cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Integration of Photovoltaic Systems Into Existing Buildings - PV Modules With Modified Appearance
Creators: name: Geyer, D.
name: Stellbogen, D.
name: Mohring, H.-D.M.
name: Rexroth, S.
name: Schäffler, R.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
PV Applications in the Built Environment

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3523-3527
description: The market for refurbishing and modernisation of existing buildings is much larger than the market for new buildings. This means that the opening of this market for BIPV is not only an aesthetical problem but also an important economic issue. However, it is often a challenge to achieve aesthetically satisfying building integration of photovoltaic modules. The work reported here pays special attention to architectural and aesthetic topics in the use of thin film PV technologies for BIPV. CIS modules with modified optical appearance could provide new opportunities to the creative work of architects.
The module appearance can be influenced in several ways. One of them is to colour the module, another one is to modify the structure of the surface in order to change its reflection properties. The colouring of modules can be achieved either by using tinted cover glasses on the top of the cell in combination with a decoupling layer or by using specially coated glasses which can be laminated directly onto the cell.
Following these approaches, a large number of coloured glasses were measured and evaluated and a big variety of patterned glasses were examined, respectively. The most promising combinations were produced first as small samples and later on in the final size and integrated in a transom mullion test façade at the ZSW test site in Widderstall, Germany, and a structural sealant façade at the premises of Permasteelisa in Vittorio Veneto, Italy.
PV-Tubes With Advanced High-Efficiency c-Si Cells for Solar Lights
Creators: name: Kirschner, M.
name: Hornbachner, D.
name: Dobozanov, D.
name: Malin, D.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
PV Applications in the Built Environment

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3528-3530
description: Solar modules of cylindrical or half cylindrical shape, so-called PV-tubes, offer new and attractive design aspects for the integration into solar lights and other off-grid PV applications. Such PV-tubes can be easily integrated into masts and poles for off-grid electricity supplies, e.g., for road signs or telecommunication equipment. Furthermore, this new type of PV module opens new possibilities for building integrated photovoltaics. For mast and pole integration, small tube diameters in the range of 100 – 200 mm are required. Thin film solar cells on flexible substrates can be easily laminated onto curved surface structures, but the efficiencies are still rather low (less than 11%). To optimize the energy yield of such PV-tubes, we developed a novel fabrication technique for laminating
almost inflexible crystalline silicon solar cells with efficiencies up to 21% onto the inner surface of narrow glass tubes. We successfully demonstrated that some advanced high-efficiency solar cells can be bent to a very small radius of curvature without considerable losses in energy yield.
Different types of nonlinear localized and periodic waves in an erbium-doped fiber system
Creators: name: Ren, Yang
name: Yang, Zhan-Ying
name: Liu, Chong
name: Yang, Wen-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study nonlinear waves on a plane-wave background in an erbium-doped fiber system, which is governed by the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger and the Maxwell-Bloch equations. We find that prolific different types of nonlinear localized and periodic waves do exist in the system, including multi-peak soliton, periodic wave, antidark soliton, and W-shaped soliton (as well as the known bright soliton, breather, and rogue wave). In particular, the dynamics of these waves can be extracted from a unified exact solution, and the corresponding existence conditions are presented explicitly. Our results demonstrate the structural diversity of the nonlinear waves in this system.
(Classical) Narratives of Decline in Tolkien: Renewal, Accommodation, Focalisation
Creators: name: Pezzini, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
Year: 2022

description: The paper investigates Tolkien’s narratives of decline through the lens of their classical ancestry. Narratives of decline are widespread in ancient culture, in both philosophical and literary discourses. They normally posit a gradual degradation (moral and ontological) from an idealized Golden Age, which went hand-in-hand with increasing detachment of gods from mortal affairs. Narratives of decline are also at the core of Tolkien’s mythology, constituting yet another underresearched aspect of classical influence on Tolkien. Such Classical narratives reverberate e.g. in Tolkien’s division of Arda’s history into ages, from an idealized First Age filled with Joy and Light to a Third Age, described as “Twilight Age (…) the first of the broken and changed world” (Letters 131). More generally, these narratives are related to Tolkien’s notorious perception of history as a “long defeat” (Letters 195) and to that “heart-racking sense of the vanished past” which pervades Tolkien’s works – the emotion which, in his words, moved him “supremely” and which he found “small difficulty in evoking” (Letters 91). The paper analyses the reception of narratives of decline in Tolkien’s legendarium, pointing out similarities but also contrasts and differences, with the aim to discuss some key patterns of (classical) reception in Tolkien’s theory and practice (‘renewal’, ‘accommodation’, ‘focalization’).
description: thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 15 (2022): There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World (eds. Alicia Matz and Maciej Paprocki)
Absorption Characteristics of Quantum Dot Array Based Intermediate Band Solar Cell
Creators: name: Tomic, S.
name: Harrison, N.M.
name: Jones, T.S.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
Fundamental Studies

