cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Interactions of local regulators on folliculogenesis
Creators: name: Nguyen, Trang Huyen Thi.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Planetesimal formation via the streaming instability with multiple grain sizes
Creators: name: Rucska, Josef
name: Wadsley, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kilometre-sized planetesimals form from pebbles of a range of sizes. We present the first simulations of the streaming instability that begin with a realistic, peaked size distribution, as expected from grain growth predictions. Our 3D numerical simulations directly form planetesimals via the gravitational collapse of pebble clouds. Models with multiple grain sizes show spatially distinct dust populations. The smallest grains in the size distribution do not participate in the formation of filaments or the planetesimals that are formed by the remaining 80% of the dust mass. This implies a size cutoff for pebbles incorporated into asteroids and comets. Disc observations cannot resolve this dust clumping. However, we show that clumping, combined with optical depth effects, can cause significant underestimates of the dust mass, with 20%-80% more dust being present even at moderate optical depths if the streaming instability is active.
description: Accepted to MNRAS, 16 pages, 10 figures
Identification of Technical Risks in the PV Value Chain and Quantification of the Economic Impact
Creators: name: Moser, D.
name: Del Buono, M.
name: Jahn, U.
name: Herz, M.
name: Richter, M.
name: De Brabandere, K.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Operation, Performance, Reliability and Sustainability of Photovoltaics
Operation of PV Systems

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1428-1434
description: In PV projects it is important to establish a common practice for professional risk assessment, which
serves to reduce the risks associated with related investments. The objective of this paper is to present a methodology
in how to improve the current understanding of several key aspects of technical risk management during the PV project
lifecycle, with the identification of technical risks and their economic impact. To achieve this, available statistical data
of failures during a PV project have been collected with the aim to i) suggest a guideline for the categorisation of
failure, and ii) develop a methodology for the assessment of the economic impact of failures occurring during operation
but which might have originated in previous phases. The risk analysis has the aim to assess the economic impact of
technical risks and how this can influence various business models and the LCOE. This paper presents the first attempt
to implement cost-based Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to the PV sector and to define a methodology
for the estimation of economic losses due to planning failures, system downtime and substitution/repair of components.
The methodology is based on statistical analysis and can be applied to a single PV plant or to a large portfolio of PV
plants in the same market segment. The quality of the analysis depends on the amount of failure data available and on
the assumptions taken for the calculation of a Cost Priority Number (CPN). The overall results can be linked to the cost
of periodic and corrective maintenance and form the basis to estimate the impact of various risk and mitigation scenarios
in PV business models.
Additional file 5 of Extracting multiple surfaces from 3D microscopy images in complex biological tissues with the Zellige software tool
Creators: name: Trébeau, Céline
name: de Monvel, Jacques Boutet
name: Altay, Gizem
name: Tinevez, Jean-Yves
name: Etournay, Raphaël
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. Sensitivity analysis of Zellige on the cochlear epithelium image. (A) Surface voxel selection parameters. (B) Surface assembly parameters. Reference values are indicated by the dashed line.
Theoretical Contribution to the Understanding of Proton Back Irradiation Effects on Semiconductor Devices in Solar Panels. The Case of Silicon Bypass Diodes
Creators: name: Rodríguez, S.
name: Plá, J.
name: Duran, J.
name: Alurralde, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Concentrator and Space Applications
Concentrator and Space Systems

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1415-1417
description: Despite of electrons are the more abundant particles in LEO (low Earth orbit) orbits, the main
responsible of solar panels degradation are protons, due to proton mass is similar to target masses and then presents a
higher transfer energy efficiency. The object of this work is to study the contribution of proton irradiation on back
side of the solar panels to their degradation. Usually, the effect of back irradiation is considered using an equivalent
thickness of Al that does not take into account the anisotropy of the panel structure. Here we perform a comparison
between the front side irradiation, where usually the method of an equivalent thickness is applied, and a simplified
Monte Carlo simulation approximation of the honeycomb to assess the back side irradiation. Considering the results
obtained, a simplified method to predict the backside irradiation contribution to damage is proposed.
