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Pakistan PM Imran Khan contacts Indonesian President over Kashmir issue

Khan informed President Widodo that the state of Jammu and Kashmir remained under a complete clampdown and that there was a serious risk of innocent Kashmiris getting killed in large numbers as a result of enhanced repression by Indian security forces.




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The exile : the stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in flight / Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy

Scott-Clark, Cathy, 1965- author




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The Sarawak report : the inside story of the 1MDB exposé / investigated and reported by Clare Rewcastle Brown ; foreword by Gordon Brown

Brown, Clare Rewcastle, author




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[ASAP] Triterpene Glycosides Isolated from the Edible Sea Cucumber <italic toggle="yes">Bohadschia vitiensis</italic> and Their Antagonistic Activity against Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c00847




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[ASAP] Engineering of ß-Glucosidase Bgl15 with Simultaneously Enhanced Glucose Tolerance and Thermostability To Improve Its Performance in High-Solid Cellulose Hydrolysis

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c01817




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[ASAP] Quantitative Characterization of Ginsenoside Biotransformation in <italic toggle="yes">Panax notoginseng</italic> Inflorescences and Leaves by Online Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Mass Spectrometry

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c01746




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Biotech firms consider contingency plans as the coronavirus outbreak hits CROs

The industry's reliance on China-based firms for chemistry services is in the spotlight




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BASF subsidiary trinamiX launches handheld near-infrared spectrometer




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European Research Council president resigns amid dispute over coronavirus response

Mauro Ferrari quits after three months at the helm




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Member of US Vice President's staff tests positive for coronavirus -official

A member of US Vice President Mike Pence's staff has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, briefly delaying his Friday flight to Iowa and prompting some fellow passengers on Air Force Two to disembark, according to a White House official.




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Aide to Vice President Pence tests positive for coronavirus

An aide to Vice President Mike Pence has the coronavirus, marking the second person in the White House complex known to test positive this week. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday confirmed the latest positive testing. She insisted the White House continues to operate safely despite two cases cropping up in two days.




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Coronavirus strikes staffers inside the White House




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Eight in 10 Indian companies not currently considering permanent staff layoffs or redundancies: Korn Ferry survey

Given the government’s extensive requests on avoiding laying off employees, the majority of companies have not implemented or are not currently considering permanent staff layoff/redundancies (84%) or temporary layoff/furlough (83% without government subsidy support and 91% leveraging government subsidy).




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Investigation of titanium mesh as a cathode for the electro-Fenton process: consideration of its practical application in wastewater treatment

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01144G, Paper
Jiho Lee, Aseom Son, Young-Jin Ko, Min-Jung Shin, Woong Sub Kim, Jae Woo Choi, Jaesang Lee, Seok Won Hong
We show that a Ti electrode with a large opening size is a promising cathode material in the application of the electro-Fenton process for degradation of organic pollutants in wastewater treatment.
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News from the John W. Kluge Center: An invitation to Dynamics of Presidential Primaries

The John W. Kluge Center invites you to an event looking at the dynamics of presidential primaries.

The event will take place on Thursday, November 7, at 4pm in room LJ-119 of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building. Free tickets are available here.

Kluge Center Director John Haskell will moderate a discussion on the dynamics of presidential primaries, timed just months before primary season begins. Julia Azari, former Kluge Center Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Marquette University political science professor, and Amy Walter, national editor of the Cook Political Report, will be panelists.

They will discuss the role of debates and endorsements in primaries, as well as the question of electability and the major changes affecting political parties and primary processes.

A reception will follow the program.

Tickets are recommended, but not required, and are free.

Register for a ticket here.

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov.

Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov




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Classical field theory / Horatiu Nastase (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo)

Hayden Library - QC173.7.N37 2010




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ATLAS: a 25-year insider story of the LHC experiment / by the ATLAS Collaboration

Hayden Library - QC787.P73 A85 2019




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Gravitational-wave astronomy: exploring the dark side of the Universe / Nils Andersson, Mathematical Sciences and STAG Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Dewey Library - QC179.A53 2020




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Introduction to quantum field theory / Horațiu Năstase (Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo)

Dewey Library - QC174.45.N353 2020




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Plasmonics and light-matter interactions in two-dimensional materials and in metal nanostructures: classical and quantum considerations / Paulo André Dias Gonçalves

Online Resource




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Demand package of Rs 50,000 cr: Siddaramaiah

Former chief minister of Karnataka and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday asked the state government to demand a special economic package of at least Rs 50,000 crore from the centre to deal with the coronavirus crisis.




