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$8.3 billion allocated for US coronavirus response

Congress opts for open-ended support for federal and local agencies




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How small chemical company leaders are dealing with the coronavirus

Specialty chemical CEOs are rolling with the punches to keep their firms going




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Priestley Medal address 2020: The road less traveled—for love of detection, discovery, and all things radical in nature




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3-D printing firms rise to coronavirus challenge

Companies are making their machines and expertise available to hospitals in need of parts




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Not all US science agencies are prepared for sexual harassment claims

Only NIH, NSF publicize their complaint procedures




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All hands to the sanitizer pump




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3-D printing firms rise to coronavirus challenge

Companies are making their machines and expertise available to hospitals in need of parts




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AlloVir and Baylor to make donor-derived T cell therapies that target coronaviruses




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US government allows grant funding flexibility during coronavirus outbreak




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Roche partners with Arrakis on small molecules that target RNA

Arrakis will earn $190 million in its first pharma partnership




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India partially lifts drug export ban on hydroxychloroquine and acetaminophen

Country will now allow exports if domestic needs are met to treat COVID-19




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Rgenta Therapeutics launches with $20 million to develop small molecules that target RNA




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Disinfectant demand from coronavirus concerns challenges specialty chemical supply chain

As wipes and sprays sell out, quaternary ammonium compound makers try to keep up




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Huge 2-D metallo-supramolecule

Self-assembled supramolecular grid measures 20 nm across




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How genomic epidemiology is tracking the spread of COVID-19 locally and globally

The novel coronavirus is challenging genome sequencing technology and data processing like never before




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Heavy water causes yeast to build cell wall in overdrive

Researchers pinpoint how cells respond to an unusual stressor




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As they scramble to shore up supplies, small firms brace for a recession

Early signs of a downturn in demand herald a season of unprecedented uncertainty




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Making lithium-ion batteries more environmentally friendly

New process uses water-soluble binders to avoid the need for organic solvents in manufacturing and recycling




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What is an allergy sensitizer, and how does a chemical become one?

One researcher now risks death if she enters her former lab building




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US EPA green-lights genetically modified mosquito




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Google Inc makes Meet app free for all users

Earlier, the premium video conferencing app was available only for paid enterprise users of the GSuite. This is the first time that a product designed for enterprise use is being extended to individual users, Smita Hashim, Director, Product Management, Google Cloud told ET




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Govt to call 900m people to check for virus symptoms

The Ministry of Home Affairs, in its order on Friday which extended the lockdown till May 17, mandated that the local authority shall ensure 100% coverage of Aarogya Setu app of residents within the Containment Zone.




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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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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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Deadly dermatologic diseases [electronic resource] : clinicopathologic atlas and text / Michael B. Morgan, Bruce R. Smoller, Stephen C. Somach ; fpreword by Mark Allen Everett

New York, NY : Springer, [2007]




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Companies must disclose all whistleblower plaints to auditors

The Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (Caro 2020) will be applicable for audit of financial statements of eligible companies for financial years commencing on and after April 1, 2019, and would be applicable to all those companies on which Caro 2016 was applicable.




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Manu Bhaker gets electronic target installed at home in place of manual machine

Manu Bhaker was sure in her mind that the Olympics will take place next year despite the uncertainty in the world of sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic.




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Manu gets electronic target installed at home

Boost to ace shooter’s basic training




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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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Graphene stimulating nucleation-and-growth rate of NaCl crystals from hypersaline solution via membrane crystallization

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01124B, Paper
Annarosa Gugliuzza, Maria Luisa Perrotta, Francesca Macedonio, Elena Tocci, Lidietta Giorno, Enrico Drioli
Membrane crystallization (MCr) is regarded as a powerful tool for promoting the formation of crystals of salt from hypersaline solutions such as seawater brine. In this kind of process, a...
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Molecular Mechanisms and Potential Applications for the Intrinsic Chemiluminescence Production from the Degradation of Haloaromatic Pollutants during Environmentally-Friendly Advanced Oxidation Processes

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00325E, Perspective
Li Mao, Hui-Ying Gao, Bo Shao, Chun-Hua Huang, Ben-Zhan Zhu
The ubiquitous distribution of halogenated aromatic compounds (XAr) coupled with their carcinogenicity has raised public concerns on their potential risks to both human health and our ecosystem. Recently, advanced oxidation...
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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: 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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Gurugram school boy commits suicide after girl levels allegations on him on Instagram

The 17-year-old boy committed suicide in Gurugram`s upscale building after a girl made serious allegations against him on Instagram.




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The future of fusion energy / Jason Parisi, University of Oxford, UK, Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Hayden Library - QC791.P37 2019




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Solitons in two-dimensional shallow water / Yuji Kodama (The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)

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Theory of electronic and optical properties of atomically thin films of indium selenide Samuel J. Magorrian

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Surprising markets rally

Clarity to emerge once central banks outline their stance




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Polarization and public health [electronic resource] : partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic / Hunt Allcott, Levi Boxell, Jacob C. Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, David Y. Yang

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020




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Record 45 cases in a day takes K'taka tally to 750




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K'taka: Social distancing in schools a challenge

It is not without some degree of trepidation that parents are awaiting the reopening of schools for the upcoming academic year. More specifically, parents of children who attend government schools are particularly anxious about how the overcrowded institutions will implement social distancing.




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Which way to livable and productive cities?: a road map for Sub-Saharan Africa / Kirsten Hommann and Somik V. Lall

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Creative spaces: urban culture and marginality in Latin America / edited by Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda

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Empty spaces: perspectives on emptiness in modern history / edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating

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Inhabiting the sacred in everyday life: how to design a place that touches your heart, stirs you to consecrate and cultivate it as home, dwell intentionally within it, slay monsters for it, and let it loose in your democracy / Randolph T. Hester, Jr. and

Rotch Library - HT167.H47 2019




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A future for planning: taking responsibility for twenty-first century challenges / Michael Harris

Rotch Library - HT166.H379 2019




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The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Small-Town America.

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Inequality and uncertainty: current challenges for cities / Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, M. Victoria Gómez, Patrícia Pereira, Laura Guarino, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Juan José Villalón, editors

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Small cities, big issues: reconceiving community in a neoliberal era / edited by Christopher Walmsley and Terry Kading

Rotch Library - HT127.S63 2018