cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ptilotis lewinii subsp. mab Mathews
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Ptilotis

description: Ptilotis lewinii mab Mathews Ptilotis lewinii mab Mathews, 1912a: 404 (Queensland). Now Meliphaga lewinii mab (Mathews, 1912). See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 257–258, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 589. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694707, adult male, collected at Inkerman, 19.45S, 147.29E (USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 18 March 1907, by Wilfred Stalker (no. 317). From the Mathews Collection (3170) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘ Queensland (Inkerman).’’ I suppose that Mathews transposed the type locality and the range, but technically the type series comprises Mathews’ single specimen from Inkerman. The holotype bears, in addition to Stalker’s original label, a Mathews and a Rothschild type label. It is also a paratype of ivi, see below. Salomonsen (1967: 372) synonymized mab with nominate lewinii, but Schodde and Mason (1999: 258) recognized mab and, as first revisers, selected it over ivi as the name for the northeast Queensland form. Stalker collected at Inkerman Station for Sir William Ingram, the collection reported on by his son, Collingwood Ingram (1908), and later acquired by Mathews. Ingram (1908: 460) reported that Inkerman Station was approximately 50 miles southwest of Townsville and about 10 miles from the banks of the Burdekin River.
description: Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on pages 77-78
description: {"references": ["Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.", "Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.", "Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.", "Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.", "Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.", "Ingram, C. 1908. On the birds of Inkerman Station, north Queensland. Ibis (9) 2: 458 - 481, pl. IX."]}
Agriculture with Flat-Plate PV or Agriculture with CPV
Creators: name: Araki, K.
name: Nagai, H.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2010
Subjects: PV Taking Off: Large-scale Deployment
Markets for Large-scale PV

description: 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 6-10 September 2010, Valencia, Spain; 5271-5275
description: This paper discusses optical impact to the cultivation area with comparison of flat-plate PV and
tracking PV – typically CPV. It is reasonable to think of utilizing PV-uncovered area for agriculture. This paper
discusses the space factor of the PV field by comparison of measured and calculated results as well as possibility of
utilizing the land underneath PV array by agriculture. The farmland equipped with high-pole CPV has about 2 times
more cultivated land, and the minimum illumination level of the cultivated land is around 2 times, the total sunlight
energy to the farming land is almost 3 times. The PV output per lost cultivated land is about 2 times.
Tritium $β$-decay in chiral effective field theory
Creators: name: Baroni, A.
name: Girlanda, L.
name: Kievsky, A.
name: Marcucci, L. E.
name: Schiavilla, R.
name: Viviani, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the Fermi and Gamow-Teller (GT) matrix elements in tritium $β$-decay by including in the charge-changing weak current the corrections up to one loop recently derived in nuclear chiral effective field theory ($χ$ EFT). The trinucleon wave functions are obtained from hyperspherical-harmonics solutions of the Schrodinger equation with two- and three-nucleon potentials corresponding to either $χ$ EFT (the N3LO/N2LO combination) or meson-exchange phenomenology (the AV18/UIX combination). We find that contributions due to loop corrections in the axial current are, in relative terms, as large as (and in some cases, dominate) those from one-pion exchange, which nominally occur at lower order in the power counting. We also provide values for the low-energy constants multiplying the contact axial current and three-nucleon potential, required to reproduce the experimental GT matrix element and trinucleon binding energies in the N3LO/N2LO and AV18/UIX calculations.
description: 19 pages,6 figures, corrections to Text as suggested by Referee added; Erratum: 4 pages, 3 figures, corrections to Eq.(20), Tables I, II, III, Figures 4, 5, conclusions unchanged
title: Exploring the development of innovative work behaviour of employees in multiple workplace contexts
Creators: name: Middleton, Lyndsey
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2020

