cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Atmospheric changes from solar eclipses
Creators: name: Aplin, Karen
name: Scott, Chris
name: Gray, Suzanne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article reviews atmospheric changes associated with 44 solar eclipses, beginning with the first quantitative results available, from 1834 (earlier qualitative, accounts also exist). Eclipse meteorology attracted relatively few publications until the total solar eclipse of 16 February 1980, with the 11 August 1999 eclipse producing the most papers. Eclipses passing over populated areas such as Europe, China and India now regularly attract scientific attention, whereas atmospheric measurements of eclipses at remote locations remain rare. Many measurements and models have been used to exploit the uniquely predictable solar forcing provided by an eclipse. In this paper we compile the available publications and review a sub-set of them chosen on the basis of importance and novelty. Beyond the obvious reduction in incoming solar radiation, atmospheric cooling from eclipses can induce dynamical changes. Observations and meteorological modelling provide evidence for the generation of a local eclipse circulation which may be the origin of the "eclipse wind". Gravity waves set up by the eclipse can, in principle, be detected as atmospheric pressure fluctuations, though theoretical predictions are limited, and many of the data are inconclusive. Eclipse events providing important early insights into the ionisation of the upper atmosphere are also briefly reviewed.
description: Accepted for publication in Phil Trans Roy Soc A (to be published August 2016)
Performative hagiography: The Life of Theodoros of Sykeon and its seventh-century Galatian context
Creators: name: DowlingSoka, Joel
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The Life of Theodoros of Sykeon, finished after 641 CE, is a sprawling hagiography that was written during a period of crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean. Dozens of academic studies over the last century have used this text as a source for the sixth and seventh centuries. This thesis adds to the academic discussion by attempting to demonstrate that the text was a complex document developed over multiple stages and several decades and by attempting a reading that prioritizes the different roles that two separate versions of Theodoros’ life performed for the monastery that produced them. The thesis first argues that there is evidence both internally and in a ninth or tenth-century recension for a version of the text written between 613 and 620. It then discusses the hypothesis that the eleventh-century manuscript Atheniensis BN 1014 contains a copy of the earlier text. From there, it establishes context by outlining the events of the seventh century as they might have affected Sykeon. The project then turns to performative readings that read both texts against the specific context of the seventh century. The first case study examines the structure of both texts and argues that these structures suggest different purposes. The second turns to the issue of hetaerae portrayed in both versions of the text. This section demonstrates an increase in both hostility to sex work and monastic claims to Theodoros’ family wealth in the later version of the text. The last case study examines the militarization of religious figures in both texts and the addition of an apocalypse prediction in the post-641 version. While the earlier version used military imagery to recruit people away from worldly careers, the later text used it to suggest divine protection in a time of collapse. In all three cases, the changes between the candidate for the pre-620s text and the post-641 text fit the context of seventh-century system collapse.
Impact of Edge Deletion Techniques and Processing Parameters on Performance and Reliability of Amorphous and Microcrystalline Thin Film Photovoltaics
Creators: name: Prabhu, G.
name: Jia, R.
name: Luu, C.
name: Liu, Y.
name: Mei, F.
name: Frei, M.
name: Tanner, D.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Thin Films
Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 2467-2470
description: Edge Deletion is one of the critical Back End Of Line (BEOL) steps in the integration of thin film amorphous and
microcrystalline silicon based photovoltaics. In this paper, we discuss studies on the impact of various edge deletion
techniques and processes on both process output metrics like surface roughness, step-height, and defectivity at the edge
as well as the impact of these processes on long-term panel reliability. Specifically, we use a laser based edge deletion
technique as a baseline for comparison and develop an understanding of the use of alternate techniques with an emphasis
on diamond wheel grinding. While correlating output metrics like surface roughness and step-height to panel
performance are relatively straightforward, developing an in-depth model to understand the impact of edge surface
morphology on long-term panel reliability requires sophisticated analysis. We have used standard surface
characterization techniques (SEM, AFM) to get a better picture of the impact of microscopic imperfections on panel
performance. We also provide a comprehensive data-set correlating performance from damp heat testing with measured
edge deletion characteristics.
