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American families adopted 241 Indian kids in 2019: Report

Some countries noticeably increased the number of inter-country adoptions to the US




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Aarogya Setu app: Data safe, for limited period, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

The Aarogya Setu app, which was developed by the government to track those with the disease and alert people about their proximity, has given rise to fears of surveillance by the state as well as the security of the personal data that a user needs to fill in after downloading it.




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Enzyme and microbial biosensors [electronic resource] : techniques and protocols / edited by Ashok Mulchandani and Kim R. Rogers

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [1998]




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Essentials of clinical neurophysiology [electronic resource] / edited by Andrew S. Blum, Seward B. Rutkove

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2007]




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Entry inhibitors in HIV therapy [electronic resource] / edited by Jacqueline D. Reeves and Cynthia A. Derdeyn

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, c2007




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Eliminating healthcare disparities in America [electronic resource] : beyond the IOM report / edited by Richard Allen Williams

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2007]




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Empfehlungen zum einsatz und zur verwendung der herz-lungen-maschine [electronic resource] / edited by Peter Feindt, Frank Harig, Michael Weyand

Darmstadt : Steinkopff Verlag Darmstadt, 2006




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Endocrine-disrupting chemicals [electronic resource] : from basic research to clinical practice / edited by Andrea C. Gore

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2007




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Endoscopic oncology [electronic resource] : gastrointestinal endoscopy and cancer management / edited by Douglas O. Faigel, Michael L. Kochman

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2006




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Dynamics of complex interconnected systems [electronic resource] : networks and bioprocesses / edited by Arne T. Skjeltorp and Alexander V. Belushkin

Dordrecht : Springer, [2006]




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Drug targeting [electronic resource] : strategies, principles, and applications / edited by G.E. Francis and Cristina Delgado

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2000]




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Disorders of the respiratory tract [electronic resource] : common challenges in primary care / [edited] by Matthew L. Mintz

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2006]




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Diabetic neuropathy [electronic resource] : clinical management / edited by Aristidis Veves and Rayaz A. Malik

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2007]




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Diagnostic and therapeutic antibodies [electronic resource] / edited by Andrew J.T. George and Catherine E. Urch

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2000]




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Diagnostic criteria in neurology [electronic resource] / edited by Alan J. Lerner

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2006]




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Data mining in biomedicine [electronic resource] / edited by Panos M. Pardalos, Vladimir L. Boginski, Alkis Vazacopoulos

Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007




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Cytokines, stress, and depression [electronic resource] / edited by Robert Dantzer, Emmanuelle E. Wollman, Raz Yirmiya

Boston, MA : Springer US, 1999




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Cytokines in the genesis and treatment of cancer [electronic resource] / edited by Michael A. Caligiuri, Michael T. Lotze

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2007




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Cystic fibrosis methods and protocols [electronic resource] / edited by William R. Skach

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2002]




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Coping with chronic illness and disability [electronic resource] : theoretical, empirical, and clinical aspects / edited by Erin Martz, Hanoch Livneh ; foreword by Beatrice A. Wright

New York : Springer, [2007]




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Constipation [electronic resource] : etiology, evaluation and management / [edited by] Steven D. Wexner, Graeme S. Duthie

New York, NY : Springer, 2006




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Biochar-augmented biofilters to improve pollutant removal from stormwater – can they improve receiving water quality?

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00027B, Critical Review
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Alexandria B. Boehm, Colin D. Bell, Nicole J. M. Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gallo, Christopher P. Higgins, Terri S. Hogue, Richard G. Luthy, Andrea C. Portmann, Bridget A. Ulrich, Jordyn M. Wolfand
Stormwater biofilters are being implemented widely in urban environments to provide green space, alleviate flooding, and improve stormwater quality.
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Effects of anaerobic digester solids retention time on odor emission and dewaterability of biosolids subjected to various shear intensities, polymer doses, and storage duration times

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00028K, Paper
Dian Zhang, Mary Strawn, Tom Broderick, John T. Novak, Zhi-Wu Wang
Shear intensity and polymer dose contributed more than SRT to odor emission from dewatered cake.
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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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Factors associated with elevated levels of antibiotic resistance genes in sewer sediments and wastewater

