cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pumping Test Facilitie a Tool to Evaluate the Daily Water Pumping
Creators: name: Fedrizzi, M.C.
name: Melendez, T.A.
name: Ribeiro, F.S.
name: Zilles, R.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
Off-grid Applications

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3621-3624
description: The sizing of PV pumping systems involves parameters as the daily water demand of (m3/dia) -including the capacity of storage of water-, the local solar irradiation data (kWh/m2.day) and the total head (m). However, the experience has been demonstrating that, in spite of a good sizing, not always the installed systems present the expected daily water, according to the commercial catalogs. This reality shows the convenience to realize performance tests before its installation in the field. This work presents the PV pumping test facilities of the
Electrotechnics and Energy Institute from São Paulo University, a procedure to realize PV pumping test, the boundary conditions to accept the tests and the results obtained in a case study with two 1 HP PV pumping systems; one with PV pump plus booster (imported) and one with conventional pump plus standard variable-speed drive (national). Finally, it’s presented an economical analysis between the two systems, comparing the initial investment and the cost of the pumped volumes.
Cryptographic Quantum Bound on Nonlocality
Creators: name: Ishizaka, Satoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Information causality states that the information obtainable by a receiver cannot be greater than the communication bits from a sender, even if they utilize no-signaling resources. This physical principle successfully explains some boundaries between quantum and post-quantum nonlocal correlations, where the obtainable information reaches the maximum limit. We show that no-signaling resources of pure partially entangled states produce randomness (or noise) in the communication bits, and achievement of the maximum limit is impossible, i.e., the information causality principle is insufficient for the full identification of the quantum boundaries already for bipartite settings. The nonlocality inequalities such as so-called the Tsirelson inequality are extended to show how such randomness affects the strength of nonlocal correlations. As a result, a relation followed by most of quantum correlations in the simplest Bell scenario is revealed. The extended inequalities reflect the cryptographic principle such that a completely scrambled message cannot carry information.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. Accepted version. A numerically supported conjecture was added
Parus major subsp. tibetanus Hartert 1905
Creators: name: Pachycephalidae
name: Aegithalidae
name: Remizidae
name: Paridae
name: Sittidae
name: Neosittidae
name: Certhiidae
name: Rhabdornithidae
name: Climacteridae
name: Dicaeidae
name: Pardalotidae
name: Nectariniidae, And
name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Paridae
Parus

description: Parus major tibetanus Hartert Parus major tibetanus Hartert, 1905d: 346 (Chaksam, Tsongpo-Tale in Tibet). Now Parus major tibetanus Hartert, 1905. See Eck and Martens, 2006: 36–38, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 739–741. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 680550, adult male, collected at Chaksam, 29.21N, 90.44E (Vaurie, 1972: 350), Tsongpo Valley, Tibet, China, on 25 September 1904, by L.A. Waddell. From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Apparently Hartert had the single specimen, as the holotype is the only specimen of tibetanus that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920a: 443) noted that Rothschild had received it from H.E. Dresser. Vaurie (1972: 65–66) gave information on Waddell’s activities in Tibet and Dresser’s receipt of some of his specimens.
description: Published as part of Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on page 77
description: {"references": ["Hartert, E. 1905 d. Die Vogel der Palaarktischen Fauna 1 (3): 241 - 384. Berlin: R. Friedlander und Sohn.", "Eck, S., and J. Martens. 2006. Systematic notes on Asian birds. 49. A preliminary review of the Aegithalidae, Remizidae and Paridae. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 80 - 5: 1 - 63, 3 pls.", "Gosler, A. G., and P. Clement. 2007. Family Paridae (tits and chickadees). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world, volume 12: 662 - 750. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 816 pp, 56 pls., 436 photographs.", "Vaurie, C. 1972. Tibet and its birds. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 407 pp.", "Hartert, E. 1920 a. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection (contd.). Novitates Zoologicae 27: 425 - 505."]}
Turbidity changes of birch tree sap after addition of commonly available chemicals
Creators: name: Bilek, Maciej
name: Sądej, Monika
name: Rączy, Monia
name: Rębisz, Aneta
name: Sosnowski, Stanisław
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2016

