cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Translating English Fictional Names
Creators: name: Mambelli, Gloria
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2022

description: This paper highlights the pivotal role played by proper names in fantasy literature and examines the techniques employed by the Italian translators of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the translation of anthroponyms. Notwithstanding the vast number of neologisms found in fantasy literature and the challenges they pose to translators, fictional names typical of such genre still play a marginal role in Translation Studies. The aim of this paper is to identify problems and trends relating to the translation procedures adopted in the Italian translations of one of the most representative works of the aforementioned genre. The second and latest Italian translation of The Lord of the Rings (2019-2020), published fifty years after the first one (1970), was the prompt for this investigation focusing on a sample of translatable anthroponyms. Source and target names were analysed and classified in order to identify translation trends characterising the two Italian translations. The results of the investigation show a higher tendency towards adaptation in the previous translation and a preference for more source-oriented techniques in the newest one.
description: Iperstoria, No. 20 (2022): Changing the (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics
Why Ecofeminism Matters
Creators: name: Federici, Eleonora
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2022

description: Ecofeminism is a widely encompassing ideology, touching on subjects as diverse as nature-based religion, women’s rights, environmental issues about water, land, and air pollution, wildlife conservation but also the oppression of Third World countries and peoples by Western industrialized nations. A major proposition is that a society based on cooperation and balance rather than dominance and hierarchy is necessary for the survival on this planet of any living being, that is why ecofeminist scholars propose to think about a change in our perspective about a sense of community based on a system of cooperation, ecology, and protection of planet Earth, and not its exploitation and destruction. As a theoretical and activist movement, ecofeminism emerged in the US context of the 70s and 80s from the intersection of feminist studies and the arising movements for social justice and environmental health. It started as a framework that sought to combine, re-examine and widen these movements. Since then ecofeminism has developed into different directions and spread across the world. When we discuss ecofeminism today we know it is intersectional and global, it shows how women live and act in different geographical, social, political and cultural contexts. My essay wants to examine how ecofeminist ideas have been narrated and translated into various linguistic/cultural contexts since their American beginning and how they have developed, changed and readapted through different textual typologies, from books to newspaper articles, blogs and web publications.
description: Iperstoria, No. 20 (2022): Changing the (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics
Detection of small electromagnetic inhomogeneities with inaccurate frequency
Creators: name: Park, Won-Kwang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Generally, in the application of subspace migration for detecting locations of small inhomogeneities, one begins reconstruction procedure with a priori information of applied frequency. However, mathematical theory of subspace migration has not been developed satisfactorily when applied frequency is unknown. In this paper, we identify mathematical structure of subspace migration imaging function for finding locations of small inhomogeneities in two-dimensional homogeneous space by establishing a relationship with Bessel functions of integer order zero and one of the first kind. This expression indicates the reason behind the appearance of inaccurate locations. Numerical simulations are performed to support our analysis.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures
Quantitative Contactless Determination of the Series Resistance of Silicon Solar Cells
Creators: name: Höffler, H.
name: Wirtz, W.
name: Greulich, J.M.
name: Rein, S.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2021
Subjects: Silicon Materials and Cells
Characterisation & Simulation of Si Cells

description: 38th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 233-236
description: In this contribution we present a method which quantitatively determines the lumped series resistance of silicon solar cells in a contactless manner. The method is one essential step on the way to a completely contactless IV-measurement of silicon solar cells. The method is based on the evaluation of photoluminescence (PL) signals emitted from the cell. PL signals are recorded in a homogeneously illuminated state and in a partially shaded state. A quantitative value of the lumped series resistance is calculated from the corresponding signal ratio. -values determined via the proposed method are compared to -values determined via a conventional reference method. The comparison is carried out for 20 Cz-PERC solar cells featuring a wide range of -values. A correlation coefficient of 0.87 and a root mean square error of 0.17 Ωcm² is obtained. The observed correlation indicates very good agreement.
Textual and Visual Catalyzers/Distractors in Advertising
Creators: name: Giordano, Walter
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2022

