Both medical and legal commentators contend that there is little legal risk for administering life-sustaining treatment without consent. In this Article, I argue that this perception is inaccurate. First, it is based on an outdated data set, primarily damages cases from the 1990s. More recent plaintiffs have been comparatively more successful in establishing civil liability. Second, the published assessments focus on too-limited data set. Even if the reviewed cases were not outdated, a focus limited to civil liability would still be too narrow. Legal sanctions have also included licensure discipline and other administrative sanctions. In short, the legal risks of providing unwanted life-sustaining treatment are not as rare, meager, and inconsequential as often depicted. In fact, sanctions for administering unwanted treatment are significant and growing.
The hybrid cars are the talk of the town these days. They come in great colors, sleek styles, and they will make your commute less expensive. A hybrid car is a vehicle that is run on electricity. A combination of a conventional propulsion system and a rechargeable energy storage system that is onboard the vehicle work together to give the vehicle better fuel economy than cars that run strictly on gasoline.
A mathematical model for diffusion-induced stress generation in spherical Li-ion active materials has been incorporated into Dualfoil, a Li-ion cell-sandwich model with porous electrodes. The model is used to examine differences in the electrochemomechanical response of “power” vs “energy” cells at high currents. Porous electrode effects, particularly in “energy-type” cells with thick electrodes, amplify the peak stresses encountered during lithium insertion a...
Interesting talk about a new battery technology that addresses many of the problems associated with battery backups and may help enable unreliable renewable energies.
On October 11, 1745, German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist and independently of him Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek from the city of Leiden, Netherlands, invented a predecessor of today's battery, the Leyden Jar.