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Direct kinetic measurements and theoretical predictions of an isoprene-derived Criegee intermediate [Chemistry]

Isoprene has the highest emission into Earth’s atmosphere of any nonmethane hydrocarbon. Atmospheric processing of alkenes, including isoprene, via ozonolysis leads to the formation of zwitterionic reactive intermediates, known as Criegee intermediates (CIs). Direct studies have revealed that reactions involving simple CIs can significantly impact the tropospheric oxidizing capacity, enhance...




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FIFA 20 TOTS La Liga Predictions for next Team of the Season So Far players



FIFA 20 Team Of The Season So Far continues this week, hopefully with the release of the La Liga FUT Squad. Here some predictions on who might be included, plus when they'll be announced.




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FIFA 20 TOTS Liga Nos Predictions for Portuguese Team of the Season So Far



FIFA 20 Team Of The Season So Far continues this week, hopefully with the additional release of the Portuguese Liga Nos FUT Squad. Here some predictions on who might be included, plus when they'll be announced.




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FIFA 20 TOTS Bundesliga Predictions & release delay for next Team of the Season



FIFA 20 Team Of The Season So Far continues this week, hopefully with the release of the Bundesliga FUT Squad. Here some predictions on who might be included, plus when they'll be announced.




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Sonny Perdue’s predictions about meat production recoveries could be coming true

Meat production this week is up about 3 percent compared with the previous week, according to market reports by SiriusXM’s Rural Radio. That’s still off by as much as a third from a year ago. The numbers are causing some retailers to ration fresh meat purchases or risk selling out their entire supplies. The beef,... Continue Reading




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Tune-free pop and the new Katie Hopkins: our 2020 celebrity predictions

What does our crystal ball say the new year will bring for celebs? Sex tapes, terrible singing and off-the-cuff sofa jokes that ignite the far right. Sounds great!

There are two ways to spend New Year’s Eve, as best as I can tell: you either dirty the floor of a house party and spend the smallest of the small hours running desperately out of drinkable alcohol until you realise it’s 7am and the sun is up and you just watched yourself pour Pepsi Max into half a cup of Bailey’s until they both curdled into a sort of vomitty pâté; or you watched Jools at home with a blanket over your legs, in bed with your teeth brushed by 10 past 12. You get absolutely zero points for guessing which one of the two I saw the new year in with. My body is still shaking.

Fair to say, too, that celebrities have yet to emerge blinkingly into the new decade. In the Christmas lull, the famous go into one of two modes of hibernation: either posting a succession of matching-pyjama family selfies in million-pound mansions that are identically decorated with plush beige carpets and tasteful but anonymous tonal greys; or going on holiday somewhere unthinkably lush and posting: “How’s the weather back home!” while sizzling in a hammock over aquamarine Maldivian waters. What I am saying is that there is no news, all right, and we can’t spend 1,200 words having a go at Cats again, so we simply have to preview the year 2020 and have a stab at guessing what the world of fame has for us. Is it a cop-out? Or is it actually quite a decent effort for someone who still has “brandy” in his system and who many doctors would advise shouldn’t be sitting upright at this still-early stage in his hangover? Well exactly. Let’s get on with it.

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Despite Predictions, BCRA Has Not Been a Democratic 'Suicide Bill'

During debates in Congress and in the legal battles testing its constitutionality, critics of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 imagined a host of unanticipated and debilitating consequences. The law's ban on party soft money and the regulation of electioneering advertising would, they warned, produce a parade of horribles: A decline in political speech protected by the First Amendment, the demise of political parties, and the dominance of interest groups in federal election campaigns.

The forecast that attracted the most believers — among politicians, journalists, political consultants, election-law attorneys and scholars — was the claim that Democrats would be unable to compete against Republicans under the new rules, primarily because the Democrats' relative ability to raise funds would be severely crippled. One year ago, Seth Gitell in The Atlantic Monthly summarized this view and went so far as to call the new law "The Democratic Party Suicide Bill." Gitell quoted a leading Democratic Party attorney, who expressed his private view of the law as "a fascist monstrosity." He continued, "It is grossly offensive ... and on a fundamental level it's horrible public policy, because it emasculates the parties to the benefit of narrow-focus special-interest groups. And it's a disaster for the Democrats. Other than that, it's great."

