A new type of battery known as metal-ion batteries promises better performance than existing batteries. In terms energy storage, they could prove useful and eliminate some the problems face. This review aims to help academics industry work together better. It will propose ways measure using important factors such capacity, convertibility, Coulombic efficiency, electrolyte consumption. With deve...

T he Argentine experiment with convertibility ended in collapse. There is no shortage of after-the-fact explanations of what went wrong, but the search for lessons presupposes that by studying the experience, analysts can gain some knowledge that was not available beforehand. Any analysis of a case like that of Argentina must address the issue of how and why agents behaved in such a way that pr...

Recently, Chung et al. (2009) proposed a novel and valuable threshold authenticated encryption scheme. Unfortunately, it has a potential weakness: if the secret message involves criminal evidence or illegal content, the designated receiver cannot authenticate the secret message in the later dispute. The authors of this paper aim at enhancing Chung et al.’s scheme by adding the convertibility ca...

Ishak (modified Knodell score) and METAVIR scores are the most widely accepted scoring systems for assessment of fibrosis and necroinflammation in dealing with chronic hepatitis C. In METAVIR, only interface hepatitis and lobular necrosis determine the grade of activity, while in Ishak, portal infiltrate and confluent necrosis are included with the two previous parameters. Confluent necrosis is...

GENETIC systems controlling homothallism uersus heterothallism in Saccharomyces yeasts have been reported by several authors ( WINGE and ROBERTS 1949; TAKAHASHI 1958; HERMAN and ROMAN 1966; TAKANO and OSHIMA 1967). Allelism tests indicated that all the homothallism gene systems in S. cereuisiae and its related species are the same (TAKANO and OSHIMA 1970a). The controlling system in these strai...

We consider the rewrite system Rμ with μx.M →μ M[x := μx.M] as its single rewrite rule, where the signature consists of the variable binding operator commonly denoted by μ, first-order symbols, which in this paper are restricted to a binary function symbol F, and possibly some constant symbols. This kernel system denoting recursively defined objects occurs in several contexts, e.g. it is the fr...

This paper analyzes corporate bond valuation of a straight bond, and the convertibility feature, when interest rates are stochastic and the firm value is determined by the interaction of a series of stochastic variables. The sensitivity of the corporate debt value to some key parameters is also explored. The methodology applied here is based on a hybrid of simulation and dynamic programming pro...