cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Intermediate Band Solar Cells: Present and Future
Creators: name: Ramiro, I.
name: Martí, A.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2020
Subjects: New Materials and Concepts for Photovoltaic Devices
Fundamental Studies

description: 37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1-8
description: In the quest for high-efficiency photovoltaics (PV), the intermediate band solar cell (IBSC) was proposed in 1997 as an alternative to tandem solar cells. With a simpler device structure, the IBSC offers 63% efficiency under maximum solar concentration. This high efficiency limit attracted the attention of the PV community, yielding to numerous intermediate band (IB) studies and IBSC prototypes employing a plethora of candidate IB materials. As a consequence, the principles of operation of the IBSC have been demonstrated, and the particularities and difficulties inherent to each different technological implementation of the IBSC have been reasonably identified and understood. From a theoretical and experimental point of view, the IBSC has reached a mature stage. Yet, we feel that, driven by the large number of explored materials and technologies so far, there is some confusion about what route the IBSC research should take to transition from the proof of concept to high efficiency. In this work, we give our view on which the next steps should be. For this, first we briefly review the theoretical framework of the IBSC, the achieved experimental milestones, and the different technological approaches used, with special emphasis in those recently proposed.
Potential Induced Degradation (PID) - Applied Field Analysis, Regeneration and Prevention in the Field, Standard Test
Creators: name: Vaassen, W.
name: Mathiak, G.
name: Düpont, R.
name: Becker, H.
name: Herrmann, W.
name: Van Rensburg, L.
Publisher: name: WIP - Renewable Energies and ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: degradation; electroluminescence; large grid-connected PV systems; performance; qualification and testing
subject: 2. Implementation (Technical) and Standardisation

description: -
description: 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, AfricaPVSEC 2014
CK Vul: a smorgasbord of hydrocarbons rules out a 1670 nova (and much else besides)
Creators: name: Evans, A.
name: Gehrz, R. D.
name: Woodward, C. E.
name: Sarre, P. J.
name: van Loon, J. Th.
name: Helton, L. A.
name: Starrfield, S.
name: Eyres, S. P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present observations of CK Vul obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope. The infrared spectrum reveals a warm dust continuum with nebular, molecular hydrogen and HCN lines superimposed, together with the "Unidentified Infrared" (UIR) features. The nebular lines are consistent with emission by a low density gas. We conclude that the Spitzer data, combined with other information, are incompatible with CK Vul being a classical nova remnant in "hibernation" after the event of 1670, a "Very Late Thermal Pulse", a "Luminous Red Variable" such as V838 Mon, or a "Diffusion-induced nova". The true nature of CK Vul remains a mystery.
description: MNRAS letters, in press. Paper consists of 6 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon for Various Photovoltaic Applications On the DEPX Platform
Creators: name: Kudlacek, P.
name: Mary Joy, R.M.
name: Sharma, K.
name: Creatore, M.
name: Van De Sanden, M.C.M.
name: Bosch, R.C.M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2011
Subjects: Thin Film Solar Cells
Thin Film Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

description: 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 2768-2769
description: Thin films of hydrogenated amorphous (a-Si:H) and polycrystalline (poly-Si) silicon have been
extensively studied due to their potential for various photovoltaic applications such as low cost poly-Si thin film solar
cells (CSG) or a-Si:H rear surface passivation of crystalline silicon-based cells. According to our knowledge, none
industrial process of a-Si:H deposition suitable for both mentioned applications has been developed yet. Therefore,
we introduce an expanding thermal plasma based process which is capable to meet requirements of the both. The
process has been tested on the well established industrial platform DEPx. We demonstrated that a-Si:H films that
crystallize to poly-Si after solid-state crystallization annealing can be deposited with deposition rate up to 14nm/s
(achieving rates over 20nm/s is feasible with our system), enabling reduction of industrial processing time of CSG
cells from hours to minutes. a-Si:H films deposited with lower deposition rates proven excellent c-Si surface
passivation properties. Moreover, we demonstrated good firing stability of a-Si:H/SiNx stack (Seff after firing
~10cm/s), which opens possibility to use such a stack for next generation of c-Si cells with improved front or rear side passivation (PERC).
Energy Efficiency and Renewables - New Solutions for Rural Areas in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Vacca, A.
Publisher: name: WIP - Renewable Energies and ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: photovoltaic; stand-alone PV systems; strategy; villages; ESCO projects
subject: 2. Implementation (Technical) and Standardisation

