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Systematic approach for wettability prediction using molecular dynamics simulations

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4299-4310
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00197J, Paper
Open Access
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Ahmed Jarray, Herman Wijshoff, Jurriaan A. Luiken, Wouter K. den Otter
An efficient approach for fast screening of liquids in terms of their wetting properties.
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Saddle-curvature instability of lipid bilayer induced by amphipathicpeptides: A molecular model

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00499E, Paper
Rachel Downing, Guilherme Volpe Bossa, Sylvio May
Amphipathic peptides that partition into lipid bilayers affect the curvature elastic properties oftheir host. Some of these peptides are able to shift the Gaussian modulus to positive values, thustriggering an...
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The end of strategic stability?: Nuclear weapons and the challenge of regional rivalries / Lawrence Rubin and Adam N. Stulberg, editors

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Adaptive food webs : stability and transitions of real and model ecosystems / edited by John C. Moore (Colorado State University, CO, USA), Peter C. de Ruiter (Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands), Kevin S. McCann (University of Guelph, ON, Canada),




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Check out Freelance Remote Conf and React Remote Conf!

 

02:31 - Jochen Krause Introduction

03:21 - Ian Bull Introduction

04:01 - Tabris.js

04:48 - Tabris vs React, Cordova, and React Native

  • Exposing Bluetooth Functionality

08:25 - Benefits/Advantages of Using Tabris

12:45 - Creating Panels and Flows

14:26 - Getting Started Experience

16:40 - Handling Updates; Live Updating

25:15 - Views (Declarative and Imperative UI)

29:09 - "Write once, run anywhere." vs "Learn once write anywhere."

35:21 - Why have other projects failed or not failed?

39:41 - What does it mean to be statically compiled?

40:44 - Styling: Creating a Middle Group that Looks and Feels Good (iOS vs Android)

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47:51 - ES6 Implications

49:29 - Plugins

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Nick Saban (Aimee)
Lloyd Borrett: Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose (Jamison)
Dan Luu: Normalization of Deviance in Software: How Completely Broken Practices Become Normal (Jamison)
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Microsoft (Dave)
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CES (Chuck)
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232 JSJ GunDB and Databases with Mark Nadal

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07:00 Defining a database

12:58 The CAP Theorem

22:56 What Graphs are and how they function (circular references)

30:32 Gun and rotational disk systems

32:08 Gun’s optimizations for performance in ensuing versions

39:55 The prevalence of open source companies

42:45 Further discussing the CAP Theorem and its nuances

50:33 Gun’s purpose and design

52:13 What a Firebase is

54:22 How to get started with Gun - Visit Gun Tutorial,  Gun's Github Page, and

Gun Node Module

QUOTES:

“I think the database should bend to your application’s demands, rather than you having to bend to the database’s demands.” –Mark Nadal

“…The protocol that GUN defines is something that can be implemented in any language. Because GUN is in the language, you don’t have the context which latency of having to make an HTTP call or socket request…” –AJ O’Neill

“Let’s demystify the black magic of CAP.” –Mark Nadal

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Dan North’s Deliberate Learning Video

8Tracks Internet Radio

Pokemon Indigo League on Netflix

Daplie Personal Cloud

Young Frankenstein Movie

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243 JSJ Immutable.js with Lee Byron

1:05 - Introducing Lee Byron

1:55 - Immutable.js

4:35 - Modifying data and operations using Immutable.js

7:40 - Explaining Big-O notation in layman’s terms

11:30 - Internal tree structures and arrays

15:50 - Why build with Immutable.js?

23:05 - Change detection with a mutable

25:00 - Computer science history

34:35 - Other positives to using mutables

37:50 - Flux and Redux

39:50 - When should you use a mutable?

46:10 - Using Immutable.js instead of the built-in Javascript option

51:50 - Learning curves and learning materials

54:50 - Bowties

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Contractor by Andrew Ball

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Asana (Charles)

Call of Duty Infinite Warfare (Joe)

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Advent of Code (Lee)

 




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[ASAP] Promoting Thermodynamic and Kinetic Stabilities of FA-based Perovskite by an in Situ Bilayer Structure

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Ag2O-catalysed nucleophilic isocyanation: selective formation of less-stable benzylic isonitriles

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00336K, Research Article
Taiga Yurino, Yuji Tange, Ryutaro Tani, Takeshi Ohkuma
Both primary and secondary benzylic isonitriles were exclusively produced by the Ag2O-catalysed reaction of benzylic phosphates and trimethylsilyl cyanide without formation of the thermodynamically favoured regioisomers, benzylic nitriles.
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An Aspidosperma-type alkaloid dimer from Tabernaemontana bovina as a candidate for the inhibition of microglial activation

