The magnesium–sulfur
battery represents a promising post-lithium
system with potentially high energy density and improved safety. However,
just as all metal–sulfur systems, it is plagued with the polysulfide
shuttle leading to active material loss and surface layer formation
on the anode. To gain further insights, the present study aims to
shed light on the dissolution characteristics of sulfur and polysulfides
in glyme-based electrolytes for magnesium–sulfur batteries.
Therefore, operando UV/vis spectroscopy and imaging were applied to
survey their concentration in solution and the separator coloration
during galvanostatic cycling. The influence of conductive cathode
additives (carbon black and titanium nitride) on the sulfur retention
and cycling overpotentials were investigated. Thus, valuable insights
into the system’s reversibility and the benefit of additional
reaction sites are gained. On the basis of these findings, a reduction
pathway is proposed with S8, S6
2–, and S4
2– being the present species
in the electrolyte, while the dissolution of S8
2– and S3
•– is unfavored. In addition,
the evolution of the sulfur species concentration during an extended
rest at open-circuit voltage was investigated, which revealed a three-staged
self-discharge.
Japanese encephalitis is considered an essential disease-causing swine reproductive failure in Asian countries; however, significant knowledge gaps remain about this problem in actual cases. This study examined 55 cases of reproductive failure in sows, including one abortion and 54 full-term farrowing litters, to find the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and specific antibodies against JEV. Haemagglutination test was used to detect specific antibodies against JEV from 63 samples of fetal thoracic fluids and newborn un-suckling piglet sera (54 thoracic fluid samples of dead fetuses, two thoracic fluid samples of abortion fetuses, seven sera samples of weakly newborn un-suckling piglets), viral isolation and RT- PCR technique was attempted from 60 brains of fetuses and newborn un-suckling piglets, histopathology sections of fetal brains which were positive with JEV confirmed by HI test and RT-PCR were also made. The results showed that 17.46% (11/63) of thoracic fluids and sera were positive for JEV. No JEV isolation was found from 60 brain samples of dead fetuses and piglets, but RNA of JEV were detected from 5 of them (8.33%). Our results suggest that JEV should be considered the important cause of swine reproductive failure in Viet Nam.
This study uses the 2015 US Transgender Survey to test how initiation of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) affects the risk of attempting suicide among transgender individuals. We constructed a retrospective panel and employed a stacked event study design to demonstrate that HRT is associated with a substantially lower risk of suicide attempt. The average treatment effect on the treated is a decrease of 5.7 percentage points in the risk of ever attempting suicide if HRT is started between the ages of 14 and 17, which amounts to a 14.4 percent reduction in the risk of attempting suicide relative to the pretreatment mean.
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