cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The impact of corporate culture and corporate governance on bank performance in Egypt
Creators: name: Metwally, Afaf Abdallah Tammam
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Finance

description: Economic changes expose financial institutions to a wide range of risks. The crumbling of business enterprises and corporate scandals lead to loss of credibility. Unlike other non-financial institutions, banks are unique as their management concerns the money of others. With the emergence of numerous cases of corruption of banks in Egypt and the escape of several businessmen especially in the last half of the 1990s, Egypt’s banking governance has become more prone to financial corruption. Therefore, there is a necessity for adopting a strong corporate culture to ensure adequate corporate governance practices. This research investigates the impact of corporate culture and corporate governance on banks' performance in Egypt. Fourteen constructs have been identified from the literature review that might enhance the performance of banks in Egypt. Ten constructs related to corporate culture are communication, leadership and tone at the top, risk, transparency, control, ethics and integrity, coordination and integration, commitment, accountability and adaptation to environment. The remaining four constructs related to corporate governance represented in board characteristics are: board size, frequency of meetings, board independence and CEO duality. The researcher also uses three measures of banks performance: ROA, ROE and NIM.The study was initiated by a Delphi technique to identify the importance of the corporate culture attributes with respect to corporate governance and bank performance. A questionnaire of corporate culture aspects was administered to 522 employees in banks. Two models were developed and 23 banks in Egypt were involved in this research. The research covers a five-year period (2010–2014). Ridge regression was used to test the ten hypotheses of the first model, and OLS regression was used to test the four hypotheses of the second model.The results indicate that corporate culture and board characteristics affect banks' performance. The first model shows that there is a positive and significant relationship between transparency, sound risk culture and performance (ROA and ROE).vFurthermore, a positive relationship exists between leadership and tone at the top and NIM. The second model shows a negative and significant relationship between frequency of meetings and ROA, a negative and significant relationship between board size and ROA, a positive and significant relationship between board independence and ROA and a positive and significant relationship between CEO duality and NIM.This study contributes to literature regarding how corporate culture and corporate governance affect banks' performance in Egypt. The research findings would benefit managers in identifying the most relevant corporate cultural aspects and how they could affect bank performance. It is also beneficial for regulators to recognise the importance of corporate governance and how board characteristics influence performance.
Limits on the validity of the thin-layer model of the ionosphere for radio interferometric calibration
Creators: name: Martin, Poppy L.
name: Bray, Justin D.
name: Scaife, Anna M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a ground-based radio interferometer observing at low frequencies, the ionosphere causes propagation delays and refraction of cosmic radio waves which result in phase errors in the received signal. These phase errors can be corrected using a calibration method that assumes a two-dimensional phase screen at a fixed altitude above the surface of the Earth, known as the thin-layer model. Here we investigate the validity of the thin-layer model and provide a simple equation with which users can check when this approximation can be applied to observations for varying time of day, zenith angle, interferometer latitude, baseline length, ionospheric electron content and observing frequency.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures, accepted MNRAS
Bifacial Solar Cells Fabricated by PERC Process for Mass Production
Creators: name: Chen, S.-Y.
name: Liu, H.-C.
name: Chang, H.-Y.
name: Chiu, Y.-Y.
name: Wang, Y.-H.
name: Lin, Y.-H.
name: Yu, S.-H.
name: Lih, W.-J.
name: Du, C.-H.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wafer-Based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Silicon Solar Cells Improvements and Innovation

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 772-774
description: Passivated emitter and rear cells (PERC), which have already been proved to be a technology of highefficiency
solar cell theoretically and experimentally, become the one of main structures for silicon crystalline solar
cells market in recently years. In this paper, p-type four-busbars bifacial solar cells (BSC) were fabricated base on
industrial PERC process. The rear metallization is locally screen printing so that the cost was decreased by using
fewer aluminum pastes but the front cell efficiency was kept as high as passivated emitter and rear cells (PERC). It
was also investigated that the influence of rear passivated stack layers for bifacial solar cells (BSC). There is a
standing-wave phenomenon on rear external quantum efficiency according to rear thickness of SiNx layers; therefore,
the rear performance of bifacial solar cells can be improved by optimizing the SiNx layers. The best cell efficiency of
20.71% and 13.92% for the front side and rear side of bifacial solar cells (BSC), respectively, were demonstrated in
this study with an area of 156×156 mm2. It was concluded that p-type bifacial solar cell (BSC) with passivated
emitter and rear cells (PERC) approach is useful and feasible for mass production.
