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Virginia State Parks Install Viewfinders for People With Colorblindness, Just in Time for Leaf-Peeping Season

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Man fatally electrocuted after downed power line in Torbay Saturday

Police have reported that a man was fatally electrocuted in Torbay on Saturday evening. Two others are being treated for injuries.



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SOLIDWORKS and COSMOS software help ORBIS stretch the boundaries of plastic design

Analyzing packing case design with COSMOS and modifying in SOLIDWORKS yields light, strong container that reduces manufacturers' shipping costs





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UK Writer Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker For 136-Page Novel "Orbital"

Samantha Harvey's "Orbital" is the second-shortest novel to win the award and the first to be set in space.




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Skynet-1A Satellite’s Unexplained Orbit Shift Raises Questions About Command History

Launched in 1969, the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, has moved significantly from its original position. Experts believe this was due to a deliberate command in the 1970s. The satellite now orbits over the Americas, near active satellite traffic, raising risks of collisions. Limited records exist regarding its control history, with suggestions of temporary US oversight. The UK’s Ministry of Defence is monitoring the satellite to prevent conflicts with modern space assets, but experts warn of increasing debris risk from aging satellites.




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Nandan Nilekani, Nikhil Kamath On Forbes Asia Heroes Of Philanthropy List

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, KP Singh, chairman emeritus at DLF, and Nikhil Kamath, co-founder of Zerodha, have been named on the 17th edition of Forbes Asia's Heroes of Philanthropy list released today.




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UK Writer Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker For 136-Page Novel "Orbital"

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In Memoriam: Madeleine Korbel Albright

As a mark of respect for the passing of Madeleine Korbel Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State, and in recognition of her tremendous life of service to this nation, President Biden has ordered that the U.S. flag be immediately flown at half-staff until sunset on March 27, 2022. In concurrence with the President’s order, Governor Carney has ordered both the U.S. and Delaware flags at state buildings and facilities be flown at half-staff.




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Samsung B5310 CorbyPro - TouchWiz UI, QWERTY, Wi-Fi & GPS, under Rs. 13,900 Review

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Austin Calling: As Texas Absorbs Influx of Residents, Rekor Taps NVIDIA Technology for Roadway Safety, Traffic Relief

Austin is drawing people to jobs, music venues, comedy clubs, barbecue and more. But with this boom has come a big city blues: traffic jams. Rekor, which offers traffic management and public safety analytics, has a front-row seat to the increasing traffic from an influx of new residents migrating to Austin. Rekor works with the Read Article




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EWC Alumni Featured in Forbes’ '30 Under 30' List of Rising Asia Entrepreneurs

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British writer Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' wins Booker Prize for fiction

LONDON — British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with "Orbital," a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of the Earth. Harvey was awarded the 50,000-pound ($64,000) prize for what she has called a "space pastoral" about six orbiting astronauts, which she began writing during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. The confined characters loop through 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets over the course of a day, trapped in one another's company and transfixed by the globe's ever-changing vistas. "To look at the Earth from space is like a child looking into a mirror and realizing for the first time that the person in the mirror is herself," said Harvey, who researched her novel by reading books by astronauts and watching the space station's live camera. "What we do to the Earth we do to ourselves." She said the novel "is not exactly about climate change, but implied in the view of the Earth is the fact of human-made climate change." She dedicated the prize to everyone who speaks "for and not against the Earth, for and not against the dignity of other humans, other life." "All the people who speak for and call for and work for peace — this is for you," she said. Writer and artist Edmund de Waal, who chaired the five-member judging panel, called "Orbital" a "miraculous novel" that "makes our world strange and new for us." Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, noted that "in a year of geopolitical crisis, likely to be the warmest year in recorded history," the winning book was "hopeful, timely and timeless." Harvey, who has written four previous novels and a memoir about insomnia, is the first British writer since 2020 to win the Booker. The prize is open to English-language writers of any nationality and has a reputation for transforming writers' careers. Previous winners include Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Hilary Mantel. De Waal praised the "crystalline" writing and "capaciousness" of Harvey's succinct novel — at 136 pages in its U.K. paperback edition, one of the shortest-ever Booker winners. "This is a book that repays slow reading," he said. He said the judges spent a full day picking their winner and came to a unanimous conclusion. Harvey beat five other finalists from Canada, the United States, Australia and the Netherlands, chosen from among 156 novels submitted by publishers. American writer Percival Everett had been the bookies' favorite to win with "James," which reimagines Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" from the point of view of its main Black character, the enslaved man Jim. The other finalists were American writer Rachel Kushner's spy story "Creation Lake"; Canadian Anne Michaels' poetic novel "Held"; Charlotte Wood's Australian saga "Stone Yard Devotional"; and "The Safekeep" by Yael van der Wouden, the first Dutch author to be shortlisted for the Booker. Harvey is the first female Booker winner since 2019, though one of five women on this year's shortlist, the largest number in the prize's 55-year history. De Waal said issues such as the gender or nationality of the authors were "background noise" that did not influence the judges. "There was absolutely no question of box ticking or of agendas or of anything else. It was simply about the novel," he said before the awards ceremony at Old Billingsgate, a grand former Victorian fish market in central London. Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize is open to novels originally written in English published in the U.K. or Ireland. Last year's winner was Irish writer Paul Lynch for post-democratic dystopia "Prophet Song." Lynch handed Harvey her Booker trophy at the ceremony, warning her that her life was about to change dramatically because of the Booker publicity boost. Harvey said she was "overwhelmed" but remained down-to-earth about spending her prize money. She said she'd disburse "some of it on tax. I want to buy a new bike. And then the rest — I want to go to Japan."




