cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The first high precision differential abundance analysis of Extremely Metal Poor stars
Creators: name: Reggiani, Henrique
name: Meléndez, Jorge
name: Yong, David
name: Ramírez, Ivan
name: Asplund, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Studies of extremely metal-poor stars indicate that chemical abundance ratios [X/Fe] have an rms scatter as low as 0.05 dex (12 \%). It remains unclear whether this reflects observational uncertainties or intrinsic astrophysical scatter arising from physical conditions in the ISM at early times. Aims: Measure differential chemical abundance ratios in extremely metal-poor stars to investigate the limits of precision and to understand whether cosmic scatter or observational errors are dominant. Methods: We used high resolution (R $\sim 95,000$) and high S/N (S/N $= 700$ at 5000$Å$) HIRES/Keck spectra, to determine high precision differential abundances between two extremely metal-poor stars through a line-by-line differential approach. We determined stellar parameters for the star G64-37 with respect to the standard star G64-12. We performed EW measurements for the two stars for the lines recognized in both stars and performed spectral synthesis to study the carbon abundances. Results: The differential approach allowed us to obtain errors of $σ$(T$_{eff}$ ) $=$ 27 K, $σ$(log $g$) $=$ 0.06 dex, $σ$([Fe/H]) $=$ 0.02 dex and $σ$(v$_{t}$ ) $=$ 0.06 kms$^{-1}$. We estimated relative chemical abundances with a precision as low as $σ$([X/Fe]) $\approx$ 0.01 dex. The small uncertainties demonstrate that there are genuine abundance differences larger than the measurement errors. The observed Li difference can not be explained by the difference in mass, because the less massive star has more Li. Conclusions: It is possible to achieve an abundance precision around $\approx$ 0.01-0.05 dex for extremely metal-poor stars, opening new windows on the study of the early chemical evolution of the Galaxy.
description: 8 pages, 3 tables and 4 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Advanced Diagnostic Approach of Failures for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic (PV) Systems
Creators: name: Livera, A.
name: Theristis, M.
name: Makrides, G.
name: Sutterlueti, J.
name: Georghiou, G.E.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2018
Subjects: PV Systems - Performance, Applications and Integration
Operation, Performance and Maintenance of PV Systems

description: 35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1548-1553
description: Real-time identification of failures in photovoltaic (PV) systems is crucial for achieving reactive maintenance schemes that, in turn, will increase the system reliability and guarantee the lifetime output. Following this line, failure detection routines (FDRs) that operate on acquired data-sets of grid-connected PV systems were developed to diagnose the occurrence of failures. The developed FDRs comprise of a failure detection and a classification stage. The detection stage was based on the comparison between the measured and predicted DC power production against set threshold levels (TL). The classification stage was based on data-driven algorithms, which were used to post-process the detected failure patterns through the application of the developed decision trees (DT), k-nearest neighbours (k-NN), support vector machine (SVM) and fuzzy inference systems (FIS). The experimental results showed that the FDRs were capable of detecting all the different types of failures (open- and short-circuited PV module, inverter shutdown, shorted bypass diode and partial shading) that were introduced to the test-bench PV system. Finally, amongst the investigated models, the k-NN model achieved the highest average true negative rate of 91%, when classifying each type of failure used for benchmarking.
Entropic force law in the presence of a noncommutative inspired spacetime for a solar system scale
Creators: name: Mehdipour, S. Hamid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We first study some aspects of a physically inspired kind of a noncommutative spherically symmetric spacetime based on the Gaussian-smeared mass distribution for a solar system scale. This leads to the elimination of a singularity appeared in the origin of the spacetime. Afterwards, we investigate some features of Verlinde's scenario in the presence of the mentioned spacetime and derive several quantities such as Unruh-Verlinde temperature, the energy and the entropic force on three different types of holographic screens, namely the static, the stretched horizon and the accelerating surface.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
L-Kuramoto-Sivashinsky SPDEs vs. time-fractional SPIDEs: exact continuity and gradient moduli, 1/2-derivative criticality, and laws
Creators: name: Allouba, Hassan
name: Xiao, Yimin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60H15, 60H20, 60H30, 45H05, 45R05, 35R60, 60J45, 60J35, 60J60, 60J65

