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Invitation to oceanography / Paul R. Pinet

Pinet, Paul R




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Introduction to physical oceanography / John A. Knauss (late of University of Rhode Island), Newell Garfield (Southwest Fisheries Science Center)

Knauss, John A., author




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Estuarine and coastal hydrography and sediment transport / edited by R.J. Uncles (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), S.B. Mitchell (University of Portsmouth)




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Essentials of oceanography / Alan P. Trujillo (Distinguished Teaching Professor, Palomar College), Harold V. Thurman (Former Professor Emeritus, MT. San Antonio College)

Trujillo, Alan P., author




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Fundamentals of estuarine physical oceanography / Luiz Bruner de Miranda, Fernando Pinheiro Andutta, Björn Kjerfve, Belmiro Mendes de Castro Filho

Miranda, Luiz Bruner de, author




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Investigating oceanography / Keith A. Sverdrup (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Raphael M. Kudela (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Sverdrup, Keith A., author




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The rise of marine mammals : 50 million years of evolution / Annalisa Berta ; graphics editor, James L. Sumich ; illustrations by Carl Buell, Robert Boessenecker, William Stout, and Ray Troll

Berta, Annalisa, author




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Indian Ocean adventure / photographs by Mike Wilson ; text by Arthur C. Clarke

Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008




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Essentials of oceanography / Alan P. Trujillo (Distinquished Teaching Professional, Palomar College), Harold V. Thurman (Former Professor Emeritus, Mt. San Antonio College)

Trujillo, Alan P., author




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Asymmetric Organocatalytic Double 1,6-Addition: Rapid Access to Chiral Chromans with Molecular Complexity

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00354A, Research Article
Indranil Chatterjee, Sourav Roy, Suman Pradhan, Krishan Kumar
An organocatalytic cascade vinylogous double 1,6-addition strategy for the synthesis of chiral chroman derivatives is reported. The cascade reaction follows oxa-Michael/1,6-addition reactions between ortho-hydroxyphenyl-substituted para-quinone methadies and 2,4-dienal derivatives to...
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[ASAP] Electron Beam Irradiation as a General Approach for the Rapid Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks under Ambient Conditions

Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03941




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[ASAP] Rapid Route-Finding for Bifurcating Organic Reactions

Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13449




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HC raps Telangana govt over low Covid-19 tests

Taking a serious view of the government’s decision to conduct fewer Covid-19 tests, the Telangana high court on Friday wondered how it would get a true picture of the spread of the virus in the state. The court was also upset with the government for directing doctors not to collect blood samples from dead persons and not conduct Covid-19 tests on them.




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Product :: Data at Work: Best practices for creating effective charts and information graphics in Microsoft Excel




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Product :: Data at Work: Best practices for creating effective charts and information graphics in Microsoft Excel




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Laser heat-mode lithography: principle and methods / Jingsong Wei

Online Resource




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The chemical history of lithography / Uzodinma Okoroanyanwu

Online Resource




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The vehement Jesus : grappling with troubling Gospel texts / David J. Neville

Neville, David J., author




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Christobiography : memory, history, and the reliability of the Gospels / Craig S. Keener

Keener, Craig S., 1960- author




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Atlas of the biblical world / by Robert A. Mullins and Mark Vitalis Hoffman ; cartographer, Nick Rowland, FRGS

Mullins, Robert A. (Associate professor of Biblical Studies), author




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The Mormon Jesus : a biography / John G. Turner

Turner, John G., author




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Mary Magdalene : a biography / Bruce Chilton

Chilton, Bruce, author




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The Book of Revelation : a biography / Timothy Beal

Beal, Timothy K. (Timothy Kandler), 1963- author




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An ionic diode based on a spontaneously formed polypyrrole-modified graphene oxide membrane

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17079-17084
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA01145B, Paper
Open Access
Rifeng Luo, Tianliang Xiao, Wenping Li, Zhaoyue Liu, Yao Wang
We described an ionic diode based on polypyrrole-modified graphene oxide membrane, which was prepared by a spontaneous oxidation polymerization of pyrrole monomers.
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A high-throughput and untargeted lipidomics approach reveals new mechanistic insight and the effects of salvianolic acid B on the metabolic profiles in coronary heart disease rats using ultra-performance liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17101-17113
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA00049C, Paper
Open Access
Ying-peng Li, Cong-ying Wang, Hong-tao Shang, Rui-rui Hu, Hui Fu, Xue-feng Xiao
High-throughput lipidomics provides the possibility for the development of new therapeutic drugs.
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MOF-derived (MoS2, γ-Fe2O3)/graphene Z-scheme photocatalysts with excellent activity for oxygen evolution under visible light irradiation