The impact of trauma exposure and moral injury on UK military veterans: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Williamson, Victoria
name: Murphy, Dominic
name: Stevelink, Sharon A. M.
name: Allen, Shannon
name: Jones, Edgar
name: Greenberg, Neil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Exposure to a potentially morally injurious event (PMIE) has been found to be associated with a range of adverse mental health outcomes. However, how the psychological consequences following PMIEs compare to those encountered after a traumatic, but not a PMIE, remain poorly understood. Objective: The aim was to qualitatively explore UK military veterans’ responses to experiences of trauma and moral injury and the impact of such events on psychological wellbeing. Method: Thirty male veterans who reported exposure to traumatic and/or morally injurious events were recruited. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted, and data were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Six veterans described exposure to a non-morally injurious traumatic event, 15 reported experiencing a PMIE, and 9 described exposure to a ‘mixed’ event which was simultaneously morally injurious and traumatic. Veterans who encountered a PMIE described experiencing moral dissonance, or a clash between concurrently held sets of values (e.g. military values versus civilian values), which provoked considerable psychological distress. Veterans’ cognitions and responses were found to differ following a PMIE compared to a traumatic, but not PMIE, which could have negative implications for daily functioning. Several risk and protective factors for experiencing distress following a PMIE were described. Conclusions: This study provides some of the first evidence that events experienced by UK veterans can simultaneously be morally injurious and traumatic or life-threatening as well as highlighting the process by which moral injury may occur in UK veterans. These findings illustrate the need to examine effective pathways for prevention and intervention for veterans who have experienced a morally injurious event.
Long-period maser-bearing Miras in the Galactic center: period-luminosity relations and extinction estimates
Creators: name: Lewis, M. O.
name: Bhattacharya, R.
name: Sjouwerman, L. O.
name: Pihlström, Y. M.
name: Pietrzyński, G.
name: Sahai, R.
name: Karczmarek, P.
name: Górski, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish a sample of 370 Mira variables that are likely near the Galactic center (GC). The sources have been selected from the OGLE and BAaDE surveys based on their sky coordinates, OGLE classifications, and BAaDE maser-derived line-of-sight velocities. As the distance to the GC is known to a high accuracy, this sample is a test bed for reddening and extinction studies toward the GC and in Mira envelopes. We calculated separate interstellar- and circumstellar-extinction values for individual sources, showing that there is a wide range of circumstellar extinction values (up to four magnitudes in the K$_s$ band) in the sample, and that circumstellar reddening is statistically different from interstellar reddening laws. Further, the reddening laws in the circumstellar environments of our sample and the circumstellar environments of Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Miras are strikingly similar despite the different metallicities of the samples. Period-magnitude relations for the mid-infrared (MIR) WISE and MSX bands are also explored, and in the WISE bands we compare these to period-magnitude relationships derived from Miras in the LMC as it is important to compare these LMC relations to those in a higher metallicity environment. Emission from the envelope itself may contaminate MIR magnitudes altering the relations, especially for sources with thick envelopes.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures; accepted to A&A
Magnetic field geometry of an unusual cometary cloud Gal 110-13
Creators: name: Neha, S.
name: Maheswar, G.
name: Soam, A.
name: Lee, C. W.
name: Tej, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carried out optical polarimetry of an isolated cloud, Gal 110-13, to map the plane-of-the-sky magnetic field geometry. The main aim of the study is to understand the most plausible mechanism responsible for the unusual cometary shape of the cloud in the context of its magnetic field geometry. When unpolarized starlight passes through the intervening interstellar dust grains that are aligned with their short axes parallel to the local magnetic field, it gets linearly polarized. The plane-of-the-sky magnetic field component can therefore be traced by doing polarization measurements of background stars projected on clouds. Because the light in the optical wavelength range is most efficiently polarized by the dust grains typically found in the outer layers of the molecular clouds, optical polarimetry enables us to trace the magnetic field geometry of the outer layers of the clouds. We made R-band polarization measurements of 207 stars in the direction of Gal 110-13. The distance of Gal 110-13 was determined as $\sim450\pm80$ pc using our polarization and 2MASS near-infrared data. The foreground interstellar contribution was removed from the observed polarization values by observing a number of stars located in the vicinity of Gal 110-13 which has Hipparcos parallax measurements. The plane-of-the-sky magnetic field lines are found to be well ordered and aligned with the elongated structure of Gal 110-13. Using structure function analysis, we estimated the strength of the plane-of-the-sky component of the magnetic field as $\sim25μ$G. Based on our results and comparing them with those from simulations, we conclude that compression by the ionization fronts from 10 Lac is the most plausible cause of the comet-like morphology of Gal 110-13 and of the initiation of subsequent star formation.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables
Advantages of Transition to Four and Five Busbar Front Contact Grid Designs for Ni/Cu/Ag Plated Silicon Solar Cells
Creators: name: Pysch, D.
