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Je découverte... Maurice Sixto / écrit par Mirline Pierre ; dessiné par Fritzgérald Muscadin ; caricaturé par Ralphaël [i.e., Raphaël] Paquin

Barker Library - PQ3949.2.S59 Z55 2019




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Doom: scarydarkfast / Dan Pinchbeck

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Social, casual and mobile games: the changing gaming landscape / edited by Tama Leaver and Michele Willson

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The monopolists: obsession, fury, and the scandal behind the world's favorite board game / Mary Pilon

Hayden Library - GV1469.M65 P55 2016




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Social, casual and mobile games: the changing gaming landscape / edited by Tama Leaver, Michele Willson

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.S63 2016




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Digital gaming and the advertising landscape / Teresa de la Hera

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Videogame sciences and arts: 11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27-29, 2019, Proceedings / Nelson Zagalo, Ana Isabel Veloso, Liliana Costa, Óscar Mealha (eds.)

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Spice oleoresin industry survives covid-19 scare

Indian spice oleoresins, widely used for natural colours and flavours in the food products, currently dominate the world market with over Rs 2,000 crore export. A few companies based in Kerala account for a major share of the world spice oleoresin market.




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[ASAP] Near-Linear Scaling in DMRG-Based Tailored Coupled Clusters: An Implementation of DLPNO-TCCSD and DLPNO-TCCSD(T)

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00065




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[ASAP] Scalable Electron Correlation Methods. 7. Local Open-Shell Coupled-Cluster Methods Using Pair Natural Orbitals: PNO-RCCSD and PNO-UCCSD

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00192




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Live: Covid testing capacity scaled up to 95,000 per day, says Centre

India’s Covid-19 count is nearing 60,000 mark with 59,662 cases after new cases topped 3,000 for the third consecutive day. The overall death toll too was just short of 2,000 at 1,981. Overall, 3,294 fresh cases were reported from states in past 24-hour. Stay here for all live updates





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Are Influencers the Escape Social Media Wants During Coronavirus?

Self-quarantining during COVID-19 has caused some, especially those in the travel industry, to take a bigger hit than others. Those who usually work from home have had to make less of an adjustment, though booking paid partnerships is a struggle industry-wide.

As a result, many influencers are getting creative with their social strategies. Those who are multiplatform and have more than one revenue stream are coming out on top.

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Testing capacity for Covid-19 scaled up to 95,000 per day: Harsh Vardhan

The testing capacity for Covid-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The minister reviewed the status of Covid-19 in the northeastern states along with the measures taken for its containment.




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Enhancing the average thermoelectric figure of merit of elemental Te by suppressing grain boundary scattering

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8,8455-8461
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA02660C, Paper
Yehao Wu, Feng Liu, Qi Zhang, Tiejun Zhu, Kaiyang Xia, Xinbing Zhao
Suppressed grain boundary scattering contributes to enhanced electrical conductivity and device zT in elemental Te based thermoelectric materials.
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Mystic landscapes / Enjott Schneider

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Tangos for Yvar / Aharonián, Babbitt, Berkman, Biscardi, Fennelly, Finch, Hill, Johnson, Mumford, Nichifor, Nobre, Nyman, Pender, Piazzolla, Rzewski, Schimmel, Vigeland, Wolpe

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[ASAP] Palladium-Catalyzed Cascade Decarboxylative Amination/6-<italic toggle="yes">endo-dig</italic> Benzannulation of <italic toggle="yes">o</italic>-Alkynylarylketones with <italic toggle="yes"&g

Organic Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01183




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[ASAP] Synthesis of Spiroisoxazolines via an Oximation/Dearomatization Cascade under Air

Organic Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01429




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[ASAP] Photoredox Catalysis toward 2-Sulfenylindole Synthesis through a Radical Cascade Process

Organic Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01297




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CBI court extends Kapil Wadhawan, Dheeraj Wadhawan's custody in Yes Bank scam till May 10

The businessmen-brothers are facing charges of financial irregularities in cases filed by both Enforcement Directorate (ED) and CBI.




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Scatternotes

Inspired by Brad’s recent post, here’s a scattering of thoughts I had about things other than conferences (I already wrote about those.)

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Amsterdam runs in idle, but it runs. That is good to see. As far as I know all cities run in idle right now, but are still running.

Civilization, society, and probably the economy as well, will not collapse. This is no extinction event, just a very bad spell. We will recover.