description: The research reported in this thesis explored the factors that influence the development of innovative work behaviour (i.e. recognition of the need to innovate, idea creation, idea championing and, idea implementation). The study is underpinned by Social Cognitive Theory to encapsulate the multiple relationships that exist between cognitive factors, environmental factors and behavioural factors that enhance innovative work behaviour. A multi methods case study approach was used to gather data and highlight contextual differences that emerged from qualitative and quantitative data collection. This included the use of interviews, focus groups and a questionnaire across three case studies: a Scottish University, a Finnish University and, an English National Health Service Trust.
The findings show that there are three main types of factors that influence innovative work behaviour: (1) information and knowledge related factors (e.g. information literacy, information behaviours, knowledge management and Communities of Practice); (2) contextual factors such as organisational strategy, culture, leadership, training and, access to resources and; (3) the skills and abilities of employees. Information literacy is an initiator of innovative work behaviour and is used to help employees to set context to help them recognise the need to innovate. Information behaviours are specific to each stage and the need to use information. Knowledge sharing enhances innovative work behaviour but requires skills and abilities from employees in terms of social interactions skills to facilitate the knowledge sharing. Organisational culture and leadership interact to help employees at all stages of innovative work behaviour.
A key contribution of this work is that it provides a framework to explain the factors that influence the stages of innovative work behaviour development, which has not been done in prior studies. In addition, it extends the application of the whole of Social Cognitive Theory to information science research on workplace learning and innovative work behaviour. The practical contributions of this work are the recommendations to practitioners. These recommendations include the need to recognise the importance of information literacy in a digital age, the use of interactive information sources, the need to stimulate communication in the workplace and to assess available resources.
Silicon-Light: a European FP7 Project Aiming at High Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells on Foil
Creators: name: Soppe, W.J.
name: Haug, F.-J.
name: Couty, P.
name: Duchamp, M.
name: Schipper, W.
name: Krc, J.
name: Sánchez, G.
name: Leitner, K.
name: Wang, Q.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2011
Subjects: Thin Film Solar Cells
Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

description: 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2358-2361
description: Silicon-Light is a European FP7 project, which started January 1st, 2010 and aims at development of low cost, high-efficiency thin film silicon solar cells on foil. Three main routes are explored to achieve these goals: a) advanced light trapping by implementing nanotexturization through UV Nano Imprinting Lithography (UV-NIL); b) growth of crack-free silicon absorber layers on highly textured substrates; c) development of new TCOs which should combine the best properties of presently available materials like ITO and AZO. The paper presents the midterm status of the project results, showing model calculations of ideal nanotextures for light trapping in thin film silicon solar cells; the fabrication of masters and the replication and roll-to-roll fabrication of these nanotextures. Further, results on ITO variants with improved work function are presented. Finally, the status of cell fabrication on foils with nanotexture is shown. Microcrystalline and amorphous silicon single junction cells with stable efficiencies with more than 8 % have been made, paving the way towards a-Si/c-Si tandem cells with more than 11% efficiency.
Replica symmetry breaking for anisotropic magnets with quenched disorder
Creators: name: Kogan, E.
name: Kaveh, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study critical behaviour of a magnet with cubic anisotropy and quenched scalar disorder which is taken into account by replica method. We derive to first order in $ε$ approximation the renormalization group equations taking into account possible replica symmetry breaking. We study the stability of the replica symmetric fixed points with respect to perturbations without (in general case) replica symmetry. However, we find that if a fixed point is stable with respect to replica symmetric deviations, it is also stable with respect to deviations without replica symmetry.
description: LaTeX, simplewick.sty, 7+epsilon pages, 2eps files. The replica symmetric fixed points were found to be stable with respect to deviations without replica symmetry. Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
title: Design, modelling and control of a rotorcraft landing gear for uneven ground conditions
Creators: name: Melia Boix, Daniel
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2020