description: Even if people living in rural areas of developing countries is still not connected to the public grid, the need of electric energy in any village has been become quite indispensable, and, around the villages, we see many "charging stations"; equipped with small generators, where people could charge mobile phone, laptop computer and so on. This could only mitigate the lack of electrical energy in rural areas and supply energy for small emergency needs. The global amount of electric energy needed by every family is not very high, if all electrical devices are chosen between modern energy saving devices, so, to provide energy generation for rural areas, we studied and developed a series of photovoltaic kits, all equipped with batteries to store energy and diesel generator for emergencies, to be installed in small villages to supply families with electric energy for their basic needs. These kits have power of 15, 30 and 45 (up to 60 kW) and we forecast they could be suitable respectively for about 30, 60 and 90 families, based on a consumption evaluation of about 2÷2,5 kWh/day for every family. Supplying electric energy to every family could be performed through overhead lines, everyone connected to the generation plant through an electronic meter, installed into the fenced area of the plant, to protect it from fraudulent activities. To assure payment of electricity bill the electronic meter should be managed as a "virtual account", with charges of "electricity bonus" directly by mobile phone or by prepaid scratch cards. Also humanitarian associations, as well single donor, could easily perform their goals directly charging the people account, even from remote, even with a small amount of money, however allowing local people to access the electrical energy for a period. These kits are also already preset to be connected in the future to the public grid, to work with, to assure green energy production to the country.
description: 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, AfricaPVSEC 2014
An Effective Selection Method for Low-Mass Active Black Holes and First Spectroscopic Identification
Creators: name: Morokuma, Tomoki
name: Tominaga, Nozomu
name: Tanaka, Masaomi
name: Yasuda, Naoki
name: Furusawa, Hisanori
name: Taniguchi, Yuki
name: Kato, Takahiro
name: Jiang, Ji-an
name: Nagao, Tohru
name: Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo
name: Morokuma-Matsui, Kana
name: Ikeda, Hiroyuki
name: Blinnikov, Sergei
name: Nomoto, Ken'ichi
name: Kokubo, Mitsuru
name: Doi, Mamoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method to effectively select objects which may be low-mass active black holes (BHs) at galaxy centers using high-cadence optical imaging data, and our first spectroscopic identification of an active 2.7x10^6 Msun BH at z=0.164. This active BH was originally selected due to its rapid optical variability, from a few hours to a day, based on Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam~(HSC) g-band imaging data taken with 1-hour cadence. Broad and narrow H-alpha and many other emission lines are detected in our optical spectra taken with Subaru FOCAS, and the BH mass is measured via the broad H-alpha emission line width (1,880 km s^{-1}) and luminosity (4.2x10^{40} erg s^{-1}) after careful correction for the atmospheric absorption around 7,580-7,720A. We measure the Eddington ratio to be as low as 0.05, considerably smaller than those in a previous SDSS sample with similar BH mass and redshift, which indicates one of the strong potentials of our Subaru survey. The g-r color and morphology of the extended component indicate that the host galaxy is a star-forming galaxy. We also show effectiveness of our variability selection for low-mass active BHs.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. accepted for publication in PASJ
Employment effects of offshoring, technological change and migration in a group of Western European economies: impact on different occupations (Deliverable 4.4)
Creators: name: Landesmann, M.
name: Leitner, S. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Employment, occupational groups, offshoring, technological change, immigration

description: This paper estimates conditional demand models to examine the impact of offshoring, technological change, and migration on the labour demand of native workers differen­tiated by four different types of occupational groups: managers/professionals, clerical workers, craft (skilled) workers and manual workers. The analysis is conducted for an unbalanced panel of five economies Austria, Belgium, France, Spain, and Switzerland covering the period 2005-2018. Our results point to important and occupation-specific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies, while negative effects for native manual workers across a wide set of industries (including manufacturing and services industries) and managers/ professionals in manufacturing. Furthermore, there are important distinctions whether offshoring occurs in other advanced economies, in the EU-13 or in developing countries. The analysis of the impact of technological change shows the strong positive impact which the additional IT equipment has on most occupational groups of native workers (with the exception of manual workers), while robotisation in manufacturing showed strongly negative impacts on the employment of all groups of workers and especially of craft workers. Increasing immigrant shares in the work forces showed strongly negative impacts on native workers ‑ however, considering only the partial substitution effects and not including the potential for productivity and demand effects ‑ and this is mostly accounted for by immigration from low- to medium-income source countries.
Grid Integration of Solar Energy
Creators: name: Loudiyi, K.
name: Harmouch, F.Z.
name: Benabdelaziz, K.
name: Darhmaoui, H.
name: Maaroufi, M.
Publisher: name: WIP - Renewable Energies and ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: grid integration; solar PV; concentrated photovoltaic
subject: 2. Implementation (Technical) and Standardisation

