cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessment Of Factors Influencing Good Pharmaceuticals Procurement Practice Employees" Perception, The Case Of Pharmaceuticals Fund And Supply Agency Of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Berhie, Solomon
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Procurement process has been a serious issue in the country. If not well management it will be very costly to the Government as well as to the public. Procurement is the function that costs an organization a great deal of money and this has to be performed correctly in order to maximize effectiveness and minimize costs. This study will assess employees" perception to factors influencing good pharmaceuticals procurement practices of PFSA. The study focused on: duration that it takes, ethical practices, training of employees, record management and ICT use that might influence good procurement practice. The study was conducted through a descriptive design of research. The stud employed a census technique to select the respondents. 70 internal staff and 30 customers" were used who have direct contact with procurement activities. . The data was collected self administered questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS (version 20) and was presented by use of tables, graphs and percentages. The major findings of the study indicate that duration that it takes, ethical practices, training of employees, and record management and ICT use influence good procurement practice. Based on the findings the researcher recommended that the Agency management should give a proper attention to the above factors to improve the good procurement practices.
System Design and Economic Configuration of Building Integrated Photovoltaic
Creators: name: Ni, Z.
name: Jiang, J.
name: Cai, X.
name: Hu, L.
name: Shi, G.
name: Cao, H.
name: Lu, W.
name: Wu, Z.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1891-1895
description: With the development of photovoltaic power generation, the reasonable and high effect utilization of solar rational are faced with some problems. Building integration photovoltaic (BIPV) requires not only the function of external enclosure, but also independent power for construction purposes. BIPV using renewable solar energy is a green building technology; it is a new concept of producing energy. How to scientifically configure the installation capacity of BIPV system is an urgent problem to be solved. Based on the PVsyst software, this paper makes a preliminary design for the BIPV system.In the preliminary design stage, according to the geographical locationavailable area of the building and the characteristics of load operation, the optimal matching of photovoltaic modules of the integrated photovoltaic building was analyzed to determine the configuration and installation scheme of photovoltaic modules. Thenbased on PVsyst software's photovoltaic module configuration data, using HOMER software, based on the total installation and operating costs of each component's life cycle, simulate the size and configuration of different renewable energy systems, and optimize the economics of the BIPV system. Configure the design and verify the PVsyst software design.Finally, refer to the PVsyst and HOMER software design schemes, determine the system construction scheme, and verify based on actual measurements.
Metabolomic analysis and bioactivities of Arbutus unedo leaves harvested across the seasons in different natural habitats of Sardinia (Italy)
Creators: name: Cinzia, Sanna
name: Chiocchio Ilaria
name: Mandrone Manuela
name: Bonvicini Francesca
name: Gentilomi Giovanna
name: Poli Feruccio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: 1H NMR metabolomics; Arbutus unedo leaves; arbutin

description: In the zip folder are contained all the Fid from 1H NMR spectra of Arbutus unedo leaves harvested in different seasons and in 10 different habitats of Sardinia. The excel file contains all the information on the samples and 1H NMR bucketed signals for metabolomics.
Field theory of survival probabilities, extreme values, first-passage times, and mean span of non-Markovian stochastic processes
Creators: name: Walter, Benjamin
name: Pruessner, Gunnar
name: Salbreux, Guillaume
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: Structural Biology & Biophysics
Computational & Systems Biology

description: We provide a perturbative framework to calculate extreme events of non-Markovian processes, by mapping the stochastic process to a two-species reaction-diffusion process in a Doi-Peliti field theory combined with the Martin-Siggia-Rose formalism. This field theory treats interactions and the effect of external, possibly self-correlated, noise in a perturbation about a Markovian process, thereby providing a systematic, diagrammatic approach to extreme events. We apply the formalism to Brownian motion and calculate its survival probability distribution subject to self-correlated noise.
Solar Charging Electric Vehicles: Analysing the Charging Efficacy of an Off-Grid, Solar Powered Electric Vehicle Charging System in Long Stay Parking Applications
Creators: name: Heath, E.
name: Ghotge, R.
name: Van Wijk, A.J.M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV Driven Energy Management and System Integration

