cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
LFC on Screen Printed Aluminium Rear Side Metallization
Creators: name: Nekarda, J.
name: Stumpp, S.
name: Gautero, L.
name: Hörteis, M.
name: Grohe, A.
name: Biro, D.
name: Preu, R.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2009
Subjects: Wafer-based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Mono- and Multicrystalline Silicon Materials and Cells

description: 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 21-25 September 2009, Hamburg, Germany; 1441-1445
description: In this paper we report about first results regarding laser fired contacts (LFC) on an optimized screen
printed aluminum rear side layer and compare it with our “standard” LFC procedure on evaporated aluminum layers.
First of all, the influence of the laser pulse energy, pulse duration and amount of pulses on the resistance of one
contact is evaluated. Since this value depends strongly on the size of the contact also the recombination losses in the
contact area have to be considered in order to compare and qualify LFC contacts comprehensively. We have
achieved cell efficiencies > 18.0 % on industrial like processed wafers, which underlines the potential of this
approach. Finally, a 20.5 % efficiency solar cell with an aerosol printed front metallization manufactured on
laboratory scale is presented, which is the best value ever reported for solar cells with fired front and back side
metallization.
Tachykinin-related peptides modulate immune-gene expression in the mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor L.
Creators: name: Urbański, Arkadiusz
name: Johnston, Paul
name: Bittermann, Elisa
name: Keshavarz, Maryam
name: Paris, Véronique
name: Walkowiak-Nowicka, Karolina
name: Konopińska, Natalia
name: Marciniak, Paweł
name: Rolff, Jens
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Antimicrobial responses
subject: Environmental economics
subject: Environmental social sciences
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Tachykinins (TKs) are a group of conserved neuropeptides. In insects, tachykinin-related peptides (TRPs) are important modulators of several functions such as nociception and lipid metabolism. Recently, it has become clear that TRPs also play a role in regulating the insect immune system. Here, we report a transcriptomic analysis of changes in the expression levels of immune-related genes in the storage pest Tenebrio molitor after treatment with Tenmo-TRP-7. We tested two concentrations (10–8 and 10–6 M) at two time points, 6 and 24 h post-injection. We found significant changes in the transcript levels of a wide spectrum of immune-related genes. Some changes were observed 6 h after the injection of Tenmo-TRP-7, especially in relation to its putative anti-apoptotic action. Interestingly, 24 h after the injection of 10–8 M Tenmo-TRP-7, most changes were related to the regulation of the cellular response. Applying 10–6 M Tenmo-TRP-7 resulted in the downregulation of genes associated with humoral responses. Injecting Tenmo-TRP-7 did not affect beetle survival but led to a reduction in haemolymph lysozyme-like antibacterial activity, consistent with the transcriptomic data. The results confirmed the immunomodulatory role of TRP and shed new light on the functional homology between TRPs and TKs.
Enzyme self-label-bound ATTO700 in single-molecule and super-resolution microscopy
Creators: name: Trumpp, Michael
name: Oliveras, Anna
name: Gonschior, Hannes
name: Ast, Julia
name: Hodson, David J.
name: Knaus, Petra
name: Lehmann, Martin
name: Birol, Melissa
name: Broichhagen, Johannes
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Förster Resonance Energy Transfer
subject: near-infrared ATTO700
subject: acceptor
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Herein, we evaluate near-infrared ATTO700 as an acceptor in SNAP- and Halo-tag protein labelling for Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) by ensemble and single molecule measurements. Microscopy of cell surface proteins in live cells is perfomed including super-resolution stimulated emission by depletion (STED) nanoscopy.