Gravitational waves from first order phase transitions as a probe of an early matter domination era and its inverse problem
Creators: name: Barenboim, Gabriela
name: Park, Wan-Il
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 the gravitational wave background from a first order phase transition in a matter-dominated universe, and show that it has a unique feature from which important information about the properties of the phase transition and thermal history of the universe can be easily extracted. Also, we discuss the inverse problem of such a gravitational wave background in view of the degeneracy among macroscopic parameters governing the signal.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Additional file 4 of Extracting multiple surfaces from 3D microscopy images in complex biological tissues with the Zellige software tool
Creators: name: Trébeau, Céline
name: de Monvel, Jacques Boutet
name: Altay, Gizem
name: Tinevez, Jean-Yves
name: Etournay, Raphaël
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Sensitivity analysis of Zellige on the pupal fly image. (A) Surface voxel selection parameters. (B) Surface assembly parameters. Reference values are indicated by the dashed line. (C) RMSE and coverage results obtained for different values of the σxy blur taken within and outside the interval defined by the parameter sweep in (A, “σxy” panel). (D) Visualization of the projections on the extracted surfaces obtained for the different σxy blur values shown in (C).
PV Bifacial Yield Simulation with a Variable Albedo Model
Creators: name: Chiodetti, M.
name: Lindsay, A.
name: Dupeyrat, P.
name: Binesti, D.
name: Lutun, E.
name: Radouane, K.
name: Mousel, S.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Operation, Performance, Reliability and Sustainability of Photovoltaics
Operation of PV Systems

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1449-1455
description: Bifacial solar cells convert photons into electricity on both their front and rear sides, which makes the
assessment of solar resource trickier than for classical solar cells that are active on their front side only. Among other
parameters, the albedo around a bifacial installation has a major impact on the irradiation received on the rear
side, and thus on the yield. For this reason, it is crucial to have an accurate characterization of the ground albedo for a
bifacial system. While a constant and default albedo value is generally a reasonable approximation for the simulation
of conventional PV, a more accurate albedo model is required in the case of bifacial PV.
In this paper, experiments and simulations on albedo that have been carried out at several of EDF R&D’s research
facilities are presented. It confirmed that the ground albedo is not constant as described in the majority of PV
simulation systems, but varies throughout the days and the seasons.
A simplified variable albedo model is proposed and has been tested with measurements on several surface types. It
can be calibrated with only a small set of data and is easy to use. It has been integrated to our bifacial PV model
developed in a Dymola simulation environment and used to compute rear side irradiations and yield estimations.
The Roman snail (Gastropoda: Helicidae) is not a generalist herbivore, but shows food preferences for Urtica dioica and plant litter
Creators: name: Tluste, Claudia
name: Birkhofer, Klaus
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The food preferences and palatability of different plant species for snail and slug species in arable fields has been a major area of research in the past. The assumed diet of Helix pomatia (Linnaeus, 1758), however, provides an example of the limited knowledge of snail diets in nonagricultural habitats. This species has been described as a generalist herbivore, although it showed preferences for individual plant species in another study. Helix pomatia is considered a pest species, while also being listed as endangered in several Red Lists. In this study, the feeding activity of eight subpopulations of H. pomatia were recorded in a nature reserve in Cottbus, Germany, from April to October 2021 to understand food preferences and feeding behaviour. Along with the plant species on which feeding was observed, the height of feeding in the vegetation, shell width and height, number of whorls, and exposure to direct sunlight at observation sites were recorded. Results indicate that H. pomatia prefers Urtica dioica, and plant litter, which accounted for 35% and 44% of all observed feeding interactions respectively, as food resources, while generally only feeding on 27 of 143 available plant species. The importance of U. dioica as a food resource for 19 other terrestrial snail species is confirmed by 18 previous studies. In H. pomatia, analysis of the width and height of shells indicated that smaller, juvenile snails consumed plant material significantly higher up in vegetation as compared to adult snails, which fed closer to the ground. Awareness of the preference in H. pomatia for U. dioica as a food resource may be beneficial for land managers regarding the impact of this snail as an agriculture pest to crops. Urtica dioica is a very important food plant for terrestrial snails, and could play an important role in future species conservation strategies.
How different are the Liège and Hamburg atlases of the solar spectrum?
Creators: name: Doerr, H. -P.
name: Vitas, N.
