cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Computer-Aided Decision Support for Melanoma Detection Applied on Melanocytic and Nonmelanocytic Skin Lesions: A Comparison of Two Systems Based on Automatic Analysis of Dermoscopic Images
Creators: name: Møllersen, Kajsa
name: Kirchesch, Herbert
name: Zortea, Maciel
name: Schopf, Thomas R.
name: Hindberg, Kristian
name: Godtliebsen, Fred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Commercially available clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) for skin cancer have been designed for the detection of melanoma only. Correct use of the systems requires expert knowledge, hampering their utility for nonexperts. Furthermore, there are no systems to detect other common skin cancer types, that is, nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC). As early diagnosis of skin cancer is essential, there is a need for a CDSS that is applicable to all types of skin lesions and is suitable for nonexperts. Nevus Doctor (ND) is a CDSS being developed by the authors. We here investigate ND's ability to detect both melanoma and NMSC and the opportunities for improvement. An independent test set of dermoscopic images of 870 skin lesions, including 44 melanomas and 101 NMSCs, were analysed by ND. Its sensitivity to melanoma and NMSC was compared to that of Mole Expert (ME), a commercially available CDSS, using the same set of lesions. ND and ME had similar sensitivity to melanoma. For ND at 95 percent melanoma sensitivity, the NMSC sensitivity was 100 percent, and the specificity was 12 percent. The melanomas misclassified by ND at 95 percent sensitivity were correctly classified by ME, and vice versa. ND is able to detect NMSC without sacrificing melanoma sensitivity.
We don’t need another hero, do we? Researching heroism from a cultural perspective
Creators: name: Andersen, Tem Frank
name: Christensen, Jørgen Riber
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2020

description: This article addresses different aspects of heroes and heroism and it offers an introductory analysis of approaches to heroism, which may be relevant for the articles in this issue of Academic Quarter. These approaches are all from a culturally theoretical perspective. They encompass a discussion of an ontological need for heroes. The sections of the article are also about mythological heroism, the hero’s quest as a narrative principle, heroes as historical agents and modern heroism. The latter is also of a reflexive and critical nature and under the heading of “the besieged hero”, it includes a discussion of the problematic figure of the superhero as found in blockbuster movies.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, No. 20 (2020): Heroisme | Heroism
Rotation Periods for Cool Stars in Open Clusters NGC 6709 and NGC 6940
Creators: name: Cole-Kodikara, E.
name: Barnes, S.
name: Weingrill, J.
name: Granzer, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: astronomy
open clusters
rotation periods

description: Open clusters are used to calibrate the relationship between mass, rotation, and age because member stars are nearly homogeneous, having been born about the same time from the same molecular clouds. Rotation rates are expected to decrease with time as stars lose angular momentum through mechanisms such as stellar winds. We selected two open clusters for our study: NGC 6709 which is a young open cluster similar to the Pleiades with an estimated age of 150 Myrs, and NGC 6940 which is an open cluster slightly older than the Hyades with an estimated age of 750 Myrs. These two clusters are observed over multiple months using the robotic observatory STELLA to obtain photometry for the F, G, K, and M stars. The resulting frames are processed using the Daophot II software package to get PSF photometry and then combined to make light curves for each star. Using four time series analysis methods, rotation periods are obtained for the first time for cluster members. The rotation periods of these stars are plotted against their respective Gaia EDR3 colors, a proxy for mass. NGC 6709 shows a sequence of slow rotators with longer rotation periods towards redder stars with a few rapid rotators that have not yet joined this sequence. This distribution is very similar to that of the Pleiades and other similarly-aged open clusters. NGC 6940, as an older cluster, has a similar slow rotator sequence, but this sequence is overall slower than that of NGC 6709, and fewer stars inhabit the rapidly rotating regime, as expected for an older cluster.
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Amorphous Silicon-Oxynitride Window-Layers in Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells
Creators: name: Neumüller, A.
name: Wendler, E.
name: Sergeev, O.
name: Vehse, M.