description: The contribution of this study is expressed in the following research question: is it possible to identify some implicit-explicit textual or visual elements that catalyze or distract audience attention on or from the advertised product? An analysis of a corpus of advertisements taken from the Instagram pages of the major companies operating in the US food and beverage market reveals that attracting or distracting attention on or from a product’s use or function is a frequent strategy. These elements may contribute to changing scripts in advertising and mental patterns in consumer perceptions. The items that signal the distraction or the catalyzation of consumer attention in the advertising message have been identified via the ARCO model (St.Amant forth., St.Amant 2022), based upon the concept of usability of products, which helps decode the process of recognition of a product in the consumer’s brain. Results are promising, as this theory may help advertisers make more effective moves in the dual, cooperative relationship with consumers and review promotional strategies to engage the audience in advertising communication.
description: Iperstoria, No. 20 (2022): Changing the (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics
Numerical Solution of a Nonlinear Integro-Differential Equation
Creators: name: Buša, J.
name: Hnatič, M.
name: Honkonen, J.
name: Lučivjanský, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An algorithm for the numerical solution of a nonlinear integro-differential equation arising in the single-species annihilation reaction $A + A \rightarrow\varnothing$ modeling is discussed. Finite difference method together with the linear approximation of the unknown function is considered. For divergent integrals presented in the equation for dimension $d=2$ a regularization is used. Some numerical results are presented.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Creating Brand Personality and Engaging Users in Instagram for Marketing Purposes
Creators: name: Tenca, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2022

description: This paper presents the findings of a pilot study regarding the ways in which the communicative potential of Instagram can be harnessed for marketing purposes. In particular, by adopting a multi-method approach rooted in Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Iedema 2003; Jewitt 2016), the study explores how an Italian fashion start-up company, D1 Milano, expresses its brand personality (Aaker 1997; Crawford Camiciottoli 2018) and engages its followers. The research objective is pursued by investigating a corpus of 1,137 posts published between 15 August 2015 and 30 September 2019. These are examined focusing on three areas. The most frequent linguistic patterns are analysed using Sketch Engine in order to determine how brand personality is verbalised. The metadata are explored in the light of Zappavigna’s (2015) metafunctional framework, according to which hashtags can fulfil an experiential, a textual, and an interpersonal function. As regards visual representation, the study concentrates on the creation of interpersonal meaning between the image producer, the represented participant, and the viewer through choices in subjectification (Zappavigna 2016). The results indicate that the personality of the brand combines traits belonging to the dimensions of excitement and sophistication, which are conveyed both linguistically and visually. Moreover, since the company frequently reposts pictures taken by its customers/followers, the audience is expected to identify with the brand, especially in the case of those images where the presence of the photographer can be inferred by the inclusion of his/her body parts (almost 25% of the entire corpus). Finally, hashtags mainly serve an experiential and an interpersonal function: one the one hand, they evoke D1 Milano’s personality by foregrounding the features of the brand, while also thematising the followers’ attitude, desires, and ambitions; on the other, they promote engagement by inviting users’ metacomments.
description: Iperstoria, No. 20 (2022): Changing the (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics
Reactor Neutrino Spectra
Creators: name: Hayes, A. C.
name: Vogel, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a review of the antineutrino spectra emitted from reactors. Knowledge of these and their associated uncertainties are crucial for neutrino oscillation studies. The spectra used to-date have been determined by either conversion of measured electron spectra to antineutrino spectra or by summing over all of the thousands of transitions that makeup the spectra using modern databases as input. The uncertainties in the subdominant corrections to beta-decay plague both methods, and we provide estimates of these uncertainties. Improving on current knowledge of the antineutrino spectra from reactors will require new experiments. Such experiments would also address the so-called reactor neutrino anomaly and the possible origin of the shoulder observed in the antineutrino spectra measured in recent high-statistics reactor neutrino experiments.
description: Submitted for publication in the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol.66
“A City within a City,” “a World within a World”
Creators: name: Pager-McClymont, Kimberley
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2022

description: This paper aims to provide the first stylistic analysis of Steven Millhauser’s 1997 Pulitzer Winner Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996). The novel depicts Martin’s progression from working in his father’s cigar shop to being a self-made businessman passionate about hotels. While literary scholars have discussed the novel’s themes at length, the linguistic aspects of Martin’s emotions and state of mind¬—expressed through metaphors, tautology, symbolism, and personification—have been under-researched. This article, anchored in naturalistic reader-response studies (Peplow and Carter 2014), seeks to observe how readers conceptualise the main themes of the novels—i.e., the American dream, the idea of multiple worlds, and Martin’s character development, using a sample of the first 60 English reviews presented by the Goodreads algorithm. The frameworks employed to analyse the text emerge from those reviews and the analysis focuses on the passage most cited by Goodreads reviews. I first use foregrounding theory which observes stylistic choices that stand out against the rest of the text. This theory is often argued to explain effects (real) readers might perceive (see Miall and Kuiken 1994). I then use Text World Theory (TWT) (Gavins 2007) as a result of the foregrounding analysis and to account for readers’ observation of multiple worlds in the novel. TWT underpins how mental representations of a text are constructed. Overall findings show that richness of readers’ mental representation is mapped onto the complex stylistic choices present in the novel.
description: Iperstoria, No. 20 (2022): Changing the (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics
Spectroscopic Inline Characterisation of Partially Processed Epi Wafers after Porosification
Creators: name: Al-Hajjawi, S.
name: Vahlman, H.
name: Haunschild, J.
name: Kumar, S.
name: Schremmer, H.
name: Jablonka, L.
name: Rein, S.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2021
Subjects: Silicon Materials and Cells
Characterisation & Simulation of Si Cells

