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치위생과학회지=Journal of dental hygiene science [electronic journal].

한국치위생과학회




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Urban Engineering and Management Science (ICUEMS), International Conference on [electronic journal].

IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated




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Taste for Science, Academic Boundary Spanning and Inventive Performance of Scientists and Engineers in Industry [electronic journal].




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Standing on the shoulders of science [electronic journal].




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Science Education International [electronic journal].

International Council of Associations for Science Education




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Research in social sciences and technology [electronic journal].

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bulent Tarman




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PeerJ Materials Science [electronic journal].

PeerJ Inc.




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On the Economics of Science Parks [electronic journal].

National Bureau of Economic Research




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Oil Crop Science = 中国油料作物学报(英文) [electronic journal].

中国农业科学院油料作为研究所




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Neurological Sciences and Neurophysiology [electronic journal].

AVES




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National Science Review = 国家科学评论(英文版) [electronic journal].

Oxford University Press




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Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine [electronic journal].




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Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences [electronic journal].

Dow University of Health Sciences




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Journal of social, behavioral and health sciences [electronic journal].

[Minneapolis, MN : Walden University]




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Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering (JISE) [electronic journal].

Bursa Teknik Üniversitesi




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International Journal of Horticultural Science [electronic journal].

University of Debrecen




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Gravity without Apologies: The Science of Elasticities, Distance, and Trade [electronic journal].




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Effects of Copyrights on Science - Evidence from the US Book Republication Program [electronic journal].

National Bureau of Economic Research




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Creative and science-oriented employees and firm-level innovation [electronic journal].




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Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE), IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on [electronic journal].

IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated




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Bioscience journal [electronic journal] : BJ.

Uberlândia, MG, Brazil : Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, [1998]-




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Aceh Journal of Animal Science [electronic journal].




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2020 International Conference on Urban Engineering and Management Science (ICUEMS) [electronic journal].

IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated




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2020 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (DSC) [electronic journal].

IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated




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2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Control Science and Systems Engineering (ICCSSE) [electronic journal].

IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated




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2020 6th International Conference on Engineering, Applied Sciences and Technology (ICEAST) [electronic journal].

IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated




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2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE) [electronic journal].

IEEE Computer Society




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2019 5th International Conference on Science and Technology (ICST) [electronic journal].

IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated




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Call for joint efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at 31st Swadeshi Science Congress

31st Swadeshi Science Congress inaugurated at Kochi’s ICAR-CIFT 




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DHL Express focuses on Life Sciences, Healthcare, and Energy as key growth drivers

In life sciences, rising fields like cell research, biopharma, and clinical trials require specialized supply chains for safe handling and delivery. Meanwhile, the expanding clean energy sector calls for dedicated logistics to manage battery swapping, storage, transport, and disposal




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Ahammune Biosciences raises Pre-Series A funding from Ideaspring Capital, Indian Angel Network




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Goldman Sachs invests in Aragen Life Sciences (GVK Bio)

The company has invested more than $3.6 billion in capital since 2006




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Science Slam brings inventions, research to common people in lucid terms

Topics presented by young researchers included science of sonar, exploration of planets outside solar system, use of nanotechnology in cancer treatment, environment-friendly alternative for food security, and use of AI to save diabetics from eye diseases




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Insights from data with R [electronic resource] : an introduction for the life and environmental sciences / Owen L. Petchey, Andrew P. Beckerman, Natalie Cooper, Dylan Z. Childs.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.




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Homes with a ‘conscience’

Around 5,000 homes in the city shun BWSSB water supply and produce enough power of their own. By M.A. Siraj




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Nanoscience is not just a fad

In Nanoscale, Pankaj Sekhsaria explores the transformative powers of nanoscience in Indian society




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RPG Life Sciences to sell biotech unit to Intas Pharma




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For the festive season, designers are working with artisans to create clothes with a conscience

As gifting and dressing up for the festive season begins, consumers are increasingly looking at sustainable, environment friendly choices



  • Life & Style

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Bernoulli's fallacy [electronic resource] : statistical illogic and the crisis of modern science / Aubrey Clayton.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]




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Game theory basics / Bernhard von Stengel, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.




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Emotions in failure: An excerpt from Productive Failure: Unlocking deeper learning through the science of failing

In his new book, learning scientist Manu Kapur discusses how to deliberately design for and transform failure into a deep learning signal




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ISRO, IIT-M sign MoU to set up centre of excellence in fluid and thermal sciences

The institute gets ₹1.84 crore seed money to set up the centre of excellence




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Iru Mugan: science of the times

Vikram, a cold-hearted secret agent, a widower, is the only one who can save the universe.




