cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Preregistration for speech researchers (Brown & Strand, 2022)
Creators: name: Brown, Violet A.
name: Strand, Julia F.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sociological methodology and research methods
Speech pathology
Audiology

description: Purpose: In the last decade, psychology and other sciences have implemented numerous reforms to improve the robustness of our research, many of which are based on increasing transparency throughout the research process. Among these reforms is the practice of preregistration, in which researchers create a time-stamped and uneditable document before data collection that describes the methods of the study, how the data will be analyzed, the sample size, and many other decisions. The current article highlights the benefits of preregistration with a focus on the specific issues that speech, language, and hearing researchers are likely to encounter, and additionally provides a tutorial for writing preregistrations. Conclusions: Although rates of preregistration have increased dramatically in recent years, the practice is still relatively uncommon in research on speech, language, and hearing. Low rates of adoption may be driven by a lack of understanding of the benefits of preregistration (either generally or for our discipline in particular) or uncertainty about how to proceed if it becomes necessary to deviate from the preregistered plan. Alternatively, researchers may see the benefits of preregistration but not know where to start, and gathering this information from a wide variety of sources is arduous and time consuming. This tutorial addresses each of these potential roadblocks to preregistration and equips readers with tools to facilitate writing preregistrations for research on speech, language, and hearing. Supplemental Material S1. Sample preregistration. Brown, V. A., & Strand, J. F. (2022). Preregistration: Practical considerations for speech, language, and hearing research. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00317 Publisher Note: This article is part of the Forum: Promoting Reproducibility for the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.
Non-Linear Mechanical Properties of Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate (EVA) and its Relevance to Thermomechanics of Photovoltaic Modules
Creators: name: Eitner, U.
name: Kajari-Schröder, S.
name: Köntges, M.
name: Brendel, R.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Components for PV Systems
PV Modules

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 4366-4368
description: Polymers such as ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) encapsulants are known for their non-linear
mechanical material behavior. We identify the time and temperature dependence of EVA with the help of dynamic
mechanical analyses (DMA) and relaxation/creep experiments. Mechanical investigations of PV modules that
address the issue of reliability and long-term stability need adequate models that incorporate these non-linear
properties. A detailed description for a stepwise derivation of a viscoelastic material model that is based on
relaxation and creep tests is presented. Besides the relevance for Finite-Element-Simulations (FEM) it is obvious
from the experiments and the derived model that static snow load tests at room temperature cause a different amount
of stress in the solar cells than tests at 0°C. At temperatures below 0°C the stiffness of EVA rises by 2 orders of
magnitude.
Hafnian point processes and quasi-free states on the CCR algebra
Creators: name: Alshehri, Maryam Gharamah Ali
name: Lytvynov, Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G55, 46L30, 81R10

description: Let $X$ be a locally compact Polish space and $σ$ a nonatomic reference measure on $X$ (typically $X=\mathbb R^d$ and $σ$ is the Lebesgue measure). Let $X^2\ni(x,y)\mapsto\mathbb K(x,y)\in\mathbb C^{2\times 2}$ be a $2\times 2$-matrix-valued kernel that satisfies $\mathbb K^T(x,y)=\mathbb K(y,x)$. We say that a point process $μ$ in $X$ is hafnian with correlation kernel $\mathbb K(x,y)$ if, for each $n\in\mathbb N$, the $n$th correlation function of $μ$ (with respect to $σ^{\otimes n}$) exists and is given by $k^{(n)}(x_1,\dots,x_n)=\operatorname{haf}\big[\mathbb K(x_i,x_j)\big]_{i,j=1,\dots,n}\,$. Here $\operatorname{haf}(C)$ denotes the hafnian of a symmetric matrix $C$. Hafnian point processes include permanental and 2-permanental point processes as special cases. A Cox process $Π_R$ is a Poisson point process in $X$ with random intensity $R(x)$. Let $G(x)$ be a complex Gaussian field on $X$ satisfying $\int_Δ\mathbb E(|G(x)|^2)σ(dx)<\infty$ for each compact $Δ\subset X$. Then the Cox process $Π_R$ with $R(x)=|G(x)|^2$ is a hafnian point process. The main result of the paper is that each such process $Π_R$ is the joint spectral measure of a rigorously defined particle density of a representation of the canonical commutation relations (CCR), in a symmetric Fock space, for which the corresponding vacuum state on the CCR algebra is quasi-free.
title: zur Erinnerung an die im Herrn verstorbene Frau Pfarrer A. Maria Schweizer geb. Wild von Zürich
title: gestorben 1. Dezember (1. Adventssonntag), beerdigt am 5. Dezmeber 1878 in Bubikon
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Druck von Orell Füssli & Co.
Year: 1878
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf

