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Testing Municipal Wastewater to Flexibly Monitor Health and Safety

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Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:00:00 Z

When combined with data on prescriptions filled at local pharmacies, EMS drug overdose calls, and drug seizures by law enforcement, wastewater testing can yield insights into the extent of black-market activity, policing impact on community drug use, and where and when drug overdoses might occur.


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

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Published On :: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:42:09 Z

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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Improving Effect Estimates by Limiting the Variability in Inverse Propensity Score Weights

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Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:10:35 Z

This study describes a novel method to reweight a comparison group used for causal inference, so the group is similar to a treatment group on observable characteristics yet avoids highly variable weights that would limit statistical power.


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Financial Toll of Untreated Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Among 2017 Births in the United States

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Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:59:00 Z

The authors developed a mathematical model based on a cost-of-illness approach to estimate the impacts of exposure to untreated PMADs on mothers and children.


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Food safety & mycotoxins / Aibo Wu, editor

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Making ecologies on private land: conservation practice in rural-amenity landscapes / Benjamin Cooke, Ruth Lane

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Community ecology / Gary G. Mittelbach, Michigan State University, USA, Brian J. McGill, University of Maine, USA

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Metals in the environment: analysis by biodiversity / edited by M.N.V. Prasad

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Shaping natural history and settler society: Mary Elizabeth Barber and the nineteenth-century Cape / Tanja Hammel

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Marine big data / Dongmei Huang, Wei Song, Guoliang Zou, Shanghai Ocean University, China

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Detecting and modeling the changes of land use and land cover for land use planning in Da Nang City, Vietnam / Hoang Khanh Linh Nguyen

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Ecological rationality in spatial planning: concepts and tools for sustainable land-use decisions / Carlo Rega

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The biology of grasslands / Brian J. Wilsey (Iowa State University, Ames, USA)

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Residential property price indexes: theory and practice / W. Erwin Diewert, Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Chihiro Shimizu, Tsutomu Watanabe

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Modelling nature: an introduction to mathematical modelling of natural systems / Edward Gillman, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Michael Gillman, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln

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Stewarding the sound: the challenge of managing sensitive coastal ecosystems / editors, Leah Bendell, professor, Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada, [and three others]

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Socio-economic and eco-biological dimensions in resource use and conservation: strategies for sustainability / Niranjan Roy, Shubhadeep Roychoudhury, Sunil Nautiyal, Sunil K. Agarwal, Sangeeta Baksi, editors

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Rediscovery of genetic and genomic resources for future food security Romesh Kumar Salgotra, Sajad Majeed Zargar, editors

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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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Reconciling human needs and conserving biodiversity: large landscapes as a new conservation paradigm: The Lake Tumba, Democratic Republic of Congo / Bila-Isia Inogwabini

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The wake: the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami / Linden MacIntyre

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Possessing the city: property and politics in Delhi, 1911-1947 / Anish Vanaik

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Biodiversity of the Himalaya: Jammu and Kashmir State / Ghulam Hassan Dar, Anzar A. Khuroo, editors

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

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City unseen: new visions of an urban planet / Karen C. Seto and Meredith Reba

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A theory of global biodiversity / Boris Worm and Derek P. Tittensor

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Garden variety: the American tomato from corporate to heirloom / John M. Hoenig

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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

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00111B, Paper
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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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Viscoelastic interfaces comprising of cellulose nanocrystals and lauroyl ethyl arginate for enhanced foam stability

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3981-3990
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02392E, Paper
Agnieszka Czakaj, Aadithya Kannan, Agnieszka Wiśniewska, Gabriela Grześ, Marcel Krzan, Piotr Warszyński, Gerald G. Fuller
At submillimolar concentrations of lauroyl ethyl arginate, cellulose nanocrystals aggregate and form elongated fibres. This interfacial assembly efficiently stabilises foams.
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Role of molecular bend angle and biaxiality in the stabilization of the twist-bend nematic phase

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00078G, Communication
Wojciech Tomczyk, Lech Longa
Within mean-field theory for V-shaped molecules, we have investigated how the alteration of a molecule's structural features influence the stabilization of modulated and non-modulated nematic phases.
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How clay particulates affect flow cessation and the coiling stability of yield stress-matched cementing suspensions

