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Unveiling the lizards of New Zealand

1 Unveiling the lizards of New Zealand 2 New Zealand Lizards, edited by David G. Chapple, 2016, Springer International Publishing, 3 375 pp. £100.50 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-3-319-41672-4 / £80.00 (eBook) ISBN 978-3-319- 4 41674-8; http://www.springer.com 5 In this comprehensive and authoritative volume, David Chapple and co-authors have 6 compiled a fascinating overview of the New Zealand lizards. Covering an impressive 7 spectrum of topics, the book details aspects ranging from the discovery, taxonomy and 8 evolutionary history of this lizard assemblage, to their ecology, conservation and focal areas 9 for future research. As described in the initial chapter, the principal aim of the book was to 10 synthesise current knowledge of the region’s lizard biota, and, in so doing, highlight crucial 11 knowledge gaps and key areas for future research. In this regard, I believe the book excels 12 and will provide a notable point of reference for both current and future reptile researchers. New Zealand lizards have long been underappreciated, both within the country and 14 abroad, and overshadowed by interest in the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus). While just 15 under half of the proposed lizard species remain undescribed (45%; Chapple, chapter 1), the 16 diversity appears to be particularly remarkable considering New Zealand’s temperate setting. 17 A proliferation of research on the region’s lizard assemblage has enabled advances in 18 biogeographical analyses and conservation priority assessments. While this research and 19 expert knowledge form the backbone of the text, it is the author’s critical assessments of the 20 current research focus and recommendations for future directions that elevate this book 21 above others in its class. 22 Following the chronology of New Zealand herpetological discoveries, the opening chapters 23 detail the historical events and characters involved in unveiling the extant and extinct New

Effects of Porosity and Ionomer Composition on Fuel Cell Performance of PGM-Free ORR Catalysts

Recently, the carbon-based platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts have received intensive research interest as a low-cost alternative to Pt-based ORR catalysts.1-3 However, due to their relatively low specific activity the application of carbon-based PGM-free catalysts requires higher loadings than Pt-based materials, resulting in thick catalyst layers on the order of 100 µm.4,5 Such thick electrodes lead to the mass transport loss and strong dependence of the electrode performance on the ionomer content and catalytic layer porosity.4,6,7 In this work, we systematically studied the effect of electrode porosity, equivalent weight (EW) and content of proton-conductive ionomers on the fuel cell performance of PGM-free catalysts, utilizing our previously reported highly porous CM-PANI-Fe-C(Zn) ORR catalyst.8 Thanks to the high intrinsic porosity and high surface area of > 1000 m2/g due to the use of the pore forming effect of cyanamide and ZnCl2, this catalyst showed high activity in electrochemical cell test, with the half-wave potential of 0.81 V vs. RHE. In order to maximize the fuel cell performance, the electrode porosity and the ionomer content were further optimized in this work. The porosity of electrode was controlled through the hot-pressing conditions and gasket thickness during membrane electrode assembly (MEA) fabrication and fuel cell assembly. Electrodes with fully optimized porosity showed significantly improved fuel cell performance due to facilitated mass transport. Such electrodes were then used to study the effect of EW and ionomer content (25 wt%, 35 wt%, 45 wt%, and 55 wt%). The studied perfluorosulfonic acid ionomers were Nafion® (EW of 1100 g/mol SO3H), Aquivon® D83 (EW of 830 g/mol SO3H), and Aquivon® D72 (EW of 700 g/mol SO3H). It was found that found an increase in the ionomer content from 25% to 55% resulted in improved performance in the kinetic region of the fuel cell polarization plot, while negatively affecting performance in the mass transport region. Among the tested ionomers, Aquivon® D83 (EW of 830 g/mol) provided the most “balanced” performance of the MEA. The results are summarized in the form of 2D matrices to guide the design of PGM-free catalyst electrode further. Cathodes with optimized porosity, ionomer content, and E.W. allowed for reaching current densities of > 115 mA/cm2 and > 550 mA/cm2 at 0.80 V and 0.65 V, respectively, as well as the maximum power density of 530 mW/cm2. All fuel cell testing was performed at 1.0 bar pressure of H2 and air at 80°C. These results demonstrate the critical effect of electrode design on the performance fuel cell with PGM-free catalysts. Acknowledgements Financial support for this research by DOE-EERE through Fuel Cell Technologies Office is gratefully acknowledged. The author would like to thank Dr. Natalia Macauley and Dr. Tommy Rockward at LANL for helpful discussion. X. Y. and L. L. contributed equally to this work. References (1) Wu, G.; More, K. L.; Johnston, C. M.; Zelenay, P. Science 2011, 332, 443. (2) Lefèvre, M.; Proietti, E.; Jaouen, F.; Dodelet, J.-P. Science 2009, 324, 71. (3) Wu, G.; Zelenay, P. Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 46, 1878. (4) Komini Babu, S.; Chung, H. T.; Wu, G.; Zelenay, P.; Litster, S. ECS Transactions 2014, 64, 281. (5) Chung, H.; Wu, G.; Higgins, D.; Zamani, P.; Chen, Z.; Zelenay, P. In Electrochemistry of N4 Macrocyclic Metal Complexes: Volume 1: Energy; Zagal, J. H., Bedioui, F., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016, 41. (6) Zelenay, P. In US Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Annual Merit Review meeting. 2014. (7) Barkholtz, M. H.; Chong, L.; Kaiser, B. Z.; Xu, T.; Liu, D.-J. Catalysts 2015, 5. (8) Lin, L.; Chung, H. T.; Yin, X.; Martinez, U.; Zelenay, P. In ECS Meeting s; The Electrochemical Society: Honolulu, Hawaii, 2016; Vol. MA2016-02, 2826.