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 522-525
description: Intermediate band solar cells (IBSC) have emerged as an alternative design for solar cells that can dramatically increase power conversion efficiency. It is demonstrated here that a k·p multiband theory with periodic boundary conditions can be applied to predict the electronic structure and absorption characteristics of semiconductor QD arrays. Such arrays produce a mini-band (IB) located in the forbidden energy gap of the barrier material that is well separated from its valence and conduction bands. Analysis of the electronic and absorption structure suggest that the most promising design for an IB solar cell material, that will exhibit its own quasi-Fermi level, is to employ small QDs (~6-10 nm QD lateral size) arranged in a periodic array. Use of larger (> 20 nm QD lateral size) QDs leads to extension of the absorption spectra into a longer wavelength region but does not provide a separate IB in the forbidden energy gap.
AI based alignment free (agnostic) taxonomic classification. Public deliverable 9.2
Creators: name: Górski, Łukasz Górski
name: Mroczek, Magdalena
name: Nowicki, Marek
name: Bala, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: exposome, exposome research, research, data analysis, informatics, metagenomics, artificial intelligence, machine learning

description: The purpose of this work was to demonstrate the usage of artificial
 intelligence/machine learning for metagenomics analysis. More specifically,
 we aimed to implement an AI-based analysis toolkit for human
 papillomavirus sequence identification that will be further used to try to
 predict cancer development based on HPV status and other
 metatranscriptomes present in the specimen.
 Datasets used for the study comprised the whole cancer genome atlas
 (TCGA, https://www.cancer.gov/tcga) database, a well-known and
 validated public database and part of the Swedish cervical screening cohort
 as well as the Finnish HPV vaccination cohort.
 In this deliverable, we describe several metagenomics pipelines such as the
 HPV-Meta and the microbial metagenome pipeline used to produce the input
 data for the Machine Learning model. We provide the description of the
 process of creating the Machine Learning software to analyse the data, the
 challenges, the analysis and results, as well as the future plan for the
 improvement of the HEAP AI-based software toolkit for metagenomics
 analysis.
Majorana wavefunction oscillations, fermion parity switches, and disorder in Kitaev chains
Creators: name: Hegde, Suraj
name: Vishveshwara, Smitha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the decay and oscillations of Majorana fermion wavefunctions and ground state (GS) fermion parity in one-dimensional topological superconducting lattice systems. Using a Majorana transfer matrix method, we find that Majorana wavefunction properties are encoded in the associated Lyapunov exponent, which in turn is the sum of two independent components: a `superconducting component' which characterizes the gap induced decay, and the `normal component', which determines the oscillations and response to chemical potential configurations. The topological phase transition separating phases with and without Majorana end modes is seen to be a cancellation of these two components. We show that Majorana wavefunction oscillations are completely determined by an underlying non-superconducting tight-binding model and are solely responsible for GS fermion parity switches in finite-sized systems. These observations enable us to analytically chart out wavefunction oscillations, the resultant GS parity configuration as a function of parameter space in uniform wires, and special parity switch points where degenerate zero energy Majorana modes are restored in spite of finite size effects. For disordered wires, we find that band oscillations are completely washed out leading to a second localization length for the Majorana mode and the remnant oscillations are randomized as per Anderson localization physics in normal systems. Our transfer matrix method further allows us to i) reproduce known results on the scaling of mid-gap Majorana states and demonstrate the origin of its log-normal distribution, ii) identify contrasting behavior of disorder-dependent GS parity switches for the cases of even versus odd number of lattice sites, and iii) chart out the GS parity configuration and associated parity switch points as a function of disorder strength.
description: 21 pages, 12 figures
Heterojunction Solar Cells Made of CVS Nanoparticles
Creators: name: Fahrner, W.R.
name: Scherff, M.
name: Schwertheim, S.
name: Mueller, T.
name: Düngen, W.
name: Stützel, B.
name: Trocha, M.
name: Ebbers, A.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
New Types of Cells and Modules

