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To Do ESSA Accountability Right, Focus on Classrooms, Not Just Schools

The Every Student Succeeds Act presents a challenge and an opportunity. It changes the question from “what do we have to do?” to “what new opportunities exist?” as states can now design their accountability systems to accomplish their own goals rather than complying with federal demands.




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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 / by William E. Leuchtenburg

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Fighters in the shadows : a new history of the French resistance / Robert Gildea

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[ASAP] Excimer-FRET Cascade in Dual DNA Probes: Open Access to Large Stokes Shift, Enhanced Acceptor Light up, and Robust RNA Sensing

Analytical Chemistry
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[ASAP] Self-Enhanced Chemiluminescence of Tris(bipyridine) Ruthenium(II) Derivative Nanohybrids: Mechanism Insight and Application for Sensitive Silver Ions Detection

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00897




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Man’s Discrimination Lawsuit Highlights Journey from Criminal to Christian

Michael Fesser has been treated very badly by people in authority, but his greatest vindication seems to be in proving that he’s not the man he once was. Fesser made local papers after receiving sizable cash settlements resulting from discrimination lawsuits with his former employer and two local ...




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Coronavirus: After Abu Dhabi, Indians evacuated from Singapore and Dhaka on special flights

Air India will also bring back people from other countries including the US, UK, Bangladesh, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Philippines, UAE and Malaysia.




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Aurangabad train accident: NHRC issues notice to Maharashtra, says tragedy could have been averted

Meanwhile, the railway safety watchdog said the victims had gathered along the track under the impression that the train services have been suspended.




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Maharashtra universities final year/semester exams in July; remaining students to be promoted

The state government has decided not to conduct exams for 1st and 2nd year and lower semester students due to the COVID-19 pandemic.




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Orissa court order on testing migrants highlights needless judicial intervention in Covid-19 crisis

While courts have an important role in ensuring that the rights of citizens are protected, it is essential that they avoid adjudicating on policy matters.




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UFC to go ahead with it’s schedule despite one of the fighter testing positive for coronavirus

The organisers said Brazilian Ronaldo Souza, who was to fight Uriah Hall on the undercard, will not take part in the event.




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Coronavirus: Trinamool Congress hits back at Amit Shah, claims eight trains scheduled for migrants

The Union home minister had alleged that the state government was being unjust to migrant workers by not allowing ‘Sharmik’ special trains.




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Insights About the Transition System for SSI Youth from the National Evaluation of Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE)

This article discusses insights gained from the national PROMISE evaluation about the current transition system, which are relevant to current initiatives supporting youth with disabilities during the transition to adulthood.




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Mathematica at SXSW EDU: Highlighting Innovative Tools and Strategies in Education

For 10 years, the South by Southwest (SXSW) EDU conference has provided a venue to share cutting-edge ideas and tools with a community of creative and passionate changemakers who want to advance teaching and learning.




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New Report Highlights the MacArthur Foundation’s Grantmaking Legacy to Advance Maternal Health in India

Mathematica released findings from its cumulative review of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Maternal Health Quality of Care (MHQoC) strategy in India.




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Putting Rigorous Evidence Within Reach: Lessons Learned from the New Heights Evaluation

This article uses an evaluation of New Heights, a school-based program for pregnant and parenting teens in the District of Columbia Public Schools, to illustrate how maternal and child health programs can obtain rigorous evaluations at reasonable cost using extant administrative data.




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Improving Effect Estimates by Limiting the Variability in Inverse Propensity Score Weights

This study describes a novel method to reweight a comparison group used for causal inference, so the group is similar to a treatment group on observable characteristics yet avoids highly variable weights that would limit statistical power.




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Powdery mildew disease of crucifers: biology, ecology and disease management / Govin Singh Saharan, Naresh K. Mehta, Prabhu Dayal Meena

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Science and Technology Parks and Regional Economic Development: An International Perspective / Sara Amoroso, Albert N. Link, Mike Wright, editors

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Henry Smeathman, the flycatcher: natural history, slavery and empire in the late eighteenth century / Deirdre Coleman

Hayden Library - QH31.S593 C65 2018




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Biological control in Latin America and the Caribbean: its rich history and bright future / edited by Joop C. van Lenteren, Vanda H.P. Bueno, M. Gabriela Luna and Yelitza C. Colmenarez

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Allelopathy: potential for green agriculture / Waseem Mushtaq, Mohammad Badruzzaman Siddiqui, Khalid Rehman Hakeem

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Pushing our limits: insights from Biosphere 2 / Mark Nelson

Hayden Library - QH541.27.N45 2018




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Catfish dream: Ed Scott's fight for his family farm and racial justice in the Mississippi Delta / Julian Rankin