Socially-Critical Environmental Education in Primary Classrooms: The Dance of Structure and Agency Jane Edwards Springer International Publishing, New York, 2016

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Methods and modalities of effective school inspections

A BOOK REVIEW Ehren, M. C. M. (Ed.). (2016). Methods and modalities of effective school inspections . London: Springer International Publishing.

Sociology in South Africa: colonial, apartheid and democratic forms by Radhamany Sooryamoorthy

Reviewed by: Sociology in South Africa: colonial, apartheid and democratic forms by Radhamany Sooryamoorthy Geoff Waters (bio) Radhamany Sooryamoorthy (2016) Sociology in South Africa: colonial, apartheid and democratic forms. New York: Springer International Publishing Having long since retired from the hurly-burly of the South African sociological scene, I initially looked forward to reading this book largely from a sense of nostalgia. I hoped it would transport me into a Proustian ‘remembrance of things past’ and I was not entirely disappointed. As I read it, I found myself being reminded of such influential South African sociologists of the past as Hansi Pollak, HW (‘Harvey’) van der Merwe, Edward Batson, Nic Rhoodie, Pierre van den Berghe, Marshall Murphree, Frederick van Zyl Slabbert, Fatima Meer, SP Cilliers and Edward Webster.1 To my surprise, however, Leo Kuper is mentioned only briefly and Lawrence Schlemmer and Dunbar Moodie not at all.2 In a sober reminder, the original ideological ‘architects of apartheid’, Hendrik Verwoerd and Geoffrey Cronjé, are identified as having been the country’s first full professors of sociology in the 1930s at Stellenbosch and Pretoria universities respectively. But as I read and reflected further, I began to realise that this book is no sentimental journey ‘down memory lane’. Rather, it is a thoroughly modern quantitative deconstruction of the history of an academic discipline in one country. The book’s author, Radhamany Sooryamoorthy, is a statistician-sociologist who was originally trained in India and is now sociology professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. He has published extensively in the field of scientometrics: the quantitative empirical study [End Page 170] of productivity in the sciences through the statistical analysis of computerised datasets listing scientific publications. In this book, he extends this scientometric approach to the study of the origins and development of sociology as an academic discipline in South Africa. The work deals with the period from the subject’s local genesis in the early twentieth century through to the present time. To do so necessitated that the author first undertake the daunting task of compiling as comprehensive a dataset as possible. The final lists contained details of works published on the topics of both the subject’s local history and South African society itself over the entire 100 years-plus of the study period. Once this dataset had been compiled it served as the basis for the book’s central focus, namely a clinical scientometric dissection of the discipline’s history. In the subsequent analysis, the development of South African sociology is identified as having occurred in three distinct historical phases: the ‘colonial’ (1900–1947), the ‘apartheid’ (1948–1993), and the ‘democratic’ (1994–2015). These correspond to different political dispensations obtaining in the country during the course of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. The published works specifically relating to the history of the discipline in each of these three different eras as listed in the datasets, were then subjected to content analysis. This yields details of the distinctive features of sociology in each particular period. The details of published sociological works on South African society contained in datasets for each of the corresponding eras were then further analysed scientometrically. On the basis of these analyses, the following is concluded: During the colonial period (1900–1947), sociology as an academic discipline in South Africa was slow to gather momentum. Initially, supported by the Afrikaans churches, it was linked to departments of social work at the Afrikaans-medium universities of Stellenbosch and Pretoria. From the outset, its main concerns were with race relations, poverty, and crime and delinquency amongst the minority white population. The publication of The Carnegie Commission on the Poor White Problem in South Africa (1932) was the vital catalyst which led to the establishment of separate sociology departments at more South African white universities, including the English-language institutions. The number of sociological publications increased slowly over the course of the colonial period, with [End Page 171] over one-third of the total appearing in its last seven years up until 1947. Throughout, however, the discipline remained overwhelmingly preoccupied with social problems amongst the country’s minority white population. In the apartheid period (1948–1993...