description: The ability to perform vertical take-off and landing, hovering and lateral flight provides rotorcrafts crucial advantages over other aircrafts and land vehicles for operations in remote areas. However, a major limitation of rotorcrafts is the requirement of a flat surface to land, increasing the difficulty and risk of landing operations on rough terrain or unstable surfaces. This limitation is mainly due to the use of conventional landing gear like skids or wheels. The growing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) also increases the necessity for more landing autonomy of these systems.
This thesis presents the investigation into the development of an adaptive robotic landing gear for a small UAV that enhances the landing capabilities of current rotorcrafts. This landing gear consists in a legged system that is able to sense and adapt the position of its legs to the terrain conditions.
This research covers the development of effective tools for the design and testing of the control system using software and hardware platforms. Mathematical models using multibody system dynamics are developed and implemented in software simulations. A hardware robot is designed and built to validate the simulation results.
The system proposed in this thesis consists in a landing gear with four robotic legs that uses an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to sense the body attitude, Force Sensing Resistors (FSR) to measure feet pressure and a distance sensor to detect ground approach. The actuators used are position-controlled servo motors that also provide angular position feedback. The control strategy provides position commands to coordinate the motion of all joints based on attitude and foot pressure information. It offers the advantage of being position-controlled, so it is easier to be implemented in hardware systems using low-cost components, and at the same time, the feet forcecontrol and leg design add compliance to the system.
Through software simulations and laboratory experiments the system successfully landed on a 20° slope surface, substantially increasing the current slope landing limit.
The Effect of P Concentration on Gettering of Multicrystalline Si Wafers
Creators: name: Mayandi, J.
name: Marstein, E.S.
name: Syre, M.
name: Olaisen, B.R.
name: Thomassen, B.
name: Holt, A.
name: Vines, L.
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; 2160-2163
description: Silicon (Si) wafers cut from an industrially grown ingot were subjected to phosphorus (P) gettering. The gettering
was performed by coating the wafers with spin-on sources containing five different P concentrations and the wafers are
subjected to a diffusion process at a temperature of 900 °C for 380 seconds. Thereafter, selected wafers were subjected to
lifetime measurements. The effect of the gettering process on the distribution of selected metallic impurities near the wafer
surface was determined in parallel by performing secondary ion mass spectrometry measurements on neighbouring wafers
subjected to the same gettering processes. A clear effect of varying the P concentration on the lifetime and impurity
distributions was observed. Below a certain level of P, gettering is no more an efficient tool for improving Si material
quality
Ptilotis lewinii subsp. ivi Mathews
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Ptilotis

description: Ptilotis lewinii ivi Mathews Ptilotis lewinii ivi Mathews, 1912a: 405 (Barron River, Queensland). Now Meliphaga lewinii mab (Mathews, 1912). See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 257–258, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 589. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694711, adult sex?, collected on the Barron River, on 7 June 1910, by the Dodds (no. 20). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5041) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; it bears, in addition to the Dodds original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The Dodds lived at Kuranda, 16.49S, 145.39E (USBGN, 1957), which is on the middle Barron River, and the type was probably collected near their home. Mathews noted the range as ‘‘ Queensland’ ’; therefore all of the Queensland specimens in Mathews’ collection when this form was described comprise his type series. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 694707 (Mathews no. 3170, also the holotype of mab, see above), AMNH 694708 (3171), adult male, collected on Mount Elliot by W. Stalker; AMNH 694709 (3169), female, collected on Mount Elliot by Stalker; AMNH 694712 (8039), sex?, collected on the Barron River on 30 July 1910 by the Dodds. A specimen collected at Gracemere in 1881 by C. Lumholtz was not acquired from R. Collett, ZMO, by Mathews (1912b: 25) until after the publication of ivi on 31 January 1912, and other Queensland specimens were not collected until after that date. The specimen cataloged by Mathews as no. 5040, a Dodd specimen from Kuranda, 13 May 1910, did not come to AMNH and is a paratype, if found.
description: Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on page 78
description: {"references": ["Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.", "Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.", "Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.", "Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.", "Mathews, G. M. 1912 b. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 25 - 52."]}
On a class of diagonal equations over finite fields
Creators: name: Baoulina, Ioulia N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G25, 11T24

description: Using properties of Gauss and Jacobi sums, we derive explicit formulas for the number of solutions to a diagonal equation of the form $x_1^{2^m}+\dots+x_n^{2^m}=0$ over a finite field of characteristic $p\equiv\pm 3\pmod{8}$. All of the evaluations are effected in terms of parameters occurring in quadratic partitions of some powers of $p$.
description: 21 pages, 1 table
Spacecraft Attitude and Reaction Wheel Desaturation Combined Control Method
Creators: name: Yang, Yaguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Two popular types of spacecraft actuators are reaction wheels and magnetic torque coils. Magnetic torque coils are particularly interesting because they can be used for both attitude control and reaction wheel momentum management (desaturation control). Although these two tasks are performed at the same time using the same set of actuators, most design methods deal with only one of the these tasks or consider these two tasks separately. In this paper, a design with these two tasks in mind is formulated as a single problem. A periodic time-varying linear quadratic regulator design method is then proposed to solve this problem. A simulation example is provided to describe the benefit of the new strategy.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Characterization of isogenic mutants with single or double deletions of four phenolic acid esterases in Lactiplantibacillus plantarum TMW1.460
Creators: Gaur, Gautam
Chen, Chen
Gänzle, Michael G.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