The Use of Silicon Oxynitride on Laser Doped Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells
Creators: name: Wang, S.
name: Tjahjono, B.
name: Hallam, B.
name: Vogl, B.
name: Eadie, M.
name: Sugianto, A.
name: Mai, L.
name: Hameiri, Z.
name: Wenham, S.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2009
Subjects: Wafer-based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Mono- and Multicrystalline Silicon Materials and Cells

description: 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 21-25 September 2009, Hamburg, Germany; 1632-1635
description: The use of Laser Doping technology to form a selective emitter on solar cells has proven to be simple,
cost effective, and suitable for commercial production. Efficiencies in excess of 18% have consistently been
demonstrated on industrial grade p-type CZ wafers. One of the most important aspects of the laser doping technology
is to provide localised heavily doped regions without subjecting the entire wafer to high temperature processing. This
feature facilitates its suitability for fabricating multicrystalline solar cells. Multicrystalline wafer material often
degrades at high processing temperature. Nevertheless, there are still several challenges in adapting the laser doping
concept to multicrystalline wafers, particularly due to the presence of grain boundaries. The front anti-reflection
coating must not only allow the hydrogenation effect to take place in passivating the bulk material but also protect
the wafers against laser induced defects and be sufficiently dense to act as a plating mask. In this work, double stack
layers of silicon oxy-nitride and silicon nitride (SiNx) are used as anti-reflection coating for the front surface. The
passivation effects of these stacked layers, along with its ability to withstand laser induced defects will be discussed
in this paper. Reflection properties of the silicon oxy-nitride single layer and the silicon oxy-nitride/silicon nitride
double stack layers antireflection coatings are examined.
Verbal morphosyntax and three-participant events in Sudest, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: SHEPPARD, HARRIET ELISABETH MARGARET
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Linguistics not elsewhere classified

description: The thesis Verbal morphosyntax and three-participant events in Sudest, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea investigates the word and sentence structure of the Sudest language with a particular emphasis on the expression of events such as ‘give’, ‘take’, ‘feed’, and ‘show’. The thesis is based on language data collected during fieldwork on the islands of Vanatɨna and Yeina, where Sudest is spoken by approximately 3,800 people. The thesis presents the most detailed study of the language to date.
Investigations of High Refractive Silicon Nitride Layers for Etched Back Emitters: Enhanced Surface Passivation for Selective Emitter Concept (SECT)
Creators: name: Dastgheib-Shirazi, A.
name: Book, F.
name: Haverkamp, H.
name: Raabe, B.
name: Hahn, G.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2009
Subjects: Wafer-based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Mono- and Multicrystalline Silicon Materials and Cells

description: 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 21-25 September 2009, Hamburg, Germany; 1600-1604
description: The application of selective emitter solar cells via emitter etching has already shown its potential as an
industrial type solar cell concept. Thereby the surface passivation of etched back emitters plays an important role. In
this work the possibilities for enhanced surface passivation are investigated by using single and double layered high
refractive PECVD SiNx layers. QSSPC, ellipsometry and FTIR measurements were performed on FZ wafers to
determine the critical thickness of the high refractive SiNx for an improved hydrogen passivation. The studies were
also focused on the firing stability of the passivation quality. Finally, optimized single as well as high refractive
double SiNx layers were applied on selective emitter solar cells. The Selective Emitter ConcepT (SECT) solar cells
show an increase of the open circuit voltage, which is related to the improved surface passivation. The highest Voc
value of 642 mV was obtained with a high refractive double layered SiNx on large area screen printed Cz solar cells.
Compared to reference solar cells an average gain of 0.6%abs. was achieved on SECT solar cells. The cell efficiency
of 19.0% for screen printed SECT-solar cells with full area Al-BSF shows that a further improved surface passivation
is possible and can increases cell performance of selective emitter solar cells.
Data for: Evaluating the impact of anatomical partitioning on summary topologies obtained with Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of morphological data
Creators: name: Casali, Daniel
name: Freitas, Felipe
name: Perini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Morphology
Mk Model
evolutionary rates
Partition
heterogeneity
Topology

description: Morphological data are a fundamental source of evidence to reconstruct the Tree of Life, and Bayesian phylogenetic methods are increasingly being used for this task. Bayesian phylogenetic analyses require the use of evolutionary models, which have been intensively studied in the past few years, with significant improvements to our knowledge. Notwithstanding, a systematic evaluation of the performance of partitioned models for morphological data has never been performed. Here we evaluate the influence of partitioned models, defined by anatomical criteria, on the precision and accuracy of summary tree topologies considering the effects of model misspecification. We simulated datasets using partitioning schemes, trees, and other properties obtained from two empirical datasets, and conducted Bayesian phylogenetic analyses. Additionally, we reanalysed 32 empirical datasets for different groups of vertebrates, applying unpartitioned and partitioned models, and, as a focused study case, we reanalysed a dataset including living and fossil armadillos, testing alternative partitioning hypotheses based on functional and ontogenetic modules. We found that, in general, partitioning by anatomy has little influence on summary topologies analysed under alternative partitioning schemes with a varying number of partitions. Nevertheless, models with unlinked branch lengths, which account for heterotachy across partitions, improve topological precision at the cost of reducing accuracy. In some instances, more complex partitioning schemes, led to topological changes, as tested for armadillos, mostly associated with models with unlinked branch lengths. We compare our results with other empirical evaluations of morphological data and those from empirical and simulation studies of partitioning of molecular data, considering the adequacy of anatomical partitioning relative to alternative methods of partitioning morphological datasets.
