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The development of a resource-efficient photovoltaic system
This paper presents the measures taken in the demonstration of the photovoltaic case study developed within the European project ‘Towards zero waste in industrial networks’ (Zerowin), integrating the D4R (Design for recycling, repair, refurbishment and reuse) criteria at both system and industrial network level. The demonstration is divided into three phases. The first phase concerns the development of a D4R photovoltaic concept, the second phase focused on the development of a specific component of photovoltaic systems and the third phase was the demonstration of the D4R design in two complete photovoltaic systems (grid-connected and stand-alone). This paper includes a description of the installed photovoltaic systems, including a brief summary at component level of the lithium ion battery system and the D4R power conditioning system developed for the pilot installations. Additionally, industrial symbioses within the network associated with the photovoltaic systems and the production model for the network are described
Double Sivers effect asymmetries and their impact on transversity measurements at RHIC
We study double transverse spin asymmetries in the Drell-Yan process at
measured transverse momentum of the lepton pair. Contrary to what a collinear
factorization approach would suggest, a nonzero double transverse spin
asymmetry in the laboratory frame a priori does not imply nonzero transversity.
TMD effects, such as the double Sivers effect, in principle form a background.
Using the current knowledge of the relevant TMDs we estimate their contribution
in the laboratory frame for Drell-Yan and W production at RHIC and point out a
cross check asymmetry measurement to bound the TMD contributions. We also
comment on the transverse momentum integrated asymmetries that only receive
power suppressed background contributions.Comment: 12 pages, 11 eps figures, minor changes, matches the published
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A note on the abelian sandpile in Z^d
We analyse the abelian sandpile model on \mathbbm{Z}^d for the starting
configuration of particles in the origin and particles otherwise. We
give a new short proof of the theorem of Fey, Levine and Peres \cite{FLP} that
the radius of the toppled cluster of this configuration is
Trajectory Deflection of Spinning Magnetic Microparticles, the Magnus Effect at the Microscale
The deflection due to the Magnus force of magnetic particles with a diameter
of 80 micrometer dropping through fluids and rotating in a magnetic field was
measured. With Reynolds number for this experiment around 1, we found
trajectory deflections of the order of 1 degree, in agreement within
measurement error with theory. This method holds promise for the sorting and
analysis of the distribution in magnetic moment and particle diameter of
suspensions of microparticles, such as applied in catalysis, or objects loaded
with magnetic particles.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures. Appendix with 6 figure
Driving sandpiles to criticality and beyond
A popular theory of self-organized criticality relates driven dissipative
systems to systems with conservation. This theory predicts that the stationary
density of the abelian sandpile model equals the threshold density of the
fixed-energy sandpile. We refute this prediction for a wide variety of
underlying graphs, including the square grid. Driven dissipative sandpiles
continue to evolve even after reaching criticality. This result casts doubt on
the validity of using fixed-energy sandpiles to explore the critical behavior
of the abelian sandpile model at stationarity.Comment: v4 adds referenc
Universal and language-specific predictors of early word reading in a foreign language:An analysis of the skills that underlie reading acquisition in three different orthographies
A central question in the field of foreign language acquisition is whether the processes involved in reading development in a foreign language are universal or dependent on characteristics of the specific language involved. We investigated the impact of orthographic depth and writing system on word reading acquisition in a foreign orthography, by studying children who are proficient readers in the transparent alphabetic Dutch orthography and who learn to read simultaneously in the transparent alphabetic Spanish orthography, the nontransparent alphabetic French orthography and the nonalphabetic Chinese orthography. Results showed that the skills that underlie foreign language word reading are not universal, but are different for alphabetic and nonalphabetic orthographies, and are also different for transparent and nontransparent alphabetic orthographies, albeit to a lesser extent. Word reading acquisition in transparent alphabetic Spanish depended mainly on reading skills in the native language. In contrast, in nontransparent alphabetic French and nonalphabetic Chinese, word reading was mainly influenced by cognitive skills: French word reading by phonological awareness and verbal intelligence, and Chinese word reading by verbal and nonverbal intelligence. Findings thus suggest that the processes underlying foreign language word reading acquisition are not universal but rather depend on the specific language involved
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