cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A study of vandalism in selected secondary colleges
Creators: name: Evans, Andrew Parks
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Vandalism has been a continuing problem in secondary schools in Victorian country regions. Damage caused to buildings, fixtures, equipment and materials has been reported in the media on many occasions. As well as major types of destruction, the subtle defacement of furniture, fixtures and fittings has continued to prevail. The constancy of both forms of vandalism has continued to perplex and exasperate school management personnel. The study outlined in the following chapters was designed to examine some of the characteristics of school vandalism. The study of vandalism was conducted in selected secondary schools in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. 541 students (Males=268; Females=273) were recruited from six government secondary colleges and one non-government secondary college. The participants who had ages ranging from 14 to 16 years were recruited from year levels 9 and 10 in those schools. As it was anticipated that school environment variables would influence students' involvement in vandalism, data pertaining to the influences of these variables on students' destructive behaviours were obtained through the use of a vandalism questionnaire. In addition, to determine the association between students' coping behaviours and vandalism the specific long form of the Adolescent Coping Scale was administered to approximately two-thirds of the participants (N=312). Four different student vandalism profiles emanated from the data and the written comments provided by students. Each profile centred on the level of concern students expressed about school vandalism and how school environment variables (boredom, disobedience and peers) influenced their destructive attitudes and behaviours. The attributes outlined in these students' profiles were useful in understanding the implications of the research findings, and as a basis for the suggestions for future research.
Daniel Mannix : a study of aspects of Catholic education policy in Victoria 1913-1945
Creators: name: McPhee, Robert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study deals with the major policies in Catholic education in Victoria during the greater part of Daniel Mannix's pastorate as Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne. He arrived from Ireland in March 1913, and succeeded Dr. Carr as Archbishop in 1917 by which time he had already established himself as an outspoken leader of the largely Irish Catholic community in this State. In chapter one it is intended to demonstrate the distinctive Mannix style by means of a brief comparison between the two men during the years 1913 to 1917 when the older prelate died. Since these were the declining years of Dr. Carr, it could be argued that such a comparison is not a fair one - so it is hoped that chapter one will be seen, not so much as an evaluation of the earlier Archbishop's leadership style, as an attempt to create a background, social and ecclesiastical, against which Dr. Mannix can be seen to stand out. The subsequent chapters two to six are intended to examine the principal events of the three decades to the end of World War Two so that the role of Melbourne's Catholic Archbishop might be clarified and conclusions reached about the nature of his leadership - particularly in the field of education. It is not intended that this discussion should include the years after World War Two, partly because the educational and political issues involved are extensive enough to require a separate study, and partly because it seems inappropriate to form judgements about the words and actions of a man approaching his hundredth year. Nevertheless some mention (Chapter 7) of the post war events in Catholic education,together with the gradually diminishing leadership role of Dr. Mannix was felt to be necessary; so that the final chapter "Retrospect", is based largely on the evidence offered in chapters one to six but the "Later Years" cannot be entirely overlooked. This discussion is not intended to be a record of Catholic education from 1913 till 1945. Neither is it intended to be a complete biographical accoun't of the Melbourne Archbishop through those years. The intention is to draw together both educational and biographical elements so that certain conclusions might be drawn about each in the light of the other. Problems of Catholic education and the way they were approached give insights into the personality of the Archbishop and his particular style of leadership.
On the normalized Shannon capacity of a union
Creators: name: Keevash, Peter
name: Long, Eoin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C35, 94A05

description: Let $G_1 \times G_2$ denote the strong product of graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, i.e. the graph on $V(G_1) \times V(G_2)$ in which $(u_1,u_2)$ and $(v_1,v_2)$ are adjacent if for each $i=1,2$ we have $u_i=v_i$ or $u_iv_i \in E(G_i)$. The Shannon capacity of $G$ is $c(G) = \lim_{n\to \infty} α(G^n)^{1/n}$, where $G^n$ denotes the $n$-fold strong power of $G$, and $α(H)$ denotes the independence number of a graph $H$. The normalized Shannon capacity of $G$ is $C(G) = \frac {\log c(G)}{\log |V(G)|}$. Alon asked whether for every $ε> 0$ there are graphs $G$ and $G'$ satisfying $C(G), C(G') < ε$ but with $C(G + G') > 1 - ε$. We show that the answer is no.
description: 2 pages
Economic Analysis of Photovoltaic Power Plant in Turkey
Creators: name: Karaveli, A.B.
name: Akinoglu, B.G.
