Rethinking CIGS solar cells for rear illumination applications by Léo Choubrac, Fabien Pineau, Eugène Bertin, Ludovic Arzel, Nicolas Barreau

“…Matching the performance of traditional front-illuminated designs, this configuration paves the way for further photoelectrochemical advances thanks to its metallic top layer, which can serve as a versatile grafting platform that is resistant to their operating conditions.…”
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Finite volume schemes and Lax–Wendroff consistency by Eymard, Robert, Gallouët, Thierry, Herbin, Raphaele, Latché, Jean-Claude

“…We then state a Lax–Wendroff consistency result for convection operators on staggered grids (often used in fluid flow simulations), which illustrates a recent generalization of the flux consistency notion designed to cope with general discrete functions.…”
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Research and Application of Heat Treatment Process with 20Cr13 Martensitic Stainless Steel Material for Chain by Zhang Jiancong, Wang Lili, Huang Jia

“…The practice shows that,according to the results of the above scheme,the design of the chain meets the requirements of corrosion resistance,wear resistance and higher strength.…”
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Ruthenium Sensitizers and Their Applications in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Yuancheng Qin, Qiang Peng

“…This review focuses on recent advances in design and preparation of efficient ruthenium sensitizers and their applications in DSSCs, including thiocyanate ruthenium sensitizers and thiocyanate-free ruthenium sensitizers.…”
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DEVELOPMENT IN RESEARCH ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTY OF ADHESIVE JOINTS by WANG YuQi, HE XiaoCong, ZENG Kai

“…The need to design lightweight structures and the increased use of lightweight materials in industrial field,has led to wide use of adhesive bonding. …”
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Failure Analysis of the Third Stage Gear of the Wind Turbine Growth Gearbox by Wang Fugang, Cheng Linzhi, Yang yang, Geng Xichun, Su Fengyu, Tong Shiwei, Zhuo Ran

“…The reason of the failure of the three-stage gear is analyzed from the operational,design,material,manufacturing and assembly factors. …”
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Anonymous authentication scheme based on one-off public key in pervasive computing environments by Chang-yuan LUO, Shi-wei HUO, Hong-zhi XING

“…A signature scheme with the one-off public key was proposed based on identity-based cryptography,which had less calculating and communicating expense compared with available schemes.An anonymous authentication scheme was designed based on the proposed signature scheme.When users committed,service provider together with the trusted center could reveal the malicious user's identity.The proposed scheme can realize strong anonymity and prevent the user committing.…”
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Basic Repairs and Maintenance for Home Landscape Irrigation Systems by Mary S. McCready, Michael D. Dukes, Kati Migliaccio

“…Dukes, and Kati Migliaccio, instructs homeowners in how to detect and repair some basic problems of automatic irrigation systems — clogged sprinklers, sprinkler and valve leaks, obstructed sprinklers, overspray, missing nozzles, and design problems. Published by the UF Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, September 2009. …”
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Hardware Implementation and Control Strategy of Videoconference System Based on Rec. H.261 by 阎安, 姚晓靖, 刘万春, 石守义, 余松煜

“…The design and realization of a videoconference system based on international recommendations are introduced in this paper,whereas hardware implementation of video codec based on ITU-T H. 261 are briefly discussed, the transmission buffer control method and the adaptive quantization strategy are proposed.This system can be operated under the transmission rate from 128kb/s to 2Mb/s with system delay of about half a second and high subjective image quality.…”
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South Florida ornamental plant grower perspectives: water conservation management practices by Kati W. Migliaccio, Edward Evans, Jonathan H. Crane, Bruce Schaffer, Yuncong Li, Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

“…Crane, Bruce Schaffer, Yuncong Li, and Rafael Muñoz -Carpena, presents the results of a survey designed to assess changing views of ornamental plant producers in Miami-Dade County regarding water quantity and quality management practices. …”
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Optimal Research and Numerical Simulation for Scheduling No-Wait Flow Shop in Steel Production by Huawei Yuan, Yuanwei Jing, Jinping Huang, Tao Ren

“…To further evaluate the performance of the algorithm, a new lower bound with performance guarantee is designed. At the end of the paper, numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and lower bound.…”
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Robust nonlinear isolators based on frozen mode exceptional point degeneracies by Serena Landers, William Tuxbury, Ilya Vitebskiy, Tsampikos Kottos

“…We introduce a class of imperfection-protected nonlinear isolators designed to operate at exceptional point degeneracies (EPDs) of the Bloch modes of periodic photonic structures. …”
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Placing Technology by Yuk Hui, Samuel Koh, Dulmini Perera

“… In this interview, the editors met with Professor Yuk Hui, the originator of the notion of cosmotechnics, to discuss the implications of cosmotechnical thinking for architecture, urbanism and design. While Hui's work contains strong implications for architecture and spatial disciplines, he has rarely addressed them directly. …”
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Increase in environmental safety of system of current collecting of electric elevated transport by K. S. Markelova, O. A. Sidorov, V. M. Philippov

“…The description is given of the best designs current of collectors with excellent environmental specifications.…”
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Experimental study for determining parameters of pulse conducting electromagnetic interference in vehicle’s onboard network KAMAZ 5350 by K. V. Khatsevskiy, A. A. Sidorenko, V. E. Belyakov, S. V. Roslov

“…The widespread introduction of high-tech electronic products designed to work on military vehicles establishes the need to strictly meet the requirements for their electromagnetic compatibility for conductive interference in on-board networks. …”
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New Switching System of Railway Division Communication by Xu Di and Zhao Jianren

“…The system analysis of the railway division communication is introduced, the new system structure and the signalling form are suggested, the programme modules and data modules of designing soffware are showed in the paper. The system soffware is run in simulant operation by the computer, that system being realizable is proofed.…”
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Variété inclusive et vérité morphologique : petite typologie des noms communs de personne abrégés by Daniel Elmiger

“…Several issues related to abbreviated common nouns are thematized and exemplified, in particular with the help of the designation « collaborateur(s) / collaboratrice(s) », which presents several morphological particularities. …”
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Filter Protection of Consumers’ Electrical Installations by M. I. Polouyanov, E. S. Schastnaya

“…The paper reveals that protective devices designed on the basis of current filters of symmetric components efficiently improve protection of consumers’ electrical installations and increase their operational safety.…”
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Structural Analysis and Load Calculation of CRH380 High-speed Rail Gearbox based on Finite Element by Liu Jie, Liu Shijun, Guo Biao, Guo Jinjin

“…A basis for the structure design and optimization of high- speed rail gearbox is provided through the research work.…”
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South Florida Tropical Fruit Grower Perspectives: Water Conservation Management Practices by Kati W. Migliaccio, Jonathan H. Crane, Edward Evans, Bruce Schaffer, Yuncong Li, Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

“…Crane, Edward Evans, Bruce Schaffer, Yuncong Li, and Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, presents the results of a survey designed to assess changing views of tropical fruit producers in Miami-Dade County regarding water quantity and quality management practices. …”
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