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Surface science studies of the coverage dependent adsorption of methyl acetate and methyl propanoate on graphite

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35373-35385
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA04466E, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Jack E. Fulker, Wendy A. Brown
The adsorption of methyl acetate and methyl propanoate has been studied on a graphite surface at 28 K. TPD data show that the desorption energy of both molecules is highly coverage dependent with repulsive interactions being seen at low coverages.
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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Big problems with ISI data reported by science editors

Got this in an email from one of my lists:

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This presumably will be drawing some attention shortly. It is a very disturbing report by editors from the Journal of Cell Biology and the Journal of Experimental Medicine who have joined with the Executive Director of the Rockefeller University Press in reporting their inability to verify published impact factors using data provided provided by ISI itself. Their fruitless efforts to replicate published impact factors for their own and other journals revealed numerous and serious errors in several data sets provided by ISI and call into question the validity of both ISI's dataset and their published impact factors. If the problems they encountered are widespread, then the host of evaluative decisions that rely at least in part on published impact factors are suspect. Published impact factors affect authors' decisions about manuscript submission, funding awards, and promotion and tenure. While critiques of the use of impact factors are quite common, this is the first serious question raised about the underlying validity of the data used to calculate impact factors and therefore the accurracy of the metrics that are published.


The editorial by Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps, and Emma Hill was published in the Journal of Cell Biology and is available at
http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/179/6/1091




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Brainstorming for new science portal

We need to start brainstorming for ideas and features that we want on the new science portal so we'll be prepared for when we locate a web designer.

Here are a list of some other science library websites. Not all are great but I'd like for us to discuss what elements we like and which features we don't like (just as important). Please feel free to post links to other libraries you think are worthy of critique. Also, if there are general guidelines and features that you'd like to include please post about those too.

My first impression looking at these sites is how busy they all are. Lots of links and it seems overwhelming at first glance. Its a decision that we'll have to make about how much information should be quickly accessible on the main page but yet still easily usable. Caltech's library page is the most easily navigated, IMO. I like the quick drop down boxes and the selection of links. I especially like the menu for authors - as the issue of open access and author rights becomes more important on campus, we'll need to take an active role in helping the faculty understand their rights and options for publishing.


Berkeley: Chemistry: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/CHEM/
Engineering: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENGI/
Physics/Ay: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PHYS/

Caltech: http://library.caltech.edu/

Chicago : http://www1.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/index.php3

Irvine: http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/science.html

Michigan: http://www.lib.umich.edu/science/

MIT Science Library: http://libraries.mit.edu/science/

Oregon Science Library: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scilib/

Santa Cruz: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scilib/




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Web address for Science Portal in progress

The URL for the mock-up Leila showed last Tuesday is:
lnadams.org/msl.htm

Please remember that this is just a design layout, the links do not work, and it is subject to extreme change.

Comments are highly encouraged! Please post to this blog or email Sara or Joe.




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ARL Fall Forum on Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future

Full Schedule
Proceedings

Best quote: Librarians are like Mr. Paperclip from MS Office - we pop up when you least expect it and try to offer to you help...

This conference focused on the science library's role in supporting e-science and integrating into research collaborations and science departments. There was a mixture of speakers: government, library and institute directors, and a few librarians. The presentations were a mixture of big picture descriptions and some concrete examples. I felt like there wasn't as much hard solutions that we could take back to the library and implement, but perhaps just educating the library community on how radically different e-science is changing the research landscape is the necessary first step.

I've included the highlights from my session notes below (let me know if you'd like the see my full notes in gory detail). Check out the proceedings link above for powerpoint and document files for most of the speakers.

As a side note, our poster about GatorScholar was well-received with many people already aware of the project from either Val's USAIN presentations, the SLA poster, or from hearing about Cornell's project. Medha Devare was one of the panel reactors and she mentioned our collaboration in her presentation. Most of the poster visitors seemed very interested in starting their own version and perhaps at some point we'll have a network of databases.

Thursday

E-Science: Trends, Transformations & Responses

Convener and Moderator: Wendy Lougee, University of Minnesota
Speaker: Chris Greer, Director, National Coordination Office

NCO part of Office of Science and Tech Policy, coordinates all major science orgs

E-Science defined as digital data driven, distributed and collaborative - allows global interaction.

Science pushed to be trans-disciplinary - scientists pushed to areas where they have no formal training - continual learning important;

It fuses the pillars of science: experiment, theory, model/simulation, observation & correlation

Come a long way: ARPANET -> internet, redefinition of the computer (ENIAC to cloud computing)

Question: how many libraries do we need? Greer thinks this will change over time.

Future library: Imagine all text in your pocket, question answered at speed of light (semantic web concept), wearing contact lens merge physical and digital worlds -> in the long run we'll have the seamless merging of worlds

Science is global and thrives in a world that is not limited to 4-D. Cyberinfrastructure reduces time and distance. Need computational capacity and connectivity with information.