name: Soytas, U.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: PV System Performance and Integration
Design and Operation of PV Systems

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2235-2239
description: Together with environmental and social contributions, its economic benefits owing to sharp decrease in costs of system components has increased preference of producing electricity from solar energy. Furthermore, strong financial support mechanisms such as feed-in-tariff scheme increase its economic feasibility and contribute its competitiveness against alternatives. Moreover, having high solar potential that is huge raw material soars the
attractiveness of solar energy, inter alia. Consequently, accurate economical analysis of solar energy investments in countries having above mentioned features like Turkey gain utmost importance for the utilization of the potential in an appropriate manner. In that vein, this study examines the economical feasibility of a typical 1 MW PV PP in Turkey by defining various electricity pricing scenarios created in this study after designing a sample system by using own methodology authors of this article have been developed. Pursuant to results, 1 MW PV PP is able to earn
around 2.7-6.3 M $ under the circumstances of the Turkish market. This amount pays the cost back in 3.5-6.6 years.
Moreover, the LCOE of this system is 62 $/MWh for 8% discount rate and 50 $/MWh for 5%.
Foliated backgrounds for M-theory compactifications (II)
Creators: name: Babalic, E. M.
name: Lazaroiu, C. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We summarize the foliation approach to ${\cal N}=1$ compactifications of eleven-dimensional supergravity on eight-manifolds $M$ down to $\mathrm{AdS}_3$ spaces for the case when the internal part $ξ$ of the supersymmetry generator is chiral on some proper subset ${\cal W}$ of $M$. In this case, a topological no-go theorem implies that the complement $M\setminus {\cal W}$ must be a dense open subset, while $M$ admits a singular foliation ${\bar {\cal F}}$ (in the sense of Haefliger) which is defined by a closed one-form $\boldsymbolω$ and is endowed with a longitudinal $G_2$ structure. The geometry of this foliation is determined by the supersymmetry conditions. We also describe the topology of ${\bar {\cal F}}$ in the case when $\boldsymbolω$ is a Morse form.
description: 10 pages, conference proceedings -- "Quantum Field Theory and Nonlinear Dynamics", 24-28 September 2014, Sinaia, Romania
Survey on Yield of PV Systems in Germany 2014 to 2016
Creators: name: Te Heesen, H.
name: Herbort, V.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: PV System Performance and Integration
Design and Operation of PV Systems

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1901-1903
description: More than one million small roof-top PV systems with a capacity up to 30 kWp have been installed within the last years in Germany. Previous publications have shown, that most PV systems do not reach the technical possible yield due to mistakes during the planning phase, the construction phase and mainly during the operation phase [1-7]. We want to derive the yield loss by these residential PV systems in Germany by analyzing public monitoring
data from 22,000 PV systems. In conclusion, we find, that the annual yield loss in average is 5 to 10 percent and there
is a nationwide annual revenue loss of €450m to €500m. The reference yield is derived by a data cleansing algorithm
[8]. The actual yield of 50 percent of all PV systems in Germany is 5 to 20 percent smaller compared to the reference
yield. Thus, a severe quality issue of PV Systems can be identified. Our publication addresses operators and planers of
PV systems as well to make them aware of occurring technical issues of their PV system.
A spectroscopic comparison of the guanidine hydrochloride mediated unfolding and refolding pathways of native and cleaved [alpha]1-Antitrypsin
Creators: name: James, Ellie L. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Usability of the AAOS Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for the surgical management of knee osteoarthritis in clinical practice
Creators: name: Ahmed, Ghalib Oudah
name: ELSweify, Kareem
name: Ahmed, Abdulaziz F.
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Clinical sciences

description: Purpose The Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for the surgical treatment of knee osteoarthritis were developed by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) to guide surgeons in selecting the most evidence-based surgical option. This study aimed to assess the usability of the AUC by comparing the actual surgical treatment provided at our institution with that recommended by the AUC. Methods A retrospective review of the medical charts and radiographs of all patients who underwent surgery for knee osteoarthritis (OA) at our hospital was performed between January and December 2017. Data including each patient’s age, gender, pain level, mechanical symptoms, range of motion (ROM) and instability, radiographic pattern and severity, limb alignment, and type of surgical interventions received were collected. The collected data were input into the AUC application to determine the rate of appropriateness of the treatments. Afterwards, the agreement between the actual treatment provided and the AUC recommendation was assessed. Results A consecutive series of 100 patients were included. The mean age was 63.1 years, with the majority of the patients aged (73%) between 50 and 69 years. Most of the patients were females (74%), and 61% had left knee OA. The most frequent type of patient was a middle-aged patient with function-limiting pain at short distances, no mechanical symptoms or functional instability with full ROM, severe knee multicompartmental radiographic features, and varus or valgus malalignment. Out of the 100 patients, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was performed in 85 patients, unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) was performed in 11 patients, and high tibial osteotomy (HTO) was performed in four patients. According to the AUC, 90 (90%) cases were treated with an appropriate surgical treatment, whereas 10 (10%) cases were treated with a maybe appropriate treatment. The actual surgical treatment performed at our hospital was in agreement with the AUC recommendation in 100% of the TKA cases, 90.9% of the UKA cases, and 100% of the HTO cases. Thus, the agreement rate with the AUC was 99% in all surgical cases. Conclusion This study demonstrated that the AUC for the surgical treatment of knee OA can be applied easily in a clinical setting. Most of the treatments provided at our institution were appropriate and in agreement with the AUC recommendations. Additionally, the AUC had a web-based application that was easy to use and simple for identifying treatment recommendations. Level of evidence Retrospective study, level IV.Other Information Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00167-020-05908-7
Outdoor Field Performance from Bifacial Photovoltaic Modules and Systems
Creators: name: Stein, J.S.