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Residency, class, and community in the contemporary Chinese city / edited by William Hurst

Rotch Library - HT384.C6 R47 2018




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Transit-oriented displacement or community dividends?: understanding the effects of smarter growth on communities / Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

Rotch Library - HT241.C424 2019




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Creative spaces: urban culture and marginality in Latin America / edited by Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda

Online Resource




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Ng'ambo atlas: historic urban landscape of Zanzibar Town's "other side" / Department of Urban and Rural Planning, Zanzibar ; African Architecture Matters

Rotch Library - HT169.T332 Z36 2019




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Residual futures: the urban ecologies of literary and visual media of 1960s and 1970s Japan / Franz Prichard

Rotch Library - HT243.J3 P75 2019




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[ASAP] Mesenchymal Stem Cells Could Be Considered as a Candidate for Further Studies in Cell-Based Therapy of Alzheimer’s Disease via Targeting the Signaling Pathways

ACS Chemical Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00052




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Educational contexts and borders through a cultural lens: looking inside, viewing outside / Giuseppina Marsico, Virgínia Dazzani, Marilena Ristum, Ana Cecília de Souza Bastos, editors

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A year in the life of a third space urban teacher residency: using inquiry to reinvent teacher education / Monica Taylor (Montclair State University, USA) and Emily J. Klein (Montclair State University, USA) ; with contributions from Linda Abrams [and 28

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Inclusive education and the issue of change: theory, policy and pedagogy / Anastasia Liasidou

Online Resource




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Side-chain tuning in conjugated polymer photocatalysts for improved hydrogen production from water

Energy Environ. Sci., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0EE01213K, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Duncan J Woods, Sam Hillman, Drew Pearce, Liam Wilbraham, Lucas Flagg, Warren Duffy, Iain Mcculloch, James Durrant, Anne Guilbert, Martijn Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Jenny Nelson, Andrew Cooper
Structure-property-activity relationships in solution processable polymer photocatalysts for hydrogen production from water were probed by varying the chemical structure of both the polymer side-chains and the polymer backbone. In both...
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Mycorrhizae : sustainable agriculture and forestry / edited by Zaki Anwar Siddiqui, Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar and Kazuyoshi Futai




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Manipur gears up for arrival of residents from May 12

Chief Minister N. Biren directs district administrations to make arrangements for quarantining them.




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Egypt’s president expands powers, citing virus outbreak

An international rights group condemned the amendments, saying the government has used the global pandemic to expand, not reform, Egypt’s abusive Emergency Law.




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No valid basis for EU tariffs in Boeing-Airbus subsidy dispute: US to WTO

The WTO has found the world's two largest planemakers received billions of dollars of unfair subsidies in a pair of cases dating back to 2004




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WHO became China's puppet, will take a decision soon: US President Trump

The Trump administration is currently weighing punitive action against China over its early handling of the global health emergency.






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The World Turned Upside Down

The Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg carry forward the tradition of military music heard on the battlefields of Yorktown.




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Preparation of theasinensin A and theasinensin B and exploration of their inhibitory mechanism on α-glucosidase

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3527-3538
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO03054A, Paper
Sainan Tao, Guijie Chen, Weiqi Xu, Yujia Peng, Peng Wan, Yi Sun, Xiaoxiong Zeng, Zhonghua Liu
Theasinensin A (TSA) and theasinensin B (TSB), dimers of tea catechins produced during the processing of oolong tea and black tea, had superior inhibitory effects on α-glucosidase.
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Protocatechuic acid and quercetin glucosides in onions attenuate changes induced by high fat diet in rats