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17154-17162
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA02083D, Paper
Open Access
Ang Li, Yuxiang Liu, Xuejun Xu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Zhichun Si, Xiaodong Wu, Rui Ran, Duan Weng
The heterojunction between MoS2 and γ-Fe2O3 was constructed via linking by in situ formed graphene, which resulted in a good photocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction, showing O2 evolution activity of 4400 μmol g−1 h−1.
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3D flower-like molybdenum disulfide modified graphite felt as a positive material for vanadium redox flow batteries

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17235-17246
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA02541K, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Lei Wang, Shuangyu Li, Dan Li, Qinhao Xiao, Wenheng Jing
The open flower-like structure facilitates vanadium ion transport. The capacity and efficiency of a battery using MoS2/GF are dramatically increased.
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A dopamine electrochemical sensor based on a platinum–silver graphene nanocomposite modified electrode

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17336-17344
DOI: 10.1039/C9RA11056A, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Nadzirah Sofia Anuar, Wan Jeffrey Basirun, Md. Shalauddin, Shamima Akhter
A platinum–silver graphene nanocomposite was synthesized and characterized. A nanocomposite modified electrode was fabricated in order to investigate the electrochemical detection of dopamine.
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Development of novel N-(6-methanesulfonyl-benzothiazol-2-yl)-3-(4-substituted-piperazin-1-yl)-propionamides with cholinesterase inhibition, anti-β-amyloid aggregation, neuroprotection and cognition enhancing properties for the therapy of Alzheimer's d

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17602-17619
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA00663G, Paper
Open Access
Chandra Bhushan Mishra, Shruti Shalini, Siddharth Gusain, Amresh Prakash, Jyoti Kumari, Shikha Kumari, Anita Kumari Yadav, Andrew M. Lynn, Manisha Tiwari
A novel series of benzothiazole–piperazine hybrids were rationally designed, synthesized, and evaluated as multifunctional ligands against Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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Polypyrrole modified magnetic reduced graphene oxide composites: synthesis, characterization and application for selective lead adsorption

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17524-17533
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA01546F, Paper
Open Access
Zhanmeng Liu, Zhimin Gao, Lichun Xu, Fengping Hu
Compared to Fe3O4/rGO, the PPy-FG composites showed desirable adsorption capacity and selectivity for Pb(II) from water.
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The synergistic influence of polyethyleneimine-grafted graphene oxide and iodide for the protection of steel in acidizing conditions

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17739-17751
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA00864H, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
K. R. Ansari, Dheeraj Singh Chauhan, M. A. Quraishi, A. Y. Adesina, Tawfik A. Saleh
Herein, graphene oxide (GO) was chemically functionalized with polyethyleneimine (PEI) in a single step to obtain PEI-GO, which was characterized via FTIR spectroscopy, SEM, and TEM.
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Europium oxide nanorod-reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites towards supercapacitors

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17543-17551
DOI: 10.1039/C9RA11012G, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Parisa Aryanrad, Hamid Reza Naderi, Elmira Kohan, Mohammad Reza Ganjali, Masoud Baghernejad, Amin Shiralizadeh Dezfuli
Fast charge/discharge cycles are necessary for supercapacitors applied in vehicles including, buses, cars and elevators.
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Ladybird macro photographs

This morning hundreds of ladybirds were flying through the air and massing on the white walls of the house. I managed to get a few clear macro photographs.

The sun was shining and the ladybirds seemed to be attracted to anything white. I stuck a white T-shirt on and headed outside. Pretty soon I was covered in them and could pluck them from my shirt to get some close ups using my little Canon IXUS 60.

At some point a ladybird took off just before I tried to photograph it and I decided I’d try to capture that moment. A few minutes later I’d worked out that I could prompt one of the insects to walk up my finger like the stem of a flower, that they’d take off when they reached the tip, and that they took up a distinct posture just before their wing-case shot open.