The core argument was straightforward. Democratic Party committees were more dependent on soft money — unlimited contributions from corporations, unions and individuals — than were the Republicans. While they managed to match Republicans in soft-money contributions, they trailed badly in federally limited hard-money contributions. Hence, the abolition of soft money would put the Democrats at a severe disadvantage in presidential and Congressional elections.

In addition, the argument went, by increasing the amount an individual could give to a candidate from $1,000 to $2,000, the law would provide a big financial boost to President Bush, who would double the $100 million he raised in 2000 and vastly outspend his Democratic challenger. Finally, the ban on soft money would weaken the Democratic Party's get-out-the-vote efforts, particularly in minority communities, while the regulation of "issue ads" would remove a potent electoral weapon from the arsenal of labor unions, the party's most critical supporter.

After 18 months of experience under the law, the fundraising patterns in this year's election suggest that these concerns were greatly exaggerated. Money is flowing freely in the campaign, and many voices are being heard. The political parties have adapted well to an all-hard-money world and have suffered no decline in total revenues. And interest groups are playing a secondary role to that of the candidates and parties.

The financial position of the Democratic party is strikingly improved from what was imagined a year ago. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who opted out of public funding before the Iowa caucuses, will raise more than $200 million before he accepts his party's nomination in Boston. The unusual unity and energy in Democrats' ranks have fueled an extraordinary flood of small donations to the Kerry campaign, mainly over the Internet. These have been complemented by a series of successful events courting $1,000 and $2,000 donors.

Indeed, since Kerry emerged as the prospective nominee in March, he has raised more than twice as much as Bush and has matched the Bush campaign's unprecedented media buys in battleground states, while also profiting from tens of millions of dollars in broadcast ads run by independent groups that are operating largely outside the strictures of federal election law.

The Democratic national party committees have adjusted to the ban on soft money much more successfully than insiders had thought possible. Instead of relying on large soft-money gifts for half of their funding, Democrats have shown a renewed commitment to small donors and have relied on grassroots supporters to fill their campaign coffers. After the 2000 election, the Democratic National Committee had 400,000 direct-mail donors; today the committee has more than 1.5 million, and hundreds of thousands more who contribute over the Internet.

By the end of June, the three Democratic committees had already raised $230 million in hard money alone, compared to $227 million in hard and soft money combined at this point in the 2000 election cycle. They have demonstrated their ability to replace the soft money they received in previous elections with new contributions from individual donors.

Democrats are also showing financial momentum as the election nears, and thus have been gradually reducing the Republican financial advantage in both receipts and cash on hand. In 2003, Democrats trailed Republicans by a large margin, raising only $95 million, compared to $206 million for the GOP. But in the first quarter of this year, Democrats began to close the gap, raising $50 million, compared to $82 million for Republicans. In the most recent quarter, they narrowed the gap even further, raising $85 million, compared to the Republicans' $96 million.

Democrats are now certain to have ample funds for the fall campaigns. Although they had less than $20 million in the bank (minus debts) at the beginning of this year, they have now banked $92 million. In the past three months, Democrats actually beat Republicans in generating cash — $47 million, compared to $31 million for the GOP.

The party, therefore, has the means to finance a strong coordinated and/or independent-spending campaign on behalf of the presidential ticket, while Congressional committees have the resources they need to play in every competitive Senate and House race, thanks in part to the fundraising support they have received from Members of Congress.

Moreover, FEC reports through June confirm that Democratic candidates in those competitive Senate and House races are more than holding their own in fundraising. They will be aided by a number of Democratic-leaning groups that have committed substantial resources to identify and turn out Democratic voters on Election Day.

