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Hero MotoCorp in line with larger plan of increasing global footprint

The board of directors of the company will meet at a 15th century heritage villa in the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.




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Honda CB Shine races past Hero Passion in April

HMSI’s commuter bike Shine sold 1,00,824 units of CB Shine in the month, making it the fourth-largest-selling two-wheeler vehicle.




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Hero MotoCorp plans separate retail network for premium bikes

"XPulse (concept) that we showed today is in that (premium) segment. There are other products that are under development currently," Munjal said.




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Need more data, says ICMR on proposal to undertake study of Ganga water for treating COVID-19

The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), an arm of the Jal Shakti Ministry that deal with the rejuvenation programme for the river, had received a number of proposals, including from people and NGOs working on Ganga, to undertake clinical studies for treatment of coronavirus patients with the water, officials said.




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ICMR to check for community spread

Community transmission is said to happen when a person who has not been in contact with an infected person or travelled to a country where the virus is active tests positive.




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Hotter, humid weather may not halt spread of COVID-19: Study

Temperature and latitude are not associated with the spread of COVID-19 disease, according to a global study that found school closures and other public health measures are having a positive effect on containing the novel coronavirus.




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Karnataka may rope in private medical colleges if Covid-19 cases surge post lock-down

The government will provide doctors with a checklist to follow regarding treatment. We will also be applying to ICMR to seek permission to conduct lung biopsies after the death of patients and for clinical autopsies. This will help in providing critical patients with more effective care and bring down mortality rates, Health and Family Welfare Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pandey said.




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8 approved labs now testing prototype samples of PPE Coveralls: Govt

These are South India Textiles Research Association (SITRA) in Coimbatore, DRDO-INMAS in New Delhi, Heavy Vehicle Factory in Chennai, Small Arms Factory in Kanpur, Ordnance Factory in Kanpur, Ordnance Factory in Muradnagar, Ordnance Factory in Ambernath, and Metal & Steel Factory in Ishapore, West Bengal.




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Fewer patients mean lower pay for doctors in private hospitals

Though hospitals have resorted to e-consultations, the increased burden to create capacity to deal with the Covid-19 situation has resulted in huge losses.




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As senior GPs, doctors of private hospitals sit at home, medical students run the Covid show in Mumbai

Resident doctors, MBBS students and those serving their bond are at the frontline in the fight against Covid-19 in the city as senior clinicians stay away from their duty, leaving the young team of medical professionals firefighting the crisis on their own.




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Judith Beveridge wins 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Award




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Yumna Kassab shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction




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Yumna Kassab longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize




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Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions launch The Novel Prize




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Revolting families: toxic intimacy, private politics, and literary realisms in the German sixties / Carrie Smith-Prei

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The impossible exile: Stefan Zweig at the end of the world / George Prochnik

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Mein Vaterland war ein Apfelkern: ein Gespräch mit Angelika Klammer / Herta Müller

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Nowhere ending sky / Marlen Haushofer ; translated into English by Amanda Prantera

Hayden Library - PT2617.A425 H6513 2013




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Tradition und Moderne in der Literatur der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert: Beiträge zur Internationalen Konferenz zur Deutschsprachigen Literatur der Schweiz, 26. bis 27. September 2007 / herausgegeben von Eve Pormeister, Hans Graubner

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Prophecies of language: the confusion of tongues in German Romanticism / Kristina Mendicino

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Geistliches Erzählen: Zur deutschsprachigen religiösen Kleinepik des Mittelalters.

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To die in spring / Ralf Rothmann ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

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The ship of fools / translated into rhyming couplets with an introduction and commentary by Edwin H. Zeydel ; with reproductions of the original woodcuts

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Zwischen Intertextualität und Interpretation: Friedrich Schillers dramaturgische Arbeiten 1796-1805 / Marion Müller

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Malstil und Schreibsprache: kunsthistorisch-stilkritische und sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur Lokalisierung des Münchener "Jüngeren Titurel" (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CGM 8470) / Martin Roland und Peter Wie

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Science Podcast - Noisy gene expression, the Tohoku-oki fault, and snake venom as a healer (6 Dec 2013)

Discussing the origin of transcriptional noise with Alvaro Sanchez; examining results from a drilling expedition at the Tohoku-oki fault; and looking at the potential benefits of snake venom with Kai Kupferschmidt.