The speed at which they prepare to take off, open their wings, and fly away is so quick that I just had to take the shot as soon as I saw a ladybird get into the “take-off position” and hope that I reacted fast enough to get a picture of the open wing-case.




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CSS typography experiment

This is a quick experiment that reproduces an image from I Love Typography using semantic HTML, CSS 2.1, a little CSS3. Along the way, I learnt about a few modern browser bugs and inconsistencies.

I came across an image on I Love Typography that I thought could be reproduced using only semantic HTML and CSS.

A scaled down and cropped version of the I Love Typography A Lot image from I Love Typography.

The idea was to reproduce the image from simple markup, and to rely as much as possible on what can be achieved with CSS.

This is the HTML I ended up using.

<p>I love <strong>typography</strong> <em>a lot</em></p>

This is the CSS that controls the presentation of that content.

body {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-family: Times New Roman, serif;
  background: #000;
}

p {
  position: relative;
  width: 1100px;
  padding: 100px 0 0;
  margin: 0 auto;
  font-size: 175px;
  font-weight: bold;
  line-height: 1.2;
  letter-spacing: -13px;
  color: #0caac7;
  transform: rotate(-20deg);
}

/* "i" */
p:first-letter {
  float: left;
  margin: -137px -20px 0 0;
  font-size: 880px;
  line-height: 595px;
  text-transform: lowercase;
}

/* "love" */
p:first-line {
  font-size: 200px;
}

/* "typography" */
p strong {
  display: block;
  margin: -80px 0 0;
  font-weight: normal;
  letter-spacing: -2px;
  text-transform: capitalize;
}

p strong:first-letter {
  margin-right: -30px;
  color: #fff;
}

/* "a lot" */
p em {
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 10;
  top: 100px;
  left: 147px;
  width: 136px;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding-left: 64px;
  font-size: 200px;
  font-style: normal;
  text-transform: lowercase;
  color: #fff;
}

p em:first-letter {
  float: left;
  margin: 130px 0 0 -55px;
  font-size: 80px;
  font-style: italic;
  line-height: 20px;
  color: #fff;
}

/* create the heart shape */
p:before,
p:after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 1;
  top: 225px;
  left: 120px;
  width: 75px;
  height: 50px;
  background: #000;
  transform: rotate(45deg);
  border-radius: 25px 0 0 30px;
}

p:after {
  left: 138px;
  transform: rotate(-45deg);
  border-radius: 0 25px 30px 0;
}

/* hide the tip of the "t" from "a lot" */
p strong:before {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 11;
  top: 205px;
  left: 341px;
  width: 7px;
  height: 7px;
  background: #000;
  border-radius: 7px;
}

The final CSS typography experiment approximates the original image in all modern browsers that support the CSS3 properties of border-radius and transform.

Some browsers render type (especially after rotational transformations) better than others. Note that all the screenshots are taken from browsers running on Windows Vista OS.

Opera 10.5. The closest approximation to the original source image.
Chrome 4.0. Identical to Opera 10.5 apart from a bug that appears in the rendering of rounded corners when they undergo a rotational transformation.
Safari 4.0. The rotated type suffers from a lack of anti-aliasing.
Firefox 3.6. The rotated type suffers from a lack of anti-aliasing.

Browser bugs and inconsistencies

I’ve put together a small test page to highlight some new CSS 2.1 and CSS3 bugs in modern browsers. It includes two new CSS 2.1 bugs in Internet Explorer 8.




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The tech entrepreneur's survival guide [electronic resource] : how to bootstrap your startup, lead through tough times, and cash in for success / Bernd Schoner

Schoner, Bernd




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Visual Design of GraphQL Data [electronic resource] : A Practical Introduction with Legacy Data and Neo4j / by Thomas Frisendal

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JAMA Cardiology : Simvastatin-Ezetimibe Compared With Simvastatin Monotherapy Among Patients 75 Years or Older

Interview with Richard G. Bach, MD, author of Effect of Simvastatin-Ezetimibe Compared With Simvastatin Monotherapy After Acute Coronary Syndrome Among Patients 75 Years or Older: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial, and Antonio M. Gotto, MD DPhil, author of Intensive Lipid Lowering in Elderly Patients