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[ASAP] Advanced Liquid Chromatography of Polyolefins Using Simultaneous Solvent and Temperature Gradients

Analytical Chemistry
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[ASAP] Characterizing and Quantitating Therapeutic Tethered Multimeric Antibody Degradation Using Affinity Capture Mass Spectrometry

Analytical Chemistry
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[ASAP] Fold-Change Compression: An Unexplored But Correctable Quantitative Bias Caused by Nonlinear Electrospray Ionization Responses in Untargeted Metabolomics

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00246




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[ASAP] Sequencing of Small DNA Fragments with Aggregated-Induced-Emission Molecule-Labeled Nucleotides

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00707




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[ASAP] Correction of <italic toggle="yes">Q</italic> Factor Effects for Simultaneous Collection of Elemental Analysis and Relaxation Times by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05603




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[ASAP] Fully Exploiting the Power of 2D NMR <italic toggle="yes">J</italic>-Resolved Spectroscopy

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05441




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Covid-19: Madras HC orders closure of all state-run liquor shops in Tamil Nadu, day after re-opening

The court noted that there was a “blatant violation” of its guidelines regulating the sale of liquor.




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Coronavirus: Players not wholly on board with proposal to resume NBA in giant quarantine zone

NBA Players Association executive director Michele Roberts told ESPN that the idea of setting up a bubble to guard against coronavirus was met with skepticism.




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Equal pay lawsuit: US women's national football team files appeal after legal setback

The USWNT has said the women are being discriminated against because they are not getting paid as much money as the men on a per game basis.




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Covid-19: Karnataka allows restaurants, pubs, bars to sell liquor but only as takeaway

The establishments will be allowed to sell liquor from 9 am to 7 pm.




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Coronavirus: Tamil Nadu moves SC against Madras High Court order to close liquor shops

On Friday, the Madras High Court noted that there was a ‘blatant violation’ of its guidelines regulating liquor sales and ordered only online sale.




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[ASAP] The Vagabond Fluorine Atom: Dissociative Photoionization of <italic toggle="yes">trans</italic>-1,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
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[ASAP] Characterization of Conjugation Effects in the Series of Quinoxaline-2-ones by Means of Vibrational Raman Spectroscopy

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01838




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[ASAP] Approximating the Strength of the Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond in 2-Fluorophenol and Related Compounds: A New Application of a Classic Technique

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
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[ASAP] <italic toggle="yes">Ab Initio</italic> Kinetics of Methylamine Radical Thermal Decomposition and H-Abstraction from Monomethylhydrazine by H-Atom

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c02389




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[ASAP] Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy of Mass-Selected Cu<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>(CO)<sub><italic toggle="yes">n</italic></sub><sup>+</sup> Clusters in the Gas Phase

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01813




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[ASAP] Structural and Electronic Properties of Bulk ZnX (X = O, S, Se, Te), ZnF<sub>2</sub>, and ZnO/ZnF<sub>2</sub>: A DFT Investigation within PBE, PBE + <italic toggle="yes">U</italic>, and Hybrid HSE Funct

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b11415




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[ASAP] The Conformational Landscape, Internal Rotation, and Structure of 1,3,5-Trisilapentane using Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Calculations

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01100




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[ASAP] Gas-to-Liquid Phase Transition of PAH at Flame Temperatures

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01912




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[ASAP] A Multilayer Approach to the Equation of Motion Coupled-Cluster Method for the Electron Affinity

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01793




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[ASAP] Infrared Spectroscopic and Kinetic Characterization on the Photolysis of Nitrite in Alcohol-Containing Aqueous Solutions

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c02104




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[ASAP] Proton Transfer in Phosphoric Acid-Based Protic Ionic Liquids: Effects of the Base

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c02863




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[ASAP] Low-Lying Electronic States of FeGe<italic toggle="yes"><sub>n</sub></italic><sup>–/0</sup> (<italic toggle="yes">n</italic> = 1–3) Clusters Calculated with Multireference Second-O

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c02521




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Mathematica Named Grand Prizewinner in the Visualization Resources of Community-Level Social Determinants of Health Challenge Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced today that Mathematica is the grand prizewinner of the Agency’s Visualization Resources of Community-Level Social Determinants of Health Challenge for its Data Visualization Tool.




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Legacy of the MacArthur Foundation’s Maternal Health Quality of Care Strategy in India

This report presents the findings from Mathematica’s 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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How Much Bias Results if a Quasi-Experimental Design Combines Local Comparison Groups, a Pretest Outcome Measure and Other Covariates?: A Within Study Comparison of Preschool Effects

This study examines when nonexperiments might substitute for experiments that are done in real-world settings in order to learn what works to affect some socially valued outcome.




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The NQF Scientific Methods Panel: Enhancing the Review and Endorsement Process for Performance Measures

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Ralanda Nelson Joins Mathematica as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leader

Mathematica is pleased to welcome Ralanda Nelson to its leadership team. A certified diversity executive, she will steer the firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and help ensure the employee experience is at the heart of everything we do.