name: Agert, C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES
Silicon-based Thin Film and Silicon-Heterojunction Solar Cells and Modules

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1161-1164
description: Recent publications demonstrate the effect of an increased optical bandgap of the amorphous silicon player
on the overall cell parameters and especially on the short current density using CO2 or CH4 as dilution gas. In
contrast to prior work, we use N2O as dilution gas for the amorphous silicon oxynitride p-layer (p-a-SiOxNy:H)
deposited in a PECVD cluster tool. We verify the presence and concentration of nitrogen and oxygen with RBS
(Rutherford backscattering spectrometry) and FTIR (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy) measurements and
demonstrate the effect of these two elements on the optical and electrical properties of the a-SiOxNy:H p-layers. With
increasing oxygen content and thus with increasing Tauc bandgap we see a significant decrease of the electrical
conductivity by four orders of magnitude. Our investigations show that this effect can be counteracted by increasing
the diborane (B2H6) doping gas flow rate. Furthermore, we demonstrate that an optical bandgap of 2 eV works best
within our a-Si:H solar cells and leads to an increase in the short current density (Jsc) as well as of the open circuit
voltage (Voc) compared to the reference cell.
Exploratory investigation of the HIPPO gas-jet target fluid dynamic properties
Creators: name: Meisel, Zach
name: Shi, Ke
name: Jemcov, Aleksandar
name: Couder, Manoel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to optimize the performance of gas-jet targets for future nuclear reaction measurements, a detailed understanding of the dependence of the gas-jet properties on experiment design parameters is required. Common methods of gas-jet characterization rely on measuring the effective thickness using nuclear elastic scattering and energy loss techniques; however, these tests are time intensive and limit the range of design modifications which can be explored to improve the properties of the jet as a nuclear reaction target. Thus, a more rapid jet-characterization method is desired. We performed the first steps towards characterizing the gas-jet density distribution of the HIPPO gas-jet target at the University of Notre Dame's Nuclear Science Laboratory by reproducing results from $^{20}\rm{Ne}(α,α)^{20}\rm{Ne}$ elastic scattering measurements with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations performed with the state-of-the-art CFD software ANSYS Fluent. We find a strong sensitivity to experimental design parameters of the gas-jet target, such as the jet nozzle geometry and ambient pressure of the target chamber. We argue that improved predictive power will require moving to three-dimensional simulations and additional benchmarking with experimental data.
SI Figure 1 from ZooMS confirms geometric morphometrics species identification of ancient sheep and goat
Creators: name: Jeanjean, Marine
name: McGrath, Krista
name: Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
name: Nieto-Espinet, Ariadna
name: Schafberg, Renate
name: Parés-Casanova, Pere Miquel
name: Jiménez-Manchón, Sergio
name: Guintard, Claude
name: Tekkouk, Faiza
name: Ridouh, Rania
name: Mureau, Cyprien
name: Evin, Allowen
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environmental Science
Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Identification probability of each LDAs for each archaeological specimen, sorted by archaeological sites numbers. The upper part of the graph, in green, corresponds to the probability of each LDAs for specimens identified as sheep by the geometric morphometrics, while the lower part, in blue, corresponds to the goats identified by the geometric morphometrics. The colour of each boxplot correspond to the ZooMS identification. Specimens with a red star are misidentified by geometric morphometrics. Specimens with a black star are those which are both identify as goat or sheep depending on the LDAs. The most numerous identification was kept.
Device Simulation of Solid-State Perovskite Solar Cells
Creators: name: Lin, P.
name: Tan, K.
name: Tan, J.
name: Wu, L.
name: Wang, G.
name: Jin, S.
name: Lin, Y.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES
Perovskites, Organic PV and Hybrid Devices

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1125-1129
description: Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have drawn much attention recently for their high efficiency and low cost.
It is necessary to figure out the operation mechanism and device physics of PSCs. In this essay, Poisson equation and
continuity equations for electrons and holes were applied for simulating the typical solid-state PSC. Perovskite
material is typical Wannier-type exciton, hence it is possible to use Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator (SCAPS) to
perform the simulation. The effects of absorber thickness, the interfaces defect density, and the HTM layer
characteristics were investigated. Simulation results indicate that: (1) thicker absorber layer induces a higher Jsc, a
slightly lower Voc and fill factor; there is an optimum thickness for PCE; (2) recombination rate is higher at the front
interface (TiO2/perovskite) than the back interface (perovskite/HTM) therefore the front interface has greater impact
on cell performance, and the property improvement of the front interface can accelerate device performance. (3) hole
mobility and acceptor density of HTM layers both have strong positive influences which gives a support to search the
appropriate substitute materials such as CuI, PTAA and MEH-PPV.