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Science Podcast - Life under funding change and a news roundup (4 April 2014)

Money battles; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Biomechanics of fruitflies on the wing and a news roundup (11 April 2014)

Fruitflies take evasive action; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - A binary star system that includes a white dwarf and a news roundup (18 April 2014)

A distinctive binary star system; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Lessons from the tsetse fly genome and a news roundup (18 April 2014)

Tsetse fly genetics; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science funding for people not projects and a news roundup (25 Jul 2014)

NIH opts to back researchers rather than research; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Preconception parenting and a news roundup (15 Aug 2014)

Parenting from before conception; roundup of daily news.




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The spread of an ancient technology and a daily news roundup (26 September 2014)

New evidence reveals the complicated history of stone tool use 400,000 - 200,000 years ago.




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Plants and predators and a daily news roundup (17 October 2014)

Adam Ford discusses linking plants, their herbivores, and their predators on the East African savannah. Science daily news editor David Grimm brings stories on storing CO2 underground for millions of years, why fruit flies like yeast and vice versa, and volcanoes on the moon. [Img: Filip Lachowski]




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The shocking predatory strike of the electric eel and a news roundup (5 December 2014)

Kenneth Catania takes a close look at how exactly electric eels stun their prey. Online news editor David Grimm brings stories on pushing back the earliest abstract art by a few millennia, how our primate ancestors handled their liquor, and murderous sea mammals. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: © Kenneth Catania]




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Human superpredators and a news roundup

Chris Darimont discusses the impact of humans' unique predatory behavior on the planet and Catherine Matacic talks with Sarah Crespi about whistled languages, Neolithic massacres, and too many gas giants. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Image credit: Andrew S Wright]




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Moralizing gods, scientific reproducibility, and a daily news roundup

Brian Nosek discusses the reproducibility of science, Lizzie Wade delves into the origin of religions with moralizing gods. David Grimm talks about debunking the young Earth, a universal flu vaccine, and short, sweet paper titles. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Image credit: DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES]




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Artificial intelligence programs that learn concepts based on just a few examples and a daily news roundup

Brenden Lake discusses a new computational model that rivals the human ability to learn new concepts based on just a single example; David Grimm talks about attracting cockroaches, searching for habitable planets, and looking to street dogs to learn about domestication. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: Rodrigo Basaure CC BY 2.0, via flickr]




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Podcast: Spreading cancer, sacrificing humans, and transplanting organs

Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on evidence for the earth being hit by supernovae, record-breaking xenotransplantation, and winning friends and influencing people with human sacrifice.   Staff news writer Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how small membrane-bound packets called “exosomes” might pave the way for cancer cells to move into new territory in the body.     [Image: Val Altounian/Science]    




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Podcast: Rocky remnants of early Earth, plants turned predator, and a new artificial second skin

Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories how the Venus flytrap turned to the meat-eating side, a new clingy polymer film that shrinks up eye bags, and survey results on who pirates scientific papers and why.   Hanika Rizo joins Julia Rosen to discuss evidence that parts of Earth have remained unchanged since the planet formed.




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Podcast: An omnipresent antimicrobial, a lichen ménage à trois, and tiny tide-induced tremors

Stories on a lichen threesome, tremors caused by tides, and a theoretical way to inspect nuclear warheads without looking too closely at them, with Catherine Matacic.   Despite concerns about antibiotic resistance, it seems like antimicrobials have crept into everything—from hand soap to toothpaste, and even fabrics. What does the ubiquitous presence of these compounds mean for our microbiomes? Alyson Yee talks with host Sarah Crespi about one antimicrobial in particular—triclosan—which has been partially banned in the European Union.     [Image: T. Wheeler/Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: How mice mess up reproducibility, new support for an RNA world, and giving cash away wisely

News stories on a humanmade RNA copier that bolsters ideas about early life on Earth, the downfall of a pre-Columbian empire, and how a bit of cash at the right time can keep you off the streets, with Jessica Boddy.   From the magazine This story combines two things we seem to talk about a lot on the podcast: reproducibility and the microbiome. The big question we’re going to take on is how reproducible are mouse studies when their microbiomes aren’t taken into account? Staff writer Kelly Servick is here to talk about what promises to be a long battle with mouse-dwelling bugs.   [Image: Annedde/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: A burning body experiment, prehistoric hunting dogs, and seeding life on other planets