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Machine learning in aquaculture: hunger classification of Lates Calcarifer / Mohd Azraai Mohd Razman, Anwar P. P. Abdul Majeed, Rabiu Muazu Musa, Zahari Taha, Gian-Antonio Susto, Yukinori Mukai

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Grain by grain: a quest to revive ancient wheat, rural jobs, and healthy food / Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle

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Plant factory: an indoor vertical farming system for efficient quality food production / edited by Toyoki Kozai, Genhua Niu, Michiko Takagaki

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

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Wheat quality for improving processing and human health / Gilberto Igrejas, Tatsuya M. Ikeda, Carlos Guzmán, editors

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The Relation Between Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Rural Households: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania / Giulia Barbanente

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Future of rice demand: quality beyond productivity / Antonio Costa de Oliveira, Camila Pegoraro, Vívian Ebeling Viana, editors

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Proving and interpreting the spontaneous formation of bulk nanobubbles in aqueous organic solvent solutions: effects of solvent type and content

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00111B, Paper
Open Access
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Ananda J. Jadhav, Mostafa Barigou
We show that the mixing of organic solvents with pure water leads to the spontaneous formation of bulk nanobubbles which exhibit long-term stability on the scale of months.
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Observation of transition cascades in sheared liquid crystalline polymers

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3891-3901
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00275E, Paper
Ryan J. Fox, M. Gregory Forest, Stephen J. Picken, Theo J. Dingemans
We observe anomalous shear thickening behavior of a lyotropic liquid crystalline polymer due to the dynamics of the nematic director.
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Normal and shear forces between boundary sphingomyelin layers under aqueous conditions

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3973-3980
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00215A, Paper
Yifeng Cao, Nir Kampf, Weifeng Lin, Jacob Klein
Sphingomyelin boundary layers can maintain extremely low friction under high pressures both in water and at high salt concentration.
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Properties of surface Landau–de Gennes Q-tensor models

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4032-4042
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02475A, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Michael Nestler, Ingo Nitschke, Hartmut Löwen, Axel Voigt
Uniaxial nematic liquid crystals whose molecular orientation is subjected to tangential anchoring on a curved surface offer a non trivial interplay between the geometry and the topology of the surface and the orientational degree of freedom.
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Liquid marbles from soot films

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02199J, Paper
Xiaoguang Li, Haixiao Shi, Yiqi Wang, Hanming Wang, Junchao Huang, Mei Duan
Mechanically-weak superhydrophobic soot films are suitable for liquid marble production.
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Self similarity of liquid droplet coalescence in a quasi-2D free-standing liquid-crystal film

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00457J, Paper
Christoph Klopp, Torsten Trittel, Ralf Stannarius
Flat droplets coalescing on smectic free-standing films show self-similar dynamics.
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Quantifying the non-equilibrium activity of an active colloid

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00398K, Paper
Sarah Eldeen, Ryan Muoio, Paris Blaisdell-Pijuan, Ngoc La, Mauricio Gomez, Alex Vidal, Wylie Ahmed
Active matter systems exhibit rich emergent behavior due to constant injection and dissipation of energy at the level of individual agents. We characterize the dissipation of single active colloids.
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Mix and match—a versatile equilibrium approach for hybrid colloidal synthesis

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00202J, Communication
Matan Yah Ben Zion, Yaelin Caba, Ruojie Sha, Nadrian C. Seeman, Paul M. Chaikin
We outline a simple yet general equilibrium technique for a scalable, high-purity, hybrid-colloidal synthesis with controlled valency. The method is applicable for liquid and solid particles and to a range of particle interactions.
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Effects of Eigen and Actual Frequencies of Soft Elastic Surfaces on droplet Rebound from Stationary Flexible Feather Vanes

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00315H, Paper
Chengchun Zhang, Zhengyang Wu, Chun Shen, Yihua Zheng, LIANG YANG, Yan Liu, Luquan Ren
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of eigenfrequency and the actual frequency of the elastic surface for the droplet rebound. The elastic surface used in this...
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Filamentous and step-like behavior of gelling coarse fibrin networks revealed by high-frequency microrheology

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4234-4242
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02228G, Paper
Pablo Domínguez-García, Giovanni Dietler, László Forró, Sylvia Jeney
By a micro-experimental methodology, we study the ongoing molecular process inside coarse fibrin networks by means of microrheology.
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Mechanical robustness of monolayer nanoparticle-covered liquid marbles

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00496K, Paper
Junchao Huang, Ziheng Wang, Haixiao Shi, Xiaoguang Li
A particle shell as thin as ∼20 nm cannot protect internal liquid from wetting external solid.
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Investigation of Thermal Conductivity for Liquid Metal Composites Using Micromechanics-Based Mean-Field Homogenization Theory

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00279H, Paper
JiYoung Jung, Seunghee Jeong, Klas Hjort, Seunghwa Ryu
For the facile use of liquid metal composite (LMC) for soft, stretchable and thermal systems, it is crucial to understand and predict the thermal conductivity of the composite as a...
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Sand lorry owners seek exemption from quarterly tax payment

Most lorries were not operated during the lockdown which resulted in loss, they say




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Madras High Court orders closure of all Tasmac liquor shops in Tamil Nadu

The Madras High Court on Friday directed the State government to close all 3,850 liquor shops run by the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasma




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[ASAP] Quasinormal-Mode Non-Hermitian Modeling and Design in Nonlinear Nano-Optics

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00014