description: Enthält: Lebensabriss der Verewigten bei ihrer Beerdigung mitgetheilt von C. Scheller, Pfarrer in Dürnten; Leichenrede gehalten von C. Scheller, Pfarrer in Dürnten
Asymptotically Improved Circuit for $d$-ary Grover's Algorithm with Advanced Decomposition of $n$-qudit Toffoli Gate
Creators: name: Saha, Amit
name: Majumdar, Ritajit
name: Saha, Debasri
name: Chakrabarti, Amlan
name: Sur-Kolay, Susmita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The progress in building quantum computers to execute quantum algorithms has recently been remarkable. Grover's search algorithm in a binary quantum system provides considerable speed-up over classical paradigm. Further, Grover's algorithm can be extended to a $d$-ary (qudit) quantum system for utilizing the advantage of larger state space, which helps to reduce the run-time of the algorithm as compared to the traditional binary quantum systems. In a qudit quantum system, an $n$-qudit Toffoli gate plays a significant role in the accurate implementation of Grover's algorithm. In this article, a generalized $n$-qudit Toffoli gate has been realized using higher dimensional qudits to attain a logarithmic depth decomposition without ancilla qudit. The circuit for Grover's algorithm has then been designed for any $d$-ary quantum system, where $d \ge 2$, with the proposed $n$-qudit Toffoli gate to obtain optimized depth compared to earlier approaches. The technique for decomposing an $n$-qudit Toffoli gate requires access to two immediately higher energy levels, making the design susceptible to errors. Nevertheless, we show that the percentage decrease in the probability of error is significant as we have reduced both gate count and circuit depth as compared to that in state-of-the-art works.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
Preregistration for speech researchers (Brown & Strand, 2022)
Creators: name: Brown, Violet A.
name: Strand, Julia F.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 441006
subject: Sociological methodology and research methods
classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 420102
subject: Audiology