description: -
description: 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, AfricaPVSEC 2014
Accurate selfcorrection of errors in long reads using de Bruijn graphs
Creators: name: Salmela, Leena
name: Walve, Riku
name: Rivals, Eric
name: Ukkonen, Esko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: New long read sequencing technologies, like PacBio SMRT and Oxford NanoPore, can produce sequencing reads up to 50,000 bp long but with an error rate of at least 15%. Reducing the error rate is necessary for subsequent utilisation of the reads in, e.g., de novo genome assembly. The error correction problem has been tackled either by aligning the long reads against each other or by a hybrid approach that uses the more accurate short reads produced by second generation sequencing technologies to correct the long reads. We present an error correction method that uses long reads only. The method consists of two phases: first we use an iterative alignment-free correction method based on de Bruijn graphs with increasing length of k-mers, and second, the corrected reads are further polished using long-distance dependencies that are found using multiple alignments. According to our experiments the proposed method is the most accurate one relying on long reads only for read sets with high coverage. Furthermore, when the coverage of the read set is at least 75x, the throughput of the new method is at least 20% higher. LoRMA is freely available at http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/lmsalmel/LoRMA/.
description: paper accepted at the RECOMB-Seq 2016
When tests disagree, how do I know if I have COVID-19?
Creators: name: Basta, Holly
name: Coleman, Sean
name: Pavlova, Iglika
name: Shah, Aparna
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: Students will learn about infectious disease and the immune response to infection by investigating different types of tests (PCR, antigen, and antibody tests) to detect the SARS-CoV-2 viral genetic material, antigens, or anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. In the activity, students will apply core concepts and competencies from Vision & Change (https://visionandchange.org/). The activity uses a jigsaw format, with students choosing one of three specialities (epidemiologist, infectious disease doctor, or immunologist) and completing an assignment, either in-class or as homework, based on their speciality. In groups, students first hold a conference by speciality, then teams with representatives from each speciality discuss possible conclusions using results from the three different tests for a hypothetical patient.
Lessons learnt from the AFRETEP for the African PV sector development
Creators: name: Szabó, S.
name: Bódis, K.
name: Huld, T.
name: Jäger-Waldau, A.
Publisher: name: WIP - Renewable Energies and ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: rural electrification; renewable energy technologies; off grid systems; Africa
subject: 3. Enabling Environment (Economical)

description: The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission JRC has developed the African Renewable Energy Technology Platform AFRETEP platform with 760+ African and European members, cooperating institutions for research. As a part of the project the JRC has provided training to nearly a hundred African academics in regional trainings on the state-of-art rural electrification technologies; these can also be followed online in web-streaming. The project has developed mapping applications and methods to support national governments and agencies to decide which energy technology options would better deliver their goals of rural electrification and made these available to the continents scientific communities in publications. The methods -developed by the JRC platform- take into account the diversity of energy resources, coupled with the existing grid, transport infrastructure, hydropower resources, the current diesel and photovoltaic costs, to map the current least-cost electricity options for rural electrification. So far, geographical datasets have been made publicly available (www.afretep.net) and several published papers and conferences have facilitated the spread of the results to the interested stakeholders. Most of these results are available on the Platform and the JRC websites.
description: 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, AfricaPVSEC 2014
Environmental Benefits of Solar Photovoltaics in South Africa
Creators: name: Sinha, P.
name: De Wild-Scholten, M.
name: Luckhurst, L.
Publisher: name: WIP - Renewable Energies and ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: PV market; PV system; thin film; crystalline silicon; ILCD; LCA
subject: 3. Enabling Environment (Economical)