Minimal Perceptrons for Memorizing Complex Patterns
Creators: name: Pastor, Marissa
name: Song, Juyong
name: Hoang, Danh-Tai
name: Jo, Junghyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Feedforward neural networks have been investigated to understand learning and memory, as well as applied to numerous practical problems in pattern classification. It is a rule of thumb that more complex tasks require larger networks. However, the design of optimal network architectures for specific tasks is still an unsolved fundamental problem. In this study, we consider three-layered neural networks for memorizing binary patterns. We developed a new complexity measure of binary patterns, and estimated the minimal network size for memorizing them as a function of their complexity. We formulated the minimal network size for regular, random, and complex patterns. In particular, the minimal size for complex patterns, which are neither ordered nor disordered, was predicted by measuring their Hamming distances from known ordered patterns. Our predictions agreed with simulations based on the back-propagation algorithm.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Fibrositis/Fibromyalgia syndrome as a public health problem
Creators: name: Littlejohn, Geoffrey Owen.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
SI Figure 1 from ZooMS confirms geometric morphometrics species identification of ancient sheep and goat
Creators: name: Jeanjean, Marine
name: McGrath, Krista
name: Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
name: Nieto-Espinet, Ariadna
name: Schafberg, Renate
name: Parés-Casanova, Pere Miquel
name: Jiménez-Manchón, Sergio
name: Guintard, Claude
name: Tekkouk, Faiza
name: Ridouh, Rania
name: Mureau, Cyprien
name: Evin, Allowen
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Animal Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Identification probability of each LDAs for each archaeological specimen, sorted by archaeological sites numbers. The upper part of the graph, in green, corresponds to the probability of each LDAs for specimens identified as sheep by the geometric morphometrics, while the lower part, in blue, corresponds to the goats identified by the geometric morphometrics. The colour of each boxplot correspond to the ZooMS identification. Specimens with a red star are misidentified by geometric morphometrics. Specimens with a black star are those which are both identify as goat or sheep depending on the LDAs. The most numerous identification was kept.
The Singular Optical Axes in Biaxial Crystals and Analysis of Their Spectral Dispersion Effects in $β$-Ga$_2$O$_3$
Creators: name: Grundmann, Marius
name: Sturm, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify and distinguish optically biaxial materials, which can have triclinic, monoclinic or orthorhombic crystal symmetry, by the degeneracy of the indices of refraction of their four singular optical axes (Windungsachsen) in the absorption regime. We provide explicit analytical solutions for angular orientations of the singular optical axes in monoclinic crystals and orthorhombic crystals. As a model material we analyze monoclinic gallia ($β$-Ga$_2$O$_3$) and discuss in detail the dispersion (i.e. the spectral variation of the angular position) of its singular optical axes. For a certain energy range ($E \approx 7.23$-$7.33$ eV) we find quasi-uniaxial symmetry. At two energies ($E \approx 8.14$ eV and $E \approx 8.37$ eV) we find triaxial spectral points for which one regular optical axis and two singular optical axes exist. Concurrently a Stokes analysis of the spectral dependence of the electrical field eigenvectors is made and discussed for various crystal orientations. For a singular optical axis $|S_3|=1$; for the two degenerate singular axes at the triaxial point the Stokes vector is undefined. For a certain energy ($E=6.59$ eV), the $\langle 010 \rangle$-orientation is close to a singular optical axis, $|S_3|=0.977$. The analysis provided here is prototypical for the treatment of the optical properties of optically biaxial functional materials in the absorption and gain regimes.
SI Figure 3: from ZooMS confirms geometric morphometrics species identification of ancient sheep and goat
Creators: name: Jeanjean, Marine
name: McGrath, Krista
name: Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
name: Nieto-Espinet, Ariadna
name: Schafberg, Renate
name: Parés-Casanova, Pere Miquel
name: Jiménez-Manchón, Sergio
name: Guintard, Claude
name: Tekkouk, Faiza
name: Ridouh, Rania
name: Mureau, Cyprien
name: Evin, Allowen
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environmental Science
Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Two first axes of the PCA showing variation between modern (dark) and archaeological (light) independently for sheep and goat.
