Dietary fat plays an important role in higher brain functions. We aimed to assess the short and long term intake of three different types of dietary fat (soybean oil, lard, and fish oil) on anxiety-like and depression-like behavior in mice. For the short term intake assessment, a behavioral test battery for anxiety and depression was carried out for a 3-day feeding period. For the long term int...

We assess the economic value of life-cycle air emissions and oil consumption from conventional vehicles, hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles (PHEVs), and battery electric vehicles in the US. We find that plug-in vehicles may reduce or increase externality costs relative to grid-independent HEVs, depending largely on greenhouse gas and SO(2) emissions produced durin...

The wireless sensor node, being a micro electronic device, can only be equipped with a limited power source ( < 0.5 Ahm 1.2 V). In some application scenarios (which is like military area), replenishment of power resources might be impossible. Sensor node lifetime, therefore, shows a strong dependence on battery lifetime. An adversary may compromise some sensor nodes and use them to inject false...

As innovation quickly increments, different detecting and versatility capacities have turned out to be promptly accessible to gadgets and thus portable specially appointed systems (MANETs) are being conveyed to play out various imperative errands. In MANET, control mindful is imperative test issue to enhance the correspondence vitality effectiveness at individual hubs. The proposed effective Po...

A novel recycling process of the conductive agent in spent lithium iron phosphate batteries is demonstrated. Wet chemistry applied recovering and phosphate, filter residue calcined with a small amount recovered N2 at 900 °C to form FeNP-codoped carbon catalyst, which exhibits low half-wave potential excellent durability for oxygen reduction. When rechargeable Zn–air battery, power density can...

With more and more battery-operated devices equiped with sensors, it is becoming increasingly relevant to focus not only on energy efficiency, but also on ensuring that the available energy is not spent before the battery will be recharged. In this thesis a strategy for adaptive sampling is proposed that adapts the sample rate while respecting a predefined limit on the number of samples per dis...

BACKGROUND Most water access studies involve self-reported measures such as time spent or simple spatial measures such as Euclidean distance from home to source. GPS-based measures of access are often considered actual access and have shown little correlation with self-reported measures. One main obstacle to widespread use of GPS-based measurement of access to water has been technological limit...