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00230E, Paper
Alessia Eramo, William R. Morales Medina, N. L. Fahrenfeld
The sewer environment is a potential hotspot for the proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and other hazardous microbial agents.
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Integration of aerobic granulation and UV/H2O2 processes in a continuous flow system for the degradation of sulfolane in contaminated water

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01048C, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Muhammad Faizan Khan, Linlong Yu, Jordan Hollman, Joo Hwa Tay, Gopal Achari
Aerobic granulation and UV/H2O2 in a continuous flow-through reactor can effectively degrade emerging contaminates, such as sulfolane.
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Emerging investigator series: formation of brominated haloacetamides from trihalomethanes during zero-valent iron reduction and subsequent booster chlorination in drinking water distribution

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1244-1255
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW00977A, Paper
Pengzhou Luo, FeiFei Wang, Stuart W. Krasner, Chao Fang, Shenghua Chen, Wenhai Chu
This study investigated the transformation of a THM mixture and the change of toxicity risk in drinking water distribution systems for the first time.
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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Technoproductive evaluation of the energyless microbial-integrated diffusion dialysis technique for acid mine drainage valorization

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1217-1229
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01020C, Critical Review
Hanaa M. Hegab, Ahmed ElMekawy, Christopher Saint, Fawzi Banat, Shadi W. Hasan, Deepak Pant
Acid mine drainage (AMD) presents severe ecological pollution challenges because of its extreme acidity and sulphate and toxic metal contents.
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Removal and growth of microorganisms across treatment and simulated distribution at a pilot-scale direct potable reuse facility

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1370-1387
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01087D, Paper
Scott E. Miller, Roberto A. Rodriguez, Kara L. Nelson
Multi-barrier advanced treatment trains are able to purify wastewater to drinking water standards, but improved methods are needed to better understand microbial concentrations, viability, and growth potential throughout treatment and distribution.
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A new concept in constructed wetlands: assessment of aerobic electroconductive biofilters

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1312-1323
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW00696F, Paper
Arantxa Aguirre-Sierra, Tristano Bacchetti-De Gregoris, Juan José Salas, Andrés de Deus, Abraham Esteve-Núñez
The METland® concept constitutes a hybrid concept for treating wastewater where microbial electrochemical technologies (MET) are integrated with constructed wetlands (CW) to enhance pollutant removal.
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Influence of activated carbon on performance and microbial communities in the treatment of solvent pollutant mixtures in a continuous stirred tank reactor

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1445-1455
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00096E, Paper
Pablo Ferrero, Marta Izquierdo, Francisco Javier Álvarez-Hornos, Josep Manuel Penya-Roja, Vicente Martínez-Soria
Granular activated carbon addition could promote specific microorganisms which favour the anaerobic removal of non-readily biodegradable solvent compounds through their influence on the degradation (methanogenesis) of intermediates.
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Pilot-scale ozone/biological activated carbon treatment of reverse osmosis concentrate: potential for synergism between nitrate and contaminant removal and potable reuse

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1421-1431
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00013B, Paper
Zhong Zhang, Jacob F. King, Aleksandra Szczuka, Yi-Hsueh Chuang, William A. Mitch
Reverse osmosis treatment for potable reuse can reduce the cost for removing nitrate and contaminants from wastewater prior to discharge.
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Investigation of metaldehyde removal by powdered activated carbon from different water samples

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1432-1444
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW00962K, Paper
Open Access
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Zhuojun Li, Juntao Li, Zhengxiao Guo, Luiza C. Campos
Applying PAC to the water sample collected after static flocculation (position 2) gave the best result regarding the removal of metaldehyde.
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Emerging investigator series: activated sludge upon antibiotic shock loading: mechanistic description of functional stability and microbial community dynamics

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1262-1271
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00069H, Paper
Seungdae Oh, Donggeon Choi
Elucidating the functional stability upon environmental stressors is of great practical importance for managing the system performance of various environmental biological processes (e.g., activated sludge).
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Emerging investigator series: phosphorus recovery from municipal wastewater by adsorption on steelmaking slag preceding forward osmosis: an integrated process

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00187B, Paper
Biplob Kumar Pramanik, Md. Aminul Islam, Muhammad Bilal Asif, Rajeev Roychand, Sagor Kumar Pramanik, Kalpit Shah, Muhammed Bhuiyan, Faisal Hai
Phosphorus is a critical non-renewable mineral essential for sustainable crop production.
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News from the John W. Kluge Center: You are invited to an Author Salon with Danielle Allen

The John W. Kluge Center invites you to an Author Salon with Danielle Allen

Get your free tickets here.