Magnetic field evolution of the K2 dwarf V471 Tau
Creators: name: Zaire, Bonnie
name: Donati, Jean-Francois
name: Klein, Baptiste
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of the eclipsing binary system V471 Tau show that the time of the primary eclipses varies in an apparent periodic way. With growing evidence that the magnetically active K2 dwarf component might be responsible for driving the eclipse timing variations (ETVs), it is necessary to monitor the star throughout the predicted ~ 35 yr activity cycle that putatively fuels the observed ETVs. We contribute to this goal with this paper by analysing spectropolarimetric data obtained with ESPaDOnS at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in December 2014 and January 2015. Using Zeeman-Doppler Imaging, we reconstruct the distribution of brightness inhomogeneities and large-scale magnetic field at the surface of the K2 dwarf. Compared to previous tomographic reconstructions of the star carried out with the same code, we probe a new phase of the ETVs cycle, offering new constraints for future works exploring whether a magnetic mechanism operating in the K2 dwarf star is indeed able to induce the observed ETVs of V471 Tau.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Evidence for the alignment of quasar radio polarizations with large quasar group axes
Creators: name: Pelgrims, Vincent
name: Hutsemékers, Damien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, evidence has been presented for the polarization vectors from quasars to preferentially align with the axes of the large quasar groups (LQG) to which they belong. This report was based on observations made at optical wavelengths for two large quasar groups at redshift $\sim 1.3$. The correlation suggests that the spin axes of quasars preferentially align with their surrounding large-scale structure that is assumed to be traced by the LQGs. Here, we consider a large sample of LQGs built from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 quasar catalogue in the redshift range $1.0-1.8$. For quasars embedded in this sample, we collected radio polarization measurements with the goal to study possible correlations between quasar polarization vectors and the major axis of their host LQGs. Assuming the radio polarization vector is perpendicular to the quasar spin axis, we found that the quasar spin axis is preferentially parallel to the LQG major axis inside LQGs that have at least $20$ members. This result independently supports the observations at optical wavelengths. We additionally found that when the richness of an LQG decreases, the quasar spin axis becomes preferentially perpendicular to the LQG major axis and that no correlation is detected for quasar groups with fewer than $10$ members.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, (A&A accepted)
Highly Accelerated Lifetime Testing via Extreme Illumination at Controlled Temperature for Thin Film Solar Cells
Creators: name: Vetter, A.
name: Burlafinger, K.
name: Woiton, M.
name: Brabec, C.J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES
Perovskites, Organic PV and Hybrid Devices

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1080-1082
description: All available solar cells suffer from degradation during their use outdoors. Several accelerated lifetime
tests have been established in order to investigate degradation and to optimize solar cells regarding lifetime. Most
tests focus on degradation due to the environment, e. g. ingress of water or oxygen. Such degradation mechanisms
may be reduced by an improved encapsulation of the cells and / or an optimized cell architecture. With improving
encapsulation and cell architecture, lifetime of the solar cells will become more and more restricted by degradation
due to illumination by the sun. Lifetime tests under one sun are available to test photo-stability but require very long
lasting experiments.
We have designed and built an innovative setup, which allows for testing the photo-stability of solar cells at several
hundreds of suns at controlled temperature. Illumination is realized by a high power Xenon short arc lamp (close to
sun spectrum) and temperature control of the solar cells by an innovative cooling system. We have verified the testing
method with P3HT:PCBM solar cells. Degradation due to photon flux and temperature may be decoupled. It needs to
be pointed out that the presented method is not restricted to a certain solar cell type.
SI Figure 3: from ZooMS confirms geometric morphometrics species identification of ancient sheep and goat
Creators: name: Jeanjean, Marine
name: McGrath, Krista
name: Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
name: Nieto-Espinet, Ariadna
name: Schafberg, Renate
name: Parés-Casanova, Pere Miquel
name: Jiménez-Manchón, Sergio
name: Guintard, Claude
name: Tekkouk, Faiza
name: Ridouh, Rania
name: Mureau, Cyprien
name: Evin, Allowen
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Animal Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Two first axes of the PCA showing variation between modern (dark) and archaeological (light) independently for sheep and goat.
Investigating eclipse timing variations. The case study V471 Tau.
Creators: name: Zaire, B
name: Donati, J-F
name: Klein, B
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: star: V471 Tau
spectropolarimetry
magnetic field

description: Several eclipsing binary systems display periodic eclipse timing variations (ETVs) when considering a linear ephemeris to predict the time of mid-eclipse. It is estimated that around 90 per cent of the post-common-envelope binary systems display ETVs. Observations of the eclipsing binary system V471 Tau show that the time of the primary eclipses varies in an apparent periodic way. There is growing evidence that the magnetically active K2 dwarf component might be responsible for driving the ETVs. The aim of our study is to monitor the star throughout the predicted magnetic activity cycle that putatively fuels the observed ETVs.