Long-term validation of MIPAS ESA operational products using MIPAS-B measurements
Creators: name: Wetzel, Gerald
name: Höpfner, Michael
name: Oelhaf, Hermann
name: Friedl-Vallon, Felix
name: Kleinert, Anne
name: Maucher, Guido
name: Sinnhuber, Miriam
name: Abalichin, Janna
name: Dehn, Angelika
name: Raspollini, Piera
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)
subject: limb-viewing infrared Fourier transform spectrometer
subject: Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT)
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) was a limb-viewing infrared Fourier transform spectrometer that operated from 2002 to 2012 aboard the Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT). The final re-processing of the full MIPAS mission Level 2 data was performed with the ESA operational version 8 (v8) processor. This MIPAS dataset includes not only the retrieval results of pressure–temperature and the standard species H2O, O3, HNO3, CH4, N2O, and NO2 but also vertical profiles of volume mixing ratios of the more difficult-to-retrieve molecules N2O5, ClONO2, CFC-11, CFC-12 (included since v6 processing), HCFC-22, CCl4, CF4, COF2, and HCN (included since v7 processing). Finally, vertical profiles of the species C2H2, C2H6, COCl2, OCS, CH3Cl, and HDO were additionally retrieved by the v8 processor. The balloon-borne limb-emission sounder MIPAS-B was a precursor of the MIPAS satellite instrument. Several flights with MIPAS-B were carried out during the 10-year operational phase of ENVISAT at different latitudes and seasons, including both operational periods when MIPAS measured with full spectral resolution (FR mode) and with optimised spectral resolution (OR mode). All MIPAS operational products (except HDO) were compared to results inferred from dedicated validation limb sequences of MIPAS-B. To enhance the statistics of vertical profile comparisons, a trajectory match method has been applied to search for MIPAS coincidences along the 2 d forward and backward trajectories running from the MIPAS-B measurement geolocations. This study gives an overview of the validation results based on the ESA operational v8 data comprising the MIPAS FR and OR observation periods. This includes an assessment of the data agreement of both sensors, taking into account the combined errors of the instruments. The differences between the retrieved temperature profiles of both MIPAS instruments generally stays within ±2 K in the stratosphere. For most gases – namely H2O, O3, HNO3, CH4, N2O, NO2, N2O5, ClONO2, CFC-11, CFC-12, HCFC-22, CCl4, CF4, COF2, and HCN – we find a 5 %–20 % level of agreement for the retrieved vertical profiles of both MIPAS instruments in the lower stratosphere. For the species C2H2, C2H6, COCl2, OCS, and CH3Cl, however, larger differences (within 20 %–50 %) appear in this altitude range.
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Back Contact Layers
Creators: name: Popovich, V.A.
name: Janssen, M.
name: Richardson, I.M.
name: Van Amstel, T.
name: Bennett, I.J.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2009
Subjects: Wafer-based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Mono- and Multicrystalline Silicon Materials and Cells

description: 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 21-25 September 2009, Hamburg, Germany; 1453-1458
description: The overall demand to reduce solar energy costs gives a continuous drive to reduce the thickness of
silicon wafers. Handling and bowing problems associated with thinner wafers become more and more important, as
these can lead to cells cracking and thus to high yield losses. In this paper the microstructure and mechanical
properties of the aluminium on the rear side of a solar cell are discussed. It is shown that the aluminium back contact
has a complex composite-like microstructure, consisting of five main components: 1) the back surface field layer;
2) a eutectic layer; 3) spherical (3 - 5 μm) hypereutectic Al-Si particles surrounded by a thin aluminum oxide layer
(200 nm); 4) a bismuth-silicate glass matrix; and 5) pores (14 vol.%). The Young’s modulus of the Al-Si particles is
estimated by nanoindentation and the overall Young’s modulus is estimated on the basis of bowing measurements.
These results are used as input parameters for an improved thermomechanical multiscale model of a silicon solar cell.
INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1 (IRF1) LINKS IMMUNOLOGICAL AND METABOLIC TRAITS TO HISTOLOGICAL GRADE IN PANCREATIC CANCER
Creators: name: ALFARANO, GABRIELE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most frequent neoplasia of the exocrine pancreas with a 5-years overall survival of less than 5% . Poor response to treatments can be attributed, at least in part, to the pervasive heterogeneity of this type of cancer, whose histological differentiation grade ranges from a well differentiated to a poorly differentiated phenotype . My lab previously dissected the transcriptional and epigenetic networks underlying PDAC grading. By using cell line models mimicking different PDAC grades, transcriptional data highlighted an interferon-related signature as peculiar of low-grade PDACs. This project aims at investigating the links between this interferon-related signature and the epithelial phenotype of well-differentiated PDACs. The role of Interferon Regulatory Factor 1 (IRF1), a transcription factor critical for the interferon response, in PDAC differentiation will be investigated. By combining a loss-of-function strategy and RNA-seq this work aimed at defining the targets and the effects of IRF1 differential expression in the mentioned cell line model. Model reliability will also be confirmed via immunohistochemistry on tumour microarrays. The immunological and metabolic phenotypes regulated by IRF1 in well differentiated PDACs will further be analysed by the use of xenografts and cell culture based assays. It will be shown that IRF1 regulates multiple interferon related genes involved in antigen processing and presentation; its deletion affects stromal composition in xenografts. IRF1 deficient cells also rewire their metabolic networks, with changes in lipid composition and metabolite usage. Overall, we found that the transcription factor IRF1 pleiotropically controls a variety of phenotypical traits of low grade PDACs: from antigen processing and presentation pathways, to metabolism, which IRF1 deficiency rewired towards an increased respiratory and lipogenic profile.