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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station




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Planet in the 'forbidden zone' of dead star could reveal Earth's fate

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Planet spotted orbiting Barnard's star just 6 light years away

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NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit

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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"

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Dark matter may be behind wobble in Mars’ orbit, study suggests

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To Enhance National Security, the Biden Administration Will Have to Trim an Exorbitant Defense Wish List

David Kearn argues that even in the absence of restrictive resource and budgetary constraints, a focus on identifying and achieving concrete objectives that will position the United States and its allies to effectively deter aggression in critical regional flashpoints should be the priority given the stressed nature of the defense industrial base and the nuclear enterprise.




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Goodwill� Encourages Holiday Giving With #GiveGoodwill Campaign - Meet Hannah and Orbi

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Learning ancient, forbidden sex majik

There is an ancient and proud tradition of people finding spiritual resonance within the captivating riddle of their own sexuality. That tradition has little or nothing to do with carnies eating junk food... or does it???




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NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit

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Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Anime Casts Daisuke Namikawa

Namikawa appears as young Count Piast in 8th episode on Saturday




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Does Gender Influence Comorbidity Rates in HIV-Positive Smokers

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Indian stock market remains on consolidation path, DIIs absorb heavy selling

The week saw Donald Trump returning to power in the US election amid a second consecutive rate cut by Fed this year, as the Indian stock market continued to experience consolidation due to heightened selling pressure from foreign institutional investors (FIIs).




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Citigroup’s Corbat Gets Expenses Down

Chief Executive Michael Corbat is in the early stages of making good on his promise to turn Citigroup Inc. into a more efficient company.




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Cosmic Companion: Mysterious Mini-Moon To Temporarily Join Earth's Orbit

A small asteroid, recently discovered by NASA-funded ground telescopes, is set to become a temporary satellite of Earth, providing a rare example of a celestial body being captured by the planet's gravity. Known as asteroid 2024 PT5, this space rock, measuring




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Restoring translational symmetry in periodic all-orbital dynamical mean-field theory simulations

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,641-652
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00068D, Paper
Open Access
Jiachen Li, Tianyu Zhu
The use of overlapping atom-centered impurity fragments in recently-developed ab initio all-orbital DMFT, where all local orbitals within the impurity are treated with high-level quantum chemistry impurity solvers, is investigated.
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Critical review of fluorescence and absorbance measurements as surrogates for the molecular weight and aromaticity of dissolved organic matter

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1663-1702
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00183D, Critical Review
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Julie A. Korak, Garrett McKay
Optical surrogates are used to characterize dissolved organic matter composition like aromaticity and molecular weight. We both review the genesis of surrogate-composition relationships and critically evaluate additional supporting evidence.
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Unions and divisions : new forms of rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe [Electronic book] / edited by Paul Srodecki, Norbert Kersken and Rimvydas Petrauskas.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.