description: We establish exact, dimension-dependent, spatio-temporal, uniform and local moduli of continuity for (1) the fourth order L-Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (L-KS) SPDEs and for (2) the time-fractional stochastic partial integro-differential equations (SPIDEs), driven by space-time white noise in one-to-three dimensional space. Both classes were introduced---with Brownian-time-type kernel formulations---by Allouba in a series of articles starting in 2006, where he presented class (2) in its rigorous stochastic integral equations form. He proved existence, uniqueness, and sharp spatio-temporal Hölder regularity for the above two classes of equations in $d=1,2,3$. We show that both classes are $(1/2)^-$ Hölder continuously differentiable in space when $d=1$, and we give the exact uniform and local moduli of continuity for the gradient in both cases. This is unprecedented for SPDEs driven by space-time white noise. Our results on exact moduli show that the half-derivative SPIDE is a critical case. It signals the onset of rougher modulus regularity in space than both time-fractional SPIDEs with time-derivatives of order $<1/2$ and L-KS SPDEs. This is despite the fact that they all have identical spatial Hölder regularity, as shown earlier by Allouba. Moreover, we show that the temporal laws governing (1) and (2) are fundamentally different. We relate L-KS SPDEs to the Houdré-Villa bifractional Brownian motion, yielding a Chung-type law of the iterated logarithm for these SPDEs. We use the underlying explicit kernels and spectral/harmonic analysis to prove our results. On one hand, this work builds on the recent works on delicate sample path properties of Gaussian random fields. On the other hand, it builds on and complements Allouba's earlier works on (1) and (2). Similar regularity results hold for Allen-Cahn nonlinear versions of (1) and (2) on compacts via change of measure.
description: 49 pages. v2: fixed typos snd minor improvements in presentation
Biochar development from thermal TGA studies of individual food waste vegetables and their blended systems
Creators: name: Elkhalifa, Samar
name: Parthasarathy, Prakash
name: Mackey, Hamish R.
name: Al-Ansari, Tareq
name: Elhassan, Omar
name: Mansour, Said
name: McKay, Gordon
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: The amount of food waste that is generated all over the world is enormous. As food wastes are rich in nutrients and organics, they serve as a potential source for the generation of many value-added commodities and energy. In most countries, food wastes are predominately dumped in open lands or incinerated, along with other combustible materials such as municipal solid wastes, for the possible extraction of energy. However, these two modes of food wastes disposal are encountering more and more environmental, technical, and economical challenges. More recently, it has been realized that food wastes can be transformed into energy and value-added products, such as horticultural biochars, using thermochemical technologies such as pyrolysis and gasification. In the current research work, three selected food items, carrots, cucumbers, and tomatoes, have been studied using thermogravimetric analysis. The biochar analysis involves one single food item (carrot), one binary mixture (carrot + cucumber), and one ternary blend of carrot, cucumber, and tomato. Two heating rates were used in order to perform kinetic modeling studies using the Arrhenius and Coats-Redfern models. Since the production of the pyrolysis gases—for energy and chemicals production—is of major economic significance regarding the overall process viability, the TGA syngas for a single component, binary component and tertiary component systems were analyzed by TGA coupled mass spectrometry. The results of the gas analysis indicate an increase in hydrogen generation due to blending the food wastes.Other Information Published in: Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-02441-0
A kinetic equation for economic value estimation with irrationality and herding
Creators: name: Düring, Bertram
name: Jüngel, Ansgar
name: Trussardi, Lara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q20, 35Q84, 91G80, 35K65

description: A kinetic inhomogeneous Boltzmann-type equation is proposed to model the dynamics of the number of agents in a large market depending on the estimated value of an asset and the rationality of the agents. The interaction rules take into account the interplay of the agents with sources of public information, herding phenomena, and irrationality of the individuals. In the formal grazing collision limit, a nonlinear nonlocal Fokker-Planck equation with anisotropic (or incomplete) diffusion is derived. The existence of global-in-time weak solutions to the Fokker-Planck initial-boundary-value problem is proved. Numerical experiments for the Boltzmann equation highlight the importance of the reliability of public information in the formation of bubbles and crashes. The use of Bollinger bands in the simulations shows how herding may lead to strong trends with low volatility of the asset prices, but eventually also to abrupt corrections.
Effect of heating rate on the pyrolysis of camel manure
Creators: name: Parthasarathy, Prakash
name: Al-Ansari, Tareq
name: Mackey, Hamish R.
name: McKay, Gordon
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Information on the pyrolysis degradation kinetics of feedstock is critical for the design and fabrication of pyrolysis reactors. In this study, the pyrolytic behaviour of a novel biomass, camel manure, has been studied in a non-isothermal thermogravimetric analyser. The thermal analyses were performed from room temperature to 950 °C at different heating rates (10, 20, and 50°C/min) in an N2 environment (100 ml/min). The kinetic parameters of the manure components are determined using an Arrhenius model equation, and the influence of heating rate on the pyrolytic characteristics and kinetic parameters of the manure components has been examined. The results indicated that the increase in heating rates increased the starting and ending temperatures (decomposition) of manure components. The increase in heating rates shifted the ignition, peak, and burnout temperatures to higher temperatures. At the same time, the increase in heating rates improved the char yield from 22.50 to 31.51%. However, the increase in heating rates showed an insignificant effect on the kinetic parameters of the camel manure components.Other Information Published in: Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13399-021-01531-9
Contextualizing Trauma in Trauma-Informed Interpreting: A Narrative Literature Review
Creators: name: Tasnim-Musa Naimi
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Trauma-informed interpretingtrauma
trauma narrative
PTSD
trauma-informed training

