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DNA analysis rewrites the stories of people buried in Pompeii

Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about the people and their relationships




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Snuggly Selection of Cute Cats Competing For Cuddles Right Next to Your Face Because Who Needs to Breathe Anyway

We….do not have a snuggly cat. As much as we wish we did (and as much as we tried to make her a snuggly cat), it's just not in the cards for us. We tried luring her to the bed with treats, playing relaxing music, and even holding her there against her will - none of it worked. Maybe our next cat will be a cuddly cat, or, we'll just live vicariously through the lives of strangers on the internet and not be jealous at all of all of their outrageously cute cuddly cats.

Not only are they cuddly, but they appawrently like to cuddle right next to their pawrents' faces because they're just that silly and awwdorable. They probably can't breathe very well at night, but if that was a burden we had to bear, we would bear it with purrfect pride because it would be absolutely worth it. Enjoy this snuggly selection of cute cats competing for cuddles below, we're going to try to lure our cat into bed one more time. Have a great week!




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Competition and Cooperation

The question of competition versus cooperation among humans has come up on my Twitter timeline again. It emerges every now and then, when someone desperate to find a defense for capitalism falls back on, “You socialists want to eliminate competition, but competition is a part of nature, so eliminating it is impossible.” Okay, let’s talk … Continue reading Competition and Cooperation




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impending doom

Today on Toothpaste For Dinner: impending doom


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Mother bans adult daughter from family Thanksgiving after she refuses to host the event: 'I made it very clear she needed to stay true to her word and if she dumped it on someone else she wouldn't be going to Thanksgiving'

Hosting events is a lot of work; there's a house to be cleaned, food to be prepped, and a lot of general setup that needs to be taken care of. When it's family, it's even more so to do—it's probably a good idea to hide the things your family won't approve of and save yourself the judgment.

Family hosting schedules help to ease the burden of any one person having to host too often, and the reality is that for a member of the family to drop from hosting duties places a disproportionate amount of responsibility on the other members of the family to host additional events.

The problem is this assumes that each member of the family is equally able to host in the first place. The reality is this is never the case. Some people, usually older members of the family, have homes with more space for hosting more people and the space to store the things necessary for hosting a large family. Many of us, particularly in our younger adult years, live in spaces that we'd be horrified to let our family into.




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'She has a temper [...] I hate her': 16-year-old girl refuses to tutor her terrible 15-year old sister despite parents' threats of punishment

We're often taught that we have an obligation to love our family and that "blood is thicker than water." While this is overly simplistic, I think it remains true that we should try harder to make things work with our family than we would with other random people. We should seek to resolve issues that reasonably can be resolved with a higher obligation than we would with friends and acquaintances. But even with family, there is a point where cutting ties becomes the only option.

Still, these sisters may come to find they grow closer as they grow older and as whatever chip this younger sister has on her shoulder subsides and she matures—or they may never come to find common ground, with old deep cuts festering and becoming impossible to resolve and move past. But, for now, it's hard to say that the older sister is wrong for not wanting to help her sister out. Siblings are going to fight, but there's a point where things go way too far, and the parents desperately need to intervene. Perhaps the parents would be better off just hiring a tutor to help her with the subjects she's falling behind in.




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Worker shortage hampers datacentre boom

Despite offering high pay companies that build datacentres are struggling to find skilled staff.




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Tax-News.com: IRAS Updates GST Guidance On Impending Media Sales Changes

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore has released an update to its goods and services tax guide for the advertising industry.




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Dengue Virus Grows More Virulent in Warmer Temperatures

medlinkDengue/medlink, a recurring tropical disease that experiences outbreaks during the monsoon season, becomes more aggressive and severe in animal




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Increased Temperatures Pose Growing Dengue Risk

The escalating impact of climate change is anticipated to expand the reach of medlinkdengue/medlink, a mosquito-borne disease claiming thousands of




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Predicting Global Dengue Patterns With Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

Chinese scientists found that anomalies in tropical Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures can forecast the severity of global medlinkdengue outbreaks/medlink (!--ref1--).




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Childhood Home Temperatures Predict Adult Thermostat Settings

The temperature of one's medlinkchildhood/medlink home and the sense of community connectedness can help predict how U.S. residents set their thermostats,




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YouTube Channel Enhances 'Competence Building' for Remote Area Doctors

The Uttar Pradesh health department has adopted YouTube as a platform for ongoing medical education and professional development of government doctors stationed in remote areas (!--ref1--).