name: Fabbian, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: The high-fidelity solar spectral atlas prepared by Delbouille and co-workers (Liège atlas), and the one by Neckel and co-workers (Hamburg atlas), are widely recognised as the most important reference spectra of the Sun at disc-centre in the visible wavelength range. Both datasets serve as fundamental resources for many researchers, in particular for chemical abundance analysis. But despite their similar published specifications (spectral resolution, noise level), the shapes of spectral lines in the two atlases differ significantly and systematically. Aims: Knowledge of any instrumental degradations is imperative to fully exploit the information content of spectroscopic data. We seek to investigate the magnitude---and to explain the possible sources---of these differences. We provide the wavelength-dependent correction parameters that need to be taken into account when the spectra are to be compared with e.g. synthetic data. Methods: A parametrically degraded version of the Hamburg spectrum is fitted to the Liège spectrum. The parameters of the model (wavelength shift, broadening, intensity scaling, intensity offset) represent the different characteristics of the respective instruments, observational strategies and data processing. Results: The wavelength scales of the Liège and Hamburg atlases differ on average by 0.5 mÅ with a standard deviation of $\pm$2 mÅ, except for a peculiar region around 5500 Å. The continuum levels are offset by up to 18% below 5000 Å but stably at a 0.8% difference towards the red. We find no evidence for spectral straylight in the Liège spectrum. Its resolving power is almost independent of wavelength but limited to about 216000, between two to six times less than specified. When accounting for the degradations determined in this work, the spectra of the two atlases agree within a few parts in 10$^3$.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in A&A
title: Vibration Reduction Assessment of Layered Acoustic Metamaterial
Creators: name: Świrk, Patrycja
name: Żyłka, Wojciech
name: Leniowska, Lucyna
name: Grochowina, Marcin
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2022

description: Vibrations in Physical Systems, 33(2), 2022221-1 - 2022221-6
High Resolution Solar Radiation Database. Solar Atlas for South Africa
Creators: name: Gracia Amillo, A.
name: Ntsangwane, L.
name: Huld, T.
name: Trentmann, J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Operation, Performance, Reliability and Sustainability of Photovoltaics
Solar Resource and Forecasting

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1456-1461
description: Solar radiation data can be estimated at high spatial resolution over large geographical areas using
satellite images. In this paper, two different satellite based methodologies have been applied to calculate global
horizontal and beam normal irradiance values for South Africa. The accuracy of the estimates has been analyzed by
comparing the modelled values with ground measurements recorded at thirteen stations distributed over the country.
The best method results in an overall relative mean bias of 1.64% for the global horizontal irradiance and 2.93% for
the beam normal irradiance estimation. This method has been implemented into an open GIS software that allows
users to obtain for free, estimates of the available solar resource over large regions of their choice. In addition to this,
the implemented methodology outputs the photovoltaic production of various PV technologies and different settings
from fixed modules to sun tracking systems. The said estimation model takes into account the effect of the module's
temperature, the cooling effect of wind, the angle of incidence to the module's surface and the spectral distribution of
the received solar radiation. Furthermore, the GIS module contains high resolution terrain data that allows
considering the effect of the surrounding topography on the above mentioned calculations.
Recent progress in some exclusive and semi-exclusive processes in proton-proton collisions
Creators: name: Szczurek, Antoni
name: Cisek, Anna
name: Luszczak, Marta
name: Schafer, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the main results of our recent analyses of exclusive production of vector charmonia ($J/ψ$ and $ψ'$) in $k_t$-factorization approach and for $γγ$ production of charged dilepton pairs in exclusive and semiinclusive processes in a new approach, similar in spirit to $k_t$-factorization. The results for charmonia are compared with recent results of the LHCb collaboration. We include some helicity flip contributions and quantify the effect of absorption correction. The effect of $c \bar c$ wave function is illustrated. We present uncertainties related to $F_2$ structure function which are the main ingredient of the approach. Our results are compared with recent CMS data for dilepton production with lepton isolation cuts imposed.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, an invited talk presented by A. Szczurek at the ISMD2015, Wildbad Kreuth, Germany, October 4-9, 2015
Additional file 6 of Extracting multiple surfaces from 3D microscopy images in complex biological tissues with the Zellige software tool
Creators: name: Trébeau, Céline
name: de Monvel, Jacques Boutet
name: Altay, Gizem
name: Tinevez, Jean-Yves
name: Etournay, Raphaël
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S5. Sensitivity analysis of Zellige on the primary epithelium culture image. (A) Surface voxel selection parameters. (B) Surface assembly parameters. Reference values are indicated by the dashed line.
Scale anomaly in a Lorentz and CPT-violating Quantum Electrodynamics
Creators: name: Porto, J. S.
name: Vieira, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the classical and the quantum breaking of the dilatation current in the minimal Lorentz and CPT-violating quantum electrodynamics. At the classical level, scale symmetry is broken by the general mass term \barψMψand the Chern-Simons-like term. At the quantum level, it is broken by all expected observable fermion operators in the massless limit.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
Mean Degradation Rates in PV Systems for Various Kinds of PV Module Failures
Creators: name: Köntges, M.
name: Altmann, S.
name: Heimberg, T.
name: Jahn, U.