description: The problem signalled both by the popularizers of birch tree sap consumption, as well as in many scientific articles and sap collection manuals is short shelf life, hindering the wider use. The loss of shelf life is manifested by the appearance of a characteristic turbidity and simultaneously intensifying unpleasant odor. Most of birch sap shelf life extension methods, that inhibit turbidity, are non-thermal methods, based on the physical techniques, ex. ultraviolet radiation, ultrafiltration, and also combination of this two methods. The aim of this study was to assess the stability of the birch tree sap, depending on the concentration of commonly available chemicals used to extend shelf life of plant origin food products. At room temperature, the sample with addition of ethanol at the concentrations of 10% and 15%, as well as with the addition of citric acid in combination with potassium sorbate were stable during the all turbidity testing period. Additionally, in the refrigerated condition, 27-day stability has been obtained for the sap with the addition of ethanol at the concentration of 5% and 15-day with the addition of citric acid in concentration of 0,5%. This stable solutions obtained, however, are not suitable for direct consumption. They can only be used as a stable base for the preparation of beverages, after the addition ex. herbal extracts, fruit juices and syrups, honey.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Tom 80 Nr 2 (2016): Biotechnology and Food Science
Gene expression profiling of maternal blood in early onset severe preeclampsia: identification of novel biomarkers
Creators: name: Sun, Cheng-Juan
name: Zhang, Liang
name: Zhang, Wei-Yuan
Publisher: name: Kooperation de Gruyter
Year: 2009

description: Aims: To investigate candidate genes in peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) that are associated with early onset severe preeclampsia (ES-PE) and to describe candidate genes function using microarrays and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Methods: PBMC RNA was extracted from six patients with ES-PE and five uncomplicated pregnancies. The HG_U133 plus 2.0 Affymetrix GeneChips that represented 47,000 genes were used to measure gene expression in each sample. Significance analysis of microarray identified potential signature genes characterizing ES-PE vs. uncomplicated pregnancies. Eight genes were selected for confirmation by real-time PCR of 32 patients with ES-PE and 24 uncomplicated pregnancies, matched for maternal age, parity, race and gestational weeks. Results: Using a whole-genome approach to study the molecular determinants of ES-PE, 72 genes were found to be differentially expressed between cases and controls, including 38 up-regulated genes and 34 down-regulated genes in the group of ES-PE. Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor, three domains, long cytoplasmic tail, 2 (KIR3DL2), aldo-keto reductase family 1, member C3 (AKR1C3), churchill domain containing 1 (CHURC1), and solute carrier family 25, member 13 (SLC25A13) were validated to be down-regulated in the patients with ES-PE by real-time PCR. Conclusions: Expression of genes with diverse function is associated with ES-PE risk, providing opportunities for the development of non-invasive diagnosis.
Material Characterization for Advanced Upconverter Systems
Creators: name: Fischer, S.
name: Goldschmidt, J.C.
name: Löper, P.
name: Janz, S.
name: Peters, M.
name: Glunz, S.W.
name: Kigel, A.
name: Lifshitz, E.
name: Krämer, K.
name: Biner, D.
name: Bauer, G.H.
name: Brüggemann, R.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
New Types of Cells and Modules

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 620-623
description: Upconversion is a promising way to enhance the efficiency of silicon solar cells, by also using photons with energies below the bandgap of silicon. Unfortunately, promising upconverting materials, such as Erbium-doped NaYF4 have only a narrow absorption range. More photons can be converted, when the upconverter is combined with a fluorescent material. The fluorescent material should absorb over a wide spectral range and emit in the absorption range of the upconverter. PbSe/PbS core-shell nanocrystal quantum dots are a promising fluorescence material for this application. In this paper we present an advanced upconverting system layout, which includes the combination of upconverter and fluorescent material, and the application of photonic structures for spectral management. We also present results from the characterization of the different materials needed for such an advanced upconverter system. An overall optical quantum efficiency of 9.4% was measured for a NaYF4: 20% Er3+ upconverter, and it is shown that the absorption and emission characteristics of the PbSe/PbS core-shell Nanocrystal Quantum dots embedded in polymer can be tuned into to the desired spectral region. We also show, that Si/SiC multilayer systems can be used as spectrally selective mirrors for the spectral management.
Utilisation of nitrocompounds
Creators: name: Madaj, Rafał
name: Kalinowska, Halina
name: Sobiecka, Elżebieta
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2016