In plants, hydroxycinnamic and hydroxybenzoic acids occur mainly as esters. This study aimed to determine the contribution of individual phenolic acid esterases in Lp. plantarum TMW1.460, which encodes for four esterases: TanA, Lp0796, Est1092 and a homolog of Lj0536 and Lj1228 that was termed HceP. To determine which of the phenolic acid esterases present in Lp plantarum TMW1.460 are responsible for esterase activity, mutants with deletions in lp0796, est1092, tanB, hceP, or hceP and est1092 were constructed. The phenotype of wild type strain and mutants was determined with esters of hydroxycinnamic acids (chlorogenic acid and ethyl ferulate) and of hydroxybenzoic acids (methyl gallate, tannic acid and epigallocatechin-3-gallate). Lp. plantarum TMW1.460 hydrolysed chlorogenic acid, methyl ferulate and methyl gallate but not tannic acid or epigallocatechin gallate. The phenotype of mutant strains during growth in mMRS differed from the wild type as follows: Lp. plantarum TMW1.460ΔhceP did not hydrolyse esters of hydroxycinnamic acids; Lp. plantarum TMW1.460ΔtanB did not hydrolyse esters of hydroxybenzoic acids; disruption of est1092 or Lp0796 did not alter the phenotype. The phenotype of Lp. plantarum TMW1.460ΔΔhceP/est1092 was identical to Lp. plantarum TMW1.460ΔhceP. The metabolism of phenolic acids during growth of the mutant strains in broccoli puree and wheat sourdough did not differ from metabolism of the wild type strain. In conclusion, esters of hydroxycinnamic and hydroxybenzoic acids each are hydrolysed by dedicated enzymes. The hydroxycinnamic acid esterase HceP is not expressed, or not active during growth of Lp. plantarum TMW1.460 in all food substrates.
Constraints on interacting dark energy models from Planck 2015 and redshift-space distortion data
Creators: name: Costa, André A.
name: Xu, Xiao-Dong
name: Wang, Bin
name: Abdalla, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate phenomenological interactions between dark matter and dark energy and constrain these models by employing the most recent cosmological data including the cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropies from Planck 2015, Type Ia supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillations, the Hubble constant and redshift-space distortions. We find that the interaction in the dark sector parameterized as an energy transfer from dark matter to dark energy is strongly suppressed by the whole updated cosmological data. On the other hand, an interaction between dark sectors with the energy flow from dark energy to dark matter is proved in better agreement with the available cosmological observations. This coupling between dark sectors is needed to alleviate the coincidence problem.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures, 11 tables. New figures added and discussion improved. Accepted in JCAP
The parity theorem for multiple polylogarithms
Creators: name: Panzer, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We generalize the well-known parity theorem for multiple zeta values (MZV) to functional equations of multiple polylogarithms (MPL). This reproves the parity theorem for MZV with an additional integrality statement, and also provides parity theorems for special values of MPL at roots of unity (also known as coloured MZV). We give explicit formulas in depths 2 and 3 and provide a computer program to compute the functional equations.
description: 21 pages, supplemented by a list functional equations and a Maple program, v2: minor corrections and clarifications, additional references, discussion of singular limits added (from after remark 2.6 to end of section 2), v3: misprint in eq. (3.5) corrected
Urca cooling pairs in the neutron star ocean and their effect on superbursts
Creators: name: Deibel, Alex
name: Meisel, Zach
name: Schatz, Hendrik
name: Brown, Edward F.