name: Berger, K.A.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Operation, Performance, Reliability and Sustainability of Photovoltaics
PV Cells and Modules

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1435-1443
description: We analyse the impact of various photovoltaic (PV) module failure modes in PV systems in the field to
rank the impact of the failure types on the power generation. Therefore we designed a PV system failure survey based on
a spread sheet programme. The survey is distributed to international PV experts who fill in the data. The failure data is
collected since Oct. 2015 and the data collection is still in progress. The module failure types “cell cracks”, “potential
induced degradation by shunting (PIDs)”, “defect bypass diodes” and “discolouring of pottant“ have the highest fraction
in the database. The PIDs effect has a mean annual degradation rate of about 16%/a and affects about 3/5 of a system in
moderate climate. This degradation rate is calculated for the PV modules PV systems which show degradation. Cell
cracks show a mean degradation rate of around 5%/a for systems in the moderate climate zone and a higher degradation
rate of about 8%/a in cold and snow climate. Cell cracks also often affect only some modules in a string showing a
relevant power loss. Defect bypass diodes may show in some cases a very high impact on the module and system power
degradation. They occur in the first 10 years of system operation. The wear out failure discolouring of pottant occurs
during the whole system life but accumulates for very old systems. Its degradation rate is below 1%/a for all climatic
zones.
Low Concentration GaAs/CuInGaSe and GaAs/Si Multi-Junction Solar Cells with Smart Stack Technology
Creators: name: Makita, K.
name: Mizuno, H.
name: Oshima, R.
name: Tayagaki, T.
name: Nishinaga, J.
name: Shibata, H.
name: Baba, M.
name: Yamada, N.
name: Takato, H.
name: Sugaya, T.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Concentrator and Space Applications
III-V-based Devices for Terrestrial and Space Applications

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1390-1392
description: Low concentration multi-junction (MJ) solar cells have a practical solution to consist with high
efficiency and low cost. This paper shows the demonstrations of low concentration GaAs/CuInGaSe(CIGSe) and
GaAs/Si MJ solar cells with mechanical stacking method. Our key technology is the direct bonding using conductive
nanoparticle alignment, which is named “Smart Stack” technology. The conductive nanoparticles, such as Pd, were
aligned through the use of a self-assembled block copolymer template at the bonding interface. Therefore, sufficient
reduction of bonding resistance and optical absorption loss can be simultaneously attained. Using this technology, we
fabricated a GaAs/CIGSe 3-junction solar cell and observed the maximum efficiency of 25.3% at 5.7 suns (AM1.5g),
which is concerned in proper increase of open circuit voltage (Voc) under the concentrated sun. This is the first
demonstration as concentration examination for a two-terminal GaAs/CIGSe MJ solar cell. On the other hand, for a
GaAs/Si 3-junction solar cell, maximum efficiency was 21.2% at 9 suns. According to our theoretical prediction,
these efficiencies can be improved over 30% under the optimized structure design. The obtain results show the
possibility of GaAs/CIGSe and GaAs/Si MJ solar cells as next generation solar cell.
FPGA Hardware Acceleration of Monte Carlo Simulations for the Ising Model
Creators: name: Ortega-Zamorano, Francisco
name: Montemurro, Marcelo A.
name: Cannas, Sergio A.
name: Jerez, José M.
name: Franco, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A two-dimensional Ising model with nearest-neighbors ferromagnetic interactions is implemented in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) board.Extensive Monte Carlo simulations were carried out using an efficient hardware representation of individual spins and a combined global-local LFSR random number generator. Consistent results regarding the descriptive properties of magnetic systems, like energy, magnetization and susceptibility are obtained while a speed-up factor of approximately 6 times is achieved in comparison to previous FPGA-based published works and almost $10^4$ times in comparison to a standard CPU simulation. A detailed description of the logic design used is given together with a careful analysis of the quality of the random number generator used. The obtained results confirm the potential of FPGAs for analyzing the statistical mechanics of magnetic systems.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures
An evaluation of micromanipulation and in vitro fertilization for the treatment of severe male infertility
Creators: name: Bourne, Harold.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Homoscedasticity tests for both low and high-dimensional fixed design regressions
Creators: name: Bai, Zhidong
name: Pan, Guangming
name: Yin, Yanqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is to prove the asymptotic normality of a statistic for detecting the existence of heteroscedasticity for linear regression models without assuming randomness of covariates when the sample size $n$ tends to infinity and the number of covariates $p$ is either fixed or tends to infinity. Moreover our approach indicates that its asymptotic normality holds even without homoscedasticity.
description: 19 pages
Radiation Effects on Advanced Multi Junction Solar Cells for Space Missions
Creators: name: Campesato, R.
name: Gori, G.
name: Casale, M.
name: Gabetta, G.
name: Sankaran, M.
name: Suresh, E.P.
name: Uma, B.R.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Concentrator and Space Applications
III-V-based Devices for Terrestrial and Space Applications

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1411-1414
description: InGaP/InGaAs/Ge triple junction solar cells have reached efficiencies above 30% in A.M. 0 conditions.