description: This paper is a review of methods of biological, chemical and physical utilisation of nitrocompounds, extremely toxic xenobiotics that are abundant in the biosphere and are recalcitrant to biodegradation. Due to their unique physicochemical properties the nature itself has significant problem with complete degradation of nitroxenobiotic substances. There are number of methods developed in order to prevent further contamination of the environment leading to defoliation, inhibition of growth of plants and has adverse health effects on animals. Their abundance, deriving mainly from military industry, poses a serious threat to biosphere and current methods of their utilisation require further optimization.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Tom 80 Nr 2 (2016): Biotechnology and Food Science
A full-stack view of probabilistic computing with p-bits: devices, architectures and algorithms
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Shuvro
name: Grimaldi, Andrea
name: Aadit, Navid Anjum
name: Niazi, Shaila
name: Mohseni, Masoud
name: Kanai, Shun
name: Ohno, Hideo
name: Fukami, Shunsuke
name: Theogarajan, Luke
name: Finocchio, Giovanni
name: Datta, Supriyo
name: Camsari, Kerem Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transistor celebrated its 75${}^\text{th}$ birthday in 2022. The continued scaling of the transistor defined by Moore's Law continues, albeit at a slower pace. Meanwhile, computing demands and energy consumption required by modern artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have skyrocketed. As an alternative to scaling transistors for general-purpose computing, the integration of transistors with unconventional technologies has emerged as a promising path for domain-specific computing. In this article, we provide a full-stack review of probabilistic computing with p-bits as a representative example of the energy-efficient and domain-specific computing movement. We argue that p-bits could be used to build energy-efficient probabilistic systems, tailored for probabilistic algorithms and applications. From hardware, architecture, and algorithmic perspectives, we outline the main applications of probabilistic computers ranging from probabilistic machine learning and AI to combinatorial optimization and quantum simulation. Combining emerging nanodevices with the existing CMOS ecosystem will lead to probabilistic computers with orders of magnitude improvements in energy efficiency and probabilistic sampling, potentially unlocking previously unexplored regimes for powerful probabilistic algorithms.
Hybrid Simulations of the Cusp and Dayside Magnetosheath Dynamics Under Quasi-Radial Interplanetary Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Ng, J.
name: Chen, L.-J.
name: Omelchenko, Y.
name: Zou, Y.
name: Lavraud, B.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022
Subjects: hybrid simulations
cusp
quasi-parallel shock
magnetosheath

description: Under quasi-radial interplanetary magnetic fields (IMF), foreshock turbulence can have an impact on the magnetosheath and cusps depending on the location of the quasi-parallel shock. We perform three-dimensional simulations of Earth's dayside magnetosphere using the hybrid code HYPERS, and compare northward and southward quasi-radial IMF configurations. We study the magnetic field configuration, fluctuations in the magnetosheath and the plasma in the regions around the northern cusp. Under northward IMF with Earthward Bx, there is a time-varying plasma depletion layer immediately outside the northern cusp. In the southward IMF case, the impact of foreshock turbulence and high-speed jets, together with magnetopause reconnection, can lead to strong density enhancements in the cusp.
Vitamin D receptor genotype BB is associated with higher serum osteocalcin in first pregnancy
Creators: name: Feuz, Jacqueline
name: Wisser, Josef
name: Heufelder, Armin
name: Joba, Werner
name: Zimmermann, Roland
name: Mandach, Ursula Von
Publisher: name: Kooperation de Gruyter
Year: 2009

description: Aim: Serum osteocalcin was shown in a previous study on first trimester pregnant women to correlate with bone density and to distinguish between fast and slow bone losers. The objective of the present study is to examine whether serum osteocalcin is related to vitamin D receptor (VDR) BsmI polymorphism in pregnant women. Study design: We determined osteocalcin serum levels and VDR BsmI genotype in 97 healthy first trimester pregnant women consecutively recruited during six months. Results: BB (21%), Bb (38%) and bb (41%) genotypes showed similar osteocalcin serum levels. However, in primigravidas (n=38) the BB genotype was significantly associated with higher mean osteocalcin level (9.67 ng/mL) than the Bb (8.07 ng/mL) and the bb genotype (8.14 ng/mL), respectively (P<0.05). The VDR genotype was the only independent parameter to correlate with serum osteocalcin (P<0.05). Conclusion: Only primigravidas show in the first trimester a relation between the bone formation parameter serum osteocalcin and the VDR genotype BB which indicates a higher risk of fractures. For further clinical applications serum osteocalcin and VDR genotype should be tested on a cohort of primigravidas including measurements of bone density.
Binary-Fluid Turbulence: Signatures of Multifractal Droplet Dynamics and Dissipation Reduction
Creators: name: Pal, Nairita
name: Perlekar, Prasad
name: Gupta, Anupam
name: Pandit, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an extensive direct numerical simulation of statistically steady, homogeneous, isotropic turbulence in two-dimensional, binary-fluid mixtures with air-drag-induced friction by using the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. We choose parameters, e.g., the surface tension, such that we have a droplet of the minority phase moving inside a turbulent background of the majority phase. We characterize the deformation of the droplet and show that it displays multifractal dynamics. The probability distribution functions of the components of the acceleration of the center of mass of the droplet exhibit wide, non-Gaussian tails. Our study reveals that the droplet enhances the energy spectrum $E(k)$ when the wavenumber $k$ is large; this enhancement leads to dissipation reduction.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Numerical Circuit Simulation of Solar Cells
Creators: name: Ikaran, C.
name: Uriarte Del Rio, S.
name: Jimeno, J.C.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
Fundamental Studies

