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U.S. clears Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto




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Green dipolar aprotic solvents for the dynamic polycondensation of high-performance polyimide membranes

Green Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC04279D, Paper
Open Access
E. San José, M. R. de la Viuda, F. J. Carmona, C. Soto, L. Palacio, P. Prádanos, A. Hernández, A. Tena
Guidelines for the evaluation of green solvents were revisited and integrated into a decision diagram. GVL, Cyrene™, DMC, NOP, DEC, DMI, GBL, NBP, Rhodiasolv® PolarClean, and DMSO showed the potential to substitute hazardous polar aprotic solvents.
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Formaldehyde dehydrogenase SzFaldDH: an indispensable bridge for relaying CO2 bioactivation and conversion

Green Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC03745F, Communication
Boxia Guo, Xiuling Ji, Yaju Xue, Yuhong Huang
A novel formaldehyde dehydrogenase with outstanding reductive activity and kinetic properties was discovered for CO2 bioactivation and conversion.
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Hat-trick hero Ferguson lifts NZ to 'insane' T20 win!

Lockie Ferguson became the sixth New Zealander to take a T20 hat-trick as the visitors edged Sri Lanka by four wickets in a low scoring match in Dambulla.




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Trump picks India's friends as Secy of State, NSA

By picking Rubio and Waltz as his top diplomat and NSA guarantees a continuation of bi-partisan support and further strengthening of India-US relationship under the second Trump administration.




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'NSA Mike Waltz would be good for India-US ties'

Waltz after being elected as the Co-Chair of India Caucus in January last year had said that India is the world's largest democracy and an important strategic partner for the United States.




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Encapsulation of Cu nanoparticles in nanovoids of plate-like silica sodalite through interlayer condensation of Cu2+ ion-exchanged layered silicate RUB-15

Dalton Trans., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0DT01083A, Paper
Masakazu Koike, Rika Sakai, Shimpei Enomoto, Takeshi Mino, Natsuhiko Sugimura, Takahiro Gotoh, Hiroaki Wada, Atsushi Shimojima, Kazuyuki Kuroda
Cu nanoparticles were encapsulated in the nanovoids of plate-like silica sodalite through the interlayer condensation of Cu2+ ion-exchanged layered silicate RUB-15.
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Trading pick of the week: Sell Kansai Nerolac Paints

Investors with a medium-term perspective can sell the stock of Kansai Nerolac Paints at current levels.The stock had encountered a key resistance in t




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Will Kansas City's challenging regular season schedule affect its chances to repeat as Super Bowl champions?

The Kansas City Chiefs will look to repeat as Super Bowl champions in 2020, but their regular season schedule won't offer any concessions.






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Three Kansas City Organizations Earn Regional Awards for Making Significant Progress in Reducing Food Waste in America

Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE




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EPA Awards More Than $1 Million to Clean Up School Buses in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas

DALLAS – (April 24, 2020) In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $11.5 million to replace 580 older diesel school buses.




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Xi Jinping: A Transactional or Transformational Leader?

Research Event

10 November 2014 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Chatham House, London

Event participants

Christopher K Johnson, Senior Adviser; Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Chair: Dr Michal Meidan, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House 

The speaker will argue that President Xi Jinping's accretion of substantial political power has rendered him the most influential Chinese leader in decades. Still, there is much debate over how President Xi intends to wield that power, and to what end. The speaker will seek to deconstruct Xi's understanding of the nature of power, speculating on his likely game plan for his tenure and exploring the implications for China, the region, and the world in the first quarter of this century.

THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL AND REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.

Department/project

Joshua Webb

+44 (0)20 7314 3678




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Emerging Transatlantic Security Dilemmas in Border Management

The exponential growth of international travel since the 1960s has left border management systems worldwide struggling to keep up and has exposed weaknesses in states’ abilities to effectively manage their borders, especially regarding terrorist attacks, human trafficking, and illegal migration.




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Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation on International Migration

The EU-U.S. relationship is one of the most significant partnerships among wealthy nations. Interconnections between the two on migration issues make dialogue necessary and inevitable, as each relies on each other to attain a number of policy objectives, most clearly in the case of travel and border security.




