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PIX: Models dare to take #PillowChallenge!

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Lockdown pix: These kids want you to stay indoors!

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Structure and tensile properties of the forewing costal vein of the honeybee Apis mellifera

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4057-4064
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02364J, Paper
Yun Ma, Tianbao Ma, Jianguo Ning, Stanislav Gorb
Our paper reveals the functional morphology and tensile properties of the forewing costal vein of honeybees, reviews studies on wings and discusses outlooks for future research.
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Engineering interfacial entropic effects to generate giant viscosity changes in nanoparticle embedded polymer thin films

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4065-4073
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00019A, Paper
Aparna Swain, Nafisa Begam, Sivasurender Chandran, M. S. Bobji, J. K. Basu
We demonstrate a new method to study the viscosity of PNC thin films, consisting of polymer grafted nanoparticles (PGNPs) embedded in un-entangled homopolymer melt films, using atomic force microscopy based force–distance spectroscopy.
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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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Impact of wormlike micelles on nano and macroscopic structure of TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofibrils hydrogels

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00135J, Paper
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Marcelo A. da Silva, Vincenzo Calabrese, Julien Schmitt, Kazi M. Zakir Hossain, Saffron J Bryant, Najet Mahmoudi, Janet L Scott, Karen J Edler
In this work, we investigated the effect of adding surfactant mixtures on the rheological properties of TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofibrils (OCNF) saline dispersions. Three surfactant mixtures were studied: cocamidopropyl betaine (CAPB)/sodium...
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Liposomal adhesion via electrostatic interactions and osmotic deflation increase membrane tension and lipid diffusion coefficient

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00416B, Paper
Atsushi Oda, Chiho Watanabe, Natsumi Aoki, Miho Yanagisawa
Liposome–liposome adhesion by electrostatic interactions and osmotic contraction increase membrane tension and the lipid diffusion coefficient compared to isolated liposomes.
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Investigating the Role of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) in Piezoelectric Performance of PVDF/KNN based Flexible Electrospun Nanogenerator

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00438C, Paper
Satyaranjan Bairagi, Wazed Ali
In the present study, the effect of varying concentrations of carbon nanotube (CNT) on the piezoelectric performance of poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)/potassium sodium niobate (KNN) based electrospun nanocomposite has been...
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Developing Super Tough Gelatin-based Hydrogels by Incorporating Linear Poly(methacrylic Acid) to Facilitate Sacrificial Hydrogen Bonding

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00422G, Communication
Hui Jie Zhang, Li Ni Wang, Xuechuan Wang, Qingxin Han, Xiangyou You
Mechanically robust protein-based hydrogels are strongly desired but their construction remains a significant challenge. In this work, gelatin, together with methacrylic acid, is used to construct a novel hydrogen-bonded hydrogel...
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Coalescence of isotropic droplets in overheated free standing smectic films

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02292A, Paper
Elena S. Pikina, Boris I. Ostrovskii, Sergey A. Pikin
A theoretical study of the interaction and coalescence of isotropic droplets in overheated free-standing smectic films (FSSF) is presented.
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Pinning dislocations in colloidal crystals with active particles that seek stacking faults

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4182-4191
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02514F, Paper
Bryan VanSaders, Sharon C. Glotzer
By designing the shape of an active particle, its transport through a dense crystal can be tailored, as well as its interaction with dislocation defects present in the host crystal.
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Lipid-core/polymer-shell hybrid nanoparticles: synthesis and characterization by fluorescence labeling and electrophoresis

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4173-4181
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00077A, Paper
Sophie Bou, Xinyue Wang, Nicolas Anton, Redouane Bouchaala, Andrey S. Klymchenko, Mayeul Collot
New hybrid nanoparticles have been obtained by simple nanoprecipitation using fluorescent labeling of both the oily core (BODIPY) and the polymeric shell (rhodamine) thus allowing the use of electrophoresis to assess their formation and stability.
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Propagation of active nematic–isotropic interfaces on substrates

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4256-4266
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02306B, Paper
Rodrigo C. V. Coelho, Nuno A. M. Araújo, Margarida M. Telo da Gama
Motivated by results for the propagation of active–passive interfaces of bacterial Serratia marcescens swarms, we used a hydrodynamic multiphase model to investigate the propagation of interfaces of active nematics on substrates.
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Rapid analysis of cell-generated forces within a multicellular aggregate using microsphere-based traction force microscopy

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4192-4199
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02377A, Paper
Buğra Kaytanlı, Aimal H. Khankhel, Noy Cohen, Megan T. Valentine
We measure cell-generated forces from the deformations of elastic microspheres embedded within multicellular aggregates. Using a computationally efficient analytical model, we directly obtain the full 3D mapping of surface stresses within minutes.
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Rapid characterization of neutral polymer brush with a conventional zetameter and a variable pinch of salt