The Fluid Concept of Community Well-Being

Book Review: Kee, Youngwha, Lee, Seung Jong, & Phillips,Rhonda (Eds.). (2016). Social Factors and Community Well-Being.Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

Edward King , Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. x + 214, £60.00, hb.

O Oriental Religions in Latin American Literature Ignacio Lo´pez-Calvo School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, Merced CA, USA Keywords Eastern religions; Latin American Literature; Buddhism; Shinto; Confucianism; Taoism; Hin- duism; Theosophy; Chinese religions; Oriental- ism; Vicente Fatone; Alejandro Korn; Pablo Neruda; Octavio Paz; Jorge Luis Borges; Julio Cortazar; Ce´sar Aira; Juan Jose´ Tablada; Augusto Higa; Enrique Go´mez Carrillo; Bernardo Carvalho; Severo Sarduy; Zoe´ Valde´s; Antonio Chuffat Latour. Regino Pedroso; Mayra Montero; Leonardo Padura Fuentes; Rube´n Dari´o; Leopoldo Lugones; Amado Nervo; Gabriela Mistral; Ricardo Rojas; Arturo Capdevila; Ricardo Guiraldes Part of the information included in this essay was taken from my books Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusan in Peru (U of Arizona P, 2014); The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru (U of Arizona P, 2013); and Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture (UP of Florida, 2008). Definition Theosophy and eastern religions and creeds such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism, and Taoism have influenced Latin American lit- erature since the Modernistas. Canonical authors such as Neruda, Borges, Cortazar, Paz, and Sarduy have addressed these eastern beliefs in different ways. While for the Modernista they were an escapist tool and Neruda openly rejects them, other authors such as Tablada and Paz resort to them to try to understand their own countries or to find the keys of eroticism (the case of Paz and Sarduy). In turn, for Borges, eastern religions are a metaphor for infinite time, fantasy, and utopia and for Sarduy a path to personal enlightenment. Introduction Given the wealth of authors and works, the topic of the presence of Eastern religions in Latin American literature would be more appropriate for a book than for a short essay. In any case, in the next pages I will summarize what has already been studied and will suggest the analysis of other Latin American works whose dialogue with east- ern religions has not been studied in so much depth yet indicating, whenever possible, the rea- sons for the authors’ attraction to or rejection of these creeds. # Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 H. P. P. Gooren (ed.), Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_159-1

Book Review: Danuta Gabryś-Barker, Dagmara Galajda, Positive Psychology Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, Springer International Publishing: Switzerland 2016, 366 pp.

