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Review: Microsoft Surface

Surface is proof that Redmond is intent on taking the tablet someplace entirely new and different.




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Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro Review

The Surface Pro looks like a tablet, but it's not a mobile device. It's a portable device.




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What Crocs on Treadmills Can Teach Us About Dinosaurs

What crocs on treadmills can teach us about dinosaurs.




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Angry Nerd - Deconstructing LEGO: How a Beloved Toy Sold Out to Cross-Brand Licensing

LEGO has strayed from its original purpose, and the Angry Nerd will not stand for it. The creative potential of infinitely interlockable plastic pieces has been killed by tie-ins with kiddie titles like Batman and Harry Potter. It used to be about the bricks, man!




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Angry Nerd - The Veronica Mars Movie Project and the Pitfalls of Crowdfunding Films

Veronica Mars fans pledged more than $5 million on Kickstarter to get a film adaptation of the show off the ground. And while Angry Nerd is all for crowdfunding for a good cause, when it comes to fans calling the shots in return for financial backing, the money-making model might end up causing more harm than good.




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Battle Damage - Microsoft Zune Torture Test

Released in 2006, the Microsoft Zune was intended to be a competitor to Apple’s iPod. It didn’t stand a chance then and it doesn’t stand a chance now. See what happens when we go medieval on this week’s gadget, as recommended by Mark and Todd from Barely Political.




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Design FX - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Crowd-Simulation On a Behemoth Scale

Weta Digital was behind the striking effects in two of this year's big-franchise films: “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”—which picked up an Oscar nomination for best visual effects—and “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.” Mike Seymour takes an exclusive look at the impressive, large-scale battle sequences that Weta designed for the final installment in The Hobbit trilogy.




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WIRED February 2015 Issue: Microsoft in the Age of Satya Nadella

Restart. In the February issue, Jessi Hempel profiles Satya Nadella and his warm, fuzzy, and slightly bonkers plan to make you care about Microsoft. Plus: How skateboard legend Rodney Mullen became a superstar on the Silicon Valley lecture circuit, where drones are actually delivering stuff—from rescue supplies to pepperoni pizza, Lyft’s new mustache, dumpster diving for fun and profit (lots of profit), and more. Music By Esbe – Float (https://switchy.bandcamp.com/album/bloomsday )




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The Ludicrously Fast Tesla Model S P90D | Zero to 60 at Supercar Speeds

The Tesla P90D is the fastest Tesla on the market. WIRED associate editor Alex Davies gets behind the wheel to test out "ludicrous mode" which uses both of the car's electric motors for acceleration speeds normally only experienced in supercars from the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini.




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Microsoft's Surface Pro 4: A Hybrid on Its Way to Greatness

The laptop-tablet hybrid is clearly the future of Windows mobility, so it makes sense that Microsoft is trying to corner the market.




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Think Like a Tree - How a Dog Inspired Velcro and a Bat Inspired Radar

How can we move toward a more sustainable world? By looking to nature where many of our problems have already been solved. Find out how inventors and scientists developed things like velcro and radar by looking at—and imitating—dogs and bats.




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Fantastic Negrito Sings "Lost in a Crowd" At WIRED

Musician Fantastic Negrito plays his song "Lost in a Crowd" at WIRED's San Francisco office.




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A New Crop of Marijuana Geneticists Build Better Weed

There are thousands of strains of weed. Cracking their genetic codes may be the key to transforming pot from a budding business to a high-flying industry and a cannabis analytics lab is trying to unlock the true potential of weed. Pictures by Preston Gannaway.




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The Enduring Mystery of What the Hell's in LaCroix

LaCroix is the fizzy water of the moment. It's just H2O, CO2, and natural flavor. But what's "natural flavor" and is it safe to consume by the daily 12-pack? Asking for a friend.




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Microsoft's Surface Studio Is All Beauty and a Little Bit of Brains

David Pierce reviews the new all-in-one PC from Microsoft. It's a joy to use, especially if you like drawing with a pen on a massive touchscreen.




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Why We Love the New Microsoft Laptop

The Microsoft Surface Laptop is a great-looking, light and super usable notebook. Here's more about why we love it.




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Plankton 'Mucus Houses' Could Pull Microplastics From the Sea

Watch the jellyfish-like larvacean capture tiny floating bits of plastic, enabling the pinkie-sized critter to eliminate the plastic as waste that falls to the seafloor.