name: Riley, D.S.
name: Lave, M.
name: Deline, C.
name: Toor, F.
name: Hansen, C.W.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: PV System Performance and Integration
Design and Operation of PV Systems

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1961-1967
description: Bifacial PV modules and systems deliver more energy than equivalent monofacial modules in the same orientation. However, bifacial performance models are not yet mature enough to predict bifacial gains for all system configurations. Field performance data is needed at a number of different spatial scales in order to improve and validate these models. This paper reports on a number of bifacial field installations intended for this purpose.
Hierarchical Tree Algorithm for Collisional N-body Simulations on GRAPE
Creators: name: Fukushige, Toshiyuki
name: Kawai, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an implementation of the hierarchical tree algorithm on the individual timestep algorithm (the Hermite scheme) for collisional $N$-body simulations, running on GRAPE-9 system, a special-purpose hardware accelerator for gravitational many-body simulations. Such combination of the tree algorithm and the individual timestep algorithm was not easy on the previous GRAPE system mainly because its memory addressing scheme was limited only to sequential access to a full set of particle data. The present GRAPE-9 system has an indirect memory addressing unit and a particle memory large enough to store all particles data and also tree nodes data. The indirect memory addressing unit stores interaction lists for the tree algorithm, which is constructed on host computer, and, according to the interaction lists, force pipelines calculate only the interactions necessary. In our implementation, the interaction calculations are significantly reduced compared to direct $N^2$ summation in the original Hermite scheme. For example, we can archive about a factor 30 of speedup (equivalent to about 17 teraflops) against the Hermite scheme for a simulation of $N=10^6$ system, using hardware of a peak speed of 0.6 teraflops for the Hermite scheme.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, PASJ accepted
Foliated backgrounds for M-theory compactifications (I)
Creators: name: Babalic, Elena Mirela
name: Lazaroiu, Calin Iuliu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We summarize our geometric and topological description of compact eight-manifolds which arise as internal spaces in ${\cal N}=1$ flux compactifications of M-theory down to $\mathrm{AdS}_3$, under the assumption that the internal part of the supersymmetry generator is everywhere non-chiral. Specifying such a supersymmetric background is {\em equivalent} with giving a certain codimension one foliation defined by a closed one-form and which carries a leafwise $G_2$ structure, a foliation whose topology and geometry we characterize rigorously.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, conference proceedings, TIM 14 Physcis Conference, 20-22 November 2014, Timisoara, Romania
Comparison of Soiling Sensitivity of the Performance of Monocrystalline and Amorphous Photovoltaic Systems in Benguerir, Morocco
Creators: name: Zitouni, H.
name: Alami Merrouni, A.
name: Regragui, M.
name: Ikken, B.
name: Bennouna, A.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: PV System Performance and Integration
Design and Operation of PV Systems

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1915-1918
description: The dust and soiling accumulation on photovoltaic (PV) modules surface presents a big challenge for researchers,
plants operators and O&M crews, especially in desert and arid regions. Indeed, in such areas PV plants performances
are strongly affected by soiling that increases the cleaning costs, thus, the levelized electricity cost (LCOE). The objective of this paper is to compare the performance of two different photovoltaic technologies (monocrystalline and amorphous) and identify the behaviour and the sensitivity of each one to soiling. In fact, Monocrystalline solar panels have the highest efficiency rates since they are made out of the highest-grade silicon and live the longest, but, they are the most expensive and if the solar panel is partially covered with shade, dirt or snow, the entire circuit can break down. Besides, the amorphous silicon panels are less sensible to the high temperatures and shading. Results show that, the energy drop by 6-7% for the mono-crystalline and 8-9% for the amorphous.