description: Funding provided by: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002322
Award Number: 0001Funding provided by: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001807
Award Number: 2018/09666-5Funding provided by: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003593
Award Number: 422019/2018-6Funding provided by: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001807
Award Number: 2022/00044-7
The role of money and the financial sector in energy-economy models used for assessing climate policy
Creators: name: Pollitt, H.
name: Mercure, J. -F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper outlines a critical gap in the assessment methodology used to estimate the macroeconomic costs and benefits of climate policy. It shows that the vast majority of models used for assessing climate policy use assumptions about the financial system that sit at odds with the observed reality. In particular, the models' assumptions lead to `crowding out' of capital, which cause them to show negative impacts from climate policy in virtually all cases. We compare this approach with that of the E3ME model, which follows non-equilibrium economic theory and adopts a more empirical approach. While the non-equilibrium model also has limitations, its treatment of the financial system is more consistent with reality and it shows that green investment need not crowd out investment in other parts of the economy -- and may therefore offer an economic stimulus. The implication of this finding is that standard CGE models consistently over-estimate the costs of climate policy in terms of GDP and welfare, potentially by a substantial amount. These findings overly restrict the range of possible emission pathways accessible using climate policy from the viewpoint of the decision-maker, and may also lead to misleading information used for policy making. Improvements in both modelling approaches should be sought with some urgency -- both to provide a better assessment of potential climate policy and to improve understanding of the dynamics of the global financial system more generally.
description: 6000 words, 12 pages
Figures_ESM from A generalized numerical model for clonal growth in scleractinian coral colonies
Creators: name: Llabrés, Eva
name: Re, Eleonora
name: Pluma, Naira
name: Sintes, Tomàs
name: Duarte, Carlos M
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Figures included to support the main text of “A generalized numerical model for clonal growth in coral colonies”.
Creation and counting of defects in a temperature quenched Bose-Einstein Condensate
Creators: name: Donadello, Simone
name: Serafini, Simone
name: Bienaimé, Tom
name: Dalfovo, Franco
name: Lamporesi, Giacomo
name: Ferrari, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spontaneous formation of defects in the order parameter of a trapped ultracold bosonic gas while crossing the critical temperature for Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) at different rates. The system has the shape of an elongated ellipsoid, whose transverse width can be varied to explore dimensionality effects. For slow enough temperature quenches we find a power-law scaling of the average defect number with the quench rate, as predicted by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. A breakdown of such a scaling is found for fast quenches, leading to a saturation of the average defect number. We suggest an explanation for this saturation in terms of the mutual interactions among defects.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of Transparent Silicon Solar Cells
Creators: name: Kerestes, C.
name: Shreve, K.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Barnett, A.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics: New Concepts and Ultra-high Efficiency
New Materials, Cells and Modules

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 714-719
description: Transparent silicon solar cells can lead to increased conversion efficiency in a multi-junction assembly
by transmitting near and below band gap energy photons to a lower band gap solar cell, in this case a germanium
solar cell. Previous work optimizes silicon thickness and band gap of the lower solar cell, which are shown to have
broad ranges of near optimal values [1]. This work details the requirements for transparency, which relies upon
material selection, surface treatment, and optical coatings. The analysis includes the effects of surface texturing on
the optical properties and the benefits for improving total system efficiency. Results show surface texturing allows
for more current collection in the silicon but also decreases the transparency. The resulting optimization relies
heavily upon both the optical and photovoltaic performance of each component in the system.
