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Establishing a new methodology for determining the water absorbability of cellulose-derived materials via a vapor-monitoring headspace strategy

Anal. Methods, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3AY02209A, Communication
Yi-Xian Gong, Wei-Qi Xie
In this research, for the first time, we introduce a vapor-monitoring headspace strategy to establish a new methodology for determining the water absorbability of cellulose-derived materials.
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Heparin-stabilized gold nanoparticles embedded in graphene for the electrochemical determination of esculetin

Anal. Methods, 2024, 16,2256-2266
DOI: 10.1039/D4AY00229F, Paper
Vinicius José da Silva, Luan Gabriel Baumgarten, Juliana Priscila Dreyer, Edson Roberto Santana, Almir Spinelli, João Paulo Winiarski, Iolanda Cruz Vieira
A conductive nanocomposite consisting of heparin-stabilized gold nanoparticles embedded in graphene was prepared for esculetin determination in tea and jam samples.
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Construction of a stable fluorescent sensor based on CsPbBr3/CdS core/shell quantum dots for selective and sensitive detection of tetracycline in ethanol

Anal. Methods, 2024, 16,2267-2277
DOI: 10.1039/D4AY00032C, Paper
Yang He, Yangjie Li, Han Wang, Site Luo, Haihu Yu
Construction of a stable fluorescent sensor based on CsPbBr3/CdS core/shell quantum dots for selective and sensitive detection of tetracycline in ethanol via a mechanism integrating photoinduced electron transfer.
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Development, biological evaluation, and molecular modelling of some benzene-sulfonamide derivatives as protein tyrosine phosphatase-1B inhibitors for managing diabetes mellitus and associated metabolic disorders

RSC Med. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4MD00594E, Research Article
Nagat Ghareb, Khaled M. Darwish, Mohamed S. Nafie, Ranwa Elrayess, Noha M. Abourobe, Shaimaa A. Fattah, Reem M. Hazem, Eman T. Mehanna, Ranza Elrayess
One benzene-sulfonamide derivative exhibited potent protein tyrosine phosphatase-1B inhibition for managing diabetes mellitus and associated metabolic disorders.
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Miniaturized click chemistry and direct screening facilitate the discovery of triazole piperazine SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors with improved metabolic stability

RSC Med. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4MD00555D, Research Article
Shenghua Gao, Letian Song, Bing Ye, Mianling Yang, Junyi Li, Manyu Gu, Ann E. Tollefson, Karoly Toth, Peng Zhan, Xinyong Liu
The continuous mutational nature of SARS-CoV-2 and its inter-species' similarities emphasize the urgent need to design and develop more direct-acting antiviral agents against highly infectious variants.
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Heavy weed growth at Kasi Viswanathar Temple tank prevents replenishing of underground water table, say Tiruchi residents




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558: Esoteric Weird Content Editable Problems with Kristin Valentine

Kristin Valentine from Vox joins the show to talk about text editor CMS fun across multiple sites, Vox's Chorus, The Verge redesign, sharing Design Systems, theming articles, and a fun new game called "Can Your Text Editor Do This??"




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607: Astro Launches an Integrated Database

Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about Astro announcement of Astro DB, the pluses and minuses of it, whether you have to always use the database with Astro DB, how to migrate data, seeding your database, upgrading the database, and what about Astro DB pricing?




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627: Getting Comfortable with the Struggle and Vibe Driven Development

Chris brings some blog posts to talk about including being comfortable with the struggle of developer life, Cloudflare Workers + monorepos, vibe driven development, and questions about database migrations, and whether we think AI free blogs are going to be a rarity in the future?




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639: DX, JSON, XML, HTML, and Databases! Oh My!

How important is the DX of software vs how important is the person showing off the software, Douglas Crockford and JSON, remembering XML, trying to write better HTML for email, new TC39 proposal, workshopping t-shirts, and what do you do if you want a little bit of database on your website?




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Make Hindi universally acceptable: Amit Shah says at Kendriya Hindi Samiti meet

Speaking at the 32nd meeting of the Kendriya Hindi Samiti, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said it was necessary to translate all education curricula into Hindi and other Indian languages




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Police constable among two mowed down by DTC bus in Delhi

The DTC bus climbed a pavement, collided with a billboard pole before hitting the two men and finally came to a halt after crashing into a road divider on Ring Road




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Police constable among two mowed down by DTC bus




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Man stabs mother in Delhi’s Badarpur for not ‘allowing him’ to migrate to Canada




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Cleaning the Augean stables

Urjit Patel’s book is a tongue-in-cheek comment on the futility of bad-loan recovery in Indian banking