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3585-3597
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02633A, Paper
Katarzyna Grzelak-Błaszczyk, Joanna Milala, Krzysztof Kołodziejczyk, Michał Sójka, Andrzej Czarnecki, Monika Kosmala, Robert Klewicki, Bartosz Fotschki, Adam Jurgoński, Jerzy Juśkiewicz
Yellow onion waste from industrial peeling was used to obtain three pure preparations: protocatechuic acid (PA), quercetin diglycosides (QD) and quercetin monoglycosides (QM).
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Ptaquiloside from bracken (Pteridium spp.) promotes oral carcinogenesis initiated by HPV16 in transgenic mice

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3298-3305
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00207K, Paper
Rui M. Gil da Costa, Tiago Neto, Diogo Estêvão, Magda Moutinho, Ana Félix, Rui Medeiros, Carlos Lopes, Margarida M. S. M. Bastos, Paula A. Oliveira
Bracken (Pteridium spp.) is a common weed that is consumed as food especially in Asia, and is suspected of promoting carcinogenesis induced by papillomaviruses in the digestive and urinary systems.
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The impact of oligosaccharide content, glycosidic linkages and lactose content of galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) on the expression of mucus-related genes in goblet cells

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3506-3515
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00064G, Paper
Susana Figueroa-Lozano, Chengcheng Ren, Huifang Yin, Hien Pham, Sander van Leeuwen, Lubbert Dijkhuizen, Paul de Vos
Galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) are molecules known to impact goblet cell function and mucus composition. Our results show that their molecular structure have a direct effect on goblet cells and impact mucus synthesis-related genes.
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Usage of supercritical fluid techniques to obtain bioactive alkaloid-rich extracts from cherimoya peel and leaves: extract profiles and their correlation with antioxidant properties and acetylcholinesterase and α-glucosidase inhibitory activities

Food Funct., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00342E, Paper
Oscar Galarce-Bustos, Mª Teresa Fernández-Ponce, Antonio Montes, Clara Pereyra, Lourdes Casas, Casimiro Mantell, Mario Aranda
The wastes generated by cherimoya cultivation and processing industries should be contemplated as a valuable source of bioactive alkaloids, with potential in pharmaceutical applications for the treatment or prevention of chronic diseases.
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Effects of a β-type glycosidic polysaccharide from Flammulina velutipes on anti-inflammation and gut microbiota modulation in colitis mice

Food Funct., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO03017D, Paper
Ruiqiu Zhao, Yang Ji, Xin Chen, Anxiang Su, Gaoxing Ma, Guitang Chen, Qiuhui Hu, Liyan Zhao
Using the Flammulina velutipes polysaccharide (FVP) extracted from our previous study, herein, we investigated the improvement of this β-type glycosidic polysaccharide in alleviating dextran sodium sulfate-induced ulcerative colitis (UC) in mice.
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Sugar matters: sugar moieties as reactivity-tuning factors in quercetin O-glycosides

Food Funct., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00319K, Paper
Cezara Zagrean-Tuza, Augustin C Moţ, Tomasz Chmiel, Attila Bende, Ioan Turcu
Quercetin, one of the most abundant flavonoids in plant-based foods, commonly occurs in nature in various glycosylated forms. There is still a less explored aspect regarding the cause of its...
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Effects of compound K, a metabolite of ginsenosides, on memory and cognitive dysfunction in db/db mice involve the inhibition of ER stress and the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway

Food Funct., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02602A, Paper
Chu-Wen Li, Min-Zhen Deng, Zhi-Jie Gao, Yuan-Ye Dang, Guo-Dong Zheng, Xiu-Juan Yang, Ying-Xin Chao, Ye-Feng Cai, Xiao-Li Wu
The metabolite of ginsenosides, compound K improves memory and cognitive dysfunction in diabetes mellitus mice.
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Narinder Batra gets extension as FIH president following postponement of body's annual Congress

Narinder Batra gets extension as FIH president following postponement of body's annual Congress




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Egypt's president expands powers, citing virus outbreak

Egypt's president expands powers, citing virus outbreak




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Egypt&#x27;s president expands powers, citing virus outbreak - Times of India

Egypt's president expands powers, citing virus outbreak - Times of India