description: 38th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 237-241
description: With the potential of reduced energy consumption and kerf loss, epitaxial wafer growth is a promising technological innovation compared to the standard ingot growth and wafering techniques. Transferring the technology to mass production requires a fast and robust inline control of the relevant quality parameters in different production stages to ensure high production yield and wafer quality. In this work, we present an inline characterisation method for the quality control after porosification of the substrate wafer. We have integrated an inline spectrophotometer in our automatic wafer inspection system (AWIS) to address this aim. The installed setup measures the reflectance spectra of the wafer surface after electrochemical porosification. Since the following stages of EpiWafer fabrication crucially depend on the quality of the porous layers, monitoring their physical properties is essential and can be achieved by optical modelling of the reflectance spectra. As modelling precision strongly depends on spectrum quality, we made a measurement comparison of the integrated inline spectrophotometer with other inline and offline tools. After appropriate calibration, a qualitative as well as a quantitative correlation with a maximum mean percent error (MPE) of 8% between inline AWIS and offline spectra is found. Over a timespan of almost 11 months, reference measurements with a special porous silicon (PorSi) wafer have been performed. From these results a quality control metric has been defined to ensure automatic reliable results in production.
Perceptions on Employee Resourcing Practices in the Case of Asmen and Steely Rmi Manufacturing Plcs in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Senait, Teklemariam
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The study was designed to examine the perceptions on employee resourcing practices of ASMEN AND STEELY RMI Manufacturing Private Limited Companies (PLCs) in Addis Ababa as a case study. The research design is descriptive in its nature, purposive sampling approach was adopted and quantitative data was collected as a primary data source using questionnaire. Using SPSS version 20.0, the collected data was summarized and analysed by descriptive statistics. The result then was presented in the form of tables followed by discussions for further interpretation on the findings. Key findings include presence of Employee Resourcing Practices of Recruitments and Selection and learning and development practices with moderate level of practice. Even if the practice found to be moderate, it needs improvement since there is a gap in the implementation of policies and practices.
The Empirical Digital Twin: Representation Learning on Solar Cell Images and Efficient Defect Detection with Human-in-the-Loop
Creators: name: Kunze, P.
name: Rein, S.
name: Müller, T.
name: Hemsendorf, M.
name: Ramspeck, K.
name: Demant, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2021
Subjects: Silicon Materials and Cells
Characterisation & Simulation of Si Cells

description: 38th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 217-223
description: Measurement images of solar cells provide information beyond current-voltage characteristics regarding process and material quality in a spatially resolved manner. However, this information is only partially used because algorithms search for human-defined defects and structures. These labels can be inaccurate and incomplete, a relevance in terms of electrical quality is not necessarily given. Thus, we propose a purely data-based approach to derive a comprehensive representation from the measured images that is meaningful in terms of electrical quality and show how it can be used for efficient defect detection. We call this representation the empirical digital twin. For its calculation, we design a convolutional neural network combining multiple measurement images by correlating them with quality variables. The digital twin is an intermediate representation of the network and summarizes quality-related defect signatures that are visible in the images. We show how this representation can be used to derive sorting criteria for quality inspection within an efficient human-in-the-loop approach detecting defects such as finger interruptions, shunts, etc. The human-in-the-loop method not only needs fewer training samples and thus fewer labels but also improved the 1 − detection rate by about 2% on average.
Sustaining Languages and the Language of Sustainability
Creators: name: Chapman, Richard Stephen
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2022

description: This paper attempts to tackle a number of connected philosophical questions regarding the role of language in the debate surrounding sustainability. One of the most obvious effects of globalisation and our current ecological crisis is the disappearance of languages and the impoverishment of our linguistic resources. The paper initially contrasts the experience and nature of biological and linguistic extinction in order to better understand the effects of language death on sustainability. The paper then moves to examining the disempowering effects of predominant discourses and truncated repertoires in what is largely monolingual behaviour, with particular reference to current crises and attempts to alleviate them. Language teaching and practices are considered with a focus on the opposition of neoliberal globalising tendencies and policy on the one hand, and the actuality of the complexities of localised understanding on the other. It is suggested that sustainable policy and practice require sustainable linguistic means and uses, and will be informed by deeper, more detailed debate, rather than searching for sweeping solutions. The paper proposes a renewed approach to language policies regarding learning, teaching, testing and governance that are non-exploitative but, at the same time, respect the requirements of meritocratic values. The importance of receptive skills in (inter-)cultural interactions and the role of languages in the appreciation of truth values is also underlined.
description: Iperstoria, No. 20 (2022): Changing the (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics
3D Finite Element Modelling of Micro Transfer Length Measurements in Contact Layers for Silicon Solar Cells Using Multiphysics Simulation
Creators: name: Lange, S.
name: Rumiantcev, M.
name: Yiding, G.
name: Batista Caldeira, G.
name: Luderer, C.
name: Sprafke, A.N.
name: Naumann, V.
name: Hagendorf, C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2021
Subjects: Silicon Materials and Cells
Characterisation & Simulation of Si Cells