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1874-1879
description: This study analyses the efficacy of an off-grid solar array at charging a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) at a long stay parking lot in Lelystad Airport, the Netherlands. Initially, flight data is used to build up a charging demand profile for vehicles at the parking lot. The energy production and distribution among the plugged-in vehicles are modelled. The off-grid charging of vehicles over a year is simulated and the states of charge of these vehicles at exit are analysed. The results show that most EVs (85%) depart with an SOC higher than 75% while only a small fraction (0.37%) leave with critically low SOCs less than 25%. Winter months show decreased charging efficacy; just over half of the vehicles left with SOCs higher than 75% and the fraction leaving with SOCs lower than 25% rises to 2%. The charging efficacy at the given location is found to be most sensitive to the SOCs of vehicles on arrival, the duration spent by the vehicles in the parking lot and the occupancy levels in the parking lot. Charging efficacy is found to be less sensitive to variations in module tilt and module efficiency. Recommendations are made for design choices on implementation of the proposed system.
Eclipsing time variations in close binary systems: Planetary hypothesis vs. Applegate mechanism
Creators: name: Völschow, M.
name: Schleicher, D. R. G.
name: Perdelwitz, V.
name: Banerjee, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed eclipsing time variations in post-common-envelope binaries (PCEBs) can be interpreted as potential evidence for massive Jupiter-like planets, or as a result of magnetic activity, leading to quasi-periodic changes in the quadrupole moment of the secondary star. The latter is commonly referred to as the Applegate mechanism. Following Brinkworth et al. (2006), we employ here an improved version of Applegate's model including the angular momentum exchange between a finite shell and the core of the star. The framework is employed to derive the general conditions under which the Applegate mechanism can work, and is subsequently applied to a sample of 16 close binary systems with potential planets, including 11 PCEBs. Further, we present a detailed derivation and study of analytical models which allow for an straightforward extension to other systems. Using our full numerical framework, we show that the Applegate mechanism can clearly explain the observed eclipsing time variations in 4 of the systems, while the required energy to produce the quadrupole moment variations is too high in at least 8 systems. In the remaining 4 systems, the required energy is comparable to the available energy produced by the star, which we consider as borderline cases. Therefore, the Applegate mechanism cannot uniquely explain the observed period time variations for this entire population. Even in systems where the required energy is too high, the Applegate mechanism may provide an additional scatter, which needs to be considered in the derivation and analysis of planetary models.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Solar-Façade (OPV) as Corporate Design - Students Design Concepts for the ZAE Building in Erlangen
Creators: name: Krippner, R.
name: Flade, F.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1880-1883
description: In the field of building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), thin-film PV modules or films with organic solar cells (OPV) in particular also represent new solutions, especially when it comes to requirements for flexible module sizes and geometries. These potentials have not yet been exploited enough for further developments. In the context of a course with master students of the Faculty of Architecture of the Nuremburg Tech in the summer semester 2018, a solar façade was planned for this innovative technology at the former ZAE office and research building in Erlangen as a beacon project and research object, which provides sun and glare protection for the interior and functions as a visible sign of advanced energy research. This eye-catcher is intended to demonstrate how a fully functional yet aesthetically pleasing construction can be realised. The projects show interesting solutions from the viewpoint of architects and give an indication of the technical requirements for pv modules as construction material. They demonstrate the realization of consistently functional and aesthetically appealing constructions for a striking sign of advanced energy research.
All Known Hot RCB Stars Are Fading Fast Over the Last Century
Creators: name: Schaefer, Bradley E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars are cool supergiants that display irregular and deep dips in their light curves, caused by dust formation. There are four known hot RCB stars (DY Cen, MV Sgr, V348 Sgr, and HV 2671), with surface temperatures of 15,000--25,000 K, and prior work has suggested that three of these have secular fading in brightness. I have tested this result by measuring century-long light curves in the Johnson B-band with modern comparison star magnitudes, and I have extended this by measuring many magnitudes over a wide time range as well as for the fourth hot RCB star. In all four cases, the B-band magnitude of the maximum light is now fast fading. The fading rates (in units of magnitudes per century) are 2.5 for DY Cen after 1960, 1.3 for MV Sgr, 1.3 for V348 Sgr, and 0.7 for HV 2671. This secular fading is caused by the expected evolution of the star across the top of the HR diagram at constant luminosity, as the temperature rises and the bolometric correction changes. For DY Cen, the brightness at maximum light is rising from 1906 to 1932, and this is caused by the temperature increase from near 5,800 to 7,500 K. Before 1934 DY Cen had frequent dust dips, while after 1934 there are zero dust dips, so there is some apparent connection between the rising temperature and the formation of the dust. Thus, we have watched DY Cen evolve from an ordinary RCB star up to a hot RCB star and now appearing as an extreme helium star, all in under one century.
description: Just published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 11 pages, 3 figures
“Doing value” – Modelling of useful life based on social practices
Creators: name: Hipp, Tamina N.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
subject: 600 Technik, Technologie
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: lifetimes of devices
subject: replacement
subject: grounded theory
subject: theories of practice
subject: sociology of valuation

