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The Critical Role of Public Charging Infrastructure
Editors: Peter Fox-Penner, PhD, Z. Justin Ren, PhD, David O. JermainA decade after the launch of the contemporary global electric vehicle (EV) market, most cities face a major challenge preparing for rising EV demand. Some cities, and the leaders who shape them, are meeting and even leading demand for EV infrastructure. This book aggregates deep, groundbreaking research in the areas of urban EV deployment for city managers, private developers, urban planners, and utilities who want to understand and lead change
An overview of recent developments in the analytical detection of new psychoactive substances (NPSs)
New psychoactive substances (NPSs), sometimes referred to as âlegal highsâ in more colloquial environments/
the media, are a class of compounds that have been recently made available for abuse (not
necessarily recently discovered) which provide similar effects to the traditional well studied illegal drugs
but are not always controlled under existing local, regional or international drug legislation. Following an
unprecedented increase in the number of NPSs in the last 5 years (with 101 substances discovered for the
first time in 2014 alone) its, occasionally fatal, consequences have been extensively reported in the media.
Such NPSs are typically marketed as ânot for human consumptionâ and are instead labelled and sold as
plant food, bath salts as well as a whole host of other equally nondescript aliases in order to bypass legislative
controls. NPSs are a new multi-disciplinary research field with the main emphasis in terms of forensic
identification due to their adverse health effects, which can range from minimal to life threatening and
even fatalities. In this mini-review we overview this recent emerging research area of NPSs and the
analytical approaches reported to provide detection strategies as well as detailing recent reports towards
providing point-of-care/in-the-field NPS (âlegal highâ) sensors