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Citizen Havel And The Construction Of Czech Presidentiality, Timothy Barney Dec 2015

Citizen Havel And The Construction Of Czech Presidentiality, Timothy Barney

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Václav Havel had two eventful terms as the first democratic president of the Czech Republic. The documentary Citizen Havel is one rhetorical artifact that captures the way a new democracy and its attendant executive power is constructed consciously in real time in a political culture where such a tradition has largely not existed. Culled from ten years of fly-on-the-wall-style footage, Citizen Havel captures the tensions between the constitutional expectations of the Czech presidency and Havel's own extraconstitutional interpretations of executive power. Ultimately, this essay argues that Citizen Havel is one influential representation of how Czech “presidentiality” during the post-communist transition …

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Abq Free Press, December 30, 2015, Abq Free Press Dec 2015

Abq Free Press, December 30, 2015, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

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Concurrent Kleene Algebra With Tests And Branching Automata, Peter Jipsen, M. Andrew Moshier Dec 2015

Concurrent Kleene Algebra With Tests And Branching Automata, Peter Jipsen, M. Andrew Moshier

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

We introduce concurrent Kleene algebra with tests (CKAT) as a combination of Kleene algebra with tests (KAT) of Kozen and Smith with concurrent Kleene algebras (CKA), introduced by Hoare, Möller, Struth and Wehrman. CKAT provides a relatively simple algebraic model for reasoning about semantics of concurrent programs. We generalize guarded strings to guarded series-parallel strings , or gsp-strings, to give a concrete language model for CKAT. Combining nondeterministic guarded automata of Kozen with branching automata of Lodaya and Weil one obtains a model for processing gsp-strings in parallel. To ensure that the model satisfies the weak exchange law (x‖y)(z‖w)≤(xz)‖(yw) of …

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A Method For Achieving Analytic Formulas For Three Body Integrals Consisting Of Powers And Exponentials In All Three Interparticle Hyllerass Coordinates, Chris M. Keating Dec 2015

A Method For Achieving Analytic Formulas For Three Body Integrals Consisting Of Powers And Exponentials In All Three Interparticle Hyllerass Coordinates, Chris M. Keating

Dissertations and Theses

After an introduction to the variational principle of three body systems via the Helium atom, we present general analytical formulas for the radial parts of integrals that occur when three body systems are described using wave functions that consist of powers and exponentials in all three interparticle Hylleraas coordinates [Hylleraas1929]. This work is an extension of integrals given by Harris, Frolov and Smith, Jr. [Harris2004]. Specifically included are radial integrals encountered in calculations involving the dipole moment matrix element in Hylleraas coordinates that contain a function f(kr1) (such as a spherical Bessel function) in addition to …

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Thermophilic Phosphatases And Methods For Processing Starch Using The Same, Matthew S. Gentry, Craig W. Vander Kooi Dec 2015

Thermophilic Phosphatases And Methods For Processing Starch Using The Same, Matthew S. Gentry, Craig W. Vander Kooi

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Faculty Patents

The presently-disclosed subject matter includes thermophilic glucan phosphatase polypeptides. In some embodiments the polypeptide includes non-native laforin polypeptides, or fragments and/or variants thereof, and in some instances the polypeptide can alter the biophysical properties of starch in vitro or in planta. The presently-disclosed subject matter also includes isolated polynucleotides encoding the present polypeptides, methods for processing starch by exposing starch to the present polypeptides, and methods for making the present polypeptides.

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State V. Brand Respondent's Brief Dckt. 43441 Dec 2015

State V. Brand Respondent's Brief Dckt. 43441

Not Reported

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A Data Science Course For Undergraduates: Thinking With Data, Benjamin Baumer Dec 2015

A Data Science Course For Undergraduates: Thinking With Data, Benjamin Baumer

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

Data science is an emerging interdisciplinary field that combines elements of mathematics, statistics, computer science, and knowledge in a particular application domain for the purpose of extracting meaningful information from the increasingly sophisticated array of data available in many settings. These data tend to be nontraditional, in the sense that they are often live, large, complex, and/or messy. A first course in statistics at the undergraduate level typically introduces students to a variety of techniques to analyze small, neat, and clean datasets. However, whether they pursue more formal training in statistics or not, many of these students will end up …

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The Association Of C-Reactive Protein In The Pathogenesis Of Meconium Stained Amniotic Fluid In Al- Najaf City, Basima Sh. Alghazali, Shameem R. Mohammed Hussien Dec 2015

