cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Indoor Optical Characterization of the Nonimaging “Rondine” PV Solar Concentrator
Creators: name: Parretta, A.
name: Martinelli, G.
name: Bonfiglioli, E.
name: Antonini, A.
name: Butturi, M.A.
name: Di Benedetto, P.
name: Uderzo, D.
name: Zurru, P.
name: Milan, E.
name: Roncati, D.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2009
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
Terrestrial Concentrator Systems

description: 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 21-25 September 2009, Hamburg, Germany; 747-752
description: The optical collection properties of the nonimaging “Rondine” solar concentrator have been
investigated by indoor measurements of the angle-resolved optical efficiency. In this paper we illustrate two different
methods to draw the optical efficiency curve. The first one, called “direct method”, is performed by producing a
collimated beam of solar divergence (~ 0.27°) and of known flux impinging on the input aperture of the concentrator
at different incidence angles, and by measuring the flux collected at the exit aperture. The second one is based on a
reverse illumination procedure, from which the name of “inverse method”, whereby a Lambertian diffused light
source is produced at the concentrator exit aperture and the radiance of the backward beam, exiting from the input
aperture, is measured at different directions in space. We obtain similar results with the two methods, though the
“inverse method” be largely to be preferred for the simplicity of the experimental apparatus and the extreme
quickness of execution.
title: ENSINO DE BOTÂNICA ATRAVÉS DO USO DAS REDES SOCIAIS -REALIZAÇÃO DE OFICINAS, ABORDAGEM NAS RUAS E CONQUISTAS DE SEGUIDORES
title: ENSINO DE BOTÂNICA ATRAVÉS DO USO DAS REDES SOCIAIS -REALIZAÇÃO DE OFICINAS, ABORDAGEM NAS RUAS E CONQUISTAS DE SEGUIDORES
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: OSAKI, THAMARA DOS SANTOS
name: SOUZA, EMERSON EDUARDO OLIVEIRA
name: RODRIGUES, FREDSON BECHIOR
name: SILVA, IGOR NASCIMENTO
name: SIMÃO, Maria  Olívia  de  Albuquerque  Ribeiro
name: GARCIA, Deolinda  Lucianne  Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The current modernizations in educational didactics are an essential tool to boost the teaching learning process. If used in a conscious and innovative way, technology can have numerous benefits for young people and even for educators. In this context, the present work intends to contribute with information produced and analyzed during the development of the extension project “Teaching botany through the use of social networks” composed by members of the Universities of the State of Amazonas, which aims to teach basic concepts of botany to characterize the plant's body using social media and complementary activities as equipment for greater engagement of individuals. The activities were divided into three stages: 1) Interaction With the community; 2) workshops on concepts of botany; 3) achievements of followers. With this work it was possible to conclude that  The learning process must adapt to the new instruments that help in the good quality of education so that we have a joint, inclusive and participative society.
Phloeophila cunabula Pridgeon & Chase 2001
Creators: name: Chiron, Guy R.
name: Karremans, Adam P.
name: Berg, Cassio Van Den
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Phloeophila
Phloeophila cunabula

description: Phloeophila cunabula (Luer & R.Escobar) Pridgeon & Chase (2001: 254)
 Basionym: Cryptophoranthus cunabulus Luer & Escobar (1981: 114).
description: Published as part of Chiron, Guy R., Karremans, Adam P. & Berg, Cassio Van Den, 2016, Nomenclatural notes in the Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae): Phloeophila, pp. 56-62 in Phytotaxa 270 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.270.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13649875
Schrifttradition digital: Rituell reine Torarollen in der jüdischen Diaspora
Creators: name: Frank, Laura
name: Eichhorst, Dana
name: Ullrich, Rebecca
name: Haddassah Wendl, Katharina
name: Martini, Annett
name: Tonne, Danah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Virtuelle Torarolle
Annotationen
Editionen
Tora
Midrasch
Tagin
Otijjot Meshunnot
Kodikologie
Transkription
Beziehungsanalyse
Annotieren
Manuskript
Standards
Visualisierung
DHd2023