A SINFONI Integral Field Spectroscopy Survey for Galaxy Counterparts to Damped Lyman-alpha Systems - VI. Metallicity and Geometry as Gas Flow Probes
Creators: name: Peroux, Celine
name: Quiret, Samuel
name: Rahmani, Hadi
name: Kulkarni, Varsha P.
name: Epinat, Benoit
name: Milliard, Bruno
name: Straka, Lorrie
name: York, Donald G.
name: Rahmati, Alireza
name: Contini, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of background quasars provides a powerful tool to probe the cool gas in the circum-galactic medium of foreground galaxies. Here, we present new observations with SINFONI and X-Shooter of absorbing-galaxy candidates at z=0.7-1. We report the detection with both instruments of the H-alpha emission line of one sub-DLA at z_abs=0.94187 with log N(HI)=19.38^+0.10_-0.15 towards SDSS J002133.27+004300.9. We estimate the star formation rate: SFR=3.6+/-2.2 solar masses per year in that system. A detailed kinematic study indicates a dynamical mass M_dyn=10^9.9+/-0.4 solar masses and a halo mass M_halo=10^11.9+/-0.5 solar masses. In addition, we report the OII detection with X-Shooter of another DLA at z_abs=0.7402 with log N(HI)=20.4+/-0.1 toward Q0052+0041 and an estimated SFR of 5.3+/-0.7 solar masses per year. Three other objects are detected in the continuum with X-Shooter but the nature and redshift of two of these objects are unconstrained due to the absence of emission lines, while the third object might be at the redshift of the quasar. We use the objects detected in our whole N(HI)-selected SINFONI survey to compute the metallicity difference between the galaxy and the absorbing gas, delta_HI(X), where a positive (negative) value indicates infall (outflow). We compare this quantity with the quasar line of sight alignment with the galaxy's major (minor) axis, another tracer of infall (outflow). We find that these quantities do not correlate as expected from simple assumptions. Additional observations are necessary to relate these two independent probes of gas flows around galaxies.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Solving the Team Orienteering Problem with Cutting Planes
Creators: name: El-Hajj, Racha
name: Dang, Duc-Cuong
name: Moukrim, Aziz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Team Orienteering Problem (TOP) is an attractive variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). The aim is to select customers and at the same time organize the visits for a vehicle fleet so as to maximize the collected profits and subject to a travel time restriction on each vehicle. In this paper, we investigate the effective use of a linear formulation with polynomial number of variables to solve TOP. Cutting planes are the core components of our solving algorithm. It is first used to solve smaller and intermediate models of the original problem by considering fewer vehicles. Useful information are then retrieved to solve larger models, and eventually reaching the original problem. Relatively new and dedicated methods for TOP, such as identification of irrelevant arcs and mandatory customers, clique and independent-set cuts based on the incompatibilities, and profit/customer restriction on subsets of vehicles, are introduced. We evaluated our algorithm on the standard benchmark of TOP. The results show that the algorithm is competitive and is able to prove the optimality for 12 instances previously unsolved.
High Efficiency Amorphous Si Single Junction and Amorphous-Microcrystalline Si Tandem Solar Cells and Modules Fabricated Using Large Area PECVD Cluster Systems at High Deposition Rates
Creators: name: Sheng, S.
name: Chae, Y.K.
name: Li, L.
name: Su, J.
name: Yang, X.
name: Kadam, A.
name: Tanner, D.
name: Eberspacher, C.
name: Won, T.K.
name: Choi, S.Y.
name: White, J.M.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Thin Films
Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 2443-2446
description: We report on recent developments of a-Si:H single junction (SJ) and a-Si:H/mc-Si:H tandem junction solar
cells and modules fabricated using proprietary, field proven large scale AKT® RF-PECVD cluster tools. High quality a-
Si:H and mc-Si:H absorber films were deposited at high deposition rates of 200-400Å/min and 300-600Å/min,
respectively. Excellent uniformity of film thickness and properties over large area substrates was achieved, with better
than ±10% for all of the substrate sizes (0.43−5.7 m2). Better than 5% uniformity of device parameters for both SJ and
tandem cells were also achieved. a-Si:H SJ p-i-n cells with initial and stabilized efficiencies of 9.2±0.4% and 7.3±0.4%,
respectively, were obtained on low cost, commercially mass fabricated floatline TCO glass. a-Si:H 30cm×30cm SJ
modules were demonstrated with initial and stabilized efficiencies of >8% and 6.6%, respectively. Incorporating high
quality and stable a-Si:H on the top cells in a-Si:H/mc-Si:H tandem structure, initial and stabilized tandem cell
efficiencies of 11.2±0.4% and 9.7±0.3%, respectively, were obtained on floatline TCO. Moreover, 11.6% initial tandem
cell efficiency and 9.3% stabilized module (28cm×30cm) efficiency were demonstrated on offline TCO.
