Anode materials with high specifi c capacity and rate capability are one of the key components of such batteries. Traditional carbon-based anode materials exhibit acceptable overall performance with respect to the energy/power requirements of existing portable electronic devices, but have a relatively low specifi c capacity, poor Li + insertion/extraction kinetics, and documented safety issues....

This book consists of 14 chapters covering important aspects in regards to various terrestrial ecosystems, wetlands, river systems, mine site rehabilitation, marsh ecology and heavy metals pollution. Also aims to fill some of the information gaps in ecological restoration, particularly in under-researched ecosystems around the world. Restoration ecology emerged as a separate field in ecology in...

Blood transfusion centers are under considerable pressure to produce platelet concentrates with a shelf life limit of 3 to 5 days. Many approaches have been investigated experimentally to produce new hemostatically active platelet products that are capable of long term storage. In this article infusible platelet membrane will be explained as a platelet substitute versus conventional liquid-stor...

Sustainable socio-economic development largely depends on the sustainability of energy supply from economic, environmental, and public health perspectives. Fossil fuel combustion only meets first element this equation is hence rendered unsustainable. Biofuels are advantageous a perspective, but their environmental economic might be questioned considering conflicts surrounding feedstocks, includ...

The article reflects on open access as a strategy of changing the quality of science communication globally. Successful examples of open-access journals are presented to highlight implications of archiving in open digital repositories for the quality and citability of research output. Advantages and downsides of gold, green, and hybrid models of open access operating in diverse scientific envir...

We create a transition-based dependency parser using a general purpose learning to search system. The result is a fast and accurate parser for many languages. Compared to other transition-based dependency parsing approaches, our parser provides similar statistical and computational performance with best-known approaches while avoiding various downsides including randomization, extra feature req...

We live in an amazing time. Advances in medicine and technology have given doctors the power to save lives that would almost certainly have been lost in the past. But such advances in life-saving techniques have their downsides as well. As numerous courts have recognized, doctors now have the power to preserve life—or at least the physiological attributes of life—past the point at which many of...

Despite the extensive body of evidence about the health benefits and cost-savings of contraception coverage, women's health care advocates are bracing themselves for the possibility that contraceptive care will lose the political debate as a no cost-sharing preventive service under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As a second alternative to no cost-sharing, the Health Resources and Services Admin...

The case, based on actual experience, describes a nightmare of customer “service” interactions confronted when a Business School professor relocated from one state to another. The bulk of the case focuses on a several week’s long attempt to acquire broadband DSL service from a local phone company, MightyFone. Students are provided with a rich understanding of some of the downsides of reengineer...

Closure-based mining on purely relational data, that is, itemset mining, is, by now, well-established, and there are interesting algorithmic developments. Sharing some of the attractive features of frequency-based summarization of subsets, it offers an alternative view with both downsides and advantages; among the latter, there are the facts that, first, by imposing closure, the number of frequ...