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Case studies in implementing cross-asset, multi-objective resource allocation / Spy Pond Partners LLC, High Street Consulting Group LLC, Burns & McDonnell

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Meet Celia Kener, the woman who survived the Holocaust

Celia Kener told her story to Jake Nevins, the New York Times Magazine's editorial fellow




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Lockdown | Farmers’ group demands waiver of all crop loans

AIKSCC flags impact of lockdown on procurement, sales




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Black earth : the Holocaust as history and warning / Timothy Snyder

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Tudor church militant : Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation / Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Thomas Cromwell : a life / Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Local activism for global climate justice : the Great Lakes Watershed / edited by Patricia E. Perkins.




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Covid crisis breathes life into local production of ventilators

There was a time when a ventilator made in India was not considered a ventilator, says Ashok Patel, Managing Director, AB Industries. About 90 per cen




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FCC Adopts a New Official Seal in Anticipation of Relocation

In anticipation of its upcoming move, the FCC has adopted a new FCC seal. The redesigned seal is the product of an agency-wide contest that solicited proposals from employees and contractors. The winning design, submitted by Umasankar Arumugam, was selected by a vote of the agency’s employees and contractors.

The revised design incorporates several elements: communications technologies currently...




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[ASAP] Probing the Mechanism of Structure-Switching Aptamer Assembly by Super-Resolution Localization of Individual DNA Molecules

Analytical Chemistry
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Coronavirus: I am being harassed for breaking lockdown rules, says Manchester City’s Kyle Walker

The defender was forced to issue an apology last month after media reports that he had hosted a party at his home.




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India U-17 women’s football coach Dennerby hails players’ home fitness regime during lockdown

But before getting back to Sweden, he had given his wards a fitness regime to follow at their homes and checks on the players regularly.




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Modi’s asked Indian firms to ‘be kind’ amid lockdown but many workers have not been paid their wages

At least three petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court demanding that companies be given the freedom to fire or furlough employees.




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Coronavirus: Inter, AC Milan resume training after two-month lockdown in Italy’s epicentre

The Italian Football Federation met with the government’s technical scientific committee to discuss details of the medical protocol for a return to training.




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What does the end of India’s Covid-19 lockdown mean for you?

The lockdown has not ‘killed’ the virus and was never going to. We will have to learn to live with Covid-19, possibly until 2022.




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Watch: This TikTok user travels to exotic locations to brew his morning coffee

No wonder Falke Omdal, a 29-year-old photographer, has garnered a million views for his TikTok videos.




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How to not be mentally distressed during the lockdown: Read Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’

‘However strange your experience, other people have had it too,’ wrote Woolf in this 1926 essay.




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NBA’s restart plan amidst coronavirus includes daily testing of players, limited locations: Reports

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver explained the plan in a conference call open to all NBA players.




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Coronavirus: Senior India hockey players to undergo online coaching course amid lockdown

The course will be attended by 32 senior men and 23 senior women core probables on May 11 and 15 respectively.




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Coronavirus: Tamil Nadu to ease lockdown restrictions in non-containment areas from Monday

The state has registered a huge increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the last few days.




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How Much Bias Results if a Quasi-Experimental Design Combines Local Comparison Groups, a Pretest Outcome Measure and Other Covariates?: A Within Study Comparison of Preschool Effects

This study examines when nonexperiments might substitute for experiments that are done in real-world settings in order to learn what works to affect some socially valued outcome.




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PIX: What kids learned during the lockdown

Rediff readers sent us these pictures to show how their kids are making the most of the lockdown.




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Lockdown pix: These kids want you to stay indoors!

Young Rediff readers share inspiring messages to raise awareness about COVID-19.




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A heavy intruder in a locally-shaken granular solid

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3921-3928
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02498K, Paper
Diego Berzi, Stefano Buzzaccaro
We experimentally investigate the gravitational-driven motion of a heavy object inside a vertical 2D assembly of identical, plastic cylinders arranged in a regular, triangular lattice.
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Gait-optimized locomotion of wave-driven soft sheets

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3991-3999
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02103E, Paper
Open Access
Pearson W. Miller, Jörn Dunkel
Inspired by the robust locomotion of limbless animals, the development of soft robots capable of moving by localized swelling, bending, and other deformation modes has become a target for soft matter research over the last decade.
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Color, Structure, and Rheology of a Diblock Bottlebrush Copolymer Solution

