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Self-assembled porous salt crystals for solar-powered crystallization

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04741A, Paper
Jie Yu, Lenan Zhang, Jintong Gao, Wenyu Han, Ruzhu Wang, Zhenyuan Xu
Thermally localized solar evaporation has been recognized as an efficient and suitable pathway for desalination and brine treatment. However, the annoying salt crystallization inside the porous evaporator brings challenges for...
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Selective aerobic oxidative C–C bond cleavage using a high-entropy oxide-derived multimetallic catalyst

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, 9,967-973
DOI: 10.1039/D3RE00525A, Paper
Shaoyuan Guo, Xinli Tong, Jipeng Wang, Hang Tang
A stable and efficient high entropy catalyst is developed for the selective oxidative C–C bond cleavage in the presence of O2.
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Merging inline crystallization and pulsed flow operation to enable enantiospecific solid state photodecarbonylation

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4RE00058G, Paper
Open Access
Bavo Vandekerckhove, Bart Ruttens, Bert Metten, Christian V. Stevens, Thomas S. A. Heugebaert
Photoelimination of α-chiral ketones in the solid state results in highly regio- and enantiospecific C–C bond formation. By combining inline crystallisation and pulsatile flow, the photochemistry of these slurries can now be run fully continuously.
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Selective hydrogenation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)furan over Ni–Ga intermetallic catalysts and its kinetic studies

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4RE00129J, Paper
Weixiao Sun, Fuzeyu Zhong, Xiaohu Ge, Wenyao Chen, Gang Qian, Yueqiang Cao, Xuezhi Duan, Xinggui Zhou, Jing Zhang
5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) has been listed as the “TOP 14” most important biomass-derived platform molecules, which can be converted into 2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)furan (BHF) via selective hydrogenation of the carbonyl group on HMF.
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Human Milk Metals and Metalloids Shape Infant Microbiota

Food Funct., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4FO01929F, Paper
Open Access
Eduard Flores Ventura, Manuel Bernabeu, Belén Callejón Leblic, Raúl Cabrera-Rubio, Laxmi Yeruva, Javier Estañ-Capell, Cecilia Martínez-Costa, Tamara García-Barrera, Maria Carmen Collado
Background: The profile of metal (loid)s in human milk is essential for infant growth and development, yet its impact on the development of the infant microbiota remains unclear. Elements such...
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Empower seniors digitally

It’s vital for wellness, full participation in society




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Jaya, The Tallest Bachchan

Jaya is a woman of steel in the truest sense of the word.Despite being the first lady of filmdom, she's as real and rooted to the ground as anyone can get, notes Subhash K Jha on the actor-politician's 74th birthday.




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Synergy of Ag and Pd in bimetallic catalysts for the selective oxidation of 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CY01028K, Paper
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Dominik Neukum, Maya Eyleen Ludwig, Georgios Uzunidis, Ajai Raj Lakshmi Nilayam, Baerbel Krause, Silke Behrens, Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt, Erisa Saraçi
The synthesis of renewable bio-based monomers, like 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), is of high interest in the shift toward a circular economy. Bimetallic catalysts offer the variation of different properties, enabling...
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Single-step in situ synthesis of bimetallic catalysts via a gas-phase route: the case of PdZn–ZnO

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024, 14,6321-6330
DOI: 10.1039/D4CY00807C, Paper
Andrija Kokanović, Dunja Pupavac, Stéphane Chenot, Stéphane Guilet, Igor M. Opsenica, Slavica Stankic
In this study, we explore the catalytic activity of highly pure PdZn–ZnO nanopowder, synthesized via an innovative metal–organic chemical vapor synthesis (MOCVS) method.
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Effect of metal loading sequences in CO2 methanation activity on samarium-doped ceria supported bimetallic catalysts

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CY01007H, Paper
Andrew C. Chien, Corinna C. Chi
The La/Ni/SDC catalyst from one pot microwave-heating gives higher methanation activity than La–Ni/SDC and Ni–La/SDC from stepwise heating.
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Deciphering the role of chemisorbed CO in CO2 methanation: kinetic and mechanistic investigation over monometallic (Ru) and bimetallic (Ru–Ni) catalysts