name: Cumming, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An accretion outburst onto a neutron star deposits hydrogen-rich and/or helium-rich material into the neutron star's envelope. Thermonuclear burning of accreted material robustly produces Urca pairs\textrm{---}pairs of nuclei that undergo cycles of $e^-$-capture and $β^-$-decay. The strong $T^5$ dependence of the Urca cooling neutrino luminosity means that Urca pairs in the neutron star interior potentially remove heat from accretion-driven nuclear reactions. In this study, we identify Urca pairs in the neutron star's ocean \textrm{---} a plasma of ions and electrons overlaying the neutron star crust \textrm{---} and demonstrate that Urca cooling occurs at all depths in the ocean. We find that Urca pairs in the ocean and crust lower the ocean's steady-state temperature during an accretion outburst and that unstable carbon ignition, which is thought to trigger superbursts, occurs deeper than it would otherwise. Cooling superburst light curves, however, are only marginally impacted by cooling from Urca pairs because the superburst peak radiative luminosity $L_{\rm peak}$ is always much greater than the Urca pair neutrino luminosity $L_ν$ in the hot post-superburst ocean.
description: 9 pages, 6 Figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal
Conformal and projective symmetries in Newtonian cosmology
Creators: name: Duval, C.
name: Gibbons, G. W.
name: Horváthy, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Definitions of non-relativistic conformal transformations are considered both in the Newton-Cartan and in the Kaluza-Klein-type Eisenhart/Bargmann geometrical frameworks. The symmetry groups that come into play are exemplified by the cosmological, and also the Newton-Hooke solutions of Newton's gravitational field equations. It is shown, in particular, that the maximal symmetry group of the standard cosmological model is isomorphic to the 13-dimensional conformal-Newton-Cartan group whose conformal-Bargmann extension is explicitly worked out. Attention is drawn to the appearance of independent space and time dilations, in contrast with the Schr{ö}dinger group or the Conformal Galilei Algebra.
description: LaTeX, 26 pages. Published version
Two and three particles interacting in a one-dimensional trap
Creators: name: Na, MengXing
name: Marsiglio, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We outline a procedure for using matrix mechanics to compute energy eigenvalues and eigenstates for two and three interacting particles in a confining trap, in one dimension. Such calculations can bridge a gap in the undergraduate physics curriculum between single-particle and many-particle quantum systems, and can also provide a pathway from standard quantum mechanics course material to understanding current research on cold-atom systems. In particular we illustrate the notion of "fermionization" and how it occurs not only for the ground state in the presence of strong repulsive interactions, but also for excited states, in both the strongly attractive and strongly repulsive regimes.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, references added, some material rewritten, and some relegated to a second appendix, to be published in Am. J. Phys
Exotic Brane Junctions from F-theory
Creators: name: Kimura, Tetsuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Applying string dualities to F-theory, we obtain various $[p,q]$-branes whose constituents are standard branes of codimension two and exotic branes. We construct junctions of the exotic five-branes and their Hanany-Witten transitions associated with those in F-theory. In this procedure, we understand the monodromy of the single $5^2_2$-brane. We also find the objects which are sensitive to the branch cut of the $5^2_2$-brane. Considering the web of branes in the presence of multiple exotic five-branes analogous to the web of five-branes with multiple seven-branes, we obtain novel brane constructions for $SU(2)$ gauge theories with $n$ flavors and their superconformal limit with enhanced $E_{n+1}$ symmetry in five, four, and three dimensions. Hence, adapting the techniques of the seven-branes to the exotic branes, we will be able to construct F-theories in diverse dimensions.
description: 26 pages, version published in JHEP
title: Life interrupted: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people and their family/significant other living with malignant melanoma
Creators: name: McInally, Wendy
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2020