description: 38th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 224-228
description: Carrier-selective contacts with low minority carrier recombination and efficient majority carrier transport, i.e. low contact resistivity, play a decisive role in next generation solar cell technologies like silicon heterojunction technology (SHJ), tunnel-oxide passivated contacts (TOPCon), perovskite solar cells or tandem devices thereof. Assessing the contact resistivities between transport layers in thin film systems poses a challenge due to high differences of conductivities of involved layers. The micro transfer length measurement method (µ-TLM) is employed to extract even smallest contact resistivities and also sheet resistances of buried layers in multilayer systems. However, the TLM measurements are not straight forward due to non-homogeneous current densities at the contact pads and within the layers, i.e. current crowding and spreading effects. In this work, we present a finite element model to accurately simulate the current flow in three dimensions. We validate the simulation model by comparison with the analytical model of an ideal single layer system with 1D current flow, where excellent agreement is achieved. Inhomogeneous current injection at the metal pad contacts is studied and deviations of the analytical correction factors accounting for 2D current flow are identified from the simulation, when low contact resistivities on highly conductive substrates are involved and the geometries are not chosen appropriately. Horizontal current spreading due to finite mesa edge insulation is investigated. The simulation model is able to not only qualitatively describe the observed non-linear resistance-distance behavior in SHJ-based µ-TLM samples with insufficient pattern insulation, it can also be used for a simulation-assisted extraction of contact resistivities in an inverse modelling approach even with full 3D current flow. The findings help to understand limitations of TLM and finally allow the evaluation and interpretation of TLM measurements at multilayer stacks with a wide range of geometries and resistivities.
“Do Not Blame the Butter for What the Bread Did” or How the Optical Properties of IBC Solar Cells Affect the Results of Spatially Resolved Characterization Methods
Creators: name: Kikelj, M.
name: Lipovsek, B.
name: Bokaličc, M.
name: Buchholz, F.
name: Topic, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2021
Subjects: Silicon Materials and Cells
Characterisation & Simulation of Si Cells

description: 38th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 229-232
description: Interpreting results of spatially resolved characterization methods can prove quite a challenge and it may often happen that a phenomenon takes credit for something it is not responsible for. This is especially important when imaging laterally inhomogeneous devices. We present a derivation, application and validation of a combined opto-electrical model, which sheds light on the roles electrical and optical effects play when it comes to interpretation of EL measurements. We show not only that the device optics and imaging optics cannot be neglected but that they in fact play a major role in shaping the EL measurements.
The Eminent Victorian and the Philosopher
Creators: name: Bolchi, Elisa
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2022

description: This study investigates the representation of two literary dogs: Flush, the cocker spaniel protagonist of Virginia Woolf’s Flush. A Biography, and Argo, the protagonist and narrator of Italo Svevo’s novella Argo e il suo padrone. With the rise of the phenomenon of language skepticism around 1900, the topos of narrating dogs became of particular interest and both these works can be placed in the fashion of dog novels, but while Svevo, although with reversed roles, draws from the literary fashion of the philosopher dog, in which “canine narrators eloquently master the human language” (Driscoll and Hoffmann 2018), Woolf plays with the very British, and Victorian, tradition of ‘illustrious biographies’ and writes the biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel. By means of a zooanthropological reading of the two works, the article enquires whether the two writers try to resist anthropomorphic constructedness in the narration of their nonhuman characters and what kind of narrative device they enact to underline similarities and differences between humans and dogs. It will also try to understand if the underlying presumption of the two writers is that language is only ‘linguistic’ language, or if diverse and alternative, but equally valid, forms of communication and reciprocal understanding exist.
description: Iperstoria, No. 20 (2022): Changing the (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics
Holographic superconductivity in the presence of dark matter: basic issues
Creators: name: Rogatko, Marek
name: Wysokinski, Karol I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The holographic approach to study strongly coupled superconductors in the presence of dark matter is reviewed. We discuss the influence of dark matter on the superconducting transition temperature of both s-wave and p-wave holographic superconductors. The upper critical field, coherence length, penetration depth of holographic superconductors as well as the metal-insulator transitions have also been analysed. Issues related to the validity of AdS/CFT correspondence for the description of superconductors studied in the laboratory and possible experiments directed towards the detection of dark matter are discussed. In doing so we shall compare our assumptions and assertions with those generally accepted in the elementary particle experiments aimed at the detection of dark matter particles.
description: 5+ pages, 1 figure, National Conference on Superconductivity 2015, Karpacz, Poland
14% Efficiency Ultrathin Silicon Solar Cells with Improved Infrared Light Management Enabled by Hole-Selective Transition Metal Oxide Full-Area Rear Passivating Contacts
Creators: name: Nasser, H.
name: Zolfaghari Borra, M.
name: Çiftpinar, E.H.
name: Eldeeb, B.
name: Turan, R.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2021
Subjects: Silicon Materials and Cells
Thin Film and Foil-Based Si Cells

