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WIRED by Design - Capturing The Invisible World of Technology With Graphic Design

Carl de Torres at WIRED by Design, 2014. In partnership with Skywalker Sound, Marin County, CA. To learn more visit: live.wired.com




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Comedians Go to Virtual Therapy

Ellie is the world’s first virtual therapist. Designed to read and analyze body language, vocal patterns, and facial expressions, we introduced her to a few comedians to see if she could handle their sarcasm, jokes, and self-deprecating humor.




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Design FX - Mad Max Fury Road: Choreographing Complex Stunts & Car Chases

Shot mostly in Africa with real vehicles and complex stunts, “Mad Max: Fury Road” brings a high intensity to the post-apocalyptic franchise. Mike Seymour breaks down the complicated camerawork and VFX behind the action-adventure flick.




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Talking Pictures | The Icy Surf Photography of Chris Burkard

Photographer Chris Burkard doesn't make the usual images of surfers. He and his crew don thick wetsuits and head for the poles to make photos of surfers paddling out in slushy cold waters off of Norway, Iceland and Chile.




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Absurd Creatures | This Tiny Adorable Critter Is Half Kangaroo, Half Velociraptor

The jerboa looks like a cross between a mouse and a tiny kangaroo and wow, can it hop! The rodents' elongated, powerful legs can propel the little fur balls as far as six feet.




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Think Like a Tree - What Termites Can Teach Architects About Skyscraper Design

Sure, they’re pesky critters but termites can teach architects a thing or two when it comes building design. When creating giant mounds the insects build channels within them to help with ventilation. See how architects are attempting to replicate that process to create better heating and air conditioning systems in giant skyscrapers.




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Forget Filters - 19th Century Tintype Photography Still Rules

Filters are fun and yes, quick. But as an Oakland tintype portrait photographer proves filters can't come close to the original craft developed in the mid 1800's. It'll cost you around $60 to get your portrait done, that's a bit more than a filter pack, but so worth it.




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Welcome to the Robot Hotel - Please See the Velociraptor for Check-In

Tired of having to talk to hotel staff? Welcome to the automated future at Japan's robot hotel.




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Meet the Itsy-Bitsy Spider With a Bear Trap for a Mouth

Trap-jaw spiders may be tiny but their unusual jaws pack a serious and lightning fast punch. Researchers using high-speed cameras recently discovered how speedy and lethal the spiders' bite can be.




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Lux Noctis – How Photographer Reuben Wu Lit Landscape With a Drone

Behind the scenes of Reuben Wu's 'Lux Noctis' photographs made with the Phase One camera and Fiilix's new drone-mounted AL250 LED light.




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How to Get Out of the Worst Traps in Movie History - NSFW

Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier and actor Anton Yelchin play a game with WIRED. We asked them how they’d get out of trapped situations depicted in other films. It gets pretty crude, so this is NSFW.




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The 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor Is an Off-Road Monster

If you thought the civilian version of the Ford F-150 was a bit much, it’s time you met its ripping off-road cousin, the Raptor.




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J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda Rap in Jabba the Hutt’s Language

Film director J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda surprised people waiting for tickets to see Miranda's Broadway hit 'Hamilton' with an acoustic version of the new Star Wars cantina song, 'Jabba Flow.'




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Issa Rae on How She Wrote ‘That’ Rap

WIRED sat down with Issa Rae following the Oakland premiere of her new HBO show Insecure to ask her about the show's writing process, Los Angeles setting, and killer soundtrack




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Meet the Arapaima, the Swimming Tank of the Amazon

What's 10 feet long, 440 pounds, and armored like a tank? The arapaima, perhaps the most peculiar fish in the Amazon.




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The Scrappy Little Mouse That Turns Venom Into a Painkiller

The grasshopper mouse ain't like any other mouse on Earth, in the sense that it fights scorpions and turns their venom from a toxin into a painkiller.




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Meet the Little Star Trappist-1 and Its Exhilarating Planets

Astronomers have discovered seven dwarf planets orbiting a star 40 light years away from us. Not impressed? How about this — the planets may just be able to harbor life.




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The Crazy Choreography of Free Fire's Massive ’70s Shootout

From mustaches to muzzle flashes, Ben Wheatley's kinetic action-comedy is a meticulously planned affair.




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Inside the Studio Where Aerial Photography Turns into Prints That Last Forever | My Space

Artist Justin Guariglia uses a high-tech printer to create art that documents Earth's melting glaciers.




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Obsessed - How Joseph's Machines Builds Crazy Contraptions

Joseph Herscher builds wildly fun Rube Goldberg-style machines to make his life easier. Sort of. Here's how he built a new contraption to feed him his lunch.