Phase dependence of the unnormalized second-order photon correlation function
Creators: name: Ciornea, Viorel
name: Bardetski, Profirie
name: Macovei, Mihai A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the resonant quantum dynamics of a multi-qubit ensemble in a microcavity. Both the quantum-dot subsystem and the microcavity mode are pumped coherently. We found that the microcavity photon statistics depends on the phase difference of the driving lasers which is not the case for the photon intensity at resonant driving. This way, one can manipulate the two-photon correlations. In particular, higher degrees of photon correlations and, eventually, stronger intensities are obtained. Furthermore, the microcavity photon statistics exhibits steady-state oscillatory behaviors as well as asymmetries.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
The $ππ\toπγ^\star$ amplitude and the resonant $ρ\toπγ^\star$ transition from lattice QCD
Creators: name: Briceño, Raúl A.
name: Dudek, Jozef J.
name: Edwards, Robert G.
name: Shultz, Christian J.
name: Thomas, Christopher E.
name: Wilson, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a determination of the $P$-wave $ππ\toπγ^\star$ transition amplitude from lattice quantum chromodynamics. Matrix elements of the vector current in a finite-volume are extracted from three-point correlation functions, and from these we determine the infinite-volume amplitude using a generalization of the Lellouch-Lüscher formalism. We determine the amplitude for a range of discrete values of the $ππ$ energy and virtuality of the photon, and observe the expected dynamical enhancement due to the $ρ$ resonance. Describing the energy dependence of the amplitude, we are able to analytically continue into the complex energy plane and from the residue at the $ρ$ pole extract the $ρ\to πγ^\star$ transition form factor. This calculation, at $m_π\approx 400$ MeV, is the first to determine the form factor of an unstable hadron within a first principles approach to QCD.
description: 20 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables
The combinatorial formula for open gravitational descendents
Creators: name: Tessler, Ran J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent works, [20],[21], descendent integrals on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces with boundary were defined. It was conjectured in [20] that the generating function of these integrals satisfies the open KdV equations. In this paper we develop the notions of symmetric Strebel-Jenkins differentials and of Kasteleyn orientations for graphs embedded in open surfaces. In addition we write an explicit expression for the angular form of the sum of line bundles. Using these tools we prove a formula for the descendent integrals in terms of sums over weighted graphs. Based on this formula, the conjecture of [20] was proved in [5].
description: Improved the writing of some proofs and definitions, fixed some typos. To appear in G&T
Multi-year optimization of malaria intervention: a mathematical model
Creators: name: Dudley, Harry J.
name: Goenka, Abhishek
name: Orellana, Cesar J.
name: Martonosi, Susan E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Malaria is a mosquito-borne, lethal disease that affects millions and kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. In this paper, we develop a model for allocating malaria interventions across geographic regions and time, subject to budget constraints, with the aim of minimizing the number of person-days of malaria infection. The model considers a range of several conditions: climatic characteristics, treatment efficacy, distribution costs, and treatment coverage. We couple an expanded susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) compartment model for the disease dynamics with an integer linear programming (ILP) model for selecting the disease interventions. Our model produces an intervention plan for all regions, identifying which combination of interventions, with which level of coverage, to use in each region and year in a five-year planning horizon. Simulations using the model yield high-level, qualitative insights on optimal intervention policies: The optimal policy is different when considering a five-year time horizon than when considering only a single year, due to the effects that interventions have on the disease transmission dynamics. The vaccine intervention is rarely selected, except if its assumed cost is significantly lower than that predicted in the literature. Increasing the available budget causes the number of person-days of malaria infection to decrease linearly up to a point, after which the benefit of increased budget starts to taper. The optimal policy is highly dependent on assumptions about mosquito density, selecting different interventions for wet climates with high density than for dry climates with low density, and the interventions are found to be less effective at controlling malaria in the wet climates when attainable intervention coverage is 60% or lower. However, when intervention coverage of 80% is attainable, then malaria prevalence drops quickly.
description: 27 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables. Under review
Compositional Similarities and Distinctions between Titan's Evaporitic Terrains
Creators: name: MacKenzie, Shannon
name: Barnes, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We document the similarities in composition between the equatorial basins Tui Regio, Hotei Regio, and other 5-$μ$m-bright materials, notably the north polar evaporites, by investigating the presence and extent of an absorption feature at 4.92 $μ$m. In most observations, Woytchugga Lacuna, Ontario Lacus, MacKay Lacus, deposits near Fensal, some of the lakes and dry lake beds south of Ligeia, and the southern shores of Kraken Mare share the absorption feature at 4.92 \um observed in the spectra of Tui and Hotei. Besides Woytchugga and at Fensal, these 5-$μ$m-bright deposits are geomorphologically-substantiated evaporites. Thus, the similarity in composition strengthens the hypothesis that Tui and Hotei once contained liquid. Other evaporite deposits, however, do not show the 4.92 \um absorption, notably Muggel Lacus and the shores of Ligeia Mare at the north pole. This difference in composition suggests that there are more than one kind of soluble material in Titan's lakes that can create evaporite and/or that the surface properties at the VIMS wavelength scale are not uniform between the different deposits (crystal size, abundance, etc). Our results indicate that the surface structure, composition, and formation history of Titan's evaporites may be at least as dynamic and complex as their Earth counterparts.