description: With extensive coal supplies, South Africa currently meets over 90% of its electricity needs through coal.  However, the South African government has committed to diversifying its energy portfolio, including reducing dependence on coal by 2030 to 65% (from the current 93%) which will result in a new non-coal capacity of ~28 GW.  In addition, the 2010 Integrated Resource Plan lists the intention of installing 300 MW per year of solar power from 2012 onwards.  International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) methods have been used to compare life cycle environmental impacts of grid electricity in South Africa with electricity from photovoltaics (PV).  While a variety of life cycle environmental impact assessment methods are currently available, there has been a recent effort within the Joint Research Center of the European Commission to develop consensus impact methods through the ILCD.  In the case of ground-mounted CdTe PV systems and roof-mounted crystalline Si PV systems, displacement of South African grid electricity results in over two-thirds reductions in a variety of impact categories for ecosystems, human health, and natural resources.  The only impact category where PV does not provide a comparative benefit is with respect to the ILCD mineral, fossil, and renewable resource depletion category.  This is primarily due to the use of valuable metals in PV modules and balance of systems.  The impacts of resource depletion by PV may be mitigated by high-value end-of-life product recycling that recovers both bulk materials (e.g., glass, aluminum, copper) and semiconductor and rare materials in PV modules, and recovers recyclable materials (e.g., steel, aluminum, and copper) in balance of systems.   In the case of ground-mount PV systems, potential land use impacts may be reduced by responsible land use practices that include careful site selection, minimal soil grading techniques, and project decommissioning that includes end-of-life recycling.
description: 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, AfricaPVSEC 2014
On homoclinic orbits to center manifolds of elliptic-hyperbolic equilibria in Hamiltonian systems
Creators: name: Giles, William
name: Lamb, Jeroen
name: Turaev, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a Hamiltonian system which has an elliptic-hyperbolic equilibrium with a homoclinic loop. We identify the set of orbits which are homoclinic to the center manifold of the equilibrium via a Lyapunov- Schmidt reduction procedure. This leads to the study of a singularity which inherits certain structure from the Hamiltonian nature of the system. Under non-degeneracy assumptions, we classify the possible Morse indices of this singularity, permitting a local description of the set of homoclinic orbits. We also consider the case of time-reversible Hamiltonian systems.
On the mass and origin of Chariklo's rings
Creators: name: Pan, Margaret
name: Wu, Yanqin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations in 2013 and 2014 of the Centaur 10199 Chariklo and its ring system consistently indicated that the radial width of the inner, more massive ring varies with longitude. That strongly suggests that this ring has a finite eccentricity despite the fast differential precession that Chariklo's large quadrupole moment should induce. If the inferred apse alignment is maintained by the ring's self-gravity, as it is for the Uranian rings, we estimate a ring mass of a few times 10^16 g and a typical particle size of a few meters. These imply a short collisional spreading time of ~10^5 years, somewhat shorter than the typical Centaur dynamical lifetime of a few Myrs and much shorter than the age of the solar system. In light of this time constraint, we evaluate previously suggested ring formation pathways including collisional ejection and satellite disruption. We also investigate in detail a contrasting formation mechanism, the lofting of dust particles off Chariklo's surface into orbit via outflows of sublimating CO and/or N_2 triggered after Chariklo was scattered inward by giant planets. This latter scenario predicts that rings should be common among 100-km class Centaurs but rare among Kuiper belt objects and smaller Centaurs. It also predicts that Centaurs should show seasonal variations in cometary activity with activity maxima occurring shortly after equinox.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures, accepted to ApJ
The Energy Centre Model - An Approach to Village Scale Energy Supply
Creators: name: Muchunku, C.
name: Ulsrud, K.
Publisher: name: WIP - Renewable Energies and ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: developing countries; economic analysis; rural electrification; stand-alone PV systems
subject: 3. Enabling Environment (Economical)