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We can give up on the rest of the school year. In Holland the central examinations are cancelled for the first time since 1945. I am in touch with a bunch of 15- and 16-year olds, children of friends and their friends, that I play D&D and board games with. I mainly think of them in this item. I also think of the students I’m currently teaching (online) at university, who are around 20 or so.

Once social distancing is over they will likely go into party mode for months on end. It will be very difficult to get them to pay attention to school or studies, and in my opinion we shouldn’t try. They’re right.

(Note to self: figure out how the people born around 1330 fared after the Black Death. Re-read Froissart.)

Also, I predict a slight uptick in teen abortions during summer.

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I’m teaching at university right now, and it really goes remarkably well. Still, this is the web faculty, which is the one faculty that’s most likely to adapt seamlessly to the current situation, since not only the students, but also the teachers are well at home on the web. Other faculties might likely have more problems — think a classics professor who never clicked on anything because Aristotle and Cicero didn’t either.

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Twitter is a cesspool. I don’t go there any more. I get very tired of all the enraged Americans in particular, who think that the specific problems of their country are the most important ones in the world. Not fair, maybe, but that’s how it is. Deal with your orange monkey yourself, we don’t have the time for it.

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I am supposed to be writing a book. I am currently not writing a book. But last week was very hard (teaching while cancelling a conference for the first time is not my favourite mix of activities), this week will be moderately busy, and we’ll see next week.

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Eric said websites should get static, because the React monstrosities that rule the web now are too fucking slow and expensive on mobile devices, and people need information right now.

We should rule that important government websites are not allowed to use JavaScript at all. That’ll solve the problem.

Sure, reality is more nuanced, good JavaScript use is possible yaddah yaddah, but right now is not the time for nuance. We need one simple rule that actually does away with the problem and that even idiots understand.

So skip the JavaScript entirely. It’s just fluff. Do away with it.

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I stopped paying taxes for the first time in my freelance career. Without taxes, I can probably hold on to November or December even without any extra income beyond what I already invoiced. This is definitely better than I initially thought, when I had to say goodbye to 1/3 of my annual income.

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My first online D&D session was an astounding success. I use Whereby and I swear by it. (Install app for iOS; rest just works in the browser.) I have a Pro account, so my room accepts 12 connections simultaneously.

I used two devices as cameras on the battle mat and the initiative tracker (I use a slightly modified version of this initiative system), and my laptop for an image of myself and to see the players. Rolz for die rolls, Whatsapp for private communication between DM and one player, and that’s it, really. I occasionally added a fourth hand cam with an extra phone, but I could do without if necessary.

The only problem is that it turns out to be impossible to turn off sound entirely on the iPad. There are online instructions that claim otherwise, but they don’t work. Still, just now I realised I should kill all video feeds to the iPad except for its own; I only use it as a glorified web cam.

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A lot is being said about mental health, and it’s all true. I also suffer a little bit — on average I get Corona about three times per day, but when I forget about it for five minutes my symptoms mysteriously disappear. I assume others have the same problem.

Many good points have already been made, and I’m not going to repeat them. The historian in me wants to make another point entirely.

Once upon a time, not so long ago, this feeling of permanent stress and helplessness, multiplied by two, three, or even four, was the natural state of being of just about all humans. Plagues, wars, famines, too-high taxes, they could all arrive at your doorstep, and in an average year at least one (most likely taxes) did.

People lived like this all the time. They were not aware that it is possible to live in any other way. The stress you’re feeling now is about one-half to one-quarter of what everybody felt all the time during most of human history, and before. As a result, all of them had PTSD. All of them. That’s why assholery is so widespread during all of history (except, in some parts of the world, for most of the people, for the last sixty years or so).

This is what we’re fighting for. We fight for our children to have the chance to live as we did, without constant fear.

Remember that. It gives you a goal to shoot for.

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Jeremy is right. Writing helps. I feel better already.




