Researching peers and disaster vulnerable communities: an insider perspective

Conducting research among peers and communities that a researcher also serves may be both daunting and rewarding. Researching peers may make the researcher feel uncomfortable raising certain questions that are sensitive or that could be construed to be testing their competencies. This paper is inclined more towards showing that it is advantageous to be an insider, whose position can facilitate collection of information that could not have been accessed, or revealed to an outsider. The paper reports on fieldwork conducted in a low-income country in Sub-Sahara Africa as part of a doctoral study with communities affected by disasters and those that work with such communities. The paper demonstrates the complexities of conducting such research and provides some insights that may be useful to insiders, outsiders or “in-betweeners” embarking on fieldwork in low-income countries and among vulnerable population struggling with manifold stresses and shocks

High-Energy-Density Rechargeable Lithium–Nickel Chloride Aqueous Solution Batteries

High-energy-density rechargeable batteries with performance beyond that of lithium-ion batteries are required for next-generation electric vehicles. We propose a novel rechargeable battery with a lithium anode and a NiCl₂ aqueous cathode that is separated Li_1.4Al_0.4Ge_0.2Ti_1.4(PO₄)₃ as a water-stable lithium-ion-conducting solid electrolyte. The cell was discharged up to 93% of the theoretical cathode capacity at 0.5 mA cm^–2 and 25 °C. The calculated energy density, based on the weights of NiCl₂ and Li, and the average discharge voltage of 2.4 V at 0.5 mA cm^–2, was 852 Wh kg^–1, which is more than twice as high as that of conventional lithium-ion batteries. The cell was successfully cycled for 50 cycles without any degradation of the charge and discharge voltages at 0.5 mA cm^–2 and 25 °C for 5 h charge and 5 h discharge, where the utilization of NiCl₂ was 80%

Additional file 1: Figure S1. of A diagnostic marker for superficial urothelial bladder carcinoma: lack of nuclear ATBF1 (ZFHX3) by immunohistochemistry suggests malignant progression

Specificity and sensitivity of the seven anti-ATBF1 antibodies. Western blot analysis of ATBF1 in HEK293T cells using the seven anti-ATBF1 antibodies (Fig. 5a MB33, MB34, MB39, D1-120, MB44, MB47 and MB49). Lanes 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 represent HEK293T cells with an HA-tag expression vector (pCI-HA). Lanes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 represent HEK293T cells containing an HA-tagged ATBF1 expression vector (pCI-HA-ATBF1). HEK293T cells were grown in DMEM supplemented with 10 % fetal bovine serum at 37 °C and 5 % CO2. HEK293T cells were transfected with the HA-tagged expression vector or the HA-tagged ATBF1 expression vector (HA-ATBF1) using transIT-293 reagent. (PPTX 215 kb