description: A model for off-grid, village scale power supply has been developed through a pilot project in Ikisaya in Kenya. The project was initiated and carried out by a team of social scientists and practitioners from Kenya, India, Norway and Austria through the Solar Transitions research project, led by the University of Oslo. Through a participatory approach with the local community, the project developed an energy centre model which became operational on March 20th, 2012. The model creates affordable and accessible basic lighting and electricity services for off-grid households and businesses through a financially sustainable design. It is designed to be operated by local residents on commercial principles. Today, it provides lighting services to about 100 households. Other services provided at the centre include phone charging, photocopying, typing, TV/video shows and electric shaving. The paper describes and rationalizes the model and shares experiences from the first 1½ years of operation. The financial performance is documented and suggestions are provided on how the model could be improved.
description: 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, AfricaPVSEC 2014
Image Encryption Based On Gradient Haar Wavelet and Rational Order Chaotic Maps
Creators: name: Ahadpour, Sodeif
name: Sadra, Yaser
name: Sadeghi, Meisam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Haar wavelet is one of the best mathematical tools in image cryptography and analysis. Because of the specific structure, this wavelet has the ability which is combined with other mathematical tools such as chaotic maps. The rational order chaotic maps are one of clusters of chaotic maps which their deterministic behaviors have high sensitivity. In this paper, we propose a novel method of gradient Haar wavelet transform for image encryption. This method use linearity properties of the scaling function of the gradient Haar wavelet and deterministic behaviors of rational order chaotic maps in order to generate encrypted images with high security factor. The security of the encrypted images is evaluated by the key space analysis, the correlation coefficient analysis, and differential attack. The method could be used in other fields such as image and signal processing.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, and 3 tables
Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Herbert Read, October 10, [1954?]
Creators: name: Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, English--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821953
subject: Art historians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815554
subject: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1754386
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Artists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/817559
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Art movements
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815613
subject: Artists--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/817571
subject: Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1898202
subject: Women artists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1177159

description: Part of a collection of letters to Sir Herbert Read from Dame Barbara Hepworth (English artist and sculptor and, along with Read, a member of the modern art movement Unit One founded by Paul Nash), that span the time period of 1940 to 1965 and discuss their artistic and literary endeavors, philosophical and political views, and personal lives. Hepworth talks about her visit to Greece. Discusses a proposition for an illustrated catalogue to accompany her travelling exhibit in the United States.
Supplementary document for Targeted Photothrombotic Subcortical Small Vessel Occlusion Using In Vivo Real-time Fiber Bundle Endomicroscopy in Mice - 6161595.pdf
Creators: name: Kim, Minkyung
name: Choi, Wonseok
name: Moon, Hyuk-June
name: Han, Sungmin
name: Shin, Hyun-Joon
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biological Engineering
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Techniques

description: Supplement 1
Stability of soliton families in nonlinear Schroedinger equations with non-parity-time-symmetric complex potentials
Creators: name: Yang, Jianke
name: Nixon, Sean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stability of soliton families in one-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equations with non-parity-time (PT)-symmetric complex potentials is investigated numerically. It is shown that these solitons can be linearly stable in a wide range of parameter values both below and above phase transition. In addition, a pseudo-Hamiltonian-Hopf bifurcation is revealed, where pairs of purely-imaginary eigenvalues in the linear-stability spectra of solitons collide and bifurcate off the imaginary axis, creating oscillatory instability, which resembles Hamiltonian-Hopf bifurcations of solitons in Hamiltonian systems even though the present system is dissipative and non-Hamiltonian. The most important numerical finding is that, eigenvalues of linear-stability operators of these solitons appear in quartets $(λ, -λ, λ^*, -λ^*)$, similar to conservative systems and PT-symmetric systems. This quartet eigenvalue symmetry is very surprising for non-PT-symmetric systems, and it has far-reaching consequences on the stability behaviors of solitons.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Herbert Read, December 15, [1956?]
Creators: name: Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/817559
subject: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1754386
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Art historians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815554
subject: Artists--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/817571
subject: Women artists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1177159
subject: Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1898202
subject: Authors, English--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821953
subject: Art movements
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815613
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870

description: Part of a collection of letters to Sir Herbert Read from Dame Barbara Hepworth (English artist and sculptor and, along with Read, a member of the modern art movement Unit One founded by Paul Nash), that span the time period of 1940 to 1965 and discuss their artistic and literary endeavors, philosophical and political views, and personal lives. Hepworth discusses older and younger generations of sculptors.
Strategic PV Project Development with Strengthened Renewable Energy Governance as a Solution to Sustainable Electrification in Eastern Africa, with Country Focuses of Tanzania and Uganda
Creators: name: Ergeneman, E.
name: Gudopp, D.
Publisher: name: WIP - Renewable Energies and ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: developing countries; photovoltaic; policy; rural electrification; strategy; utilities
subject: 3. Enabling Environment (Economical)

