The magnesium–sulfur (Mg-S) battery may be a safer alternative for the lithium-sulfur because Mg plating usually proceeds without dendrite formation. Here, we correlate thermal runaway of Mg-S with associated change electrolyte vapour pressure via testing calorimetry. Over-pressure builds up along programmed heating cell, and as result, is triggered at 20–45 K over boiling point, corresponding ...

Data quality assessment is a key factor in data-intensive domains. The data deluge is aggravated by an increasing need for interoperability and cooperation across groups and organizations. New alternatives must be found to select the data that best satisfy users’ needs in a given context. This paper presents a strategy to provide information to support the evaluation of the quality of data sets...

'The economic statistics that the government issues every week should come with a warning sticker: User beware. In the midst of the greatest information explosion in history, the government is pumping out a stream of statistics that are nothing but myths and misinformation.' Michael J. Mandel, "The Real Truth about the Economy: Are Government Statistics so much Pulp Fiction? Take a Look," Busin...

This paper examines the paperclip apocalypse concern for artificial general intelligence. This arises when a superintelligent AI with a simple goal (ie., producing paperclips) accumulates power so that all resources are devoted towards that goal and are unavailable for any other use. Conditions are provided under which a paper apocalypse can arise but the model also shows that, under certain ar...

In the age of information explosion, e-learning recommender systems (ELRSs) have emerged as the most essential tool to deliver personalized learning resources to learners. Due to enormous amount of information on the web, learner faces problem in searching right information. ELRSs deal with the problem of information overload effectively and provide recommendations by taking into consideration ...

The information explosion that has taken place over the past two decades has fundamentally changed the ways that companies do business. Today’s markets are driven more and more by information than by physical goods. Companies that cannot collect data and transform it into information are likely to experience difficulty competing in the near future (if they are not finding it difficult already)....

Traditional approaches to security evaluation have been based on penetration testing of real systems, or analysis of formal models of such systems. The former suffer from the problem that the security metrics are based on only a few of the possible paths through the system. The latter suffer from the inability to analyze detailed system descriptions due to the rapid explosion of state space siz...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common injury type among Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) veterans, and headaches are a frequent consequence of TBI. We examined the hypothesis that among veterans who reported mild TBI caused by exposure to an explosion during deployment in OIF/OEF, those with residual neurocognitive deficits would have a higher frequency of headach...

Previously, we proposed a reduction technique ID93] based on symmetries to alleviate the state explosion problem in automatic veriication of concurrent systems. This paper describes the results of testing the technique on a wide range of algorithms and protocols, including realistic multiprocessor synchronization algorithms and cache coherence protocols. Memory requirements were reduced by amou...

Molecular diagnostics, including DNAand RNA-based testing and genomics, play an increasingly important role in diagnosis and monitoring of patients. The tremendous explosion of knowledge about the molecular pathogenesis of both benign and neoplastic hematologic conditions over the last 20 years has now been translated into routine laboratory assays of high complexity. Such clinical molecular di...