Automatic Analysis of Defect Types in LBIC and Electroluminiscence Images
Creators: name: Vanek, J.
name: Vesely, A.
name: Barinka, R.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2009
Subjects: Wafer-based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Manufacturing Issues

description: 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 21-25 September 2009, Hamburg, Germany; 1376-1378
description: This paper deals with the possibility of the defect analyze automation in the images taken by the
luminescence or LBIC, LBIV methods. During the manufacturing of solar cell there is possible to make a lot of
useful analysis of the quality of used material and technology processes. Among methods that are displaying
distribution of defect in the structure we can count the photoluminescence, which is possible to use on uncontacted
material, electroluminescence and LBIC (Light Beam Induced Current) eventually LBIV (Light Beam Induced
Voltage) which can be used on contact made solar cells. All this methods are creating large array of data displaying
local characteristic of solar cell structure. This data can be displayed as images or can by analyze by mathematic
matrix software like Mathlab. The advantage of matrix analyze is possibility to automate the analyze process and
speed up the whole process. For useful analyze there must be decide what type of defect can by automatic detected
(to make the defect database), mask contact grid of analyzed data and by comparison image analyzing process found
out if the solar cell contain a defect and than what type of defect is it.
Fluctuating ecological networks: A synthesis of maximum-entropy approaches for pattern detection and process inference
Creators: name: Caruso, Tancredi
name: Clemente, Giulio Virginio
name: Rillig, Matthias C.
name: Garlaschelli, Diego
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ecological networks
subject: maximum entropy
subject: network fluctuations
subject: network pattern detection
subject: network reconstruction
subject: null models
subject: soft constraints
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: 1. Ecological networks such as plant–pollinator systems and food webs vary in space and time. This variability includes fluctuations in global properties such as the total number and intensity of interactions in the network but also in the number and intensity of local (i.e. node level) species interactions. 2. Fluctuations of species' properties can significantly affect higher-order network features, for example, robustness and nestedness, and should therefore be taken into account in null models for pattern detection and hypothesis testing. 3. In ecological research, classical null models treat node-level properties as ‘hard’ constraints that cannot fluctuate. Here, we review and synthesize a set of maximum-entropy methods that allow for fluctuating (‘soft’) constraints, offering a new addition to the classical toolkit of the ecologist. We illustrate the methods with some practical examples, pointing to currently available open-source computer codes. We clarify how this approach can be used by experimental ecologists to detect non-random patterns with null models that not only rewire, but also redistribute interaction strengths by allowing fluctuations in the enforced constraints. 4. Explicit modelling of interspecific heterogeneity through local (i.e. species level) fluctuations of topological and quantitative constraints offers a statistically robust and expanded (e.g. including weighted links) set of tools to understand the assembly and resilience of ecological networks.
$χ^{\vphantom\dagger}_{c0}(3915)$ As the Lightest $c\bar c s \bar s$ State
Creators: name: Lebed, Richard F.
name: Polosa, Antonio D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The state $χ^{\vphantom\dagger}_{c0}(3915)$ has recently been demoted by the Particle Data Group from its previous status as the conventional $c\bar c$ $2 {}^3P_0$ state, largely due to the absence of expected $D\bar D$ decays. We propose that $χ^{\vphantom\dagger}_{c0}(3915)$ is actually the lightest $c\bar c s \bar s$ state, and calculate the spectrum of such states using the diquark model, identifying many of the observed charmoniumlike states that lack open-charm decay modes as $c\bar c s \bar s$. Among other results, we argue that $Y(4140)$ is a $J^{PC} = 1^{++}$ $c\bar c s \bar s$ state that has been not been seen in two-photon fusion largely as a consequence of the Landau-Yang theorem.
description: 9 pages, pdflatex, version accepted for publication by Phys. Rev. D
Reconstruction of magma chamber processes preserved in olivine-phlogopite micro-ijolites from the Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania
Creators: name: Halász, Noémi
name: Berkesi, Márta
name: Tóth, Tivadar M.
name: Mitchell, Roger H.
