Abstract. The demand for lithium (Li) resources is soaring due to the widespread production (or consumption) of electronic products such as mobile and devices, laptops, tablets, home-appliances goods in accommodating current global lifestyle). other lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) applications include electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, toys. increasing Li, while driving economic progr...

Foraging in stopover areas influences nutritional condition of birds during spring migration. Our purpose was to determine if body mass, percent carcass water, and serum biochemistry would predict energy reserves (carcass fat and protein) in northern pintails (Anas acuta) at a spring staging area, Lake St. Pierre in Québec, Canada (46 degrees 11 'N, 73 degrees 08 'W). Northern pintails were col...

abstract t his paper explains bilateral trade patterns between south korea and thirteen opec member countries over the period 1980-2014 using a gravity model. the estimation results show that the gravity equation fits the data reasonably well. we confirmed the existence of long term relationships between the bilateral trade flows and the main components of gravity model - gdp, income (gdp per c...

the caspian sea region, because of the proximity of two permanent powers - russia and iran- and the emergence of newly independent republics, is one of the most dynamic places in the world. in addition, the continuity of interests of other global actors, including the united states and europe, with the coastal countries has added to the complexity and dynamics. in this regard, the region energy...

It is generally believed that resource holding potential reliably reflects male quality, but empirical evidence showing this is scarce. Here we show that the outcome of male-male competition may predict male immunocompetence in the territorial damselfly, Calopteryx virgo (Odonata: Calopterygidae). We staged contests between 27 pairs of males and found that winners of the contests showed higher ...

Natural energy reserves like petrol and diesel etc are depleting as such it is of paramount importance to find alternative fuels. Solar energy is traped as biomass in plants. Biomass provide an excellent reserve for traping solar energy on field. Complex enzymatic machinery comprising of hydrolytic reactions and consolidated bioprocessing is needed to make viable bioenergy mostly biofuels like ...

Reliable and efficient operation of deregulated electricity markets requires supply and demand elasticity. This paper presents incentive control of spinning reserves in electricity multi-markets using game theory. Interruptible load contracts (ILC) could reduce the amount of spinning reserve requirements during system contingencies such as transmission congestion. It is shown that the power uti...

VAST 2013 Mini-Challenge 1 was a rolling competition in which participants would submit a set of weekly predictions for movie revenue and viewer rating. This was a closed world contest in which contestants were provided with a set of Twitter indices, bitly links, and access to the Internet Movie Database. In order to facilitate these predictions, we have created a web-deployable system that com...

The supply and the management of the energy are particularly at the centre of our daily concerns and represent a socio-economic priority. Indeed, while cars use fossil fuel as the main source of energy for over a century, the depletion of the oil reserves and the necessity to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions, stimulate the development of electric vehicles. Therefore, one of the main challeng...