To further improve their performances and their appeal to space missions, several strategies are under development in
particular concerning lightweight and low cost approaches. This paper compares the BOL and the EOL performances
of the triple junction solar cells named CTJ30, with the 80μm thin (CTJ30-80) and the low cost structures (CTJ-LC)
under qualification. The solar cells were electron and proton irradiated at different energies and fluencies and then
exposed to photon annealing. The solar cells characteristics were recorded before and after photon annealing: a clear
recovery of the damage was observed on all of them.
Additional file 7 of Extracting multiple surfaces from 3D microscopy images in complex biological tissues with the Zellige software tool
Creators: name: Trébeau, Céline
name: de Monvel, Jacques Boutet
name: Altay, Gizem
name: Tinevez, Jean-Yves
name: Etournay, Raphaël
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S6. Sensitivity analysis of Zellige on the inner ear organoid image. (A) Surface voxel selection parameters. (B) Surface assembly parameters. Reference values are indicated by the dashed line.
Vector spectroscopy for spin pumping
Creators: name: Lustikova, J.
name: Shiomi, Y.
name: Saitoh, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to separate the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) from galvanomagnetic effects in spin pumping experiments on metallic bilayer systems by measuring the dc electromotive force in two orthogonal directions. Calculations of dc voltages in longitudinal and Hall directions induced in Ni81Fe19 and Ni81Fe19/Pt films at ferromagnetic resonance in a microwave cavity predict that contributions from ISHE and from the galvanomagnetic effects, i.e. the anisotropic magnetoresistance and the anomalous Hall effect, exhibit distinct signal symmetry as well as angular dependence when changing the direction of the external field with respect to the film plane. According to measurements on Ni81Fe19/Pt, only that dc voltage component which includes ISHE is more than five times larger than purely galvanomagnetic components. This is corroborated by results on La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/Pt samples, demonstrating universality of this method.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Design and Preparation of Antireflection Coating for Inverted Metamorphic 4 Junction (IMM 4J) Solar Cell
Creators: name: Sun, X.
name: Du, Y.
name: Xiao, Z.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Concentrator and Space Applications
III-V-based Devices for Terrestrial and Space Applications

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1404-1406
description: Two designs of antireflection coating (ARC) for high efficiency gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cell
lattice-mismatch inverted metamorphic 4 junction (IMM-4J) solar cellare proposed. Design 1 (D1) ARC is
composed of titanium oxide (TiOx), yttrium oxide (Y2O3) and cryolite (Na3AlF6). Design 2 (D2) ARC is composed of
titanium oxide (TiOx) and cryolite (Na3AlF6). According to the differences of reflectance and external quantum
efficiency (EQE) before and after evaporation, the short circuit current gains of each junction are calculated. All the
results show that D1 ARC is more suitable for common IMM 4J solar cell.
Micro-video Tagging via Jointly Modeling Social Influence and Tag Relation
Creators: name: Wang, Xiao
name: Gan, Tian
name: Wei, Yinwei
name: Wu, Jianlong
name: Meng, Dai
name: Nie, Liqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The last decade has witnessed the proliferation of micro-videos on various user-generated content platforms. According to our statistics, around 85.7\% of micro-videos lack annotation. In this paper, we focus on annotating micro-videos with tags. Existing methods mostly focus on analyzing video content, neglecting users' social influence and tag relation. Meanwhile, existing tag relation construction methods suffer from either deficient performance or low tag coverage. To jointly model social influence and tag relation, we formulate micro-video tagging as a link prediction problem in a constructed heterogeneous network. Specifically, the tag relation (represented by tag ontology) is constructed in a semi-supervised manner. Then, we combine tag relation, video-tag annotation, and user-follow relation to build the network. Afterward, a better video and tag representation are derived through Behavior Spread modeling and visual and linguistic knowledge aggregation. Finally, the semantic similarity between each micro-video and all candidate tags is calculated in this video-tag network. Extensive experiments on industrial datasets of three verticals verify the superiority of our model compared with several state-of-the-art baselines.
description: Accepted by Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (2022)
Additional file 8 of Extracting multiple surfaces from 3D microscopy images in complex biological tissues with the Zellige software tool
Creators: name: Trébeau, Céline
name: de Monvel, Jacques Boutet
name: Altay, Gizem
name: Tinevez, Jean-Yves
name: Etournay, Raphaël
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S7. Computational time analysis of Zellige. (A) Computation times (step 1 in blue, step 2 in brown) for processing the various images tested on a PC notebook computer with (processor Intel Core i9 2,4 GHz with 32 Gb of Ram). Apart for the case of a highly rough surface (culture specimen) the computation time is largely dominated by the surface voxel selection step (step 1). (B) The same computation times are re-plotted as a function of image size N (number of voxels). Note the linear growth of the computational time of step 1 as a function of N, while that of step 2 shows much slower growth.