description: The extension of product lifetimes is discussed as an important aspect of sustainable consumption. So far, models explaining lifetimes of devices are predominantly user-oriented and are based on a methodological individualism. Systemic interrelationships are underestimated due to an overemphasis on individual room for manoeuvre. This paper presents a model to explain the useful life of devices, which – with recourse to practice theory – is taking technological change, the context of use and the setting of actions into account. The model is based on qualitative interviews that were analysed using grounded theory. At the core of the model are valuation processes that are located in the interactions with the devices and carried out against the background of context of use. Based on sociology of evaluation, it is explained how the value of a devices is produced, reproduced, increased or decreased until they are replaced. Using mobile phones as an example, two types of forms of practice are presented and it is it derived how longevity might be promoted.
Die Kirchengeschichte in den östlichen Kirchen als Ausdruck lebendigen Kirchenbewußtseins
Creators: name: Anastasiu, Iōannēs E.
Publisher: name: Concilium
Year: 1970

description: Concilium, Bd. 7 Nr. 8/9 (1971): Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie, Band 7, Heft 8/9
Coping with COVID stress: Adaptive and maladaptive response styles predicting college student internalizing symptoms
Creators: name: Snyder, Hannah
name: Fassett-Carman, Alyssa
name: Wicks, Jennifer
name: Taylor, Morgan
name: Kaiser, Roselinde
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: **This pregistration was updated due to study changes, please see https://osf.io/4f7u2 for the updated version.**
Natural Connections with Totally Skew-Symmetric Torsion on Manifolds with Almost Contact 3-Structure and Metrics of Hermitian-Norden Type
Creators: name: Manev, Mancho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 53C05, 53C15, Secondary 53C50, 53C26

description: It is considered a differentiable manifold equipped with a pseudo-Riemannian metric and an almost contact 3-struc\-ture so that an almost contact metric structure and two almost contact B-metric structures are generated. There are introduced the so-called associated Nijenhuis tensors for the studied structures. It is given a geometric interpretation of the vanishing of these tensors as a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of linear connections with totally skew-symmetric torsions preserving the structure. An example of a 7-dimensional manifold with connections of the considered type is given.
description: 12 pages
The light-front vacuum
Creators: name: Polyzou, Wayne
name: Herrmann, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the relation between the trivial light-front vacuum and the non-trivial Heisenberg vacuum.
description: 8 pages; proceedings for light cone 2015
Die Kirchengeschichtsschreibung in den Ostkirchen der arabischen Welt als Ausdruck des lebendigen Selbstbewußtseins der Kirche
Creators: name: Hajjar, Joseph N.
Publisher: name: Concilium
Year: 1970

description: Concilium, Bd. 7 Nr. 8/9 (1971): Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie, Band 7, Heft 8/9
Numerical study of incommensurate and decoupled phases of spin-1/2 chains with isotropic exchange J1, J2 between first and second neighbors
Creators: name: Soos, Zoltán G.
name: Parvej, Aslam
name: Kumar, Manoranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin-1/2 chain with isotropic exchange J1, J2 > 0 between first and second neighbors is frustrated for either sign of J1 and has a singlet ground state (GS) for J1/J2 $\ge - 4$. Its rich quantum phase diagram supports gapless, gapped, commensurate (C), incommensurate (IC) and other phases. Critical points J1/J2 are evaluated using exact diagonalization (ED) and density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculations. The wave vector $q_G$ of spin correlations is related to GS degeneracy and obtained as the peak of the spin structure factor $S(q)$. Variable $q_G$ indicates IC phases in two $J1/J2$ intervals, [ -4, -1.24] and [0.44, 2], and a C-IC point at J1/J2 = 2. The decoupled C phase in [-1.24, 0.44] has constant $q_G = π/2$, nondegenerate GS, and a lowest triplet state with broken spin density on sublattices of odd and even numbered sites. The lowest triplet and singlet excitations, $E_m$ and $E_σ$, are degenerate in finite systems at specific frustration $J1/J2$. Level crossing extrapolates in the thermodynamic limit to the same critical points as $q_G$. The $S(q)$ peak diverges at $q_G = π$ in the gapless phase with $J1/J2 > 4.148$ and quasi-long-range order (QLRO({$π$})). $S(q)$ diverges at $\pm π/2$ in the decoupled phase with QLRO({$π$}/2), but is finite in gapped phases with finite range correlations. Numerical results and field theory agree at small $J2/J1$ but disagree for the decoupled phase with weak exchange $J1$ between sublattices. Two related models are summarized: one has an exact gapless decoupled phase with QLRO({$π$}/2) and no IC phases; the other has a single IC phase without a decoupled phase in between.
description: 34 pages and 8 figures, To be published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Computational data supporting: "Subtle Stereochemical Effects Influence Binding and Purification Abilities of an FeII4L4 Cage"
Creators: name: Pesce, Luca
name: Pavan, Giovanni M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This repository contains the set of data shown in the paper "Subtle Stereochemical Effects Influence Binding and Purification Abilities of an FeII4L4 Cage", soon to be submitted.
Die historischen Formen kirchlichen Selbstverständnisses in marxistischer Sicht
Creators: name: Saucerotte, Antoine
Publisher: name: Concilium
Year: 1970