description: Mittelalterliche Torarollen und -fragmente stellen das komplexe Forschungsobjekt unserer Arbeit dar, wobei unterschiedliche Perspektiven beleuchtet werden. Eine umfangreiche und standardisierte Erfassung und Datensammlung der Torarollen und weitreichender Sekundärliteratur sowie die damit verbundene Edition bilden einen zentralen Baustein. Dabei liegt ein besonderes Augenmerk auf Besonderheiten im Schriftbild der hebräischen Buchstaben. Um diesem komplexen Vorhaben gerecht zu werden, verlangt es nach einer neuen digitalen Forschungsmethodik, die im Rahmen der Präsentation vorgestellt werden soll. Sowohl die einheitlichen Erfassungs- und Editionsrichtlinien als auch die zugrundeliegende digitale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur sowie die verwendeten methodischen Werkzeuge werden erläutert und anhand eines Fallbeispiels vorgezeigt. Des Weiteren wird gezeigt, wie dieser neue methodische Zugang vielfältige Möglichkeiten zu neuen Erkenntnissen, Verknüpfungen von Zusammenhängen und metaphysischen Analysen von Torarollen bietet. Ein Beitrag zur 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture.
The Impact of Stellar Rotation on the Detectability of Habitable Planets Around M Dwarfs
Creators: name: Newton, Elisabeth R.
name: Irwin, Jonathan
name: Charbonneau, David
name: Berta-Thompson, Zachory K.
name: Dittmann, Jason A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar activity and rotation frustrate the detection of exoplanets through the radial velocity technique. This effect is particularly of concern for M dwarfs, which can remain magnetically active for billions of years. We compile rotation periods for late-type stars and for the M dwarf planet-host sample in order to investigate the rotation periods of older field stars across the main sequence. We show that for stars with masses between 0.25 and 0.5 solar masses (M4V to M1V), the stellar rotation period typical of field stars coincides with the orbital periods of planets in the habitable zone. This will pose a fundamental challenge to the discovery and characterization of potentially habitable planets around early M dwarfs. Due to the longer rotation periods reached by mid M dwarfs and the shorter orbital period at which the planetary habitable zone is found, stars with masses between 0.1 and 0.25 solar masses (M6V to M4V) offer better opportunities for the detection of habitable planets via radial velocities.
description: Accepted to ApJ Letters 09 March 2016
Il sito storico di Virgohamna (Svalbard) e le spedizioni artiche di Andrée e Wellman. Considerazioni a seguito di una ricognizione speditiva con droni
Creators: name: Casagrande, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana
Year: 2020

description: The small Danskøya (Danes Island) and Amsterdamøya (Amsterdam Island) are located at the north-western edge of the Svalbard archipelago. Both islands are today completely uninhabited. In 1896 and 1897, Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée elected the small bay of Virgohamna, on the northern shore of Danskøya, as a starting point for his tragic attempt to reach the North Pole in a balloon. In 1906, 1907 and 1909 the American journalist Walter Wellman, with his airship “America”, tried unsuccessfully to fly to the North Pole. In year 2000, the Norwegian governor of Svalbard (Sysselmannen) regulated access to the historical site, which can now only be visited with prior, special authorization. During summer 2018, the Polarquest2018 Arctic expedition carried out an aerophotographic survey of the area by means of drones. Without the need of landing any crew nor equipment on the beach, two small quadcopters were launched from the support boat and later returned there at the end of their flights. The survey made it possible to acquire an effective “snapshot” of the conservation status of the site more than 121 years after the first historical expedition. Acquired data were processed by an “image-based modelling” software to obtain expeditive ortophotographs and 3-D models. This work presents the research method and may contribute to documenting an important site in the history of Arctic explorations.
description: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 No 2 (2019)
Inkjet Printing for High Efficiency Selective Emitter Silicon Solar Cell
Creators: name: Utama, R.Y.
name: Lennon, A.
name: Lenio, M.
name: Borojevic, N.
name: Karpour, A.
name: Ho-Baillie, A.
name: Wenham, S.R.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Wafer-Based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Mono- and Multicrystalline Silicon Cells and Materials, Processing Technology of

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 1687-1690
description: High efficiency solar cell designs often use photolithographic patterning to produce the necessary solar cell structures. However, photolithographic processes are complex, expensive and not suitable for large-scale production of solar cells. In this work, a simple and low-cost indirect inkjet patterning technique has been developed as a direct replacement for photolithography. Feature sizes as small as 30 microns have been consistently achieved using this novel patterning method. Inkjet patterning is then used to form front surface selective emitter structures similar to those normally featured in high efficiency solar cell designs. The absence of crystallographic damages or defects typically present in laser-processed regions is one of the main advantages of inkjet patterning. Average fill factors of around 80% have been routinely demonstrated with initial devices achieving conversion efficiency as high as 16.3% using standard commercial-grade Czochralski Si wafers.
Dinamiche migratorie e capitale sociale territoriale: aspetti teorici e metodologici
Creators: name: Lazzeroni, Michela
name: Meini, Monica
Publisher: name: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana
Year: 2020