description: Purpose: In the last decade, psychology and other sciences have implemented numerous reforms to improve the robustness of our research, many of which are based on increasing transparency throughout the research process. Among these reforms is the practice of preregistration, in which researchers create a time-stamped and uneditable document before data collection that describes the methods of the study, how the data will be analyzed, the sample size, and many other decisions. The current article highlights the benefits of preregistration with a focus on the specific issues that speech, language, and hearing researchers are likely to encounter, and additionally provides a tutorial for writing preregistrations.Conclusions: Although rates of preregistration have increased dramatically in recent years, the practice is still relatively uncommon in research on speech, language, and hearing. Low rates of adoption may be driven by a lack of understanding of the benefits of preregistration (either generally or for our discipline in particular) or uncertainty about how to proceed if it becomes necessary to deviate from the preregistered plan. Alternatively, researchers may see the benefits of preregistration but not know where to start, and gathering this information from a wide variety of sources is arduous and time consuming. This tutorial addresses each of these potential roadblocks to preregistration and equips readers with tools to facilitate writing preregistrations for research on speech, language, and hearing.Supplemental Material S1. Sample preregistration.Brown, V. A., & Strand, J. F. (2022). Preregistration: Practical considerations for speech, language, and hearing research. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(6), 1889–1898. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00317Publisher Note: This article is part of the Forum: Promoting Reproducibility for the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.
A Three-Point Form Factor Through Five Loops
Creators: name: Dixon, Lance J.
name: McLeod, Andrew J.
name: Wilhelm, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We bootstrap the three-point form factor of the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, obtaining new results at three, four, and five loops. Our construction employs known conditions on the first, second, and final entries of the symbol, combined with new multiple-final-entry conditions, ``extended-Steinmann-like'' conditions, and near-collinear data from the recently-developed form factor operator product expansion. Our results are expected to give the maximally transcendental parts of the $gg\to Hg$ and $H\to ggg$ amplitudes in the heavy-top limit of QCD. At two loops, the extended-Steinmann-like space of functions we describe contains all transcendental functions required for four-point amplitudes with one massive and three massless external legs, and all massless internal lines, including processes such as $gg\to Hg$ and $γ^*\to q\bar{q}g$. We expect the extended-Steinmann-like space to contain these amplitudes at higher loops as well, although not to arbitrarily high loop order. We present evidence that the planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ three-point form factor can be placed in an even smaller space of functions, with no independent $ζ$ values at weights two and three.
description: 46 pages, 6 figures, 9 tables. v2: conjecture in section 6 modified and minor typos corrected; version to appear in JHEP
Quasiperiodic driving of Anderson localized waves in one dimension
Creators: name: Hatami, H.
name: Danieli, C.
name: Bodyfelt, J. D.
name: Flach, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a quantum particle in a one-dimensional disordered lattice with Anderson localization, in the presence of multi-frequency perturbations of the onsite energies. Using the Floquet representation, we transform the eigenvalue problem into a Wannier-Stark basis. Each frequency component contributes either to a single channel or a multi-channel connectivity along the lattice, depending on the control parameters. The single channel regime is essentially equivalent to the undriven case. The multi-channel driving substantially increases the localization length for slow driving, showing two different scaling regimes of weak and strong driving, yet the localization length stays finite for a finite number of frequency components.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Mathematical modelling of the performance of a student in non-collaborative and non-presential learning
Creators: name: Sagaceta-Mejía, Alma Rocío
name: Fresán-Figueroa, Julián Alberto
name: Martín-González, Ehyter M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we propose a model to study the appropriation of knowledge of one student in a non-collaborative online class. We formulate a stochastic model based on the quality of the teacher's class and the affinity of the student to understand the sessions, under the assumption that previous sessions have some influence in the understanding of the next sessions. This assumption implies that the process is not even a Markov process. This kind of situation appears in seminars and classes with many different sessions. We derive some recursive expressions for the distribution of the number of sessions that the student comprehends. Furthermore, we study the convergence of this distribution and study the speed of this convergence through some numerical examples.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Breakdown Current Density in BN-Capped Quasi-1D TaSe3 Metallic Nanowires: Prospects of Interconnect Applications
Creators: name: Stolyarov, Maxim A.
name: Liu, Guanxiong
name: Bloodgood, Matthew A.
name: Aytan, Ece
name: Jiang, Chenglong
name: Samnakay, Rameez
name: Salguero, Tina T.
name: Nika, Denis L.
name: Bozhilov, Krassimir N.
name: Balandin, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of investigation of the current-carrying capacity of nanowires made from the quasi-1D van der Waals metal tantalum triselenide capped with quasi-2D boron nitride. The chemical vapor transport method followed by chemical and mechanical exfoliation were used to fabricate mm-long TaSe3 wires with lateral dimensions in the 20 to 70 nm range. Electrical measurements establish that TaSe3/h-BN nanowire heterostructures have a breakdown current density exceeding 10 MA/cm2 - an order-of-magnitude higher than that in copper. Some devices exhibited an intriguing step-like breakdown, which can be explained by the atomic thread bundle structure of the nanowires. The quasi-1D single crystal nature of TaSe3 results in low surface roughness and the absence of grain boundaries; these features potentially can enable the downscaling of these wires to lateral dimensions in the few-nm range. These results suggest that quasi-1D van der Waals metals have potential for applications in the ultimately downscaled local interconnects.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures
First Flight Demonstration of Film-Laminated InGaP/GaAs and CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells by JAXA’s Small Satellite in LEO
Creators: name: Okamoto, C.
name: Shimazaki, K.
name: Kawakita, S.
name: Imaizumi, M.
name: Nakamura, Y.
name: Hirako, K.
name: Takahashi, M.
name: Yamaguchi, H.
name: Takamoto, T.
name: Sato, S.
name: Ohshima, T.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics: New Concepts and Ultra-high Efficiency
Solar Cells, Modules and PV Systems for Space Applications

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 92-97
description: JAXA is currently developing lightweight and flexible thin-film solar cells for space application.
The cells are thin-film III-V multi-junction solar cells with high efficiency and CuInGaSe2 solar cells with super
radiation tolerance. The electrical performances of InGaP/GaAs dual-junction solar cells and CIGS solar cells in
space have been demonstrated by JAXA’s small satellite which flew in a Low-Earth Orbit since January 2009.
This flight demonstration is the first experiment for a thin-film III-V multi-junction solar cell in the world. Thinfilm
solar cells were laminated using transparent polymer film in place of conventional coverglass for protection
of solar cell’s surface. The film-laminated cells were observed for short-circuit current degradation. The ground
tests indicated that the cause of the degradation was attributed to the film coloring by obliquely incident UV rays.
This is because the lamination film has UV-reflective multilayer coating on its surface and the optical properties
vary depending on the UV incident angle. The flight degradation trend of short-circuit current was, therefore,
predicted using the ground test results taking into account the incident angle dependence. The flight data and the
predicted results were in reasonable agreement with each other. Thus, we could verify the validity of the ground
tests and prediction methodology for film-laminated solar cell in this study.
Anxiety, Experiential Avoidance, and Physical Health: A Research Portfolio
Creators: name: Clifton, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: An established body of literature asserts that elevated anxiety is associated with diminished physical health, especially in long-term conditions. However, less is known about the mechanisms by which anxiety impacts physical health. This thesis begins with a systematic review of the existing literature investigating the interrelations between anxiety, experiential avoidance (EA) and physical health outcomes (Chapter One). The search strategy yielded nine studies which utilized moderation, mediation, and cluster analyses to model the interrelations of anxiety, EA and physical health outcomes within cancer, pain, hypertension, asthma, and a community sample. Results support the notion concurrent heightened anxiety and EA is detrimental to health outcomes. However, findings on the interrelations are disparate, and consensus was not achieved. Results from three studies supported a mediation model whereby anxiety impacted physical health outcomes via the mediating effect of EA, conversely, two further studies did not support this assertion. Further research is required to clarify the interrelations between anxiety, EA, and health outcomes within specific health conditions. Consequently, the relationship between generalised anxiety (GA) and COPD-related health outcomes was investigated in Chapter Two, with self-efficacy (SE) and EA advanced as possible mediators. Forty-two participants offered pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) for COPD completed measures of SE, EA, GA, COPD related quality of life (QoL) and COPD impact. Results suggest GA was significantly associated with SE, EA and QoL. A mediation analysis revealed GA affected PR completion via the mediating effect of EA. Patients with elevated GA, demonstrate a greater tendency to engage in EA, this in turn decreased the likelihood of completing the PR programme. The clinical implications of elevated GA and EA on PR engagement and efficacy are discussed alongside considerations for psychological support within PR.
HiTAIC_FigShare
Creators: name: Zhang, Ze
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cancer diagnosis

