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Significant Contributions Advance the Understanding of Disability Programs and the People They Serve

Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy has provided valuable insights into the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) disability programs during its seven years as a research center for the SSA’s Disability Research Consortium (DRC).




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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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As the Global Community Continues to Grapple with COVID-19, Mathematica is Remotely Maintaining our Operations

At Mathematica, our mission has always been to protect and improve public well-being. In this time of increased concern over the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the health and safety of all Mathematica employees, clients, and partners is our top priority. We are adhering to guidance and best practices issued by health authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).




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Testing Municipal Wastewater to Flexibly Monitor Health and Safety

When combined with data on prescriptions filled at local pharmacies, EMS drug overdose calls, and drug seizures by law enforcement, wastewater testing can yield insights into the extent of black-market activity, policing impact on community drug use, and where and when drug overdoses might occur.




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

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Recent trends in human and animal mycology / Karuna Singh, Neelabh Srivastava, editors

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The outlaw ocean: journeys across the last untamed frontier / Ian Urbina

Barker Library - SH319.A2 U73 2019




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

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Community ecology / Gary G. Mittelbach, Michigan State University, USA, Brian J. McGill, University of Maine, USA

Dewey Library - QH541.M526 2019




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La nueva humanización del agua: una lectura desde el ambientalismo inclusivo / Aníbal Faccendini ; prólogos de Riccardo Petrella y Leonardo Boff

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Contesting Leviathan: activists, hunters, and state power in the Makah whaling conflict / Les Beldo

Dewey Library - SH383.2.B45 2019




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Marine big data / Dongmei Huang, Wei Song, Guoliang Zou, Shanghai Ocean University, China

Barker Library - GC10.4.E4 H8313 2019




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Machine learning in aquaculture: hunger classification of Lates Calcarifer / Mohd Azraai Mohd Razman, Anwar P. P. Abdul Majeed, Rabiu Muazu Musa, Zahari Taha, Gian-Antonio Susto, Yukinori Mukai

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Green growth that works: natural capital policy and finance mechanisms around the world / edited by Lisa Mandle, Zhiyun Ouyang, James Salzman, and Gretchen C. Daily

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Diatoms: fundamentals and applications / edited by Joseph Seckbach and Richard Gordon

Barker Library - QK569.D54 D54 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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Sea level rise: a slow tsunami on America's shores / Orrin H. Pilkey Jr. and Keith C. Pilkey

Dewey Library - GC90.U5 P55 2019




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Working with dynamic crop models: methods, tools and examples for agriculture and environment / Daniel Wallach, David Makowski, James W. Jones, Francois Brun

Hayden Library - SB112.5.W35x 2019




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The biology of grasslands / Brian J. Wilsey (Iowa State University, Ames, USA)

Hayden Library - QH541.5.P7 W435 2018




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Modelling nature: an introduction to mathematical modelling of natural systems / Edward Gillman, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Michael Gillman, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln

Dewey Library - QH51.G55 2019




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Stewarding the sound: the challenge of managing sensitive coastal ecosystems / editors, Leah Bendell, professor, Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada, [and three others]

Rotch Library - QH106.2.B8 S745 2019




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Biological control in Latin America and the Caribbean: its rich history and bright future / edited by Joop C. van Lenteren, Vanda H.P. Bueno, M. Gabriela Luna and Yelitza C. Colmenarez

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Socio-economic and eco-biological dimensions in resource use and conservation: strategies for sustainability / Niranjan Roy, Shubhadeep Roychoudhury, Sunil Nautiyal, Sunil K. Agarwal, Sangeeta Baksi, editors

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Le fonio, une céréale africaine / Jean-François Cruz, Famoï Béavogui ; avec la collaboration de Djibril Dramé

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Management of fungal pathogens in pulses: current status and future challenges / Bhim Pratap Singh, Garima Singh, Krishna Kumar, S. Chandra Nayak, N. Srinivasa, editors

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Housing reform and China's real estate industry: review and forecast / Pengfei Ni, Linhua Zou, Guangchun Gao, Xuemei Jiang

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Neptune's laboratory: fantasy, fear, and science at sea / Antony Adler

Dewey Library - GC57.A325 2019




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The wake: the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami / Linden MacIntyre

Dewey Library - GC222.B87 M44 2019




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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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Forests and sustainable cities: inspiring stories from around the world.