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Migration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience

This edited volume addresses the impact of the economic crisis in seven major immigrant-receiving countries: the United States, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. 




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Migration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience

The release event for MPI’s book, Migration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience, which reviews how the financial and economic crisis of the late 2000s marked a sudden and dramatic interruption in international migration trends, and the effects of the economic turmoil on immigrant workers in major immigrant-receiving countries in Europe as well as the United States.




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After Nepal Objects To Link Road For Kailash Mansarovar, India's Reply

Nepal has raised objections over India inaugurating a strategic link road connecting Lipulekh pass at a height of 17,000 feet along the border with China in Uttarakhand with Dharchula. Nepal's...




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Smaller, more affordable Honda Africa Twin might be called Transalp 790: To rub shoulders with KTM 790 Adventure!

The middleweight Honda Africa Twin will cater to a much wider audience, especially in a price-sensitive market like India and will lock horns with the KTM 790 Adventure.




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Analyst Corner: Maintain ‘buy’ on Kansai Nerolac; FV reduced to Rs 450

Lifting of the lockdown would release pent-up demand from incomplete repainting projects but we do not expect much new repainting work (especially in urban markets), nor a pick-up in fresh painting (construction activity).




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Interview: Covid-19 pandemic will accelerate digitalisation, says Anjali Bansal, founder, Avaana Capital

Startups must maintain their financial health by conserving cash, cutting down on costs and renegotiating their existing contracts.




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Audit of Central Bank to include all its transactions: Nehme

The audit of Lebanon's central bank accounts announced last month will include every transaction at the bank, Economy Minister Raoul Nehme said in an interview published on Sunday.




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Health, fair compensation on MLB players' minds

MLBPA executive board members Chris Iannetta and Andrew Miller recently told ESPN that when it comes to resuming play, health is first and foremost on players' minds, with fair compensation behind it.










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UK Discrimination Law Review: Tax on discrimination compensation

In a recent case the First-tier Tribunal (Tax) confirmed that a compensation payment that was made to an employee on the termination of their employment was taxable, notwithstanding that the payment related to discrimination and injury to feelings. ...




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Value added tax and barter transactions

This VAT and Duties Tribunal decision, Riverside Sports & Leisure Limited, concerned the grant of a lease over sports facilities. It illustrates the point that value added tax (VAT) can be problematical in the most innocuous of transactions. In...




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HR e-briefing 394 - Increased redundancy pay and other compensation limits

Details have just been published of the annual uprating of compensation limits for tribunal claims and other amounts payable under employment legislation. The new amounts will apply where the relevant event occurs on or after 1 February 2009. For un...




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Players feel compensation is key when taking risk

As the possibility of a season start date increases, Major League Baseball Players Association board members Chris Iannetta and Andrew Miller are concerned about pay and health.




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The Intercept Discloses Top-Secret NSA Document on Russia Hacking Aimed at US Voting System

On Monday, the Intercept published a classified internal NSA document noting that Russian military intelligence mounted an operation to hack at least one US voting software supplier—which provided software related to voter registration files—in the months prior to last year's presidential contest. It has previously been reported that Russia attempted to hack into voter registration systems, but this NSA document provides details of how one such operation occurred.

According to the Intercept:

The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the US election and voting infrastructure. The report, dated May 5, 2017, is the most detailed US government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light.

While the document provides a rare window into the NSA's understanding of the mechanics of Russian hacking, it does not show the underlying "raw" intelligence on which the analysis is based. A US intelligence officer who declined to be identified cautioned against drawing too big a conclusion from the document because a single analysis is not necessarily definitive.

The report indicates that Russian hacking may have penetrated further into US voting systems than was previously understood. It states unequivocally in its summary statement that it was Russian military intelligence, specifically the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, that conducted the cyber attacks described in the document:

Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors … executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.