News stories on our earliest hunting companions, should we seed exoplanets with life, and finding space storm hot spots with David Grimm.  From the magazine Two years ago, 43 students disappeared from a teacher’s college in Guerrero, Mexico. Months of protests and investigation have not yielded a believable account of what happened to them. The government of Mexico claims that the students were killed by cartel members and burned on an outdoor pyre in a dump outside Cucola. Lizzie Wade has been following this story with a focus on the science of fire investigation. She talks about an investigator in Australia that has burned pig carcasses in an effort to understand these events in Mexico.   [Image: Edgard Garrido/REUTERS/Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: Science lessons for the next U.S. president, human high altitude adjustments, and the elusive Higgs bison

This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—jumping spiders that can hear without ears, long-lasting changes in the human body at high altitudes, and the long hunt for an extinct bison—with Science’s Online News Intern Jessica Boddy. Plus, Sarah Crespi talks to Deputy News Editor David Malakoff about six science lessons for the next U.S. president.    [Image: Gil Menda at the Hoy Lab; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: An 80-million-year-old dinosaur protein, sending oxygen to the moon, and competitive forecasting

This week, we chat about how the Earth is sending oxygen to the moon, using a GPS data set to hunt for dark matter, and retrieving 80-million year old proteins from dinosaur bones, with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Philip Tetlock joins Alexa Billow to discuss improving our ability to make judgments about the future through forecasting competitions as part of a special section on prediction in this week’s issue of Science. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: NASA; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: Teaching self-driving cars to read, improving bike safety with a video game, and when ‘you’ isn’t about ‘you’

This week, new estimates for the depths of the world’s lakes, a video game that could help kids be safer bike riders, and teaching autonomous cars to read road signs with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Ariana Orvell joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study of how the word “you” is used when people recount meaningful experiences. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: VisualCommunications/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Preventing augmented-reality overload, fixing bone with tiny bubbles, and studying human migrations

This week we have stories on blocking dangerous or annoying distractions in augmented reality, gene therapy applied with ultrasound to heal bone breaks, and giving robots geckolike gripping power with Online News Editor David Grimm. Deputy News Editor Elizabeth Culotta joins Sarah Crespi to discuss a special package on human migrations—from the ancient origins of Europeans to the restless and wandering scientists of today. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: Public domain; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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A Stone Age skull cult, rogue Parkinson’s proteins in the gut, and controversial pesticides linked to bee deaths

This week we have stories on what the rogue Parkinson’s protein is doing in the gut, how chimps outmuscle humans, and evidence for an ancient skull cult with Online News Editor David Grimm. Jen Golbeck is back with this month’s book segment. She interviews Alan Alda about his new book on science communication: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? Sarah Crespi talks to Jeremy Kerr about two huge studies that take a nuanced looked at the relationship between pesticides and bees. Read the research in Science: Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees, B.A. Woodcock et al. Chronic exposure to neonicotinoids reduces honey bee health near corn crops, Tsvetkov et al. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: webted/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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DNA and proteins from ancient books, music made from data, and the keys to poverty traps

This week we hear stories on turning data sets into symphonies for business and pleasure, why so much of the world is stuck in the poverty trap, and calls for stiffening statistical significance with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to news writer Ann Gibbons about the biology of ancient books—what can we learn from DNA, proteins, and book worm trails about a book, its scribes, and its readers? Listen to previous podcasts. [Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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The biology of color, a database of industrial espionage, and a link between prions and diabetes

This week we hear stories on diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in chimps, a potential new pathway to diabetes—through prions—and what a database of industrial espionage says about the economics of spying with Online News Editors David Grimm and Catherine Matacic. Sarah Crespi talks to Innes Cuthill about how the biology of color intersects with behavior, development, and vision. And Mary Soon Lee joins to share some of her chemistry haiku—one poem for each element in the periodic table. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Zoltan Tasi/Unsplash; Music: Jeffrey Cook]