name: Burschik, J.
name: Yuan, Y.
name: Bay, N.
name: Crouse, K.
name: De Rose, A.
name: Hoffmann, A.
name: Kühnlein, H.
name: Lee, B.
name: Letize, A.
name: Passig, M.
name: Sieber, M.
name: Verlinden, P.
name: Vosteen, K.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wafer-Based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Silicon Solar Cells Improvements and Innovation

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 796-800
description: The intention of this work is to show the advantages of the Ni/Cu/Ag plating process when the number of
busbars on the solar cell is increased. Cells with four and five busbars were processed and compared to those with three
in respect of efficiency, finger and solder adhesion. Simulations to calculate the metal reduction and the experimental
values are compared. Estimations how much the production costs may be reduced are shown.
A comparison of attitudes and community responses to domestic violence
Creators: name: Pitcher, Kevan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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On the sharpness of a three circles theorem for discrete harmonic functions
Creators: name: Lippner, Gabor
name: Mangoubi, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: primary 31B05, secondary 35J05, 60J10, 65N22

description: Any three circles theorem for discrete harmonic functions must contain an inherent error term. In this paper we find the sharp error term in an $L^2$-three circles theorem for harmonic functions defined in $\Zb^2$. The proof is highly indirect due to combinatorial obstacles and cancellations phenomena. We exploit Newton interpolation methods and recursive arguments.
description: 17 pages
HST-1 as a Window to the Energetics of the Jet Spine of M87
Creators: name: Punsly, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new interpretation of the optical knot in the jet of M87, HST-1, is presented. High sensitivity 22 GHz Very Large Array images locate HST-1 to within 6 mas of the jet axis immediately upstream. 1.7 GHz Very Long Baseline Array images of a bright flare in 2005 indicates that the preponderance of emission in the early stages originates in an elongated region that is tilted $12.5^{\circ}$ from the jet axis. The superluminal motion, shape, location and the large jet-aligned optical/UV polarization suggest an identification with the putative relativistic spine of the jet. As such, energy flux estimates for HST-1, $\sim 870$ mas from the nucleus, published in 2006 indicate that the central engine injected $Q_{\rm{spine}}\approx 2.5 \times 10^{41}\rm{ergs/s}$ into the base of the spine $\sim 200$ years earler. Furthermore, previous studies reveal a tubular protonic jet on sub-mas scales that envelopes a low luminosity core, presumably the faint spine base. It was estimated that the central engine injected $Q_{\rm{tubular\,jet}}\approx 6.1\times 10^{41}\rm{ergs/s}$ $\sim 1.5$ years earlier. If one component of the jet is inherently more powerful, a firm constraint on total jet power in the recent past exists. If the emitted jet is inherently dominated by the spine (tubular jet) then the total bilaterally symmetric jet power emitted from the central engine was $<4Q_{\rm{spine}}\approx 1.0 \times 10^{42}\rm{ergs/s}$ ($< 4Q_{\rm{tubular\,jet}}\approx 2.4\times 10^{42}\rm{ergs/s}$) $\sim 200$ ($\sim 1.5$) years earlier. Assuming a nearly constant central engine injected jet power for $\sim 200$ years indicates a total jet power of $\lesssim 2\times 10^{42}$ ergs/s in epochs of modern observation or $\lesssim 3.5\%$ jet production efficiency for an accretion rate of 0.001$M_{\odot}$/yr.
description: To appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Softly Doped and Deep Emitters for P/Al Solar Cell Structure
Creators: name: Rasool, M.A.
name: Fano, V.
name: Habib, A.
name: Otaegi, A.
name: Gutiérrez, J.R.
name: Jimeno, J.C.
name: Azkona, N.
name: Cereceda, E.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wafer-Based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Silicon Solar Cells Improvements and Innovation

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 742-747
description: Objective of this work is to get softly doped and deep emitters in single thermal step. Due to high
temperature diffusion, dead layer (electrically inactive) is formed which produces recombination centers and increases
saturation current density (Joe). For appropriate choice of selective emitter in order to decrease emitter saturation
current density (Joe), it is necessary to have a passivated emitters, i.e. with silicon nitride. We have presented a process
which combines with standard technology used for selective emitter formation in a single thermal step which leads to
lowly doped and deep emitters. This process is feasible for industrial fabrication of P/Al solar cells. In this process the
gettering is higher than conventional process. Surface concentration value ranging from 3.6x1019 cm-3 to 7.2x1019 cm-
3 and depth junction values from 0.52 to 0.71 μm for sheet resistance ~100 Ω/ has obtained. The estimated saturation
current density (Joe) could be around 30-40 fA/cm2
with optimization but in present work Joe is under 80 fA/cm2.