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 534-536
description: Silicon nanoparticles are produced by means of CVS (chemical vapor synthesis) either in a hot wall reactor or in a microwave reactor. Layers and solar cells are produced by dispersing the particles in a solution and spin coating a wafer. An alternative is to produce a pellet by means of a pressing mold and to use it as a wafer.
From XRD and electron microscopy it is concluded that the particles exhibit diameters of 3 to 10 nm. They are covered by a thin oxide skin. Layers made of the particles show a low compacting degree, i. e. a void fraction of 53 – 86 %. The intrinsic electrical properties of the nanosilicon are determined by measuring the conductivity of the pellets vs. temperature. Activation energies between 0.22 and 0.48 eV are found. A pellet is subject to a boron implantation of 2 1014 cm-2. An increase of the conductivity by a factor of 1000 is observed. In situ doping is tried out by adding nominally 1.4 * 1021 cm-3 diborane to the starting silane material. The doping turns out to be successful. These doped pellets are in turn implanted with phosphorus so that a diode results. A slightly non-linear I-V curve is observed. However, when a structure consisting of a c-Si wafer and a high-doped dispersed nanosilicon layer is built, clear diode characteristics are measured. First solar cells of about 0.1 % efficiency are obtained.
Survey Answers evaluating the usage of a web app that captures and utilizes design heuristics by 14 product developers from the automotive industry in china
Creators: name: Kremer, Gerald
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::001 Wissen
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: Design Heuristics
subject: Product Development
subject: KBES
subject: Interview Analysis
subject: Knowledge Engineering
subject: Design Heuristik
subject: Produktentwicklung

description: As part of the DFG project "Design Heuristics for Targeted Product Development", a web app was developed with the help of which design heuristics were to be recorded and used. To test the usefulness of the app, an experiment was conducted. 14 product developers were divided into 3 groups. Two groups were to design products under given objectives. In addition, they were to capture their own heuristic knowledge. The third group was to evaluate the designs and the recorded knowledge. In the case of the designing and knowledge capturing groups, one group could use the developed app. The other group could use the knowledge management software of the company they worked for. For knowledge capture, the group could use common office applications (PowerPoint, Word) or pen and paper.
Colour and Shape in Laser Grooved Buried Contact Solar Cells for Applications in the Built Environment
Creators: name: Devenport, S.
name: Roberts, S.
name: Heasman, K.C.
name: Cole, A.
name: Tregurtha, D.
name: Bruton, T.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
PV Applications in the Built Environment

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3516-3519
description: The use of photovoltaic modules in architectural applications is now firmly established and large modules of glass-glass construction produced specifically for the BIPV market are available. However, the range of solar cell colours and shapes currently offered by suppliers is still very limited and this is a barrier to the widespread use of PV modules as constructional components. Initial investigations of the colour and efficiency of Laser Grooved Buried Contact (LGBC) solar cells as a function of the thickness of the LPCVD silicon nitride antireflection coating were reported in the late 1990s, but the subsequent commercialisation of coloured cell products has been limited in part by the difficulty in controlling the uniformity and reproducibility of colour in large scale cell production. The aim of the present work is to understand and control the processes that affect the thickness and hence colour of the silicon nitride ARC. Process conditions were optimised to enable the formation of antireflection coatings with thicknesses in the range 90 nm to 400 nm. LGBC solar cells were fabricated in 5 colours on both non-textured Cz and partially textured multicrystalline wafers. Good uniformity of colour was achieved both across individual cells and throughout whole process runs. Investigations into defining colours was developed using RGB component analysis and laser scribing was used to produce cells in a range of shapes which, in conjunction with the choice of colours, demonstrates the potential for novel BIPV applications.
title: Die Feder als Schwert
Creators: name: Firmkranz-Spatzek, Elke Elisabeth
Year: 2023

