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Legacy of the MacArthur Foundation’s Maternal Health Quality of Care Strategy in India

This report presents the findings from Mathematica’s cumulative review of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Maternal Health Quality of Care (MHQoC) strategy in India.




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The Changing Landscape of Primary Care: Effects of the ACA and Other Efforts Over the Past Decade

This Health Affairs article describes primary care delivery system reform models that were developed and tested over the past decade by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation—which was created by the Affordable Care Act—and reflect on key lessons and remaining challenges.




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MCC Indonesia Nutrition Project Impact Evaluation Final Report

This report presents findings from a 5-year randomized control trial of a $120 million maternal and child health project in Indonesia funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The project sought to improve stunting, along with a host of other pre-, postnatal, and early childhood health outcomes.




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Coordinating Parenting Time and Child Support: Experiences and Lessons Learned from Three States (Issue Brief)

This issue brief reports on how three states coordinate the establishment and enforcement of parenting time with child support establishment activities.




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New Report Highlights the MacArthur Foundation’s Grantmaking Legacy to Advance Maternal Health in India

Mathematica released findings from its cumulative review of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Maternal Health Quality of Care (MHQoC) strategy in India.




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Touchpoints for Addressing Substance Use Issues in Home Visiting: Phase 1 Final Report

This report describes project findings around six touchpoints and four implementation system inputs through which home visiting programs can engage and support families to prevent, identify, and address substance use issues.




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Touchpoints for Addressing Substance Use Issues in Home Visiting: Executive Summary of Phase 1 Final Report

This report describes project findings around six touchpoints and four implementation system inputs through which home visiting programs can engage and support families to prevent, identify, and address substance use issues.




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Association of Organizational Factors and Physician Practices’ Participation in Alternative Payment Models

Consolidation among physician practices and between hospitals and physician practices has accelerated in the past decade, resulting in higher prices in commercial markets.




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Emerging Findings from the 2012-2017 National Cross-Site Evaluation of the Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) Program (Summary)

This summary presents emerging findings from the national cross-site evaluation for the Regional Partnership Grant program. The program supports partnerships between providers of child welfare and social services to improve the well-being of children impacted by substance abuse.




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Financial Toll of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Among 2017 Births in the United States

The authors developed a mathematical model based on a cost-of-illness approach to estimate the impacts of exposure to untreated PMADs on mothers and children.




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Challenges and Successes of Pregnancy Assistance Fund Programs Supporting Young Fathers

Since 2010, the Office of Population Affairs (formerly the Office of Adolescent Health) has offered funding to support expectant and parenting youth through the Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF).




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Supporting Child Welfare Agencies During COVID-19

Before the COVID-19 pandemic changed our daily lives, resource-constrained child welfare agencies across the country already faced challenges with implementing parts of the new Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) of 2018.




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Oakland’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: Impacts on Prices, Purchases and Consumption by Adults and Children (Journal Article)

In this paper, we estimate the impact of the tax on retail prices, product availability, purchases, and child and adult consumption of taxed beverages in Oakland, as well as of potential substitute beverages.




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Phytoplasmas: plant pathogenic bacteria. / Assunta Bertaccini, Kenro Oshima, Michael Kube, Govind Pratap Rao, editors

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Medically important plant biomes: source of secondary metabolites / Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Antonio Tiezzi, editors

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Sustainable Rice Straw Management Martin Gummert, Nguyen Van Hung, Pauline Chivenge, Boru Douthwaite, editors

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Science and Technology Parks and Regional Economic Development: An International Perspective / Sara Amoroso, Albert N. Link, Mike Wright, editors

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The potato crop: its agricultural, nutritional and social contribution to humankind / Hugo Campos, Oscar Ortiz, editors

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The redesigned Earth: a brief review of ecology for engineers, as if the Earth really mattered / John T. Tanacredi

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Golden rice: the imperiled birth of a GMO superfood / Ed Regis

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Coffee is not forever: a global history of the coffee leaf rust / Stuart McCook

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Wild at heart: America's turbulent relationship with nature, from exploitation to redemption / Alice Outwater

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Ecological modeling: an introduction to the art and science of modeling ecological systems / edited by Hsiao-Hsuan Wang, William E. Grant

Dewey Library - QH541.15.M3 E53 2019




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Planning for the planet: environmental expertise and the international union for conservation of nature and natural resources, 1960-1980 / Simone Schleper

Hayden Library - QH75.S257 2019




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Future remains: a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene / edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmett

Barker Library - GF75.F88 2018




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Residential property price indexes: theory and practice / W. Erwin Diewert, Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Chihiro Shimizu, Tsutomu Watanabe

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Rebuilding the Earth: regenerating our planet's life support systems for a sustainable future / Mark Everard

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Plant factory: an indoor vertical farming system for efficient quality food production / edited by Toyoki Kozai, Genhua Niu, Michiko Takagaki

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Possessing the city: property and politics in Delhi, 1911-1947 / Anish Vanaik

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Genomic designing of climate-smart cereal crops Chittaranjan Kole, editor

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Sustainable Food Chains and Ecosystems: Cooperative Approaches for a Changing World / edited by Konstantinos Mattas, Henk Kievit, Gert van Dijk, George Baourakis, Constantin Zopounidis

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Genomic designing of climate-smart vegetable crops Chittaranjan Kole, editor

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Fire effects on soil properties / editors, Paulo Pereira, Jorge Mataix-Solera, Xavier Úbeda, Guillermo Rein and Artemi Cerdà

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Innovative pest management approaches for the 21st Century: harnessing automated unmanned technologies / Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy, editor