description: Concilium, Bd. 7 Nr. 8/9 (1971): Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie, Band 7, Heft 8/9
A forgotten essay by Fritz Rougemont on Warburg and the use of “bibliophily” as a scientific tool (1930)
Creators: name: Centanni, Monica; Calandra Di Roccolino, Giacomo; Rougemont, Fritz
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2024
Subjects: Warburg
Bibliophily
Hamburg KBW

description: The name of Fritz Rougemont (1904-1941) is known to Warburg scholars because he appears as a co-editor, together with Gertrud Bing, of the edition of Aby Warburg’s Gesamellte Schriften, published in Leipzig by the publisher Teubner in 1932. Since 1927 Rougemont had actively collaborated with the Kulturwissenschaft Bibliothek Warburg, but later his biographical events, and in particular his adhesion to Nazism, caused a definitive damnatio memoriae of his figure, also erasing the traces of his scholarly activity almost completely. 

We present here an important contribution of his published in 1930 in the first volume of “Imprimatur”, the Annuary of the “Gesellschaft der Bücherfreunde zu Hamburg”. The essay, hitherto neglected in the extensive literature of Warburgian studies, is presented in a new edition of the original German version of 1930, and in the first English and Italian translations. Rougemont’s contribution represents a primary testimony of the specifically scientific meaning of Warburg’s “bibliophily”, which originally illuminates his unprecedented method of study, the analysis of the mechanisms of the Classical tradition, and the innovative trajectory of his research with respect to his contemporary, and dominant, disciplinary dictates.
Ad physiologum
Creators: name: Epiphanius, Saint, Bishop Of Constantia In Cyprus, Approximately 310-403
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Sermons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423904
subject: Physiologus
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1357795
subject: Bestiaries
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/830884
subject: Sermons, Greek--Manuscripts
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1113271
subject: Sermons, Greek
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1113269
subject: Bible
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1356024
subject: Palm Sunday
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1051739
subject: Early works
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411636

description: Contains 25 chapters of the Physiologus, a study on animals and their behavior, (Greek text and Latin translation), and a homily of the feast of Psalm Sunday (Greek with Latin translation). The "Ad physiologum" consists of Greek original and Latin translation interspersed with Ponce de Leon's Latin commentary. "Beati Epiphanii Episcopi Cypri In die festo palmarum" consists of Greek original and Latin translation on opposite pages. Coll.-vert. C. Ponce de Leon; coll. (P. Angelius Bargaeus; F. Sagerius; Symeon Metaphrastes Logotheta, s.). The ascription to Epiphanius has been put in doubt by the fact that several other Greek and Latin churchmen have been mentioned as the author, none of whom has been authenticated. Cf. K. Krumbacher. Geschichte d. byzantinischen Litt. (2d ed.) p. 877.
Physical and chemical properties of Red MSX Sources in the southern sky: HII regions
Creators: name: Yu, Naiping
name: Wang, Jun-Jie
name: Li, Nan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the physical and chemical properties of 18 southern Red Midcourse Space Experiment Sources (RMSs), using archival data taken from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy, the Australia Telescope Compact Array, and the Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team Survey at 90 GHz. Most of our sources have simple cometary/unresolved radio emissions at 4.8 and/or 8.6GHz. The large number of Lyman continuum fluxes (NL) indicates they are probably massive O- or early B-type star formation regions. Archival IRAS infrared data are used to estimate the dust temperature, which is about 30 K of our sources. Then, the H2 column densities and the volume-averaged H2 number densities are estimated using the 0.87 mm dust emissions. Large-scale infall and ionized accretions may be occurring in G345.4881+00.3148. We also attempt to characterize the chemical properties of these RMSs through molecular line (N2H+ (1-0) and HCO+ (1-0)) observations. Most of the detected N2H+ and HCO+ emissions match well with the dust emission, implying a close link to their chemical evolution in the RMSs. We found that the abundance of N2H+ is one order of magnitude lower than that in other surveys of infrared dark clouds, and a positive correlation between the abundances of N2H+ and HCO+. The fractional abundance of N2H+ with respect to H2 seems to decrease as a function of NL. These observed trends could be interpreted as an indication of enhanced destruction of N2H+, either by CO or through dissociative recombination with electrons produced by central UV photons.
Residential PV Self-Consumption: Real Savings in a Spanish Household
Creators: name: Rodríguez San Segundo, H.-J.
name: López, N.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV Driven Energy Management and System Integration

