Photovoltaic modules have developed into mass products sold in billions and applied all over the world enabling a renewable energy supply. Reliability and sustainability are key factors for the success of Photovoltaics in all climate zones. The second edition of this interdisciplinary book provides insight into relevant environmental aspects (climates), material and module testing equipment and approaches, service life prediction modelling and standardisation of wafer-based photovoltaic modules. The book also addresses recent research and developments on the sustainability assessment of photovoltaic modules including end of life measures and legislation.

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The Internet based encyclopedia Wikipedia is a potentially very useful source of information but intuitively it is difficult to have confidence in the quality of an encyclopedia that anyone can modify. For an encyclopedia, one aspect of correctness is the writing style and especially for Wikipedia an inconsistent writing style would give a bad impression. If errors that can be detected by any native speaker of a language go uncorrected, how likely is it that errors that only a subject expert can spot will be corrected? Japanese is a language where honorifics processes are very explicit, involving different forms between which language users in some cases need to choose every time a sentence is uttered or written. Some forms are sufficiently easy to identify in a sentence for it to be feasible to perform this operation with a computer. By using this approach on the Japanese Wikipedia it is possible to determine whether the writing style of articles is consistent and correct. This book describes a project that undertook this task for all the Japanese encyclopedia articles.

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After many years of reluctance, major content owners finally appear to have embraced the Internet. There are now several legal download services available on the Internet, but downloading incurs a delay for the user. Streaming reduces this delay, but creating a scalable interactive Video-on-Demand streaming service is neither trivial nor cheap, creating high barriers to entry. In this book, we address the problem of designing and implementing a scalable system for Internet based interactive multimedia streaming, and present the Streaming P2P Protocol (SPP) architecture, a system for low-cost interactive Video-on-Demand services. Using a combination of content distribution networks and Peer-to-Peer networking techniques, the SPP architecture achieves the benefits of a content distribution network without the costs being carried by a single entity. Fully deployed, the infrastructure of the SPP architecture is not owned by a single entity but a result of actions beneficial for all parties. Content providers can distribute content at low cost, users have greater access to more content, and network owners can control and reduce traffic.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Landreise Nach Den Kusten Des Nord-Polar-Meeres In Den Jahren 1833 - 1835: Von Capitain Georg Back. Dt. Von Karl Andre George Back, Karl Andre Carl B. Lorck, 1845 History; Canada; General; History / Canada / General; History / Polar Regions

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.