description: This article focuses on the relationship between migratory phenomena and geographical contexts, trying to draw an interpretative framework for the analysis of the social capital in the embedding processes of the immigrant foreign population at local level. To this purpose, the notion of social capital is firstly reinterpreted by emphasizing the territorial dimension and the link with the geographic, political-economic and cultural components that influence migration choices and integration processes. Secondly, the methodological tools used to analyze the relationship between migration dynamics and the existing social capital in a specific territory are identified, paying attention to the territorialization processes and the contribution of immigrants to the construction and transformation of places and communities of destination. In particular, the role of second generations is detected, both in building territorial networks and social and cultural interaction and in the dynamics of interconnection between local and translocal relations. Finally, some results of an extensive survey are illustrated in which the proposed comparative methodology has been applied to different territorial contexts of nine Italian regions.
description: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 No 2 (2019)
Lo sviluppo di servizi di trasporto innovativi a supporto della mobilità dei crocieristici: una valutazione di fattibilità strategica per il porto di Ragusa (Dubrovnik)
Creators: name: Mazzarino, Marco
name: Battino, Silvia
Publisher: name: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana
Year: 2020

description: Following the increase of cruise traffic, the area of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) suffers from the negative impacts on the urban transport system, especially in terms of congestion and pollution, along the main connections from the main cruise terminal (Gruž) to the Old Town. The aim of the paper consists of carrying out an original feasibility study – fostered by local stakeholders and policy-makers – based on a sound empirical methodology and data collection so as to put forward an innovative local maritime transport service complementary to traditional urban transport solutions, which mainly consist of pedestrian routes and land-based public transport services. Following a comprehensive literature review and a best practice analysis, the paper builds upon a number of original scenarios comparing the current situation with a number of transport alternatives (a local maritime service and a pedestrian tunnel) to be used by cruise tourists accessing the historical center so as to support local policy-makers. Results show the feasibility of the local maritime option, which determines a significant reduction in urban congestion and pollution.
description: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 No 2 (2019)
Performance of new 8-inch photomultiplier tube used for the Tibet muon-detector array
Creators: name: Zhang, Ying
name: Huang, Jing
name: Chen, Ding
name: Zhai, Liu-Ming
name: Chen, Xu
name: Hu, Xiao-Bin
name: Lin, Yu-Hui
name: Zhang, Xue-Yao
name: Feng, Cun-Feng
name: Jia, Huan-Yu
name: Zhou, Xun-Xiu
name: Dan-Zen, Luo-bu
name: Chen, Tian-Lu
name: Laba, Ci-Ren
name: Mao-Yuan
name: Gao, Qi
name: Zha-xi, Ci-ren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new hybrid experiment has been constructed to measure the chemical composition of cosmic rays around the "knee" in the wide energy range by the Tibet AS$γ$ collaboration at Tibet, China, since 2014. They consist of a high-energy air-shower-core array (YAC-II), a high-density air-shower array (Tibet-III) and a large underground water-Cherenkov muon-detector array (MD). In order to obtain the primary proton, helium and iron spectra and their "knee" positions in the energy range lower than $10^{16}$ eV, each of PMTs equipped to the MD cell is required to measure the number of photons capable of covering a wide dynamic range of 100 - $10^{6}$ photoelectrons (PEs) according to Monte Carlo simulations. In this paper, we firstly compare the characteristic features between R5912-PMT made by Japan Hamamatsu and CR365-PMT made by Beijing Hamamatsu. This is the first comparison between R5912-PMT and CR365-PMT. If there exists no serious difference, we will then add two 8-inch-in-diameter PMTs to meet our requirements in each MD cell, which are responsible for the range of 100 - 10000 PEs and 2000 - 1000000 PEs, respectively. That is, MD cell is expected to be able to measure the number of muons over 6 orders of magnitude.
description: 5 pages, 8 figures
The Economic Cost-benefit Analysis of Black Soldier Fly as an Alternative Animal and Fish Feed Ingredient in Malawi
Creators: name: Munthali, Maggie G.
name: Chilora, Lemekezani
name: Goliath, Mike
name: Burke, William J.
name: Benbow, Eric
name: Kang'ombe, Jeremiah
name: Safalaoh, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Malawi
subject: Black soldier fly
subject: Insect farming
subject: Animal feed
subject: Benefit cost analysis