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 472-476
description: The solution of the partial differential equations which form the semiconductor equations must be calculated by means of numerical approaches. A very elegant and simple method is the decoupled solution, as for example Gummel’s method. Nevertheless this procedure fails in high injection and high current situations where the equations become coupled and process slows down and is even slower than the coupled solution of the system, Newton’s method. In this paper, reformulated semiconductor equations are presented including an electrical equation circuit. The numerical resolution of the new system can be successfully obtained in a manner very similar to Gummel’s method
but maintaining the equations decoupled. This new resolution method has been implemented in a numerical simulation program of solar cells in two dimensions, BIDIM2.
Acid whey as a medium for cultivation of conventional and non-conventional yeasts
Creators: name: Dudkiewicz, Marta
name: Berlowska, Joanna
name: Kregiel, Dorota
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2015

description: The aim of this study was to investigate the capacity of different yeast strains to grow on acid whey and assimilate different carbon sources. Twenty different yeasts (with GRAS status) were tested, sourced from the LOCK105 Culture Collection (Poland) and the National Collection of Yeast Cultures (Great Britain). The acid whey, from cows was characterized in terms of it main chemical components (carbohydrates, organic acids, aminoacids, FAN, total nitrogen) using HPLC techniques and chemical methods. The best producer of biomass (of conventional yeast strains) was S. cerevisiae Ja64 (biomass yield 1.16 g of dry mass/l), while among non-conventional yeasts the highest increase of biomass showed the strain D. hansenii, reaching the biomass yield of 1.12 g of dry mass/l.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Tom 80 Nr 2 (2016): Biotechnology and Food Science
Novel quark smearing for hadrons with high momenta in lattice QCD
Creators: name: Bali, Gunnar S.
name: Lang, Bernhard
name: Musch, Bernhard U.
name: Schäfer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hadrons in lattice QCD are usually created employing smeared interpolators. We introduce a new quark smearing that allows us to maintain small statistical errors and good overlaps of hadronic wavefunctions with the respective ground states, also at high spatial momenta. The method is successfully tested for the pion and the nucleon at a pion mass $m_π\approx 295$ MeV and momenta as high as 2.8 GeV. We compare the results obtained to dispersion relations and suggest further optimizations.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures, v2: references added, fixed Eqs 26, 29, minor changes in the text, v3: references added and updated, changed title, minor changes
Surveying the Damages of Solar Home System Project in Thailand
Creators: name: Unahalekhaka, P.
name: Srisongkram, W.
name: Boonmee, C.
name: Watjanatepin, N.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
Off-grid Applications

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3566-3569
description: This paper describes a surveying the damage equipments of Solar Home System (SHS) in Thailand. The damages equipments of SHS tend to be the problems and constraint of using the electricity discontinuously because of 3 causes: the quality of equipments, SHS user and natural risk. Particularly, the natural risk is out of control such as lightning discharge, windstorm etc. But the quality of equipments and SHS user can control by human. The data of survey will be random from all of SHS 203,000 households to choose 3,755 households. The using condition of equipment in SHS, it is found that the damage values of the equipment as the technical aspect from 3,755 households is worked 3,425 households (91.20%) and out of order 330 households (8.80%). From the damage of SHS, it could be concluded that the quantity of work SHS should be higher than 91.02 %, because all of SHS equipments are in duration time of guarantee from produced company. In case that SHS fails, the problems may come from the several problems above. So the owner project, they should be public relation to SHS user about basic maintenance methods and how to use the SHS appropriately in order to use SHS have a high efficiency and sustainable use.
Revealing Crustal Deformation and Strain Rate in Taiwan Using InSAR and GNSS
Creators: name: Franklin, Kathryn R.
name: Huang, Mong-Han
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022
Subjects: InSAR
interseismic
Taiwan
strain rate