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CY01004C, Paper
Pavan Dongapure, Jyoti Tekawadia, V. Satyam Naidu, R. Nandini Devi
Supported metal catalysts have made prominent contributions to CO2 mitigation through conversion into useful chemicals.
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Active site engineering of intermetallic nanoparticles by the vapour–solid synthesis: carbon black supported nickel tellurides for hydrogen evolution

Nanoscale, 2024, 16,20168-20181
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR03397C, Paper
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Daniel Garstenauer, Patrick Guggenberger, Ondřej Zobač, Franz Jirsa, Klaus W. Richter
The intermetallic phases Ni3Te2, NiTe, NiTe2−x & NiTe2 were synthesized as carbon-black supported nanoparticles using the vapour–solid synthesis approach and were characterized for their performance in electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution.
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Dual metal centers within a water-stable Co/Ni bimetallic metal-triazolate framework contribute to durable photocatalysis for water treatment

Nanoscale, 2024, 16,20082-20088
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR03940H, Communication
Minling Zheng, Yubo Liu, Qifu Zhang, Wenjing Li, Yong Zhang, Guangxue Feng, Yating Hu, Shaoming Huang
A bimetallic CoNi-MET with fixed metal occupancy combines the strong water resistance of Co-MET with the high porosity of a Ni-MET.
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Exploring size-dependent optical property alterations in fine-tuning intermetallic PdCd nanocube sizes

Nanoscale, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR03640A, Paper
Jia-Lin Li, Ting-Yu Tien, Hung-Chun Liao, Hsin-Lun Wu
Size-tuned intermetallic PdCd nanocubes, synthesized via a quantum dot-like method, reveal novel size-dependent optical properties.
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HKUST-1 MOF Nanoparticles: Non-classical Crystallization Route in Supercritical CO2

Nanoscale, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR03070B, Communication
Ji Feng, Almond Lau, Igor V. Novosselov
Reducing MOF particles to the nanoscale size range is beneficial due to their increased surface-to-volume ratio, higher defects exposing metals and ligands, and short diffusion path. While great efforts have...
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Mixed phase Ti3+-rich TiO2 thin films by oxide defect engineered crystallization

Nanoscale, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR03545C, Paper
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Lauri Palmolahti, Harri Ali-Löytty, Markku Hannula, Tuomas Tinus, Kalle Lehtola, Antti Tukiainen, Jarno Reuna, Mika Valden
Amorphous TiO2 has insufficient chemical stability that can be enhanced with annealing induced crystallization. However, the crystalline structure is already predetermined by the defect composition of the amorphous phase. In...
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Preceramic polymer hybridized phenolic aerogels and the derived ZrC/SiC/C ceramic aerogels with ultrafine nanocrystallines

Nanoscale, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR03470H, Paper
Ding Nie, Hangyu Zhong, Hongli Hu, Zhenhua Luo, Boxing Zhang
Phenolic and carbon aerogels have important applications for thermal insulation and ablative resistance materials in aerospace areas. However, their antioxidant ability in long-term and high-temperature aerobic environments is facing serious...
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Electrical transport phenomena in two-dimensional metallic 2H-NbSe2: an experimental and theoretical study

Nanoscale, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR03369H, Paper
Jeongmin Kim, Seonhye Youn, Damin Lee, Chan Woong Kim, Hongjae Moon, Seok-Hwan Chung, Hoyoung Kim, Dong Hwan Kim, Sumin Kim, Jong Wook Roh, Joonho Bang, Wooyoung Lee
Two-dimensional (2D) metallic transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted extensive interest in various fields owing to their unique electronic properties.
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Constructing Nickel Complex/Crystalline Carbon Nitride Hybrid with a Built-in Electric Field for Boosting CO2 Photoreduction