description: Solar photovoltaic power plants with their ease of implementation and minimal negative environmental and social impacts can be seen as the potential long-term solution for the rural electrification problem in Eastern African countries, namely Tanzania and Uganda, for reaching their targeted electricity access ratios for the next decades. Appropriate regulation of the renewable energy markets, innovative financing options and effective incentives for Solar PV power generation investments will prove decisive for the pace and extent of their expansion both for public and private initiatives in these countries. This paper starts with a brief analysis of related regulatory bodies, frameworks and policies in Tanzania and Uganda for solar PV implementations and introduces the relevant barriers and opportunities. As a result of this assessment, recommendations for an ideal business plan and competitive strategies to overcome the already existing barriers for PV implementations are presented. The research is based on desktop and on site research performed with key stakeholders.
description: 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, AfricaPVSEC 2014
Green Digital Accessibility, WSIS, 12th of May 2022
Creators: name: Orero, Pilar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education for sustainable development, eco-school, environmental education, sustainability, sustainability competences, GreenComp

description: This presentation aims to introduce the concept of Green Digital Accessibility and examine the approaches taken by GreenSCENT to address this emerging issue.
Measures for the Diffusion of Solar PV are Aligned in Technology Action Plans for Six Countries in Africa
Creators: name: Nygaard, I.
name: Hansen, U.E.
name: Brix Pedersen, M.
name: Mackenzie, G.A.
Publisher: name: WIP - Renewable Energies and ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: developing countries; dissemination; policy; PV market; rural electrification; solar home system
subject: 3. Enabling Environment (Economical)

description: Recently, development projects have provided support to governments to facilitate technology transfer for climate change adaptation and mitigation. These include the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). In the TNA project, which was implemented in ten African countries from 2010 to 2013, dedicated government committees have prioritized climate change mitigation technologies and developed action plans for the diffusion of the selected technologies. The project results show that solar PV is high on the agenda in Africa. Six out of ten countries in the region prioritized solar PV, and action plans for the diffusion of solar home systems were put forward in Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mali and Senegal, while the implementation of grid-connected systems was proposed in Rwanda, Mali and Senegal. The project reports and technology action plans prepared in these six countries are used as the basis for comparing how solar PV is perceived in these countries and how policy measures enabling environmental adjustments and investment programmes are being planned to promote diffusion of the technology in these different contexts.
description: 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, AfricaPVSEC 2014
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings
Creators: name: Macmillan Company Of Canada
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Canadian poetry
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/845173
subject: Authors, Canadian
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821870
subject: Brown, Audrey Alexandra, 1904-1998
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/409826
subject: Canadian literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/845111
subject: Macmillan Company of Canada
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/616800

description: A newspaper clipping, featuring a head shot of Audrey Alexandra Brown with other Canadian authors.
Absolute measurement of the ${}^{1}S_{0}$ - ${}^{3}P_{0}$ clock transition in neutral ${}^{88}$Sr over the 330 km-long stabilized fibre optic link
Creators: name: Morzynski, Piotr
name: Bober, Marcin
name: Bartoszek-Bober, Dobroslawa
name: Nawrocki, Jerzy
name: Krehlik, Przemyslaw
name: Sliwczynski, Lukasz
name: Lipinski, Marcin
name: Maslowski, Piotr
name: Cygan, Agata
name: Dunst, Piotr
name: Garus, Michal
name: Lisak, Daniel
name: Zachorowski, Jerzy
name: Gawlik, Wojciech
name: Radzewicz, Czeslaw
name: Ciurylo, Roman
name: Zawada, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a stability below $7\times 10{}^{-17}$ of two independent optical lattice clocks operating with bosonic ${}^{88}$Sr isotope. The value (429228066418008.3(1.9)${}_{syst}$(0.9)${}_{stat}$~Hz) of the absolute frequency of the ${}^{1}S_{0}$ - ${}^{3}P_{0}$ transition was measured with an optical frequency comb referenced to the local representation of the UTC by the 330 km-long stabilized fibre optical link. The result was verified by series of measurements on two independent optical lattice clocks and agrees with recommendation of Bureau International des Poids et Mesures.
A Genomic Approach Toward Understanding Fruit Size Regulation in Apple
Creators: name: Jahed, Khalil
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Horticultural crop improvement (incl. selection and breeding)