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 27, 1, 1-36
Adaptive Neural Control for Mobile Robots Autonomous Navigation
Creators: name: Dragoicea, Monica
name: Dumitrache, Ioan
name: Constantin, Nicolae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a combined strategy for tracking a non-holonomic mobile robot which works under certain operating conditions for system parameters and disturbances. The strategy includes kinematic steering and velocity dynamics learning of mobile robot system simultaneously. In the learning controller (neural network based controller) the velocity dynamics learning control takes part in tracking of the reference velocity trajectory by learning the inverse function of robot dynamics while the reference velocity control input plays a role in stabilizing the kinematic steering system to the desired reference model of kinematic system even without using the assumption of perfect velocity tracking.
description: in Proceedings of the 7th Int. Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science SACCS 2001, Iasi, Romania, CD ISBN 973-8292-11-5, 2001
Two-stage optimisation for malachite green removal using activated date pits
Creators: name: Hijab, M.
name: Saleem, J.
name: Parthasarathy, P.
name: Mackey, H.R.
name: McKay, G.
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Water pollution, from industry and agriculture, is a major threat to water security in the light of decreasing global potable water resources. Adsorption is one potential treatment technology for the removal of different contaminants from polluted water. Hard lignocellulose-containing materials with high carbon content, such as date stones, are excellent precursors for the production of activated carbons for adsorption activities. In this study, waste date stone biomass, from the seedless date products industry, was treated and activated chemically for the adsorption of malachite green dye, which is widely used in the plastics and textile industries. Phosphoric acid was used as an activating agent for the date stones, and its adsorption capability was measured and compared to the capacity of natural date stone powder. Experimental equilibrium data were analysed and correlated by four isotherm models: Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin and Langmuir–Freundlich (also called SIPS). The best fit for the experimental data for both treated and natural date stone was the Langmuir–Freundlich isotherm. The surface areas and maximum malachite green adsorption capacities of the natural date stone and the phosphoric acid–treated date stone were 86 and 909 m2/g, respectively, and maximum malachite green adsorption capacities were 31.5 and 64.7 mg/g, respectively. A two-stage batch adsorber model was developed to optimize the two-step adsorption process to remove malachite green and minimize the amount of adsorbent used for both untreated and treated date stones. The benefits of the two-stage adsorber and chemically activated date stones are discussed in terms of designing for various percentages dye removal, various effluent discharge concentrations and various initial dye concentrations. The two-stage system resulted in a reduction of adsorbent compared with the one-stage system of 36 to 460% to remove the same amount of dye.Other Information Published in: Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13399-020-00813-y
A new investigation of the possible X-ray counterparts of the magnetar candidate AX J1845-0258
Creators: name: Pintore, Fabio
name: Mereghetti, Sandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AX J1845-0258 is a transient X-ray pulsar, with spin period of 6.97s, discovered with the ASCA satellite in 1993. Its soft spectrum and the possible association with a supernova remnant suggest that AX J1845-0258 might be a magnetar, but this has not been confirmed yet. A possible counterpart one order of magnitude fainter, AX J184453-025640, has been found in later X-ray observations, but no pulsations have been detected. In addition, some other X-ray sources are compatible with the pulsar location, which is in a crowded region of the Galactic plane. We have carried out a new investigation of all the X-ray sources in the ASCA error region of AX J1845-0258, using archival data obtained with Chandra in 2007 and 2010, and with XMM-Newton in 2010. We set an upper limit of 6% on the pulsed fraction of AX J184453-025640 and confirmed its rather hard spectrum (power law photon index of 1.2 +\- 0.3). In addition to the other two fainter sources already reported in the literature, we found other X-ray sources positionally consistent with AX J1845-0258. Although many of them are possibly foreground stars likely unrelated to the pulsar, at least another new source, CXOU J184457.5-025823, could be a plausible counterpart of AX J1845-0258. It has a flux of 6x10^{-14} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1} and a spectrum well fit by a power law with photon index ~1.3 and Nh ~ 10^{22} cm^{-2}.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS
An X-ray of the Telephone Interpreting Service during the First Nights of the Refugees’ Evacuation from Afghanistan to Spain
Creators: name: Gutiérrez, Raquel Lázaro
name: Méndez, Gabriel Cabrera
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2022
Subjects: interpreting qualitystress
refugees
telephone interpreting
trauma