Nanoscale, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR03586K, Paper
Yanrui Li, Linda Wang, Bo Zhan, Liangqing Zhang, Xiaolin Zhu, Xiang Gao
Sluggish charge separation dynamics resulting from the amorphous structure and the lack of driving force for graphitic carbon nitride (GCN) limits its highly effective CO2 photoreduction performance. Herein, a built-in...
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Exploring therapy transport from implantable medical devices using experimentally informed computational methods

Biomater. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4BM00107A, Paper
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Lesley Trask, Niamh A. Ward, Ruth Tarpey, Rachel Beatty, Eimear Wallace, Joanne O'Dwyer, William Ronan, Garry P. Duffy, Eimear B. Dolan
Implantable medical devices that can facilitate therapy transport to localized sites are being developed for a number of diverse applications, including the treatment of diseases such as diabetes and cancer,...
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Fibreglass sculpture of Rani Gaidinliu ready for installation at TFFM in Tajangi




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AUTD and Sraddha Foundation reunite mentally-ill woman with family after treatment




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Miracles de Nostre Dame / collected by Jean Mielot secretary to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy ; reproduced in facsimile from Douce Manuscript 374 in the Bodleian Library for John Malcolm of Poltalloch ; with text, introduction, and annotated analysis

Westminster : Nichols and Sons, 25 Parliament Street, MDCCCLXXXV [1885]




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Ceramist Rahul Kumar’s installations in his new show are a deviation from his previous experiments with clay

Ceramic artist Rahul Kumar’s tenth solo exhibition, The Untold Resides Somewhere, is a labyrinth of emotive, lexical and metaphorical expressions for “preserving the discarded”



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Paris Paralympics: With 3 gold medals, India stands 15th in the medal tally

At the end of Day 5 of the ongoing marquee event, India is at 15th position in the medal's tally with three gold, five silver, and seven bronze




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Artificial metalloenzyme flips switch in cells

Cell-penetrating assembly uncages hormone, turning on gene circuit




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Chemists fracture rings to install fluorine

Reaction opens unstrained nitrogen rings furnishing alkyl fluorine compounds




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Kodiaq, Skoda's brand-new luxury SUV, stands tall

Suspension that has fully acclimatised to Indian roads and handles potholes and bumps with ease, plush interiors that feel premium beyond just surface level, and aggressive and imposing design cues give this SUV a presence and profile that has little competition, says Pavan Lall.




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Modular access to multi-substituted allenones via environmentally friendly organocatalytic C–H allenylation of aldehydes

Green Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC04550E, Paper
Xinying Hu, Ayisenbati Jialingbieke, Yuzhi Ren, Yifan Yang, Donghui Wei, Jian Gao, Ding Du
Organocatalytic direct C–H allenylation of aldehydes with propargyl bromides has provided a straightforward and step-economical strategy for allenone modular synthesis.
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Crystalline/amorphous c-NiMo/a-NiMoOx nanoarrays for urea-assisted energy-saving H2 production in alkaline seawater

Green Chem., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC05042H, Paper
Dongxue Guo, Yi Ping, Chuanjiao Wang, Changan Hou, Danhong Wang
Electrocatalytic seawater splitting is regarded as the most effective method for producing green hydrogen (H2), but it faces issues of high energy consumption and harmful chlorine evolution side reactions. Replacing...
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Continuous production of 1,2-pentanediol from furfuryl alcohol over highly stable bimetallic Ni–Sn alloy catalysts

Green Chem., 2024, 26,11164-11176
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC02757D, Paper
Ajaysing S. Nimbalkar, Kyung-Ryul Oh, Do-Young Hong, Byung Gyu Park, Maeum Lee, Dong Won Hwang, Ali Awad, Pravin P. Upare, Seung Ju Han, Young Kyu Hwang
A bimetallic NiSn/ZnO catalyst converts biomass-derived furfuryl alcohol into 1,2-PDO continuously, yielding 91.0% over 400 hours.
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Correction: Continuous production of 1,2-pentanediol from furfuryl alcohol over highly stable bimetallic Ni–Sn alloy catalysts