Democrats are highly motivated to defeat Bush and regain control of one or both houses of Congress. BCRA has not frustrated these efforts. Democrats are financially competitive with Republicans, which means the outcome will not be determined by a disparity of resources. Put simply, the doomsday scenario conjured up by critics of the new campaign finance law has not come to pass.

Publication: Roll Call
     
 
 




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Our 3 favorite food trend predictions for 2018

Whole Foods published a list of all the food trends it predicts for next year, and several of them fit right in on TreeHugger.




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What Are Your Hopes, Dreams and Predictions for 2013?

We asked the question on Facebook and got all kinds of interesting responses.




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Earth Advantage Institute Makes Earth Day Predictions For Housing Ten Years From Now

The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought




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Football greats make EURO 2016 predictions

Marcel Desailly, Luis Figo and Fabio Capello discuss which teams they think are favoured to win UEFA EURO 2016.




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UK stress tests, racism at JPMorgan and predictions for 2020

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss what the latest stress tests tell us about the health of UK banks, racism in US banking after recent revelations about the treatment of black customers at JPMorgan Chase, and predictions for the year ahead. With special guest Laurie Mayers, associate managing director at Moody's.


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

 

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Rugby World Cup 2019: Knockout stage predictions, home nations performances and more

With 20 pool games played and 20 more to go, the 2019 Rugby World Cup has already delivered its fair share of shocks, upsets, brilliance and farce. Sportsmail answers 10 key questions.




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US election pollsters get predictions wrong by underestimating white turnout in rural areas

Until the eleventh hour predictions were that Hillary had an 85 percent chance of winning the election. Even Tuesday's exit poll had Clinton winning almost everywhere at 5 p.m.




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UFC stars give their predictions ahead of Conor McGregor vs Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone

The stars of the UFC have given their predictions ahead of Conor McGregor's highly-anticipated return fight against Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone at UFC 246 on Saturday night.




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Autumn Statement 2015 predictions on what George Osborne will announce

Today George Osborne will reveal details of his Autumn Statement. We round-up what to expect, including his tax credit headache and the predicted pension changes.




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Euro 2016 predictions: France worthy favourites plus top scorer tips at long odds in our betting guide

Size isn’t everything but the European Championship growing to 24 teams is only going to be good news for the big boys. Find out who we're backing, including a 14/1 shot and a 130/1 acca.




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Anthony Joshua predictions: AJ on HOW he’ll beat Klitschko

JEFF POWELL: Britain’s world champion has rehearsed mentally how he will apply the pressure of youthful strength on the Ukraine legend who ruled heavyweight boxing for more than a decade.




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Joshua vs Klitschko predictions: Wladimir sure he'll win

JEFF POWELL: The video stick displaced Klitschko’s first idea of sealing his prediction in an envelope and handing it to Joshua before their battle, with a note saying: ‘Not to be opened until after the fight.’




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Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko fight predictions

The wait is nearly over as Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko prepare to do battle in a highly-anticipated bout at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night.




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Anthony Joshua predictions: AJ predicts round seven win

Anthony Joshua has boldly predicted a seventh-round victory over Wladimir Klitschko ahead of his IBF world heavyweight title defence at a packed-out Wembley on Saturday night.




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Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko predictions and odds

Is Anthony Joshua the real deal? Is Wladimir Klitschko too old? Can the Ukrainian defy father time or will AJ prove too strong? Ahead of the Wembley blockbuster, Sportsmail tries to find some value in the markets.




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Kerala Assembly polls: UDF 'confident' despite exit poll predictions

CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Prakash Karat said they do not generally go by the exit polls as they are "unreliable"




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18 Tech Predictions for 2017

Predicting the future is hardly a precise science, but identifying macro trends and developments can be done by paying close attention to what is happening in an industry. Here is what a handful of small businesses, startups and analysts are seeing in their crystal balls.

1. We will hear more about how autonomous cars connect to the network.
2. Funding will skew toward artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). And most of it will be a bust.
3. Mobile will continue to rise as the primary shopping platform.