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 27, 1, 37-63
Production and applications of activated carbons as adsorbents from olive stones
Creators: name: Saleem, Junaid
name: Shahid, Usman Bin
name: Hijab, Mouhammad
name: Mackey, Hamish
name: McKay, Gordon
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Olive stones have been widely used as a renewable energy biowaste source. As they are rich in elemental carbon (40–45 wt%), much research focussed on effectively converting olive stones, as precursors, into activated carbon adsorbents. However, only a few studies have concentrated on summarising the various techniques used to produce activated carbon from olive stone. This article reviews the research undertaken on the production and application of activated carbon as an adsorbent from olive stones for wastewater treatment. Various physical, chemical and physico-chemical treatments to remove heavy metals, organics and dyes are discussed, and the resultant adsorption capacities are reported. In several cases, very high adsorption capacities are recorded. Finally, the future prospects of these materials as adsorbents are discussed, and after further development work, olive stone-derived activated carbons have great potential especially in the area of organic polluted wastewaters.Other Information Published in: Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13399-019-00473-7
Karte an E[douard] Greppin
Creators: name: Loriol, Perceval de
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1893

description: von P[erceval] de Loriol
description: Karte mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire September 2020 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original und dem Briefkatalog der UB Basel saf
Comparative Evaluation of Waste Cooking Oil and Waste Engine Oil Rejuvenated Asphalt Concrete Mixtures
Creators: name: Mamun, Abdullah Al
name: Al-Abdul Wahhab, H. I.
name: Dalhat, M. A.
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials engineering
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: In road construction, different types of waste oil have been recommended to overcome the stiffening effect of reclaimed asphalt pavement content. However, the selection of an effective rejuvenator based on a comparative study can lead to using the resources more efficiently. In this study, waste cooking oil and waste engine oil are used to rejuvenate three different percentages (30%, 40%, and 50%) of reclaimed asphalt pavement following the current maximum industrial adaptability. The waste oil rejuvenated mixtures are compared to the fresh mixture, and mixtures rejuvenated with commercial rejuvenator. The moisture sensitivity, indirect tensile strength, and resilient modulus of the various asphalt mixtures are analyzed. Based on the statistical analyses and overall ranking, it is concluded that 7% of waste engine oil performs better till 40% of reclaimed asphalt pavement, whereas 13% of waste cooking oil can be used till 50% of reclaimed asphalt pavement.Other Information Published in: Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13369-020-04523-5
Testing the asymptotic relation for period spacings from mixed modes of red giants observed with the Kepler mission
Creators: name: Buysschaert, B.
name: Beck, P. G.
name: Corsaro, E.
name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
name: Aerts, C.
name: Arentoft, T.
name: Kjeldsen, H.
name: García, R. A.
name: Aguirre, V. Silva
name: Degroote, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dipole mixed pulsation modes of consecutive radial order have been detected for thousands of low-mass red-giant stars with the NASA space telescope Kepler. Such modes have the potential to reveal information on the physics of the deep stellar interior. Different methods have been proposed to derive an observed value for the gravity-mode period spacing, the most prominent one relying on a relation derived from asymptotic pulsation theory applied to the gravity-mode character of the mixed modes. Our aim is to compare results based on this asymptotic relation with those derived from an empirical approach for three pulsating red-giant stars. We developed a data-driven method to perform frequency extraction and mode identification. Next, we used the identified dipole mixed modes to determine the gravity-mode period spacing by means of an empirical method and by means of the asymptotic relation. In our methodology, we consider the phase offset, $ε_{\mathrm{g}}$, of the asymptotic relation as a free parameter. Using the frequencies of the identified dipole mixed modes for each star in the sample, we derived a value for the gravity-mode period spacing using the two different methods. These differ by less than 5%. The average precision we achieved for the period spacing derived from the asymptotic relation is better than 1%, while that of our data-driven approach is 3%. Good agreement is found between values for the period spacing derived from the asymptotic relation and from the empirical method. Full abstract in PDF file.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Emotional Challenges of Interpreters Working with Refugees in Türkiye
Creators: name: Aslı Polat Ulaş
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2022
Subjects: emotional distressneutrality
refugee interpreting
trauma
Turkey