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1865-1868
description: The purpose of this work is to evaluate the real impact of a solar PV installation in self-consumption scheme on the household economics of a Spanish home located in the South Western region with over 1,600 average equivalent sun-hours per year. To that purpose, a 1.5 kWp PV system has been monitored from its installation date in June, 2018. The impact of PV production on consumption, compared to the time before PV, has been assessed, both in terms of energy (kWh) and savings in the monthly electricity bill (€). The work has also taken into account the kWh retail price variations. Year-on-year energy (kWh) savings have reached an average of 45%. Economic (€) savings are in the range of 28%, despite two limiting facts: a.) retail prices increased an average of 6% in the period of study and b.) the Spanish electricity bill includes items unrelated to consumption, which can add up to 50% of the bill. Another aspect of the work has been the simulation of the savings along the life of the PV system. It establishes that the simple payback time (STP) ranges from 14 years in net-metering scheme and upfront payment of the system, to 24 years in self-consumption scheme and 10-year financing.
The spatial association between drugs and urban violence: an analysis for the Metropolitan Region of Recife, Brazil
Creators: name: da Mota Silveira Neto, Raul
name: da Silva, Diego Firmino Costa
name: Cavalcanti, Filipe Matheus
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: The objective of this article is to provide evidence about the association between illegal drugs and urban crimes in Brazil at the neighbourhood level, specifically considering the case of the Recife Metropolitan Region. We apply spatial econometric models to estimate a reliable relationship between drug trafficking and possession and homicide and violent property crimes. The main results indicate strong and robust associations between drug trafficking and both kinds of crimes, but not between drug possession and violent crimes. The set of evidence is obtained even after controlling for the influence of a large set of crime determinants, including not only traditional local socioeconomic conditions affecting violence, but also the presence of slums, employment access, and the presence of bars and restaurants in neighbourhoods.
Connectivity Scaling Laws in Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Coon, Justin P.
name: Georgiou, Orestis
name: Dettmann, Carl P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present scaling laws that dictate both local and global connectivity properties of bounded wireless networks. These laws are defined with respect to the key system parameters of per-node transmit power and the number of antennas exploited for diversity coding and/or beamforming at each node. We demonstrate that the local probability of connectivity scales like $\mathcal{O}(z^\mathcal C)$ in these parameters, where $\mathcal C$ is the ratio of the dimension of the network domain to the path loss exponent, thus enabling efficient boundary effect mitigation and network topology control.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Experimental Analysis of a Photovoltaic DHW Heat Pump
Creators: name: Aguilar Valero, F.J.
name: Quiles, P.V.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV Driven Energy Management and System Integration