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The Zippy Microbots That Swarm to Build Structures

These tiny robots take a cue from ant colonies to cooperatively build. Some do the glue work, and some assemble scaffolding that could make for stronger 3D printing. Someday armies of microscopic bots might even roam our bodies to capture unwanted cells.




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WIRED25: Inclusive Design -- Microsoft's Satya Nadella & Jenny Lay-Flurrie Talk Accessibility

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Chief Accessibility Officer Jenny Lay-Flurrie spoke with WIRED’s Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson as part of WIRED25, WIRED’s 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.




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How a Crossword Puzzle is Made

New York Times crossword puzzle constructor (also known as a cruciverbalist), David Kwong, shows us how he makes a crossword puzzle.




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Knowledge at the crossroads? : physics and history in the changing world of schools and universities / Lyn Yates, Peter Woelert, Victoria Millar, Kate O'Connor

Yates, Lyn, 1949- author




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Applied electromagnetic engineering for advanced materials from macro-to nanoscale under static-to shock loading : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 10th Japanese-Mediterranean Workshop on Applied Electromagnetic Engineering for Magnetic, Supercondu




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Latest News: Rosa Parks Crowdsourcing Project

By the People, the Library of Congress’ crowdsourced transcription project powered by volunteers across the country is launching a campaign to transcribe Rosa Parks’ personal papers to make them more searchable and accessible online, including many items featured in the exhibition, “Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words,” starting today, the 107th anniversary of her birth.

Click here for more information.




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Latest News: New Crowdsourcing Effort

The Library’s crowdsourcing initiative By the People has launched its newest campaign to enlist the public’s help to make digital collection items more searchable and accessible online. Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents includes thousands of pages of historical documents in Spanish, Latin and Catalan.

As the first entirely non-English crowdsourced transcription project by the Library, this campaign will open the legal, religious and personal histories of Spain and its colonies to greater discovery by researchers, historians, genealogists and lifelong learners.

Click here for more information.




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Disability and employer practices [electronic resource] : research across the disciplines / Susanne M. Bruyère, editor




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Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Microfossils / Sreepat Jain

Online Resource




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Understanding downhole microseismic data analysis: with applications in hydraulic fracture monitoring / Jubran Akram

Online Resource




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Rift-related coarse-grained submarine fan reservoirs: the Brae Play, South Viking Graben, North Sea / edited by Colin C. Turner, Bryan T. Cronin

Hayden Library - QE350.22.N67 R55 2018




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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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Metamorphic geology: microscale to mountain belts / edited by S. Ferrero, P. Lanari, P. Goncalves, and E. G. Grosch

Hayden Library - QE475.A2 M473 2019




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Nanostrip flexible microwave enzymatic biosensor for noninvasive epidermal glucose sensing

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00098A, Communication
Qiannan Xue, Zheyu Li, Qikun Wang, Wenwei Pan, Ye Chang, Xuexin Duan
A nanostrip flexible microwave biosensor based on highly ordered nano-1D metamaterials is presented for epidermal trace glucose sensing.
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Fast chemical force microscopy demonstrates that glycopeptidolipids define nanodomains of varying hydrophobicity on mycobacteria

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9NH00736A, Communication
Open Access
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Albertus Viljoen, Felipe Viela, Laurent Kremer, Yves F. Dufrêne
We use chemical force microscopy with high spatiotemporal resolution to study the nanoscale distribution of hydrophobicity on living mycobacterial cells.
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The application of hollow micro-/nanostructured cathodes for sodium-ion batteries

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1289-1303
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00674E, Chemistry Frontiers
Xiao-Hao Liu, Wei-Hong Lai, Shu-Lei Chou
This work will open a new view for the design of hollow micro-/nanostructures used as cathodes for sodium-ion batteries, enclosing the superiority of this unique structure to enhance the electrochemical performance.
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Design and construction of bi-metal MOF-derived yolk–shell Ni2P/ZnP2 hollow microspheres for efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1366-1374
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00128G, Research Article
Jinyang Zhang, Xuan Sun, Yang Liu, Linrui Hou, Changzhou Yuan
Hierarchical yolk–shell Ni2P/ZnP2 hollow microspheres are smartly synthesized, and exhibit exceptional OER performance, benefiting from their unique compositional/structural merits.
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[ASAP] Enhanced Performance of Adsorptive Removal of Thiophene from Model Fuel over Micro–Mesoporous Binderless ZSM-5 Prepared by <italic toggle="yes">In Situ</italic> Crystallization

Energy & Fuels
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c00198




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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] Co-Generation System of Bioethanol and Electricity with Microbial Fuel Cell Technology

Energy & Fuels
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c00749




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Kerala government to raise Rs 500 crore via sale of bonds

In order to tide over the financial crisis, the state government is planning to mop up Rs 500 crore more from the market through sale of government stock (securities) of four-year tenure.