description: Introduction
Melanoma is one of the most common human malignancies. Yet, it is often thought of as a disease of adulthood rather than one affecting children and young people. Although melanoma is rare in children, the incidence is rising in adolescents and young adults. Despite improvements in survival rates for young people, there is no evidence around the experiences of young people and their family/significant of living with this disease.

Method
A qualitative study underpinned by Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis was conducted using a novel multiperspective design to explore the experiences of young people and their family/significant other living with malignant melanoma in Scotland. Five young people were purposively sampled from three Scottish National Health Service Boards based on the treatment location. Each young person and a nominated family member/significant other were interviewed (n=10) either individually (n=4) or as a dyad (n=6). Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and, with the participant’s consent, interview data were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim and analysed. This identified key themes which were then clustered into four dominant super-ordinate themes and the findings distilled into an overarching metanarrative.

Findings
The metanarrative ‘Life Interrupted' was the core conceptual thread woven throughout the findings. It represents the interconnections and interrelationships between the four identified super-ordinate themes that encapsulated the experience of young people living with malignant melanoma and that of their family/significant other: (1) ‘Is it Serious’, (2) ‘Too Much too Young’, (3) ‘Not the Same’, and (4) ‘Time to Live’.

Conclusion
Being able to recognise and seek support in diagnosing malignant melanoma was challenging for young people and their families/significant other with limited physical, emotional or social support, often resulting in feelings of isolation. To overcome this lack of support and isolation, it is recommended that the care of young people and their families/significant other is seamless, and that clear links are established between services. Improvements to their journey can be made by focussing and addressing the experiences of young people and their family/significant other identified through this study.
Ptilotis flava subsp. addenda Mathews
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Ptilotis

description: Ptilotis flava addenda Mathews Ptilotis flava addenda Mathews, 1912a: 412 (Queensland (Inkerman)). Now Lichenostomus flavus addendus (Mathews, 1912). See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 239, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 602. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695703, adult male, collected at Inkerman, 19.45S, 147.29E (USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, in September 1907, by Wilfred (not William) Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3284) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘ Queensland (Inkerman).’’ The holotype bears Stalker’s original label (the number ‘‘790’’ on this label refers to the number of the species in Mathews, 1908) and a Mathews and a Rothschild type label. The type series comprised the three specimens collected by Stalker at Inkerman and reported on by Ingram (1908: 477). The two paratypes are: AMNH 695702 (Mathews no. 3285), adult male, collected on 9 October 1907 (misread as 3 October by Ingram); AMNH 695704 (3286), female, collected on 2 April 1907. See Schodde and Mason (1999: 234) for a summary of use of the generic name Lichenostomus. Salomonsen (1967: 373) included flava in the genus Meliphaga.
description: Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on page 79
description: {"references": ["Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.", "Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.", "Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.", "Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.", "Mathews, G. M. 1908. Handlist of the birds of Australasia. Emu 7 supplement: 1 - 108.", "Ingram, C. 1908. On the birds of Inkerman Station, north Queensland. Ibis (9) 2: 458 - 481, pl. IX.", "Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp."]}
SANYO's R&D on Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells
Creators: name: Terakawa, A.
name: Hishida, M.
name: Yata, S.
name: Shinohara, W.
name: Kitahara, A.
name: Yoneda, H.
name: Aya, Y.
name: Yoshida, I.
name: Iseki, M.
name: Tanaka, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2011
Subjects: Thin Film Solar Cells
Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

description: 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2362-2365
description: High-performance a-Si/μc-Si tandem solar cells and modules have been developed. By improving the
LPC-CVD method, high-efficiency a-Si/μc-Si solar cells were achieved independent of the μc-Si deposition rate in the
range of 1.0-2.5 nm/s. Stabilized efficiencies of 10.7% for large modules (G5 size) and 12.2% for small cells (1 cm2)
were achieved by improving the μc-Si quality and device structure, including optical confinement. Very durable modules
that adapt to the major categories of IEC standards have also been developed. Furthermore, non-vacuum deposition
processes for thin film silicon and electrode layers are being developed as future technologies.
title: Ein übersehenes Märchen von Dorothea Viehmann
title: Philologische, stilometrische und motivvergleichende Untersuchungen zu KHM 135 Die weiße und die schwarze Braut
Creators: name: Ehrhardt, Holger
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 830
subject: 900
subject: Kinder- und Hausmärchen
subject: Viehmann, Dorothea
subject: Sprachstil

description: Gefördert im Rahmen eines Open-Access-Transformationsvertrags mit dem Verlag
Optimal Design of PV Water Pumping Systems
Creators: name: Vardanyan, A.H.
name: Ayvazyan, G.Y.
name: Kirakosyan, G.H.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Components for PV Systems
Engineering and System Integration

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3059-3061
description: The electric power supplied by a PV power generation system depends on the solar radiation and temperature. Designing efficient PV systems heavily emphasizes to track the maximum power operating point. The fuzzy-based maximum power point tracker is developed to optimize the global efficiency and water discharge rate of a PV water pumping system driven by different types of motors.
title: The relationship between demographic variables and consumer confidence levels in the rationales for regulation: A quantitative study of Scottish retail banking consumers
Creators: name: McCafferty, Claire Lynne
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2020

description: Confidence in the banking system is critical to the health of households, businesses and the overall economy. Government intervention in the financial services sector and the strict regulation of the banking industry is rationalised by the need to minimise the occurrence of events that could undermine the reputation of banks and threaten confidence in the system.