description: 38th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 208-211
description: We report efficient 22.5 µm-thick p-type crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells with hole-selective transition metal oxide (TMO) layers stacked with silver as full-area rear contacts. The TMO layers, namely molybdenum oxide (MoOx), vanadium oxide (V2Ox), and tungsten oxide (WOx), are prepared by thermal evaporation at room temperature. These films have large work function relative to p-type c-Si creating strong accumulation layer at the interface with high hole concentration which reduces the interfacial recombination current density (J0) and contact resistivity (c). Among the TMO p-type Si contacts considered, the MoOx/p-type Si contact achieves the lowest c of ~27 mΩ.cm2 relative to WOx/p-type Si (~42 mΩ.cm2) and V2Ox/p-type Si (~190 mΩ.cm2). On the other hand, V2Ox/p-type Si contact yields the lowest J0 of 65.5 fA/cm2 compared to MoOx (79.5 fA/cm2) and WOx (264.5 fA/cm2 ) based p-type Si contacts. Furthermore, the presence of TMO/Ag contact at the rear resulted in an enhanced external quantum efficiency (EQE) response at long wavelengths compared to reference solar cells with Al at the rear. The champion solar cell with efficiency value reaching 14% was realized from the solar cell with MoOx/Ag at the rear.
Conceptual Design Studies for a CEPC Detector
Creators: name: Chekanov, S. V.
name: Demarteau, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physics potential of the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) can be significantly strengthened by two detectors with complementary designs. A promising detector approach based on the Silicon Detector (SiD) designed for the International Linear Collider (ILC) is presented. Several simplifications of this detector for the lower energies expected at the CEPC are proposed. A number of cost optimizations of this detector are illustrated using full detector simulations. We show that the proposed changes will enable to reach the physics goals at the CEPC.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. A white paper contributed to the IAS Program on High Energy Physics (4-29 Jan, 2016)
Highly-sensitive detection of the lattice distortion in single bent ZnO nanowires by second-harmonic generation microscopy
Creators: name: Han, Xiaobo
name: Wang, Kai
name: Long, Hua
name: Hu, Hongbo
name: Chen, Jiawei
name: Wang, Bing
name: Lu, Peixiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanogenerators based on ZnO nanowires (NWs) realize the energy conversion at nanoscale, which are ascribed to the piezoelectric property caused by the lattice distortion of the ZnO NWs. The lattice distortion can significantly tune the electronic and optical properties, and requires a sensitive and convenient measurement. However, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) technique provides a limited sensitivity of 0.01 nm on the variation of the lattice spacing and requires vacuum conditions. Here we demonstrate a highly-sensitive detection of the lattice distortion in single bent ZnO NWs by second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy. As the curvature of the single bent ZnO NW increases to 21 mm-1 (<4% bending distortion), it shows a significant decrease (~70%) in the SHG intensity ratio between perpendicular and parallel excitation polarization with respect to c-axis of ZnO NWs. Importantly, the extraordinary non-axisymmetrical SHG polarimetric patterns are also observed, indicating the twisting distortion around c-axis of ZnO NWs. Thus, SHG microscopy provides a sensitive all-optical and non-invasive method for in situ detecting the lattice distortion under various circumstances.
Going Green with... Communication
Creators: name: Abbamonte, Lucia
name: Cavaliere, Flavia
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2022