Green Chem., 2024, 26,11364-11364
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC90117G, Correction
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Ajaysing S. Nimbalkar, Kyung-Ryul Oh, Do-Young Hong, Byung Gyu Park, Maeum Lee, Dong Won Hwang, Ali Awad, Pravin P. Upare, Seung Ju Han, Young Kyu Hwang
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3 minors brutally stab youth to death over petty dispute




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The Third Edit: A student who accidentally discovered an ancient city




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Besiktas install enormous disinfection cabinet after one player and member of staff test positive

The structure was produced by Turkish software company Etisan and is one of the club's main new hygiene measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at the training facilities.




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Deepika Padukone's Top 5 Regal Sarees That You Would Want To Totally Invest In

Deepika Padukone is not only a prolific actress, who has been upping her acting game but she is also a saree connoisseur. With her resplendent sarees, the actress has inspired the young ladies of today to drape sarees. In




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You Should Totally Bookmark Lisa Ray’s Pink Bridal Lehenga From Four More Shots Please!

It was just a few days ago,when stylist Aastha Sharma shared a picture of Lisa Ray from the sets of Four More Shots Please!, where she was seen sporting a stunning white bridal ensemble by Gaurav Gupta. And now, recently,




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Coronavirus pandemic | Nationwide tally crosses 60,000; fresh outbreaks abroad raise concerns over lockdown easing

The Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said the testing capacity for COVID-19 has been ramped up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of over 15 lakh tests have been conducted so far across hundreds of government and private labs.




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Coronavirus pandemic | Maharashtra COVID-19 tally rises to 20,228 after 1,165 new cases; death toll 779

The state also reported death of 48 patients, taking the death toll to 779, said a health department official.




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Covid-19: With 50 new cases, AP’s tally rises to 1,980

With the addition of 50 new cases, total number of coronavirus (Covid-19) positive cases in Andhra Pradesh has gone up to 1,980.According to governm




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Tamil Nadu reports 669 new Covid-19 cases, total tally crosses 7,000-mark

Tamil Nadu witnessed another spike in Covid-19 positive cases today with 669 to go past the 7,000-mark at 7,204.Chennai alone had recorded 509 new ca




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Richard Stallman Joins Discussion About Changing Emacs' Appearance To Make It More Popular

Emacs "predates Linux, and was once far more popular," writes LWN.net, while adding that the text editor "has fallen into relative obscurity over the years." Then it reports on a "mega-thread" on the emacs-devel mailing list about how to make Emacs more appealing and attractive to users: The discussion started with a post from "ndame" asking why Emacs is "so square"; the appearance of things like buttons could be improved with rounded corners, they said. Richard Stallman, one of the original authors of Emacs, seemed somewhat dismissive in his reply: "Perhaps we should implement a mode that puts cosmetics on Emacs so it will appeal to those who judge by the surface of things." But Stefan Kangas thought there was more to it than that: I think it's unfortunate if we assume that this is all bells and whistles. Graphical design elements can also improve usability. I also don't know that it's helpful to assume that the rest of the world will take the enlightened stance.... He wondered if there was "any reason not to improve the default look". Stallman said that there are some technical barriers in finding someone interested in and capable of doing the work needed, but there is an overarching problem that needs to be addressed first: The code to interface Emacs to X-based GUIs needs rewriting by an expert, and has needed it for decades. Until it gets that rewrite, changes in it are likely to break something. Stallman did agree that the graphical design could improve usability, "but I have a feeling that the changes that would help are deeper issues than the shape of corners". It was a long and interesting discussion, touching on the popularity of both Vim and Visual Studio Code, while another post questioned whether Emacs should even be prioritizing its menu bar and tool bar. One post suggested "starter kits" to make the text editor more friendly to newcomers, another suggested making Cntrl-C cut-and-paste the default key binding, and one asked whether it was Emacs' terminology and keyboard shortcuts that might be confusing to users coming from Microsoft Word. "You are basically making a commitment to being or becoming a power user..." argued another post. "If you just want to do 'casual' text editing emacs is a very weird choice in 2020."