Book Review: Danuta Gabryś-Barker, Dagmara Galajda, Positive Psychology Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, Springer International Publishing: Switzerland 2016, 366 pp.

(Invited) Key Challenges Facing Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries: A Peek Outside the Box

Rechargeable magnesium battery science & technology has benefited from a number of advances over the past 30+ years but the still requires significant improvement before it can be considered to be a viable alternative to lithium-based batteries. In particular, cathode materials with performance characteristics that preserve the advantages of Mg (especially its high volumetric capacity, low cost, and safety characteristics) have been elusive. This talk will highlight the physical and chemical phenomena which contribute to these difficulties and discuss methods of circumventing them. Electrolytes which support the unique electrochemistry of Mg have also presented R&D challenges which will be discussed. Intercalation cathodes have received the most attention in this field but the number of materials which have been identified that can reversibly intercalate Mg2+ ions is considerably less than the number capable of reversibly intercalating Li+. Reduced mobility and ion trapping of the more charge-dense Mg2+ions in solid structures have been identified as factors which contribute to this situation, and techniques for addressing these factors such as incorporating charge-shielding molecules including water will be discussed. Recent promising results with polyanion intercalation and organic redox cathode materials will also be reviewed. Conversion cathodes are seeing renewed interest in this area as a result of difficulties encountered with intercalation cathodes, but cell voltages with common conversion cathode materials such as sulfur are significantly lower than those attained with lithium. Performance requirements for low voltage conversion cathodes which could contribute to cells with energy densities comparable to advanced lithium-ion batteries will be reviewed along with possible strategies for implementation. Figure 1 shows active material-only specific energies which may be obtainable with possible intercalation and conversion cathodes. Electrolytes have also proved to be challenging for rechargeable Mg batteries, and recent advances in this field will be reviewed, along with potential strategies for improving them and coupling advanced Mg electrolytes with novel cell chemistry. References Muldoon, J.; Bucur, C.B., Gregory, T. Quest for Nonaqueous Multivalent Secondary Batteries: Magnesium and Beyond. Chem. Rev., 2014, 114 (23), pp 11683–11720 DOI: 10.1021/cr500049y.Bucur, C. B.; Gregory, T.; Muldoon, J. Why Grignard’s Century Old Nobel Prize Should Spark Your Curiosity. In Rechargeable Batteries; Zhang, Z., Zhang, S. S., Eds.; Green Energy and Technology; Springer International Publishing, 2015; pp 611–635.Bucur, C.B.; Gregory, T.; Oliver, A.G.; Muldoon, J. Confession of a Magnesium Battery. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2015, 6 (18), pp 3578–3591 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01219. Figure 1

Mechanical properties of cold sprayed titanium and nickel based coatings

In the last 10 years, cold spray coating technology is finding large attention in the scientific world. Its main characteristics are safeness, innovation, versatility and high efficiency if compared with traditional similar technologies such as plasma spray, high velocity oxygen fuel, arc wire or powder flame [P. Cavaliere: ‘Cold Spray coating technology for metallic components repairing’, in ‘Through-life engineering services: motivation theory and practice’, (ed. L. Redding and R. Roy), 175-184, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-12111-6_11; 2015, Springer International Publishing]. Very fine particles are accelerated and then sprayed on a substrate in a condition very far from material melting. The unique mechanical properties experienced by the sprayed material are due to the severe plastic deformation acting during particle impact. No limits are experienced by the material quantity sprayed on the substrate; in this way, bulk coatings capable of repairing and restoring can also be produced. The technology is applied in the aerospace, automobile and chemical industries. The results presented in the literature in the last years show cold spray appearing very promising in the production of nanostructured composites with enhanced microstructural and mechanical properties. In the present paper, the microstructural and mechanical behaviours of Ti and Ni based nanocomposite coatings produced via cold spray are presented. The results are analysed as a function of spray velocity, and they are compared to those belonging to pure base materials.