name: Milke, Ralf
name: Guzmics, Tibor
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ijolite
subject: Double corona microtexture
subject: Symplectite
subject: Clinopyroxene zonation
subject: Oldoinyo lengai
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: A detailed petrographic and mineralogical investigation of olivine-phlogopite micro-ijolite xenoliths from Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania indicates a complex evolutional history. These xenoliths consist of diverse textural subdomains characterized by minerals ranging from early-formed olivine, through diopside-hosted perovskite and phlogopite, to evolved aegirine-augite and titanite. Thermometry and mineral compositions in the subdomains suggest crystallization temperatures from 1070–970 °C to 850–700 °C at plutonic pressures and SiO2-activities controlled by perovskite-titanite equilibria. Double coronas are a characteristic textural feature of the olivine-phlogopite micro-ijolite, consisting of olivine cores surrounded by an inner clinopyroxene corona and an outer phlogopite corona. These double coronas might have formed during early magma chamber processes, including magma movement to a subsequent chamber resulting in dissolution of olivine with subsequent crystallization and accumulation of diopside and phlogopite. Diopside−aegirine-augite compositional zonation indicates several magma injections followed by cooling periods, during the formation of micro-ijolite groundmass. Mg# (80–83) and Ca (0.1–0.3 in wt%) contents of olivine together with the presence of primary melt inclusions in clinopyroxene, phlogopite, and nepheline indicate a magmatic origin from a possible parental olivine-nephelinite melt. There is evidence for subsolidus, or near-solidus, re-equilibration processes as indicated by the reaction of olivine with titanite forming symplectitic textures of ilmenite and diopside with minor zirconolite. Ti-exchange between phlogopite phenocrysts and other Ti-bearing minerals (perovskite, titanite, magnetite) resulted in ∼750 °C equilibrium temperatures for phlogopite, which are much lower than mafic magmatic (>900 °C) conditions. Calculated subsolidus temperatures suggest crystallization of olivine-phlogopite micro-ijolites over a 10–20 km depth interval.
MODULATION OF LINE-1 RETROTRANSPOSITION BY AICARDI-GOUTI�RES SYNDROME-RELATED GENES.
Creators: name: MENETTI, VALENTINA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: La sindrome di Aicardi-Gouti�res (AGS) � una rara malattia infantile di origine genetica, i pazienti AGS sono caratterizzati da: atrofia cerebrale, calcificazioni intracraniche ed elevati livelli di interferone-alfa nel liquido cerebro-spinale. Questa inappropriata produzione di IFN? pu� diventare deleteria, promuovendo l?innesco di una risposta autoinfiammatoria nel paziente. AGS � causata da mutazioni in alcuni geni che codificano per enzimi che metabolizzano o rilevano la presenza di acidi nucleici: TREX1, ognuna delle tre subunit� (RNASIH2A, RNASIH2B, e RNASIH2C) del complesso enzimatico RNasi H2, SAMHD1, ADAR1 e MDA5. Molteplici evidenze sperimentali suggeriscono che gli acidi nucleici siano responsabili dell?attivazione di sensori dell?immunit� innata. Pertanto, l?ipotesi pi� accreditata � che un accumulo di acidi nucleici endogeni non processati possa essere la principale causa della patologia, inducendo gli elevati livelli di IFN? nel liquido cerebro-spinale. Tuttavia, quale sia la natura e il meccanismo di accumulo di questi acidi nucleici resta ancora ignoto. Tra tutti i geni responsabili della sindrome di Aicardi-Gouti�res, � stato dimostrato che TREX1, ADAR1 e SAMHD1 possono interferire nel metabolismo dei retroelementi LINE1, sequenze di DNA che possono muoversi nel genoma tramite un intermedio a RNA. Un?ipotesi plausibile � quindi che sia proprio l?accumulo di alcuni intermedi di retrotrasposizione una delle cause scatenanti della iperattivazione dell?immunit� innata. Caratterizzare un possibile coinvolgimento del metabolismo dei retroelementi e in particolare di LINE1, nella sindrome di Aicardi-Gouti�res � l?obbiettivo a lungo termine di questo progetto.
Controversia moral y debate sobre investigación clínica en terapia génica. Revisión de posiciones y posicionamiento ético.
Creators: name: López, Francisco Manuel Porto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: CRISPR
Edición genética
Modificación genética
Utilitarismo
Deontología

description: ¿Debe limitarse la investigación clínica en terapia génica? En este trabajo pretendo ofrecer una justificación ética a las distintas respuestas que se dan a esta pregunta, principalmente desde el punto de vista del interés y el bienestar de los sujetos de experimentación. Para ello, me introduzco en el mundo de las herramientas CRISPR, atendiendo a la gran controversia que han generado en los últimos tiempos.
Massive and modified gravity as self-gravitating media
Creators: name: Ballesteros, Guillermo
name: Comelli, Denis
name: Pilo, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effective field theory that describes the low-energy physics of self-gravitating media. The field content consists of four derivatively coupled scalar fields that can be identified with the internal comoving coordinates of the medium. Imposing SO(3) internal spatial invariance, the theory describes supersolids. Stronger symmetry requirements lead to superfluids, solids and perfect fluids, at lowest order in derivatives. In the unitary gauge, massive gravity emerges, being thus the result of a continuous medium propagating in spacetime. Our results can be used to explore systematically the effects and signatures of modifying gravity consistently at large distances. The dark sector is then described as a self-gravitating medium with dynamical and thermodynamic properties dictated by internal symmetries. These results indicate that the divide between dark energy and modified gravity, at large distance scales, is simply a gauge choice.
description: 41 pages, new section, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
The Effects of Substrate Bias on the Growth of Silicon Nanowires from Tin Catalyst Layers
Creators: name: Ball, J.
name: Reehal, H.S.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics: New Concepts and Ultra-high Efficiency
New Materials, Cells and Modules

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 769-772
description: The Sn catalysed, vapour-liquid-solid (VLS) growth of Si nanowires on Si (100) and (111) substrates
has been studied using electron cyclotron resonance, plasma-assisted chemical vapour deposition (ECRCVD) at
temperatures up to 400 ºC. ECR plasma excitation is found to strongly promote the growth of sharply tapered wires.
