The Sulawesian Pteropus arquatus and P. argentatus are Acerodon celebensis; the Philippine P. leucotus is an Acerodon. Journal of Mammalogy, 63: 319 - 328."]}
Current helicity and electromotive force of magnetoconvection influenced by helical background fields
Creators: name: Ruediger, Guenther
name: Kueker, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the empirical finding that the known hemispheric rules for the current helicity at the solar surface are not strict, the excitation of small-scale current helicity by the influence of a large-scale helical magnetic background fields on nonrotating magnetoconvection is demonstrated. It is shown within a quasilinear analytic theory of driven turbulence and by nonlinear simulations of magnetoconvection that the resulting small-scale current helicity has the same sign as the large-scale current helicity while the ratio of both pseudo-scalars is of the order of the magnetic Reynolds number of the convection. The same models do not provide finite values of the small-scale kinetic helicity. On the other hand, a turbulence-induced electromotive force is produced including the diamagnetic pumping term as well as the eddy diffusivity but no alpha effect. It is thus argued that the relations by Pouquet & Patterson (1978) and Keinigs (1983) for the simultaneous existence of small-scale current helicity and alpha effect do not hold for the considered model of nonrotating magnetoconvection. Calculations for various values of the magnetic Prandtl number demonstrate that for the considered diffusivities the current helicity grows for growing magnetic Reynolds number which is not true for the velocity of the diamagnetic pumping -- in agreement with the results of the quasilinear analytical approximation.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures
Influence of the Inclusion of Storage in Grid-Connected Domestic PV-Systems on the Predictability of the Power Exchange with the Grid
Creators: name: Beyer, H.G.
name: Imenes, A.G.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2770-2773
description: The inclusion of storage in grid-connected PV-systems sets new challenges to the forecast of the power
flows from and to the grid, as instantaneous PV-production – currently predictable with reasonable accuracy – and
power feed-in to the grid gets decoupled. Forecast schemes of the power flows have to include details of the storage
system as size and control strategy. In this paper gives results from a simulation study on the operation of PVSystems
focusing on the deviation of forecasted and actual power flows for systems with storages operating with
different control schemes.
Wisdom of Crowds cluster ensemble
Creators: name: Alizadeh, Hosein
name: Yousefnezhad, Muhammad
name: Bidgoli, Behrouz Minaei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Wisdom of Crowds is a phenomenon described in social science that suggests four criteria applicable to groups of people. It is claimed that, if these criteria are satisfied, then the aggregate decisions made by a group will often be better than those of its individual members. Inspired by this concept, we present a novel feedback framework for the cluster ensemble problem, which we call Wisdom of Crowds Cluster Ensemble (WOCCE). Although many conventional cluster ensemble methods focusing on diversity have recently been proposed, WOCCE analyzes the conditions necessary for a crowd to exhibit this collective wisdom. These include decentralization criteria for generating primary results, independence criteria for the base algorithms, and diversity criteria for the ensemble members. We suggest appropriate procedures for evaluating these measures, and propose a new measure to assess the diversity. We evaluate the performance of WOCCE against some other traditional base algorithms as well as state-of-the-art ensemble methods. The results demonstrate the efficiency of WOCCE's aggregate decision-making compared to other algorithms.
description: Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA), IOS Press
PV Integration as a Tool for Transforming Existing Indian Cities as Smart Cities
Creators: name: Dutta, S.
name: Roy, U.K.
name: Roy, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2789-2794
description: This paper began from the quest of effective approaches to integrate Photovoltaic Panel as sustainable
design component with existing physical layers of cities to transform Indian cities into smart ones. In India, the
concept of ‘Smart City’ is still a question of what, why, when & how, since the new NDA Government has
announced to develop 100 smart cities as satellite towns of larger cities and by transforming the existing mid-sized
cities and allocated a sum of Rs. 7060 crores for this plan. With this background, the paper will study the provisions
for energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, proposed in the ‘Draft Concept Note on Smart City Scheme’
by Ministry Of Urban Development, Government of India. It attempts to identify the role of PV in order to transform
existing Indian cities into smart cities. The research explains few international benchmarking of smart cities in terms
of applications of PV towards energy efficiency and delivering smart services. Further, the paper explores detailed
account of energy requirement based on the types of cities in India to be transformed into smart cities and concludes
with various strategy options to integrate PV in the mainstream urban planning system.
A New Spin on Color Quantization
Creators: name: Lakhal, Samy
name: Darmon, Alexandre
name: Benzaquen, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We address the problem of image color quantization using a Maximum Entropy based approach. Focusing on pixel mapping we argue that adding thermal noise to the system yields better visual impressions than that obtained from a simple energy minimization. To quantify this observation, we introduce the coarse-grained quantization error, and seek the optimal temperature which minimizes this new observable. By comparing images with different structural properties, we show that the optimal temperature is a good proxy for complexity at different scales. Noting that the convoluted error is a key observable, we directly minimize it using a Monte Carlo algorithm to generate a new series of quantized images. Adopting an original approach based on the informativity of finite size samples, we are able to determine the optimal convolution parameter leading to the best visuals. Finally, we test the robustness of our method against changes in image type, color palette and convolution kernel.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Off Grid PV-Driven Cooling for Post-Harvest Crops in Desert Areas in Egypt
Creators: name: Ayad, M.
name: Schwerdt, P.
name: Khalil, A.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: PV APPLICATIONS
PV as Part of the Energy System

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2799-2803
description: An off grid solar PV-driven system for precooling and storing post-harvest crops is proposed for desert
agricultural areas in Egypt. For operation during night as well as days with low solar radiation, both thermal and
electrical energy storage is considered. Previously existing parametric MS Excel-based models are further developed
and integrated into a new model so as to be capable of simulating the operation of off grid PV-driven cold stores
throughout the year in hourly steps. The weather data, cold store construction, stored crops properties, and a crops
loading/unloading scenario are inputted to the developed model. The cooling load time series is accordingly
calculated. Based on the parameters of the inputted system components the operation is simulated and the technical
feasibility is assessed. As an example, a case is considered where a 20ft-reefer container is used as cold store and
tomatoes are loaded and unloaded in a certain scenario. So as to assess possible trades between system components,
the model compares system alternatives with a combination of components sizes. All technically feasible alternatives
are compared economically and the most economical is compared to a conventional diesel-powered reference system.
With scenarios of gradual removal of subsidy of diesel in Egypt within 15, 10, and 5 years, the PV-driven cooling
system attains a discounted payback period of 17, 12, and 7 years respectively.
Additional Figures for “A colonial-nesting seabird shows limited heart rate responses to natural variation in threats of polar bears”.
Creators: name: Geldart, Erica A.
name: Love, Oliver P.
name: Barnas, Andrew F.
name: Harris, Christopher M.
name: Gilchrist, H. Grant
name: Semeniuk, Christina A. D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecology not elsewhere classified
Animal Physiology - Biophysics
Animal Physiology - Cell
Animal Physiology - Systems

description: Supplemental figures showing a map of the study area with distribution of trail cameras on East Bay Island, Nunavut, Canada; a panel of images showing examples of different methods of trail camera placement on East Bay Island; and a panel of images showing trail camera footage of a polar bear on East Bay Island and the same bear plotted on a mosaic of East Bay Island