Insect Conservation and Urban Environments

Insect Conservation and Urban Environments Tim R. New 2015; 244 + xiii pages Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland ISBN: 978-3-319-21224-1 $159.00 (hardcover); $119.00 (e-book) ![Graphic][1] For decades, the phrase “urban entomology” has invoked the study of termites, cockroaches, and nuisance ants—the insects that make life in the city unpleasant or dangerous for people. But there's a second urban entomology that deals with the ecology and conservation of rare, innocuous, and beneficial insects in cities. The earliest seminal works in urban entomology did note cities’ ability to both harbor surprising diversity and snuff out populations of rare butterflies and moths (e.g., Frankie and Koehler 1978). But only recently, with the growth of urban ecology and the concept of ecosystem services, has the study of urban non-pests become a mainstay of entomology. At the Entomological Society of America's annual meetings, the number of presentations addressing this subject grew more than 10-fold from 2008 to 2015 (the years in which meeting programs are searchable for the word “urban”). In Insect Conservation and Urban Environments , entomologist and conservation biologist Tim R. New encapsulates the resulting progress through … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif

Book Review Against Plagiarism – A Guide for Editors and Authors

Zhang, Y.H. (2016). Against Plagiarism – A Guide for Editors and Authors (Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication). Springer International Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-319-24158-6

Zika virus and the Olympics

British Journal of MidwiferyVol. 24, No. 7 CommentZika virus and the OlympicsGeorge F WinterGeorge F WinterSearch for more papers by this authorGeorge F WinterPublished Online:11 Jul 2016https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2016.24.7.464AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article References Alshammari SM, Mikler AR (2016) Modeling Disease Spread at Global Mass Gatherings: Data Requirements and Challenges. In: Boonkrong SUnger HMeesad P, eds. Recent Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland: 17–26 Crossref, Google ScholarAl Turki YA (2016) Mass Gathering Medicine New discipline to Deal with Epidemic and Infectious Diseases in the Hajj Among Muslim Pilgrimage: A Mini Review Article. J Relig Health 55(4): 1270–4 Crossref, Google ScholarAttaran A (2016) Off the Podium: Why public health concerns for global spread of Zika virus means that Rio de Janeiro's 2016 Olympic Games must not proceed. http://tinyurl.com/hsmlav2 (accessed 27 June 2016) Google ScholarBarasheed O, Rashid H, Alfelali M et al. (2014) Viral respiratory infections among Hajj pilgrims in 2013. Virol Sin 29(6): 364–71 Crossref, Google ScholarLadhani SN, O'Connor C, Kirkbride H, Brooks T, Morgan D (2016) Outbreak of Zika virus disease in the Americas and the association with microcephaly, congenital malformations and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Arch Dis Child 101(7): 600–2 Crossref, Google ScholarSinger P (1979) Practical Ethics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Google ScholarSoliman T, Cook AR, Coker RJ (2015) Pilgrims and MERS-CoV: what's the risk? Emerg Themes Epidemiol 12: 3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-015-0025-8 Crossref, Google ScholarWorld Health Organization (2009) WHO guidelines on hand hygiene in health care: first global patient safety challenge. Clean care is safer care. WHO, Geneva Google ScholarWorld Health Organiaation (2016) WHO statement on the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR(2005)) Emergency Committee on Zika virus and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations. http://tinyurl.com/jp9b3jt (accessed 27 June 2016) Google Scholar FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 2 July 2016Volume 24Issue 7ISSN (print): 0969-4900ISSN (online): 2052-4307 Metrics History Published online 11 July 2016 Published in print 2 July 2016 Information© MA Healthcare LimitedPDF download

Electrochemical and Transport Properties of Non-Aqueous Zn Electrolytes and Reversible Intercalation Chemistry for Zn/V2O5 and Zn/MnO2 Batteries