Additional file 4 of Integrating tick density and park visitor behaviors to assess the risk of tick exposure in urban parks on Staten Island, New York
Creators: name: Hassett, Erin
name: Diuk-Wasser, Maria
name: Harrington, Laura
name: Fernandez, Pilar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. List of plant species found in unmaintained herbaceous and leaf litter habitats.
Silicon Oxynitride–Silicon Nitride Surface Passivation of p-Type c-Si Solar Cells with Laser Fired Rear Contacts
Creators: name: Soman, A.
name: Mondal, S.
name: Bhatia, S.
name: Arunachalam, B.
name: Kumbhar, S.
name: Saravanan, S.
name: Nair, P.
name: Antony, A.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wafer-Based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Silicon Solar Cells Improvements and Innovation

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 756-759
description: Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) concepts are industrially viable methods for the production
of high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells. The rear dielectric layer acts as a passivation layer as well as a back
reflector. Passivation of the rear surface forms an important aspect which affects the open circuit voltage (VOC), and
hence the efficiency of the cell. In this work, a novel rear surface passivation scheme has been applied for CZ p-type
c-Si cells with Laser Fired Contacts (LFC) at the rear side. The passivation of p-type rear surface is accomplished by
using Silicon Oxynitride (SiON) single layer with a low refractive index of 1.53 and SiON/Silicon Nitride (SiN) stack
layers deposited using rf-PECVD at a temperature of 380°C. The point contacts through the dielectric passivation
layer is made using a 1070 nm microsecond (μs) pulsed laser. The LFC solar cells have been fabricated over an area
of 156 cm2 with rear passivation layers of SiON and SiON/SiN stacks and the importance of the Silicon Nitride
capping layer has been investigated in detail. The cells have been characterized using I-V and EQE measurements
and obtained a VOC of 628 mV in the initial trials with single layer SiON.
Microstructural modeling of ductile fracture initiation in multi-phase materials
Creators: name: de Geus, T. W. J.
name: Peerlings, R. H. J.
name: Geers, M. G. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The precise mechanisms underlying the failure of multi-phase materials may be strongly dependent on the material's microstructural morphology. Micromechanical modeling has provided much insight into this dependence, but uncertainties remain about crucial modeling assumptions. This paper assesses the influence of different grain shapes, damage indicators, and stress states using a structured numerical model. A distinct spatial arrangement of phases around fracture incidents is found, consisting of hard regions in the tensile direction interrupted by soft regions in the directions of shear. These key features are only mildly sensitive to the studied variations.
Process Development for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
Creators: name: Hendrichs, M.
name: Morales-Vilches, A.
name: Mazzarella, L.
name: Kirner, S.
name: Zelt, M.
name: Rhein, H.
name: Calnan, S.
name: Korte, L.
name: Stannowski, B.
name: Schlatmann, R.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wafer-Based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Silicon Solar Cells Improvements and Innovation

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 753-755
description: This work gives an overview about the current status and the ongoing development of the silicon
heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell process at HZB. Our research work focuses on the development of highly transparent
nanocrystalline front surface field (FSF) layers and innovative transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layers as front
electrodes for rear emitter SHJ solar cells. By introducing water vapor into the front ITO sputtering process we show
an increase of 0.4 % absolute in conversion efficiency compared with our standard ITO process without water vapor.
Furthermore first results for a rear emitter cell structure are presented with a conversion efficiency exceeding 21% for
4 cm² SHJ solar cells on n-type CZ-Si. Introducing further process optimizations, we expect to achieve conversion
efficiencies above 22% for our baseline process sequence in the near future.