The challenge for society: responsibility to preserve data.

Reinventing the library:
Challenges: institutional commitment, sustainable funding model, defining the library user community (collection access is global so who is the user?), legal and policy frameworks, library workforce, library as computational center, sustainable technology framework.

We've come a long way but we're at the beginning of a dramatic change.

2. A Case Study in E-Science: Building Ecological Informatics Solutions for Multi-Decadal Research

William Michener, Research Professor (Biology) and Associate Director, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, University of New Mexico

Data and information challenges:
data are massively dispersed and lost sometimes
data integration - scientists use different formats and models. Lots of work to integrate even simple datasets
problem of information and storage


LTER has a lot of data archives that are very narrow in scope of data stored. Also has a lot of tools. Working on adoption of tools - predict an exponential increase with time.

Future: science will drive what they do. Look at critical areas in the earth system. Understanding changes in world involve a pyramid in data collection scale (remote sensing to sampling)

Technology directions; Cyberinfrastrcture is enabling the science, consider whole-data-life-cycle, domain agnostic solutions (since budgets are bad, solutions have to be universal across all the sciences)

We need
Cyberinfrastructure that enables: data needs to be able to pull in from different sources, easy integration, tools that allow visualization

Support for the data lifecycle - need to work on metadata interoperability across data holdings.


Sociocultural Directions:
education and training: science now is lifelong learning
engaging citizens in science: have websites to education public,
building global communities of practice: develop CI as a collaborative team
expand globally in future, expand with academic, govt, NGO's and companies

Challenges:
Broad active community engagement: need educators to teach students in best practices
transparent governance
adoption of sustainable business models

3. Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries, Emory University Libraries

"Making a Quantum Leap to eResearch Support: a new world of opportunities and challenges for research libraries"


Where do we need to go: intelligent grid presence, collaboration support, social software, evaluation and research integrity (plus lots of other areas mentioned)

Dataset & repositories: need to have context of data, curation centers, users want mouse-click solutions and will come up with their own solutions if we don't.

PI's taking more responsibility on projects becoming publishers and curators. Librarians need to take on role of middleware

Researchers want:
information collaboration tools: shared reading, virtual worksapces and whiteboards, webspaces support wikis, data sets, preprints, videos of conference presentations, news

Need information visualization: browse information using maps of concepts, collaboration and citation networks, coauthorship networks, taxonomies, scatter plots of data, knowledge domain visualization

Where do we need to be: systems to facilitate shared ideas, presence, and creation

Individual libraries can't do this - we need collaborations

Challenges: connect newly forming disciplines and newly emerging fields

Libraries work a lot on support layer but we need to get in the workflow layer where we're connected with scientists and coordinate on a multi-institutional structure

Need new organizational structures: hybrid organizations: subject specialists - : intra-disciplinary teams. The future library office -> lives in project space/virtual lab

Need informaticians and informationists (embedded librarians)

What percent of our research library content and services are unique? What % of our budget resource ssupport uniqueness? We need to do something others cannot do or do something well that others do poorly.

Library cooperatives are useful for reducing redundancy. Next phase shift requires an expanded mission of shared purpose.

We fall short on scale, speed, agiliity, and resource, focus. Collective problems require collection action, which requires a shared vision - think cloud computing for libraries

We must do more than aggregate and provide access to shared information: Our job now is to wire people's brains together so that sharing, reasoning, and collaboration become part of everyday work.

Wendy Lougee

Pitfalls: not to fall back on traditional roles, currently we don't respond to multi-institutional collaborations, our boundaries stop with the institution

We need to understand scientists' workflows, need to identify strategies for embedding librarians into project teams. We need to think about core expertise of librarians, reimaging roles of librarians

What do we do to build this collaborative action? We need to think outside the box.

Data Curation: Issues and Challenges

Convener and Moderator: James Mullins, Dean of Libraries, Purdue University

  • Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN

Transition or Transform? Repositiioning the Library for the Petabyte Era

How can libraries work with science (in a very general sense)?

1. Transition or Transform? Need to become embedded and integrated into team science. Many different models of engagement

Geosciences pilot where the library worked with the Geological department to curate their datasets (Edinborough):
Found: Time needed is longer than anticipated, inventory doesn't have to be comprehensive, little documentation exists
Outcomes: positive, requirement for researcher and auditor training, need to develop a data policy

2. Lots of opportunities of action: leadership by senior managers, faculty coordination, advocacy & tranining, data documentation best practices

People and Skills: there are not enough specialised data librarians. In UK 5 data librarians. Need to bring diverse communities together - facilitate cooperation between organizations and individuals.

Open science: new range of areas where results are being put onto the web (GalaxyZoo eg.) Librarians need to be aware of implications.