The Association Of C-Reactive Protein In The Pathogenesis Of Meconium Stained Amniotic Fluid In Al- Najaf City, Basima Sh. Alghazali, Shameem R. Mohammed Hussien

Muthanna Medical Journal

The objectives of this study is to study the association of C-reactive protein in the pathogenesisof meconium stained amniotic fluid in women presented in labour. A case control study, 90women presented in labour 45 with meconium stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) and 45 clearamniotic fluid (CAF), from March 2013 to July 2013 in the labour room and operative theater.Data collected regarding their age, gestational age, mode of delivery, neonatal outcome, parityand maternal blood for C- reactive protein. Complete physical examination of the neonateregarding Apgar score, color of baby, response to a catheter in the nostril, muscle tone, heart rate and breathing …

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Risk Factors Of Perinatal Asphyxia: A Study At Al-Diwaniya Maternity And Children Teaching Hospital, Hulal Saleh Sahib Dec 2015

Risk Factors Of Perinatal Asphyxia: A Study At Al-Diwaniya Maternity And Children Teaching Hospital, Hulal Saleh Sahib

Muthanna Medical Journal

Perinatal asphyxia is a common neonatal problem that contribute significantly to neonatal morbidity and mortality. Total number of patient enrolled in our study was one-hundred seventy-one. Data collected from October 01, 2013 to the September 30, 2014. Many variables are included such as GA, BWT, gender, mode of delivery, maternal age, parity and their ANC. In addition, a number of risk factor were encountered; maternal anemia, maternal hypertension, maternal DM, PROM, prolong labor, meconium- stained amniotic fluid, maternal fever, fetal distress, multiple gestation and APH. As a result, there is no gender difference between patient and control. Among patients group, …

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Stem Students Help Reinvent The Teacher, Staff Dec 2015

Stem Students Help Reinvent The Teacher, Staff

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Debris Flow Susceptibility Map For Mount Rainier, Washington Based On Debris Flow Initiation Zone Characteristics From The November, 2006 Climate Event In The Cascade Mountains, Kassandra Lindsey Dec 2015

Debris Flow Susceptibility Map For Mount Rainier, Washington Based On Debris Flow Initiation Zone Characteristics From The November, 2006 Climate Event In The Cascade Mountains, Kassandra Lindsey

Dissertations and Theses

In November 2006 a Pineapple Express rainstorm moved through the Pacific Northwest generating record precipitation, 22 to 50 cm in the two-day event on Mt. Rainier. Copeland (2009) and Legg (2013) identified debris flows in seven drainages in 2006; Inter Fork, Kautz, Ohanapecosh, Pyramid, Tahoma, Van Trump, and West Fork of the White River. This study identified seven more drainages: Carbon, Fryingpan, Muddy Fork Cowlitz, North Puyallup, South Mowich, South Puyallup, and White Rivers. Twenty-nine characteristics, or attributes, associated with the drainages around the mountain were collected. Thirteen were used in a regression analysis in order to develop a susceptibility …

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Kohn–Sham Exchange-Correlation Potentials From Second-Order Reduced Density Matrices, Rogelio Cuevas-Saavedra, Paul W. Ayers, Viktor N. Staroverov Dec 2015

Kohn–Sham Exchange-Correlation Potentials From Second-Order Reduced Density Matrices, Rogelio Cuevas-Saavedra, Paul W. Ayers, Viktor N. Staroverov

Chemistry Publications

We describe a practical algorithm for constructing the Kohn–Sham exchange-correlation potential corresponding to a given second-order reduced density matrix. Unlike conventional Kohn–Sham inversion methods in which such potentials are extracted from ground-state electron densities, the proposed technique delivers unambiguous results in finite basis sets. The approach can also be used to separate approximately the exchange and correlation potentials for a many-electron system for which the reduced density matrix is known. The algorithm is implemented for configuration-interaction wave functions and its performance is illustrated with numerical examples.