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 27, 1, 64-89
Operation, Performance and Maintenance of First Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Plant in Kuwait Oil Company for the Operation of Electric Submersible Pumps
Creators: name: Sherif, R.A.
name: Al-Qudaihi, A.
name: Alsaqabi, H.
name: Najaf, A.
name: Safar, E.
name: Al-Ajmi, R.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2018
Subjects: PV Systems - Performance, Applications and Integration
Operation, Performance and Maintenance of PV Systems

description: 35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1578-1580
description: This paper presents real-life performance of Sidrah 500, the first utility-scale solar photovoltaic plant installed inside Umm-Gudair oilfield of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), and first in the world to operate electric submersible pumps (ESPs) used to lift the oil from under the ground. There has been lots of skepticism about the operation of solar PV plants in the harsh weather environment of Kuwait, where temperatures constantly exceed 50 deg. C and relative humidity can exceed 95% during summer months. This 10 MW solar PV plant uses poly-crystalline silicon panels mounted on single axis trackers, and connected to an 11-kV substation synchronizing the electricity from the solar plant and the national grid. The solar plant was commissioned in October 2016, and has been operational now for almost two years. The plant has met its Performance Ratio and generation targets when adjusted with the weather data. The plant showed that there are no practical issues associated with operation of solar PV plants in Kuwait, and future projects ought to take the experience of operation of Sidrah 500 into account. The project has been registered with the UN Clean Development Mechanism, reflecting its environmental benefits that amount to avoiding emission of 250,000 tons of CO2 over its lifetime, which is equivalent to planting 500 thousand Sidrah trees.
A Strategy for Emergency Vehicle Preemption and Route Selection
Creators: name: Shaaban, Khaled
name: Khan, Muhammad Asif
name: Hamila, Ridha
name: Ghanim, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Transportation, logistics and supply chains

description: Emergency vehicle preemption (EVP) aims to give right of way to emergency vehicles (EV) heading toward the incident location through a network of signalized intersections by creating a green wave en-route. The design goals of EVP systems are two folds: first, to avoid any hindrance to the passage of EV along the road and at the intersections and second, to reduce the negative impact of preemption on general traffic. The negative impact of EVP on normal traffic can be minimized by selecting appropriate preemption strategy. The EVP schemes proposed earlier aim to minimize the travel time of the EV with no or little consideration to the negative impact of EVP on the normal traffic. In this study, a joint strategy for optimal path selection and EV preemption is developed. The proposed scheme selects the optimal path for the EV before it departs from its origin and then activates the preemption on each intersection en-route at the right time to clear the intersection before the EV reaches. The proposed EVP scheme also aims to minimize the impact of EVP over normal traffic at both stages (i.e., path selection phase and preemption phase). A major advantage of the proposed method is that once the optimal path is selected, the emergency information can be disseminated to other vehicles using vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication in the EV path to clear the entire route or the approaching lane. The strategy was tested using a microscopic simulation environment for a real traffic network. The findings indicated a major reduction in the travel time of the EV while minimizing the impact of preemption on the normal traffic. The proposed strategy and evaluation procedure can be helpful for corresponding agencies and practitioners to assess the impact of implementing preemption on existing or proposed arterials.Other Information Published in: Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13369-019-03913-8
From BIPV Module to System: A Modelica-Developed Framework for Building Energy Simulations Including BIPV
Creators: name: Spiliotis, K.
name: Goncalves, J.
name: Baert, K.
name: Driesen, J.
name: Saelens, D.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2018
Subjects: PV Systems - Performance, Applications and Integration
Design and Installation of PV Systems

