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Novel coronavirus found in surprisingly high levels in sewage

Viral levels higher than expected based on confirmed COVID-19 cases




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Adding the missing sugars to coronavirus protein structures

Most of the recently reported viral structures have left out the carbohydrate decorations that help mask the proteins from our immune system




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Adding the missing sugars to coronavirus protein structures

Most of the recently reported viral structures have left out the carbohydrate decorations that help mask the proteins from our immune system




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During the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals have taken unprecedented steps to disinfect N95 face masks

With protective equipment in short supply, health-care facilities are decontaminating and reusing items designed to be disposable




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A chemist's guide to disinfectants

Has your local store run out of sanitizing wipes? This cheat sheet can help you find and understand alternatives




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BASF launches an e-commerce portal for its polyisobutene business




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Xiaogang Liu is using fluorescence to tackle the problem of illicit cooking oil

The Singapore-based physical chemist is building a database of fluorescence fingerprints to help nab adulterated food products




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During the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals have taken unprecedented steps to disinfect N95 face masks

With protective equipment in short supply, health-care facilities are decontaminating and reusing items designed to be disposable




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Die doktorarbeit: vom start zum ziel [electronic resource] : lei(d)tfaden für promotionswillige / Barbara Messing, Klaus-Peter Huber

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007




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Data mining for biomedical applications [electronic resource] : PAKDD 2006 workshop, BioDM 2006, Singapore, April 9, 2006 : proceedings / Jinyan Li, Qiang Yang, Ah-Hwee Tan (eds.)

Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2006




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India's rising distress, mounting job losses

About Rs 10 lakh crore worth of output is gone for good while job losses are estimated to have crossed 140 million.




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Enhanced removal of organic pollutants from super heavy oil wastewater using specially modified lignite activated coke

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00033G, Paper
Kun Tong, Guodong Ji, Fan Nie, Mingdong Zhang, Wen Ren, Shuixiang Xie
Lignite activated coke (LAC) has been modified in situ by adsorbing the biodegradation effluent of super heavy oil wastewater (SHOW) to extract organic pollutants from raw SHOW before biodegradation is investigated.
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Sediment and biofilm affect disinfectant decay rates during long-term operation of simulated reclaimed water distribution systems

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW00978G, Paper
Ni Zhu, Kris Mapili, Haniyyah Majeed, Amy Pruden, Marc A. Edwards
Unique water chemistry and operational conditions of reclaimed water distribution systems facilitated accumulation of sediment which resulted in depletion of disinfectants and microbial regrowth.
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Harnessing salinity gradient energy in coastal stormwater runoff to reduce pathogen loading

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01137D, Communication
Kristian L. Dubrawski, Wan Wang, Jianqiao Xu, Craig S. Criddle
First demonstration of the capture of salinity gradient energy from stormwater runoff to the ocean, used to power UV-LED disinfection.
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Stepwise ammonium enrichment using selective battery electrodes

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00010H, Paper
Moon Son, Eric Kolvek, Taeyoung Kim, Wulin Yang, Johannes S. Vrouwenvelder, Christopher A. Gorski, Bruce E. Logan
Electrochemical cells containing battery electrodes (battery deionization) can be effective in recovering and concentrating ammonium in wastewater with a low energy demand.
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Recovery of ammonium and phosphate using battery deionization in a background electrolyte

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00183J, Paper
Moon Son, Benjamin L. Aronson, Wulin Yang, Christopher A. Gorski, Bruce E. Logan
The electrochemical cell containing ammonium selective battery electrodes can be effective for recovering ammonium, but not phosphate, from solutions due to its high mass capacity for ammonium ions, with a low energy demand.
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Balancing water quality and flows in combined sewer systems using real-time control

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1357-1369
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW00882A, Paper
Sara C. Troutman, Nancy G. Love, Branko Kerkez
An open-source control algorithm for combined sewers demonstrates how treatment plant benefits can be balanced with operation of the collection system.
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Field testing of an onsite sanitation system on apartment building blackwater using biological treatment and electrochemical disinfection

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1400-1411
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01106D, Paper
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Siva Kumar Varigala, Meghan Hegarty-Craver, Srinivas Krishnaswamy, Prakash Madhavan, Milan Basil, Praveen Rosario, Antony Raj, Viswa Barani, Clement A. Cid, Sonia Grego, Michael Luettgen
Demonstration of an electrochemical toilet wastewater treatment and disinfection technology at the scale of an apartment building and translation of the system into a commercial product.
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News from the John W. Kluge Center: Don’t miss out: 30 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Get your free tickets here.


This week, on Thursday, December 5, at 4pm in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.


Hope M. Harrison and Constanze Stelzenmüller will take part in a discussion moderated by Kluge Center Director John Haskell on the history of the wall itself, why it fell, and how German reunification impacts today’s politics and the future of democracy.


The event is free, but due to expected demand, tickets are recommended. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed.

Register for a ticket here.


Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov

 




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Informality Revisited: Latin American Perspectives on Housing, the State and the Market


 

Informality Revisited offers an overview of recent debates about Latin American government programmes for the formalisation of informal settlements and housing provision in a neo-liberal context. Contributions from Latin American researchers analyse the contradictions in government actions and evaluate the consequences for urban poverty.