Source-free Domain Adaptive Human Pose Estimation
Creators: name: Peng, Qucheng
name: Zheng, Ce
name: Chen, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human Pose Estimation (HPE) is widely used in various fields, including motion analysis, healthcare, and virtual reality. However, the great expenses of labeled real-world datasets present a significant challenge for HPE. To overcome this, one approach is to train HPE models on synthetic datasets and then perform domain adaptation (DA) on real-world data. Unfortunately, existing DA methods for HPE neglect data privacy and security by using both source and target data in the adaptation process. To this end, we propose a new task, named source-free domain adaptive HPE, which aims to address the challenges of cross-domain learning of HPE without access to source data during the adaptation process. We further propose a novel framework that consists of three models: source model, intermediate model, and target model, which explores the task from both source-protect and target-relevant perspectives. The source-protect module preserves source information more effectively while resisting noise, and the target-relevant module reduces the sparsity of spatial representations by building a novel spatial probability space, and pose-specific contrastive learning and information maximization are proposed on the basis of this space. Comprehensive experiments on several domain adaptive HPE benchmarks show that the proposed method outperforms existing approaches by a considerable margin. The codes are available at https://github.com/davidpengucf/SFDAHPE.
description: Accepted by ICCV 2023
Additional file 6 of Integrating tick density and park visitor behaviors to assess the risk of tick exposure in urban parks on Staten Island, New York
Creators: name: Hassett, Erin
name: Diuk-Wasser, Maria
name: Harrington, Laura
name: Fernandez, Pilar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6. KAP survey.
Resilience as a mediator in the relationship between posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth among adult accident or crime victims: the moderated mediating effect of childhood trauma
Creators: name: Lee, Dongyun
name: Yu, Eun-Seung
name: Kim, Nam Hee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Results on the association between posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and posttraumatic growth (PTG) are inconsistent, and there may be unknown factors mediating or moderating this relationship. Identifying these factors could help in developing an intervention strategy for promoting PTG. However, few studies have examined relationships among PTSS, resilience, and PTG concurrently, and no study has investigated the effect of childhood trauma on these relationships in adulthood. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the moderated mediating effect of childhood trauma on resilience and its associations with PTSS and PTG in adult victims of traumatic accidents or crimes. We hypothesized that resilience would mediate relationships between PTSS and PTG and that its mediating effects would differ depending on childhood trauma. Methods: We included adult victims of accidents or crimes referred to a university hospital or specialized support centre (n = 143). PTSS, resilience, childhood trauma, and PTG were measured with the following questionnaires: PTSD Checklist for DSM-5, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire, and the Short Form of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, respectively. Results: The effect of PTSS on PTG was found to be fully mediated by resilience, and this mediating effect was moderated according to childhood trauma: the more childhood traumatic experiences, the greater the mediating effect of resilience was between PTSS and PTG. The effect of resilience on PTG was highest in the high childhood trauma group. Conclusion: Therapists treating individuals with psychological trauma should attempt to identify a history of childhood trauma and to evaluate resilience. Therapeutic approaches tailored according thereto may improve PTG among individuals with PTSS symptoms, especially those with high levels of childhood trauma.
The effect of the closed-circuit television system on jurors' trial decisions
Creators: name: Beswick, Angela Valerie.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Dark Energy: The Shadowy Reflection of Dark Matter?
Creators: name: Kleidis, Kostas
name: Spyrou, Nikolaos K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we review a series of recent theoretical results regarding a conventional approach to the dark energy (DE) concept. This approach is distinguished among others for its simplicity and its physical relevance. By compromising General Relativity (GR) and Thermodynamics at cosmological scale, we end up with a model without DE. Instead, the Universe we are proposing is filled with a perfect fluid of self-interacting dark matter (DM), the volume elements of which perform hydrodynamic flows. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time in a cosmological framework that the energy of the cosmic fluid internal motions is also taken into account as a source of the universal gravitational field. As we demonstrate, this form of energy may compensate for the DE needed to compromise spatial flatness, while, depending on the particular type of thermodynamic processes occurring in the interior of the DM fluid (isothermal or polytropic), the Universe depicts itself as either decelerating or accelerating (respectively). In both cases, there is no disagreement between observations and the theoretical prediction of the distant supernovae (SNe) Type Ia distribution. In fact, the cosmological model with matter content in the form of a thermodynamically-involved DM fluid not only interprets the observational data associated with the recent history of Universe expansion, but also confronts successfully with every major cosmological issue (such as the age and the coincidence problems). In this way, depending on the type of thermodynamic processes in it, such a model may serve either for a conventional DE cosmology or for a viable alternative one.
description: Review article, 38 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Entropy
Additional file 5 of Integrating tick density and park visitor behaviors to assess the risk of tick exposure in urban parks on Staten Island, New York
Creators: name: Hassett, Erin
name: Diuk-Wasser, Maria
name: Harrington, Laura
name: Fernandez, Pilar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Example map of park visitor movement within an open space. Human movement was mapped using arrows to denote the directional movement of each individual. Elapsed time was noted when visitors remained in one location. All daily time intervals for one site are represented: red = 9 am-12 pm, blue = 12 pm-3 pm, yellow = 3 pm-6 pm.