description: 35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1619-1622
description: Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems have been attracting attention as a promising means of complying to an increasingly stricter building energy regulations. Although building energy simulation (BES) tools can be used to assess the BIPV potential contribution at the building level, the existing BIPV modelling in these tools often focuses on either the electrical or the building physics aspect of those systems. Consequently, the existing BES is not fully capable to capture interdependencies between system configurations and the resulting performance. Further to this, the study of complex phenomena, crucial in BIPV applications, such as (partial) shading or temperature gradient over the BIPV façade may not be performed. This paper presents the development and validation of a detailed multi-physics BIPV modelling framework for building energy simulations within the openIDEAS environment. The validation shows that the proposed model capture accurately the absolute values and the dynamics of the real system by comparing the simulation results with measurements from an outdoor flexible façade test facility.
Clinical and Pharmacokinetic Outcomes of Peak–Trough-Based Versus Trough-Based Vancomycin Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Approaches: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Al-Sulaiti, Fatima Khalifa
name: Nader, Ahmed Mohamed
name: Saad, Mohamed Omar
name: Shaukat, Adila
name: Parakadavathu, Rakesh
name: Elzubair, Ahmed
name: Al-Badriyeh, Daoud
name: Elewa, Hazem
name: Awaisu, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences

description: Vancomycin therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is based on achieving 24-h area under the concentration–time curve to minimum inhibitory concentration cure breakpoints (AUC24/MIC). Approaches to vancomycin TDM vary, with no head-to-head randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparisons to date. We aimed to compare clinical and pharmacokinetic outcomes between peak–trough-based and trough-only-based vancomycin TDM approaches and to determine the relationship between vancomycin AUC24/MIC and cure rates. A multicentered pragmatic parallel-group RCT was conducted in Hamad Medical Corporation hospitals in Qatar. Adult non-dialysis patients initiated on vancomycin were randomized to peak–trough-based or trough-only-based vancomycin TDM. Primary endpoints included vancomycin AUC24/MIC ratio breakpoint for cure and clinical effectiveness (therapeutic cure vs therapeutic failure). Descriptive, inferential, and classification and regression tree (CART) statistical analyses were applied. NONMEM.v.7.3 was used to conduct population pharmacokinetic analyses and AUC24 calculations. Sixty-five patients were enrolled [trough-only-based-TDM (n = 35) and peak–trough-based-TDM (n = 30)]. Peak–trough-based TDM was significantly associated with higher therapeutic cure rates compared to trough-only-based TDM [76.7% vs 48.6%; p value = 0.02]. No statistically significant differences were observed for all-cause mortality, neutropenia, or nephrotoxicity between the two groups. Compared to trough-only-based TDM, peak–trough-based TDM was associated with less vancomycin total daily doses by 12.05 mg/kg/day (p value = 0.027). CART identified creatinine clearance (CLCR), AUC24/MIC, and TDM approach as significant determinants of therapeutic outcomes. All patients [n = 19,100%] with CLCR ≤ 7.85 L/h, AUC24/MIC ≤ 1256, who received peak–trough-based TDM achieved therapeutic cure. AUC24/MIC > 565 was identified to be correlated with cure in trough-only-based TDM recipients [n = 11,84.6%]. No minimum AUC24/MIC breakpoint was detected by CART in the peak–trough-based group. Maintenance of target vancomycin exposures and implementation of peak–trough-based vancomycin TDM may improve vancomycin-associated cure rates. Larger scale RCTs are warranted to confirm these findings.Other Information Published in: European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13318-019-00551-1
Solar Module Inspection Drone
Creators: name: Treutner, N.
name: Stübing, S.
name: Hellwig, S.
name: Meffert, B.
name: Menz, M.
name: Killat, J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2018
Subjects: PV Systems - Performance, Applications and Integration
Operation, Performance and Maintenance of PV Systems

description: 35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1541-1544
description: Electroluminescence (EL) is used commonly to detect defects in photovoltaic cells and modules, both during production and in the field. Several different sensors have been proposed to capture the weak EL radiation. We present a novel approach to outdoor inspection of PV modules using an sCMOS sensor that is attached to a drone. Semi-autonomous navigation of the drone improves the speed of the measurement and automatic defect analysis reduces the effort necessary for large-scale evaluation, e.g. entire solar parks. Our field tests show that sufficiently stable and sharp recordings can be made using pre-processing on a FPGA on the drone. This allows for new applications of EL measurements both in academia and business.
Brief an Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
Creators: name: Krafft-Ebing, Richard von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1894

description: von R[ichard] v. Krafft-Ebing
description: Eigenhändige Karte mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
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Autogramm für Karl Geigy[-Hagenbach]
Creators: name: Nansen, Fridtjof
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1890

description: von Fridtjof Nansen
description: Eigenhändige Karte mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
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Prediction of future failures in the log-logistic distribution based on hybrid censored data
Creators: name: Abou Ghaida, Wassim R.
name: Baklizi, Ayman
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
Engineering practice and education