Host plant utilisation of two Dicraeus species (Diptera: Chloropidae) feeding on bamboo flowers
Creators: name: Sakata, Yuzu
name: Kato, Mei
name: Kobayashi, Keito
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Bamboos are known for flowering simultaneously over a wide geographic range at long intervals of more than several decades. Florivory by Dicraeus phyllostachyus and D. nartshukae causes severe damage to bamboo seed production. However, the nature of the life history of the two Dicraeus species, particularly how they sustain populations during non-masting years of bamboos such as their host plant range, is poorly explored. We hypothesised that the two Dicraeus species host on other plant species and/or on non-floral organs of bamboos and move to bamboo florets during masting years. We tested whether the two Dicraeus species oviposit and develop on florets of grasses excluding bamboos (other grasses), and on non-floral organs of bamboos, including branch buds and bamboo shoots, by conducting a natural population survey and laboratory experiments. We found that the two Dicraeus species utilise short, slender shoots of Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis and a few other grass florets in the natural populations. Laboratory experiments also showed that the two Dicraeus species oviposited and fed on non-floral organs of bamboos and several species of other grass florets, although the oviposition rate and number of eggs varied among organs and the survival rate was low on most other grass florets. The generalised feeding ability may have enabled the two Dicraeus species to utilise the bamboo florets during masting years and become the dominant florivorous insect of bamboos. Unravelling their life history strategies may contribute to understanding adaptation in florivorous insects of masting plants as well as their impact on the evolution of masting in plants.
Coulomb charging energy of vacancy-induced states in graphene
Creators: name: Miranda, Vladimir G.
name: da Silva, Luis G. G. V. Dias
name: Lewenkopf, Caio H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vacancies in graphene have been proposed to give rise to $π$-like magnetism in carbon materials, a conjecture which has been supported by recent experimental evidence. A key element in this "vacancy magnetism" is the formation of magnetic moments in vacancy-induced electronic states. In this work we compute the charging energy $U$ of a single-vacancy generated localized state for bulk graphene and graphene ribbons. We use a tight-binding model to calculate the dependency of the charging energy $U$ on the amplitudes of the localized wave function on the graphene lattice sites. We show that for bulk graphene $U$ scales with the system size $L$ as $(\ln L)^{-2}$, confirming the predictions in the literature, based on heuristic arguments. In contrast, we find that for realistic system sizes $U$ is of the order of eV, a value that is orders of magnitude higher than the previously reported estimates. Finally, when edges are considered, we show that $U$ is very sensitive to the vacancy position with respect to the graphene flake boundaries. In the case of armchair nanoribbons, we find a strong enhancement of $U$ in certain vacancy positions as compared to the value for vacancies in bulk graphene.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures
Developing a Low Concentration Module Using PV Assembly Processes and Suitable for Both Terrestrial and Space Applications
Creators: name: Weick, C.
name: García-Linares, P.
name: Voarino, P.
name: Baudrit, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Concentrator and Space Applications
Concentrator and Space Systems

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1379-1384
description: Concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules are composed of many components and interfaces, which
require complex assembling processes, resulting in fabrication complexity and often lack of reliability. The present
work addresses these issues, by proposing an innovative low concentration photovoltaic (LCPV) concept. In particular,
the purpose here is to develop a module with a high level of integration by lowering the number of components and
interfaces. The mirror used as the concentrator optic is multifunctional, as it combines thermal, structural and optical
function. Moreover, the proposed design claims to demonstrate the applicability of reliable flat PV processes (such as
lamination and cells interconnections), for the manufacturing of this LCPV module. The paper describes both thermal
and optical modelling, developed to validate the concentrator design. Then, the main processes qualifications, as well
as results on the characterization of the preliminary developed prototypes, are given. The potential of the LCPV
concept, for space applications, is also discussed.