description: Insect farming, particularly Black Soldier Fly (BSF) farming, is an emerging and ecologically friendly agricultural opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on Malawi. A recent study aimed to assess the economic viability of BSF farming at different scales by conducting Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) based on data from a small-scale BSF farm in Lilongwe. The study addressed several critical questions: (a) What are the costs and benefits associated with BSF farming in Malawi for small-scale operations (individual farmers, clubs, cooperatives) and large-scale commercial farming? (b) What factors influence the benefit/cost ratio (BCR) of BSF farming across various production scales? (c) How can policies be developed to enhance BCRs and encourage BSF farming adoption in Malawi? Using economic indicators like Net Present Value (NPV) and Benefit Cost Ratio, the study found that BSF farming is economically viable at different scales of production. Small-scale farmers can generate approximately MK507,100 in gross revenue for one BSF larval cycle and MK2,535,500 annually. Meanwhile, commercial farmers can expect MK1,536,100 per larval cycle and MK7,680,750 annually. Even with a 10% variation in production costs, output prices, and BSF yield, sensitivity analysis demonstrated the continued profitability of BSF farming. This research fills a knowledge gap regarding the potential of BSF farming in Malawi. The findings provide a strong case for its development, which has been relatively overlooked in the country. Recommendations include investing in farmer and extension worker education, raising awareness about the socio-economic and ecological benefits, providing access to capital, supporting research and development, and establishing a regulatory framework to ensure the safe and effective use of insects as animal and aquaculture feed. These insights can inform government and stakeholder strategies, potentially revolutionizing agriculture in Malawi while promoting sustainable and innovative alternatives like BSF farming.
Transport coefficients of quasi-particle models within a new relaxation time approximation of the Boltzmann equation
Creators: name: Rocha, Gabriel S.
name: Ferreira, Maurício N.
name: Denicol, Gabriel S.
name: Noronha, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the transport properties of a kinetic theory model that is tuned to describe the thermodynamic properties of QCD at zero chemical potential using a new formulation of the relaxation time approximation. In contrast to previous approaches, the latter is constructed to preserve the fundamental properties of the collision term of the Boltzmann equation for any energy-dependence of the relaxation time. A novel choice of matching conditions is implemented to ensure that the background mean-field depends only on the temperature even when the system is out of equilibrium. We provide a consistent analysis of how the transport coefficients of relativistic Navier-Stokes theory vary with the energy dependence of the relaxation time. We also show that the entropy production of this theory is consistent with the second law of thermodynamics and verify that it is independent of the matching conditions employed. We used this fact to calculate the matching independent combination of transport coefficients.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
Da Genova a Detroit a Pechino. Geografie economiche della globalizzazione
Creators: name: Dini, Francesco
Publisher: name: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana
Year: 2020