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet den Einfluss der Literatinnen und Literaten auf die österreichische Politik anhand von drei einprägsamen Zäsuren - dem Amtsantritt Dr. Bruno Kreiskys als Kanzler 1970, der Wahl Dr. Kurt Waldheims zum österreichischen Bundespräsidenten 1986 und der Angelobung des schwarz-blauen Regierung im Jahr 2000. Ausgehend von theoretischen Überlegungen zu Begriffen wie "autonome Literatur", "engagierte Literatur", "Tendenzliteratur" und "der kritische Intellektuelle" werden die unterschiedlichen Ereignisse betrachtet. Am Beginn werden jeweils die historischen Hintergründe der einzelnen Zäsuren aufgearbeitet, gefolgt von Analysen einzelner ausgesuchter Werke, die für die Zeit von großem Interesse sind. Die literarische Form des Essays macht den überwiegenden Teil der analysierten Texte aus und wird von einem Roman, Robert Schindels "Der Kalte" (2013) ergänzt. Dass die Literatinnen und Literaten den jeweiligen politischen Führungskräften nicht immer kritisch gegenüberstanden, lässt sich anhand des "Sonnenkönigs" Bruno Kreisky veranschaulichen, der von Peter Turrini und Gerhard Roth einen Jubiläumsband zu seinem 70. Geburtstag gewidmet bekam. Dies rief naturgemäß Kritiker wie Thomas Bernhard auf den Plan, dagegen zu opponieren. Dieses besondere Verhältnis eines Politikers zu Literatinnen und Literaten, das nicht alltäglich ist, wird in dieser Arbeit untersucht. Die Wahl Waldheims zum Bundespräsidenten hatte die gegensätzliche Reaktion zur Folge, denn zahlreiche Autorinnen und Autoren fühlten sich veranlasst, sich verstärkt mit der Vergangenheitsbewältigung auseinanderzusetzen und der Opfermythos wurde entlarvt. Das dritte Datum, das Jahr 2000, rief ebenfalls zahlreiche Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller auf den Plan, sich gegen die Regierungsbeteiligung der FPÖ und Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Rassismus auszusprechen. Anhand dieser drei Schlüsseldaten soll gezeigt werden, wie sehr Politik und Literatur in Österreich miteinander verflochten sind und dass dies ein ambivalentes Verhältnis ist. Weiters wird festgestellt, ob das Zusammenspiel von Politik und Literatur für die Entwicklung einer dezidiert österreichischen Literatur verantwortlich ist, ebenso bearbeitet wird die Frage, ob die Beschäftigung der Literatinnen und Literaten mit der österreichischen Politik in diesen Jahrzehnten eher zu- oder abgenommen hat.
Tolkien’s Ithilien and the Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean
Creators: name: Chinn, Christopher
name: Thompson, Phoebe
Publisher: name: thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
Year: 2022

description: This paper examines the intertext between Tolkien’s Ithilien episode in Two Towers and artistic presentations of plants in the art and literature of Augustan Rome. We argue that the evident ‘superbloom’ depicted in the ekphrasis of the flora of Ithilien recalls both Vergilian botanical adynata (especially in the Georgics) and Roman wall paintings of the Augustan period.
description: thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 15 (2022): There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World (eds. Alicia Matz and Maciej Paprocki)
A smooth particle hydrodynamics code to model collisions between solid, self-gravitating objects
Creators: name: Schäfer, Christoph M.
name: Riecker, Sven
name: Maindl, Thomas I.
name: Speith, Roland
name: Scherrer, Samuel
name: Kley, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) lead to a major increase in the performance of the computation of astrophysical simulations. Owing to the different nature of GPU architecture compared to traditional central processing units (CPUs) such as x86 architecture, existing numerical codes cannot be easily migrated to run on GPU. Here, we present a new implementation of the numerical method smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) using CUDA and the first astrophysical application of the new code: the collision between Ceres-sized objects. The new code allows for a tremendous increase in speed of astrophysical simulations with SPH and self-gravity at low costs for new hardware. We have implemented the SPH equations to model gas, liquids and elastic, and plastic solid bodies and added a fragmentation model for brittle materials. Self-gravity may be optionally included in the simulations and is treated by the use of a Barnes-Hut tree. We find an impressive performance gain using NVIDIA consumer devices compared to our existing OpenMP code. The new code is freely available to the community upon request.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Experimental Study of Glass to Glass Double Layer Type BIPV Module for Power and Temperature
Creators: name: Park, C.-H.
name: Kang, G.-H.
name: Lawrence, L.
name: Yu, G.J.
name: Ahn, H.
name: Han, D.Y.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
PV Applications in the Built Environment