description: Human cancers are heterogenous by their cell composition and origination site. Cancer metastasis generates the conundrum of the unknown origin of migrated tumor cells. Tracing tissue of origin and tumor type in primary and metastasized cancer is vital for clinical significance. DNA methylation alterations play a crucial role in carcinogenesis and mark cell fate differentiation, thus can be used to trace tumor tissue of origin. In this study, we employed a novel tumor-type-specific hierarchical model using genome-scale DNA methylation data to develop a multilayer perceptron model, HiTAIC, to trace tissue of origin and tumor type in 27 cancers from 23 tissue sites in data from 7735 tumors with high resolution, accuracy, and specificity. In tracing primary cancer origin, HiTAIC accuracy was 99% in the test set and 93% in the external validation data set. Metastatic cancers were identified with a 96% accuracy in the external data set. HiTAIC is a user-friendly web-based application through https://sites.dartmouth.edu/salaslabhitaic/. We developed HiTAIC, a DNA methylation-based algorithm, to trace tumor tissue of origin in primary and metastasized cancers. The high accuracy and resolution of tumor tracing using HiTAIC holds promise for clinical assistance in identifying cancer of unknown origin.
Viability of SUSY-GUT paradigm after LHC
Creators: name: Chianese, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SUSY-GUT paradigm is the most promising scenario for the physics beyond the Standard Model. After the LHC run I, it is of interest to reanalyze the room still remaining for SUSY-GUT inspired models and to study the limits on the SUSY mass spectrum. Assuming one step unification of gauge couplings, under some natural requirements we have obtained the energy upper bound for the observation of SUSY phenomenology. We found that in the SUSY-GUT framework the mass of lightest gluino or Higgsino cannot be larger than about 20 TeV.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Prepared for the proceedings of the conference IFAE 2015
Theory and Experimental Proof of Shading Loss of Multi-Trackers CPV System
Creators: name: Araki, K.
name: Kumagai, I.
name: Nagai, H.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics: New Concepts and Ultra-high Efficiency
Terrestrial Concentrator Systems

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 114-117
description: The new model on the shading loss by multi-tracking CPV system considering spectrum mismatching
loss as a function of sun height, shading of obstacles and range of tracking, seasonal change of sunshine duration and
mismatching loss among modules. The observation and analysis of shading loss were done by comparison of string
currents. The 30 kW CPV multi-tracker system consists of 42 strings. If specific string currents drop more than 50 %
of the standard string currents, it will be regarded as being shaded. The shaded string current data sampled by every 1
second were integrated an entire day with weight of total power output. The measured and calculated shading loss
was compared (see figure 1). Good agreement was obtained. Depending on local conditions including sunshine
duration among seasons, latitude, shape of lands and etc, the annual shading loss of CPV multi-tracker system of 0.18
of space factor was 5 %.
A simple counterexample for the permanent-on-top conjecture
Creators: name: Anh, Tran Hoang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The permanent-on-top conjecture states that the largest eigenvalue of the Schur power matrix of a positive semi-definite Hermitian matrix H is per(H). A counterexample has been found with the help of computers, but here, I present another counterexample that can be checked by hand. My method is to use linear representations of groups to connect the spectrum of the Schur power matrix with the spectra of the entrywise(Hadamard) product matrices of permanental compound matrices. By that, we are able to study the properties of the spectrum of the Schur power matrix through the entrywise(Hadamard) product matrices of permanental compound matrices. The counterexample we find is in fact also a counterexample to a weaker conjecture related to permanental compound matrices. This conjecture was also known to be false, but the new counterexample is smaller than the known one.
description: 16 pages
Investigation of Aging Phenomenon and Power Drop Rate with Field Exposed PV Modules
Creators: name: Kang, G.-H.
name: Kim, K.S.
name: Song, H.-E.
name: Yu, G.-J.
name: Ahn, H.K.
name: Han, D.-Y.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Components for PV Systems
PV Modules