Laboratory of Hybrid Systems and Mini-Grids
Creators: name: De Oliveira Barbosa, C.F.
name: Leal Correa, J.A.
name: Alves Veríssimo, J.P.
name: Lobato Lemos, I.H.
name: Barros Galhardo, M.A.
name: Da Silva Pereira, E.J.
name: Tavares Pinho, J.
name: Arrifano Manito, A.R.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: PV System Performance and Integration
Design and Operation of PV Systems

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1999-2006
description: This work presents the Laboratory of Hybrid Systems and Mini-grids, installed at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) by the Group of Studies and Development of Energy Alternatives (GEDAE). The laboratory aims to promote the research in hybrid systems and mini-grids through practices of installation and
commissioning of the associated technologies and, especially, through experiments and operational tests, with results that will serve as basis for evaluating the performance of such systems. The main components are described and information about mounting, installation and commissioning of the components is also given here briefly. The results of operational tests show the effectiveness of system operation.
The global formulation of generalized Einstein-Scalar-Maxwell theories
Creators: name: Lazaroiu, C.
name: Shahbazi, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize the global geometric formulation of Einstein-Scalar-Maxwell theories twisted by flat symplectic vector bundle which encodes the duality structure of the theory. We describe the scalar-electromagnetic symmetry group of such models, which consists of flat unbased symplectic automorphisms of the flat symplectic vector bundle lifting those isometries of the scalar manifold which preserve the scalar potential. The Dirac quantization condition for such models involves a local system of integral symplectic spaces, giving rise to a bundle of polarized Abelian varieties equipped with a symplectic flat connection, which is defined over the scalar manifold of the theory. Generalized Einstein-Scalar-Maxwell models arise as the bosonic sector of the effective theory of string/M-theory compactifications to four-dimensions, and they are characterized by having non-trivial solutions of "U-fold" type.
description: 10 pages. Summary of the main results of reference arXiv:1609.05872 on the mathematical structure of supergravity theories
Luminescence Imaging Strategies for Drone-Based PV Array Inspection
Creators: name: Dos Reis Benatto, G.A.
name: Riedel, N.
name: Mantel, C.
name: Thorsteinsson, S.
name: Poulsen, P.B.
name: Chi, M.
name: Thorseth, A.
name: Bjarlin Jensen, O.
name: Dam-Hansen, C.
name: Forchhammer, S.
name: Frederiksen, K.H.B.
name: Vedde, J.
name: Petersen, M.
name: Voss, H.
name: Messerschmidt, M.
name: Parikh, H.
name: Spataru, S.
name: Sera, D.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: PV System Performance and Integration
Design and Operation of PV Systems

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2016-2020
description: The goal of this work is to develop outdoor defect detection imaging and understand fully its challenges and limitations. The imaging is based on luminescence strategies that will be used for fast and accurate UAV-based inspection system for PV power plants. We studied electroluminescence (EL) acquisition under natural light conditions during several times of the day, under high sun irradiation, to unveil the sunlight noise characteristics towards an InGaAs detector. In order to bring more freedom to a drone-based inspection, we also show the preliminary results of
a laser-line based photoluminescence (PL) strategy as a viable method for an outdoor module PL imaging system.
A differential model for B-type Landau-Ginzburg theories
Creators: name: Babalic, Elena Mirela
name: Doryn, Dmitry
name: Lazaroiu, Calin Iuliu
name: Tavakol, Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a mathematically rigorous differential model for B-type open-closed topological Landau-Ginzburg theories defined by a pair $(X,W)$, where $X$ is a non-compact Kählerian manifold with holomorphically trivial canonical line bundle and $W$ is a complex-valued holomorphic function defined on $X$ and whose critical locus is compact but need not consist of isolated points. We also show how this construction specializes to the case when $X$ is Stein and $W$ has finite critical set, in which case one recovers a simpler mathematical model.