description: We consider the prediction of future observations from the log-logistic distribution. The data is assumed hybrid right censored with possible left censoring. Different point predictors were derived. Specifically, we obtained the best unbiased, the conditional median, and the maximum likelihood predictors. Prediction intervals were derived using suitable pivotal quantities and intervals based on the highest density. We conducted a simulation study to compare the point and interval predictors. It is found that the point predictor BUP and the prediction interval HDI have the best overall performance. An illustrative example based on real data is given. Other Information Published in: International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management
 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13198-021-01510-3
Simultaneity of consciousness with physical reality: the key that unlocks the mind-matter problem
Creators: name: Sanfey, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The problem of explaining the relationship between subjective experience and physical reality remains difficult and unresolved. In most explanations, consciousness is epiphenomenal, without causal power. The most notable exception is Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which provides a causal explanation for consciousness. However, IIT relies on an identity between subjectivity and a particular type of physical structure, namely with an information structure that has intrinsic causal power greater than the sum of its parts. Any theory that relies on a psycho-physical identity must eventually appeal to panpsychism, which undermines that theorys claim to be fundamental. IIT has recently pivoted towards a strong version of causal emergence, but macroscopic causal structures cannot be causally stronger than its microscopic parts without some new physical law or governing principle. The approach taken here is designed to uncover such a principle. The decisive argument is entirely deductive from initial premises that are phenomenologically certain. If correct, the arguments prove that conscious experience is sufficient to create additional degrees of causal freedom independently of the content of experience, and in a manner that is unpredictable and unobservable by any temporally sequential means. This provides a fundamental principle about consciousness, and a conceptual bridge between it and the physics describing what is experienced. The principle makes testable predictions about brain function, with notable differences from IIT, some of which are also empirically testable.
description: Scheduled for publication in Frontiers in Psychology
Spectral and timing characterization of the X-ray source 1RXS J194211.9+255552
Creators: name: D'Aì, A.
name: Cusumano, G.
name: La Parola, V.
name: Segreto, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first spectral and timing characterization of the transient X-ray source 1RXS J194211.9+255552 using all available data from the Swift X-ray satellite. We used 10 years of hard X-ray data from the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) to characterize its long-term behaviour and to search for long periodicities, finding evidence for a periodic modulation at 166.5 $\pm$ 0.5 d, that we interpret as the orbital period of the source. The folded light curve reveals that the X-ray emission is mostly concentrated in a restricted phase-interval and we propose to associate 1RXS J194211.9+255552 to the class of the Be X-ray binaries. This is also supported by the results of the spectral analysis, where we used the BAT data and three pointed Swift/XRT observations to characterize the X-ray broad-band spectral shape. We found mild spectral variability in soft X-rays that can be accounted for by a varying local neutral absorber, while the intrinsic emission is consistent with a hard power law multiplied by a high-energy exponential cut-off as typically observed in this class of systems.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures. Published in MNRAS
Optimum Condition for Accurate Measurement of Photovoltaic Array Temperature
Creators: name: Okumoto, K.
name: Miyamura, K.
name: Nishioka, K.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2018
Subjects: PV Systems - Performance, Applications and Integration
Operation, Performance and Maintenance of PV Systems