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 4015-4018
description: In this paper, we studied and analyzed the degradation phenomenon and the power drop for 53 sites
among photovoltaic (PV) module sites installed between 1988 and 2008 year in Korea. In this time, Installation
capacity and number of site was 357 MW and 25,870 PV sites were established during 1988-2008. In this study, PV
modules from 4 sites exposed for 20 years in the field showed humidity intrusion, EVA sheet de-lamination,
electrode oxidation, yellow discoloring, white discoloring and glass breakage. The degradation of PV module from
these sites was seen to be about 100 % by the naked eyes test and seemed to be too aged to work properly. However
the power output of these PV modules got reduced only by about 20-30 % of the initial production value. The PV
modules from 10 sites used for ~10 years in the field showed the similar degradation phenomenon to ones for ≥20
years old and the aging degree was about 80 %. In here, the drop rate of power output was 13.5 - 57.9 %, compared
to the initial power output. The degradation phenomenon was also found in PV modules used for ~5 years and about
30 % of these PV modules showed electrode oxidation, humidity intrusion, de-lamination, white discoloring and bus
bar ribbon oxidation. Some of modules had yellow discoloring, cell corrosion, power cable corrosion, insulation
breakage, back sheet white discoloring and et al. The degradation rate of these modules was ~30 % and power output
drop was 13-13.5 % of the initial one. The some PV modules installed recently, less than 5 years, also showed
electrode oxidation, de-lamination, yellow discoloring, hot spot. The aging rate and power output drop were ~10 %
and 1.7 - 14.6 % with very wide variations, respectively. This paper is the final report of ‘Degradation investigation
analysis of the field aged PV modules’ sponsored by ‘New and Renewable Energy R&D policy’ of Korea
government from 2007 to 2010 year.
Models of reduced-noise, probabilistic linear amplifiers
Creators: name: Combes, Joshua
name: Walk, Nathan
name: Lund, A. P.
name: Ralph, T. C.
name: Caves, Carlton M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct an amplifier that interpolates between a nondeterministic, immaculate linear amplifier and a deterministic, ideal linear amplifier and beyond to nonideal linear amplifiers. The construction involves cascading an immaculate linear amplifier that has amplitude gain $g_1$ with a (possibly) nonideal linear amplifier that has gain $g_2$. With respect to normally ordered moments, the device has output noise $μ^2(G^2-1)$ where $G=g_1 g_2$ is the overall amplitude gain and $μ^2$ is a noise parameter. When $μ^2\ge1$, our devices realize ideal ($μ^2=1$) and nonideal ($μ^2>1$) linear amplifiers. When $0\leμ^2<1$, these devices work effectively only over a restricted region of phase space and with some subunity success probability $p_{\checkmark}$. We investigate the performance of our $μ^2$-amplifiers in terms of a gain-corrected probability-fidelity product and the ratio of input to output signal-to-noise ratios corrected for success probability.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Intellectual Disabilities: An exploration into attachment assessments and adoptive mothers’ experiences
Creators: name: Camm-Crosbie, Louise
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Systematic Literature Review: Twenty-three studies evaluating the psychometric properties of twelve attachment measures were systematically reviewed to examine their reliability and validity for adults and children with intellectual disabilities (ID). The COSMIN appraisal tool was used to evaluate methodological quality of the studies and to evaluate psychometric properties. Evidence was found of good internal consistency and test-retest reliability but inconsistent inter-rater reliability and construct validity. Methodological quality of the studies ranged from ‘inadequate’ to ‘very good’. The findings of a small but growing evidence base were promising, however highlighted the importance of clinicians using attachment measures with people with ID with caution. Limitations were raised in relation to validity and reliability of observational measures with people with ID and in particular the Strange Situation Procedure. Further research is needed in relation to all psychometric properties and particularly test-retest reliability and construct validity. Research Paper: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to explore adoptive mothers’ experiences of their child being diagnosed with an intellectual disability post-adoption. Three Group Experiential Themes were developed: ‘Trauma of Intellectual Disability: something is ‘not quite right’ highlighted experiences of loss and betrayal; ‘isolation and marginalisation: ‘your world becomes smaller’ captured experiences of isolation from social networks and feelings of powerlessness; and ‘growth and resilience’ illustrated mothers advocating for their child and holding on to hope for the future. Themes were discussed in relation to existing literature and highlighted the importance of professionals acknowledging experiences of loss and grief and offering more post-diagnostic support to families of children with intellectual disabilities. Mothers’ experiences of gravitating towards people with shared experiences illustrated that it may be helpful for adoption and learning disability services to connect families to peer workers with lived experiences.
HiTAIC_FigShare
Creators: name: Zhang, Ze
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 321102
subject: Cancer diagnosis