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Performance Variations and Recovery Effects in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells during Long Term Exposure to Natural Winter Conditions
Creators: name: Hashmi, S.G.
name: Lund, P.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES
Perovskites, Organic PV and Hybrid Devices

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1101-1110
description: We report here on performance tests of dye sensitized solar cells in cold outdoor conditions with temperatures down to -30 °C. Two different types of DSSCs: traditional thermally platinized counter electrode and carbon composite counter electrode based dye sensitized solar cells were installed on a vertical window in Finland and exposed for a period of about 3 months. Photovoltaic performance (IV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements were performed in regular intervals of the cells. Increase in the cell resistance of the DSSCs with thermally platinized counter electrodes significantly affected the fill factor and reduced the efficiency by 12%. The EIS investigations revealed an increase in charge transfer resistance for thermally platinized counter electrodes whereas the carbon composite counter electrode based DSSC exhibited much stable performance and their overall efficiency was marginally affected.
An analysis of workcare claims in an electronics manufacturing plant
Creators: name: Castle, Charles.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
SI Figure 2: from ZooMS confirms geometric morphometrics species identification of ancient sheep and goat
Creators: name: Jeanjean, Marine
name: McGrath, Krista
name: Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
name: Nieto-Espinet, Ariadna
name: Schafberg, Renate
name: Parés-Casanova, Pere Miquel
name: Jiménez-Manchón, Sergio
name: Guintard, Claude
name: Tekkouk, Faiza
name: Ridouh, Rania
name: Mureau, Cyprien
name: Evin, Allowen
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Animal Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Boxplot showing differences of log centroid size for goat and sheep between archaeological sites and chrono-cultural occupation. Refers table 1 for archaeological sites numbers. N refers to Neolithic ; Br to Bronze Age ; Ir to Iron Age ; Ant to Antiquity ; MA to Middle Ages ; MOD to Modern period ; ACT to modern referential and Out Str to Out of Stratigraphy.
OpenMP Fortran and C programs for solving the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation in an anisotropic trap
Creators: name: Young-S., Luis E.
name: Vudragovic, Dusan
name: Muruganandam, Paulsamy
name: Adhikari, Sadhan K.
name: Balaz, Antun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new version of previously published Fortran and C programs for solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a Bose-Einstein condensate with contact interaction in one, two and three spatial dimensions in imaginary and real time, yielding both stationary and non-stationary solutions. To reduce the execution time on multicore processors, new versions of parallelized programs are developed using Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP) interface. The input in the previous versions of programs was the mathematical quantity nonlinearity for dimensionless form of Gross-Pitaevskii equation, whereas in the present programs the inputs are quantities of experimental interest, such as, number of atoms, scattering length, oscillator length for the trap, etc. New output files for some integrated one- and two-dimensional densities of experimental interest are given. We also present speedup test results for the new programs.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure; to download programs, click other formats and download the source
Performance of 1,8- Diiodooctane (DIO) Doped PTB7:PCBM Based Organic Solar Cell under Simulated Solar Heating Profile over 24 Hours
Creators: name: Augustine, B.
name: Fabritius, T.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES
Perovskites, Organic PV and Hybrid Devices

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1111-1113
description: The effect of varying temperature profile on behavior of low-band gap active polymer material Poly((4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b]dithiophene-2,6-diyl)(3-fluoro-2[(2ethylhexyl)carbonyl]thieno[3,4-b]thiophenediyl)) (PTB7 ) and [6,6]-Phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) based organic solar cell was investigated in this work. Generally annealing is not necessary for this kind of polymer. But in real situation when the cells are exposed to the sun, it gets heated anyway due to prolonged illumination. In this work, the authors have tried to follow a thermal profile close to the heat condition generated on the device due to continuous solar illumination, in order to study the variation in performance due to varying thermal exposure over the whole day. The PTB7:PCBM was doped with 3 vol% 1,8 diiodooctane (DIO) to achieve better possible efficiency for the device and the Power Conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.15 % was attained. The optimized device was exposed to thermal variation by preannealing the active layer with previously mentioned thermal profile over a time span of 24 hours. It was found that, without the thermal exposure, the active layer doped with DIO was almost stable over 24 hrs with only 2.1 % degradation from the initial efficiency value. However, under thermal exposure over the whole day, the efficiency degraded about 23 % from its initial value.