description: Interseismic deformation describes the gradual accumulation of crustal strain within the tectonic plate and along the plate boundaries before the sudden release as earthquakes. In this study, we use 5 years of high spatial and temporal geodetic measurements, including Global Navigation Satellite System and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar to monitor 3-dimension interseismic crustal deformation and horizontal strain rate in Taiwan. We find significant deformation (strain rate >8 urn:x-wiley:00948276:media:grl65006:grl65006-math-0001 10−6 yr−1) along the plate boundary between the Philippine Sea and the Eurasian Plates in east Taiwan. The high strain rate in the southern part of the Western Foothills is distributed along a few major fault systems, which reveals the geometry of the deformation front in west Taiwan. Our results help identify active faults in southwest and north Taiwan that were not identified before. These findings can be insightful in informing future seismic hazard models.
Dynamically flavored description of holographic QCD in the presence of a magnetic field
Creators: name: Li, Si-wen
name: Jia, Tuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the gravitational solution of the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model by introducing a magnetic field on the flavor brane. With taking into account their backreaction, we re-solve the type IIA supergravity in the presence of the magnetic field. Our calculation shows the gravitational solutions are magnetic-dependent and analytic both in the bubble (confined) and black brane (deconfined) case. We study the dual field theory at the leading order in the ratio of the number of flavors and colors, also in the Veneziano limit. Some physical properties related to the hadronic physics in an external magnetic field are discussed by using our confined backreaction solution holographically. We also investigate the thermodynamics and holographic renormalization of this model in both phases by our solution. Since the backreaction of the magnetic field is considered in our gravitational solution, it allows us to study the Hawking-Page transition with flavors and colors of this model in the presence of the magnetic field. Finally we therefore obtain the holographic phase diagram with the contributions from the flavors and the magnetic field. Our holographic phase diagram is in agreement with lattice QCD result qualitatively, which thus can be interpreted as the inhibition of confinement or chirally broken symmetry by the magnetic field.
description: 38 pages, 3 figures; upgrade some reference and change some footnotes
Professional Experience With Off-Grid Design and Simulation Tools Based on Their Daily Use in the Global System Engineering Network of Conergy
Creators: name: Lippkau, A.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
Off-grid Applications

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3600-3604
description: Off-grid systems are complex to design because of the number of components, the various users requirements and the different site conditions. Therefore, software is a welcome help for persons designing off-grid systems. There exists a broad variety of quite different programs for this purpose so that it is of interest finding out what needs a designing person claims when using Software during the designing and offer preparation process. Also an overview is given of the worldwide most used Off-grid design and simulation software with their advantages and drawbacks.
title: An alternative model for early modern long-distance trade finance: the capital markets of Manila, 1680-1838
Creators: name: Rivas Moreno, Juan José
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2025

description: This dissertation examines how the city of Manila financed the direct long-distance trade between Asia and America during the long Eighteenth century. For 250 years between 1571 and 1821, Manila provided a direct trade route that intermediated Asian demand for silver and Spanish American supply, completing the global silver trade network that developed during the Early Modern period. This demand for silver and Manila’s capacity to cater to Asia straight from the source led to Manila specialising as a provider of silver pesos within maritime Asia. The dissertation shows that Asian demand for silver specie skewed the bargaining power in the transpacific trade in favour of the Mexican merchants that controlled the production of coins in the American end of the exchange. The political economy of the Spanish empire enabled this by creating an equilibrium between all component parts of the empire that guaranteed each territorial unit’s control over their respective areas, while it mitigated coordination problems by granting access to the king’s arbitration in intra-imperial disputes. Barred from vertically integrating the Pacific exchange, Manileños adopted an alternative model of Horizontal Specialisation, through which they achieved a level of economies of scale in the mobilisation of working capital. From 1668, legacy funds emerged under the management of brotherhoods and religious orders that pooled liquidity and originated capital. This framework combined social reach and enforcement mechanisms to create an impersonal market through which outsiders to the trade could invest their savings on the Pacific exchange. The dissertation examines Manila’s alternative model through a reciprocal comparison to the model of the East India companies to contextualise how Manila managed to foster impersonal cooperation, mobilised working capital, and solved the Fundamental Problem of Exchange. The thesis argues that the abundance of liquidity in Manila determined the city’s alternative approach towards financing long-distance trade.
SPARC: Accurate and efficient finite-difference formulation and parallel implementation of Density Functional Theory: Extended systems
Creators: name: Ghosh, Swarnava
name: Suryanarayana, Phanish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As the second component of SPARC (Simulation Package for Ab-initio Real-space Calculations), we present an accurate and efficient finite-difference formulation and parallel implementation of Density Functional Theory (DFT) for extended systems. Specifically, employing a local formulation of the electrostatics, the Chebyshev polynomial filtered self-consistent field iteration, and a reformulation of the non-local force component, we develop a finite-difference framework wherein both the energy and atomic forces can be efficiently calculated to within desired accuracies in DFT. We demonstrate using a wide variety of materials systems that SPARC achieves high convergence rates in energy and forces with respect to spatial discretization to reference plane-wave result; exponential convergence in energies and forces with respect to vacuum size for slabs and wires; energies and forces that are consistent and display negligible `egg-box' effect; accurate properties of crystals, slabs, and wires; and negligible drift in molecular dynamics simulations. We also demonstrate that the weak and strong scaling behavior of SPARC is similar to well-established and optimized plane-wave implementations for systems consisting up to thousands of electrons, but with a significantly reduced prefactor. Overall, SPARC represents an attractive alternative to plane-wave codes for performing DFT simulations of extended systems.
description: 32 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables
Constraints on Z' models from LHC dijet searches and implications for dark matter
Creators: name: Fairbairn, Malcolm
name: Heal, John
name: Kahlhoefer, Felix
name: Tunney, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse a combination of ATLAS and CMS searches for dijet resonances at run I and run II, presenting the results in a way that can be easily applied to a generic Z' model. As an illustrative example, we consider a simple model of a Z' coupling to quarks and dark matter. We first study a benchmark case with fixed couplings and then focus on the assumption that the Z' is responsible for setting the dark matter relic abundance. Dijet constraints place significant bounds on this scenario, allowing us to narrow down the allowed range of dark matter masses for given Z' mass and width.
description: 19 pages + appendices, 10 figures + 3 tables, ancillary file with tabulated dijet constraints, v2: matches version published in JHEP
Reduction of Recombination Reactions in Flexible DSSCs Using Blocking Layers Deposited With an Atmospheric Pressure Spatial ALD System
Creators: name: Baker, J.
name: Dartnell, N.
name: Potter, R.
name: Klupp-Taylor, R.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
New Types of Cells and Modules