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Fitbit conducts large scale study to identify atrial fibrillation using its wearable tech

Fitbit on Thursday launched its Fitbit Heart Study, a large-scale, virtual study to validate the use of its wearable technology to identify heart acti




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A comprehensive introduction to sub-Riemannian geometry: from the Hamiltonian viewpoint / Andrei Agrachev (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste), Davide Barilari (Université Paris Diderot, Paris), Ugo Boscain (Centre Nat

Dewey Library - QA671.A47 2020




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Model management and analytics for large scale systems / edited by Bedir Tekinerdogan, Önder Babur, Loek Cleophas, Mark van den Brand, Mehmet Aksit

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Bengaluru leopard scare

Bengaluru leopard scare




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Yes Bank Scam: CBI custody of Wadhawan brothers extended till May 10

Yes Bank Scam: CBI custody of Wadhawan brothers extended till May 10




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Celebrating the megascale: proceedings of the Extraction and Processing Division Symposium on Pyrometallurgy in honor of David G.C. Robertson: proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Extraction and Processing Division of The Minerals, Metals & Mat

Hayden Library - TN688.5.C45 2014




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Rare: the high-stakes race to satisfy our need for the scarcest metals on Earth / Keith Veronese

Hayden Library - QD172.R2 V43 2015









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PNB scam: Meet Firestar's Vipul Ambani, simple CFO in a complex setting

The self-described entrepreneur had surprised all by joining Nirav Modi four years ago




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Loss-favored ultrasensitive refractive index sensor based on directional scattering from a single all-dielectric nanosphere

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00899K, Communication
Churong Ma, Ying Liu, Feng Zhao, Feng Xu, Jiahao Yan, Xiangping Li, Bai-Ou Guan, Guowei Yang, Kai Chen
An ultrasensitive refractive index sensor based on a lossy all-dielectric nanosphere.
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Suppression of the morphology mismatch in Graphene/ n-type Organic Semiconductor interfaces: a Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy investigation

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01099E, Paper
Federico Chianese, Fabio Chiarella, Mario Barra, Andrea Candini, Marco Affronte, Antonio Cassinese
Contact resistance effects in n-type organic field-effect transistors (OFET) based on perylene-diimide thin films and monolayer CVD graphene electrodes have been investigated by Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (SKPFM). SKPFM...
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Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett's selected writings / edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola

Hayden Library - PS3503.E5474 A6 2018




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Semantic technology: 9th Joint International Conference, JIST 2019, Hangzhou, China, November 25-27, 2019, Revised selected papers / Xin Wang, Francesca A. Lisi, Guohui Xiao, Elena Botoeva, editors

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Web, artificial intelligence and network applications: proceedings of the Workshops of the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (WAINA-2020) / Leonard Barolli, Flora Amato, Francesco Moscato, Tomoya Enokido, M

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Show boat / San Francisco Opera ; music by Jerome Kern ; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; based on the novel by Edna Ferber

Browsery DVD PN1997.2.S56 A1 2015




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Turandot: dramma lirico in tre atti e cinque quadri / libretto di Giuseppe Adami e Renato Simoni ; musica di Giacomo Puccini ; completamento del terzo atto di Luciano Berio ; RAI, Teatro alla Scala presentano La Scala per Expo dal Teatro alla Scala di Mil

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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel / music by Richard Rodgers ; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; based on Ferenc Molnár's play "Lilion," adapted by Chad Beguelin ; directed for the stage by John Rando ; directed by by Gl

Browsery DVD M1500.R63 C3 2017




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Frankenstein / choreography, Liam Scarlett ; music, Lowell Liebermann ; designer, John Macfarlane ; lighting designer, David Finn ; executive producer, Tony Followell ; directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon ; co-production between the Royal Ballet an

Browsery DVD GV1790.F736 2016




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The jazz loft, according to W. Eugene Smith / WNYC Studies presents ; in association with Lumiere Productions ; written, produced, and directed by Sara Fishko ; producer, Calvin Scaggs

Browsery DVD ML3508.8 N49 2018




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[ASAP] Scavenging One of the Liquids versus Emulsion Stabilization by Microgels in a Mixture of Two Immiscible Liquids

ACS Macro Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00191




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Visualization of materials using the confocal laser scanning microscopy technique

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2020, 49,2408-2425
DOI: 10.1039/C8CS00061A, Review Article
Xu Teng, Feng Li, Chao Lu
This review summarizes the recent applications of confocal laser scanning microscopy in materials science.
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Samsung heir apologises over corruption scandal

The heir to the Samsung empire bowed in apology on Wednesday for company misconduct including a controversial plan for him to ascend to the leadership of the world's largest smartphone maker.




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Chloe Scattergood

Chloe Scattergood is a senior majoring in archaeology and minoring in art history and geological sciences within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. She has spent the past two summers uncovering artifacts in Huqoq, Israel, and plans to pursue a master's degree focused on colonial-era ceramics from the American East Coast.




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Immunopharmacology and inflammation / Carlo Riccardi, Francesca Levi-Schaffer, Ekaterini Tiligada editors

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