description: In tune with rapidly increasing environmental awareness, terms like sustainability and eco-friendly frequently occur and are exploited in discourse domains from supermarket advertising to corporate communication. In contrast to these discursive simulations of concern, Greenpeace (GP) activists have consistently used peaceful protests as a means to protect our planet. GP’s campaigns are designed to raise questions, to make people rethink the way they live and (ab)use the Earth’s environment, and, ultimately, to engage volunteers and raise funds. In a different vein, Gazprom (GZM) also attempts to advertise its corporate image and its mission to distribute gas through powerful technology, connecting entire continents through a grid of pipelines and ships, ‘energising’ anything from industrial plants to gas stoves in apartments and small cottages. The aim of this study is to analyse aspects of both GZM’s and GP’s modes of advertising their goals, particularly the multi-layered composition of their online videos, using a multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis approach from an ecolinguistic perspective. Both GZM and GP exemplify a tendency to“promotionalisation,” sharing the same codes and rhetoric strategies in a variety of advertising campaigns. Unpredictably enough, both utilise ‘green speaking’ multimodally. The implications of these striking similarities are discussed.
description: Iperstoria, No. 20 (2022): Changing the (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics
Optimization of the Conductivity and Crystalline Fraction of p-Type μc-SiOx:H Films for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
Creators: name: Olivares-Vargas, A.J.
name: Kaur, G.
name: Poplawski, M.
name: Desthieux, A.
name: Roca I Cabarrocas, P.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2021
Subjects: Silicon Materials and Cells
Thin Film and Foil-Based Si Cells

description: 38th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 212-216
description: We report on the development of low-temperature PECVD deposition of p-type hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon oxide films (p-type μc-SiOx:H) as a hole transport layer for heterojunction solar cells. While the production of n-type μc-SiOx:H layers has been widely reported on, p-type ones are far more challenging. The tradeoff between optical properties, passivation quality, and electrical transport requires fine-tuning of the process parameters and post-deposition annealing. We show how the crystalline fraction (Fc) and dark conductivity () depend on RF power, trimethylboron (TMB) gas flow rate, and total pressure during the deposition process at 150 °C, and how these properties evolve with annealing at 250 °C and 300 °C. P-type μc-SiOx:H films were obtained with a conductivity around 10-6 S/cm in their as-deposited state and 10-5 S/cm after annealing. The layers with the best conductivity on glass substrates are then implemented in solar cells having the structure n-type μcSiOx:H/ a-SiOx:H/ n-type FZ c-Si/ a-SiOx:H/ p-type μcSiOx/p-type μcSi:H where all the layers are deposited by PECVD. These films improved the minority carrier lifetime and field effect, but the solar cell characteristics are still limited by low FF.
Yeomans Residence [Project: 090-06-66]
Creators: name: Hodgson, Alan J. (Alan James)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Modern movement (Architecture)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024437
subject: Architecture
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/813346
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Architecture, Domestic
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/813666
subject: Architecture, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/813842
subject: Architects
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/813114

description: Project material consists of one large folder of architectural drawings and other material pertaining to alterations and additions to the Yeomans Residence, located at 670 Beaver Lake Road in Saanich, B.C. The Yeomans are identified as “Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Yeomans”. Included are floor plans; foundation plans; elevations; electrical plans; section drawings; site plans; detail drawings; perspective drawings; notes; sketches; and other material produced at various stages of the design process.
Certain properties of MUSIC-type imaging functional in inverse scattering from an open, sound-hard arc
Creators: name: Park, Won-Kwang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper concerns mathematical formulation of well-known MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC)-type imaging functional in the inverse scattering problem by an open sound-hard arc. Based on the physical factorization of so-called Multi-Static Response (MSR) matrix and the structure of left-singular vectors liked to the non-zero singular values of MSR matrix, we construct a relationship between imaging functional and Bessel function of order $1$ of the first kind. We then expound certain properties of MUSIC and present numerical results for a number of differently chosen smooth arcs.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures
employees' attitudes towards organizational change: in the case commercial bank of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Muluken, Melese
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Employees are the most valuable resource of an organization and assessing their attitudes towards their internal business process make a difference to company performance. This paper demands on assessing the employees' attitudes towards the organizational change of Commercial bank of Ethiopia. In the way to answering the basic questions of the research, the study applied descriptive research design using mixed research approach. Data was gathered through questionnaire, interviews and document review. To collect the relevant data, a five-point Likert-scale is used and descriptive analysis with Mean, Frequencies and percentages were applied during data analysis. The findings of the research shows that the organization has three focus area of change namely, marketing strategy, organizational structure and profit maximization. And employees also have appositive attitude towards those organizational change. And mostly the attitude of employees are influenced by work friendly, smooth communication with supervisors, job satisfaction is by far the most important predictor of employee's attitude, followed by job security, motivation and lastly personal interest. Additionally the finding of the research shows that the success of the organization and profitability is based on the employee's attitude and effort which they sacrifice to the organization. And it can be measured by the profitability and success of the organization. Finally it concludes that employees are dissatisfied on the management actions to support or shape the employee's attitude. Based on the findings, the organization is recommended to improve the level of their employee's attitude because the current employee's positive attitude may not remains constant. Moreover, the organization should have to work on the training and development and Training need assessment should be done before employees are sent to training. In addition online training is recommended to the training and development department Because online training save a cost than classroom training and it's accessible to everyone's whose can access a computer.
Efficiency Potential Analysis of p- and n-Type Epitaxially Grown Si Wafers
Creators: name: Rittmann, C.
name: Dalke, J.
name: Drießen, M.
name: Weiss, C.
name: Schindler, F.
name: Sorgenfrei, R.
name: Schubert, M.C.
name: Janz, S.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2021
Subjects: Silicon Materials and Cells
Feedstock, Crystallisation, Wafering, Defect Engineering