There is no clear correlation between wire growth and substrate orientation. A study of substrate bias on growth has
shown no strong trends but suggests wire density can be significantly enhanced in certain cases. Initial, simple solar
cells have shown some photovoltaic activity with a Voc approaching 100mV.
Ultracompact minihalos as probes of inflationary cosmology
Creators: name: Aslanyan, Grigor
name: Price, Layne C.
name: Adams, Jenni
name: Bringmann, Torsten
name: Clark, Hamish A.
name: Easther, Richard
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
name: Scott, Pat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological inflation generates primordial density perturbations on all scales, including those far too small to contribute to the cosmic microwave background. At these scales, isolated ultracompact minihalos of dark matter can form well before standard structure formation, if the perturbations have sufficient amplitude. Minihalos affect pulsar timing data and are potentially bright sources of gamma rays. The resulting constraints significantly extend the observable window of inflation in the presence of cold dark matter, coupling two of the key problems in modern cosmology.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; matches published version
Epitaxial Growth of Silicon Thin Films for Solar Cells
Creators: name: Andrä, G.
name: Gimpel, T.
name: Gawlik, A.
name: Ose, E.
name: Bochmann, A.
name: Christiansen, S.
name: Sáfrán, G.
name: Lábár, J.L.
name: Falk, F.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Thin Films
Thin Film Crystalline Silicon

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 2194-2198
description: Crystalline silicon thin film solar cells on glass substrates are a low cost alternative to silicon wafer
cells. As an alternative to a simple furnace annealing step in which a-Si is converted to c-Si with 1 μm grains, an
epitaxial crystal growth process is presented here. First a seed layer is prepared on glass by diode laser crystallization
of an a-Si layer on glass to result in 100 μm grains. Then a-Si is deposited on top of the seed which is converted to
c-Si by epitaxial growth. A 1.1 μm thick c-Si layer with 100 μm grains was produced in this way. The paper presents
details of the epitaxial growth process.
A functorial extension of the Magnus representation to the category of three-dimensional cobordisms
Creators: name: Florens, Vincent
name: Massuyeau, Gwenael
name: de Rodrigo, Juan Serrano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 57M10

description: Let $R$ be an integral domain and $G$ be a subgroup of its group of units. We consider the category $\mathbf{\mathsf{Cob}}_G$ of 3-dimensional cobordisms between oriented surfaces with connected boundary, equipped with a representation of their fundamental group in $G$. Under some mild conditions on $R$, we construct a monoidal functor from $\mathbf{\mathsf{Cob}}_G$ to the category $\mathbf{\mathsf{pLagr}}_R$ consisting of "pointed Lagrangian relations" between skew-Hermitian $R$-modules. We call it the "Magnus functor" since it contains the Magnus representation of mapping class groups as a special case. Our construction is inspired from the work of Cimasoni and Turaev on the extension of the Burau representation of braid groups to the category of tangles. It can also be regarded as a $G$-equivariant version of a TQFT-like functor that has been described by Donaldson. The study and computation of the Magnus functor is carried out using classical techniques of low-dimensional topology. When $G$ is a free abelian group and $R = Z[G]$ is the group ring of $G$, we relate the Magnus functor to the "Alexander functor" (which has been introduced in a prior work using Alexander-type invariants), and we deduce a factorization formula for the latter.
description: 36 pages; very minor changes
The Largest Double-Axis Sun Tracking PV Systems with Electronic Control and Photosensors in Turkey
Creators: name: Eke, R.
name: Ozden, S.
name: Senturk, A.
name: Fleck, O.
name: Oktik, S.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Components for PV Systems
PV System Engineering and Standards, Socio-economic Aspects, and Sustainability

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 4744-4747
description: In the present study, the largest double axis sun tracking PV systems in Turkey with one electronic
control and one photo sensors are described. The systems are installed at Mugla University campus. Totally 168
Sunset AS HPC100 back contact single crystalline silicon modules and 84 of them are used in each tracking system.