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Middle East Water Security: Competition heats up as resources become scarcer

IWMI is highlighted in the context of the deteriorating water security situation in the Middle East and North Africa region in the August 2023 Al-Monitor PRO Trend Report.

The post Middle East Water Security: Competition heats up as resources become scarcer first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI).





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Employers May View Vegan Men as Less Competent, Study Finds

A study found that men who said they follow a medlinkvegan diet/medlink when applying for a job were seen as less manly, and as a result, they were less likely to be chosen for the position.




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Expert on Children's Risks Tells Parents Not to Worry About the Facebook Pampers Diaper Rash 'Scare'

Expert on Children's Risks Tells Parents Not to Worry About the Facebook Pampers Diaper Rash 'Scare'




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Bird Flu Virus Gets Killed at Cooking Temperature

Bird flu or avian influenza virus does not infect people as the virus is heat liable, degraded and killed when subjected to high temperature, said health experts.




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Stempeucel for Buerger's Disease Receives Limited Approval from Drug Controller of India

An effective cure for one of the most devastating disease could be in the cards as the Drug Controller of India (DGCI) has granted limited approval for





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Shraddha Das Raises Temperature in two-piece Bikini

Shraddha Das has shared her hot bikini avatars from her recent vacation in Bali in Indonesia.




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Sakshi Agarwal Raises Temperature in Swimsuit

Pictures of Bigg Boss Tamil 3 contestant Sakshi Agarwal's photoshoot are here.




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X rival Mastodon rolls out revamped notifications, a refreshed look, and more

Mastodon, the open source, decentralized alternative to X (formerly Twitter), is rolling out a handful of new features, including refreshed notifications, new discovery tools, and an updated look. Although some of these changes were available in nightly releases, they are now officially rolling out in a stable release. Notifications on Mastodon will now look somewhat similar to […]

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The fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor has it completed its integration […]

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Apple enters the BNPL market as regulation, competition intensify

How will all of these BNPL-focused providers fare with Apple pounding its way into their market?

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BASF primește aprobarea de finanțare pentru construcția celei mai mari pompe de căldură industriale din lume

BASF a primit aprobarea de finanțare din partea Ministerului Federal German pentru Afaceri Economice și Acțiune Climatică pentru construcția celei mai puternice pompe de căldură industriale din lume. Astfel, în următoarele luni, compania va putea începe lucrările de construcție pregătitoare pentru acest proiect la platforma sa din Ludwigshafen. Proiectul își propune să aducă o contribuție ...

The post BASF primește aprobarea de finanțare pentru construcția celei mai mari pompe de căldură industriale din lume appeared first on Forbes Romania.




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Employers Competing for Workers Turn to Signing Bonuses and Freebies

Low-wage work is in high demand, and employers are now competing for applicants, offering incentives ranging from sign-on bonuses to free food. But with many still unemployed, are these offers working? Photo: Bloomberg




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Exclusive: Rupali's Lawyer Breaks Down The Rs 50 Crore Compensation Demand

Rupali Ganguly recently issued a defamation notice to her stepdaughter, Esha Verma, demanding a compensation of Rs 50 crore




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Congress Must Revise Strategy to Compete with BJP's Evolving Political Landscape

Telangana CM Revanth Reddy urges Congress to revise its electoral strategy, focusing on emotional connections rather than strict ideologies to win upcoming polls.




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What Does Body Temperature Have To Do With Depression? A Study Reveals

Have you ever noticed how your mood can change with the weather? A gloomy, rainy day might leave you feeling down, while a warm, sunny afternoon can lift your spirits. But what if there's more to this connection than just a




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Integrated scanning electrochemical cell microscopy platform with local electrochemical impedance spectroscopy using a preamplifier

Faraday Discuss., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00122B, Paper
Ancheng Wang, Rong Jin, Dechen Jiang
An integrated SECCM with LEIS is established by combining the preamplifier based EIS measurement with scanning electrochemical cell microscopy.
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Machine learning-driven investigation of the structure and dynamics of the BMIM-BF4 room temperature ionic liquid

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,129-145
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00025K, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Fabian Zills, Moritz René Schäfer, Samuel Tovey, Johannes Kästner, Christian Holm
We demonstrate a learning-on-the-fly procedure to train machine-learned potentials from single-point density functional theory calculations before performing production molecular dynamics simulations.
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Mohammed Shami to return to competitive cricket; star pacer set to play for...

Mohammed Shami set to return to competitive cricket after a hiatus of nearly a year through Bengal's Ranji Trophy match against Madhya Pradesh in Indore from Wednesday, announced Cricket Association of Bengal.