This aim of this research is to answer the question, ‘Are Scottish consumers confident in retail banking regulation?’ This research has taken a unique approach to answering this question by measuring the levels of confidence in each of the specific rationales identified in the literature for regulating the retail banking system.

Analysis of the findings was undertaken in three distinct stages: individual demographics in relation to levels of confidence; the direction of confidence in relation to these demographics; and the combined demographic factors that have the greatest impact on the levels of confidence in each of the areas that regulation seeks to address.

In designing the survey, a three-stage approach was also adopted; theorists, practitioners and end-users contributed to the development of a consumer survey. The questions were derived from the theoretical framework and developed into the final consumer survey that would gather the demographic information and test the hypotheses.

The main findings are that the youngest age group (18-29 years) have the highest levels of confidence in their retail banks. Those with a higher income and those with higher educational attainment have the least confidence in the areas that regulation seeks to address. This has implications for both industry and the regulators in terms of how they target these specific groups to increase their levels of trust and satisfaction. A lack of trust threatens the stability of the financial system and the wider economy.

Finally, this research has contributed to the continued debate into the use of parametric methods of data analysis when using Likert scales. The finding is that the use of parametric tests for the analysis of Likert scale data is robust.
The decay $τ\rightarrow K^{0}K^{-}ν_τ$ in the extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
Creators: name: Volkov, M. K.
name: Pivovarov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The full and differential widths of the decay $τ\rightarrow K^{0}K^{-}ν_τ$ are calculated in the framework of the extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The contributions of the subprocesses with the intermediate vector mesons $ρ$(770) and $ρ$(1450) are taken into account. The obtained results are in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Localized Excitations from Localized Unitary Operators
Creators: name: Sivaramakrishnan, Allic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Localized unitary operators are basic probes of locality and causality in quantum systems: localized unitary operators create localized excitations in entangled states. Working with an explicit form, we explore the properties of these operators in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. We show that, unlike unitary operators, local non-unitary operators generically create non-local excitations. We present a local picture for quantum systems in which localized experimentalists can only act through localized Hamiltonian deformations, and therefore localized unitary operators. We demonstrate that localized unitary operators model certain quantum quenches exactly. We show how the Reeh-Schlieder theorem follows intuitively from basic properties of entanglement, non-unitary operators, and the local picture. We show that a recent quasi-particle picture for excited-state entanglement entropy in conformal field theories is not universal for all local operators. We prove a causality relation for entanglement entropy and connect our results to the AdS/CFT correspondence.
description: 41 pages, no figures; v2: minor corrections, added references, acknowledgements; v3: reviewers comments incorporated
title: Exploring justifications of “The Social Contract” between the banking sector, financial regulators, and NGOs
Creators: name: Langford, Paul
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2020

description: The banking sector is important to the UK, employing 1.2% of the workforce whilst contributing 5.5% of tax receipts; indeed, the credit creation role of banks is essential in modern economies. Banks caused the financial crisis of 2007/8 and subsequently the sector was beset by scandals, leading to calls for “a new social contract” between the banks and society (Tucker, 2009).

The aim of this study is to explore public justifications of “The Social Contract” by the Banking Sector, Financial Regulators, and NGOs (the latter as representatives of “civil society”). Social contracts may be represented by “public justifications”, the constructs of which are analysable using an empirical framework: “orders of worth” express a particular paradigm toward justice and the “common good”. The orders of worth or “polities” - Market, Industrial, Civic, Domestic, Inspired, Reputation, Projective, and Green, are all characterised by dimensions such as investment criteria, qualified objects, qualified subjects, and inequalities of status relations.

A qualitative content analysis approach is used to analyse texts such as speeches and annual reports for the presence or absence of, and compromises between, the polities. As the first study of its type in banking and finance, the findings have implications for regulators, who should be aware of the newly identified “instrumental” compromise constructed by banks in their approach to regulation. Regulators should also be aware of the increased risk of moral hazard arising from their own market-oriented justifications of the social contract. A further contribution to the banking and finance literature is to problematise the limited use of ecological justifications in banks’ and regulators’ constructs of the social contract.