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Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute. Dec 2015

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $4.92 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; water recycling and desalination; capturing urban runoff; flood management; water for wildlife; water conservation; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $9.8 billion to pay off principal ($4.9 billion) and interest …

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Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute. Dec 2015

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $4.92 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; water recycling and desalination; capturing urban runoff; flood management; water for wildlife; water conservation; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $9.8 billion to pay off principal ($4.9 billion) and interest …

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Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute. Dec 2015

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $4.92 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; water recycling and desalination; capturing urban runoff; flood management; water for wildlife; water conservation; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $9.8 billion to pay off principal ($4.9 billion) and interest …

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Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute. Dec 2015

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $4.92 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; water recycling and desalination; capturing urban runoff; flood management; water for wildlife; water conservation; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $9.8 billion to pay off principal ($4.9 billion) and interest …

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Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute. Dec 2015

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $6.02 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; capturing urban runoff; water recycling and desalination; flood management; water conservation; water for wildlife; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $12 billion to pay off principal ($6 billion) and interest …

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Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute. Dec 2015

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $6.02 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; capturing urban runoff; water recycling and desalination; flood management; water conservation; water for wildlife; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $12 billion to pay off principal ($6 billion) and interest …

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Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute. Dec 2015

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $6.02 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; capturing urban runoff; water recycling and desalination; flood management; water conservation; water for wildlife; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $12 billion to pay off principal ($6 billion) and interest …

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Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute. Dec 2015

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $6.02 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; capturing urban runoff; water recycling and desalination; flood management; water conservation; water for wildlife; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $12 billion to pay off principal ($6 billion) and interest …

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Study To Look At Social Support, Intuitive Eating Impact On Older Diabetic African-American Men, Adam Pope Dec 2015

Study To Look At Social Support, Intuitive Eating Impact On Older Diabetic African-American Men, Adam Pope

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Concussions, Richard C. Crepeau Dec 2015

Concussions, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

ESPN reported this week that the NFL had pulled funding for concussion research because one of the principal researchers was Dr. Robert Stern of Boston University who has been critical of the NFL. The grant was awarded by the National Institute of Health(NIH) and the NFL denied pulling out of the grant saying that the NIH made all funding decisions and that the NFL has no veto power over the use of the $30M it had donated to the NIH in 2012 with no strings attached. It turns out however that it did retain a veto over the use of …

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Advanced Techniques For Computational And Information Sciences, William Guo, Chih-Cheng Hung, Paul Scheunders, Bor-Chen Kuo Dec 2015

Advanced Techniques For Computational And Information Sciences, William Guo, Chih-Cheng Hung, Paul Scheunders, Bor-Chen Kuo

Faculty Articles

New techniques in computational and information sciences have played an important role in keeping advancing the so called knowledge economy. Advanced techniques have been introduced to or emerging in almost every field of the scientific world for hundreds of years, which has been accelerated since the late 1970s when the advancement in computers and digital technologies brought the world into the Information Era. In addition to the rapid development of computational intelligence and new data fusion techniques in the past thirty years [1–4], mobile and cloud computing, grid computing driven numeric computation models, big data intelligence, and other emerging technologies …

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Special Issue: Electrochemistry Of Carbon Materials, Wei Chen Dec 2015

Special Issue: Electrochemistry Of Carbon Materials, Wei Chen

Journal of Electrochemistry

Carbon materials are traditional electrode materials due to their excellent electrical conductivities, high electrochemical stabilities and wide potential windows. Glassy carbon, graphite, various activated charcoals, carbon fibers etc. have been widely used in electrochemistry serving as electrode substrates or supports. In addition to their applications in basic electrochemistry, carbon materials have also played important roles in electrochemical energy storage and conversion. In recent years, various types of carbon structures, from zero-dimensional carbon nanodots, one-dimensional nanotubes, two-dimensional graphene to three-dimensional porous carbons, have attracted increasing attention in electrochemical field. It has been found that carbon materials have outstanding properties as advanced …

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Applications Of Carbon Materials In Electrochemical Energy Storage, Ji Liang, Lei Wen, Hui-Ming Cheng, Feng Li Dec 2015

Applications Of Carbon Materials In Electrochemical Energy Storage, Ji Liang, Lei Wen, Hui-Ming Cheng, Feng Li

Journal of Electrochemistry

An electrode material for electrochemical energy storage is one of the key components for high performance devices. In a variety of electrochemical energy storage systems, carbon materials, especially the lately emerged carbon nanomaterials including the carbon nanotube and graphene, have been playing a very important role and brought new vitality to the development and demonstration of the broad application prospects. In this review, we summarize the applications of various carbon materials in the typical electrochemical energy storage devices, namely lithium/sodium ion batteries, supercapacitors, and lithium-sulfur batteries, as well as flexible electrochemical energy storage and electrochemical catalysis. A perspective of novel …

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Progress Of Self-Supported Supercapacitor Electrode Materials Based On Carbon Substrates, Shui-Jian He, Wei Chen Dec 2015

Progress Of Self-Supported Supercapacitor Electrode Materials Based On Carbon Substrates, Shui-Jian He, Wei Chen

Journal of Electrochemistry

Self-supported electrode materials have been widely used in supercapacitors. Carbon materials are promising substrates in building self-supported electrode materials attributed to their diverse structures, rich resource, relatively low cost and high stability. Combined with our own research in this field, we summarize here the recent progress on the synthesis of self-supported electrode materials and their supercapacitance properties. The overall synthetic strategy could be divided into two categories: “top-down” and “bottom-up”. We hope this review is helpful for the development and application of renewable sources in self-supported electrode materials.