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Delhi-NCR weather update: IMD predicts light rain for next four days, minimum temperature to be...

Following intermittent rains, Delhi-NCR has been witnessing heat and humidity for the past few days.




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Experimental assessment of low temperature plasma devices for bacterial aerosol inactivation in the air duct of HVAC systems

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1836-1846
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00158C, Paper
Yang Lv, Xiaodong Wang, Beibei Wang, Wenjie Yuan
This study evaluates the effectiveness of low temperature plasma (LTP) devices in the air duct of HVAC systems, achieving 82% bacterial aerosol inactivation under optimal conditions, advocating their use in public buildings to improve air quality.
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Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy [Electronic book] / Clare Rowan.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.




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The Russian Imperial Army, 1796-1917 [Electronic book] / edited by Roger Reese.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.




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Market relations and the competitive process [Electronic book] / ed. by Stan Metcalfe, Alan Warde.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]




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Just Transformations : Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures [Electronic book] / Iokiñe Rodríguez, Mariana Walter, Leah Temper.

London : Pluto Press, 2023.




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Jamaica Kincaid's Writings of History : A Poetics of Impermanence [Electronic book] / Antonia Purk.

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]




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Imperialism and popular culture [Electronic book] / edited by John M. MacKenzie.

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017.




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Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies : Volume 3: Frontier-Zone Processes and Transimperial Exchange [Electronic book] / ed. by Sitta von Reden.

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]




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Female imperialism and national identity : Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire [Electronic book] / Katie Pickles.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]




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Photochromism-induced multi-mode optical modulations and fluorescent temperature sensing in Sr/Er-codoped (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 ceramics

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,8025-8036
DOI: 10.1039/D4QI01804D, Research Article
Fangyuan Yu, Qifa Lin, Xiangfu Zeng, Ping Zhou, Xiao Wu, Cong Lin, Chunlin Zhao, Min Gao, Tengfei Lin, Xingan Jiang, Laihui Luo, Qiwei Zhang
Sr/Er was codoped in KNN ceramics to induce the coexistence of O and T phases, resulting in improving optical transparency, maintaining moderate ferroelectricity, inducing excellent PC behavior and fluorescence temperature sensing performance.
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Microfluidic impedance cytometry with flat-end cylindrical electrodes for accurate and fast analysis of marine microalgae

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,2058-2068
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC00942D, Paper
Xiaoming Chen, Mo Shen, Shun Liu, Chungang Wu, Liangliang Sun, Zhipeng Song, Jishun Shi, Yulong Yuan, Yong Zhao
We develop a novel microfluidic impedance cytometer for analysis of marine microalgae by inserting ground flat-end cylindrical electrodes into microchannels.
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Two-temperature model of the non-thermal chemical dissociation of CO2

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4RE00300D, Paper
Q. Shen, A. Pikalev, F. J. J. Peeters, J. Gans, M. C. M. van de Sanden
A two-temperature model with a vibrational temperature different from the gas temperature is presented for the decomposition of CO2.
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Transesterification or polymerization? Reaction mechanism and kinetics of 2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate with methanol and the competitive effect on free-radical polymerization

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4RE00406J, Paper
Judith Cabello-Romero, Román Torres-Lubián, Javier Francisco Enríquez-Medrano, Adrián Ochoa-Terán, Jesús Jara-Cortés, Iván Zapata-González
Transesterification of 2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DEAEMA) with methanol leads to the formation of methyl methacrylate (MMA) and amino alcohol. This reaction significantly affects DEAEMA polymerization giving rise to poly(DEAEMA-co-MMA).
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Dilute gel networks vs. clumpy gels in colloidal systems with a competition between repulsive and attractive interactions

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3143-3153
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01717F, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
M. Gimperlein, Jasper N. Immink, M. Schmiedeberg
Dilute and dense systems differ in the way structural properties emerge. Two regimes of percolation might be responsible for differences. Global and local structural properties give insights into these differences.
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Temperature dependence of micelle shape transitions in copolymer solutions: the role of inter-block incompatibility

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00331D, Paper
Open Access
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M. J. Greenall, M. J. Derry
The incompatibility of the blocks in a copolymer strongly affects the temperature dependence of the micelle shape transitions in solution.
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In silico design of misfolding resistant proteins: the role of structural similarity of a competing conformational ensemble in the optimization of frustration

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3283-3298
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00171K, Paper
Bondeepa Saikia, Anupaul Baruah
The degree of similarity of the non-native conformations to the target plays a prominent role in designing misfolding resistant protein sequences.
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