description: China is an exceptional space under many aspects and proposes very thorny problems about current conditions of globalization, markets and capitalism. In the large literature on China of the last decades a particular space is occupied by Giovanni Arrighi and his Systemic Cycles of Accumulation, an organic theory of capitalism, but also a theory of hegemonic transitions. Arrighi presented this theory in his work The Long Twentieth Century (1994), which discussed the exhaustion of the US systemic cycle, but did not identify China as the emerging power. This would happen only thirteen years later, with his other work Adam Smith in Beijing. The article discusses this strange case of presbyopia, curious if we consider the conceptual depth and analytical accuracy of Arrighi. Moreover, starting from the Chinese case, it discusses the theory of Systemic Cycles of Accumulation, as it can contribute to a geographical reading of contemporary world economy and politics.
description: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 No 2 (2019)
Calibrated and completeness-corrected optical stellar density maps of the Northern Galactic Plane
Creators: name: Farnhill, H. J.
name: Drew, J. E.
name: Barentsen, G.
name: González-Solares, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following on from the second release of calibrated photometry from IPHAS, the INT/WFC Photometric H-alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane, we present incompleteness-corrected stellar density maps in the r and i photometric bands. These have been computed to a range of limiting magnitudes reaching to 20th magnitude in r and 19th in i (Vega system), and with different angular resolutions -- the highest resolution available being 1 square arcminute. The maps obtained cover 94 percent of the 1800 square-degree IPHAS footprint, spanning the Galactic latitude range, -5° < b < +5°, north of the celestial equator. The corrections for incompleteness, due to confusion and sensitivity loss at the faint limit, have been deduced by the method of artificial source injection. The presentation of this method is preceded by a discussion of other more approximate methods of determining completeness. Our method takes full account of position-dependent seeing and source ellipticity in the survey database. The application of the star counts to testing reddened Galactic disc models is previewed by a comparison with predicted counts along three constant-longitude cuts at l $\simeq$ 30°, 90° and 175°: some over-prediction of the most heavily reddened l $\simeq$ 30° counts is found, alongside good agreement at l $\simeq$ 90° and 175°.
description: 25 pages, 23 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Integrating Lattice-Free MMI into End-to-End Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Tian, Jinchuan
name: Yu, Jianwei
name: Weng, Chao
name: Zou, Yuexian
name: Yu, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In automatic speech recognition (ASR) research, discriminative criteria have achieved superior performance in DNN-HMM systems. Given this success, the adoption of discriminative criteria is promising to boost the performance of end-to-end (E2E) ASR systems. With this motivation, previous works have introduced the minimum Bayesian risk (MBR, one of the discriminative criteria) into E2E ASR systems. However, the effectiveness and efficiency of the MBR-based methods are compromised: the MBR criterion is only used in system training, which creates a mismatch between training and decoding; the on-the-fly decoding process in MBR-based methods results in the need for pre-trained models and slow training speeds. To this end, novel algorithms are proposed in this work to integrate another widely used discriminative criterion, lattice-free maximum mutual information (LF-MMI), into E2E ASR systems not only in the training stage but also in the decoding process. The proposed LF-MMI training and decoding methods show their effectiveness on two widely used E2E frameworks: Attention-Based Encoder-Decoders (AEDs) and Neural Transducers (NTs). Compared with MBR-based methods, the proposed LF-MMI method: maintains the consistency between training and decoding; eschews the on-the-fly decoding process; trains from randomly initialized models with superior training efficiency. Experiments suggest that the LF-MMI method outperforms its MBR counterparts and consistently leads to statistically significant performance improvements on various frameworks and datasets from 30 hours to 14.3k hours. The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on Aishell-1 (CER 4.10%) and Aishell-2 (CER 5.02%) datasets. Code is released.
description: in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2022
Status of the Development of Micromorph Cells and Modules at Schott Solar Thin Film GmbH
Creators: name: Frammelsberger, W.
name: Lechner, P.
name: Lechner, R.
name: Psyk, W.
name: Geyer, R.
name: Dandl, S.
name: Haslauer, A.
name: Maurus, H.
name: Lundszien, D.
name: Popp, H.
name: Diegel, E.
name: Walter, R.
name: Weber, U.
name: Hagemann, V.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Thin Film Solar Cells
Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 2788-2792
description: Reduced market prices and competing technologies are a driver to further increase module
efficiencies. For the a-Si/μc-si technology it is essential to improve material quality of the microcrystalline layer at
high deposition rates. We show that depending on deposition conditions one can get microcrystalline layers and
cells with distinct difference in quality and stability. Using an improved microcrystalline material it was possible to
achieve 12.9% cell efficiency in a micromorph cell with an overall thickness of around 2.3 microns. On a Gen 5
module with a size of 1.43m² we achieved 143W with a device thickness of 1.8 microns.
OLxPBench: Real-time, Semantically Consistent, and Domain-specific are Essential in Benchmarking, Designing, and Implementing HTAP Systems
Creators: name: Kang, Guoxin
name: Wang, Lei
name: Gao, Wanling
name: Tang, Fei
name: Zhan, Jianfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As real-time analysis of the new data become increasingly compelling, more organizations deploy Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) systems to support real-time queries on data recently generated by online transaction processing. This paper argues that real-time queries, semantically consistent schema, and domain-specific workloads are essential in benchmarking, designing, and implementing HTAP systems. However, most state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice benchmarks ignore those critical factors. Hence, they are incommensurable and, at worst, misleading in benchmarking, designing, and implementing HTAP systems. This paper presents OLxPBench, a composite HTAP benchmark suite. OLxPBench proposes: (1) the abstraction of a hybrid transaction, performing a real-time query in-between an online transaction, to model widely-observed behavior pattern -- making a quick decision while consulting real-time analysis; (2) a semantically consistent schema to express the relationships between OLTP and OLAP schema; (3) the combination of domain-specific and general benchmarks to characterize diverse application scenarios with varying resource demands. Our evaluations justify the three design decisions of OLxPBench and pinpoint the bottlenecks of two mainstream distributed HTAP DBMSs. International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil) sets up the OLxPBench homepage at https://www.benchcouncil.org/olxpbench/. Its source code is available from https://github.com/BenchCouncil/olxpbench.git.
description: Accepted to ICDE 2022. International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil) sets up the OLxPBench homepage at https://www.benchcouncil.org/olxpbench/
Fundamental Principles in Saudi Arabia's Marine Insurance Law with Reference to the Law and Practice in Egypt and the UK: A Comparative Study
Creators: name: Alkhedhairy, Mutaz
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Saudi Arabian Commercial Maritime Law (CML) of 2019 is the first comprehensive marine insurance legislation since the unification of Saudi Arabia. This thesis derives its importance from being the first thesis to subject the three principles, good faith, insurable interest and subrogation and under marine insurance spectrum by comparative academic research in looking at the new CML of 2019, Egyptian Maritime Trade Law of 1990, the UK Marine Insurance Acts of 1906 and 2015. Contributions made by the codified Saudi laws in comparison with the Egyptian and English law are discussed across the chapters, simultaneously with the arguments made by the Sharia law experts in reference to the elements of Gharar, Riba and Maysir and the influence on the interpretation and the desired approaches needed to further strengthen marine insurance law in Saudi framework. Disclosure of material facts related to insurable risks revolving around the principle of good faith is focused, with profound remedies provided for breach of the principle as guided by the existing legal framework. The comprehensive discussions focussing on issues surrounding the identification of implied and contractual warranties are also addressed. Furthermore, the study looks into the foundations for which the assured must have in order to warrant a valid marine insurance contract to compensation of loss, namely the principle of insurable interests ‘which may shift from one party to another considering the nature of marine risks’. Further, the principle of subrogation is also analysed, in relation to limitation issues arising in utilising the insurer’s right in substituting the assured when claiming recoveries and, grounds on which such right is built on. In a thorough examination and analysis of how the provisions of three legal frameworks were used to provide recommendations for the corrective measures for marine insurance law regarding these three principles, the work gives readers a better understanding of the insurance laws and regulations in Saudi Arabia.
Efficiency Gain with Inline Precision Control Quality and Throughput Gain with Inline Scribe Quality Monitoring
Creators: name: Kuhn, C.
name: Schlenker, T.
name: Walter, D.
name: Neugebauer, C.
name: Singer, G.
name: Manz, D.
name: Wahl, T.
name: Goller, H.
name: Kümmerer, A.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Thin Film Solar Cells
Manufacturing Issues and Processing