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3531-3533
description: In this study investigates a semitransparent PV module that is designed as finished material for windows. It reports the effect of thermal characteristics of the PV module on generation performance. The study was performed by measuring PV modules temperature and power. And this research analyses this heat characteristics on two modules with different backside glass, when the module is generating carriers in a double layer glass to glass (G/G) type BIPV application
AsQM: Audio streaming Quality Metric based on Network Impairments and User Preferences
Creators: name: Santos, Marcelo Rodrigo dos
name: Batista, Andreza Patrícia
name: Rosa, Renata Lopes
name: Saadi, Muhammad
name: Melgarejo, Dick Carrillo
name: Rodríguez, Demóstenes Zegarra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There are many users of audio streaming services because of the proliferation of cloud-based audio streaming services for different content. The complex networks that support these services do not always guarantee an acceptable quality on the end-user side. In this paper, the impact of temporal interruptions on the reproduction of audio streaming and the users preference in relation to audio contents are studied. In order to determine the key parameters in the audio streaming service, subjective tests were conducted, and their results show that users Quality-of-Experience (QoE) is highly correlated with the following application parameters, the number of temporal interruptions or stalls, its frequency and length, and the temporal location in which they occur. However, most important, experimental results demonstrated that users preference for audio content plays an important role in users QoE. Thus, a Preference Factor (PF) function is defined and considered in the formulation of the proposed metric named Audio streaming Quality Metric (AsQM). Considering that multimedia service providers are based on web servers, a framework to obtain user information is proposed. Furthermore, results show that the AsQM implemented in the audio player of an end users device presents a low impact on energy, processing and memory consumption.
description: 11 pages
Influence of structural defects on the magnetocaloric effect in the vicinity of the first order magnetic transition in Fe(50.4)Rh(49.6)
Creators: name: Zverev, V. I.
name: Saletskij, A. M.
name: Gimaev, R. R.
name: Tishin, A. M.
name: Miyanaga, T.
name: Staunton, J. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large magnetocaloric effect (MCE), which accompanies the first order ferromagnetic/anti-ferromagnetic transition in CsCl-ordered Fe-Rh alloys, has been investigated by measurements in slowly cycled magnetic fields of up to 2 T in magnitude for a range of temperatures, 300K < T < 350K. A bulk sample with composition Fe(50.4)Rh(49.6) was used and the results were compared with those produced by the ab-initio density functional theory-based disordered local moment (DLM) theory of the MCE. The measurements revealed an irreversibility effect in which the temperature of the material did not return to its initial value following several cycles of the magnetic field. These observations were explained in the framework of the ab-initio theory for the first order transition in which the consequences of the incomplete long range compositional order and small compositional inhomogeneities of the sample were included. The mean value of the long range order parameter S used in the theoretical work was 0.985, close to the value obtained experimentally from XRD measurements. The sample inhomogeneities were modeled by regions in the sample having a distribution of S values with narrow half-width 0.004 about the mean value. The influence of such compositional disorder on both the transition temperature (323.5 K) and MCE adiabatic temperature change (delT = 7.5 K) was also studied.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
I-V Characterization of Solar Cells with Variable Intensity Monochromatic Light
Creators: name: Santos, J.D.
name: Balenzategui, J.L.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
Fundamental Studies

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 513-516
description: This work is focused on the development of an experimental system able to measure solar cells I-V curves under monochromatic light at a variable illumination level. The purpose of this paper is to present the details of this experimental setup and to show and analyze the results obtained in the characterization of different types of solar cells. Most interesting aspects of this system is the use of several high power, light and infrared emitting diodes as radiation source of variable intensity and a low current IV source-meter device able to polarize and to measure the current and voltage of the samples with high resolution. The system is intended to compare the results obtained in
spectral response measurements and to detect non-linear and unstable behaviours of devices manufactured in our laboratory, while, at the same time, fundamental studies on solar cell operation (for example, on superposition
principle) can be carried out.
Low Concentration PV With Polycarbonate
Creators: name: Bittmann, E.
name: Mayer, O.
name: Zettl, M.
name: Stern, O.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
New Types of Cells and Modules

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 537-539
description: Today’s modules use commonly glass as encapsulation material. Plastics offer a unique solution with a set of advantages versus glass. This paper outlines the material properties especially in view of usage for low concentrator PV.
The Throne of the King
Creators: name: Praet, Raf
Publisher: name: thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
Year: 2022

description: A conspicuous feature of Tolkien’s description of the city of Minas Tirith in The Return of The King is the depiction of two thrones in the Great Hall; one empty throne reserved for the king, and one seat for the steward of Gondor. This paper aims to ascertain the late antique and mediaeval sources of inspiration behind Tolkien’s creation of the throne room in Minas Tirith. As a starting point, we shall compare the setting of the two thrones in Minas Tirith with a motive in Christian iconography, the hetoimasia, and its architectural expression in the Chrysotriklinos, the throne room in the Byzantine Great Palace in Constantinople. Next, we shall show that Tolkien intentionally obscured his appropriation of the Byzantine throne room to create a multi-layered image of rulership, in accordance with his aesthetics of applicability and allegory. In conclusion, we shall formulate some remarks on the interpretation of the association between the Byzantine Chrysotriklinos and the Gondorian Great Hall. As a form of Tolkien’s literary process of sub-creation, the description of the throne room in Minas Tirith serves to emphasise the significance of The Return of the King as a retelling of Christ’s restoration of the fallen world, placing the work of Tolkien in the context of a strong personal Catholic piety.
description: thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 15 (2022): There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World (eds. Alicia Matz and Maciej Paprocki)
title: FPGA-Implementierung einer Ringoszillator basierten Physically Unclonable Function
Creators: name: Mneja, Mehdi
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 621.3 Elektrotechnik, Elektronik

description: Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) sind Schaltkreisprimitive, die abhängig von den unkontrollierbaren Schwankungen im Herstellungsprozess chip-spezifische und einzigartige Ausgaben erzeugen. Diese kostengünstigen und hocheffizienten Strukturen haben eine breite Palette von Anwendungsbereichen einschließlich Authentifizierung, Schlüsselgenerierung und IP-Schutz. In dieser Arbeit geht es um die FPGA-Implementierung einer Ringoszillator basierten Physically Unclonable Function, die mit dem Yosys-Framework auf einem Gatemate FPGA der Firma Cologne Chip implementiert werden soll.
Lower-Temperature Preparation and Properties of TiO2 Composite Electrodes for Flexible DSSC
Creators: name: Deng, J.
name: Tao, J.
name: Zhang, F.
name: Wang, T.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
New Types of Cells and Modules