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The inevitability of uncertainty

The book tells us quite convincingly that the future is unknown. But it does not offer an alternative




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Goat doctors in Muzaffarpur turn vegetable entrepreneurs

Aga Khan Foundation has given women in this Bihar district a new source of income with state-of-the-art agricultural technology




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My Farm, a farm-to-table set-up in Visakhapatnam, is an example of responsible farming

Locally-grown vegetables find their way to My Farm, a farm-to-table set-up near Visakhapatnam, that adopts permaculture to promote sustainability as a way of life




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Hamlet of vegetable farming turns into vibrant sea of yellow and orange

In Thattayil village near Pandalam, farmers are enthusiastically taking up floriculture. A collective of 35 farmers is cultivating marigolds on eight hectares for this Onam season




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Onam 2024: Flowers and vegetables from Vattiyoorkavu set an example

MLA VK Prasanth encourages Krishi Bhavan at Vattiyoorkavu to cultivate vegetables and flowers on a vacant plot owned by the government



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Organic/inorganic heterostructures templated by interfacial instability-driven BCP colloids in deformable emulsion droplets

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8174-8180
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00921E, Communication
Yuqing Song, Nan Yan, Lingli Wan, Jingjing Li, Ye Gao
Core–shell colloids are self-assembled in emulsion droplets driven by interfacial instability, which serve as excellent scaffolds for designing organic/inorganic heterostructures.
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Carboxymethyl cellulose-stabilized calcium phosphate particles for injectable hydrogel-based bone tissue engineering

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00670D, Paper
Piyaporn Srisura, Yuwaporn Pinyakit, Umphan Ngoensawat, Pongsakorn Yuntasiri, Khoiria Nur Atika Putri, Theerapat Chanamuangkon, Waranyoo Phoolcharoen, Varol Intasanta, Voravee P. Hoven
Carboxymethyl cellulose-stabilized calcium phosphate particles well-dispersed in aqueous solution can be integrated into an injectable hydrogel made of methacrylated hyaluronic acid which is a promising material for bone regeneration applications.
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Bubbles and drops between circular frames: shape, force and stability analysis

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8420-8435
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00919C, Paper
Open Access
Friedrich Walzel, Jonathan Dijoux, Leandro Jacomine, Élodie Harle, Pierre Muller, Thierry Charitat, Wiebke Drenckhan
Combining experiments, simulations and theory, we provide a complete shape analysis of two bubbles held by circular frames in the parameter space of different frame radii, distances between frames and contact angle between bubbles (0°, 60° and 90°).
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Tabu turns showstopper for Gaurang Shah

Actor Tabu in a Nizam-era inspired ensemble by Gaurang Shah added sheen to National Handloom Day 2022 in Hyderabad




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RBI approves third term for Axis Bank MD, CEO Amitabh Chaudhry

Before joining Axis Bank, Chaudhry was leading HDFC Life



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YES Bank Q2 Results: PAT more than doubles on stable income; CEO says can be ‘right time’ to acquire MFI

YES Bank targets 17-18% deposit growth, loan growth of 13-14% in FY25; CEO Prashant Kumar says this can be the ‘right time’ to acquire an MFI



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bl interview. After recognising MFI pain, profitability to improve in H2FY25: IDFC First Bank MD

Deposit to continue growing faster than credit in H2FY25



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Food access is about equitable agrifood systems

Addressing food inequality and ensuring that everyone has access to nutritious food are essential steps




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On Thom spectra, orientability, and cobordism [electronic resource] / Yuli B. Rudyak

Berlin ; New York : Springer, 1998




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Passengers depending on non-Railway sources of information for timetable miss CSMT Express

Non-railway websites or apps do not immediately update changes in train timetables, say officials




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Passenger train rakes to stop moving to Bunder Yard once additional stabling line comes up at Central Railway Station in Mangaluru

This will avoid frequent closure of Pandeshwar and Hoige Bazar level crossing gates as goods trains operations already shifted to Ullal and Panambur




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PSI, head constable suspended in Brahmavar lock up death case




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IIITH's social incubator hosts roundtable on climate-tech startups




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FM asks RRBs to develop suitable products aligning with MSME clusters

Increase disbursements in ground-level agriculture, focus on asset quality, boost digital and mobile banking service to further enhance financial inclusion: FM to PSU banks, RRBs




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Pilla Rakshasi: Predictable emotional journey

A few glitches notwithstanding, Sara’s performance is worth watching




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Pyrrolylsulfonium salts: stable, accessible and versatile pseudohalides for Stille couplings