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 2815-2817
description: Scribing of thin film solar modules has an impact on the net area of a module. In order to increase the
efficiency and therewith the economic viability of a thin film solar module manufacturing line it is the aim to reduce the
dead area as much as possible, but still having a reliable scribing process. Besides the scribe width, the placement
accuracy of a P2 scribe in respect to its corresponding P1 scribe and the placement of a P3 Scribe in respect to its
corresponding P1 or P2 scribe is the key. The scribing systems of today use for the alignment of P2 or P3 pattern fiducial
marks scribed during the P1 scribing process. This fiducials are measured with the help of a vision system. This
alignment procedure results on the one hand in tremendous requirements in respect to the absolute accuracy of the
machine base and on the other hand it adds non productive time to the required cycle time.
The much better procedure is a closed loop control, which uses for each single P2 or P3 line the corresponding P1 line
and controls the scribing position based on the actual position of the P1 scribe.
This approach goes along with additional challenges such as speed/tact time/ frequency of control due to high scribing
speed, highly dynamic sensitivity of the detecting sensor to reliably measure the actual position of the P1 line under
changing conditions due to a wide range of coatings, smart control logics to overcome disturbances due to scratches,
particles or e.g. crossing lines, compensation of thermal drifts due to varying load of ambient temperature etc. The
developed system is a self learning and self optimizing closed loop control system which aligns the laser during the
scribing process (Inline Precision Control System patent pending). The dynamic sensor for detecting the actual position
of the base P1 line is used at the same time as monitoring system to validate the scribe of the P2 or P3 line. This means,
the data obtained by means of this sensor is used as quality assurance data, monitoring the scribe accuracy and in the
other hand the data is used to continuously improve the alignment of the IPCS.
On the Quantization of the Charge-Mass Ratio
Creators: name: Ulhoa, S. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper deals with the problem of describing fundamental particles. The Einstein-Rosen approach was revisited to explain que charge-mass ratio quantization. Such a result is obtained once a quantization prescription is applied to the expression of gravitational energy defined in the realm of teleparallel gravity.
Front Contact Grid Optimization of III-V Solar Cells with SPICE Network Simulation
Creators: name: Steiner, M.
name: Philipps, S.P.
name: Hermle, M.
name: Bett, A.W.
name: Dimroth, F.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2009
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
Terrestrial Concentrator Systems