And 21 modules are connected series to obtain 453.6V at open circuit and two series string is plugged one single
phase grid connected inverter. Eacch PV system on trackers has 4 strings and 2 inverters. Measured data of the PV
systems are compared with each other and also measured data is compared with the calculated data. The performance
measurements of the PV systems were carried out first when the PV systems were in a fixed position and then the PV
systems were controlled while tracking the sun in two axis (on azimuth and solar altitude angles) and the necessary
measurements were performed. It was observed that the sun tracking system with electronic control always track the
sun but the sun tracking system with photo sensors has some unstable states under overcast and partly cloudy
weather conditions when the photo sensors do not see the sun.
Annual PV electricity yield is calculated to be about 11,94MWh with 0.772 performance ratio (PR) and
1512kWh/kWp energy rating for 28°C fixed tilt angle for each system. It is calculated that 33.8% more PV electricity
will be obtained in the double-axis sun-tracking system when compared to the fixed system. The annual PV
electricity fed to grid will be about 15.98MWh with 0.787 PR and 2023 kWh/kWp for each system.
PLASMA MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED GLYCOHYDROLASES: KINETICS PARAMETER CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION
Creators: name: LANTERI, PATRIZIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: Plasma membrane (PM) sphingolipid pattern and content are the result of a complex network of metabolic pathways, including those potentially involving the activity of PM sphingolipid hydrolases and sphingolipid synthases (1, 2). In human fibroblasts it has been observed a crosstalk between the expression and the activity of membrane associated glycohydrolases (3), furthermore, qualitative and quantitative changes in glycosphingolipids, together with changes in the expression of the corresponding glycosyltransferases, have been reported along neuronal differentiation and aging (2, 4-8). Using human fibroblasts we set up an HTA (high throughput assay) method able to measure the activity of beta-galactosidase, CBE sensitive beta-glucosidase, GBA2 beta-glucosidase, SMase and beta-hexosaminidases, enzymes working directly at the plasma membrane level using MUB derivates as substrate. Afterwards we applied this assays in order to study these PM associated activities in rat cerebellar granule cells along differentiation and aging in culture. We started to characterize the kinetic parameters of these enzymes working directly on the external leaflet of the PM in living cells: first of all, we performed an assay using cell cultured medium at different pH. Our data showed higher activity of CBE sensitive ?-glucosidase at pH 6.2, GBA2 beta-glucosidase at pH 5.7, beta-hexosaminidase at pH 5.10 while beta-galactosidase, SMase and beta-hexosaminidase A at pH 5.45. We could distinguish between CBE sensitive beta-glucosidase and GBA2 beta-glucosidase using specific inhibitors that are CBE and AMP-DNM respectively, therefore we determined Km and Vmax of CBE sensitive beta-glucosidase and GBA2. Thought the pH conditions are not those typically associated with the PM, at least 7 different families of transporters/exchangers are present at this level and are capable of varying the pH locally. In order to verify whether the varying of the membrane potential acting on these pumps can influence also the activity of these enzymes, we carried out preliminary experiments using EIPA, an inhibitor of NHEs (Na+/H+) exchangers. What we achieve is that exists a correlation between the action of the pump and the enzymes. So, all our data confirm the presence of this PM associated activities. This could play an important role in the cell social life and in particular our data show an involvement of sphingolipid hydrolases during the neuronal differentiation.
Tropidorhynchus corniculatus subsp. watsoni Mathews
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Tropidorhynchus

description: Tropidorhynchus corniculatus watsoni Mathews Tropidorhynchus corniculatus watsoni Mathews, 1925a: 110, pl. 556 (Watson River, North Queensland). Now Philemon corniculatus corniculatus (Latham, 1790). See Salomonsen, 1967: 412, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 292–293, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 682–683. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696893, female, collected on the Watson River, 13.20S, 141.47E (USBGN, 1957), Cape York, Queensland, Australia, on 22 June 1914. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews (1925a: pl. 556, lower fig., opp. p. 109, text p. 110) named this subspecies in the paragraph describing the figured female of T. corniculatus. The holotype bears four labels: the original label, a Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ label, a Rothschild Collection label printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ and an AMNH type label filled in by Charles Vaurie (probably when Salomonsen was working on the Meliphagidae at AMNH). Mathews had two specimens, a male and a female, both collected on 22 June 1914. The male, AMNH 696892 is the paratype. Although the collector did not sign his labels, it was surely William McLennan, who at this time was collecting on the Watson River for William MacGillivray (1917 –1918: 77–78) and whose handwriting matches that on the labels of these two specimens, the legs of which are tied together above the tibiotarsal joint in McLennan’s characteristic manner.
description: Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on page 129
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Segregation and Incorporation of p-Type, n-Type and Isoelectronic Dopants during Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth
Creators: name: Seidl, A.
name: Birkmann, B.