Hayden Library - SH20.S385 R36 2018




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Plastidules to humans: Leopoldo Maggi (1840-1905) and Ernst Haeckel's naturalist philosophy in the Kingdom of Italy: with an edition of Maggi's letters to Ernst Haeckel / Rainer Brömer ; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie d

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Structural properties of contractile gels based on light-driven molecular motors: a small-angle neutron and X-ray study

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4008-4023
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00031K, Paper
Giacomo Mariani, Jean-Rémy Colard-Itté, Emilie Moulin, Nicolas Giuseppone, Eric Buhler
The collective rotation of light-driven molecular motors actuates the structural changes and macroscopic contraction of the chemical gels.
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Insight into the Unwrapping of the Dinucleosome

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00161A, Paper
Fatemeh Khodabandeh, Hashem Fatemi, Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee
Dynamics of nucleosomes, the building blocks of the chromatin, has crucial effects on expression, replication and repair of genomes in eukaryotes. Beside constant movements of nucleosomes by thermal fluctuations, ATP-dependent...
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Assessing the Extent of Structural and Dynamic Modulation of Membrane Lipids due to Pore Forming Toxins: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00086H, Paper
Vadhana Varadarajan, Rajat Desikan, Ganapathy Ayappa
Infections in many virulent bacterial strains are triggered by the release of pore forming toxins (PFTs), which form oligomeric transmembrane pore complexes on the target plasma membrane. The spatial extent...
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Self-assembly of isomeric naphthalene appended glucono derivatives: nanofibers and nanotwists with circularly polarized luminescence emission

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4115-4120
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02542A, Paper
Zongwen Liu, Yuqian Jiang, Jian Jiang, Donghua Zhai, Decai Wang, Minghua Liu
Two isomers of naphthalene derivatives are self-assembled into nanofibers and nanotwists with CPL emission, respectively.
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Reversible membrane deformations by straight DNA origami filaments

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00150C, Paper
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  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Henri Girao Franquelim, Hendrik Dietz, Petra Schwille
Membrane-active cytoskeletal elements, such as FtsZ, septin or actin, form filamentous polymers able to induce and stabilize curvature on cellular membranes. In order to emulate the characteristic dynamic self-assembly properties...
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Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought


 

A collection of the writing of the highly influential architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, presented in short, easily accessible, and condensed ideas ideal for students

Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers, publishing around 60 books and several hundred essays and shorter pieces over his career. His influential works have inspired undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture and related disciplines



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Cisco ushers in a bright new age of bridges


Our dependence on apps is reaching its technical limits. But don't worry: Cisco is solving the issue.
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[ASAP] White Light Emission from a Zero-Dimensional Lead Chloride Hybrid Material

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01817




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[ASAP] Colloidal Quantum-Dots/Graphene/Silicon Dual-Channel Detection of Visible Light and Short-Wave Infrared

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00247




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[ASAP] Goodbye Juan José Sáenz (1960–2020): A Bright Scientific Mind, an Unusually Prolific Friend, and a Family Man

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00526




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Human rights, ownership, and the individual / Rowan Cruft

Dewey Library - JC571.C78 2019




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Human rights in twentieth-century Australia / Jon Piccini

Dewey Library - JC599.A8 P53 2019




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Faithful fighters: identity and power in the British Indian Army / Kate Imy

Dewey Library - UA668.I49 2019




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Why they marched: untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote / Susan Ware

Dewey Library - JK1896.W37 2019




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Extreme reactions: radical right mobilization in Eastern Europe / Lenka Bustikova, Arizona State University

Dewey Library - JC573.2.E852 B88 2020




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Raymond Aron and liberal thought in the twentieth century / Iain Stewart, University College London

Dewey Library - JC261.A7 S74 2020




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The suspect: an Olympic bombing, the FBI, the media, and Richard Jewell, the man caught in the middle / Kent Alexander & Kevin Salwen

Dewey Library - HV8079.B62 A44 2019




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Rights and Security in India, Myanmar, and Thailand

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Human rights in the age of platforms / edited by Rikke Frank Jørgensen ; foreword by David Kaye

Dewey Library - JC571.H7695266 2019




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International empirical studies on religion and socioeconomic human rights Hans-Georg Ziebertz, editor

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The light that failed: why the West is losing the fight for democracy / Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes

Dewey Library - JC574.K74 2019




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Fight the power: African Americans and the long history of police brutality in New York City / Clarence Taylor

Rotch Library - HV8148.N5 T39 2019




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The morals of the market: human rights and the rise of neoliberalism / Jessica Whyte

Dewey Library - JC574.W428 2019




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In plain sight: impunity and human rights in Thailand / Tyrell Haberkorn

Dewey Library - JC599.T5 H33 2018