In order to help readers stay up-to-date in the field, each issue of Progress Photovoltaics will contain a list recently published journal articles that are most relevant its aims and scope. This is drawn from an extremely wide range journals, including IEEE Journal Photovoltaics, Solar Energy Materials Cells, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Reviews, Applied Physics, Physics Letters. To assist re...

The author investigates Russian federalism and the constitutional underpinnings of the power vertical, looking specifically at the Constitutional Court’s December 2005 case about the appointment of governors. The court’s decision upheld the constitutional notion of a “unified system of executive power” as the primary legal justification for the power vertical. However, not all of the justices a...

Mass mobilization (MM) is an important driver of political change. While some citizens organize in favor more democratic institutions, others take to the streets support authoritarian status quo. This article introduces measures pro-democratic and pro-autocratic MM using expert assessments for 179 polities from 1900–2021. The data allow us trace patterns over time, across regions regime types. ...

The trace assertion method is a formal state machine based method for specifying module A module interface speciication treats the module as a black-box, identifying all module's access programs (i.e. programs that can be invoked from outside of the module), and describing their externally visible eeects. A formal model for the trace assertion method is proposed. The concept of step-traces is i...

0340-7594:82:014910179 803.00 Summary. 1. The common response properties to simple visual stimuli (light impulses, light steps, and movement of simple patterns at different speeds) has been investigated by intracellular recording from Giant Vertical Cells (VS) in the lobula plate of the blowfly Calliphora erythtroccephala. 2. The impulse response begins < 10 ms after onset of the photoreceptor ...

Previous studies of achievement motivations have focused on the patterns of self-attribution with little consideration of the effects of achievement goals. In the present study, the authors investigated Taiwanese students’ self-attribution for achievement goals mainly on the basis of autonomous interest (i.e., personal goals) and on social expectation (i.e., vertical goals). The authors adminis...

This is a remarkable volume. Winner of the Lakatos award, given biennially for the book in the philosophy of science most highly regarded by an international committee, it is also crammed with formulas that will be of practical importance, as well as of interest, to epidemiologists, lawyers, economists, and other down-to-earth folk. This is not to say that it will be easy to read, for anyone, o...

Lines of baboons with high and low blood pressure were developed by selective breeding. Blood pressure was measured in 456 adult feral baboons under ketamine immobilization by direct arterial cannulation. Males with blood pressures two standard deviations and females with blood pressures one standard deviation above and below the cumulative mean were selected as progenitors. High males were mat...

The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) questionnaire is a brief measure available in Spanish which needs to be validated for the Mexican population. Parents of children from (1) community with typical development (TD) and (2) psychiatric outpatient unit completed the CBCL/1.5-5 and the Mexican/MM-CHAT-version. The study sample consisted of 456 children (age M = 4.46, SD = 1.12),...