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 544-548
description: The TiO2 composite film electrodes containing TiO2 nanoparticles (P25) and TiO2 nanotubes for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) were prepared in this work by normal pressure hydrothermal treatment. TiO2 nanotubes were synthesized by hydrothermal process and characterized by TEM, XRD and nitrogen adsorption–desorption isotherms. And the surface morphologies and photoelectric performance of the film electrodes were also analyzed. It was found that the addition of TiO2 nanotubes improved the photoelectric performance of the flexible DSSC. With the optimum preparation conditions of TiO2 nanotubes, the flexible DSSC achieved the best photoelectric performance with the short circuit current of 3.25mA and the solar-to-electric energy conversion efficiency of 1.67%, which attributed to the higher surface area of thin film electrode and the reduction of electrons transmission path along with the addition of TiO2 nanotubes.
BIPV Interactive Tools for Architects
Creators: name: Zanetti, I.
name: Nagel, K.
name: Chianese, D.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
PV Applications in the Built Environment

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3505-3505
description: The building integration of photovoltaics (BiPV) should be carefully considered at the beginning of a project as this will permit better integration from an aesthetic, energetic and economic point of view. The architect must therefore have the knowledge and tools to promote BiPV. He must be aware of the possibilities, obligations, advantages and disadvantages. To access this wellspring of knowledge and tools, ISAAC has created a website www.bipv.ch and, together with the Swiss ArchiCAD distributor, has developed 3D parametric CAD objects that will simplify elaboration and presentation of photovoltaic material in architectural renderings. These graphic tools aim to support
architects and designers who need an uncomplicated system to represent their BiPV projects and ideas at a visual level. Indeed, many aspects may vary like colors (cells, background and frame); shapes of cells and modules; type of
electrical contacts; transparency and reflection. With just one CAD object, it will be possible to rapidly insert a 3D model of most of the products found currently on the market.
Gap opening and large spin-orbit splitting in MX2 (M=Mo,W X=S,Se,Te) from the interplay between crystal field and hybridizations: insights from ab-initio theory
Creators: name: Autieri, Carmine
name: Bouhon, Adrien
name: Sanyal, Biplab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of first-principles density functional calculations, we study the maximally localized Wannier functions for the 2D transition metal dichalcogenides MX2 (M=Mo,W X=S,Se,Te). We found a M^+4-like ionic charge and a single occupied d-band. The center of the d-like maximally localized Wannier function associated with this band is distributed among three M sites. Part of the energy gap is opened by the crystal field splitting induced by the X^-2-like atoms. We extract the hopping parameters for the Wannier functions and provide a perspective on tight-binding model. From the analysis of the tight binding model, we have found an inversion of the band character between the Gamma and the K points of the Brillouin zone due to the M-M hybridization. The consequence of this inversion is the closure of the gap. The M-X hybridization is the only one that tends to open the gap at every k-point, the change in the M-X and M-M hybridization is the main responsible for the difference in the gap between the different dichalcogenide materials. The inversion of the bands gives rise to different spin-orbit splitting at Gamma and K point in the valence band. The different character of the gap at Gamma and K point offers the chance to manipulate the semiconductive properties of these compounds. For a bilayer system, the hybridizations between the out of plane orbitals and the hybridizations between the in plane orbitals split the valence band respectively at the Gamma and K point. The splitting in the valence band is opened also without spin-orbit coupling and comes from the M-M and X-X hybridization between the two monolayers.
Optical Characterization by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of Layers of CISSe Thin Films
Creators: name: Stehle, J.L.
name: Ruiz, C.M.
name: Saucedo, E.
name: Bermudez, V.
name: Defranoux, C.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
Fundamental Studies