Forming Chondrites in a Solar Nebula with Magnetically Induced Turbulence
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Yasuhiro
name: Turner, Neal J.
name: Masiero, Joseph
name: Wakita, Shigeru
name: Matsumoto, Yuji
name: Oshino, Shoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chondritic meteorites provide valuable opportunities to investigate the origins of the solar system. We explore impact jetting as a mechanism of chondrule formation and subsequent pebble accretion as a mechanism of accreting chondrules onto parent bodies of chondrites, and investigate how these two processes can account for the currently available meteoritic data. We find that when the solar nebula is $\le 5$ times more massive than the minimum-mass solar nebula at $a \simeq 2-3$ AU and parent bodies of chondrites are $\le 10^{24}$ g ($\le$ 500 km in radius) in the solar nebula, impact jetting and subsequent pebble accretion can reproduce a number of properties of the meteoritic data. The properties include the present asteroid belt mass, the formation timescale of chondrules, and the magnetic field strength of the nebula derived from chondrules in Semarkona. Since this scenario requires a first generation of planetesimals that trigger impact jetting and serve as parent bodies to accrete chondrules, the upper limit of parent bodies' masses leads to the following implications: primordial asteroids that were originally $\ge 10^{24}$ g in mass were unlikely to contain chondrules, while less massive primordial asteroids likely had a chondrule-rich surface layer. The scenario developed from impact jetting and pebble accretion can therefore provide new insights into the origins of the solar system.
description: Title are modified and typographical errors are corrected, following the published version; 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
On the Effect of Optical Configuration and Spectral Variation on the Performance of III-V Triple-Junction Cells Used in H-CPV Systems
Creators: name: Schultz, R.D.
name: Van Dyk, E.E.
name: Vorster, F.J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Concentrator and Space Applications
III-V-based Devices for Terrestrial and Space Applications

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1399-1403
description: The power generation and efficiency of High Concentrator Photovoltaic (H-CPV) modules are
unsurpassed when compared to other Photovoltaic (PV) technologies. This is achieved by coupling highly efficient
III-V multi-junction photovoltaic devices to precise high quality optics. However, depending on their configuration
with respect to each other, the system’s optimization with regards to electrical performance and efficiency may vary.
This is attributed to the partial or full photon absorption by the optical materials in different wavelength regions that
are specific to the photo-active regions of the InGaP, InGaAs and Ge subcells. The decrease in photons incident upon
the series connected subcells causes a varying degree of (1) current mismatch between the subcells and (2) efficiency
of the device during operation. In this paper, the electrical performance of an InGaP/InGaAs/Ge III-V triple-junction
device as a function of optical configuration is investigated. Utilizing appropriate algorithms, the current density and
Current-Voltage (I-V) characteristic curves of the subcells as a function of the optical system influence and spectrum
variation, were simulated. This enabled the resulting device I-V curve to be determined and used to identify the most
efficient and highest power generating optics-to-device system.
The thermodynamic cost of quantum operations
Creators: name: Bedingham, Daniel
name: Maroney, Owen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The amount of heat generated by computers is rapidly becoming one of the main problems for developing new generations of information technology. The thermodynamics of computation sets the ultimate physical bounds on heat generation. A lower bound is set by the Landauer Limit, at which computation becomes thermodynamically reversible. For classical computation there is no physical principle which prevents this limit being reached, and approaches to it are already being experimentally tested. In this paper we show that for quantum computation there is an unavoidable excess heat generation that renders it inherently thermodynamically irreversible. The Landauer Limit cannot, in general, be reached by quantum computers. We show the existence of a lower bound to the heat generated by quantum computing that exceeds that given by the Landauer Limit, give the special conditions where this excess cost may be avoided, and show how classical computing falls within these special conditions.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Boosting of waned humoral and cellular responses to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern among patients with cancer
Creators: name: McKenzie, Duncan R
name: Graham, Rosalind
name: Lechmere, Thomas
name: Domingo-Vila, Clara
name: Alaguthurai, Thanussuyah
name: Arman, Celeste
name: Pollock, Emily
name: Gousis, Charalampos
name: Kakkassery, Helen
name: Carpenter, Esme
name: Kurshan, Ashwini
name: Vidler, Jennifer
name: Kulasekararaj, Austin
name: Patten, Piers
name: North, Bernard V
name: Tree, Timothy
name: Doores, Katie J
name: Hayday, Adrian C
name: Irshad, Sheeba
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Model organisms
subject: Human Biology & Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: This study offers longitudinal insight into the impact of three SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations on humoral and cellular immunity in patients with solid cancers, patients with hematologic malignancies, and persons without cancer. For all cohorts, virus-neutralizing immunity was significantly depleted over a period of up to 9 months following the second vaccine dose, the one striking exception being IL2 production by SARS-CoV-2 antigen-specific T cells. Immunity was restored by the third vaccine dose, except in a substantial number of patients with hematologic malignancy, for whom both cancer type and treatment schedule were associated with nonresponse. Thus, whereas most patients with myelodysplastic syndrome were conspicuously good responders, some patients with other hematologic malignancies receiving cancer therapies within 2 weeks of vaccination showed no seroconversion despite three vaccine doses. Moreover, SARS-CoV-2 exposure during the course of the study neither prevented immunity waning, even in healthy controls, nor guaranteed vaccine responsiveness. These data offer real-world human immunologic insights that can inform health policy for patients with cancer. Significance: Global health policy reliant on SARS-CoV-2 vaccine effectiveness is underpinned by our understanding of the durability of protection offered by sequential vaccinations and the efficacy of boosting, especially in immunocompromised patient populations who might constitute virus reservoirs. Here, we have: (i) clarified in patients with cancer the degree of waning of antibodies, serum neutralization titres against parental virus and variants of concern, and T-cell responses; (ii) evaluated the immune response among patients with cancer to a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine; and (iii) provided safety data following the third dose of the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine in patients with cancer.