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 592-595
description: A novel atmospheric pressure spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technique has been developed within Kodak which is compatible with roll to roll manufacturing and can be used with flexible polymeric supports due to the low deposition temperatures required. This process has been used to deposit TiO2 and ZnO recombination blocking layers on the surface of the ITO and on the surface of the mesoporous TiO2 layer prior to dye sensitisation. By combining the use of these layers with other modifications to the cell design to overcome performance limitations (such as use of lower sheet resistant substrates and ionic liquid electrolytes), pressure sintered flexible dye sensitised solar cells have been fabricated with efficiencies reaching close to 5% under an illumination simulating AM1.5, 1Sun conditions.
Glass and Jamming Transitions: From Exact Results to Finite-Dimensional Descriptions
Creators: name: Charbonneau, Patrick
name: Kurchan, Jorge
name: Parisi, Giorgio
name: Urbani, Pierfrancesco
name: Zamponi, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite decades of work, gaining a first-principle understanding of amorphous materials remains an extremely challenging problem. However, recent theoretical breakthroughs have led to the formulation of an exact solution in the mean-field limit of infinite spatial dimension, and numerical simulations have remarkably confirmed the dimensional robustness of some of the predictions. This review describes these latest advances. More specifically, we consider the dynamical and thermodynamic descriptions of hard spheres around the dynamical, Gardner and jamming transitions. Comparing mean-field predictions with the finite-dimensional simulations, we identify robust aspects of the description and uncover its more sensitive features. We conclude with a brief overview of ongoing research.
description: 5 figures, 26 pages
Is ChatGPT better than Human Annotators? Potential and Limitations of ChatGPT in Explaining Implicit Hate Speech
Creators: name: Huang, Fan
name: Kwak, Haewoon
name: An, Jisun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent studies have alarmed that many online hate speeches are implicit. With its subtle nature, the explainability of the detection of such hateful speech has been a challenging problem. In this work, we examine whether ChatGPT can be used for providing natural language explanations (NLEs) for implicit hateful speech detection. We design our prompt to elicit concise ChatGPT-generated NLEs and conduct user studies to evaluate their qualities by comparison with human-written NLEs. We discuss the potential and limitations of ChatGPT in the context of implicit hateful speech research.
description: Accepted by The Web Conference Companion, 2023
Parus semilarvatus subsp. snowi Parkes 1971
Creators: name: Pachycephalidae
name: Aegithalidae
name: Remizidae
name: Paridae
name: Sittidae
name: Neosittidae
name: Certhiidae
name: Rhabdornithidae
name: Climacteridae
name: Dicaeidae
name: Pardalotidae
name: Nectariniidae, And
name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Paridae
Parus