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 507-509
description: In this work we propose a full analysis of the composition of CISSe structure by use of spectroscopic ellipsometer. In order to prepare a parametric optimization of the CISELTM photocells (please refer to visual presentation1CV.2.12), all layers have been measured individually and the refractive and absorption indices have been extracted including roughness and gradient. The isotropic model has been used. The optical gap is calculated, the results are stored in a data base which enables the optimisation of the process and of the cell, optically as well as electrically.
The Five-Factor Personality Inventory for ICD-11 – FFiCD (Russian version)
Creators: name: Samylkin, Denis
name: Demidova, Liubov
name: Gadisov, Timur
name: Nikitskiy, Ivan
name: Tkachenko, Andrey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)
Clinical psychology

description: Russian version of FFiCD (J.R. Oltmanns and T.A. Widiger)
Histogram Arithmetic under Uncertainty of Probability Density Function
Creators: name: Petrushin, V. N.
name: Nikulchev, E. V.
name: Korolev, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this article we propose a method of performing arithmetic operations on varia-bles with unknown distribution. The approach to the evaluation results of arithme-tic operations can select probability intervals of the algebraic equations and their systems solutions, of differential equations and their systems in case of histogram evaluation of the empirical density distributions of random parameters.
description: 10 pages
title: Natürlich Schöner, Teil 5: 'Die sind doch gemacht' – alles rund um Brustvergrößerungen
Creators: name: Falter, Celine
Publisher: name: Universitaet Tuebingen
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medizin , Plastische Chirurgie

description: In dieser Hörfunkserie enthüllt und diskutiert Celine Falter gemeinsam mit den beiden plastischen Chirurgen Dr. med. Philipp Braun und Privatdozent Dr. med. Oliver Lotter kritische und kontroverse Themen der Plastischen Chirurgie, die bisher in der Öffentlichkeit eher selten thematisiert wurden. Celine Falter studierte an der Universität Tübingen Medienwissenschaft und produzierte diesen Podcast im Rahmen ihrer Bachelorarbeit. Während ihrer Arbeit als Werkstudentin in der Privatklinik, dem Aestheticum Tübingen, entstand mit den beiden Chefärzten, Philipp Braun und Oliver Lotter, die Idee eines gemeinsamen Radio-Podcasts. In fünf Folgen sprechen die drei ausführlich über Themen wie Schönheitsideale, Pfusch oder Hilfemaßnahmen in der Plastischen, Rekonstruktiven und Ästhetischen Chirurgie und hinterfragen dabei ständig die Verantwortung von Ärzten und Ärztinnen. Folge 5: „Die sind doch gemacht“ – alles rund um Brustvergrößerungen von Celine Falter Die Brustvergrößerung ist die wohl bekannteste Ästhetische Operation. Auch im Aestheticum Tübingen, der Privatklinik von Dr. med. Philipp Braun und Dr. med. Oliver Lotter, steht sie auf Platz eins der Operationen bei Frauen. In der fünften und vorerst letzten Folge dieses Podcasts sprechen Philipp Braun, Oliver Lotter und Celine Falter über das ABC der Brustvergrößerung mit Implantaten. Als ausgewiesene Experten erklären die beiden den konkreten Ablauf der Operation, angefangen mit dem ersten Beratungsgespräch bis hin zur richtigen Nachsorge. Weitere Information über die Ärzte findet ihr auf den Instagram-Kanälen der beiden: @dr.philippbraun & @dr.oliverlotter.
Works of Art - A Possibility to Improve BIPV
Creators: name: Moor, D.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
PV Applications in the Built Environment