description: Human cancers are heterogenous by their cell composition and origination site. Cancer metastasis generates the conundrum of the unknown origin of migrated tumor cells. Tracing tissue of origin and tumor type in primary and metastasized cancer is vital for clinical significance. DNA methylation alterations play a crucial role in carcinogenesis and mark cell fate differentiation, thus can be used to trace tumor tissue of origin. In this study, we employed a novel tumor-type-specific hierarchical model using genome-scale DNA methylation data to develop a multilayer perceptron model, HiTAIC, to trace tissue of origin and tumor type in 27 cancers from 23 tissue sites in data from 7735 tumors with high resolution, accuracy, and specificity. In tracing primary cancer origin, HiTAIC accuracy was 99% in the test set and 93% in the external validation data set. Metastatic cancers were identified with a 96% accuracy in the external data set. HiTAIC is a user-friendly web-based application through https://sites.dartmouth.edu/salaslabhitaic/. We developed HiTAIC, a DNA methylation-based algorithm, to trace tumor tissue of origin in primary and metastasized cancers. The high accuracy and resolution of tumor tracing using HiTAIC holds promise for clinical assistance in identifying cancer of unknown origin.
Parabolic velocity profile causes drift of inertial prolate spheroids -- but gravity is stronger
Creators: name: Bagge, Joar
name: Rosén, Tomas
name: Lundell, Fredrik
name: Tornberg, Anna-Karin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motion of elongated particles in shear is studied. In applications where particles are much heavier than the carrying fluid, e.g. aerosols, the influence of particle inertia dominates the particle dynamics. Assuming that the particle only experiences a local linear velocity profile, its rotational and translational motion are independent. However, we show that quadratic terms of the local velocity profile combined with particle inertia cause a lateral drift of prolate spheroidal particles. We find that this drift is maximal when particle inertial forces are of the same order of magnitude as viscous forces, and that both extremely light and extremely heavy particles have negligible drift. In the non-inertial case, the particle rotates according to the local linear velocity profile, with each instantaneous orientation corresponding to a velocity that gives zero force on the particle. This results in a translational motion in the flow direction with periodic velocity fluctuations. With added particle inertia, the particle is slow to react to the surrounding fluid motion and the particle will switch between slower and faster rotation compared to the zero-force solution. The final motion that gives zero integrated force over a rotational period, is a motion with a lateral drift. We show that this drift is purely an effect of the non-sphericity of the particle and its translational inertia, while rotational inertia is negligible. Finally, although this inertial drift will contribute to the lateral motion of heavy elongated particles in channel flow, sedimentation due to gravity will dominate in any practical application on earth.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures
ParmoSense: A Scenario-based Participatory Mobile Urban Sensing Platform with User Motivation Engine
Creators: name: Matsuda, Yuki
name: Kawanaka, Shogo
name: Suwa, Hirohiko
name: Arakawa, Yutaka
name: Yasumoto, Keiichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.4
subject: 68M18

description: Rapid proliferation of mobile devices with various sensors have enabled Participatory Mobile Sensing (PMS). Several PMS platforms provide multiple functions for various sensing purposes, but they are suffering from the open issues: limited use of their functions for a specific scenario/case and requiring technical knowledge for organizers. In this paper, we propose a novel PMS platform named ParmoSense for easily and flexibly collecting urban environmental information. To reduce the burden on both organizers and participants, in ParmoSense, we employ two novel features: modularization of functions and scenario-based PMS system description. For modularization, we provide the essential PMS functions as modules which can be easily chosen and combined for sensing in different scenarios. The scenario-based description feature allows organizers to easily and quickly set up a new participatory sensing instance and participants to easily install the corresponding scenario and participate in the sensing. Moreover, ParmoSense provides GUI tools as well for creating and distributing PMS system easily, editing and visualizing collected data quickly. It also provides multiple functions for encouraging participants' motivation for sustainable operation of the system. Through performance comparison with existing PMS platforms, we confirmed ParmoSense shows the best cost-performance in the perspective of the workload for preparing PMS system and varieties of functions. In addition, to evaluate the availability and usability of ParmoSense, we conducted 19 case studies, which have different locations, scales, and purposes, over 4 years with cooperation from ordinary citizens. Through the case studies and the questionnaire survey for participants and organizers, we confirmed that ParmoSense can be easily operated and participated by ordinary citizens including non-technical persons.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
The Mechanical Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPTM)
Creators: name: Stalter, O.
name: Burger, B.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics: New Concepts and Ultra-high Efficiency
Terrestrial Concentrator Systems