description: 38th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 198-203
description: In this paper, we investigate the quality of epitaxially grown, 110 μm thick, n- and p-type silicon (Si) layers deposited in a CVD batch reactor of microelectronic standard. Two types of wafers are characterized: ‘EpiRef’ grown on chemically and mechanically polished reference substrates and ‘EpiWafer’ grown on substrates with a porous silicon detachment layer. EpiRef wafers exhibit excellent minority carrier lifetimes of 2.5 ms for n-type and 1.3 ms for p-type. EpiWafers show reduced, but still promising lifetimes of 0.5 ms (in local areas up to 1 ms) for n-type and 40 μs for p-type. For EpiWafers, we found that quality limitations are due to stacking faults as well as interstitial iron contamination for p-type. An efficiency limiting bulk recombination analysis (ELBA), allows for an assessment of the corresponding efficiency potential assuming a TOPCon cell model with a cell limit of 25.9 % for n-type and a TOPCoRE cell model with a cell limit of 26.5 % for p-type. In selected 1 cm² areas, potential efficiencies of EpiRef wafers are only -0.4 %abs below the theoretical cell limit for n-type and -1.3 %abs for p-type whereas EpiWafers feature losses of -1.2 %abs for n-type and even -5.4 %abs for p-type.
حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي والانتقال السياسي في سوريا - استشراف الآفاق المستقبلية
Creators: name: BACCORA, Ahmad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440810
subject: Peace studies
classificationCode: 440402
subject: Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding

description: قدمت الورقة تحليلا شاملا لدور حزب البعث التاريخي والمعاصر في السياسة السورية. ثم قيمت السيناريوهات المحتملة لدور الحزب المستقبلي في إطار العدالة الانتقالية، وقدمت بناء على ذلك توصيات بشأن مستقبل سوريا السياسي. يتمحور التحليل حول ثلاثة سيناريوهات محتملة: العزلة السياسية الكاملة، والعزلة السياسية الجزئية، والإصلاح الجوهري مع استمرار المشاركة السياسية. ويستند التحليل إلى قدرة السيناريوهات الثلاثة على تعزيز الشمولية السياسية والمساءلة والاستقرار والمصالحة. علاوة على ذلك، يتم استخدام التجارب الدولية المقارنة لوضع هذه السيناريوهات في سياقها واستخلاص الدروس التي يمكن تطبيقها على السياق السوري. تقترح الورقة مقاربة حذرة للمرحلة الانتقالية في سوريا، مع التركيز على أهمية الفهم السياقي، والحوار الشامل، والإصلاحات المؤسسية، والدعم الدولي. ويدعو إلى مشهد سياسي يعزز الشمولية والتعددية ويحدد استراتيجيات لمعالجة الفظائع الماضية وبناء مؤسسات مرنة وخاضعة للمساءلة. وفي الختام، قدمت الورقة رؤية لمستقبل سوريا، تتمثل في اجتياز المرحلة الانتقالية بنجاح، واحترام سيادة القانون، والحفاظ على حقوق الإنسان، والمساهمة بمختلف الفاعلين السياسيين في خطاب ديمقراطي نابض بالحياة يعكس تطلعات السوريين.
Ups and Downs: Modeling the Visual Evolution of Fashion Trends with One-Class Collaborative Filtering
Creators: name: He, Ruining
name: McAuley, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Building a successful recommender system depends on understanding both the dimensions of people's preferences as well as their dynamics. In certain domains, such as fashion, modeling such preferences can be incredibly difficult, due to the need to simultaneously model the visual appearance of products as well as their evolution over time. The subtle semantics and non-linear dynamics of fashion evolution raise unique challenges especially considering the sparsity and large scale of the underlying datasets. In this paper we build novel models for the One-Class Collaborative Filtering setting, where our goal is to estimate users' fashion-aware personalized ranking functions based on their past feedback. To uncover the complex and evolving visual factors that people consider when evaluating products, our method combines high-level visual features extracted from a deep convolutional neural network, users' past feedback, as well as evolving trends within the community. Experimentally we evaluate our method on two large real-world datasets from Amazon.com, where we show it to outperform state-of-the-art personalized ranking measures, and also use it to visualize the high-level fashion trends across the 11-year span of our dataset.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
A Study of Fractional Schrodinger Equation-composed via Jumarie fractional derivative
Creators: name: Banerjee, Joydip
name: Ghosh, Uttam
name: Sarkar, Susmita
name: Das, Shantanu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the motivations for using fractional calculus in physical systems is due to fact that many times, in the space and time variables we are dealing which exhibit coarse-grained phenomena, meaning that infinitesimal quantities cannot be placed arbitrarily to zero-rather they are non-zero with a minimum length. Especially when we are dealing in microscopic to mesoscopic level of systems. Meaning if we denote x the point in space and t as point in time; then the differentials dx (and dt) cannot be taken to limit zero, rather it has spread. A way to take this into account is to use infinitesimal quantities as (\Deltax)^α(and (\Deltat)^α) with 0\Deltax. This way defining the differentials-or rather fractional differentials makes us to use fractional derivatives in the study of dynamic systems. In fractional calculus the fractional order trigonometric functions play important role. The Mittag-Leffler function which plays important role in the field of fractional calculus; and the fractional order trigonometric functions are defined using this Mittag-Leffler function. In this paper we established the fractional order Schrodinger equation-composed via Jumarie fractional derivative; and its solution in terms of Mittag-Leffler function with complex arguments and derive some properties of the fractional Schrodinger equation that are studied for the case of particle in one dimensional infinite potential well.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Journal of Mathematical Physics
Laser Cutting of Solar Cells by Using the Stress Cut Approach
Creators: name: Krause, S.
name: Hensel, S.
name: Meusel, M.
name: Eiternick, S.
name: Turek, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2021
Subjects: Silicon Materials and Cells
Feedstock, Crystallisation, Wafering, Defect Engineering

