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Coping with chronic illness and disability [electronic resource] : theoretical, empirical, and clinical aspects / edited by Erin Martz, Hanoch Livneh ; foreword by Beatrice A. Wright

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New York : Springer, [2008]




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The Synod of Dort Was Protestantism’s Biggest Debate

Why Arminians and Reformers squared off 400 years ago.




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Yamuna Authority appoints PwC to study expansion of Jewar airport

The Jewar airport in Greater Noida will act as a second airport for the capital city, where, a study carried out by government said, that the existing airport is set to exhaust its capacity of over 100 million by 2023-24 – the airport in Jewar is expected to start operations around the same time.




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PwC deferring promotions, increments and bonuses of India employees, partners to take 25% pay cut

PwC India is deferring promotions, increments and bonuses for all its employees in India due to Covid impact.




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Deloitte India announces promotions, promotes 30 directors to partners

With the new announcements, Deloitte’s partner tally crosses 480. The promotions were across the five verticals — audit, tax, consulting, financial services and risk— but audit division saw the maximum number of partner induction (over 10).




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No need to further curb 'non-audit' services of auditors: Industry bodies tell govt

Several industry bodies have told the government that the existing framework in this regard is adequate and benchmarked with the best global practices.




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RTC to ply for Secretariat staff

Passengers will have to pay double the fare for service scheduled from May 11




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CSS Corp rolls out pay hikes, to hire 1000 people this quarter

The company is planning to hire 1000 employees by the end of June across markets. Companies such as Infosys, Wipro, TCS, WNS and others have delayed pay hikes and put promotions on hold as they see uncertainty over business growth in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak across key markets. CSS Corp has also paid 100% of variable salary to the majority of its employees.




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Amid vast unemployment, India's biggest job creator short of labour

The challenge of retaining staff despite 12.2 crore people losing their jobs in India last month shows how difficult it will be for Modi to restart Asia’s No. 3 economy, where the bulk of the workforce comprises so-called informal labour that are denied security and benefits. Economists predict a rare contraction in national output.




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Umar Akmal didn’t show remorse for failing to report fixing approaches, says PCB disciplinary panel head

Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan submitted his detailed judgement on the case to the Pakistan Cricket Board, which made it public on Friday.




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When can sports resume in India?

Experts from a wide range of disciplines weigh in on the matter




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Atomic layer deposition and electrospinning for membrane surface engineering methods for water treatment: a short review

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01134J, Critical Review
Jieun Lee, In S. Kim, Moon-Hyun Hwang, Kyu-Jung Chae
With the development of water purification, the membrane process has drawn attention because of its separation efficiency. However, low rejection efficiency and flux decline driven by membrane fouling remain as...
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The effects of water chemistry on the detachment and dissolution of differently stabilized silver nanoparticles from ceramic membranes

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1347-1356
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01141B, Paper
Anne M. Mikelonis, Lewis Stetson Rowles, Desmond F. Lawler
A multilevel statistical model was developed to demonstrate stabilizing agent impact on detachment of silver nanoparticles from ceramic water treatment membranes.
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Field testing of an onsite sanitation system on apartment building blackwater using biological treatment and electrochemical disinfection

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1400-1411
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01106D, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Siva Kumar Varigala, Meghan Hegarty-Craver, Srinivas Krishnaswamy, Prakash Madhavan, Milan Basil, Praveen Rosario, Antony Raj, Viswa Barani, Clement A. Cid, Sonia Grego, Michael Luettgen
Demonstration of an electrochemical toilet wastewater treatment and disinfection technology at the scale of an apartment building and translation of the system into a commercial product.
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News from the John W. Kluge Center: Karen Armstrong on the Lost Art of Scripture

Please join us for a National Book Festival Presents event with Karen Armstrong

The event will take place on Wednesday, November 6, in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building. Free tickets are available here.

At a time of intolerance and mutual incomprehension, renowned scholar and TED Prize-winner Karen Armstrong's latest book The Lost Art of Scripture shines fresh light on the world's major religions to help us build bridges between faiths and rediscover a creative and spiritual engagement with holy texts.

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religious affairs, including The Case for God, A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation, as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. In 2008, she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, and crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. The charter was launched globally in the fall of 2009. She is currently an ambassador for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.

The event is free and open to the public; however, tickets are required for entry. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. A ticket does not guarantee entry into the event.

Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of house management. We recommend arriving when doors open.

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.




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News from the John W. Kluge Center: You Are Invited to a Author Salon with Susan Schneider on Artificial Intelligence

Join Us for a Kluge Center Author Salon with Susan Schneider on Artificial Intelligence

Get your free tickets here.

On Thursday January 30, at 4pm in the Montpelier Room of the Madison Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion with Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation Susan Schneider.

Schneider will discuss her new book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, which is an exploration of what artificial intelligence can, and cannot, achieve.

Humans may not be Earth’s most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid pace of progress in AI, many predict that it could advance to human-level intelligence within the next several decades. From there, it could quickly outpace human intelligence. What do these developments mean for the future of the mind?

In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions, but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with “tools” they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness. Schneider argues that an insufficient grasp of the nature of these entities could undermine the use of AI and brain enhancement technology, bringing about the demise or suffering of conscious beings. To flourish, we must grasp the philosophical issues lying beneath the algorithms.

Schneider will discuss these topics and more, with a reception to follow.

The event is free, but tickets are recommended. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed.