Rotch Library - SD131.F677 2018




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Biosystematics of Triticeae. Chi Yen, Junliang Yang

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

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City unseen: new visions of an urban planet / Karen C. Seto and Meredith Reba

Rotch Library - QH541.5.C6 S45 2018




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Plastidules to humans: Leopoldo Maggi (1840-1905) and Ernst Haeckel's naturalist philosophy in the Kingdom of Italy: with an edition of Maggi's letters to Ernst Haeckel / Rainer Brömer ; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie d

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15 CSS Background Effects

Did you know that you can use CSS to create beautiful animations and interesting effects? Combined with HTML and JavaScript, or even on its own, CSS can be extremely powerful. You’d be surprised at what developers can create. From simple …




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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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Normal and shear forces between boundary sphingomyelin layers under aqueous conditions

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3973-3980
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00215A, Paper
Yifeng Cao, Nir Kampf, Weifeng Lin, Jacob Klein
Sphingomyelin boundary layers can maintain extremely low friction under high pressures both in water and at high salt concentration.
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The generic unfolding of a biomimetic polymer during force spectroscopy

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3941-3951
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02545F, Paper
Aviel Chaimovich, Christian Leitold, Christoph Dellago
By computing free energies with molecular simulations, we find a general signature for protein unfolding in force spectroscopy, and in turn, we present a useful formula for experimentalists.
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Uniform conductivity in stretchable silicones via multiphase inclusions

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00383B, Paper
R. Adam Bilodeau, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Dylan S. Shah, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
A thin, stretchable (200% linear strain), multiphase (solid–liquid) silicone composite with uniform electrical conductivity, for Joule heating and high-deformation sensing.
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Insight into the Unwrapping of the Dinucleosome

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00161A, Paper
Fatemeh Khodabandeh, Hashem Fatemi, Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee
Dynamics of nucleosomes, the building blocks of the chromatin, has crucial effects on expression, replication and repair of genomes in eukaryotes. Beside constant movements of nucleosomes by thermal fluctuations, ATP-dependent...
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Structural universality in disordered packings with size and shape polydispersity

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00110D, Paper
Ye Yuan, Wei Deng, Shuixiang Li
Normalized free volume collapses on normalized particle size in polydisperse-sized packings for a given non-spherical particle.
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Bioactive scaffolds based on collagen filaments with tunable physico-chemical and biological features

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00233J, Paper
Ting Lu, Hong Hu, Yuanqi Li, Qingsong Jiang, Jinlei Su, Hai Lin, Yun Xiao, Xiangdong Zhu, Xingdong Zhang
Native tissues such as nerve bundles, blood vessels and tendons have extracellular matrices with a characteristic linear orientation, which cannot be fully achieved with the current technology for the development of regenerative biomaterials.
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Investigating the Role of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) in Piezoelectric Performance of PVDF/KNN based Flexible Electrospun Nanogenerator

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00438C, Paper
Satyaranjan Bairagi, Wazed Ali
In the present study, the effect of varying concentrations of carbon nanotube (CNT) on the piezoelectric performance of poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)/potassium sodium niobate (KNN) based electrospun nanocomposite has been...
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Effects of Eigen and Actual Frequencies of Soft Elastic Surfaces on droplet Rebound from Stationary Flexible Feather Vanes

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00315H, Paper
Chengchun Zhang, Zhengyang Wu, Chun Shen, Yihua Zheng, LIANG YANG, Yan Liu, Luquan Ren
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of eigenfrequency and the actual frequency of the elastic surface for the droplet rebound. The elastic surface used in this...
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A Novel degradation mechanism of the elastic modulus of wet polymer substrates under nanoindentation

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00645A, Paper
Ruling Chen, Zhe Wang, Shaoxian Li, Hongwei Du
We demonstrated that the formation and solidification of the continuous confined water film played a very important role in changing the elastic modulus of the wet polymer substrate during nanoindentation...
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Photo-tunable hydrogel mechanical heterogeneity informed by predictive transport kinetics model

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4131-4141
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00052C, Paper
Callie I. Higgins, Jason P. Killgore, Frank W. DelRio, Stephanie J. Bryant, Robert R. McLeod
Photo-tunable hydrogel mechanical heterogeneity using a single resin is presented here, informed by a predictive transport kinetics and swelling model.
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Experimental observation of boundary-driven oscillations in a reaction–diffusion–advection system

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4243-4255
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02291K, Paper
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Torsten Eckstein, Estefania Vidal-Henriquez, Azam Gholami
Boundary-driven oscillations are observed experimentally in a reaction-diffusion-advection system, namely in the signaling population of Dictyostelium discoideum cells.
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Geometry underlies the mechanical stiffening and softening of an indented floating film

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4121-4130
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00250J, Paper
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Monica M. Ripp, Vincent Démery, Teng Zhang, Joseph D. Paulsen
Using experiments, simulations, and theory, we map out the remarkably rich mechanical response of a floating polymer film to indentation.
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