description: 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 21-25 September 2009, Hamburg, Germany; 721-724
description: A distributed network model for the optimization of the front contact grid structure has been
developed. By dividing the solar cell into small elementary cells the model includes distributed series resistance
effects. With this approach it is possible to simulate the complete solar cell with grid fingers, busbars and nonpassivated
sides of the solar cell. The accuracy of the simulation was verified through a comparison between
measurement and simulation of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) solar cells with different finger spacing and finger lengths.
The developed tool is applied to analyze the optimum contact grid and solar cell size for various concentrations. In
addition, the global efficiency maximum of a GaAs solar cell was identified to be 29.1 % at 450 suns with a
designated area of 1 mm².
Nonvolatile Electric Field Control of Thermal Magnons in the Absence of an Applied Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Parsonnet, Eric
name: Caretta, Lucas
name: Nagarajan, Vikram
name: Zhang, Hongrui
name: Taghinejad, Hossein
name: Behera, Piush
name: Huang, Xiaoxi
name: Kavle, Pravin
name: Fernandez, Abel
name: Nikonov, Dmitri
name: Li, Hai
name: Young, Ian
name: Analytis, James
name: Ramesh, Ramamoorthy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin transport through magnetic insulators has been demonstrated in a variety of materials and is an emerging pathway for next-generation spin-based computing. To modulate spin transport in these systems, one typically applies a sufficiently strong magnetic field to allow for deterministic control of magnetic order. Here, we make use of the well-known multiferroic magnetoelectric, BiFeO3, to demonstrate non-volatile, hysteretic, electric-field control of thermally excited magnon current in the absence of an applied magnetic field. These findings are an important step toward magnon-based devices, where electric-field-only control is highly desirable.
description: 34 pages, 4 figures, 9 supplemental figures
Phloeophila cymbula Pridgeon & Chase 2001
Creators: name: Chiron, Guy R.
name: Karremans, Adam P.
name: Berg, Cassio Van Den
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Phloeophila
Phloeophila cymbula

description: Phloeophila cymbula (Luer) Pridgeon & Chase (2001: 254)
 Basionym: Cryptophoranthus cymbulus Luer (1980: 346).
description: Published as part of Chiron, Guy R., Karremans, Adam P. & Berg, Cassio Van Den, 2016, Nomenclatural notes in the Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae): Phloeophila, pp. 56-62 in Phytotaxa 270 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.270.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13649875
A field of quantum upper triangular matrices
Creators: name: De Commer, K.
name: Floré, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the duals of Woronowicz's quantum SU(2)-groups converge, within the operator algebraic setting, to the group of special upper triangular 2-by-2 matrices with positive diagonal.
description: 31 pages
Trends in Photovoltaic Applications - the Latest Survey Results on the Market, Industry and Policy from the IEA PVPS Programme
Creators: name: Kaizuka, I.
name: Watt, G.
name: Hüsser, P.
name: Cowley, P.
name: Bründlinger, R.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2009
Subjects: PV Deployment
Markets for PV Systems

description: 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 21-25 September 2009, Hamburg, Germany; 4501-4504
description: The IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (IEA PVPS) is one of the collaborative R & D agreements
established within the IEA and, since 1993, its participants have been conducting a variety of joint projects (tasks)
concerning the applications of photovoltaic conversion of solar energy into electricity. IEA PVPS Task 1 has the responsibility
to facilitate the exchange and dissemination of information on the technical, economic, environmental and social aspects of
photovoltaic power systems. An important deliverable of Task 1 is the annual Trends in photovoltaic applications report[1]. This
report gives information on trends in PV power applications in the PVPS member and other countries and is largely based on the
information provided in the national survey reports which are produced annually by the 21 participating countries. This paper
presents the latest available information from the 2009 round of surveys, compiled and analyzed shortly before the 24rd European
Photovoltaic conference (EUPVSEC-24), and includes the topics of market growth, public budgets, the industry supply chain,
prices, economic benefits and support initiatives. This information covers calendar year 2008 and is presented in greater detail
in the 2009 Trends report.
L’Australia nelle sue relazioni politiche ed economiche con la Cina: luci e ombre di un rapporto lungo, alterno e complesso
Creators: name: Lucchesi, Flavio
name: Dal Borgo, Alice Giulia
Publisher: name: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana
Year: 2020

description: The article reconstructs the evolution of the political and economic relations developed between Australia and China from the birth of the Confederation up to the present day, resuming – according to the Australian perspective – the ranks of the relations that have taken place over time between these two countries, which are extremely different in terms of historical political, social, cultural events. The critical examination of a wide range of English-language literature, produced over time by scholars of various disciplines, aims to understand and discuss the various phases of a comparison that –albeit in alternate, discontinuous, contradictory and sometimes conflictual forms – has always been kept alive. The current situation sees both States strongly linked by a delicate and complex connection of political and economic interests, as well as leading players in the “crowded” and dynamic Asia Pacific region. This set of circumstances poses specific questions to Australia about the future of its bilateral relations with China, which – in a short and medium-term perspective – must not be separated from careful planning that also takes due account of the knowledge of the complex development of past experiences.
description: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 No 2 (2019)
The Experiences of Australian Transgender Young People and Australian Psychologists in School Counselling
Creators: name: MACKIE, GRACE MARIA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Educational psychology
Applied and developmental psychology not elsewhere classified
Gender psychology