Novel Fluoropolymer Coated Backsheet Technology: ZEFFLE®-Based Photovoltaic Backsheets
Creators: name: Hendershot, R.
name: Yamamoto, Y.
name: Kuyl, P.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics: New Concepts and Ultra-high Efficiency
New Materials, Cells and Modules

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 720-724
description: We have developed and characterized a novel fluoropolymer coating technology for use in backsheet
constructions for both rigid and flexible photovoltaic cells. The current common approach to photovoltaic backsheet
constructions involves laminating films of polyvinyl fluoride (PVF) and polyethylene terepthalate (PET) into various multilayer
constructions. The current approach restricts backsheet design due to the difficulty of casting and compounding PVF
films. In addition, film cost and availability have been issues.
In contrast, we will describe a liquid fluoropolymer coating technology approach that offers a wide flexibility in formulating
the backsheet constructions. The resulting fluoropolymer coated backsheet offers excellent long-term weatherability, heat
resistance, and electrical performance. In this presentation we will describe the formulation, application, and characterization
of various liquid fluoropolymer coated backsheet constructions. We will also compare the performance of these coated
backsheet constructions to the more traditional laminated film backsheet approach. Our performance evaluation will include
long-term weathering data, damp heat performance, and high temperature stability.
While this liquid fluoropolymer coating technology is new to the photovoltaic industry, such fluoropolymer coatings have a
well-established performance record in the coatings industry. Fluoropolymer coatings have been used for over twenty years
in demanding high-performance exterior applications in high-rise commercial construction. This established performance
track record aligns well with our expectations for photovoltaic module lifetimes of 20 years and beyond.
Supplementary Materials from A rapid-response soft end effector inspired by the hummingbird beak
Creators: name: Shen, Jiajia
name: Garrad, Martin
name: Zhang, Qicheng
name: Wong, Vico Chun Hei
name: Pirrera, Alberto
name: Groh, Rainer Maria Johannes
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320203
subject: Clinical microbiology

description: Electronic supplementary material (Supplementary Review Files: Files that provide valuable background or reference information for peer review)
Performance Analysis and Distribution for PV System Installation
Creators: name: So, J.-H.
name: Hwang, H.M.
name: Yu, B.-G.
name: Yoo, J.S.
name: Kim, K.S.
name: Yu, G.-J.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Components for PV Systems
PV System Engineering and Standards, Socio-economic Aspects, and Sustainability

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 4579-4581
description: As the PV (Photovoltaic) market increases rapidly, the concerns of high quality and reliable PV system
have been increasing around the world. PV system is the fastest growing segment of the renewable energy market with
feed-in tariffs available in many countries. Therefore, PV system is the most important issues to establish usefulness of
design, installation and maintenance with optimization and performance improvement. This paper presents performance
analysis and distribution of grid-connected PV system installation according to inclination and orientation using two year
monitored data. From these analysis results, it will be estimated to various loss factors on the system performance
obstruction and be useful for performance improvement and optimum design of PV system.
Material Study on ZnO/Ag Back Reflectors for Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells
Creators: name: Hüpkes, J.
name: Wätjen, T.
name: Van Aubel, R.
name: Schmitz, R.
name: Reetz, W.
name: Gordijn, A.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Thin Films
Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 2419-2421
description: We studied the absorption losses in the back ZnO layer as well as the influence of surface structure of
the ZnO/silver interface on silicon thin film solar cell properties. Low absorption is one crucial factor for reflector
performance. Thus, addition of oxygen to the sputter gas might be necessary to optimize reflector performance.
Additionally, light scattering at the back reflector is still important, even if light scattering is already introduced by
the front contact. This is demonstrated by comparison of polished and conformal silver reflector interface. Finally we
indicate further potential by improvement of the silver reflectivity by high temperature growth of silver reflector.
However, due to limitation of the maximum substrate temperature by the silicon p-i-n structure this improvement
cannot be easily transferred to cell efficiency.
Second generation migrant writers in Australia: Transcultural Creativity and World Englishes
Creators: name: FANG, NINA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Linguistics not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the transcultural creativity of selected second generation Australian migrant writers through the lens of world Englishes and Cultural Linguistics. The sources of data are selected texts from Alice Pung, Benjamin Law, and Randa Abdel-Fattah, paratexts drawn from online sources, a questionnaire-survey and follow up interviews of participant responses, and semi-structured interviews with the selected authors. Findings suggest that the transcultural creativity of second generation writers is produced through the authors’ choice of linguistic strategies, reflection of self, perception of participants, cultural conceptualisations of both home and host cultures, and defamiliarisation and refamiliarisation of dominant social discourses.