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1869-1873
description: This article presents an experimental work focused on evaluating the possibilities of using a heat pump powered by PV panels to produce domestic hot water in a dwelling of 3 members family. The analyzed heat pump is a compact equipment with a nominal thermal capacity of 625 W and a tank volume of 110 litres. This equipment is powered by both a PV panel of 255 W and the grid, although the system has been designed to prioritize the PV supply. During the designing procedure of the system, conclusions from previous similar works have been taken into consideration to optimize the performance of it, mainly: the power compressor, the power of the PV panel, the tank volume and the DHW demand. As a result, the average efficiency of the heat pump has been 3.5, although, if the PV energy contribution is considered, the system efficiency reaches the value of 11.9. Finally, the Solar Contribution of the system has been higher than 70%.
title: The Identity of Yoga: Contemporary Vs. Traditional Yogic Discourse
Creators: name: Nasr, Octavia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description:
Modern yoga is a multibillion-dollar economy that penetrated many fields, from fitness to healthcare. Yogas popularity shows its relevance and adaptability. However, scholars found that modern yoga is synonymous with postural yoga. In this thesis, I establish that yogas identity is rooted in the Eight Limbs of the iconic Yoga Sutras of Patanjali postures being one of the limbs constituting yogas identifiers. Then, I link the yogic postural shift to the truncation of yogas identifiers in teacher training curricula. I argue that modern yoga schools focus more on postures and downplay the other limbs, especially the first two  ethical restraints and moral observances  cornerstones of all limbs per the Indian luminaries who brought yoga to the US. My cluster analysis of Yoga Alliances curriculum shows significant obliteration of the limbs in comparison to traditional teachings leading me to offer a prescriptive counter curriculum and practical recommendations to preserve yogas identity.
Die "Dritte Welt" und das Selbstverständnis der Kirche des 20. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Schumacher, John N.
Publisher: name: Concilium
Year: 1970

description: Concilium, Bd. 7 Nr. 8/9 (1971): Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie, Band 7, Heft 8/9
Assessment On The Challenges Of Supply Chain Management Performance Of Cement Factories In Ethiopia
Creators: name: Wegayehu, Manaye
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Supply chain management would strive to scan the environment, plan along with forward and backward stakeholders, design proper strategies to lower costs, shorten delivery time, low inventory level and improve reliability, where all intended to improve the SCM performance of supply chain team members. The purpose of this study is to assess the challenges of supply chain management performance of cement factories in Ethiopia. Primary data (questionnaires) were used for this study. Purposive sampling technique was used to distribute and collect the questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, Correlation and multiple regression analysis were implemented for presentation and interpretation of the findings. The total of 57 cement factor's professionals participated in this study. Four dimensions of supply chain management performance (suppliers' partnership, customer relationship, environmental issues and information communication technology were identified. The results of the study showed that supply chain management challenges have significant relationship with the SCM performance of cement factories and the current SCM performance of cement factories in Ethiopia is poor. The organizations should give emphasis to supply chain management challenges to maintain and improve the performance of supply chain management in cement factories.
title: Об известных врачах, прославивших пензенскую землю и не только…
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2022

description: Учебное пособие состоит из пятнадцати разделов. Каждый раздел включает в себя грамматический, страноведческий и текстовой материалы, задания для контроля и повторения, а также разнообразную систему лексико-грамматических и коммуникативных упражнений. Материал учебного пособия адресуется иностранным студентам-медикам, владеющим русским языком на базовом (коммуникативно необходимом и коммуникативно достаточном) уровне (А2–В1), принятом в российской и международной классификациях.
Spontaneity and organization; On hierarchy and domination -- two essays
Creators: name: Bookchin, Murray, 1921-2006
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Socialism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1123637
subject: Ecology
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/901476
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Communism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870421
subject: Revolutions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1096737
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Dissenters
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/895401
subject: Social ecology
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122434
subject: Social movements
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122657