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FOOi: the tipping point in cashless transactions in Canada

Transitioning to the cashless society just got easier with FOOi, a digital wallet that enables Canadians to make instant peer-to-peer and peer-to-business payments. And it all began with a conversation about tipping.   “Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro together was easier in some respects than launching this app,” says David Morrison. “We’ve certainly experienced a steep learning…




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Cyber Security Today – Email scam targets executives, NSA rates conferencing tools and prepare for COVID tracing apps

Email scam targets executives, NSA rates conferencing tools and get ready for COVID tracing apps Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday May 4th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. To hear the podcast, click on the arrow below: Senior executives of companies around the world should always be careful clicking on…




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Audit of Lebanon's central bank to include all its transactions - economy minister




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The Cannibal of Ajax: Inside Suarez’s insane mental battle to stop biting opponents

Liverpool’s January transfer window of 2011 was a strange one. It was dominated by two names: Fernando Torres and Andy Carroll.




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Smashing shins on poles and SEVEN hour sessions: UFC star’s insane fight prep

Tony Ferguson will go down as one of the most compelling UFC fighters of all time - and he carries that through to his training regime.




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Líneas directrices de la OCDE para empresas multinacionales - La importancia de una conducta responsable por parte de las empresas

Este folleto contiene información esencial sobre las Líneas Directrices de la OCDE para empresas multinacionales, que en la actualidad constituyen las recomendaciones más exhaustivas aprobadas por los gobiernos sobre la conducta responsable de las empresas.




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The Debate over Circumcision - Its Effects on Penis Health and Sensation

To circumcise or not to circumcise? This has been a touchy subject in the medical community for years, with those in favor of circumcision arguing that it is necessary to prevent disease, and those who are against the procedure insisting...




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India-OECD seminar on fighting bribery in business transactions

Co-organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the OECD in New Delhi, discussions at this seminar focused on corruption challenges facing Indian companies today and what can be done to overcome these challenges.




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PISA in Focus No. 76 - How do schools compensate for socio-economic disadvantage?

As educators know well, there are many barriers to learning that originate outside of school, such as those that arise from socio-economic disadvantage. In many education systems, the concentration of disadvantaged students in certain schools poses an additional challenge.




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Forensic auditor to review every transaction at Lebanon’s central bank

Economy minister says comprehensive inspection is part of measures needed to save economy




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Qantas launches insane '12 Days of Christmas' sale offering flights for just $99

The Australian airline will release a new bargain every day for the first 12 days of December.




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Insaf S/O Ishaq Mohammed B/C ... vs State Of Rajasthan on 8 May, 2020

The present criminal appeal under Section 14(A) (2) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has been filed in connection with FIR No.98/2019 registered at Police Station Anta, District Baran.

Learned counsel for the appellants submitted that the appellants are in custody since 02.05.2019.

Learned counsel submitted that police after investigation has filed challan. Counsel further submitted that the allegation against the appellants is in respect of using fire arm but (Downloaded on 08/05/2020 at 08:46:25 PM) (2 of 2) [CRLAS-2822/2019] the medical report which has been prepared shows that the injury suffered by the injured was simple in nature and caused by the blunt weapon.




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Amber Davies looks sensational in a tiny green bikini for sultry snap during lockdown

The former Love Island star, 22, uploaded a picture of her lounging on an armchair in a stunning emerald two-piece which showed off her svelte physique.




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Rustam Ansari vs The State Of Jharkhand on 7 May, 2020

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For the Appellants : Mr. Lukesh Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Sardhu Mahto, A.P.P.

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th 04/Dated: 07 May, 2020

1. This interlocutory application has been filed under Section 389(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure for suspension of the sentence and grant of ad-interim bail, to the petitioners, during the pendency of the appeal.

2. The petitioners/ appellants have been convicted for the offence under Sections 25(1-A), 26(2) read with Section 35 of the Arms Act by the court of learned Additional Judicial Commissioner, II, Ranchi, in Sessions Trial No.361 of 2016.




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Unsafe custody in Punjab's prisons


An INASAF investigation finds the state grossly indifferent to the health, medical needs, and humane treatment of its prisoners, some of whom haven't even received trials.