description: Parus semilarvatus snowi Parkes Parus semilarvatus snowi Parkes, 1971: 26 (Barrio Disulap, San Mariano, Isabel Province, northern Luzon, Philippines). Now Parus semilarvatus snowi Parkes, 1971. See Eck and Martens, 2006: 45, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 743–744. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 768004, adult female, collected at Barrio Disulap, 16.53N, 122.09E (Dickinson et al., 1991: 419), San Mariano, Isabela Province, northern Luzon, Philippines, on 10 May 1961, by G. Alcasid et al. (no. 403). COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Parkes listed as his type series 12 specimens, including the holotype, from Isabel Province. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 682377– 682380, from Cape Engaño or unspecified, AMNH 767999, AMNH 768001, AMNH 768003, from San Mariano. The expedition on which specimens from San Mariano were collected was a joint expedition with PNM, and four paratypes that had been numbered AMNH 767998, 767800, 7678002, and 767005 were returned to that institution after the description of snowi was published.
description: Published as part of Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on page 79
description: {"references": ["Parkes, K. C. 1971. Taxonomic and distributional notes on Philippine birds. Nemouria 4: 1 - 67.", "Eck, S., and J. Martens. 2006. Systematic notes on Asian birds. 49. A preliminary review of the Aegithalidae, Remizidae and Paridae. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 80 - 5: 1 - 63, 3 pls.", "Gosler, A. G., and P. Clement. 2007. Family Paridae (tits and chickadees). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world, volume 12: 662 - 750. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 816 pp, 56 pls., 436 photographs.", "Dickinson, E. C., R. S. Kennedy, and K. C. Parkes. 1991. The birds of the Philippines. B. O. U. Check-list no. 12. Tring, UK: British Ornithologists' Union, 507 pp."]}
Thermomechanical Soft Actuator for Targeted Delivery of Anchoring Drug Deposits to the GI Tract
Creators: name: Levy, Joshua A.
name: Straker, Michael A.
name: Stine, Justin M.
name: Beardslee, Luke A.
name: Borbash, Vivian
name: Ghodssi, Reza
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022
Subjects: biomimetic
digital light processing
direct laser writing
drug delivery
ingestible device
localized
thermomechanical actuator

description: Current systemic therapies for inflammatory gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are unable to locally target lesions and have substantial systemic side effects. Here, a compact mesoscale spring actuator capable of delivering an anchoring drug deposit to point locations in the GI tract is demonstrated. The mechanism demonstrated here is intended to complement existing ingestible capsule-based sensing and communication technologies, enabling treatment based on criteria such as detected GI biomarkers or external commands. The 3D-printed actuator has shown on command deployment in 14.1 ± 3.0 s, and a spring constant of 25.4 ± 1.4 mN mm−1, sufficient to insert a spiny microneedle anchoring drug deposit (SMAD) into GI tissue. The complementary SMAD showed a 22-fold increase in anchoring force over traditional molded microneedles, enabling reliable removal from the actuator and robust prolonged tissue attachment. The SMAD also showed comparable drug release characteristics (R2 = 0.9773) to penetrating molded microneedles in agarose phantom tissue with a drug spread radius of 25 mm in 168 h. The demonstrated system has the potential to enable on command delivery and anchoring of drug-loaded deposits to the GI mucosa for sustained treatment of GI inflammation while mitigating side effects and enabling new options for treatment.
Algorithms for Simultaneous Padé Approximations
Creators: name: Nielsen, Johan S. R.
name: Storjohann, Arne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe how to solve simultaneous Padé approximations over a power series ring $K[[x]]$ for a field $K$ using $O~(n^{ω- 1} d)$ operations in $K$, where $d$ is the sought precision and $n$ is the number of power series to approximate. We develop two algorithms using different approaches. Both algorithms return a reduced sub-bases that generates the complete set of solutions to the input approximations problem that satisfy the given degree constraints. Our results are made possible by recent breakthroughs in fast computations of minimal approximant bases and Hermite Padé approximations.
description: ISSAC 2016
SINTOMAS SUGESTIVOS DE DEPRESSÃO, TRANSTORNO AFETIVO COMO ANSIEDADE E FUNÇÕES EXECUTIVAS EM ADULTOS COM E SEM PRESENÇA DE SÍNDROME METABÓLICA
Creators: name: Helena Alves da Silva, Érica
name: Claudia Barbosa da Fonseca Carneiro, Antonietta
name: de Santana, David Filipe
name: Santiago Dimech, Gustavo
name: Correia de Lima Junior, Nelson
name: Gouveia Cursino, Ivson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Em face ao cenário atual, é notável que existem diferenças marcantes na prevalência da Síndrome Metabólica (SM) em todo o mundo, sendo equivalente de 8% e 67% e compara-se à incidência da obesidade. A SM é caracterizada por desregulações metabólicas como a dislipidemia aterogênica, Resistência à Insulina (RI), Hipertensão Arterial Sistêmica (HAS) e obesidade abdominal. Objetivou-se avaliar os sintomas sugestivos de depressão, transtorno afetivo como ansiedade e funções executivas em indivíduos adultos com e sem presença de SM. A amostra foi constituída por 98 adultos com faixa etária entre 40 e 59 anos, ambos os sexos, vinculado a Unidade Básica de Saúde (UBS) da Bela Vista no município da Vitória de Santo Antão-PE. Os indivíduos foram avaliados através dosinstrumentos, Questionário sobre a Saúde do Paciente-9 (PHQ-9), Inventário de Ansiedade Traço-Estado (IDATE) e Torre de Londres. Resultados: notou-se que dentro da população avaliada sobre a prevalência da SM foi quantificado que 42,86% apresentaram a SM. Sobre os sintomas sugestivos de depressão, os indivíduos com SM possuíam uma frequência relativamente maior para o risco de Episódio Depressivo Maior (EDM). O transtorno afetivo como a ansiedade foi analisada enquanto Estado e Traço, observou-se que não houve diferenças significativas entre os grupos com e sem presença de SM. Sobre as funções executivas, ao analisar o tempo de execução do teste de funções executivas e comparar entre indivíduos com SM e sem SM, foi notado diferença significativa entre os grupos com SM e sem SM. Considerações finais: o presente estudo evidenciou que os indivíduos com SM apresentaram sintomas sugestivos de depressão e ansiedade, e quanto as funções executivas foi observado que o tempo de execução do teste dos indivíduos sem SM eram significativamente menores.
The Satisfaction of People Towards the Installment of Electricity Production System by Solar Home System (SHS)
Creators: name: Kruehong, T.
name: Wannasut, C.
name: Supatimussaro, D.
name: Watjanatepin, N.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
Off-grid Applications