The ABC (in any D) of Logarithmic CFT
Creators: name: Hogervorst, Matthijs
name: Paulos, Miguel
name: Vichi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Logarithmic conformal field theories have a vast range of applications, from critical percolation to systems with quenched disorder. In this paper we thoroughly examine the structure of these theories based on their symmetry properties. Our analysis is model-independent and holds for any spacetime dimension. Our results include a determination of the general form of correlation functions and conformal block decompositions, clearing the path for future bootstrap applications. Several examples are discussed in detail, including logarithmic generalized free fields, holographic models, self-avoiding random walks and critical percolation.
description: 55 pages + appendices
Rapid Optimal SPH Particle Distributions in Spherical Geometries For Creating Astrophysical Initial Conditions
Creators: name: Raskin, Cody
name: Owen, J. Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Creating spherical initial conditions in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations that are spherically conformal is a difficult task. Here, we describe two algorithmic methods for evenly distributing points on surfaces, that when paired can be used to build 3D spherical objects with optimal equipartition of volume between particles, commensurate with an arbitrary, radial density function. We demonstrate the efficacy of our method against stretched lattice arrangements on the metrics of hydrodynamic stability, spherical conformity, and the harmonic power distribution of gravitational settling oscillations. We further demonstrate how our method is highly optimized for simulating multi-material spheres, such as planets with core-mantle boundaries.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, ApJ accepted
Al-Doped ZnO Nanostructured Electrodes for Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells
Creators: name: Wiesner, S.
name: Riedel, W.
name: Greiner, D.
name: Rusu, M.
name: Lux-Steiner, M.C.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES
Perovskites, Organic PV and Hybrid Devices

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1114-1117
description: The effect of Al incorporation into the ITO/i-ZnO seed layer (i-ZnO-SL)/ZnO-nanorods (ZnO-NRs) stack applied as electrode in organic solar cells is investigated. ZnO-NRs were prepared by electrochemical deposition in the presence of an Al-precursor with varied concentrations onto ITO substrates covered with a sputtered intrinsic ZnO seed layer. In a second step, the i-ZnO-SL was replaced by a sputtered ZnO:Al seed layer (ZnO:Al-SL). The effect of Al incorporation into both ZnO(Al)-NRs and ZnO:Al-SLs is tested on solar cells with a C60/ZnPc:C60 active layer stack on top of nanostructures. With increasing the Al-precursor concentration in the electrochemical bath, beside the growth of ZnO-NRs, an additional formation of ZnO(Al)-“nanosheets” is detected. Lower shunt resistances of photovoltaic devices with nanosheets were observed pointing to creation of shunting pathways. Thus, the presence of nanosheets resulted in solar cell devices with reduced PV parameters compared to Al-free prepared ZnO-NRs. In contrast to i-ZnO-SLs, ZnO:Al-SLs clearly improve the device performance demonstrating the potential of the ITO/ZnO:Al-SL/ZnO(Al)-nanostructure stack as highly structured electrode.
A qualitative research study of attitudes and barriers to self initiated screening for genital Chlamydia trachomatis infections using semi structured focus group interviews of target populations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, homosexually active men and young people aged 16 - 25 years
Creators: name: O'Sullivan, Maree.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Mono-top Signature from Supersymmetric $t \bar t H$ Channel
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Dorival
name: Sakurai, Kazuki
name: Takeuchi, Michihisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that a distinctive mono-top signature is present in Natural SUSY scenarios when a scalar top-quark and higgsinos are almost mass degenerate. This signature originates from a supersymmetric counter part of the $t \bar t H$ process, i.e. $pp \to \tilde t t \tilde h$. Unlike mono-jet signatures exploiting initial state radiation, this channel can be regarded as a smoking gun signature of a light stop and higgsinos, allowing a direct probe of the stop and neutralino sectors. The production rate of this channel largely depends on the up-type higgsino components in the neutralinos while the stop sector is sensitive to angular distributions of top-quark's decay products. We develop an optimal search strategy to capture the supersymmetric $t \bar t H$ process and find that a high luminosity LHC can probe the stop and higgsino sectors with $m_{\tilde t_1} \lesssim 380$ GeV and $m_{\tilde t_1} - m_{\tilde χ_1^0} \lesssim m_W$. Additionally, we propose a kinematic variable with which one can measure the stop mixing in this channel.
description: 22 pages, 11 Figures
Accelerated Ageing Test of Organic Photovoltaic Mini-Modules: Study of the Electrical Performances after Exposure at Different Humidity, Irradiance and Temperature Conditions
Creators: name: Bardizza, G.
name: Loi, A.
name: Müllejans, H.
name: Sample, T.
name: Dunlop, E.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES
Perovskites, Organic PV and Hybrid Devices

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1083-1089
description: The stability of organic solar cells must be greatly improved before industrialization. Although in
general the causes of the degradation are clearly identified, the long-term behavior of these devices is still poorly
documented. In this work we study the degradation of innovative organic photovoltaic (OPV) mini-modules produced
by a roll-to-roll technique under different stress conditions. Exposure to different combinations of humidity levels,
temperature and light condition is investigated by means of electrical characterization carried out at the European
Solar Test Installation (ESTI). The degradation of the typical electrical parameters (Isc, Voc, FF, Pmax) is analyzed in
detail over time for the different stress conditions.