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Narrations d'un nouveau siècle: romans et récits français, 2001-2010: colloque de Cerisy / édition de Barbara Havercroft, Bruno Blanckeman

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Voltaire: a very short introduction / Nicholas Cronk

Hayden Library - PQ2122.C76 2017




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A crossing of hearts / Michel Tremblay ; translated by Sheila Fischman

Hayden Library - PQ3919.2.T73 T68513 2017




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The role-playing society: essays on the cultural influence of RPGs / edited by Andrew Byers and Francesco Crocco

Hayden Library - GV1469.6.R65 2016




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Cross over to HTML5 game development: use your programming experience to create mobile games / Zarrar Chishti

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Maruti confirms new S-Cross launch post-lockdown

Maruti Suzuki S-Cross facelift was showcased at the Auto Expo 2020. The company has phased out the diesel engine and replaced it with the 1.5-litre, K-Series, BS6-compliant, petrol engine, much like the XL6, Ertiga and the facelift Brezza. Earlier, S-Cross was only available in diesel option with a manual gearbox.




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‘Blind time’ – current limitations on laser ablation multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-MC-ICP-MS) for ultra-transient signal isotope ratio analysis and application to individual sub-micron sized uranium particles

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00066C, Paper
Grant Craig, Matthew S. A. Horstwood, Helen J. Reid, Barry L. Sharp
Gaps in acquisition between integration times for MC-ICP-MS can introduce isotope ratio bias with a mixed detector array.
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Portable Photochemical Vapor Generation-Microwave Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00104J, Technical Note
Yujia Deng, Wen Zeng, Xiaoming Jiang, Xiandeng Hou
A low power microwave plasma torch as an excitation source was combined with photochemical vapor generation (PVG) and a miniaturized charge-coupled device to construct a portable optical emission spectrometer. The...
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Phosphate ion and oxygen defect-modulated nickel cobaltite nanowires: a bifunctional cathode for flexible hybrid supercapacitors and microbial fuel cells

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8,8722-8730
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA01423K, Paper
Wenda Qiu, Quanhua Zhou, Hongbing Xiao, Chun Zhou, Wenting He, Yu Li, Xihong Lu
The exploration of efficient and cost-effective cathodes for flexible hybrid supercapacitors (HSCs) and microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is highly desirable but challenging.
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An advanced three-dimensionally ordered macroporous NiCo2O4 spinel as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for rechargeable Zn–air batteries

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8,8554-8565
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA00874E, Paper
José Béjar, Lorena Álvarez-Contreras, Janet Ledesma-García, Noé Arjona, Luis Gerardo Arriaga
A rechargeable ZAB was assembled using a NiCo2O4 3DOM spinel displaying an open circuit potential of 1.44 V, a power density of 101 mW cm−2, and a high durability during charge/discharge cycling (being operated for 21 h).
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A universal cross-linking binding polymer composite for ultrahigh-loading Li-ion battery electrodes

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA00714E, Paper
Dong Wang, Qian Zhang, Jie Liu, Erying Zhao, Zhenwei Li, Yu Yang, Ziyang Guo, Lei Wang, Shanqing Zhang
A general, facile-operability, and sustainable strategy to achieve ultrahigh-loading electrodes has been proposed that is simply replacing the traditional PVDF binder with an eco-friendly and robust c-PAA-XG binder with a high-efficiency damper.
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Microwave-assisted evolution of WO3 and WS2/WO3 hierarchical nanotrees

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA02027C, Paper
Noho Lee, Junghyeok Kwak, Ji Hye Kwak, Sang-Mun Jung, Jaerim Kim, Anupam Giri, Kaliannan Thiyagarajan, Yong-Tae Kim, Sunshin Jung, Jong Kyu Kim, Unyong Jeong
Although branched WO3 nanostructures have been investigated for electrochromic devices and catalytic electrodes, a detailed study on their structural evolution mechanism has rarely been carried out.
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