Buried-Anode Technology Leads to Advanced Lithium Batteries

A technology developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has sparked a start-up company that has attracted funding from the Advanced Projects Research Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Planar Energy, Inc. has licensed NREL\u27s buried-anode technology and put it to work in solid-state lithium batteries. The company claims its large-format batteries can achieve triple the performance of today\u27s lithium-ion batteries at half the cost, and if so, they could provide a significant boost to the emerging market for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles

Evaluation of the Microbiological Quality of Water for Consumption at the Ocean Sky Garment Manufacturing Facilities

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.  Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_Water_Testing_Ocean_Sky.pdf: 190 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Stable transport in proton driven Fast Ignition

Proton beam transport in the context of proton driven Fast Ignition is usually assumed to be stable due to protons high inertia, but an analytical analysis of the process is still lacking. The stability of a charge and current neutralized proton beam passing through a plasma is therefore conducted here, for typical proton driven Fast Ignition parameters. In the cold regime, two fast growing Buneman-like modes are found, with an inverse growth-rate much smaller than the beam time-of-flight to the target core. The stability issue is thus not so obvious, and Kinetic effects are investigated. One unstable mode is found stabilized by the background plasma protons and electrons temperatures. The second mode is also damped, providing the proton beam thermal spread is larger than $\sim$ 10 keV. In Fusion conditions, the beam propagation should therefore be stable.Comment: Submitted to Po

Threshold Resummation in Momentum Space from Effective Field Theory

Methods from soft-collinear effective theory are used to perform the threshold resummation of Sudakov logarithms for the deep-inelastic structure function F_2(x,Q^2) in the endpoint region x->1 directly in momentum space. An explicit all-order formula is derived, which expresses the short-distance coefficient function C in the convolution F_2=C*phi_q in terms of Wilson coefficients and anomalous dimensions defined in the effective theory. Contributions associated with the physical scales Q^2 and Q^2(1-x) are separated from non-perturbative hadronic physics in a transparent way. A crucial ingredient to the momentum-space resummation is the exact solution to the integro-differential evolution equation of the jet function, which is derived. The methods developed in this Letter can be applied to many other hard QCD processes.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. Version to appear in PR

Public Perceptions of the Midwest’s Pavements - Minnesota - Phase III (Targeted Survey Report)

This research is being conducted as part of a larger study of the public’s perceptions of state-maintained rural highway pavements in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Later stages of this project will involve interviewing residents of the three states by telephone to gather information about people’s concerns about the pavements in general and specific stretches of highways in particular. Information from this effort is expected to aid the states’ Departments of Transportation refine the standards used to set pavement reconstruction priorities to better meet the needs of residents

Public Perceptions of the Midwest’s Pavements - Wisconsin - Phase I (Focus Group)

This research is being conducted as part of a larger study of the public\u27s perceptions of state-maintained rural highway pavements in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Later stages of this project will involve interview;ing residents of the three states by telephone to gather information about people\u27s concerns about the pavements in general and specific stretches of highways in particular. Information from this effort is expected to aid the states\u27 Departments of Transportation refine the standards used to set pavement reconstruction priorities to better meet the needs of residents

Public Perceptions of the Midwest’s Pavements - Minnesota - Phase I (focus group)

This research is being conducted as part of a larger study of the public’s perceptions of state-maintained rural highway pavements in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Later stages of this project will involve interviewing residents of the three states by telephone to gather information about people’s concerns about the pavements in general and specific stretches of highways in particular. Information from this effort is expected to aid the states’ Departments of Transportation refine the standards used to set pavement reconstruction priorities to better meet the needs of residents

Quantum Theory of Probability and Decisions

The probabilistic predictions of quantum theory are conventionally obtained from a special probabilistic axiom. But that is unnecessary because all the practical consequences of such predictions follow from the remaining, non-probabilistic, axioms of quantum theory, together with the non-probabilistic part of classical decision theory

Tilings, Chern-Simons Theories and M2 Branes

A new infinite class of Chern-Simons theories is presented using brane tilings. The new class reproduces all known cases so far and introduces many new models that are dual to M2 brane theories which probe a toric non-compact CY 4-fold. The master space of the quiver theory is used as a tool to construct the moduli space for this class and the Hilbert Series is computed for a selected set of examples.Comment: 23 pages, minor changes, references adde