Investigation of the Effect of Physical and Optical Factors on the Optical Performance of a Parabolic Trough Collector

The overall thermal performance of a Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) depends on read more its optical performance, particularly the uniformity of the irradiance distribution and the resultant optical efficiency of the collector.Local Concentration Ratio (LCR), optical efficiency and average light concentration are three fundamental parameters of t

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Adhesive Bonding of an Aluminum Alloy with and without an Oxide Layer in Atmospheres with Different Oxygen Contents

Aluminum surfaces in a normal atmosphere are always coated with a native oxide layer.To prevent a new layer from forming after this oxide layer usc trojans snapback hat has been removed, an environment without oxygen must be created.This work uses a new method of doping an inert gas atmosphere with highly reactive silane to ensure technical freedom

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Enhancing reinforcement learning models by including direct and indirect pathways improves performance on striatal dependent tasks.

A major advance in understanding learning behavior stems from experiments showing that reward learning requires dopamine inputs to striatal neurons and arises from synaptic plasticity of cortico-striatal synapses.Numerous reinforcement learning models mimic this dopamine-dependent synaptic plasticity by using the reward prediction error, which rese

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