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3591-3594
description: This article is presented the way to find out the satisfaction of people towards the installment electricity production system by solar home system (SHS). SHS users in 4 regions have high satisfaction towards the tool and equipment quality, the appropriated installation and the SHS system by feel high satisfaction. The users have moderate satisfaction towards the users’ manual understanding, the operation understanding, the daily use comfortable in electric appliances, Getting knowledge and information used, Getting enjoyment and entertainment in TV program from SHS, the Daily comfort from SHS. The users have low satisfaction towards the Service and Maintenance from officers. It is found that at least 1 region of SHS users has different satisfaction from other regions at 0.01 level of statistical significance.
Practicalities of [brain] Data Sharing: What you can share and how
Creators: name: Gould van Praag, Cassandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Presenation given to Wellcome Centre of Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK. Open science training seminar "Reboot Camp". Describes considerations of governance, ethics, deidentification and FAIR for brain data, with discussions of complexity of data and appropriate sharing platforms.
Hydrogenated Polycrystalline ZnO Films for PV Applications: Optoelectronic Properties and Defects Behavior
Creators: name: Shevaleevskiy, O.
name: Yang, J.-H.
name: Tsvetkov, N.
name: Larina, L.
name: Lim, K.S.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
New Types of Cells and Modules

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 581-582
description: We report our studies on the electronic and defect properties of hydrogenated polycrystalline ZnO thin films (poly-ZnO:H) prepared using photo-assisted MOSCVD method. In situ post-deposition hydrogen doping was provided using mercury sensitized photodecomposition of hydrogen gas. The structure and morphology of the films was controlled by XRD, SEM and STM measurements. The studies of paramagnetic defects in as-grown and hydrogenated ZnO thin films were undertaken in the temperature range 77-300 K using X-band ESR spectrometer. It was found that all the samples exhibit a single strong Lorentzian line at g = 1.956 with the line intensity increasing upon H-doping. The hydrogen doping increases the concentration of defects related to shallow donors and improves the conductivity of ZnO film.
Implementing wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 on a university campus: Lessons learned
Creators: name: Wartell, Brian A.
name: Proano, Camila
name: Bakalian, Lena
name: Kaya, Devrim
name: Croft, Kristen
name: McCreary, Michael
name: Lichtenstein, Naomi
name: Miske, Victoria
name: Arcellana, Patricia
name: Boyer, Jessica
name: Van Benschoten, Isabelle
name: Anderson, Marya
name: Crabb, Andrea
name: Gilson, Susan
name: Gourley, Anthony
name: Wheeler, Tim
name: Trest, Brian
name: Bowman, Glynnis
name: Kjellerup, Birthe V.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022
Subjects: campus
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
wastewater surveillance
wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)

description: Wastewater surveillance, also known as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), has been successfully used to detect SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in sewage in many locations in the United States and globally. This includes implementation of the surveillance on college and university campuses. A two-phase study was conducted during the 2020–2021 academic year to test the feasibility of a WBE system on campus and to supplement the clinical COVID-19 testing performed for the student, staff, and faculty body. The primary objective during the Fall 2020 semester was to monitor a large portion of the on-campus population and to obtain an understanding of the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Spring 2021 objective was focused on selected residence halls and groups of residents on campus, as this was more efficient and relevant for an effective follow-up response. Logistical problems and planning oversights initially occurred but were corrected with improved communication and experience. Many lessons were learned, including effective mapping, site planning, communication, personnel organization, and equipment management, and obtained along the way, thereby paving an opportune guide for future planning efforts.