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3486-3487
description: The share of the worldwide BIPV solutions compared to the total PV installations is less than 1%. The purpose of the work is one hand to explain the difficulties of BIPV solutions (special module and system design, higher costs, long project and production time) and on the other hand to show the huge possibilities regarding BIPV solutions as a “work of art”. The marketing effect for BIPV-artefact is tremendous compared to ground mounted or roof topinstallation.
Investigation of markers associated with resistance to gastrointestinal nematode parasites in sheep
Creators: name: Preston, Sarah Jane Margaret
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) parasites of livestock pose a major economic burden on both developing and developed countries through disease resulting in production loss and animal death. Haemonchus contortus is the most pathogenic GIN parasite of small ruminants (sheep and goats) globally. Control primarily relies on indiscriminate anthelmintic treatment, however, due to anthelmintic resistance and the cost of drug development, this sole method of control is no longer viable. Integrated sustainable approaches are now required to effectively reduce the burden of H. contortus parasites on livestock production. Sustainable approaches include vaccination and breeding of GIN parasite resistant sheep, however, these approaches are limited by our lack of understanding of the host-parasite relationship. The aims of this thesis were twofold, the first involved providing a greater understanding of immune responses associated with protection and specifically focused on host galectins. This work identified sheep galectin-11 as a correlate of protection against a H. contortus experimental infection and demonstrated surface binding of endogenous and recombinant galectin-11 to larval and adult stages of H. contortus. In vitro experiments with recombinant galectin-11 inhibited larval exsheathment and growth providing evidence that reducing larval development may be an in vivo mechanism of galectin-11 production. The second aim of this thesis addressed whether host cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions could predict resistance (vaccine induced protection or natural resistance) to H. contortus infection. This study showed the ability of temperature and wheal responses of sheep to cutaneous larval injection to identify animals which had responded to a vaccination against H. contortus. However extension of this work showed that its ability to predict natural resistance in a small cohort of sheep was limited. In conclusion, this thesis has provided a greater understanding behind the release of host galectin-11 during infection and has identified cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions as a potential tool to measure immune responses induced by vaccination. Further genetic analysis relating to galectin-11 and cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions may lead to a greater understanding of the host-parasite interaction and become a source of new gene markers for GIN resistance for diagnostic development.
Chaotic delocalization of two interacting particles in the classical Harper model
Creators: name: Shepelyansky, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of two interacting particles in the classical Harper model in the regime when one-particle motion is absolutely bounded inside one cell of periodic potential. The interaction between particles breaks integrability of classical motion leading to emergence of Hamiltonian dynamical chaos. At moderate interactions and certain energies above the mobility edge this chaos leads to a chaotic propulsion of two particles with their diffusive spreading over the whole space both in one and two dimensions. At the same time the distance between particles remains bounded by one or two periodic cells demonstrating appearance of new composite quasi-particles called chaons. The effect of chaotic delocalization of chaons is shown to be rather general being present for Coulomb and short range interactions. It is argued that such delocalized chaons can be observed in experiments with cold atoms and ions in optical lattices.
description: 8 pages, 13 figs
A Performance Comparison of Sort and Scan Libraries for GPUs
Creators: name: Merry, Bruce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sorting and scanning are two fundamental primitives for constructing highly parallel algorithms. A number of libraries now provide implementations of these primitives for GPUs, but there is relatively little information about the performance of these implementations. We benchmark seven libraries for 32-bit integer scan and sort, and sorting 32-bit values by 32-bit integer keys. We show that there is a large variation in performance between the libraries, and that no one library has both optimal performance and portability.
description: Preprint of an article published in Parallel Processing Letters, 25, 4, 2015, 1550007 DOI: 10.1142/S0129626415500073 \copyright\ copyright World Scientific Publishing Company
Building Integrated PV Application in the Island of Crete
Creators: name: Papantoniou, S.
name: Tsoutsos, T.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: PV Systems
PV Applications in the Built Environment

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 3488-3491
description: The building under consideration is located in the island of Crete, Greece with almost the highest solarity in Europe. Its current use is the administration and several laboratories of the Environmental Engineering department in the campus of Technical University of Crete. The building has a large sun lounge, and the purpose of our study is to check the effect of its orientation in the energy production from Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) to be installed on it. By using the architectural and electromechanical data provided by the technical department of the university and the software tool ecotect v5.5 a 3D model has been developed and it has estimated the lighting level inside with or without the installed BIPV. By calculating the energy produced per BIPV surface we can suggest the optimum orientation of the building in order to maximize the electricity generated. Finally with the visualization routine the visual impact on the building after the PV installation can be estimated.
High-Efficiency Dyes for Luminescent Solar Concentrators - Photostability and Modelling
Creators: name: Wilson, L.R.
name: Richards, B.S.
Publisher: name: WIP-Munich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Advanced Photovoltaics
Fundamental Studies

description: 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 1-5 September 2008, Valencia, Spain; 510-512
description: In luminescent solar concentrators, photostability of the luminescent dyes is a major factor in their development. Here, photostability measurements on the BASF Lumogen F series of visible fluorescent dyes are presented. All exhibit degradation, with Violett 570 degrading most and Rot 305 the least. Ray-tracing simulations indicate the optimum dye mixture contains Rot 305 and Violett 570 dyes alone. A 10cm x 10cm x 3mm LSC module is constructed and its efficiency measured at 2.4% under a simulated AM1.5g solar spectrum.
Towards a more inductive world: A review on graph embedding methods for drug repurposing approaches
Creators: name: De La Fuente, Jesús
name: Serrano, Guillermo
name: Uxia Veleiro
name: Casals, Mikel
name: Azurmendi-Senar, Oier
name: Pineda-Lucena, Antonio
name: Ochoa, Idoia
name: Vicent, Silve
name: Gevaert, Olivier
name: Hernáez, Mikel
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2022

description: The poster "Towards a more inductive world" is a work in progress, which we hope to publish soon. This work emerges from the need for a fair comparative evaluation of drug-target interaction models.

 We compared eight state-of-the-art computational methods, classifying them into transductive and inductive, and evaluated them with different data splitting and subsampling.

 Furthermore, Dockers will be available to ensure reproducibility, including the preprocessing of different databases. Also, a python package with utilities for the drug-target interaction task will be released.