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Optics using MATLAB / Scott W. Teare

Barker Library - QC355.3.T43 2017




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Proceedings of the Europe/Africa Conference Dresden 2017- Polymer Processing Society PPS: conference date, 27-29 June 2017: location, Dresden, Germany / editors, Udo Wagenknecht, Petra Pötschke, Sven Wiessner and Michael Gehde

Online Resource




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Defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equations / Benjamin Dodson (The Johns Hopkins University)

Hayden Library - QC174.26.W28 D63 2019




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Mott insulators: physics and applications / Sindhunil Barman Roy

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Proceedings of PPS-33: the 33rd International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society: conference papers: conference date, 10-14 December 2017: location, Cancun, Mexico / editors, Octavio Manero and Fausto Calderas

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Automating vibrational spectroscopy data preprocessing and multivariate analysis with MATLAB® / by Tanmoy Bhattacharjee

Online Resource




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Advances in spectroscopy: molecules to materials: proceedings of NCASMM 2018 / Dheeraj Kumar Singh, Sourav Das, Arnulf Materny, editors

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Using Mathematica for quantum mechanics: a Students Manual / Roman Schmied

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Proceedings of the 35th International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society (PPS-35): 26-30 May 2019, Cesme-Izmir, Turkey / editors, Fevzi Cakmak Cebeci, Yusuf Z. Menceloglu, Serkan Unal and Yakup Ulcer

Online Resource




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An introductory path to quantum theory: using mathematics to understand the ideas of physics / Stephen Bruce Sontz

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Surprising markets rally

Clarity to emerge once central banks outline their stance




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New National Education policy to go to Cabinet soon; Proposes single higher education regulator

The draft National Education Policy has been reworked to moot “one common regulatory regime for the entire higher education sector, eliminating duplication and disjunction of regulatory efforts”, people aware of the development said. The earlier draft had proposed a four-tier regulatory structure.




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COVID-19: HRD assessing situation in countries with CBSE schools to decide on pending board exams

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had last month announced that it will not be conducting the pending exams in foreign countries. According to officials, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' has sought feedback from representatives in different countries about the current situation there.




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The divided city: ideological and policy contestations in contemporary urban India / Dr. Binti Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, Dr. Mahendra Sethi, National Institute of Urban Affairs, India

Rotch Library - HT384.I4 S5446 2018




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Future Cities Laboratory / Stephen Cairns, Devisari Tunas (ed.), ETH Zürich / Singapore - ETH Centre

Rotch Library - HT166.F892 2019




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Housing estates in the Baltic Countries: the legacy of central planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania / Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru, editors

Online Resource




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HU: common spaces in Housing Units / [Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura ; author: Rozana Montiel]

Rotch Library - HT165.53.M6 M668 2018




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Building resilient neighbourhoods in Singapore: the convergence of policies, research and practice / Chan-Hoong Leong, Lai-Choo Malone-Lee, editors

Rotch Library - HT169.S55 B85 2019




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The politics of urban sustainability transitions: knowledge, power and governance / edited by Jens Stissing Jensen, Matthew Cashmore, and Philipp Späth

Rotch Library - HT166.P633 2019




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Urban design under neoliberalism: theorising from Santiago, Chile / Francisco Vergara-Perucich

Rotch Library - HT169.C5 V47 2019




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Planning Singapore: the experimental city / edited by Stephen Hamnett and Belinda Yuen

Rotch Library - HT169.S55 P5725 2019




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Business improvement districts and the contradictions of placemaking: BID urbanism in Washington, D.C. / Susanna F. Schaller

Rotch Library - HT177.W3 S33 2019




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Realising the city: urban ethnography in Manchester / edited by Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons

Rotch Library - HT133.R42 2018




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Moody’s says India’s negative outlook reflects increasing risks

 Rating agency Moody’s said that the the negative outlook of India reflects increasing risks that economic growth will remain significantly lower than




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Preservation News: 2/14 Lecture, Using CT Scans to Read Obscured Text

Next Topics in Preservation Series lecture from the Library of Congress: The Digital Restoration Initiative -- Reading the Invisible Library

Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 1:30 - 2:30 pm EST

Speaker: W. Brent Seales, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments at the University of Kentucky

Click here for more information and to register for the live webcast.




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[ASAP] Overcoming Doxorubicin Resistance with Lipid–Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles Photoreleasing Nitric Oxide

Molecular Pharmaceutics
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00290




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[ASAP] Prodrug Approach for Posterior Eye Drug Delivery: Synthesis of Novel Ganciclovir Prodrugs and in Vitro Screening with Cassette Dosing

Molecular Pharmaceutics
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00037




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[ASAP] Correction to “The Roles of Fatty-Acid Modification in the Activity of the Anticancer Peptide R-Lycosin-I”

Molecular Pharmaceutics
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00258




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[ASAP] Discovery and Optimization of Triazine Nitrile Inhibitors of <italic toggle="yes">Toxoplasma gondii</italic> Cathepsin L for the Potential Treatment of Chronic Toxoplasmosis in the CNS

ACS Chemical Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.9b00674




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[ASAP] Repurposing of Drugs Is a Viable Approach to Develop Therapeutic Strategies against Central Nervous System Related Pathogenic Amoebae

ACS Chemical Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.9b00613