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00296H, Research Article
Yang Yu, Si-Meng Zhao, Mei-Fen Bao, Xiang-Hai Cai
As a representative of twelve undescribed Aspidosperma-type alkaloid dimers, tabernaemontine F (6) inhibited microglial activation by blocking P38 MAPK activation, revealing a potential candidate for chronic neurodegenerative diseases.
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[ASAP] Bistable State of Protons for Low-Voltage Memories

Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Metabolic regulation and metabolic engineering for biofuel and biochemical production / Kazuyuki Shimizu, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Yamagata, Japan

Hayden Library - TP248.B55 S55 2017




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Secondary Metabolites of Medicinal Plants: Ethnopharmacological Properties, Biological Activity and Production Strategies, 4 Volume Set


 
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A high-throughput and untargeted lipidomics approach reveals new mechanistic insight and the effects of salvianolic acid B on the metabolic profiles in coronary heart disease rats using ultra-performance liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17101-17113
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA00049C, Paper
Open Access
Ying-peng Li, Cong-ying Wang, Hong-tao Shang, Rui-rui Hu, Hui Fu, Xue-feng Xiao
High-throughput lipidomics provides the possibility for the development of new therapeutic drugs.
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Stable antibacterial polysaccharide-based hydrogels as tissue adhesives for wound healing

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17280-17287
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA02017F, Paper
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Xiaoxuan Tang, Xinyi Gu, Yaling Wang, Xiaoli Chen, Jue Ling, Yumin Yang
By combination of alginate/polyacrylamide/chitosan, tough antibacterial hydrogels are designed for applications as tissues adhesives to promote wound healing.
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Two-dimensional β-MoO3@C nanosheets as high-performance negative materials for supercapacitors with excellent cycling stability

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17497-17505
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA01258K, Paper
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Xuexia Liu, Ying Wu, Huiwen Wang, Yinfeng Wang, Chunfang Huang, Limin Liu, Zhijun Wang
MoO3 has gained a great deal of attention as a promising electrode material in energy storage devices.
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Enhanced thermal stability, hydrophobicity, UV radiation resistance, and antibacterial properties of wool fabric treated with p-aminobenzenesulphonic acid

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17515-17523
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA02267E, Paper
Open Access
Mohammad Mahbubul Hassan
The treatment with para-aminobenzenesulphonic acid produced a multifunctional wool fabric with enhanced hydrophobicity, thermal stability, UV resistance, and antibacterial properties.
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A facile method for preparing Yb3+-doped perovskite nanocrystals with ultra-stable near-infrared light emission

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17635-17641
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA01897J, Paper
Open Access
Chunqian Zhang, Aidi Zhang, Taoran Liu, Lin Zhou, Jun Zheng, Yuhua Zuo, Yongqi He, Juhao Li
A facile method for fabricating CsPbBr3:Yb3+@SiO2 NCs which guarantees high PLQY and excellent stability at the same time.
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Ni stabilized rock-salt structured CoO; Co1−xNixO: tuning of eg electrons to develop a novel OER catalyst

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17845-17853
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA03050C, Paper
Open Access
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Rakesh Mondal, Himanshu Ratnawat, Sarvesh Kumar, Anil Kumar, Preetam Singh
Incorporation of Ni into CoO lattices helps to stabilize the rock salt structure and modulate the eg electrons to develop superior OER and ORR electrocatalysts.
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RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17892-17905
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA02866E, Paper
Open Access
Hongyan Sun, Xiaoyun Wang, Huimin Li, Jiahui Bi, Jia Yu, Xianjun Liu, Huanxin Zhou, Zhijiang Rong
Intensive insight into the potential mechanisms of Se-induced Cd tolerance in cucumber seedlings is essential for further improvement of vegetable crop cultivation and breeding to obtain high yields and quality in Cd-contaminated soil.
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Mac OS X bootable backup drive with rsync

I’ve started using a backup strategy based on that originally described by Jamie Zawinski and subsequently covered in Jeff Atwood’s What’s your backup strategy? article. It works by incrementally backing up your data to a bootable clone of your computer’s internal drive, in order to replace the internal drive when it fails.

This script is maintained in my dotfiles repo. Please report problems or improvements in the issue tracker.

This post is mainly to document – for myself as much as anything – the process I went through in order to implement an incremental backup strategy in OS X 10.6+. Use at your own risk. Feel free to suggest improvements if you know of any.

Formatting and partitioning the drive

With your backup drive in its enclosure, connect the drive to your Mac and open the Disk Utility application.

  1. Click on the disk’s name. This should bring up a “Partition” tab in the right panel.
  2. Click on the “Partition” tab.
  3. Under “Volume scheme” select the number of partitions you need. Probably “1 partition” if it is to match your internal disk.
  4. Under “Name” enter the volume name you want to use, e.g., “Backup”.
  5. Under “Format” select “Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)”, which is necessary if the disk is to be bootable.
  6. Click “Options” and check that “GUID Partition Table” is selected.
  7. Click “Apply”.