Banks often focus on shareholders in their public justifications, demonstrating a gap between theory and practice in the pragmatic sociology literature: the normative exclusion of investors as qualified subjects is problematic given the important position shareholders hold in banks’ construction of their roles and responsibilities. Further, development of the market polity is proposed to better cater for banks’ “credence services” and long-term client relationships.
Recent Developments of High-Efficiency Micromorph Tandem Solar Cells in KAI-M/ Plasmabox PECVD Reactors
Creators: name: Kroll, U.
name: Meier, J.
name: Fesquet, L.
name: Steinhauser, J.
name: Benagli, S.
name: Orhan, J.B
name: Wolf, B.
name: Borrello, D.
name: Castens, L.
name: Djeridane, Y.
name: Multone, X.
name: Choong, G.
name: Domine, D.
name: Boucher, J.-F.
name: Madliger, P.-A.
name: Marmelo, M.
name: Monteduro, G.
name: Dehbozorgi, B.
name: Romang, D.
name: Omnes, E.
name: Chevalley, M.
name: Charitat, G.
name: Pomey, A.
name: Vallat, E.
name: Marjanovic, S.
name: Kohnke, G.
name: Koch, K.
name: Liu, J.
name: Modavis, R.
name: Thelen, D.
name: Vallon, S.
name: Zakharian, A.
name: Weidman, D.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2011
Subjects: Thin Film Solar Cells
Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

description: 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2340-2343
description: The use of textured glass substrates in the fabrication of Micromorph tandem thin film silicon cells is
shown to improve light-trapping, as evidenced by increased bottom cell EQE, and this results in cell efficiency
improvements superior to those previously reported. This work utilizes LPCVD ZnO coated textured glass substrates
having very high haze values of around 80%, most notably in the wavelength range where the microcrystalline cell
possesses a strong spectral response. A 1000 hour light-soaked stable efficiency of 12.16% has been demonstrated and an
efficiency of 12.34% after 700 hours of light-soaking has also been measured. In addition, initial efficiencies as high as
14.4% were recently achieved. These results were obtained using substrates that result in a 7.3% bottom cell current gain
relative to cells fabricated with flat glass substrates. Textures enabling still higher bottom cell current gains of up to
13.9% as compared to non-textured glass have been identified.
New Test Procedure to Evaluate Battery & Charge Controller Used in Stand-Alone Photovoltaic (PV) Systems
Creators: name: Echbarthi, I.
name: Nofuentes, G.
name: Muñoz, F.J.
name: Muñoz Díez, J.V.
name: Almonacid, G.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Components for PV Systems
Balance of System Components

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3003-3006
description: Stand-alone photovoltaic (SAPV) systems generally depend on battery storage to supply power to the load when there is deficit in the solar resource. However, reliable operation of the load is not only dependent on battery performance but on the battery management strategy. An unsatisfactory service is not only due to an inappropriate battery selection but to a poor and inadequate battery management too. In this way, this work intends to develop a new battery &
charge regulator test procedure to evaluate the suitability and compatibility of these elements for a particular SAPV application. This new test procedure can be used while the design phase is under study, to assess the battery and charge
controller performance. Furthermore, it is intended that this new test procedure should manage a trade-off between reliability and simplicity.
Ptilotis sonora subsp. westwoodia Mathews
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Ptilotis

description: Ptilotis sonora westwoodia Mathews Ptilotis sonora westwoodia Mathews, 1913d: 77 (Westwood, Queensland). Now Lichenostomus virescens sonorus (Gould, 1841). See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 234– 235, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 598. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694911, adult male, collected at Westwood, 23.37S, 150.09E (USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, in October 1881, by Carl Lumholtz. From the Mathews Collection (no. 11079) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews listed the type of westwoodia as a specimen collected at Westwood in October 1881 and gave no range. The holotype is the only specimen that Mathews had from Westwood and was from the collection mostly made by C. Lumholtz and K. Dahl that he obtained from R. Collett, ZMO. It bears Lumholtz’s original label, a Mathews Collection label marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews, and a Rothschild type label. Mathews’ catalog number is written on the Mathews label but was not cited in the original description. Salomonsen (1967: 374) recognized westwoodia as a subspecies of Meliphaga virescens.
description: Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on page 81
description: {"references": ["Mathews, G. M. 1913 d. New species and subspecies of Australian birds. Austral Avian Record 2: 73 - 79.", "Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.", "Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.", "Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.", "Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp."]}