Please join us for an event in which Danielle Allen will discuss the meaning of the text of the Declaration of Independence. She is the author of Our Declaration (2015), which makes the case that the Declaration of Independence was intended to ensure equality as much as it was intended to secure freedom.

The event will be held at noon on November 12, in Room LJ-119 of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building.

Allen is the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University as well as the author of several books, including Education and Equality (2016) and Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. (2017).

Tickets are recommended, but not required, and are free.

Register for a ticket here.

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov.

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

 




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News from the John W. Kluge Center: You are invited: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Future of Democracy

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.

Get your free tickets here.

Hope M. Harrison and Constanze Stelzenmüller will take part in a discussion moderated by Kluge Center Director John Haskell.

Harrison is an expert on the Berlin Wall, the Cold War, and contemporary Germany, and is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs in the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. She is the author of the new book, After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present (2019).

Stelzenmüller is an expert on German, European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is the inaugural Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and the Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Kluge Center.

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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News from the John W. Kluge Center: You are invited to Whistleblowing in Historical Context

Whistleblowing in Historical Context: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Get your free tickets here.

On Tuesday, January 14, at 4pm, in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion on whistleblowing, featuring perspectives from the realms of medical research, national security, and congressional committees.

The panel will feature Carl Elliott, professor in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota and current Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History, Allison Stanger, professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, and Emilia DiSanto, former Deputy Inspector General to the U.S. Department of State and Chief Investigative Counsel and Special Counsel to the Senate Committee on Finance. Kluge Center Director John Haskell will moderate.

A reception will follow the discussion.

The event is free, but tickets are recommended. 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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News from the John W. Kluge Center: You Are Invited to a Author Salon with Susan Schneider on Artificial Intelligence

Join Us for a Kluge Center Author Salon with Susan Schneider on Artificial Intelligence

Get your free tickets here.

On Thursday January 30, at 4pm in the Montpelier Room of the Madison Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion with Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation Susan Schneider.

Schneider will discuss her new book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, which is an exploration of what artificial intelligence can, and cannot, achieve.

Humans may not be Earth’s most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid pace of progress in AI, many predict that it could advance to human-level intelligence within the next several decades. From there, it could quickly outpace human intelligence. What do these developments mean for the future of the mind?

In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions, but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with “tools” they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness. Schneider argues that an insufficient grasp of the nature of these entities could undermine the use of AI and brain enhancement technology, bringing about the demise or suffering of conscious beings. To flourish, we must grasp the philosophical issues lying beneath the algorithms.

Schneider will discuss these topics and more, with a reception to follow.

The event is free, but tickets are recommended. 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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Ram Janambhoomi Teertha Kshetra put under section 80G; donations to trust exempted from income tax

The Shri Ram Janambhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has been created for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The 15-member trust was constituted by the Modi government, after the Supreme Court's verdict on November 9 settled the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.




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714 police personnel infected with COVID-19 in Maharashtra; 194 cases of assault on cops during lockdown

As many as 98,774 cases were registered and 19,082 persons were arrested for violating prohibitory orders during the COVID-19 lockdown in the state. 




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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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Quantum Brownian Motion Revisited: Extensions and Applications.

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Optical thin films and coatings: from materials to applications / edited by Angela Piegari and François Flory

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Nanoparticle design and characterization for catalytic applications in sustainable chemistry / edited by Rafael Luque and Pepijn Prinsen

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Ether and modernity: the recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century / edited by Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Hayden Library - QC177.E74 2018




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Nanophotonics, Nanooptics, Nanobiotechnology, and Their Applications: Selected Proceedings of the 6th International Conference Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials (NANO2018), August 27-30, 2018, Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Collapse of the wave function: models, ontology, origin, and implications / edited by Shan Gao, Shanxi University

Hayden Library - QC174.26.W3 C65 2018




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High-Energy Processes in Condensed Matter (HEPCM 2019): proceedings of the XXVI Conference on High-Energy Processes in Condensed Matter, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of S.A. Chaplygin: conference date, 3-5 April 2019: location, Novosibi

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