A non-aqueous multivalent metal cell, one of the potential candidates for a post-lithium-ion battery, provides an attractive opportunity in energy storage research due to higher theoretical volumetric capacity of a metal anode coupled with the limited dendrite formation at the metal anode.1 The development of compatible electrolytes and reversible multivalent intercalation cathodes, however, is a significant challenge:1 in the case of Ca metal cells there is recently developed electrolytes possibly compatible with reversible chemistry at a Ca metal anode, which need much more improvement.2 In Mg metal cells various halide, BH4 and their derivatives electrolytes are known to be compatible with Mg metal anode, but correlation between speciation and functionality is still under debate.3-7 The compatibility of glyme-Mg(TFSI)2 electrolyte with Mg metal is also controversial and generally low Coulombic efficiency and high overpotential are observed in cell cycling.6,7 However, it appears that non-aqueous Zn2+ ion chemistry in Zn metal cells with a reversible intercalation cathode provides an exception among multivalent metals with a number of promising features: high volumetric capacity,1 similar ionic radius compared with Li+ and Mg2+ ions,8 relatively lower activation barrier energy for diffusion in cathode materials (e.g., FePO4, CoO2 and V2O5)9 and highly-efficient reversible Zn deposition behavior on a Zn metal anode with wide electrochemical window.7 In addition, the non-aqueous Zn system provides an opportunity to delve into the mechanisms in multivalent cell chemistry (e.g., reversible deposition on a metal anode and (de)intercalation into(from) a cathode material) and furthermore possibly solve the present issues in multivalent cell design and prototyping.7 In this study, the electrochemical and transport properties (e.g., reversible Zn deposition behavior, Coulombic efficiency, anodic stability, ionic conductivity and diffusion coefficient) of a variety of non-aqueous Zn electrolytes have been examined in detail.7 Classical molecular dynamics and DFT calculations have been utilized to complement the experimental work and to provide insights into the molecular-level solvation structure and dynamics of the bulk electrolytes and a prediction of the electrochemical stability window.7 Based upon the experimental analysis and the simulation studies of the range of different electrolytes, we have selected promising electrolytes and instituted electrochemically testing with a cell consisting of a Zn metal anode and a variety of cathodes materials. Among them, the Zn metal cell consisting of an acetonitrile-Zn(TFSI)2 electrolyte and a synthesized nanostructured bilayered-hydrated V2O5 10 demonstrates good reversibility and stability for 120 cycles with nearly 100% coulombic efficiency and ~180 mAhg-1 of gravimetric capacity, albeit operating at a relatively low cell voltage of 0.9 V. On the other hand, λ-MnO2 (spinel) host material represents no intercalation behavior even in all selected electrolytes, while nanostructured and low crystalline α-, γ-, and δ-MnO2(tunnel or layer) show possible intercalation behavior. Acknowledgments This work was supported as part of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), an Energy Innovation Hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences. The submitted abstract has been created by UChicago Argonne, LLC, Operator of Argonne National Laboratory (“Argonne”). Argonne, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory, is operated under Contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. References 1 J. Muldoon, C. B. Bucur and T. Gregory, Chem. Rev. 2014, 114, 11683-11720. 2 A. Ponrouch, C. Frontera, F. Bardé and M. R. Palacín, Nat. Mater.2015, doi:10.1038/nmat4462. 3 J. Muldoon, C. B. Bucur, A. G. Oliver, T. Sugimoto, M. Matsui, H. S. Kim, G. D. Allred, J. Zajicek and Y. Kotani, Energy Environ. Sci. 2012, 5, 5941-5950. 4 H. D. Yoo, I. Shterenberg, Y. Gofer, G. Gershinsky, N. Pour and D. Aurbach, Energy Environ. Sci. 2013, 6, 2265-2279. 5 C. J. Barile, R. Spatney, K. R. Zavadil and A. A. Gewirth, J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 10694-10699. 6 C. B. Bucur, T. Gregory and J. Muldoon, In Rechargeable Batteries: Materials, Technologies and New Trends, Z. Zhang and S. S. Zhang, Eds., Springer International Publishing: Switzerland, 2015, Chapter 22, 611-635. 7 S.-D. Han, N. N. Rajput, X. Qu, B. Pan, M. He, M. S. Ferrandon, C. Liao, K. A. Persson and A. K. Burrell, ACS Appl. Mater. Inter.2016, accepted. 8 R. D. Shannon, Acta Cryst. 1976, A32, 751-767. 9 Z. Rong, R. Malik, P. Canepa, G. Gautam, M. Liu, A. Jain, K. Persson and G. Ceder, Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 6016-6021. 10 S. Tepavcevic, X. Xiong, V. R. Stamenkovic, X. B. Zou, M. Balasubramanian, V. B. Prakapenka, C. S. Johnson and T. Rajh, ACS Nano 2012, 6, 530.

Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Regional Development: Labor Networks, Knowledge Flows, and Industrial Growth , edited by Rui Baptista and João Leitão. 2015. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 401 + vi. ISBN: 9783319128702. $179.00.

<b>Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Regional Development: Labor Networks, Knowledge Flows, and Industrial Growth</b> , edited by Rui Baptista and João Leitão. 2015. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 401 + vi. ISBN: 9783319128702. $179.00.

Religious Morality in John Henry Newman: Hermeneutics of the Imagination. By Gerard Magill. New York and London: Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2015. xiv + 231 pages. $129.00.

Religious Morality in John Henry Newman: Hermeneutics of the Imagination. By Gerard Magill. New York and London: Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2015. xiv + 231 pages. $129.00.

Potassic Igneous Rocks and Associated Gold-Copper Mineralization, Fourth Edition (D. Müller and D.I. Groves)

Potassic Igneous Rocks and Associated Gold-Copper Mineralization, Fourth Edition. Daniel Muller, David I. Groves. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Pp. 311. ISBN 978-3-319-23051-1. Price: ebook, $139; hardcover, $179. The fourth edition of this comprehensive textbook, which succeeds those published in 1995, 1997, and 2000, very nicely summarizes the geochemical and petrological characteristics of potassic igneous rock complexes and the different tectonic settings in which they occur. The authors provide an overview and a classification of these rocks and they outline the geochemical differences between barren and mineralized potassic igneous complexes. Owing to the common association of potassic igneous rocks with many gold- and copper-rich ore deposits, this book will be of interest not only to research scientists but also to those exploring for major deposits in young and ancient terranes. In fact, there was a clear attempt by the authors to provide a good mix of theoretical discussions based on experimental work, with case studies that illustrate field and applied research. This newly updated and enlarged edition was clearly an opportunity to improve the “look” because compared to the earlier black-and-white version, it’s bigger (8- × 10-inch pages). In addition, it has a two-column layout and contains numerous new color photographs of gold and copper ores from major deposits hosted by potassic igneous rocks. Whereas the previous versions included all references compiled in one section at the end of the …

On quasihomomorphisms with noncommutative targets

We describe structure of quasihomomorphisms from arbitrary groups to discrete groups. We show that all quasihomomorphisms are 'constructible', i.e., are obtained via certain natural operations from homomorphisms to some groups and quasihomomorphisms to abelian groups. We illustrate this theorem by describing quasihomomorphisms to certain classes of groups. For instance, every unbounded quasihomomorphism to a torsion-free hyperbolic group H is either a homomorphism to a subgroup of H or is a quasihomomorphism to an infinite cyclic subgroup of H.

Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies, edited by Harry W.Richardson, QishengPan, JiYoungPark, and James E.Moore II. 2015. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 224 + x. ISBN 9783319143224, $179.00.

Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies, edited by Harry W.Richardson, QishengPan, JiYoungPark, and James E.Moore II. 2015. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 224 + x. ISBN 9783319143224, $179.00.

Leveraging: A Political, Economic, and Societal Framework, by David M.Anderson (Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2014), pp. 197.

Leveraging: A Political, Economic, and Societal Framework, by David M.Anderson (Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2014), pp. 197.