description: 38th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 204-207
description: Half-cell modules have entered the mass production market as one route to high-efficiency PV modules with reduced costs. Recent developments such as shingled modules also require reliable solar cell separation processes on a broad variety of solar cell technologies. In this work, we present a new “stress-cut” laser process that leads to optimized laser processing and reduced cell damages. It can be implemented for either ablative or non-ablative processes. Key element of the stress-cut is the laser treatment of a slightly bent solar cell which results in an automatic, intrinsic optimization of the cell separation process. We show, that for both PERC and heterojunction solar cells, welloptimized cell separation is achieved. Furthermore, results are presented showing that our stress-cut approach can be universally applied and transferred to a wide range of laser sources. Going beyond the half-cell layout, it is finally shown that the “stress-cut” process can also be applied to manufacture solar cell stripes for shingled modules.
title: National Tsunami Hazard Model: Stage 1 final report
Creators: name: Fry, Bill
name: Power, William L.
name: Hughes, Laura
name: Lane, Emily
name: Syed, Yasir I.
name: Horspool, Nick A.
name: Howell, Andrew
name: O'Kane, Aisling
name: Liao, Yiwun.M.
name: Nicol, A.
name: Williams, Chaerles A.
Publisher: name: GNS Science
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03vaqfv64
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: n this report, we present the outcomes of Stage 1 of the National Tsunami Model. Central to this work is the use of physics-based source catalogues and hydrodynamic modelling of tsunami impacts. Drawing upon this work, and in consultation with the wider Aotearoa New Zealand research community, we have developed a strategy for a nationally consistent model of tsunami hazard and risk. We apply this approach to Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington Region. In this framework, we use physics-informed models of the earthquake cycle to generate a catalogue of 30,000 years of synthetic earthquakes. We analyse this catalogue and create hydrodynamic models of inundation for the events that create significant loss. Loss is then calculated with the RiskScapeTM platform. We conclude by presenting a new model of tsunami hazard and risk that includes the critically important effects of complex, multi-fault rupture. (auths)
2023 YUFERING Open Science Calendar
Creators: name: Moreno, Marina Sánchez
name: Méndez, Eva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Open Research
OA Community
Open Access
YUFERING
YUFE
University Alliances
Artificial Intelligence
Scholarly Communication

description: Making Open Science ‘the new normal’ is one of the main goals of the YUFERING project (Horizon 2020). The YUFERING team from the Carlos III University of Madrid prepared the first calendar of this project on Open Science in 2022. Reflecting on its dissemination, use, and impact, the calendar has proven to be an effective tool to increase the awareness of the research community on Open Science. The 2022 Open Science Calendar has been a great success. It generated online and offline enthusiasm and a high demand for a new one. As a result, the team has prepared a YUFERING Calendar for 2023 with AI-generated images (available below). The previous YUFERING calendar and guidelines on how to customise the calendar are available here. Please do not forget to share your version of the calendar on Twitter using the hashtag #YUFEOSCalendar