description: A pamphlet by Mutualist Books containing two essays by Murray Bookchin. "Spontaneity and Organization" first appeared in Anarchos #4, and "On Hierarchy and Domination" in Black Rose: A Journal. of Contemporary Anarchism #1;
Forecasting regional GDPs: a comparison with spatial dynamic panel data models
Creators: name: Billé, Anna Gloria
name: Tomelleri, Alessio
name: Ravazzolo, Francesco
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biotechnology
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: The monitoring of the regional (provincial) economic situation is of particular importance due to the high level of heterogeneity and interdependences among different territories. Although econometric models allow for spatial and serial correlation of various kinds, the limited availability of territorial data restricts the set of relevant predictors at a more disaggregated level, especially for gross domestic product (GDP). Combining data from different sources at NUTS-3 level, this paper evaluates the predictive performance of a spatial dynamic panel data model with individual fixed effects and some relevant exogenous regressors, by using data on total gross value added (GVA) for 103 Italian provinces over the period 2000–2016. A comparison with nested panel sub-specifications as well as pure temporal autoregressive specifications has also been included. The main finding is that the spatial dynamic specification increases forecast accuracy more than its competitors throughout the out-of-sample, recognising an important role played by both space and time. However, when temporal cointegration is detected, the random-walk specification is still to be preferred in some cases even in the presence of short panels.
Topological superconductivity and anti-Shiba states in disordered chains of magnetic adatoms
Creators: name: Westström, Alex
name: Pöyhönen, Kim
name: Ojanen, Teemu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Regular arrays of magnetic atoms on a superconductor provide a promising platform for topological superconductivity. In this work we study effects of disorder in these systems, focusing on vacancies realized by missing magnetic atoms. We develop approaches that allow treatment of ferromagnetic dense chains as well as long-range hopping ferromagnetic and helical Shiba chains at arbitrary subgap energies. Vacancies in magnetic chains play an analogous role to magnetic impurities in a clean $s$-wave superconductor. A single vacancy in a topological chain gives rise to a low-lying "anti-Shiba" state below the band edge of a regular magnetic chain. Proliferation of the anti-Shiba band formed by a finite density of hybridized vacancy states leads to deterioration of the topological phase, which exhibits unusual fragility in a particular parameter region in dilute chains. We also consider local fluctuation in the Shiba coupling and discuss how vacancy states could contribute to experimental verification of topological superconductivity.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
Power Electronics System Topologies Recommender for PV/Battery Project Applications
Creators: name: Bourachd, B.
name: Salhi, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV Driven Energy Management and System Integration

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1855-1858
description: The Selection of optimal power converter topology considering all the situations and criteria lead students to confusion. Due to the lack of familiarity on the power electronic modules, the students experience the complexity in choosing appropriate power electronic modules for PV/battery energy sources. The improper selection of power modules leads to deteriorating the efficiency of the system and detriment of the equipment’s too. This paper will explain the different kinds of converter topologies suitable for PV/battery sources; it will help the student in characterizing the converter easily and using a specified framework and integrated recommender process with the definition of decision model that is based on the available knowledge and the capitalized experiences resulting from experience feedback on previous projects.
Thermalization and confinement in strongly coupled gauge theories
Creators: name: Ishii, Takaaki
name: Kiritsis, Elias
name: Rosen, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum field theories of strongly interacting matter sometimes have a useful holographic description in terms of the variables of a gravitational theory in higher dimensions. This duality maps time dependent physics in the gauge theory to time dependent solutions of the Einstein equations in the gravity theory. In order to better understand the process by which "real world" theories such as QCD behave out of thermodynamic equilibrium, we study time dependent perturbations to states in a model of a confining, strongly coupled gauge theory via holography. Operationally, this involves solving a set of non-linear Einstein equations supplemented with specific time dependent boundary conditions. The resulting solutions allow one to comment on the timescale by which the perturbed states thermalize, as well as to quantify the properties of the final state as a function of the perturbation parameters. We comment on the influence of the dual gauge theory's confinement scale on these results, as well as the appearance of a previously anticipated universal scaling regime in the "abrupt quench" limit.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, based on presentations given at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, Vienna, Austria, 22-29 July, 2015, and the 4th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Kolymbari, Greece, 23-30 August, 2015
Der Beitrag des Liberalismus und des Sozialismus zu einem besseren Selbstverständnis der Kirche
Creators: name: Martina, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Concilium
Year: 1970

description: Concilium, Bd. 7 Nr. 8/9 (1971): Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie, Band 7, Heft 8/9
Skilled human capital accretion, skilled wages and the geography of growing early-stage businesses
Creators: name: Hernández, Leonidas
name: Modrego, Félix
name: Atienza, Miguel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: This article investigates the relationships among skilled human capital, skilled wages, and growing early-stage (GE) business activity at the level of functional regions in Chile, and assesses the role of external and local skilled human capital accretion. Based on theories of occupational-choice and heterogeneous entrepreneurship in economics, we estimate count-data econometric models of the regional number of growing early-stage businesses that account for the endogeneity of skilled wages. Skilled human capital accretion increases regional growing early-stage businesses activity, while skilled wages deter it. Changes in local skilled human capital explain regional differences in growing early-stage businesses activity, whereas the effect of changes in external skilled human capital is less clear.
title: The Political Economics of Green Transitions: Optimal Intertemporal Policy Response
Creators: name: Dögnitz, Lorenz
name: Konc, Théo
name: Mattauch, Linus
Publisher: name: Hertie School
Year: 2024