Nonlinear looped band structure of Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice
Creators: name: Koller, Silvio B.
name: Goldschmidt, Elizabeth A.
name: Brown, Roger C.
name: Wyllie, Robert
name: Wilson, Ryan W.
name: James
name: Porto, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study experimentally the stability of excited, interacting states of bosons in a double-well optical lattice in regimes where the nonlinear interactions are expected to induce "swallowtail" looped band structure. By carefully preparing different initial coherent states and observing their subsequent decay, we observe distinct decay rates that provide direct evidence for multivalued, looped band structure. The double well lattice both stabilizes the looped band structure and allows for dynamic preparation of different initial states, including states within the loop structure. We confirm our state preparation procedure with dynamic Gross-Pitaevskii calculations. The excited loop states are found to be more stable than dynamically unstable ground states, but decay faster than expected based on a mean-field stability calculation, indicating the importance of correlations beyond a mean field description.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
ELT IN THE CONTEXT OF NEOCOLONIAL POWER RELATIONS: A MACRO-MICRO QUALITY FRAMEWORK FOR A POSTCOLONIAL CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
Creators: name: MAHMUD, ABDULLAH AL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: English as a second language
Other education not elsewhere classified
English language

description: Mainstream ELT policies and practices arguably maintain an image of the English language that is superior to others, thus affecting the status of local, native languages and indirectly their cultures, as well as the pedagogy of English itself. This study, therefore, attempts to formulate a combined macro-micro quality framework comprising quality standards and characteristics for a Postcolonial Critical Pedagogy of the English Language (PCPEL) to resist this situation that has become normalised in the wake of globalisation. Although with particular reference to Bangladesh and Malaysia, the framework developed in this study is intended for application across postcolonial countries concerned with this problem of inequitable language conditions. In this regard, this thesis also aims to advance the cause of linguistic human rights.
Liouville Type Theorem for Stationary Navier-Stokes Equations
Creators: name: Seregin, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q30, 76D05

description: It is shown that any smooth solution to the stationary Navier-Stokes system in $R^3$ with the velocity field, belonging globally to $L_6$ and $BM0^{-1}$, must be zero.
description: 7 pages
Analysis of the observed and intrinsic durations of gamma-ray bursts with known redshift
Creators: name: Tarnopolski, Mariusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The duration distribution of 408 GRBs with measured both duration $T_{90}$ and redshift $z$ is examined. Mixtures of a number of distributions (standard normal, skew-normal, sinh-arcsinh, and alpha-skew-normal) are fitted to the observed and intrinsic durations using the maximum log-likelihood method. The best fit is chosen via the Akaike information critetion. The aim of this work is to assess the presence of the presumed intermediate GRB class, and to provide a phenomenological model more appropriate than the common mixture of standard Gaussians. While $\log T^{obs}_{90}$ are well described by a truly trimodal fit, after moving to the rest frame the statistically most significant fit is unimodal. To trace the source of this discrepancy, 334 GRBs observed only by $Swift$/BAT are examined in the same way. In the observer frame, this results in a number of statistically plausible descriptions, being uni- and bimodal, and with the number of components ranging from one to three. After moving to the rest frame, no unambiguous conclusions may be put forward. It is concluded that the size of the sample is not big enough to infer reliably GRB properties based on a univariate statistical reasoning only.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures; accepted in Astrophysics and Space Science
Functional linear regression with points of impact
Creators: name: Kneip, Alois
name: Poß, Dominik
name: Sarda, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper considers functional linear regression, where scalar responses $Y_1,\ldots,Y_n$ are modeled in dependence of i.i.d. random functions $X_1,\ldots,X_n$. We study a generalization of the classical functional linear regression model. It is assumed that there exists an unknown number of "points of impact," that is, discrete observation times where the corresponding functional values possess significant influences on the response variable. In addition to estimating a functional slope parameter, the problem then is to determine the number and locations of points of impact as well as corresponding regression coefficients. Identifiability of the generalized model is considered in detail. It is shown that points of impact are identifiable if the underlying process generating $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ possesses "specific local variation." Examples are well-known processes like the Brownian motion, fractional Brownian motion or the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. The paper then proposes an easily implementable method for estimating the number and locations of points of impact. It is shown that this number can be estimated consistently. Furthermore, rates of convergence for location estimates, regression coefficients and the slope parameter are derived. Finally, some simulation results as well as a real data application are presented.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AOS1323 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Domain level ontology design: DISO and MDMC-NEP Prov