description: 8 pages, conference proceedings for the "XXXVI Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics", Bialowieza, Poland, July 2-8, 2017
Assisted reproduction in the bitch
Creators: name: Metcalfe, Steven Scott.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Quantum geometry and quantization on U(u(2)) background. Noncommutative Dirac monopole
Creators: name: Gurevich, Dimitri
name: Saponov, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81S99, 83C65

description: In our previous publications we introduced differential calculus on the enveloping algebras U(gl(m)) similar to the usual calculus on the commutative algebra Sym(gl(m)). The main ingredient of our calculus are quantum partial derivatives which turn into the usual partial derivatives in the classical limit. In the particular case m=2 we prolonged this calculus on a central extension A of the algebra U(gl(2)). In the present paper we consider the problem of a further extension of the quantum partial derivatives on the skew-field of the algebra A and define the corresponding de Rham complex. As an application of the differential calculus we suggest a method of transferring dynamical models defined on Sym(u(2)) to the algebra U(u(2)) (we call this procedure the quantization with noncommutative configuration space). In this sense we quantize the Dirac monopole and find a solution of this model.
Magic wavelengths for the $6s^2\,^1S_0-6s6p\,^3P_1^o$ transition in ytterbium atom
Creators: name: Tang, Zhi-Ming
name: Yu, Yan-Mei
name: Jiang, Jun
name: Dong, Chen-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The static and dynamic electric-dipole polarizabilities of the $6s^2\,^1S_0$ and $6s6p\,^3P_1^o$ states of Yb are calculated by using the relativistic ab initio method. Focusing on the red detuning region to the $6s^2\,^1S_0-6s6p\,^3P_1^o$ transition, we find two magic wavelengths at 1035.7(2) nm and 612.9(2) nm for the $6s^2\,^1S_0-6s6p\,^3P_1^o, M_J=0$ transition and three magic wavelengthes at 1517.68(6) nm, 1036.0(3) nm and 858(12) nm for the $6s^2\,^1S_0-6s6p\,^3P_1^o, M_J=\pm1$ transitions. Such magic wavelengths are of particular interest for attaining the state-insensitive cooling, trapping, and quantum manipulation of neutral Yb atom.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Characterisation of kangaroo lens and its novel protein [mu]-crystallin
Creators: name: Chen, Ke.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Effect of Pauli principle on the deformed QRPA calculations and its consequence in the $β$-decay calculations of deformed even-even nuclei
Creators: name: Fang, Dong-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we take into consideration of Pauli Exclusion Principle(PEP) in the quasi-particle random phase approximation (QRPA) calculations for the deformed systems by replacing the traditional Quasi-Boson Approximation(QBA) with the renormalized one. With this new formalism, the parametrization of QRPA calculations has been changed and the collapse of QRPA solutions could be avoid for realistic $g_{pp}$ values. We further find that the necessity of renormalization parameter of particle-particle residual interaction $g_{pp}$ in QRPA calculations is due to the exclusion of PEP. So with the inclusion of PEP, we could easily extend the deformed QRPA calculations to the less explored region where lack of experimental data prevent effective parametrization of $g_{pp}$ for QRPA methods. With this theoretical improvement, we give predictions of weak decay rates for even-even isotopes in the rare earth region and the results are then compared with existing calculations.
description: 8 Pages, 4 Figures, Accepted by PRC
A new cohomology class on the moduli space of curves
Creators: name: Norbury, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 32G15, 14D23, 53D45

description: We define a collection $Θ_{g,n}\in H^{4g-4+2n}(\overline{\cal M}_{g,n},\mathbb{Q})$ for $2g-2+n>0$ of cohomology classes that restrict naturally to boundary divisors. We prove that the intersection numbers $\int_{\overline{\cal M}_{g,n}}Θ_{g,n}\prod_{i=1}^nψ_i^{m_i}$ can be recursively calculated. We conjecture that a generating function for these intersection numbers is a tau function of the KdV hierarchy. This is analogous to the conjecture of Witten proven by Kontsevich that a generating function for the intersection numbers $\int_{\overline{\cal M}_{g,n}}\prod_{i=1}^nψ_i^{m_i}$ is a tau function of the KdV hierarchy.
description: 53 pages, added rigidity result which uniquely determines initial value of classes, KdV relation is now a conjecture true up to genus 7
$L_{2,\mathbb{Z}} \otimes L_{2,\mathbb{Z}}$ does not embed in $L_{2,\mathbb{Z}}$
Creators: name: Brownlowe, Nathan
name: Sørensen, Adam P W
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a commutative ring $R$ with unit we investigate the embedding of tensor product algebras into the Leavitt algebra $L_{2,R}$. We show that the tensor product $L_{2,\mathbb{Z}}\otimes L_{2,\mathbb{Z}}$ does not embed in $L_{2,\mathbb{Z}}$ (as a unital $*$-algebra). We also prove a partial non-embedding result for the more general $L_{2,R} \otimes L_{2,R}$. Our techniques rely on realising Thompson's group $V$ as a subgroup of the unitary group of $L_{2,R}$.