description: Besley and Persson (2023) pioneer a political economy model of a green transition with changing preferences. Here we solve for the optimal policy intervention and find that the optimal tax on the polluting good starts high and is subsequently declining, to support the transition in preferences. We quantify the welfare loss of ignoring preference changes.
description: Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers; 47
Dynamics of skyrmions and edge states in the resistive regime of mesoscopic \emph{p}-wave superconductors
Creators: name: Becerra, V. Fernández
name: Milošević, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a mesoscopic sample of a chiral $p\,$-wave superconductor, novel states comprising skyrmions and edge states have been stabilized in out-of-plane applied magnetic field. Using the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations we shed light on the dynamic response of such states to an external applied current. Three different regimes are obtained, namely, the superconducting (stationary), resistive (non-stationary) and normal regime, similarly to conventional $s$-wave superconductors. However, in the resistive regime and depending on the external current, we found that moving skyrmions and the edge state behave distinctly different from the conventional kinematic vortex, thereby providing new fingerprints for identification of $p\,$-wave superconductivity.
description: Submitted to the proceedings of the Vortex IX conference - Rhodes
Migration and academic performance in higher education: evidence for Colombia
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Manuel
name: Carabali, Jaime
name: Pérez, Alex
name: Meneses, Luis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: We study the relationship between academic performance of students in higher education and the decision to migrate. We focus on the case of Colombia due to the good availability of data on standardised tests for students in higher and secondary education. We exploit this information following an empirical strategy that allows us to identify the existence of negative effects associated with the decision to migrate, controlling for potential academic benefits of migration, such as belonging to better social networks in the receiving cities of migrants. These negative effects are associated with the psychological and financial costs that students face when migrating. Similarly, we follow a novel strategy by controlling for potential commuter students who are not identified in the sample, or who may be misclassified as migrants. These robustness exercises show that the result found previously is maintained, which is favourable to the hypothesis of the existence of negative effects associated with migration on academic performance. This result is relevant for the elaboration of educational policies in developing countries.
Increase of quantum volume entropy in presence of degenerate eigenenergies
Creators: name: Campisi, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entropy of a classical thermally isolated Hamiltonian system is given by the logarithm of the measure of phase space enclosed by the constant energy hyper-surface, also known as volume entropy. It has been shown that on average the latter cannot decrease if the initial state is sampled from a classical passive distribution. Quantum extension of this result has been shown, but only for systems with a non-degenerate energy spectrum. Here we further extend to the case of possible degeneracies.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
Ruth Stonehouse
Creators: Koerner, Michelle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Like many actresses working in the motion picture industry in the mid-1910s, Ruth Stonehouse’s chance to direct her own films came more as a result of the increased production schedule at Universal Pictures than as a result of studio mogul Carl Laemmle’s progressive attitudes toward women (Slide 1977, 41). Like other “Universal Women” such as Cleo Madison, Lule Warrenton, and Elsie Jane Wilson, Stonehouse was a hard-working actress before the chance to direct arose. Acting in hundreds of early comic films, writing six and directing ten of these, Stonehouse was involved in film production from a very early date. Asked about her ambitions in a 1919 Motion Picture Magazine interview, Stonehouse replied: “We-ll, of course I do want to be a star… for a while… but eventually I want to be a directress, a producer; I want to be in the business end of it, that is, at the same time, the artistic end of it” (104). Perhaps the sheer number of her acting roles helps to explain the survival of some of the films in which she had parts, as a matter of odds increased by volume as well as by her long tenure in the industry, from 1907 to 1928.
Leveraging Electric Load Data and Grid Features to Design High-PV Penetration in Rural and Urban Settings in Portugal
Creators: name: Luz, G.
name: Amaro E Silva, R.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV Applications and Integration
PV Driven Energy Management and System Integration

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1859-1864
description: Solar photovoltaics installed capacity is expected to grow in the next years as a result of decreasing costs and new regulation being approved at the European level. This pushes for more robust approaches in order to analyze the effects of photovoltaics on local distribution and optimal system designs to which energy modelling is a valuable computational research tool. In this work two datasets on Portuguese case studies (urban and rural) are explored using Calliope, an open-source multi-energy system modelling framework with the objective of designing high-photovoltaic penetration in self-consumption schemes. Results show similar self-consumption ratios in both locations but a tendency for increased are a use in urban case, although available area and grid capacity constraints are not limiting factors for the integration of photovoltaic systems. Calliope framework, when applied to these datasets, reveals a power and valuable tool for future assessments.