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Synthesis Of Porous Carbon Nanosheets And Its Application In Sodium-Ion Battery, Jing-Fei Zhang, Jing Lu, Xiao-Yu Yang, Yun-Di Huang, Lin Xu, Dong-Mei Sun, Ya-Wen Tang Dec 2015

Synthesis Of Porous Carbon Nanosheets And Its Application In Sodium-Ion Battery, Jing-Fei Zhang, Jing Lu, Xiao-Yu Yang, Yun-Di Huang, Lin Xu, Dong-Mei Sun, Ya-Wen Tang

Journal of Electrochemistry

Owning to sodium’s high abundance, relatively low cost, similar chemical properties to Li and very suitable redox potential of E0(Na+/Na) = -2.71 V versus SHE which is only 0.3 V above that of lithium, rechargeable sodium ion battery hold much promise as potential alternatives to current lithium ion batteries for energy storage applications. Carbon material is regarded as the most promising anode candidate for sodium ion battery. Particularly, carbon nanosheet with porous structure and high conductivity is expected to have improved sodium ion storage properties. In this paper, we present a two-step pyrolysis-based method for facile …

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Carbon Aerogel/Nickel Foam As Electrode For High-Performance Supercapacitor, Zhong Wu, Xin-Bo Zhang Dec 2015

Carbon Aerogel/Nickel Foam As Electrode For High-Performance Supercapacitor, Zhong Wu, Xin-Bo Zhang

Journal of Electrochemistry

Herein, a facile synthesis has been explored to prepare carbon aerogel/Ni foam. Graphene oxide, resorcinol and formaldehyde serve as precursors and polymerize in-situ on the Ni foam after hydrothermal synthesis at 85 ℃. After lyophilization treatment, the carbon aerogel/Ni foam with porous structure can be obtained. Electrochemical investigations reveal that the carbon aerogel/Ni foam exhibits superior performances in both aqueous and organic electrolytes involving high specific capacitance and long-term cycling stability. The excellent properties can be ascribed to the unique formation and porous structure, which allows more effective transportations of electron and electrolyte ion.

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Intercalation Of Clo4- Into Hopg Investigated By Ec-Stm, Xiao-Yan Hu, Alice Aliwowe, Jia-Wei Yan, Bing-Wei Mao Dec 2015

Intercalation Of Clo4- Into Hopg Investigated By Ec-Stm, Xiao-Yan Hu, Alice Aliwowe, Jia-Wei Yan, Bing-Wei Mao

Journal of Electrochemistry

The electrochemical intercalation and surface morphology of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) electrode in 2 mol⋅L-1 HClO4 were studied by in situ scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and cyclic voltammetry (CV). Based on the step-height changes observed before and after the intercalation, the effects of different step sites on intercalation are compared. The feasibility, reversibility and speed of intercalation are discussed. The intercalation ofClO4- into HOPG can be divided into three types depending on the number of graphite layers at the step site: When the layers of graphite are more than three, the intercalation becomes feasible; when …

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Effect Of Mno2 Content On Electrochemical Capacitance Behavior Of Active Carbon Electrode, Kun Shen, Xian-Liang Zhou, Qi-Shun Duan Dec 2015

Effect Of Mno2 Content On Electrochemical Capacitance Behavior Of Active Carbon Electrode, Kun Shen, Xian-Liang Zhou, Qi-Shun Duan

Journal of Electrochemistry

In this work, the manganese dioxide (MnO2) materials were prepared by solution approach at low temperature, thermal decomposition and electrochemical deposition. The actived carbon (AC) and MnO2composite electrodes were used for aqueous supercapacitors. The morphologies and structures of the prepared materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and the electrochemical behaviors were tested by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and galanostatic charge-discharge tests. Electrochemical test data show that the maximum specific capacitances of 151, 172 and 141 F•g-1were obtained with the contents of MnO2being 70, 60 and 70% in …

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