description: 16 pages. At the request of a referee the paper arXiv:1503.08705v2 was split into two papers. This is the second of those papers
Implementation of an Accurate Measurement Procedure to Determinate Maximum Power of Modules at Standard Test Conditions in the Field through Correlation with Measurements Carried out in Laboratory
Creators: name: Pérez, L.
name: Florez, J.A.
name: Martínez, M.
name: Alvarez, E.
name: Domínguez, F.
name: Castillo, G.
name: Inza, A.
name: Silva, H.
name: Gómez, R.
name: Fernández, M.
name: Parra, V.
name: Velasco, A.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: PV System Performance and Integration
Design and Operation of PV Systems

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1945-1949
description: A quality control procedure for modules has been implemented in a large-scale PV plant in Jordan. The procedure is easy to perform, uses portable equipment and has a relatively low uncertainty yet allowing a proper characterization of a PV module. This procedure is based on a methodology developed years ago by the Instituto de Energía Solar (IES) in Madrid – Spain. The key factor is using a module of the same technology and same Bill of Materials as the
modules to be tested. This module must be calibrated in an accredited laboratory. This module will be called Reference
Module (RM). On the field, both the RM and the Device Under Test (DUT) must be measured quasi-simultaneously so they both will be measured in the same irradiance and temperature conditions. Since the RM has the same spectral and thermal response as the DUT, a correlation between them could be used to determine the Laboratory Equivalent Maximum Power (LEMP) of the DUT. The simplicity of the procedure allows for rhythms of measurements up to 100 modules per hour, and in the right conditions, yields uncertainties values around 3%.
A survey on subjecting electronic product code and non-ID objects to IP identification
Creators: name: Imani, Mehdi
name: Qiyasi, Abolfazl
name: Zarif, Nasrin
name: Ali, Maaruf
name: Noshiri, Omekolsoom
name: Faramarzi, Kimia
name: Arabnia, Hamid R.
name: Joudaki, Majid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Over the last decade, both research on the Internet of Things (IoT) and real-world IoT applications have grown exponentially. The IoT provides us with smarter cities, intelligent homes, and generally more comfortable lives. However, the introduction of these devices has led to several new challenges that must be addressed. One of the critical challenges facing interacting with IoT devices is to address billions of devices (things) around the world, including computers, tablets, smartphones, wearable devices, sensors, and embedded computers, and so on. This article provides a survey on subjecting Electronic Product Code and non-ID objects to IP identification for IoT devices, including their advantages and disadvantages thereof. Different metrics are here proposed and used for evaluating these methods. In particular, the main methods are evaluated in terms of their: (i) computational overhead, (ii) scalability, (iii) adaptability, (iv) implementation cost, and (v) whether applicable to already ID-based objects and presented in tabular format. Finally, the article proves that this field of research will still be ongoing, but any new technique must favorably offer the mentioned five evaluative parameters.
description: 112 references, 8 figures, 6 tables, Journal of Engineering Reports, Wiley, 2020 (Open Access)
„Theologia Mystica - eine geheime Gemeinschaftslehre mit Gott, welche der Christen höchstes Wissen ist“ (Angelus Silesius)
Creators: name: Möller, Christian
Publisher: name: Lutherische Beiträge
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Beiträge, Bd. 25 Nr. 3 (2020): Lutherische Beiträge, Band 25, Heft 3
A Computational Model of YAP/TAZ Mechanosensing
Creators: name: Sun, Meng
name: Spill, Fabian
name: Zaman, Muhammad H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In cell proliferation, stem cell differentiation, chemoresistance and tissue organization, the ubiquitous role of YAP/TAZ continues to impact our fundamental understanding in numerous physiological and disease systems. YAP/TAZ is an important signaling nexus integrating diverse mechanical and biochemical signals, such as ECM stiffness, adhesion ligand density, or cell-cell contacts, and thus strongly influences cell fate. Recent studies show that YAP/TAZ mechanical sensing is dependent on RhoA-regulated stress fibers. However, current understanding of YAP/TAZ still remains limited due to the unknown interaction between the canonical Hippo pathway and cell tension. To identify the roles of key signaling molecules in mechanical signal sensing and transduction, we present a novel computational model of the YAP/TAZ signaling pathway. This model converts ECM mechanical properties to biochemical signals via adhesion, and integrates intracellular signaling cascades associated with cytoskeleton dynamics. Adhesion molecules, such as FAK, are predicted to rescue YAP/TAZ activity in soft environments via the RhoA pathway. We found that changes of molecule concentrations result in different pattern of YAP/TAZ stiffness response. We also investigate the sensitivity of YAP/TAZ activity to ECM stiffness. In addition, the model shows that the unresolved synergistic effect of YAP/TAZ activity between the mechanosensing and the Hippo pathways can be explained by the interaction of LIMK and LATS. Overall, our model provides a novel platform for studying YAP/TAZ activity in the context of integrating different signaling pathways. This platform can be used to gain new fundamental insights into roles of key molecular and mechanical regulators on development, tissue engineering or tumor progression.