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Tech Effects: How Photography Impacts You

We take millions of photographs. How are all of our snaps affecting our eyes, brains, and bodies? WIRED Senior Editor Peter Rubin looks at the ways that selfies can distort our self perception, shoots with a pro photographer, and examines the way that all those images are affecting our moods and memory.




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Skateboarder and Photographer Tests Out The New Bose Frames | WIRED Brand Lab

BRANDED CONTENT | Produced by WIRED Brand Lab for Bose | Watch skateboarder and photographer Sierra Prescott as she tests out the new Bose Frames for a day




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Quantum statistical field theory : an introduction to Schwinger's variational method with Green's function nanoapplications, graphene and superconductivity / Norman J. Morgenstern Horing (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Stevens Inst

Horing, Norman J. M., author




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Personalmanagement in einer alternden Gesellschaft [electronic resource] : Handlungsempfehlungen für Unternehmen in Zeiten des Demographischen Wandels / Sven Pischke

Pischke, Sven




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Rapid retooling [electronic resource] : developing world-class organizations in a rapidly changing world / Antoine Gerschel and Lawrence Polsky

Gerschel, Antoine




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Being ethnographic : a guide to the theory and practice of ethnography / Raymond Madden

Madden, Raymond, author




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Tales from the valley of death : reflections from psychotherapy on the fear of death / Ross G. Menzies & Rachel E. Menzies

Menzies, Ross G., author




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Introducing stratigraphy / Paul Lyle

Online Resource




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Palaeobiogeography of marine fossil invertebrates: concepts and methods / Fabrizio Cecca

Online Resource




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Global environmental governance and the accountability trap / edited by Susan Park and Teresa Kramarz

Dewey Library - GE170.G5545 2019




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Chemostratigraphy across major chronological boundaries / Alcides N. Sial, Claudio Gaucher, Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, Valderez Pinto Ferreira, editors

Hayden Library - QE515.C452 2019




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The physical geography and geology of the Driftless Area: the career and contributions of James C. Knox / edited by Eric C. Carson, J. Elmo Rawling III, J. Michael Daniels, John W. Attig

Dewey Library - QE179.P49 2019




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Case studies in isotope stratigraphy / edited by Michael Montenari

Dewey Library - QE515 M68 2019




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Groundwater recharge and flow: approaches and challenges for monitoring and modeling using remotely sensed data ; proceedings of a workshop / Lauren Everett, rapporteur ; Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, the National

Online Resource




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Carolina bays: wild, mysterious, and majestic landforms / photographs by Robert C. Clark ; text by Tom Poland

Dewey Library - QE613.5.U5 C53 2020




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Carbon dot-assisted luminescence of singlet oxygen: the generation dynamics but not the cumulative amount of singlet oxygen is responsible for the photodynamic therapy efficacy

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00128G, Communication
Xu Teng, Feng Li, Chao Lu, Buhong Li
The rapid generation dynamics of 1O2 rather than its cumulative amount is responsible for better treatment efficacy in PDT.
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Reversibly-regulated drug release using poly(tannic acid) fabricated nanocarriers for reduced secondary side effects in tumor therapy

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00032A, Communication
Chao Chen, Tonghao Ma, Wen Tang, Xiaoli Wang, Yibing Wang, Jiafeng Zhuang, Yucheng Zhu, Ping Wang
This article introduced a reversibly pH-responsive and targeting nanocarrier based on mesoporous silica nanoparticles which could be utilized to reduce the “secondary” side effects on normal tissues.
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Porous graphitic carbon nitride for solar photocatalytic applications

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, 5,765-786
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00046A, Review Article
Yang Li, Xin Li, Huaiwu Zhang, Quanjun Xiang
This review summarizes the development of PCN, i.e., synthesis, morphology, modification, and application in recent years. This review can provide a comprehensive view of PCN and lay a foundation for the design of ideal photocatalysts in the future.
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Light-triggered dual-modality drug release of self-assembled prodrug-nanoparticles for synergistic photodynamic and hypoxia-activated therapy

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, 5,886-894
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00034E, Communication
Dongyang Zhao, Wenhui Tao, Songhao Li, Lingxiao Li, Yixin Sun, Guanting Li, Gang Wang, Yang Wang, Bin Lin, Cong Luo, Yongjun Wang, Maosheng Cheng, Zhonggui He, Jin Sun
Prodrug-nanoparticles turn the disadvantage of the aggregation-caused quenching effect into an advantage to promote dual-modality PR104A release. Besides, photodynamic therapy-induced hypoxia activates PR104A for high-efficiency synergistic therapy.
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Enhancing the chemotherapeutic efficacy of platinum prodrug nanoparticles and inhibiting cancer metastasis by targeting iron homeostasis