Emitter and Contact Optimization for High-Efficiency IBC Mercury Cells
Creators: name: Mewe, A.
name: Spinelli, P.
name: Burgers, A.
name: Vlooswijk, A.H.G.
name: Guillevin, N.
name: Kossen, E.J.
name: Cesar, I.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wafer-Based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Silicon Solar Cells Improvements and Innovation

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 760-763
description: In this paper we present the results of a study of the emitter contact properties of the Mercury cell,
which is an n-type IBC cell with a front floating emitter. We found that contact recombination becomes higher and
contact resistance becomes lower with higher firing temperature. Additionally, the contacts to light and heavy
emitters were evaluated and the results showed that in case of a heavier emitter, the emitter contact recombination is
reduced. The emitter contact resistance to both the light and heavy emitter appeared to only depend on the sheet
resistance, but not on the exact shape of the doping profile. The contact recombination, calculated from measured Voc
values of test structures, appeared to be dependent on which side of the sample was illuminated: extracted Voc values
from front side illumination lead to much lower fitted J0,contact values than from rear side illumination. Quokka
simulations indicate that the lower front side illumination values are closer to the real values, which can be calculated
from the results of the measurements with either orientation.
Systematic and objective identification of the microstructure around damage directly from images
Creators: name: de Geus, T. W. J.
name: Du, C.
name: Hoefnagels, J. P. M.
name: Peerlings, R. H. J.
name: Geers, M. G. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An original experimental approach is presented to automatically determine the average phase distribution around damage sites in multi-phase materials. An objective measure is found to be the average intensity around damage sites, calculated using many images. This method has the following benefits: no phase identification or manual interventions are required, and statistical fluctuations and measurement noise are effectively averaged. The method is demonstrated for dual-phase steel, revealing subtle unexpected differences in the morphology surrounding damage in strongly and weakly banded microstructures.
Liouville's Theorem from the Principle of Maximum Caliber in Phase Space
Creators: name: González, Diego
name: Davis, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the cornerstones in non--equilibrium statistical mechanics (NESM) is Liouville's theorem, a differential equation for the phase space probability $ρ(q,p; t)$. This is usually derived considering the flow in or out of a given surface for a physical system (composed of atoms), via more or less heuristic arguments. In this work, we derive the Liouville equation as the partial differential equation governing the dynamics of the time-dependent probability $ρ(q, p; t)$ of finding a "particle" with Lagrangian $L(q, \dot{q}; t)$ in a specific point $(q, p)$ in phase space at time $t$, with $p=\partial L/\partial \dot{q}$. This derivation depends only on considerations of inference over a space of continuous paths. Because of its generality, our result is valid not only for "physical" systems but for any model depending on constrained information about position and velocity, such as time series.
MOJAVE XIII. Parsec-Scale AGN Jet Kinematics Analysis Based on 19 years of VLBA Observations at 15 GHz
Creators: name: Lister, M. L.
name: Aller, M. F.
name: Aller, H. D.
name: Homan, D. C.
name: Kellermann, K. I.
name: Kovalev, Y. Y.
name: Pushkarev, A. B.
name: Richards, J. L.
name: Ros, E.