description: Fruit size is a polygenic trait controlled by multiple genomic regions each with small effect. The complex nature of fruit size regulation makes it challenging to dissect individual genes responsible for phenotypic variation. Though recent advances in high-throughput genome sequencing technology in conjunction with improved statistical and computational methods empowered science to explicitly understand the genetic basis underlying multiple fruit quality traits, much of the work that has been done through classical quantitative trait loci (QTL) approach resulted in reduced resolution and instability when evaluating in different genetic backgrounds and different environments. To increase the precision and improve the stability of QTL analyses and to identify genes controlling fruit size, we performed a set of multiple quantitative and molecular genetic analyses to elucidate the underlying genetic architecture of fruit mass. A total of nine genomic regions associated with fruit mass were identified, two of which are novel to this study; markers Md14_26050918 and Md14_26050904. Detected QTLs explained ~ 42% of the total genetic variation of which ~ 20% is explained by the two novel QTLs. Regions responsible for fruit mass variation appear to be under strong additive and epistatic genetic control. These regions exhibited high stability across-family as well as across-years and showed accurate genomic prediction across-family. Additionally, we identified the apple gene family of putative fw2.2 orthologs, naming them Cell Number Regulators (CNRs) genes (MdCNRs). Three CNRs (MdCNR1-3) showed increased expression at early fruit growth in small-fruited crabapple, associating with reduced relative cell production rate (RCPR), suggesting that alteration in cell number that leads to a subsequent reduction in fruit size is probably due to reduced cell division most likely due to changes in CNRs regulation. Furthermore, our study revealed that reduced fruit size is partially due to the shortened cell expansion period after which cell expansion ceases in the small-fruited crabapple species. Together, these data will advance our understanding of dissecting fruit mass genetic architecture and have high potential to be deployed for marker-assisted selection and further breeding approaches.
UVic: Arts and Education Complex – MacLaurin Building [Project: 075-06-64]
Creators: name: Hodgson, Alan J. (Alan James)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Architecture
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/813346
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: College buildings--Design and construction
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/867727
subject: University of Victoria (B.C.). MacLaurin Building
subject: Architects
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/813114

description: Project material consists of two large folders of architectural drawings and other material pertaining to the design of the MacLaurin Building, originally referred to as the Arts and Education Complex or Education and Arts Complex, at the University of Victoria. Included are site plans; floor plans; section drawings; detail drawings; acoustic design plans; HVAC drawings; HVAC plans; electrical plans; electrical drawings; landscaping plans; schedules; an aerial photograph; and other material produced at various stages of the design process. Also included are copies of architectural drawings for other University of Victoria buildings from the same era, including the McPherson Library, Clearihue Building, and Elliot Building; as well as other material pertaining to the development of the Gordon Head Campus site more generally.
Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Herbert Read, December 08 [1940?]
Creators: name: Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Art movements
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815613
subject: Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1898202
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Art historians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815554
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Women artists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1177159
subject: Artists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/817559
subject: Artists--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/817571
subject: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1754386
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, English--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821953

description: Part of a collection of letters to Sir Herbert Read from Dame Barbara Hepworth (English artist and sculptor and, along with Read, a member of the modern art movement Unit One founded by Paul Nash), that span the time period of 1940 to 1965 and discuss their artistic and literary endeavors, philosophical and political views, and personal lives. Hepworth receives Read's new book and discusses "romantic" and "classical".
Mapping the Cost of Electricity from Grid-connected and Off-grid PV Systems in Africa
Creators: name: Huld, T.
name: Jäger-Waldau, A.
name: Szabó, S.
Publisher: name: WIP - Renewable Energies and ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: economic analysis; rural electrification; stand-alone PV systems; system performance
subject: 3. Enabling Environment (Economical)