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00397B, Paper
Matthew A Wade, Dylan J Walsh, Ching-Wei Johnny Lee, Elizabeth G. Kelley, Katie Weigandt, Damien Guironnet, Simon A Rogers
A structure-property-process relation is established for a diblock bottlebrush copolymer solution, through a combination of rheo-neutron scattering, imaging, and rheological measurements. Polylactic acid-b-polystyrene diblock bottlebrush copolymers were dispersed in toluene...
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Pinning dislocations in colloidal crystals with active particles that seek stacking faults

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4182-4191
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02514F, Paper
Bryan VanSaders, Sharon C. Glotzer
By designing the shape of an active particle, its transport through a dense crystal can be tailored, as well as its interaction with dislocation defects present in the host crystal.
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Lattice self-consistent field calculations of confined symmetric block copolymers of various chain architectures

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4311-4323
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00293C, Paper
Jingxue Zhang, Jiaping Wu, Run Jiang, Zheng Wang, Yuhua Yin, Baohui Li, Qiang Wang
The effects of chain architecture on the structural details and orientation of confined lamellae formed by symmetric AB-type block copolymer melts are studied.
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Phenylalanine dimer assembly structure as the basic building block of an amyloid like photoluminescent nanofibril network

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4105-4109
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00387E, Communication
Prabhjot Singh, Nishima Wangoo, Rohit K. Sharma
Self-assembled phenylalanine dimer as the basic supramolecular structure of β-amyloid like photoluminescent nanofibrils.
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[ASAP] Gain-Assisted Optomechanical Position Locking of Metal/Dielectric Nanoshells in Optical Potentials

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00213




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[ASAP] Strain-Correlated Localized Exciton Energy in Atomically Thin Semiconductors

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00626




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[ASAP] Probing the Radiative Electromagnetic Local Density of States in Nanostructures with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00264




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Speeding bus kills 2, locals damage vehicles in protest

The incident sparked off a massive protest by the local people.




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Pakistan Army denies infiltration attempts from across the LoC

Analysis of this infiltration bid indicated the involvement of Pak Border Action Team.




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Pakistani troops violate LoC ceasefire, shell Indian posts

There have been 127 ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops along LoC this year.




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Pakistan targets civilian areas in Jammu, 3 children among 4 hurt in firing along LoC

This is the ninth ceasefire violation by Pakistani troops in the past four days.




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Families of ex-militants held along LoC await their return

Army had arrested 23 members of the families for trying to enter Pakistan's Muzaffarabad.




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Pakistani troops fire on forward areas along LoC, India retaliates

There have been nearly 150 ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops this year.




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Tamil Nadu: Jayalalithaa slams centre for reducing allocation

TN CM Jayalalithaa charged and accused the Centre of not acting with responsibility.




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All for a cause: Woman takes on politics of road blockade in Kerala, becomes a rage

Her outburst has triggered a wave against the practice of preventing common man's freedom.




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Pak violates ceasefire, targets Indian posts on LoC

Pakistan has committed ceasefire violations 195 times along the LoC so far this year.




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Microgrids and other local area power and energy systems / Alexis Kwasinski (University of Pittsburgh), Wayne Weaver (Michigan Technological University), Robert S. Balog (Texas A&M University)

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Lockdown impact: Digital transactions nosedive in April, shows NPCI data

The value of IMPS (Immediate Payment Service) transactions in April fell to about Rs 1.21 trillion in April, from about Rs 2.02 trillion in March




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Google blocked 2.7 bn 'bad ads' in 2019, suspended nearly 1 mn advertisers

The tech giant also noted that there has been a sharp spike in fraudulent ads for in-demand products like face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed lakhs of lives globally




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Covid-19 lockdown: Realme resumes online sales of smartphones, accessories

Realme has extended warranty on products, which expired during the lockdown period, till June 30




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Online streaming traffic sees 55% overall surge amid lockdown, says report

There was an overall traffic increase of 73 per cent on weekdays and 65 per cent on weekends, said the 'State of Internet Traffic Trend' report by ACT Fibernet




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WB service bill to locate who do not work – Mamata



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West Bengal: Outrage over nun ‘rape’; protesters block CM Mamata Banerjee’s convoy



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Bengal: Crude bomb explodes in local train, at least 15 hurt



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