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2017: The Year Ahead - WIRED's 2017 Predictions: Self-Driving Vehicles Are Around the Corner

WIRED predicts the biggest trends for the year ahead. In this segment Alex Davies lays out the five biggest disruptions coming to the world of transport.




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2017: The Year Ahead - WIRED's 2017 Predictions: Going Green Is Good Business, Even Under Trump

In our new series to kick off 2017, WIRED predicts the biggest trends for the year ahead. In this segment, Matt Simon explains how businesses are still going to go green, even in the face of renewed climate change denialism.




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2017: The Year Ahead - WIRED's 2017 Predictions: Drug Reform Will Beat Criminalization

WIRED predicts the biggest trends for the year ahead. In this segment, Matt Simon looks at how the drug crisis in the US is being reframed as a health problem instead of a criminal one.




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2017: The Year Ahead - WIRED's 2017 Predictions: Drones! Drones! Drones!

Drones will go into wide commercial use in 2017. Package deliveries are a couple of years away but expect a lot more drone media coverage.




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2017: The Year Ahead - WIRED's 2017 Predictions: VR Is Coming to an Arcade Near You

It's unlikely that you'll buy a VR rig in 2017, instead you'll go 'VRing' by buying a ticket to a virtual gaming theme park or experience.




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[ASAP] <sup>13</sup>C NMR Relaxation Analysis of Protein GB3 for the Assessment of Side Chain Dynamics Predictions by Current AMBER and CHARMM Force Fields

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00050




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Four Bold Social Media Predictions For 2020

Predicting the future of social media is always fun.

Emerging platforms, secured patents, new tactics and demographic shifts are just a few things to consider when making a prediction.

So, what is next with social media as we look ahead to 2020? Here are four big predictions on the future of social media in 2020.

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16 predictions for social networks in 2020

And just like that, we have reached the final issue of the year — and also, somehow, the decade. As is tradition around here, let’s close out the year with some predictions from you about where platforms and democracy are headed in 2020 and beyond.

Thanks to everyone who contributed. Here are your thoughts, along with some of mine. This year, I’m ordering these in roughly how likely I think they are. So, the most likely things to happen at the top, and we move further into crazy town as you scroll down. Generally speaking, I feel more comfortable predicting product moves than policy shifts.

16 predictions for social networks in 2020




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[ASAP] Prototype Selection Method Based on the Rivality and Reliability Indexes for the Improvement of the Classification Models and External Predictions

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c00176




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[ASAP] Multisolvent Models for Solvation Free Energy Predictions Using 3D-RISM Hydration Thermodynamic Descriptors

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c00065




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198 JSJ 2015 Recap and 2016 Predictions

02:36 - Big Changes in the JavaScript Community in 2015

09:38 - Other Uses of JavaScript

10:56 - Functional Programming

19:16 - Elm / redux

22:40 - RxJS and Reactive Programming

25:00 - ES2015

27:43 - Types: TypeScript / Flow

30:59 - npm

33:00 - Junior Developers and Bootcamps

47:27 - Will other communities start looking at Node?

49:18 - Building Mobile Apps with JavaScript

50:09 - Text Editors or IDEs?

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Victor Savkin: Managing State in Angular 2 Applications (Joe)
Desserts of Kharak (Joe)
The Prodigals Club (Joe)
AST explorer (Aimee)
Chyld Medford (Aimee)
Mazie's Girl Scout Cookie Digital Order Site (Aimee)
Mogo Portable Seat (Chuck)
Patt Flynn: How to Write a Book: The Secret to a Super Fast First Draft (Chuck)
React Remote Conf (Chuck)




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Effect of presentation modality on predictions of children's communication ability in the classroom




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Risky predictions, damn strange coincidences, and theory appraisal




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Predictions of sediment toxicity in the Barton Springs watershed located in Texas using sediment quality guidelines




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[ASAP] Comparing Experimental Phase Behavior of Ion-Doped Block Copolymers with Theoretical Predictions Based on Selective Ion Solvation

Macromolecules
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00559