Dark matter beams at LBNF
Creators: name: Coloma, Pilar
name: Dobrescu, Bogdan A.
name: Frugiuele, Claudia
name: Harnik, Roni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-intensity neutrino beam facilities may produce a beam of light dark matter when protons strike the target. Searches for such a dark matter beam using its scattering in a nearby detector must overcome the large neutrino background. We characterize the spatial and energy distributions of the dark matter and neutrino beams, focusing on their differences to enhance the sensitivity to dark matter. We find that a dark matter beam produced by a $Z'$ boson in the GeV mass range is both broader and more energetic than the neutrino beam. The reach for dark matter is maximized for a detector sensitive to hard neutral-current scatterings, placed at a sizable angle off the neutrino beam axis. In the case of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF), a detector placed at roughly 6 degrees off axis and at a distance of about 200 m from the target would be sensitive to $Z'$ couplings as low as 0.05. This search can proceed symbiotically with neutrino measurements. We also show that the MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE detectors, which are on Fermilab's Booster beamline, happen to be at an optimal angle from the NuMI beam and could perform searches with existing data. This illustrates potential synergies between LBNF and the short-baseline neutrino program if the detectors are positioned appropriately.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures
Performance Optimization of P3HT:PCBM Solar Cells by Controlling Active Layer Thickness
Creators: name: Kadem, B.
name: Hassan, A.
name: Cranton, W.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES
Perovskites, Organic PV and Hybrid Devices

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1090-1094
description: Optimization of organic solar cells (OSCs) active layer thickness for improved performance has been investigated for P3HT:PCBM hybrid bulk heterojunction OSCs. Active layers in the range 65-266 nm were produced using a conventional device structure (ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:PCBM/Al). UV-visible absorption spectra revealed typical P3HT:PCBM absorption features for all obtained thicknesses. The dark J-V characteristics were employed to determine the charge carrier mobility using space charge limited conduction theory (SCLC) and series resistance of investigated devices were also derived. Series resistance was found to decrease with decreasing active layer thickness reaching lowest value of 33.9 for film thickness of 95nm. Furthermore, charge carrier mobility was found to increase with decreasing thickness of the active layer, with a maximum mobility value of 1.37 ×10-5 cm2V-1s-1 obtained for the 95nm thick films. Measurements of the PV characteristics of the investigated devices have revealed optimum performance when active layer thickness was 95 nm. Power conversion efficiency (PCE) as high as 3.86%, fill factor (FF) of 50%, short circuit current (Jsc) of 12.6 mAcm-2 were achieved for optimum active layer thickness of 95nm. On the other hand open circuit voltage (Voc) remained almost unchanged in range of 0.61-0.62V for all investigated devices. Moreover, device stability was shown to be largely improved for optimum active layer thickness with constancy for more than three months.
Salamander feeding behaviours – a species overview;X-ray recording of aquatic feeding in Triturus carnifex from Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition
Creators: name: Schwarz, Daniel
name: Heiss, Egon
name: Pierson, Todd W.
