Rich, diverse cybersecurity data are critical for efforts by the intelligence and security informatics (ISI) community. Although open-access data repositories (OADRs) provide tremendous benefits for ISI researchers and practitioners, determinants of their adoption remain understudied. Drawing on affordance theory and extant ISI literature, this study proposes a factor model to explain how the essential and unique affordances of an OADR (i.e., relevance, accessibility, and integration) affect individual professionals' intentions to use and collaborate with AZSecure, a major OADR. A survey study designed to test the model and hypotheses reveals that the effects of affordances on ISI professionals' intentions to use and collaborate are mediated by perceived usefulness and ease of use, which then jointly determine their perceived value. This study advances ISI research by specifying three important affordances of OADRs; it also contributes to extant technology adoption literature by scrutinizing and affirming the interplay of essential user acceptance and value perceptions to explain ISI professionals' adoptions of OADRs.

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Bifacial photovoltaic (bPV) technology can output more power than conventional mono-facial PV (mPV) technology by absorbing sunlight from both sides, which attracts increasing attention and its market share is predicted from 15% in 2019 to 70% in 2030. However, there are still no unified plans on what type of the mPV modules should be taken as reference. Therefore, in this study, the similar structure (double glass) of bPV and mPV modules are employed not only validate the previous numerical simulation results, but also to estimate the bPV performance. Furthermore, the daily bPV and mPV electrical and thermal performance is measured and compared under the same conditions. Results show that the bPV modules obviously outperform the mPV modules, and the average bifacial gain can be up to 17.33%. At the same time, the bPV module is cooler than the mPV due to the absence of the back surface field. In addition, some important factors on the bPV performance are discussed by simulation. Results indicates that it is better to install a bPV module with high albedo, elevation, tracking technology at an optimum tilt angle to obtain high power output.