A battery pack, or battery pack module, is provided that achieves improved battery pack performance, system reliability and system safety while impacting only a small region of the battery packbattery module, and thus having only a minor impact on battery pack cost, complexity, weight and size. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel includes one switching device to apply a scan pulse per one Y-electrode wherein the switching device is turned on to apply the scan pulse to the selected Y-electrode and wherein other switching devices are turned off. The bond coat of the article includes a plasma affected region proximate to an interface between the bond coat and the topcoat, and the plasma affected region includes an elongated intergranular phase. The historical database incorporates information relating to a multiplicity of patients, each of the multiplicity of patients having a medical device and each of the multiplicity of patients having undergone a clinical therapy, the information including, for each of the multiplicity of patients, device characteristics of the medical device and an assessment of efficacy of clinical therapy. After reacting the grind mixed material of the first metal element A, the second metal element B, and urea, the reactant material is grind mixed, and thereafter subjected to firing at 600 to 1200\xb0 C.