3. Need multidisciplinary teams and people in library, huge skill shortage, need to find core data skills and integrate it into the LIS curriculum. Recruit different people to the LIS team, rebrand the LIS career. Go from librarianship to Informatics.


  • Fran Berman, Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, and Co-chair Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
"Research and Data"

Researchers are detectives, shows different major questions (SAF, Brown Dwarfs, bridge stress, Income dynamics over 40 years, Disease spread-Protein Data Bank) - key collections all over.

CI Support: all these issues are crucial. researchers want a easy to use set of tools to make the most of their data.

She finds different preservation profiles: timescale, datascale, well-tended to poor, level of policy restrictions, planned vs. ad hoc approach

Researchers focused on new projects, customization of solutions to problems, collaboration

Researchers need help: developing management, preservation and use environments, proper curation and annotation, navigating policy, regulation, IP, sustainability

Questions about preservation: what should we save and who should pay for it? Just saving everything isn't an option. 2007 was the crossover year - digital data exceeded the amount of available storage. What do we want to save? Who is we?
Society: official and historically valuable data, Fed agency or inst normally takes part.
Research community: PDB, NVO.
Me: medical record, financial data, digital photos - real commercial market for preservation solutions.

What do we have to save?
private sector: HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley,
OMB regulations for fed funded research data (3 years, not always easy to do).

Economics: many costs associated with preservation. Maintenance upkeep, software, utilities, space, networking, security, etc.

UCSD forged partnership with library. Trying to create a preservation grid with formal policies, nationwide grid with other institutions.

Panel Responders:
  • Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean of University Libraries and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University

Data Curation Issues and Challenges:

It makes sense to help scientists deal with public and higher levels of data, not the raw data.

Considerations: need to work within their systems, consider gateways for systems as part of infrastructure development (think about railroad gauge), focus on both human and tech components of infrastructure, human interoperability is more difficult than tech interoperability, trust is key!

Questions: What about the cloud or the crowd? Can Flickr help us with data curation? What are the fundamental differences between data and collections? Human readable vs. machine readable? How do we transfer principles into new practices? What are we trying to sustain? Data? Scholarship? Our organizations?


Supporting Virtual Orgs

  • Thomas A. Finholt, Director, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW) and Research Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, School of Information, University of Michigan

Changing nature of geographically-distributed collaboration:

history: transition in terms of distributed work. Much of what came before (collaboratory, video conf) had a precedent but new emerging has no precedent (crowdsourcing, VO's), no traditional context leaves us a bit adrift.

Lesson 1: anticipate cultural differences.
Domain scientists: characteristics: power distance (bias toward seniority, hierarchical), individualist(solo PI, individual genius), masculine(adversial and competitive), uncertainty avoidance
CI developers: power distance (bias toward talent, egalitarian), collectivist(project model), masculine, embrace risk

Lesson 2: plan for first contact.

It can be tough to recognize successful innovations: first efforts are often awkward hybrids



Crowdsourcing: idea that we send out challenges and solutions come to us (ex. Innocentive website, Games with a Purpose). We don't know who is going to do the work, effort is contributed voluntarily -> incentives are important to motivate work

Delegation of organizational work: people can count on organizations to do some of the basic policy work. Much attention has focused on technology and processes to support social ties, alternative course is the use of technology to supplant social ties - > think of this as organizing without the work of organizing, questions of who to trust, who pays, permitted to use the resources are managed by middleware.

Group work is an inevitable fact of org life.

  • Medha Devare, Life Sciences and Bioinformatics Librarian, Mann Library, Cornell University
Idea of Virtual Organization: boundary crossing, pooling of competencies, participants or activities geographically separated, fluid, flat structure, participant equality

Library contributions: technology choices, tools; tech support/guidance; subject expertise; understanding of research landscape; vision - user needs of the future?

Examples of library support: VIVO, DataStar (supports data-sharing among researchers)

DataStar: Data Staging Repository: supports data sharing, esp during research process, promotes publishing or archiving to discipline specific data centers and/or to Cornell's DR. Nascent stage

Reinventing the library? Librarians as middle-ware to facilitate process of connecting and creating coherence across disciplines - both VIVO and DataStar aid this.

Hope that both tools seamlessly interact with each other.


D. Scott Brandt, Associate Dean for Research, Purdue University Library

Tries to embed librarians in research teams. We have to redefine what we do, collect.




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Sports science back-up provided to Indian athletes in Paris Games is unprecedented, says Gagan Narang

Narang said the sports science team, under the leadership of renowned sports injury expert Dr. Dinshaw Pardiwala, is a never-before support for the Indian athletes.




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Circuit breaking [electronic resource] : using neuroscience-informed psychotherapy to treat psychoactive substance abuse / Robert Youdin.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press , 2024.