Register for a ticket here.

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




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Ram Janambhoomi Teertha Kshetra put under section 80G; donations to trust exempted from income tax

The Shri Ram Janambhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has been created for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The 15-member trust was constituted by the Modi government, after the Supreme Court's verdict on November 9 settled the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.




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Aurangabad train mishap: Mortal remains of 16 migrant labourers sent to MP

The mortal remains of the 16 migrant labourers, who were killed after a goods train ran over them in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad on Friday, had been sent to their native state Madhya Pradesh on a special train.




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AIIMS medical experts sent to Gujarat after sharp rise in coronavirus COVID-19 cases, fatalities

With Gujarat reporting a large number of coronavirus COVID-19 cases and fatalities, medical experts from AIIMS, including its director Dr Randeep Guleria, have rushed to Ahmedabad to provide expert guidance to doctors there on COVID-19 management.




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No hike in school fees in academic year 2020-21: Maharashtra Education Department

Giving a big relief to parents during the coronavirus COVID-19 crisis, the Maharashtra Education Department has announced that there will be no hike in school fees in the academic year 2020-21.




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Migrants resort to violence in Gujarat's Surat, pelt stones at police, damage vehicles; 50 detained

The incident took place in Mora village near the industrial town of Hazira.




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ED attaches part of AJL Mumbai building worth Rs 16.38 cr; charges Moti Lal Vora

A portion of a nine-storey building in Mumbai's tony Bandra area, valued Rs16.38 crore, has been attached by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its money-laundering probe against the Congress-party promoted Associated Journals Limited (AJL).




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Handbook of Sport Psychology, 2 Volume Set, 4th Edition


 

The fourth edition of a classic, leading resource for the field of sport, exercise, and performance psychology

Now expanded to two volumes, and featuring a wealth of new chapters from highly respected scholars in the field, this all-new edition of the Handbook of Sports Psychology draws on an international roster of experts and scholars in the field who have assembled state-of-the-art knowledge into this thorough, well-rounded, and accessible volume



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Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?


 
Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.

Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how cellular environments and certain experiences and behaviors influence gene expression at the molecular level, with significant implications for health and wellbeing. To the amazement of

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Particles, fields, quanta: from quantum mechanics to the standard model of particle physics / Gerhard Ecker

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The reality of time flow: local becoming in modern physics / Richard T.W. Arthur

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Quantum mechanics and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead / by Michael Epperson

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Quantum gravity and the functional renormalization group: the road towards asymptotic safety / Martin Reuter, Frank Saueressig

Hayden Library - QC178.R49 2019




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Tensor-valued random fields for continuum physics / Anatoliy Malyarenko (Mälardalens Högskola, Sweden), Martin Ostoja-Starzewski (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Hayden Library - QC793.3.F5 M35 2019




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Practicing the correspondence principle in the old quantum theory: a transformation through implementation / Martin Jähnert

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Nanoparticle design and characterization for catalytic applications in sustainable chemistry / edited by Rafael Luque and Pepijn Prinsen

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Novel trends in rheology VIII: conference date, 30-31 July 2019: location, Zlín, Czech Republic / editors, Martin Zatloukal and Jan Musil

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Symmetry breaking in the standard model: a non-perturbative outlook / Franco Strocchi

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Handbook of particle detection and imaging / editors, Ivor Fleck, Maxim Titov, Claus Grupen, Irène Buvat

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The hologram: principles and techniques / Martin J. Richardson, John D. Wiltshire

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A mathematical introduction to electronic structure theory: iterative solution of symmetric quasi-definite linear systems / Lin Lin (University of California, Berkeley, California), Jianfeng Lu (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)

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Introduction to optical and optoelectronic properties of nanostructures / Vladimir V. Mitin, Viacheslav A. Kochelap, Mitra Dutta, Michael A. Stroscio

Hayden Library - QC176.8.N35 M58 2019




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Multidimensional Periodic Schrödinger Operator: Perturbation Theory and Applications.

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Theory of electronic and optical properties of atomically thin films of indium selenide Samuel J. Magorrian

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Lectures on the physics of extreme states of matter / Vladimir Fortov

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Matter: a very short introduction / Geoff Cottrell

Hayden Library - QC171.2.C68 2019




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Ground States of Quantum Field Models: Perturbation of Embedded Eigenvalues / Fumio Hiroshima

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High-Energy Processes in Condensed Matter (HEPCM 2019): proceedings of the XXVI Conference on High-Energy Processes in Condensed Matter, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of S.A. Chaplygin: conference date, 3-5 April 2019: location, Novosibi

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Astronomical Polarisation from the Infrared to Gamma Rays Roberto Mignani, Andrew Shearer, Agnieszka Słowikowska, Silvia Zane, editors

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Birthplace of the atomic bomb: a complete history of the Trinity Test Site / William S. Loring

Hayden Library - QC773.3.U5 L66 2019




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Non-inertial frames and Dirac observables in relativity / Luca Lusanna

Hayden Library - QC174.45.L87 2019




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The hologram: principles and techniques / Martin J. Richardson, John D. Wiltshire

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Holographic quantum matter / Sean A. Hartnoll, Andrew Lucas, and Subir Sachdev

Barker Library - QC173.457.H65 H37 2018




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Particle adhesion: applications and advances / edited by David J. Quesnel, Ronald S. Rimai and Louis H. Sharpe

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