name: Savolainen, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 1625 new 15 GHz (2 cm) VLBA images of 295 jets associated with active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the MOJAVE and 2 cm VLBA surveys, spanning observations between 1994 Aug 31 and 2013 Aug 20. For 274 AGNs with at least 5 VLBA epochs, we have analyzed the kinematics of 961 individual bright features in their parsec-scale jets. A total of 122 of these jets have not been previously analyzed by the MOJAVE program. In the case of 451 jet features that had at least 10 epochs, we also examined their kinematics for possible accelerations. At least half of the well-sampled features have non-radial and/or accelerating trajectories, indicating that non-ballistic motion is common in AGN jets. Since it is impossible to extrapolate any accelerations that occurred before our monitoring period, we could only determine reliable ejection dates for about 24% of those features that had significant proper motions. The distribution of maximum apparent jet speeds in all 295 AGNs measured by our program to date is peaked below 5c, with very few jets with apparent speeds above 30c. The fastest speed in our survey is about 50c, measured in the jet of the quasar PKS 0805-07, and is indicative of a maximum jet Lorentz factor of about 50 in the parent population. The Fermi LAT-detected gamma-ray AGNs in our sample have, on average, higher jet speeds than non LAT-detected AGNs, indicating a strong correlation between pc-scale jet speed and gamma-ray Doppler boosting factor. We have identified 11 moderate-redshift (z<0.35) AGNs with fast apparent speeds (>10c) that are strong candidates for future TeV gamma-ray detection. Of the five gamma-ray loud narrow-lined Seyfert I AGNs in our sample, three show highly superluminal jet motions, while the others have sub-luminal speeds. (abridged)
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables; accepted by Astronomical journal; full electronic versions of the 5 tables are available from the preprint source
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for the treatment of psychosis: a systematic review
Creators: name: Adams, Rosie
name: Ohlsen, Sally
name: Wood, Emily
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Psychosis is a public health concern. There is increasing evidence suggesting trauma can play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of psychosis. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective treatment for trauma and could be a vital addition to the treatment of psychosis. Objective: To explore the evidence for EMDR as a treatment for psychosis, focussing on the safety, effectiveness and acceptability of this intervention for this population. Methods: Four databases (Cochrane, EMBASE, MEDLINE PsychINFO), and the Francine Shapiro Library were systematically searched, along with grey literature and reference lists of relevant papers. No date limits were applied as this is an area of emerging evidence. Studies were screened for eligibility based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. The included studies were quality assessed and data was extracted from the individual studies, and synthesized using a narrative synthesis approach. Results: Six studies met the inclusion criteria (1 RCT, 2 Pilot studies, 2 Case series and 1 Case report). Across the studies EMDR was associated with reductions in delusional and negative symptoms, mental health service and medication use. Evidence for reductions in auditory hallucinations and paranoid thinking was mixed. No adverse events were reported, although initial increases in psychotic symptoms were observed in two studies. Average dropout rates across the studies were comparable to other trauma-focused treatments for PTSD. The acceptability of EMDR was not adequately measured or reported. Conclusion: EMDR appears a safe and feasible intervention for people with psychosis. The evidence is currently insufficient to determine the effectiveness and acceptability of the intervention for this population. Larger confirmative trials are required to form more robust conclusions.
Complex post-traumatic stress symptoms in female adolescents: the role of emotion dysregulation in impairment and trauma exposure after an acute sexual assault
Creators: name: Villalta, Laia
name: Khadr, Sophie
name: Chua, Kia-Chong
name: Kramer, Tami
name: Clarke, Venetia
name: Viner, Russell M.
name: Stringaris, Argyris
name: Smith, Patrick
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Adolescents are at high risk of sexual assault compared to any other age group. The pattern of post-traumatic stress symptoms plus life-impairing disturbances in self-organization (emotion dysregulation, negative self-concept and interpersonal problems) is termed Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD). Research about CPTSD after sexual assault in adolescents is limited owing to the challenges associated with assessing this group. This study aims to determine the frequency and structure of CPTSD, and the relationship of emotion dysregulation with impairment and additional trauma exposure among adolescents who have been sexually assaulted. Method: Prospective cohort study of adolescents attending the Sexual Assault Referral Centres serving London over a 2-year period. We conducted cross-sectional analyses (n = 99) on data collected 4–5 months after sexual assault, and Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) and Latent Class Analyses (LCA) to determine the CPTSD profile. CTPSD was defined according to the ICD-11, selecting symptom indicators from the following measures: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES-13), Short version of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (S-MFQ), The Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA). We analysed the association of CPTSD symptom domains with impairment (measured with the SDQ, and the Children’s Global Assessment Scale; C-GAS) and with additional trauma exposure. Results: The frequency of ICD-11 PTSD was 59%, and of ICD-11 CPTSD was 40%. CPTSD symptoms showed a strong fit for a correlated 4-factor model, and LCA distinguished a class of participants with high levels of CPTSD symptoms. Emotion dysregulation was associated with impairment in functioning and exposure to trauma beyond other self-organization disturbances and core PTSD symptoms. Conclusions: Disturbances in self-organization are frequent in sexually assaulted adolescents, and emotion dysregulation is associated with impairment and further exposure to trauma. Emotion dysregulation should be considered in preventive and treatment strategies for these vulnerable youth.