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 133-136
description: When Concentrating Photovoltaic (CPV) systems came onto the market a few years ago, their
extremely high efficiency [1] and expected low costs of electricity have been seen as a major breakthrough to make
photovoltaic (PV) energy less expensive. However, solutions had to be found to associate to the high performance of
concentrating modules, precise and reliable hardware devices and software tools to control the electrical and
mechanical parts of CPV trackers. This paper focuses on three different innovative ideas which have been turned into
reality during the last couple of years and which make CPV systems more reliable, more efficient and more cost
effective. The Tracking Inverter merges the inverter and position controller of a typical CPV system into one unique
device. The mechanical Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPTm) focuses on maximizing the system’s output power
by acting on the tracker’s mechanical position. Therefore, it cancels all well-known drawbacks of conventional
position controllers and boosts the energy yield per installed power. Finally, the Blind-Tracking initiates the MPPTm
and helps him find the sun for the very first run, avoiding thereby any human intervention for manual calibration and
reducing the costs even more.
Reproducibility in small-N treatment research (Cavanaugh et al., 2022)
Creators: name: Cavanaugh, Robert
name: Quique, Yina
name: Swiderski, Alexander M.
name: Kallhoff, Lydia
name: Terhorst, Lauren
name: Wambaugh, Julie
name: Hula, William D.
name: Evans, William S.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
Research, science and technology policy
Speech pathology

description: Purpose: Small-N studies are the dominant study design supporting evidence-based interventions in communication science and disorders, including treatments for aphasia and related disorders. However, there is little guidance for conducting reproducible analyses or selecting appropriate effect sizes in small-N studies, which has implications for scientific review, rigor, and replication. This tutorial aims to (a) demonstrate how to conduct reproducible analyses using effect sizes common to research in aphasia and related disorders and (b) provide a conceptual discussion to improve the reader’s understanding of these effect sizes. Method: We provide a tutorial on reproducible analyses of small-N designs in the statistical programming language R using published data from Wambaugh et al. (2017). In addition, we discuss the strengths, weaknesses, reporting requirements, and impact of experimental design decisions on effect sizes common to this body of research. Results: Reproducible code demonstrates implementation and comparison of within-case standardized mean difference, proportion of maximal gain, tau-U, and frequentist and Bayesian mixed-effects models. Data, code, and an interactive web application are available as a resource for researchers, clinicians, and students. Conclusions: Pursuing reproducible research is key to promoting transparency in small-N treatment research. Researchers and clinicians must understand the properties of common effect size measures to make informed decisions in order to select ideal effect size measures and act as informed consumers of small-N studies. Together, a commitment to reproducibility and a keen understanding of effect sizes can improve the scientific rigor and synthesis of the evidence supporting clinical services in aphasiology and in communication sciences and disorders more broadly. Supplemental Material S1. Code needed to reproduce the analysis in Section 1 of the article. Supplemental Material S2. Code batch calculate effect sizes. Cavanaugh, R., Quique, Y. M., Swiderski, A. M., Kallhoff, L., Terhorst, L., Wambaugh, J., Hula, W. D., & Evans, W. S. (2022). Reproducibility in small-N treatment research: A tutorial using examples from aphasiology. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00333 Publisher Note: This article is part of the Forum: Promoting Reproducibility for the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.
Optimized Front Silver Metallization for High-Ohmic Emitters
Creators: name: Van Eijk, P.
name: Kerp, H.
name: Albertsen, K.
name: Pham, T.
name: Van Den Donker, M.N.
name: Shaikh, A.
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; 1805-1807
description: When the sheet resistivity of the n-type emitter in industrial p-type wafer-based solar cells exceeds 70 Ohm/sq it becomes of critical importance to produce homogeneous emitters combined with a high quality front contact. The screen printable silver paste should enable low contact resistance, minimized shunting risk, high specific conductivity and a wide process window. This paper evaluates new silver pastes for contacting low doped emitters. The experiments confirm that the contact resistance strongly depends on both emitter sheet resistivity and firing conditions. It is demonstrated that by using robust paste chemistries the process window is increased compared to standard pastes. One of the investigated pastes, ‘paste B’, makes good electrical contact with emitters up to 100 Ohm/sq over a broad firing range. More work is needed to fully understand the mechanisms taking place during the firing process on a microscopic level.
CoinTossX: An open-source low-latency high-throughput matching engine
Creators: name: Jericevich, Ivan
name: Sing, Dharmesh
name: Gebbie, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We deploy and demonstrate the CoinTossX low-latency, high-throughput, open-source matching engine with orders sent using the Julia and Python languages. We show how this can be deployed for small-scale local desk-top testing and discuss a larger scale, but local hosting, with multiple traded instruments managed concurrently and managed by multiple clients. We then demonstrate a cloud based deployment using Microsoft Azure, with large-scale industrial and simulation research use cases in mind. The system is exposed and interacted with via sockets using UDP SBE message protocols and can be monitored using a simple web browser interface using HTTP. We give examples showing how orders can be be sent to the system and market data feeds monitored using the Julia and Python languages. The system is developed in Java with orders submitted as binary encodings (SBE) via UDP protocols using the Aeron Media Driver as the low-latency, high throughput message transport. The system separates the order-generation and simulation environments e.g. agent-based model simulation, from the matching of orders, data-feeds and various modularised components of the order-book system. This ensures a more natural and realistic asynchronicity between events generating orders, and the events associated with order-book dynamics and market data-feeds. We promote the use of Julia as the preferred order submission and simulation environment.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables
Performance Parameters for Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon PV Modules under Field Conditions
Creators: name: Roldán, R.
name: Asensi, J.M.
name: Bertomeu, J.
name: Andreu, J.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Components for PV Systems
PV Modules