name: Mosel, F.
name: Müller, M.
name: Westram, I.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2009
Subjects: Wafer-based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Silicon Feedstock, Crystallisation and Wafering

description: 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 21-25 September 2009, Hamburg, Germany; 1203-1206
description: EFG silicon tubes were grown with various group III (boron, aluminum, gallium, indium) and group V (phosphorus)
dopants. Additionally, co-doping of iso-electronic germanium with boron was investigated. In most experiments, the
concentration was increased stepwise in order to create transition regions along the grown tubes, for comparison with
segregation models. It was shown that with most of the dopant elements mentioned homogeneous concentration profiles
can be achieved. The step response experiments reveal that a significant redistribution of segregated dopants from the
phase boundary back into the melt must occur in EFG systems. 3D time dependent computations showed that unstable
vortices in the melt result in local pressure gradients, which lead to a pulsating melt flow in the channel system
connecting melt and shaper region, enabling an effective redistribution of segregated dopants.
PEACH FRUIT RESISTANCE TO BROWN ROT (MONILINIA SPP.): A GENOMICS APPROACH.
Creators: name: PACHECO CRUZ, IGOR ALEJANDRO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: Brown Rot disease (BR) caused by the necrotrophic fungus Monilinia spp. is a major problem for the peach fruit market, causing significant losses at post-harvest level. Previous work demonstrated the possibility of discriminating between susceptible and tolerant peach genotypes, suggesting a quantitative nature of the BR resistance. In order to uncover genomic regions associated with this trait and identify molecular markers for marker assisted selection (MAS), an F1 segregating population from the intra-specific Contender (tolerant cultivar) x Elegant Lady (susceptible cultivar) peach cross has been chosen for QTL analysis. Phenotypic analysis was performed over two harvest seasons, using an artificial infection procedure that measured skin and flesh resistance to a M. fructigena field isolate. Significant correlations were found between the data obtained in the two years and between the two traits. Maturity date (MD) was also highly correlated with resistance traits. Genotyping 110 CxEL individuals allowed the construction of a linkage map (CxEL map), containing 78 SSR, covering a total genetic distance of 317.7 cM, and having an average marker density of 4.7 cM/marker. Both parametric (interval mapping) and non-parametric (Kruskal-Wallis analysis) QTL analysis using genotypic and phenotypic data from CxEL revealed two QTL clusters: a QTL underlying skin resistance located on LG CxEL-2 (explaining a 15% - 22% of the total phenotypic variability), and a QTL associated with flesh resistance (explaining a 30% - 35.2% of the total phenotypic variability), collocating with a major MD QTL on LG CxEL-4. These results suggest that resistance to BR has at least two main components: the first related to avoidance of fungal penetration, and a second earliness-associated factor associated with fungal spread after penetration. Furthermore, markers M1a (CxEL-2) and UDAp-439 (CxEL-4) may provide useful tools for MAS for BR-resistance breeding programmes.
Kondo screening of Andreev bound states in an N-QD-S system
Creators: name: Li, Lin
name: Cao, Zhan
name: Fang, Tie-Feng
name: Luo, Hong-Gang
name: Chen, Wei-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by experimental observation of the Kondo-enhanced Andreev transport [R. S. Deacon \textit{et al.}, PRB \textbf{81}, 121308(R) (2010)] in a hybrid normal metal-quantum dot-superconductor (N-QD-S) device, we theoretically study the Kondo effect in such a device and clarify the different roles played by the normal and superconducting leads. Due to the Andreev reflection in a QD-S system, a pair of Andreev energy levels form in the superconducting gap, which is able to carry the magnetic moment if the ground state of the QD is a magnetic doublet. In this sense, the Andreev energy levels play a role of effective impurity levels. When the normal lead is coupled to the QD-S system, on the one hand, the Andreev energy levels broaden to form the so-called Andreev bound states (ABSs), on the other hand, it can screen the magnetic moment of the ABSs. By tuning the couplings between the QD and the normal (superconducting) leads, the ABSs can simulate the Kondo, mixed-valence, and even empty orbit regimes of the usual single-impurity Anderson model. The above picture is confirmed by the Green's function calculation of the hybrid N-QD-S Anderson model and is also able to explain qualitatively experimental phenomena observed by Deacon \textit{et al.}. These results can further stimulate related experimental study in the N-QD-S systems.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Keynote speech - Co-creating enablers for practicing Open Science - the EC perspective
Creators: name: Arentoft, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science policy

description: A key role of research policymakers and funders is to co-develop with the research community the ‘enablers’ for practicing open science. A fundamental enabler is a set of research assessment systems that reward what we value in science, i.e. a range of practices (open access to latest findings, data sharing etc.) and outputs (datasets, code, publications etc.) that lead to excellence and impact. Another framework to have in place is of regulatory nature, so that our researchers are clear about who can share what research output, for which purpose, and under which conditions. Of crucial importance is the building of capacities in terms of infrastructure, skills, and resources, e.g. for data sharing and for open access scholarly publishing. Cutting across these are issues such as use of AI, equity, international cooperation, and monitoring progress in implementation.