description: 19 pages, 7 pages supporting material, 4 figures, 4 supporting figures
Early endosomal antigen 1 (EEA1) : characterisation of autoantibodies and the autoantigen
Creators: name: Waite, Rochelle L. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Soiling Effect on Photovoltaic Modules' Performance in Arid Environment
Creators: name: Alzubi, F.G.
name: Alasfour, A.T.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Performance, Reliability and Sustainability of Photovoltaic Modules and Balance of System Components
PV Module Performance and Reliability

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1809-1812
description: The dust accumulation on photovoltaic systems is a detrimental agent as far as the reduction in the energy yield of the systems is concerned. The focus of this work is to accurately determine the soiling ratio of framed and frameless photovoltaic modules by monitoring their performance every ten minutes in an arid-desert environment. Moreover, we isolate the effect of the parameters and factors that can overestimate or underestimate the soiling ratio such as the light soaking degradation of modules, temperature coefficients deviations, and manufacturer mismatch of modules’ efficiencies. All tested modules have shown lower efficiencies compared to manufacturer specifications after initial benchmarking. Furthermore, the relative efficiencies of tested modules decreased by 1 % after the light soaking process. The initial measured losses were incorporated with the field data of the monitored modules using an in-house built soiling-ratio model. The results showed that the reduction in output energy can reach 24 % due to dust accumulation over a time period of three months. On the other hand, frameless modules showed unstable behavior in terms of energy reduction.
Numerical integration of a relativistic two-body problem via a multiple scales method
Creators: name: Abouelmagd, Elbaz. I.
name: Elshaboury, S. M
name: Selim, H. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We offer an analytical study on the dynamics of a two-body problem perturbed by small post-Newtonian relativistic term. We prove that, while the angular momentum is not conserved, the motion is planar. We also show that the energy is subject to small changes due to the relativistic effect. We also offer a periodic solution to this problem, obtained by a method based of separation of timescales. We demonstrate that our solution is more general than the method developed in the book by Brumberg (1991). The practical applicability of this model may be studies of the long-term evolution of relativistic binaries (neutron stars or black holes).
Effects of Combining Shading Analysis and the Unique I-V Characteristics of the PV Module
Creators: name: Herrero Alonso, R.
name: Silva Simplicio, R.
name: Biasi De Moura, C.
name: Alves Miyazaki, A.
name: Knörich Zuffo, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: PV System Performance and Integration
Design and Operation of PV Systems

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1954-1960
description: This study proposes a method for minimizing losses of partial shading, non-optimal orientation and tilt angle in PV carports. To accomplish this objective, a Matlab algorithm is present to study the effects of combining the incident irradiation analysis on PV module-level with a PV module electrical parameter in a 452.76 kWp parkingintegrated PV base study. Results shows that the total energy output of sorted PV string reached a gain of 0.011%
compared with unsorted method associated to irradiation. Even though the method results in a low gain and the manufacturing process has being improved, this investigation indicates that an accurate PV planning appears necessary for better performance of PV carports subject to partial shading conditions.
Determination of Degradation Rates for PV Modules and PV Generators Applying Various Methods
Creators: name: Stellbogen, D.
name: Lechner, P.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Performance, Reliability and Sustainability of Photovoltaic Modules and Balance of System Components
PV Module Performance and Reliability

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1805-1808
description: The proper determination of degradation rates is a key issue in the technical and economic performance
assessment of PV installations. Due to the considerable variations in the meteorological operating conditions of
fielded PV devices over time, sophisticated analysis methods are required to derive meaningful degradation figures
which are usually in the order of several per mill per year.
The study evaluated different procedures for the determination of performance change rates by applying them to
multi-annual highly time resolved monitoring data of PV modules and PV generators from the ZSW test field
Widderstall. A variation analysis has been conducted determining the linear trends of various sets of PR data derived
with different irradiance filtering bands and of the respective medians over various intervals. Thereby, not only the
change rates but also their uncertainty budgets have been computed.
The results show that regression analysis of high resolution performance data filtered to an irradiance band close to
1000 W/m² determines degradation rates with sufficiently low uncertainty levels and is much more reliable than trend
analysis of aggregated median values.