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 4373-4377
description: One year of outdoor performance of hydrogenated amorphous silicon photovoltaic modules is studied in this
paper. Its main features show the typical seasonal behavior by increasing the efficiency during the warmer
months, mainly in summer. The annual variation of most significant performance parameters (based on a daily
and monthly average) highlights their influence on the seasonal variation of the photovoltaic module efficiency.
A detailed analysis on the monitored dataset and careful selection of clear sky days allow to quantify accurately
the influence of air mass (AM) and the module temperature by means of two coefficients. Results suggest that
efficiency increase in summer is due to the contributions of both reduction in air mass and the thermal annealing
effect.
Reproducibility in small-N treatment research (Cavanaugh et al., 2022)
Creators: name: Cavanaugh, Robert
name: Quique, Yina
name: Swiderski, Alexander M.
name: Kallhoff, Lydia
name: Terhorst, Lauren
name: Wambaugh, Julie
name: Hula, William D.
name: Evans, William S.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
classificationCode: 440710
subject: Research, science and technology policy
classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology

description: Purpose: Small-N studies are the dominant study design supporting evidence-based interventions in communication science and disorders, including treatments for aphasia and related disorders. However, there is little guidance for conducting reproducible analyses or selecting appropriate effect sizes in small-N studies, which has implications for scientific review, rigor, and replication. This tutorial aims to (a) demonstrate how to conduct reproducible analyses using effect sizes common to research in aphasia and related disorders and (b) provide a conceptual discussion to improve the reader’s understanding of these effect sizes.Method: We provide a tutorial on reproducible analyses of small-N designs in the statistical programming language R using published data from Wambaugh et al. (2017). In addition, we discuss the strengths, weaknesses, reporting requirements, and impact of experimental design decisions on effect sizes common to this body of research.Results: Reproducible code demonstrates implementation and comparison of within-case standardized mean difference, proportion of maximal gain, tau-U, and frequentist and Bayesian mixed-effects models. Data, code, and an interactive web application are available as a resource for researchers, clinicians, and students.Conclusions: Pursuing reproducible research is key to promoting transparency in small-N treatment research. Researchers and clinicians must understand the properties of common effect size measures to make informed decisions in order to select ideal effect size measures and act as informed consumers of small-N studies. Together, a commitment to reproducibility and a keen understanding of effect sizes can improve the scientific rigor and synthesis of the evidence supporting clinical services in aphasiology and in communication sciences and disorders more broadly.Supplemental Material S1. Code needed to reproduce the analysis in Section 1 of the article.Supplemental Material S2. Code batch calculate effect sizes.Cavanaugh, R., Quique, Y. M., Swiderski, A. M., Kallhoff, L., Terhorst, L., Wambaugh, J., Hula, W. D., & Evans, W. S. (2022). Reproducibility in small-N treatment research: A tutorial using examples from aphasiology. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(6), 1908–1927. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00333Publisher Note: This article is part of the Forum: Promoting Reproducibility for the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.