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01793E, Research Article
Open Access
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Jodie L. Hann, Catherine L. Lyall, Gabriele Kociok-Köhn, Simon E. Lewis
Pyrroles functionalised with a thianthrenium or diphenylsulfonium group undergo Stille couplings with aryl or alkynyl stannanes in good yields, avoiding the issues of instability that can hamper the use of the analogous pyrrolyl halides.
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Folding of a dynamic macrocyclic system to stabilize its cation radical state

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01566E, Research Article
Arnab Dutta, Krzysztof Dzieszkowski, Marco Farinone, Łukasz Orzeł, Krzysztof Kruczała, Monika Kijewska, Miłosz Pawlicki
A precisely designed π-extended system responds to different stimuli by folding the structure, which prevents overoxidation and stabilizes the cation radical.
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Charitable trust donates furniture to flood-affected residential school in Khammam




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India vs South Africa 1st T20: Scintillating Samson headlines India’s comfortable 61-run win against Proteas

Often panned for not realising the minefield of talent that he is, Samson became the first Indian batter to hit back-to-back centuries in T20 Internationals as his 50-ball-107 with as many as 10 monstrous sixes took India to 202 for 8 in 20 overs.




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Improved energy storage performance and thermal stability of hafnium-substituted strontium sodium niobate tungsten bronze ceramics

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35064-35073
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06275B, Paper
Open Access
Wenbin Feng, Lele Ding, Jiajia Zhang, Chunyi Zhu, Shenzhenyi Song
A lead-free Sr4−xLaxNa2HfxNb10−xO30 ceramic was synthesized and characterized, and high energy storage density, energy storage efficiency and good thermal stability were simultaneously achieved.
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An exceptional water stable terbium-based metal–organic framework for selective detection of pesticides

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35220-35226
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06622G, Paper
Open Access
Ching-Ping Liu, Ting-En Lin, Jung-Chang Chiang, Bo-Jhen Chen, Po-Hsiu Chien, Su-Ying Chien, Gene-Hsiang Lee, Yen-Hsiang Liu, Kuang-Lieh Lu
The terbium-based metal–organic frameworks (Tb-MOFs) were synthesized successfully under hydrothermal conditions, which could maintain at least 90% of the emission intensity after storage in water for several months.
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Low temperature synthesis of franklinite stabilized cefixime as a multifunctional nanoformulation

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,34156-34164
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06435F, Paper
Open Access
Amna Munsaf, Muhammad Naeem Ahmed, Aroosa Zafar, Bilal Akram, Mahmoud A. A. Ibrahim
Cefixime, an antibiotic with low solubility, stability, bioavailability and therapeutic effectiveness, needs to be administered in larger doses for effective treatment.
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Chronological effects of oxygen on the structural transformations of polyacrylonitrile fibers during the rapid thermal stabilization process

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35560-35567
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06327A, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Shiyang Li, Liang Chen, Jie Liu, Yixin Li, Jian Tang, Rongchao Jiang, Xiaoxu Wang
The effects of oxygen on the structure changes of PAN fibers during the rapid thermal stabilization are chronological, including thermal-driven dehydrogenation, oxidation and cyclization in the shorter, intermediate and longer periods, respectively.
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Stability and magnetic properties of transition metal (V, Cr, Mn, and Fe) doped cobalt oxide clusters: a density functional theory investigation

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,36031-36039
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA05482B, Paper
Open Access
Nguyen Thi Mai, Tran Dang Thanh, Do Hung Manh, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh, Ngo Thi Lan, Phung Thi Thu, Nguyen Thanh Tung
Con−1TMOn−2+ (n = 6–8), (TM = V, Cr, Mn, and Fe) clusters are investigated using density functional theory calculations.
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Teenage boy stabbed by classmate in Udaipur succumbs to injuries

Tension prevails after crowd gathered outside hospital and other areas; police resort to lathi charge; more force sent to maintain law and order; prohibitory orders remain




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Police constable suspended for stalking woman in Ratlam




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India to focus on climate finance, accountability, protection for vulnerable communities at COP29

India’s COP29 strategy emphasises climate finance, accountability, and protection for vulnerable communities, urging developed nations to fulfill climate pledges




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Apple to announce AI wall tablet as soon as March: Report

Apple is planning on launching a wall-mounted display that can control appliances, handle video conferencing and use artificial intelligence to navigate apps, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday




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UN COP16 biodiversity summit agrees to establish Indigenous subsidiary body

The value of the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and local communities is recognised with this decision, says Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister and COP16 president




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ISL: Table-topper BFC takes on a struggling FC Goa