Creators: name: Ihsan, Ahmad Zainul
name: Fathalla, Said
name: Aversa, Rossella
name: Jalali, Mehrdad
name: Panighel, Mirco
name: Osmenaj, Elda
name: Hofmann, Volker
name: Sandfeld, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ontology
ontology design
provenance
dislocation ontology

description: How can a computer understand the relations of data or objects from the real world? Ontologies are semantic artifacts that capture knowledge about their domain of interest in a machine-understandable form. The main goal of developing ontologies is to formalize concepts and their relations through which humans express meaning and to use them as a communication interface to machines. Thus, ontology development is an important step towards generating linked and FAIR data. Within HMC we support and co-develop domain and application-level ontologies. Here we present two developments: Dislocation Ontology (DISO) and Model and Data-Driven Materials Characterization Provenance (MDMC-PROV). DISO:  An important class of materials is crystalline materials, e.g., metals and semiconductors, which nearly always contain defects, the “dislocations”. This type of defect determines many important material properties, e.g., strength and ductility. Over the past years, significant effort has been put into understanding dislocation behavior across different length scales via experimental characterization techniques and simulations. However, there is still a lack of common standards to formally describe and represent disclocations. Thus, in this work we develop the dislocation ontology (DISO), which is a domain ontology that defines the concepts and relationships related to linear defects in crystalline materials. DISO is published1 through a persistent URL following W3C best practices for publishing Linked data. MDMC-Prov: The rapid development of science and technology in everyday large data generation does not match the data understanding. These days, understanding how experiments are performed and results are derived become more complex due to a lack of provenance documentation. Therefore, the provenance must be tracked, described, and managed over the research process. Thus, in this work, we report an application ontology that can capture provenance information in materials science experiments. The ontology is based on the MDMC glossary2, which defines the common terms in the materials science experiments. From each term, we map to PROV-O3. These ensure the validity, reproducibility, and reusability of the data. [1] https://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/disos/diso [2] https://jl-mdmc-helmholtz.de [3] https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-primer-20130430/
description: {"references": ["DISO Repository : https://github.com/Materials-Data-Science-and-Informatics/dislocation-ontology/", "MDMC-NEP Prov Repository : https://github.com/Materials-Data-Science-and-Informatics/MDMC-NEP-top-level-ontology"]}
Other examples of methodology application on different data from Adaptive and self-learning Bayesian filtering algorithm to statistically characterize and improve signal-to-noise ratio of heart-rate data in wearable devices
Creators: name: Cossu, Luca
name: Cappon, Giacomo
name: Facchinetti, Andrea
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300199
subject: Agricultural biotechnology not elsewhere classified

description: Bayesian_HR-6.pdf
Absorber Layer Material With Improved Stability for Single-Junction a-Si:H Photovoltaic Modules on Foil
Creators: name: Vet, B.
name: Zeman, M.
name: Borreman, A.
name: Hamers, E.
name: Schlatmann, R.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Thin Films
Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 2422-2427
description: In this paper we present the development and implementation of protocrystalline silicon for use as an absorber layer in single junction a-Si:H photovoltaic modules on plastic foil. The development process included three steps. The first step was the investigation of the opto-electronic properties of protocrystalline silicon films deposited in a temperature range of 75°C to 200°C. In the second step the characterization of solar cells on glass with the protocrystalline silicon absorber layer was carried out during light soaking. The last step involved the characterization of photovoltaic mini-modules on plastic foil with the protocrystalline silicon absorber layer. The absorber layers were deposited in the temperature range of 150°C to 200°C. The results show that the protocrystalline silicon films have a low defect density (<1016 cm-3). The solar cells on glass show a large temperature dependence of the open circuit voltage, which achieved the maximum of 0.91 V for the lowest temperature of 150°C. The best solar cell on glass, deposited at 160 °C has a stabilized efficiency of 7.4 %. The solar modules on foil deposited under the same deposition conditions have a lower fill factor than the solar cells on glass. Using the absorber layers deposited at a higher dilution ratio of R=20 improved the fill factor and the best mini-module on foil achieved a stabilized efficiency of 6.5 % after 340 hours of light soaking.