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Wheat quality for improving processing and human health / Gilberto Igrejas, Tatsuya M. Ikeda, Carlos Guzmán, editors

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Trippy CSS Distortion Effects

Sometimes a cool glitchy, distorted effect is the perfect addition to your web design. Maybe you’re creating a tech site, a developer’s portfolio, or something completely experimental. Distortion effects are an unconventional but interesting way to grab visitors’ attention …




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Building WordPress Websites With Zurb Foundation or Bootstrap: Comparisons and Starter Themes

WordPress is super versatile. You know that. I know that. But sometimes this can be an overwhelming prospect. How on earth will you get your site up and running? What platform will you use? Zurb Foundation and Bootstrap are two …




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Diffusive transport of nanoscale objects through cell membranes: a computational perspective

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3869-3881
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02338K, Perspective
Ziyang Xu, Lijuan Gao, Pengyu Chen, Li-Tang Yan
Clarifying the diffusion dynamics of nanoscale objects with cell membrane is critical for revealing fundamental physics in biological systems. This perspective highlights the advances in computational and theoretical aspects of this emerging field.
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Structure and tensile properties of the forewing costal vein of the honeybee Apis mellifera

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4057-4064
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02364J, Paper
Yun Ma, Tianbao Ma, Jianguo Ning, Stanislav Gorb
Our paper reveals the functional morphology and tensile properties of the forewing costal vein of honeybees, reviews studies on wings and discusses outlooks for future research.
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Melting scenarios of two-dimensional Hertzian spheres with a single triangular lattice

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3962-3972
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02262G, Paper
E. N. Tsiok, E. A. Gaiduk, Yu. D. Fomin, V. N. Ryzhov
We present a molecular dynamics simulation study of the phase diagram and melting scenarios of two-dimensional Hertzian spheres with exponent 7/2.
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How clay particulates affect flow cessation and the coiling stability of yield stress-matched cementing suspensions

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3929-3940
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02414J, Paper
Iman Mehdipour, Hakan Atahan, Narayanan Neithalath, Mathieu Bauchy, Edward Garboczi, Gaurav Sant
Transition from closely-packed to fractally-architected structures with clay addition improves homogeneity and prevents local dewatering, thus enhancing coiling stability of layer-wise extruded cementing suspensions during 3D-printing.
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Engineering interfacial entropic effects to generate giant viscosity changes in nanoparticle embedded polymer thin films

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4065-4073
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00019A, Paper
Aparna Swain, Nafisa Begam, Sivasurender Chandran, M. S. Bobji, J. K. Basu
We demonstrate a new method to study the viscosity of PNC thin films, consisting of polymer grafted nanoparticles (PGNPs) embedded in un-entangled homopolymer melt films, using atomic force microscopy based force–distance spectroscopy.
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Structural properties of contractile gels based on light-driven molecular motors: a small-angle neutron and X-ray study

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4008-4023
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00031K, Paper
Giacomo Mariani, Jean-Rémy Colard-Itté, Emilie Moulin, Nicolas Giuseppone, Eric Buhler
The collective rotation of light-driven molecular motors actuates the structural changes and macroscopic contraction of the chemical gels.
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Bi-continuous orthorhombic soft matter phase made of polycatenar molecules

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3882-3885
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00331J, Communication
Joanna Matraszek, Damian Pociecha, Nataša Vaupotič, Mirosław Salamończyk, Martin Vogrin, Ewa Gorecka
A slight deformation of a double gyroid structure of a cubic Iād phase results in the formation of a phase with an orthorhombic Pcab symmetry. The phase seems to be an intermediate state towards a columnar phase made of helical pillars.
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Detachment work of prolate spheroidal particles from fluid droplets: role of viscous dissipation

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4049-4056
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02385B, Paper
Sergey V. Lishchuk, Rammile Ettelaie
The minimum possible work done upon removal of an elongated solid particle from the surface of a liquid droplet can be less than that for a sphere.
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Properties of surface Landau–de Gennes Q-tensor models

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4032-4042
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02475A, Paper
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Michael Nestler, Ingo Nitschke, Hartmut Löwen, Axel Voigt
Uniaxial nematic liquid crystals whose molecular orientation is subjected to tangential anchoring on a curved surface offer a non trivial interplay between the geometry and the topology of the surface and the orientational degree of freedom.
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Modeling atomic force microscopy and shell mechanical properties estimation of coated microbubbles

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00300J, Paper
Alkmini Lytra, Vassilis Sboros, Antonios Giannakopoulos, Nikos Pelekasis
We present an extensive comparison with experimental data of our theoretical/numerical model for the static response of coated microbubbles (MBs) subject to compression from an atomic force microscope (afm). The...
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Different-shaped micro-objects driven by active particle aggregations

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00160K, Paper
Chen Wang, Hongyuan Jiang
We study the dynamics of passive micro-objects in the active bath. The motion of micro-objects depends on the pattern of active particle aggregations.
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Binary mixtures of active and passive particles on a sphere

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00281J, Communication
Bao-quan Ai, Bu-yun Zhou, Xiao-miao Zhang
According to the competition between rotational diffusion and polar alignment, we find three distinct phases: a mixed phase and two different demixed phases.
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Layering of bidisperse charged nanoparticles in sedimentation

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00588F, Communication
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Xufeng Xu, Maarten Biesheuvel, Helmut Cölfen, Evan Spruijt
Binary mixtures of charged nanoparticles become layered upon centrifugation as a result of minimization of the system free energy in sedimentation-diffusion equilibrium. Different factors were investigated experimentally for their effects...
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