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Public Poetry : Lyrik im urbanen Raum [Electronic book] / Claudia Benthien, Norbert Gestring.

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]




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Language and Scottish literature [Electronic book] / John Corbett.

[United Kingdom] : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.




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Between Forbearance and Audacity : The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture [Electronic book] / Ezgi Yildiz.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.




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African American women during the Civil War [Electronic book] / Ella Forbes.

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Orbital optimisation in xTC transcorrelated methods

Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00036F, Paper
Open Access
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Daniel Kats, Evelin Martine Corvid Christlmaier, Thomas Schraivogel, Ali Alavi
We present a combination of the bi-orthogonal orbital optimisation framework with the recently introduced xTC version of transcorrelation. This allows us to implement non-iterative perturbation based methods on top of...
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Boosted aluminum storage performance by d–p orbital modulation in zinc selenide with manganese element dopants

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QI02173H, Research Article
Han Wang, Rongkai Kang, Boya Zhang, Xingchang Zhang, Guowen Chen, Yiqun Du, Jianxin Zhang
By modulating the band center, Mn-ion doping strategy enhances electronic conductivity and improves interaction with solvent groups, thereby achieving high capacity, enhanced kinetics, and long-term cycling in rechargeable aluminum batteries.
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Design and performance evaluation of low-volatility and low-viscosity absorbents for CO2 capture

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4RE00379A, Paper
Ning Ma, Liu Yang, Zhenchang Fang, Kaijia Jiang, Xinling Li, Zhen Huang
This study synthesized a novel homogeneous non-aqueous absorbent and analyzed hydrogen bonds and viscosities, which were rarely studied before.
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Softness matters: effects of compression on the behavior of adsorbed microgels at interfaces

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00235K, Paper
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Yuri Gerelli, Fabrizio Camerin, Steffen Bochenek, Maximilian M. Schmidt, Armando Maestro, Walter Richtering, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Andrea Scotti
As lateral compression is applied, microgel particles with different softness exhibit distinct behaviours. Hard microgels (green particles) are pushed away from the air–water interface, whereas soft ones (orange particles) are less deformed.
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Thermally modified nanocrystalline snail shell adsorbent for methylene blue sequestration: equilibrium, kinetic, thermodynamic, artificial intelligence, and DFT studies

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,12703-12719
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA01074D, Paper
Open Access
Abisoye Abidemi Adaramaja, Abayomi Bamisaye, Shakirudeen Modupe Abati, Kayode Adesina Adegoke, Morenike Oluwabunmi Adesina, Ayodeji Rapheal Ige, Oluwatobi Adeleke, Mopelola Abidemi Idowu, Abel Kolawole Oyebamiji, Olugbenga Solomon Bello
The quest for an efficient and sustainable adsorbent material that can effectively remove harmful and hazardous dyes from industrial effluent has become more intense. Thermally modified nanocrystalline snail shell is a new biosorbent for removing methylene blue dye from contaminated wastewater.
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Tight-binding model describes frontier orbitals of non-fullerene acceptors

Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2024, 9,382-398
DOI: 10.1039/D3ME00195D, Paper
Vishal Jindal, Michael J. Janik, Scott T. Milner
HOMO and LUMO of conjugated molecules as superposition of HOMO and LUMO of individual moieties.
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Influence of polyol impurities on the transesterification kinetics, molecular structures and properties of isosorbide polycarbonate

Polym. Chem., 2024, 15,4204-4220
DOI: 10.1039/D4PY00840E, Paper
Mingfa Guo, Yaning Wang, Zhenguang Li, Jielin Xu, Qian Chen, Jing Wu, Huaping Wang
A so-called “reverse-addition” model protocol based on two kinds of polyol impurities (glycerol and 2-deoxy-D-ribose) was established to systematically demonstrate their influence on the polymerization and properties of PIC.
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Enhanced mechanical properties of acrylate and 5-vinyl-2-norbornene-based ethylene terpolymers: rational design and synthesis using remotely modulated phosphine–sulfonate palladium complexes

Polym. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4PY00722K, Paper
Yong-Qing Li, Gui-Ping Cao, Yu-Cai Cao
From a practical perspective, it is important to maintain or increase the mechanical properties of functional ethylene copolymers to those of nonpolar polyethylene (PE).
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