This will format and partition the disk. The partition(s) should now show up in the Finder and on the Desktop.

Enable ownership permissions

The new partition needs permissions to be enabled to avoid chown errors when using rsync. To do this, select the partition and view its information page (using “Get Info” or Command+I). Expand the “Ownership & Permissions” section and uncheck “Ignore ownership on this volume”

Backup script

The backup script uses rsync – a fast and versatile file copying tool – to manage the copying and moving of data between volumes. You need to install rsync 3 (this is easily done using Homebrew: brew install https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/master/rsync.rb). Rsync offers a wide variety of options and only copies the differences between the source files and the existing files in the destination, making it ideal for incremental backups. You can find out more about rsync in the rsync documentation

The following is the contents of a script I’ve named backup. I’m using it to backup all of the data on my internal disk, with a specified set of exceptions contained within a file called .backupignore.

#!/bin/bash

# Disc backup script
# Requires rsync 3

# Ask for the administrator password upfront
sudo -v

# IMPORTANT: Make sure you update the `DST` variable to match the name of the
# destination backup drive

DST="/Volumes/Macintosh HD/"
SRC="/"
EXCLUDE="$HOME/.backupignore"

PROG=$0

# --acls                   update the destination ACLs to be the same as the source ACLs
# --archive                turn on archive mode (recursive copy + retain attributes)
# --delete                 delete any files that have been deleted locally
# --delete-excluded        delete any files (on DST) that are part of the list of excluded files
# --exclude-from           reference a list of files to exclude
# --hard-links             preserve hard-links
# --one-file-system        don't cross device boundaries (ignore mounted volumes)
# --sparse                 handle sparse files efficiently
# --verbose                increase verbosity
# --xattrs                 update the remote extended attributes to be the same as the local ones

if [ ! -r "$SRC" ]; then
    logger -t $PROG "Source $SRC not readable - Cannot start the sync process"
    exit;
fi

if [ ! -w "$DST" ]; then
    logger -t $PROG "Destination $DST not writeable - Cannot start the sync process"
    exit;
fi

logger -t $PROG "Start rsync"

sudo rsync --acls 
           --archive 
           --delete 
           --delete-excluded 
           --exclude-from=$EXCLUDE 
           --hard-links 
           --one-file-system 
           --sparse 
           --verbose 
           --xattrs 
           "$SRC" "$DST"

logger -t $PROG "End rsync"

# Make the backup bootable
sudo bless -folder "$DST"/System/Library/CoreServices

exit 0

Adapted from the rsync script at Automated OSX backups with launchd and rsync

This is the contents of the .backupignore file.

.Spotlight-*/
.Trashes
/afs/*
/automount/*
/cores/*
/dev/*
/Network/*
/private/tmp/*
/private/var/run/*
/private/var/spool/postfix/*
/private/var/vm/*
/Previous Systems.localized
/tmp/*
/Volumes/*
*/.Trash

Adapted from the excludes file at Automated OSX backups with launchd and rsync

Every time the script runs, messages will be written to the system log.

Check that the source (SRC) and destination (DST) paths in the script are correct and match the volume name that you chose when partitioning the disk. Wrapping the $SRC and $DST variables in double quotes ensures that the script will work even if your volume names contain spaces (e.g. “Macintosh Backup”).

The command option --exclude-from tells the script where to find the file containing the exclude patterns. Make sure you either have .backupignore in the home directory or that you update this part of the command to reference the full path of the excludes file.

Running the backup script

You can run the script from the command line, or make it executable from the Finder or the Desktop:

  1. Type the following into the command line to ensure that you have permission to execute the script:

    chmod +x /path/to/rsync_backup.sh
    
  2. Remove the .sh extension from the script.

  3. Create an alias of the script and move it to the Desktop.
  4. Double click the icon to run the backup script.

It’s important to run the script regularly in order to keep the backup in sync with your internal disk. If you have a desktop computer, or you never turn off your laptop, you can automate the running of the script by setting up a cron job.

Checking the disk is bootable

Once you’ve run the backup script, you should test that the backup disk is bootable. To do this, restart your computer and hold down the Alt/Option key. Your backup disk should be presented, with the volume name you chose, as a bootable disk.

When I first booted my backup, the terminal displayed the following line:

dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache

According to this article, the fix for this is to update the cache by entering the following into the terminal:

sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force

That should be everything you need to start implementing an incremental backup strategy when using OS X.




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Transforming legacy organizations [electronic resource] : turn your established business into an innovation champion to win the future / Kris Oestergaard

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