COESO Community Chat: Getting money and momentum for social sciences and humanities in citizen science
Creators: name: Achenbach, Kelly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Citizen Science
Funding
Social sciences and humanities

description: On January 17, 2023, the COESO project collaborated wtih ECSA to create a webinar to present the Funding Advocacy Action plan to the citizen science community. At the webinar, a panel of COESO affiliated speakers presented about concrete actions that seekers of funding can take to increase funding opportunities for citizen science projects in the social sciences and humanities. The slides presented here were used for the presentation on COESO and the Funding Advocacy Action Plan. More info about the webinar can be found on the COESO website and on the ECSA website.
Non-Uniform Conditions and Performance in Parallel-Only and Series/Parallel Array Configurations
Creators: name: Driesse, A.
name: Harris, B.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Components for PV Systems
PV System Engineering and Standards, Socio-economic Aspects, and Sustainability

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 4748-4755
description: As the solar industry matures, custom designed projects are giving way to standardized installation
practices that expose PV arrays to a variety of non-ideal conditions. In the search for solutions, lower module prices
are shifting the attention to system integration components and techniques. While the susceptibility of conventional
system design to performance degradation due to module mismatch is a known limitation, the magnitude of this
problem and the ability of new system integration solutions to overcome it are not yet well understood.
This paper presents the results of a side-by-side comparison of the performance of two identical PV arrays under nonideal
conditions that differ only in the details of their interconnection: one in the conventional series-parallel configuration,
and the other in a parallel-only configuration. It was found that module technologies with low fill factors such
as a-Si make arrays that are very tolerant to small mismatches, and that large differences in module output caused by
partial shading are accommodated with virtually no mismatch loss by the parallel-only array.
Lifetime Studies on Crystalline Silicon Thin-Films by Photoluminescence Measurements
Creators: name: Rosenits, P.
name: Roth, T.
name: Reber, S.
name: Warta, W.
name: Glunz, S.W.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Thin Films
Thin Film Crystalline Silicon

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 2224-2227
description: A novel measurement and analysis method of determining individual excess carrier lifetimes in multilayer
systems is presented. This is particularly interesting for the characterisation of crystalline silicon thin-film
samples consisting of an electrically active epitaxial layer on top of a crystalline substrate. The analysis principle is
based on a comparison between a measured photoluminescence intensity ratio and associated simulated radiative
recombination ratios. It benefits from the fact that for low excess carrier lifetimes within the epitaxial layer the
carrier concentration in the said layer is limited by bulk recombination, while for high carrier lifetimes surface
recombination is dominating. Depending on which excess carrier lifetime is realised, the excess carrier level in the
epitaxial layer is either strongly dependent or nearly independent from the epitaxial layer thickness. In order to verify
this measurement and analysis principle, results of a set of crystalline thin-film samples with varying epitaxial layer
thickness on a highly doped Czochralski substrate are presented.
Accelerated Fitting of Stellar Spectra
Creators: name: Ting, Yuan-Sen
name: Conroy, Charlie
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar spectra are often modeled and fit by interpolating within a rectilinear grid of synthetic spectra to derive the stars' labels: stellar parameters and elemental abundances. However, the number of synthetic spectra needed for a rectilinear grid grows exponentially with the label space dimensions, precluding the simultaneous and self-consistent fitting of more than a few elemental abundances. Shortcuts such as fitting subsets of labels separately can introduce unknown systematics and do not produce correct error covariances in the derived labels. In this paper we present a new approach -- CHAT (Convex Hull Adaptive Tessellation) -- which includes several new ideas for inexpensively generating a sufficient stellar synthetic library, using linear algebra and the concept of an adaptive, data-driven grid. A convex hull approximates the region where the data lie in the label space. A variety of tests with mock datasets demonstrate that CHAT can reduce the number of required synthetic model calculations by three orders of magnitude in an 8D label space. The reduction will be even larger for higher-dimensional label spaces. In CHAT the computational effort increases only linearly with the number of labels that are fit simultaneously. Around each of these grid points in label space an approximate synthetic spectrum can be generated through linear expansion using a set of "gradient spectra" that represent flux derivatives at every wavelength point with respect to all labels. These techniques provide new opportunities to fit the full stellar spectra from large surveys with 15-30 labels simultaneously.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, ApJ (Accepted for publication- 2016 May 16)