Improved Performance of III-V Multi-Junction Solar Cells Fabricated with Indium-Tin-Oxide Electrodes
Creators: name: Horng, R.-H.
name: Kao, Y.-C.
name: Ou, S.-L.
name: Wu, F.-L.
name: Shi, S.-H.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Concentrator and Space Applications
III-V-based Devices for Terrestrial and Space Applications

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1372-1374
description: In this study, three front-side electrodes consisting of AuGe/Au metal-finger with anti-reflective layer
(ARL), ITO-finger with ARL, and ITO-overcoated types without ARL were fabricated for InGaP/GaAs dual-junction
solar cells, and samples A, B, and C were used to denote these three devices, respectively. For the sample C with
ITO-overcoated electrode, the 200-nm-thick ITO film with a high transmittance of 91% in the visible wavelength
range was deposited. The results obtained from the current density-voltage measurements indicated the short-circuit
current densities (Jsc) of samples A, B, and C are 9.61, 11.16, and 11.65 mA/cm2, respectively. Meanwhile, the
conversion efficiencies of these three solar cells are measured to be 17.50%, 20.41%, and 20.92%, respectively. After
replacing the AuGe/Au metal-finger electrode with the ITO-overcoated electrode, there is 19.5% improvement in the
conversion efficiency occurred in the device. Moreover, because the ITO front-side electrode can cover overall
surface of the device, all regions on the surface of sample C would extract the electrons, resulting in the highest Jsc.
Not only, the ITO was also used to be ARL and enhanced the device performance.
Polynomial Invariants of Torus Knots and (p,q)-Calculus
Creators: name: Pavlyuk, Anatoliy M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 57M27, 17B37, 81R50

description: We introduce the deformed fermionic numbers, corresponding to the skein relations, the main characteristics of knots and links. These fermionic numbers allow one to restore the skein relations. For the Alexander (Jones) skein relation we introduce corresponding Alexander (Jones) fermionic q-numbers, and for the HOMFLY skein relation - the HOMFLY deformed (p,q)-numbers with one fermionic parameter.
description: 8 pages; based on invited talks given at the 6th Petrov International Symposium on High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravity, Kyiv (Ukraine), September 5-8, 2013
AESI Case Definition Companion Guide: Acute Encephalitis
Creators: name: Law, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Encephalitis
Brighton case definition
risk factors
background rates
ICD-9-CM
ICD-10-CM
MedDRA
case definition level of certainty
case definition companion guide
Brighton Collaboration
CEPI

description: This document collates into a single document all SPEAC Encephalitis resources (Risk factors, background rates, ICD9/10-CM & MedDRA codes), tools (data abstraction & interpretation form, tabular summary of key case definition criteria and algorithm for level of certainty determination, pictorial level of certainty algorithm) and guidance (real time investigation, data collection, analysis and presentation). This guide can be used by stakeholders to assess the occurrence of encephalitis in several settings including as an adverse event following immunization.
description: The SPEAC project is funded in whole by CEPI.
Additional file 1 of Measuring mental well-being in Sri Lanka: validation of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) in a Sinhala speaking community
Creators: name: Perera, B. P. R.
name: Caldera, A.
name: Godamunne, P.
name: Stewart-Brown, S.
name: Wickremasinghe, A. R.
name: Jayasuriya, R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Mental status of the participants (N=294).