description: 35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1559-1562
description: For further development of solar power generation, the highly precise power generation forecast and evaluation of solar power generation’s performance are extremely important. What important here is a highly accurate temperature measurement technique of PV module, array, and system. However, the PV temperature in outdoor environments is affected by various environmental factors such as wind direction, wind speed, solar irradiance, and outside air temperature. In this study, we have established optimal temperature measurement conditions for PV array. As a result, it was found that in the case of low irradiance, the variation of temperature distribution is small and it is suitable for a temperature measurement condition. Furthermore, it was found that the difference between the temperature in the center of the PV array and the average temperature is the smallest and it is suitable for a temperature measurement point.
Sorting with Asymmetric Read and Write Costs
Creators: name: Blelloch, Guy E.
name: Fineman, Jeremy T.
name: Gibbons, Phillip B.
name: Gu, Yan
name: Shun, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Emerging memory technologies have a significant gap between the cost, both in time and in energy, of writing to memory versus reading from memory. In this paper we present models and algorithms that account for this difference, with a focus on write-efficient sorting algorithms. First, we consider the PRAM model with asymmetric write cost, and show that sorting can be performed in $O\left(n\right)$ writes, $O\left(n \log n\right)$ reads, and logarithmic depth (parallel time). Next, we consider a variant of the External Memory (EM) model that charges $ω> 1$ for writing a block of size $B$ to the secondary memory, and present variants of three EM sorting algorithms (multi-way mergesort, sample sort, and heapsort using buffer trees) that asymptotically reduce the number of writes over the original algorithms, and perform roughly $ω$ block reads for every block write. Finally, we define a variant of the Ideal-Cache model with asymmetric write costs, and present write-efficient, cache-oblivious parallel algorithms for sorting, FFTs, and matrix multiplication. Adapting prior bounds for work-stealing and parallel-depth-first schedulers to the asymmetric setting, these yield parallel cache complexity bounds for machines with private caches or with a shared cache, respectively.
Molluscan Diversity Influenced by Mangrove Habitat in the Khors of Qatar
Creators: name: Al-Khayat, Jassim A.
name: Vethamony, P.
name: Nanajkar, Mandar
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental management
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Qatar is a rapidly developing region within the Arabian Gulf, where monitoring of changes in benthic biodiversity and its functioning is needed. The influence of mangroves and seasonality on the nearshore subtidal molluscan diversity at three distinct khors (nearshore tidal bays) – natural mangroves (Al Dhakhira), planted mangroves (Al Mafyar) and no-mangroves (Dawhat Zekreet) – are investigated in this study. This study concludes that even the sub-tidal area is influenced by mangroves, and mangroves increase the diversity of molluscs compared to the site that lacks mangroves. The maximum salinity (59.8 psu) was observed at Dawhat Zekreet during summer, and the minimum (41.44 psu) at Al Dhakhira in winter. Chlorophyll a level was low for all the khors, and rarely exceeded 1 μg/L, depicting oligotrophic waters. Al Dhakhira demonstrated the highest molluscan species richness (32), and shared 28 species in common with Al Mafyar. Dawhat Zekreet had the fewest mollusc species number and no mangroves. When cumulative diversity over all seasons was considered, Dawhat Zekreet exhibited the lowest species richness; Al Dhakhira, the highest. Some mangrove regions have been already utilized for developmental activities, and Qatar needs to continue the program of mangrove conservation as a vital habitat for molluscs.Other Information Published in: Wetlands
 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13157-021-01441-6
Regulating spin dynamics in magnetic nanomaterials
Creators: name: Yukalov, V. I.
name: Yukalova, E. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic nanomaterials can be used in the construction of devices for information processing and memory storage. For this purpose, they have to enjoy two contradictory properties, from one side being able of keeping for long time magnetization frozen, hence information stored, and from the other side allowing for quick change of magnetization required for fast erasing of memory and rewriting new information. Methods of resolving this dilemma are suggested based on triggering resonance, dynamic resonance tuning, and on quadratic Zeeman effect. These methods make it possible to realize effective regulation of spin dynamics in such materials as magnetic nanomolecules and magnetic nanoclusters.
description: Latex file, 7 pages, 2 figures
Interpreters’ Resilience and Self-care During Pandemic Restrictions in Australia and New Zealand
Creators: name: Crezee, Ineke
name: Lai, Miranda
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2022
Subjects: community interpreterpandemic
self-care
resilience
remote interpreting

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 27, 1, 90-118
Exotic vector charmonium and its leptonic decay width
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
name: Chiu, Wei-Feng
name: Gong, Ming
name: Gui, Long-Cheng
name: Liu, Zhaofeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel type of interpolating field operators, which manifests the hybrid-like configuration that the charm quark-antiquark pair recoils against gluonic degrees of freedom. A heavy vector charmonium-like state with a mass of $4.33(2)\,{\rm GeV}$ is disentangled from the conventional charmonium states in the quenched approximation. This state has affinity for the hybrid-like operators but couples less to the relevant quark bilinear operator. We also try to extract its leptonic decay constant and give a tentative upper limit that it is less than one tenth of that of $J/ψ$, which corresponds to a leptonic decay width about dozens of eV. The connection of this state with $X(4260)$ is also discussed.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, to be submitted to Chinese Physics C
Addressing Vicarious Trauma and Emotional Stress Among Medical Interpreters Through Care, Partnership and Respect
Creators: name: Goldhirsch, Jessica
name: Scott, Nina
name: Yilu Ma
name: Abrahm, Janet
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2022
Subjects: interpreteroccupational stress
vicarious trauma
teamwork

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 27, 1, 119-141
Karte an [Ferdinand] Zirkel
Creators: name: Nachtigal, Gustav
name: Haus der Bücher
name: J. A. Stargardt
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1879

description: von G[ustav] Nachtigal
description: Eigenhändige Karte mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2020 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original und dem Briefkatalog der UB Basel saf