description: Transgender young people experience significantly poor mental health outcomes within the school environment, however, there is little research investigating the mental health services offered to this population within schools. This thesis explored the experiences of Australian transgender young people and Australian psychologists in school counselling, as well as the transgender training and education perceptions of Australian school psychologists.
Terre mutate: un cammino tra resilienza e slow tourism
Creators: name: Mundula, Luigi
name: Spagnoli, Luisa
Publisher: name: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana
Year: 2020

description: In the last few years, the term “resilience” has entered powerfully in the policies and practices concerning the territorial development. Concept not new and born in the mechanical and engineering field, it has moved on to ecology and, subsequently, to social sciences, including geography. Precisely from a geographical point of view, that is to say, interpreting the territory through the paradigm of systemic complexity, it is possible to read this phenomenon in a dynamic and procedural sense: the response to change, due to different types of trauma, not simply in an adaptive way (passive), but through a reaction, that is by implementing a “regenerative” response from the territory and, therefore, from its communities. In other words, there is a community resilience that manifests itself through the ability of human groups to resist radical change, not only due to natural but also social upheavals. These are the assumptions to investigate the phenomenon of slow travel, of the journey through the “changed lands” due to the earthquakes that hit the central Apennines between 2009 and 2017. A journey of community resilience motivated by a strong bottom-up participation. The contribution, thus, aims to describe the meaning and the dimension that this path is taking, and to tell, also through the narratives of its protagonists, its main stages.
description: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 No 2 (2019)
Decoherence of rotational degrees of freedom
Creators: name: Zhong, Changchun
name: Robicheaux, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism of decoherence for a quantum system with rotational degrees of freedom is studied. From a simple model of elastic scattering, we show that the non-diagonal density matrix elements of the system exponentially decay. The decay rate depends on the difference of scattering amplitudes for different rotational configurations, leading to the gradual loss of quantum coherence between the pointer states in the system orientational space. For a dielectric ellipsoid immersed in a photon-gas environment (assuming no absorption), the decay rate is found to be proportional to the seventh power of the temperature. For an ellipsoidal object interacting with mass particles, the decay rate is proportional to the 5/2 power of the temperature. Both are different from the case of translational decoherence induced by the same environment scattering. For photon scattering, the coherence time in the rotational degrees of freedom is shown to be much shorter than that in the translational degrees of freedom.
Globalizzazione e aspetti culturali: l’esempio del tatuaggio
Creators: name: Macchia, Paolo
Publisher: name: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana
Year: 2020

description: The ancient practice of skin drawing and tattooing is among the oldest and most recurrent cultural phenomena in the history of peoples and human societies around the world. Since prehistoric times cultures and civilizations have used it as a means of communication to convey personal information such as social position and relations, devotion, sense of belonging and rebellion. Consequently, tattooing has undergone progressive “resemantization” to meet the cultural needs of human groups. Then tattooing met the Western world, which adopted it and reshaped its function by adapting it to its own cultural values. Tattoos were thus given a marked ‘western’ character and transformed into contemporary body art. Eventually, tattooing spread all over the Planet like many other Western cultural patterns, showing the same dynamics as even stronger globalizing processes. The present contribution aims at studying how the ancient practice of skin drawing and tattooing has now become a significative expression of occidentalization and a clear example of an increasingly globalized cultural mosaic.
description: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 No 2 (2019)
Robust Reputation Independence in Ranking Systems for Multiple Sensitive Attributes
Creators: name: Ramos, Guilherme
name: Boratto, Ludovico
name: Marras, Mirko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ranking systems have an unprecedented influence on how and what information people access, and their impact on our society is being analyzed from different perspectives, such as users' discrimination. A notable example is represented by reputation-based ranking systems, a class of systems that rely on users' reputation to generate a non-personalized item-ranking, proved to be biased against certain demographic classes. To safeguard that a given sensitive user's attribute does not systematically affect the reputation of that user, prior work has operationalized a reputation independence constraint on this class of systems. In this paper, we uncover that guaranteeing reputation independence for a single sensitive attribute is not enough. When mitigating biases based on one sensitive attribute (e.g., gender), the final ranking might still be biased against certain demographic groups formed based on another attribute (e.g., age). Hence, we propose a novel approach to introduce reputation independence for multiple sensitive attributes simultaneously. We then analyze the extent to which our approach impacts on discrimination and other important properties of the ranking system, such as its quality and robustness against attacks. Experiments on two real-world datasets show that our approach leads to less biased rankings with respect to multiple users' sensitive attributes, without affecting the system's quality and robustness.
description: Accepted in the Machine Learning journal