An inner warp discovered in the disk around HD 110058 using VLT/SPHERE and HST/STIS
Creators: name: Stasevic, S.
name: Milli, J.
name: Mazoyer, J.
name: Lagrange, A. -M.
name: Bonnefoy, M.
name: Faramaz-Gorka, V.
name: Ménard, F.
name: Boccaletti, A.
name: Choquet, E.
name: Shuai, L.
name: Olofsson, J.
name: Chomez, A.
name: Ren, B.
name: Rubini, P.
name: Desgrange, C.
name: Gratton, R.
name: Chauvin, G.
name: Vigan, A.
name: Matthews, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An edge-on debris disk was detected in 2015 around the young, nearby A0V star HD 110058. The disk showed features resembling those seen in the disk of beta Pictoris that could indicate the presence of a perturbing planetary-mass companion in the system. We investigated new and archival scattered light images of the disk in order to characterise its morphology and spectrum. In particular, we analysed the disk's warp to constrain the properties of possible planetary perturbers. Our work uses data from two VLT/SPHERE observations and archival data from HST/STIS. We measured the morphology of the disk by analysing vertical profiles along the length of the disk to extract the centroid spine position and vertical height. We extracted the surface brightness and reflectance spectrum of the disk. We detect the disk between 20 au (with SPHERE) and 150 au (with STIS), at a position angle of 159.6$^\circ\pm$0.6$^\circ$. Analysis of the spine shows an asymmetry between the two sides of the disk, with a 3.4$^\circ\pm$0.9$^\circ$ warp between ~20 au and 60 au. The disk is marginally vertically resolved in scattered light, with a vertical aspect ratio of 9.3$\pm$0.7% at 45 au. The extracted reflectance spectrum is featureless, flat between 0.95 micron and 1.1 micron, and red from 1.1 micron to 1.65 micron. The outer parts of the disk are also asymmetric with a tilt between the two sides compatible with a disk made of forward-scattering particles and seen not perfectly edge-on, suggesting an inclination of <84$^\circ$. The presence of an undetected planetary-mass companion on an inclined orbit with respect to the disk could explain the warp. The misalignment of the inner parts of the disk with respect to the outer disk suggests a warp that has not yet propagated to the outer parts of the disk, favouring the scenario of an inner perturber as the origin of the warp.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables; accepted for publication in A&A
Asymptotic analysis of a semi-linear elliptic system in perforated domains: well-posedness and correctors for the homogenization limit
Creators: name: Khoa, Vo Anh
name: Muntean, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B27, 35C20, 76M30, 35B09

description: In this study, we prove results on the weak solvability and homogenization of a microscopic semi-linear elliptic system posed in perforated media. The model presented here explores the interplay between stationary diffusion and both surface and volume chemical reactions in porous media. Our interest lies in deriving homogenization limits (upscaling) for alike systems and particularly in justifying rigorously the obtained averaged descriptions. Essentially, we prove the well-posedness of the microscopic problem ensuring also the positivity and boundedness of the involved concentrations and then use the structure of the two scale expansions to derive corrector estimates delimitating this way the convergence rate of the asymptotic approximates to the macroscopic limit concentrations. Our techniques include Moser-like iteration techniques, a variational formulation, two-scale asymptotic expansions as well as energy-like estimates.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure
Hydrogen Plasma Treatment to Enhance a-Si/c-Si Interface Passivation
Creators: name: Soman, A.
name: Antony, A.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wafer-Based Silicon Solar Cells and Materials Technology
Silicon Solar Cells Improvements and Innovation

description: 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 738-741
description: The interface passivation quality of a-Si/c-Si plays the decisive role in attaining high open circuit voltage of Si
heterojunction solar cells. The passivation quality of this interface can be improved by using Hydrogen plasma
treatments, which helps to saturate the dangling bonds by Hydrogen termination. In this work, different plasma
treatment methodologies like Pre, Post and Intermediate Hydrogen plasma treatments during the deposition of a-Si
are investigated and their effect on passivation quality was studied using minority carrier lifetime measurements and
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). The Hydrogen Plasma treatments were done using rf- PECVD at
80% Hydrogen dilution and at a low substrate temperature of 200 °C. The treatments were done for 30 seconds at a
low power density of 30mW/cm2 to avoid the plasma damage. The improved passivation quality due to hydrogen
plasma treatment results in surface recombination velocity as low as ~ 24 cm/s with an implied VOC of 700 mV.