description: We present the calculation of  Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for PV systems in Africa and the Middle East. The calculations are based on estimates of the PV energy productivity from satellite data combined with models for the performance of both grid-connected and off-grid PV systems. The PV productivity figures can then be combined with scenarios for the cost of PV system installations in terms of initial investment, operation and maintenance, as well as discount rate for the LCOE calculation. The results show that using realistic estimates of installation and maintenance costs, and 5% p.a. discount rate, the LCOE of PV electricity is below 7 c€/kWh in most of Northern and Southern Africa, rising to 9-10c€ in the cloudy tropical belt near the Equator. If the discount rate is 10%, the LCOE is 9-10c€/kWh in most of Africa, rising to 13-14c€ in tropical West Africa. This shows clearly the importance of a good financing framework. Calculations of the performance of PV minigrid systems shows that the electricity cost from these systems is higher, at 18-25 c€, but it is still competitive with many other options for rural electrification.
description: 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, AfricaPVSEC 2014
Cosmology with a Heavy Polonyi Field
Creators: name: Harigaya, Keisuke
name: Hayakawa, Taku
name: Kawasaki, Masahiro
name: Yamada, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a cosmologically consistent scenario with a heavy Polonyi field. The Polonyi field with a mass of ${\cal O}(100){\rm\,TeV}$ decays before the Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and avoids the severe constraint from the BBN. However, the abundance of the Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) produced from the decay often exceeds the observed dark matter density. In our scenario, the dark matter density is obtained by the LSP abundance with an aid of entropy production, and baryon asymmetry is generated by the Affleck-Dine mechanism. We show that the observed baryon-to-dark matter ratio of ${\cal O}(0.1\mathchar`-1)$ is naturally explained in sequestering models with a QCD axion.
description: 24 pages
Welche Rolle spielt das Magisterium im Glauben der Kirchengemeinschaft?
Creators: name: Gutwenger, Engelbert
Publisher: name: Concilium
Year: 1970

description: Concilium, Bd. 6 Nr. 1 (1970): Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie, Band 6, Heft 1
Letter from Clere Parsons to Herbert Read, July 08, [1927-1928?]
Creators: name: Parsons, Clere, 1908-1931
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Art historians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815554
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1754386
subject: Editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902475
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Parsons, Clere, 1908-1931
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688

description: One of a pair of letters to Sir Herbert Read from the poet Clere Parsons. In this letter Parsons announces his new trial position as a reporter for "The Daily News". He also describes his joy at rediscovering one of his volumes of Read's poetry, and the influence Read has had on Parsons' own poetry.
Accurate computation of surface stresses and forces with immersed boundary methods
Creators: name: Goza, Andres
name: Liska, Sebastian
name: Morley, Benjamin
name: Colonius, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many immersed boundary methods solve for surface stresses that impose the velocity boundary conditions on an immersed body. These surface stresses may contain spurious oscillations that make them ill-suited for representing the physical surface stresses on the body. Moreover, these inaccurate stresses often lead to unphysical oscillations in the history of integrated surface forces such as the coefficient of lift. While the errors in the surface stresses and forces do not necessarily affect the convergence of the velocity field, it is desirable, especially in fluid-structure interaction problems, to obtain smooth and convergent stress distributions on the surface. To this end, we show that the equation for the surface stresses is an integral equation of the first kind whose ill-posedness is the source of spurious oscillations in the stresses. We also demonstrate that for sufficiently smooth delta functions, the oscillations may be filtered out to obtain physically accurate surface stresses. The filtering is applied as a post-processing procedure, so that the convergence of the velocity field is unaffected. We demonstrate the efficacy of the method by computing stresses and forces that converge to the physical stresses and forces for several test problems.
The Near Future (2030) Photovoltaic Energy Availability in Africa: Outcomes from a Climate-Aerosols Modelling Exercise
Creators: name: Gaetani, M.
name: Huld, T.
name: Vignati, E.
name: Monforti-Ferrario, F.
name: Dosio, A.
Publisher: name: WIP - Renewable Energies and ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: climate change; resource availability; PV
subject: 3. Enabling Environment (Economical)

description: -
description: 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, AfricaPVSEC 2014
Resonance Raman scattering and ab initio calculation of electron energy loss spectra of MoS2 nanosheets
Creators: name: Chakraborti, Anirban
name: Patel, Arun Singh
name: Kanaujia, Pawan K.
name: Nath, Palash
name: Prakash, G. Vijaya
name: Sanyal, Dirtha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of electron energy loss (EELS) peak is proposed theoretically in molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanosheets. Using density functional theory simulations and calculations, one EELS peak is identified in the visible energy range, for MoS2 nanosheets with molybdenum vacancy. Experimentally, four different laser sources are used for the Raman scattering study of MoS2 nanosheets, which show two distinct Raman peaks, one at 385 cm-1 (E12g) and the other at 408 cm-1 (A1g). In the cases of three laser sources with wavelengths 405 nm (3.06 eV), 632 nm (1.96 eV) and 785 nm (1.58 eV), respectively, the intensity of E12g Raman peak is more than the A1g Raman peak, while in the case of excitation source of 532 nm (2.33 eV), the intensity profile is reversed and A1g peak is the most intense. Thus a resonance Raman scattering phenomenon is observed for 532 nm laser source.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, uses IOP style