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3929-3940
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02414J, Paper
Iman Mehdipour, Hakan Atahan, Narayanan Neithalath, Mathieu Bauchy, Edward Garboczi, Gaurav Sant
Transition from closely-packed to fractally-architected structures with clay addition improves homogeneity and prevents local dewatering, thus enhancing coiling stability of layer-wise extruded cementing suspensions during 3D-printing.
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Engineering interfacial entropic effects to generate giant viscosity changes in nanoparticle embedded polymer thin films

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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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Uniform conductivity in stretchable silicones via multiphase inclusions

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00383B, Paper
R. Adam Bilodeau, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Dylan S. Shah, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
A thin, stretchable (200% linear strain), multiphase (solid–liquid) silicone composite with uniform electrical conductivity, for Joule heating and high-deformation sensing.
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Self similarity of liquid droplet coalescence in a quasi-2D free-standing liquid-crystal film

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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

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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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Structural universality in disordered packings with size and shape polydispersity

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00110D, Paper
Ye Yuan, Wei Deng, Shuixiang Li
Normalized free volume collapses on normalized particle size in polydisperse-sized packings for a given non-spherical particle.
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Review and reproducibility of forming adsorbed layers from solvent washing of melt annealed films

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00565G, Paper
Michael F. Thees, Jennifer A. McGuire, Connie B. Roth
Efforts to reproduce the “Guiselin’s experiment” procedure finds hads(t) curves to be far less reliable than implied in the literature, being strongly dependent on solvent washing conditions, consistent with how adsorption in solution is understood.
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Evaluation of the subtle trade-off between physical stability and thermo-responsiveness in crosslinked methylcellulose hydrogels

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00269K, Paper
Lorenzo Bonetti, Luigi De Nardo, Fabio Variola, Silvia Fare
Methylcellulose (MC) hydrogels, undergoing sol-gel reversible transition upon temperature changes, lend themselves to smart system applications. However, their reduced stability in aqueous environment and unsatisfactory mechanical properties limit the breadth...
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Photo-tunable hydrogel mechanical heterogeneity informed by predictive transport kinetics model

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4131-4141
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00052C, Paper
Callie I. Higgins, Jason P. Killgore, Frank W. DelRio, Stephanie J. Bryant, Robert R. McLeod
Photo-tunable hydrogel mechanical heterogeneity using a single resin is presented here, informed by a predictive transport kinetics and swelling model.
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Characterizing the fluid–matrix affinity in an organogel from the growth dynamics of oil stains on blotting paper

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4200-4209
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM01965K, Paper
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Qierui Zhang, Frieder Mugele, Piet M. Lugt, Dirk van den Ende
Fluid–matrix affinity in an organogel is characterized by capillarity-induced oil release using absorbing paper.
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A theory for the temperature effect on the chain length dependence of the diffusivity of oligomers

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4283-4289
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02505G, Paper
Chi Pui Jeremy Wong, Phillip Choi
Temperature effect on the size dependence of the diffusivity of oligomers is explained by free volume theory.
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Effect of network homogeneity on mechanical, thermal and electrochemical properties of solid polymer electrolytes prepared by homogeneous 4-arm poly(ethylene glycols)

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4290-4298
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00289E, Paper
Monami Tosa, Kei Hashimoto, Hisashi Kokubo, Kazuhide Ueno, Masayoshi Watanabe
The effect of network inhomogeneity in solid polymer electrolytes on its electrolyte properties was investigated by employing a model polymer network composed of a homogeneous 4-arm poly(ethylene glycol) (tetra-PEG) network and Li salt.
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Systematic approach for wettability prediction using molecular dynamics simulations

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4299-4310
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00197J, Paper
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Ahmed Jarray, Herman Wijshoff, Jurriaan A. Luiken, Wouter K. den Otter
An efficient approach for fast screening of liquids in terms of their wetting properties.
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Saddle-curvature instability of lipid bilayer induced by amphipathicpeptides: A molecular model

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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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Investigation of Thermal Conductivity for Liquid Metal Composites Using Micromechanics-Based Mean-Field Homogenization Theory

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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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Cisco's new Cybersecurity Co-Innovation Center in Milan

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Published On :: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:00:00 PST


Our newest Co-Innovation Center is focused on cybersecurity, privacy, digital skills and social impact.
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KKCTH treats a child with atypical symptoms for COVID-19 infection

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Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 21:20:08 +0530

“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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