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Affinity maturation, humanization, and co-crystallization of a rabbit anti-human ROR2 monoclonal antibody for therapeutic applications [Immunology]

Antibodies are widely used as cancer therapeutics, but their current use is limited by the low number of antigens restricted to cancer cells. A receptor tyrosine kinase, receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 2 (ROR2), is normally expressed only during embryogenesis and is tightly down-regulated in postnatal healthy tissues. However, it is up-regulated in a diverse set of hematologic and solid malignancies, thus ROR2 represents a candidate antigen for antibody-based cancer therapy. Here we describe the affinity maturation and humanization of a rabbit mAb that binds human and mouse ROR2 but not human ROR1 or other human cell-surface antigens. Co-crystallization of the parental rabbit mAb in complex with the human ROR2 kringle domain (hROR2-Kr) guided affinity maturation by heavy-chain complementarity-determining region 3 (HCDR3)-focused mutagenesis and selection. The affinity-matured rabbit mAb was then humanized by complementarity-determining region (CDR) grafting and framework fine tuning and again co-crystallized with hROR2-Kr. We show that the affinity-matured and humanized mAb retains strong affinity and specificity to ROR2 and, following conversion to a T cell–engaging bispecific antibody, has potent cytotoxicity toward ROR2-expressing cells. We anticipate that this humanized affinity-matured mAb will find application for antibody-based cancer therapy of ROR2-expressing neoplasms.




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Glycation-mediated inter-protein cross-linking is promoted by chaperone-client complexes of {alpha}-crystallin: Implications for lens aging and presbyopia [Glycobiology and Extracellular Matrices]

Lens proteins become increasingly cross-linked through nondisulfide linkages during aging and cataract formation. One mechanism that has been implicated in this cross-linking is glycation through formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). Here, we found an age-associated increase in stiffness in human lenses that was directly correlated with levels of protein–cross-linking AGEs. α-Crystallin in the lens binds to other proteins and prevents their denaturation and aggregation through its chaperone-like activity. Using a FRET-based assay, we examined the stability of the αA-crystallin–γD-crystallin complex for up to 12 days and observed that this complex is stable in PBS and upon incubation with human lens–epithelial cell lysate or lens homogenate. Addition of 2 mm ATP to the lysate or homogenate did not decrease the stability of the complex. We also generated complexes of human αA-crystallin or αB-crystallin with alcohol dehydrogenase or citrate synthase by applying thermal stress. Upon glycation under physiological conditions, the chaperone–client complexes underwent greater extents of cross-linking than did uncomplexed protein mixtures. LC-MS/MS analyses revealed that the levels of cross-linking AGEs were significantly higher in the glycated chaperone–client complexes than in glycated but uncomplexed protein mixtures. Mouse lenses subjected to thermal stress followed by glycation lost resilience more extensively than lenses subjected to thermal stress or glycation alone, and this loss was accompanied by higher protein cross-linking and higher cross-linking AGE levels. These results uncover a protein cross-linking mechanism in the lens and suggest that AGE-mediated cross-linking of α-crystallin–client complexes could contribute to lens aging and presbyopia.




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Instagram Live: Make your ‘Live’ totally engaging

Instagram Live allows users to stream video to followers and engage with them in real time. Here are some cool tips to make your quarantine a little more interesting.




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Japan Installs 11 GW of Renewable Energy in Two Years

Japan has added 11,090 megawatts of clean energy capacity since July 2012, when it began an incentive program to encourage investment in renewables, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.




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Japan Installs 11 GW of Renewable Energy in Two Years

Japan has added 11,090 megawatts of clean energy capacity since July 2012, when it began an incentive program to encourage investment in renewables, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.




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Advanced Metallurgical Group NV (AMVMF) CEO Heinz Schimmelbusch on Q1 2020 Results - Earnings Call Transcript




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The Latest: Russia records highest daily tally of new cases