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00148A, Communication
Fang Ding, Lingpu Zhang, Hao Chen, Haiqin Song, Shiguo Chen, Haihua Xiao
Combination of cisplatin prodrug nanoparticles and Dp44mT results in enhanced anticancer and anti-metastatic efficiencies.
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A robust 3D printed multilayer conductive graphene/polycaprolactone composite electrode

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00780F, Research Article
Chong-Yong Lee, Sepidar Sayyar, Paul J. Molino, Gordon G. Wallace
We fabricated a 3D-printed multilayer conductive graphene/polycaprolactone composite electrode that shows excellent robustness, biocompatibility and electrochemical response.
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Efficient near-infrared photosensitizer with aggregation-induced emission characteristics for mitochondria-targeted and image-guided photodynamic cancer therapy

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00170H, Research Article
Hanxiao Yang, Jiabao Zhuang, Nan Li, Yue Li, Shiyu Zhu, Jiaxin Hao, Jiayao Xin, Na Zhao
A highly efficient near-infrared photosensitizer with aggregation-induced emission characteristics was developed for mitochondria-targeted and image-guided photodynamic cancer therapy.
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Dimensional Anisotropic Graphene with High Mobility and High On-Off Ratio in three-terminal RRAM device

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00152J, Research Article
Bo Liu, Han Hsiang Tai, Hanyuan Liang, En-Yan Zheng, Mamina Sahoo, Chih-Hsien Hsu, Tsung Cheng Chen, Ching-An Huang, Jer-Chyi Wang, Tuo-Hung Hou, Chao-Sung Lai
In the past decade, graphene has aroused worldwide academic passion in electronic community, due to its unique two dimensional lattice structure and high mobility properties. Meanwhile, the utilization of graphene...
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Each phenyl group performs its own functions on luminescence: phenyl substituted effect in tetraphenylpyrazine

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00098A, Research Article
Haozhong Wu, Xiaojuan Song, Bing Zhang, Zhiming Wang, Tian Zhang, Anjun Qin, Ben Zhong Tang
Three phenyl groups of TPP derivatives affect the luminescence process in various modes. TPPs show AIE thanks to the ortho substituted groups, while meta and para groups can modulate their luminescence in different extents.
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Nitro-graphene oxide in iridium oxide hybrids: electrochemical modulation of N-graphene redox states and charge capacities

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1421-1433
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00752K, Research Article
Open Access
E. Pérez, N. M. Carretero, S. Sandoval, A. Fuertes, G. Tobias, N. Casañ-Pastor
Electrochemical modulation of N-graphene oxide in IrOx hybrids results in an oxidizing range of graphenes and large charge capacities.
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Multifunctional ultrasmall-MoS2/graphene composites for high sulfur loading Li–S batteries

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1483-1491
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00082E, Research Article
Tianyu Tang, Teng Zhang, Lina Zhao, Biao Zhang, Wei Li, Junjie Xu, Long Zhang, Hailong Qiu, Yanglong Hou
The utilization of hosts with uniform dispersion of sulfur and multifunctional parts which can interact strongly with polysulfides facilitates the improved performance of Li–S batteries.
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A turn-off fluorescent probe for the detection of Cu2+ based on a tetraphenylethylene-functionalized salicylaldehyde Schiff-base

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1500-1506
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00759H, Research Article
Hai-Fang Xie, Chang-Jin Yu, Ya-Li Huang, Hong Xu, Qi-Long Zhang, Xiao-Hong Sun, Xing Feng, Carl Redshaw
A tetraphenylethylene-functionalized salicylaldehyde Schiff-base fluorescent probe (TPE-An-Py) with aggregation-induced enhanced emission (AIEE) characteristics exhibited high sensitivity towards copper(II) ions in aqueous media with a “turn-off” fluorescence mechanism; limit of detection is 2.36 × 10−7 mol L−1.
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[ASAP] Effects of Graphene Oxide on the Mechanical and Microscopic Characteristics of Cement-Based Plugging Material for Preventing Spontaneous Combustion of Coal

Energy & Fuels
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c00493




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[ASAP] Effect of Partial Rapid Pyrolysis on Bituminous Properties: From Structure to Reactivity

Energy & Fuels
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b04439




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Poetry and photography / Yves Bonnefroy ; translated by Chris Turner

Hayden Library - PQ2603.O533 P6413 2017