Factorization of 3-point static structure functions in 3D Yukawa liquids
Creators: name: Magyar, Peter
name: Hartmann, Peter
name: Kalman, Gabor J.
name: Golden, Kenneth I.
name: Donko, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In many-body systems the convolution approximation states that the 3-point static structure function, $S^{(3)}(\textbf{k}_{1},\textbf{k}_{2})$, can approximately be "factorized" in terms of the 2-point counterpart, $S^{(2)}(\textbf{k}_{1})$. We investigate the validity of this approximation in 3-dimensional strongly-coupled Yukawa liquids: the factorization is tested for specific arrangements of the wave vectors $\textbf{k}_{1}$ and $\textbf{k}_{2}$, with molecular dynamics simulations. With the increase of the coupling parameter we find a breakdown of factorization, of which a notable example is the appearance of negative values of $S^{(3)}(\textbf{k}_{1},\textbf{k}_{2})$, whereas the approximate factorized form is restricted to positive values. These negative values -- based on the quadratic Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem -- imply that the quadratic part of the density response of the system changes sign with wave number. Our simulations that incorporate an external potential energy perturbation clearly confirm this behavior.
Non-Gaussian postselection and virtual photon subtraction in continuous-variable quantum key distribution
Creators: name: Li, Zhengyu
name: Zhang, Yi-Chen
name: Wang, Xiangyu
name: Xu, Bingjie
name: Peng, Xiang
name: Guo, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photon subtraction can enhance the performance of continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV QKD). However, the enhancement effect will be reduced by the imperfections of practical devices, especially the limited efficiency of a single-photon detector. In this paper, we propose a non-Gaussian postselection method to emulate the photon substraction used in coherent-state CV QKD protocols. The virtual photon subtraction not only can avoid the complexity and imperfections of a practical photon-subtraction operation, which extends the secure transmission distance as the ideal case does, but also can be adjusted flexibly according to the channel parameters to optimize the performance. Furthermore, our preliminary tests on the information reconciliation suggest that in the low signal-to-noise ratio regime, the performance of reconciliating the postselected non-Gaussian data is better than that of the Gaussian data, which implies the feasibility of implementing this method practically.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
'The pendulum of the public mind': Insanity and activism in capital trials, 1880-1939
Creators: name: Rychner, Georgina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified
Historical studies not elsewhere classified

description: Through a focus on the criminal trial in the colony, and later, state of Victoria, this dissertation explores the operation of capital punishment as a system that allowed for popular readings of madness in relation to serious interpersonal crimes between 1880 and 1939. Insanity was increasingly used by ordinary people as a discursive tool by which to contest the death penalty, and in some cases, a means by which to protest the material circumstances that governed their lives.
Supplementary Material from Dynamic predictability and activity-location contexts in human mobility
Creators: name: Poudyal, Bibandhan
name: Oliveira, Marcos A
name: Pacheco, Diogo
name: Chen, Zexun
name: Barbosa, Hugo
name: Menezes, Ronaldo
name: Ghoshal, Gourab
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Figures/Tables
Low Power High Growth Rate Deposition of Microcrystalline Silicon
Creators: name: Feltrin, A.
name: Bugnon, G.
name: Sculati-Meillaud, F.
name: Bailat, J.
name: Ballif, C.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Thin Films
Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 2447-2450
description: Microcrystalline growth regimes and solar cells obtained in different pressure and silane depletion conditions
are studied in a large area KAI-S plasma reactor. The microcrystalline material quality is systematically investigated by
Fourier Transform Photocurrent Spectroscopy (FTPS) to evaluate the defect density. It is shown that higher pressure and
silane depletion positively affect the material quality. A clear correlation between FTPS measurements and cell efficiency is
established, showing that the limiting factor is the material quality of the intrinsic microcrystalline layers. The highest
efficiency achieved so far is 8.2% for a 1.2 μm thick microcrystalline solar cell deposited at ~3 Å/s on glass coated with ZnO
deposited by low pressure chemical vapor deposition. The efficiency drops to 6.4% for solar cells deposited at 9 Å/s in
conditions where silane powder is present in the plasma. Upon modifying the reactor geometry in order to suppress powder
formation, solar cells achieve 7.0% efficiency at 12 Å/s. The results can be described by pressure and silane depletion
dependent ion bombardment. Transition curves from amorphous to microcrystalline are studied, revealing ion bombardment
induced amorphization of the layer at low pressure and low silane depletion. Modeling of the ion energy bombarding the
substrate supports this interpretation.
Narrative Manipulations of Time Travel: Character Knowledge and Temporal Disruption in Fiction and Film
Creators: name: BENTLEY, ELIZA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores the way time travel narratives experiment with story structure to convey the estrangement of travelling in time. It considers the relationship of character and audience knowledge and its role in comprehension in a range of film, television, and literary texts across a variety of genres. It concludes that time travel narratives function as a form of covert metafiction, in their blending of history and fiction, their use of popular culture and intertextual references, and the way a time travelling character’s awareness of the order of events leads an audience to question the structure of the narrative itself.