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4274-4282
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM01850F, Paper
Mena Youssef, Alexandre Morin, Antoine Aubret, Stefano Sacanna, Jérémie Palacci
We take advantage of the nanoscopic nature of the Debye length and used it as a probe to characterize polymer brushes on colloidal particles.
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Saddle-curvature instability of lipid bilayer induced by amphipathicpeptides: A molecular model

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00499E, Paper
Rachel Downing, Guilherme Volpe Bossa, Sylvio May
Amphipathic peptides that partition into lipid bilayers affect the curvature elastic properties oftheir host. Some of these peptides are able to shift the Gaussian modulus to positive values, thustriggering an...
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The Landscapists


 

Who defines the landscapes around us? What practices are employed as contemporary landscapes are produced? This issue argues that landscapes are made and remade through interrelations between people and the worlds around them – from geographers investigating the lives of urban wastelands to landscape architects projecting future cities, and from migrants navigating border systems to artists working with local residents. In contrast to tendencies to



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Four doctors, two nurses of Rajah Muthiah hospital test positive

Efforts on to trace other health workers who were in contact with them




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KKCTH treats a child with atypical symptoms for COVID-19 infection

“COVID-19 is a respiratory disease but world over we see children coming with diarrhoea and abdominal pain,” says a doctor




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Tapping expertise — how T.N. is handling the crisis

Multiple panels with senior bureaucrats constituted to address issues arising out of the pandemic




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[ASAP] Development of Lipid-Coated Semiconductor Nanosensors for Recording of Membrane Potential in Neurons

ACS Photonics
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Addiction debates : hot topics from policy to practice / Catherine Comiskey.

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Effect of prescription opioids and prescription opioid control policies on infant health [electronic resource] / Engy Ziedan, Robert Kaestner

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




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Vicious games [electronic resource] : capitalism and gambling / Rebecca Cassidy.

London : Pluto Press, 2020.




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TENN. WINE AND SPIRITS RETAILERS ASSN. v. BLAIR. Decided 06/26/2019




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The scientist and the spy: a true story of China, the FBI, and industrial espionage / Mara Hvistendahl

Dewey Library - HV7561.H85 2020




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Leadership decapitation: strategic targeting of terrorist organizations / Jenna Jordan

Dewey Library - HV6431.J674 2019




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Human rights in twentieth-century Australia / Jon Piccini

Dewey Library - JC599.A8 P53 2019




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How to democratize Europe / Stephanie Hennette, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste, Antoine Vauchez

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Automation and utopia: human flourishing in a world without work / John Danaher

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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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We are indivisible: a blueprint for democracy after Trump / Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin ; [foreword by Marielena Hincapié]

Dewey Library - JC423.G74 2019




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Citizenship: what everyone needs to know / Peter J. Spiro

Dewey Library - JF801.S694 2020




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

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Exploring Patterns of Behaviour in Violent Jihadist Terrorists: an analysis of six significant terrorist conspiracies in the UK.

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Proceeding of the VI International Ship Design and Naval Engineering Congress (CIDIN) and XXVI Pan-American Congress of Naval Engineering, Maritime Transportation and Port Engineering (COPINAVAL) / Vice Admiral Jorge Enrique Carreño Moreno, Adan Veg

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Genealogies of terrorism: revolution, state violence, empire / Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson

Dewey Library - HV6431.E744 2018




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Secret empires: how the American political class hides corruption and enriches family and friends / Peter Schweizer

Dewey Library - JK2249.S349 2018




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Developing public sector leadership: new rationale, best practices and tools / Petri Virtanen, Marika Tammeaid

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Imperial nation: ruling citizens and subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American empires / Joseph M. Fredera ; translated by Ruth MacKay

Dewey Library - JC359.F6313 2018




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Security and terror: American culture and the long history of colonial modernity / Eli Jelly-Schapiro

Dewey Library - HV6432.J445 2018




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Responsible parties: saving democracy from itself / Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro

Dewey Library - JF2051.R67 2018




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Getting wrecked: women, incarceration, and the American opioid crisis / Kimberly Sue

Dewey Library - HV8738.S835 2019




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Yolqui, a warrior summoned from the spirit world: testimonios on violence / Roberto Cintli Rodríguez ; foreword by Patrisia Gonzales

Dewey Library - HV8141.R63 2019




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Shopian killings: Separatists leaders under house arrest, curfew on for ninth consecutive day

Curfew was first clamped in Shopian on September 8, following widespread clashes.




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Strike disrupts normal life in Kashmir, curfew on in Shopian

Strike called by Hurriyat Conference in protest of killing of 5 in Shopian, Kashmir.




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Shopian killings: Separatist leader Yasin Malik along with other JKLF leaders detained

Leaders were going to Shopian with relief material, including foodgrains and medicines.