name: Konow, Nicolai
name: Schoch, Rainer R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: Animal Behaviour
subject: Biological Mathematics

description: General abbreviations and symbols: (?) symbolising uncertainties; (*) symbolising a connection to foods exceeding the oral cavity; (¹) limited functionality; (²) the induced metamorphosis in Ambystoma mexicanum seems to result in a hyobranchial configuration that does not permit pronounced tongue projection; (³) prey dusted with a calcium powder; (AC) arcuate chewing, “simple” chewing using open-close movements of the jaws; (aqua) aquatic, signalling that feeding occurred under aquatic conditions; (DCC) dimensionally complex chewing; (Hydro) hydrodynamic food transport; (Hyo) hyobranchial food transport; (JP) jaw prehension; (PS) prey shaking; (RF) rotational feeding, (SF) suction feeding; (terr) terrestrial, signalling that feeding occurred under terrestrial conditions; (LP) lingual prehension; and (TPR) tongue-palate rasping. Food items: (B) beatle, unspecified; (BlaW) black worm, Lumbriculus variegatus; (BloW) bloodworm, larva of chironomids; (CF) crayfish, freshwater crustaceans from the clade Astacidea; (CR) cockroach, unspecified; (EW) earthworm, unspecified; (F) fish, unspecified; (FF) fruit fly, Drosophila sp.; (HC) house cricket, Acheta domesticus; (IL) insect larva, unspecified; (LS) land slug, unspecified; (M) maggot, larva of Lucilia caesar; (PF) pellet food; (SFL) soldier fly larvae, Hermetia illucens; (SiW) silkworm, larva of Bombyx mori; (SS) sea snail, Acochlidium sp.; (SW) sludge worm, Tubifex sp.; (T) termite, unspecified; (WF) Cladocera, unspecified; (WL) woodlouse, Porcellio sp.; (WW) waxworm, larva from pyralid moths, Pyralidae. Note that a μCT-based determination of the morphotype was only possible in a few species; the majority were assessed based on a combination of external characteristics and descriptions from literature.;Feeding sequence from ingestion to the onset of swallowing. Note the similarity between processing (0:07) and anterior transport (0:19) of food.
Factors that influence spiritual nursing care of Muslim oncology patients in Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Ghazi, Samer Najah.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Molecular Identifification, Antioxidant Effifficacy of Phenolic Compounds, and Antimicrobial Activity of Beta-Carotene Isolated from Fruiting Bodies of Suillus sp
Creators: name: Abdulhadi, Shimal Yonuis
name: Gergees, Raghad Nawaf
name: Hasan, Ghazwan Qasim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Suillus species, in general, are edible mushrooms, and environmentally important that are associated mostly with pine trees in the tropics regions. These fungi considered a remarkable source of phenolic compounds that play a crucial role as antioxidants which may reduce the risk of most human chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, asthma, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer, and others. On the other hand, carotenoids (\b{eta} carotene) are the most popular natural pigments which play an important role to protect the plants from photo-oxidative reactions. In human, these compounds prevent oxidative stress and expects to have antimicrobial activity. Here, the phenolic compounds were extracted with Ethyl acetate from fruiting bodies of Suillus sp and analyzed by HPLC, the antioxidant activity (reducing power%) of phenolic compounds was determined at the concentrations of 1, 2.5, and 5 mg/mL. Antimicrobial activity of \b{eta} carotene pigment was measured at a concentration of 100 mg/mL against some human pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumonia, and Staphylococcus aureus. The specific DNA region ITS was amplified and sequenced using ITS1 and ITS4 primers with some bioinformatics analyses. The phenolic extract isolated from fruiting bodies of Suillus sp showed a remarkable antioxidant activity by increasing the reducing power percent (from F+3 ions to F+2 ions) comparing with the industrial antioxidant (Propyl gallate) at all used concentrations. Percent of reducing power of phenolic compounds were 75.5, 84.9 and 95.7% at concentrations of 1, 2.5, and 5 mg/mL respectively; comparing with PG were 65.9, 81.3, and 93.3 at 1, 2.5, and 5 mg/mL respectively. The \b{eta} carotene pigment revealed a significant antimicrobial activity at a concentration of 100 mg/mL against K. pneumonia, E. coli, and S. aureus.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
Nanostructured Back Mirror for Ultra-Thin CIGS Solar Cell
Creators: name: Goffard, J.
name: Cattoni, A.
name: Mollica, F.
name: Jubault, M.
name: Colin, C.
name: Guillemoles, J.F.
name: Lincot, D.
name: Naghavi, N.
name: Collin, S.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2015
Subjects: THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES
CdTe, CIS and Related Ternary and Quaternary Thin Film Solar Cells and Modules

description: 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1050-1052
description: Large-scale and sustainable development of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin film photovoltaics requires material savings by thickness reduction. We propose to compensate for the low absorption in ultrathin CIGS layers by introducing a novel light trapping strategy based on a nanostructured back mirror. We show numerically that short circuit current densities above 35 mA/cm² can be reached for CIGS absorbers as thin as 200 nm. We have developed a fabrication process based on the transfer of the solar cell on a host glass substrate, and nanoimprint lithography on the back side. We present the first experimental results of CIGS solar cells with nanostructured gold mirror, and demonstrate EQE enhancement due to light trapping effects. We show our latest experimental results and discuss the perspectives of CIGS solar cells with thicknesses in the 200-300nm range with efficiencies above 15%.