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Patron Services: Conversations with African Poets and Writers, featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah

The African Section, African & Middle Eastern Division is sponsoring “Conversations with African Poets and Writers”, featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah, author and 2019 Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, on Thursday, February 20, 2020, from 12:00 -1:00PM, in the Whittall Pavilion, Ground Floor, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 11 First St. SE, Washington, DC.  A book signing and a display of Africana books and other materials follow. 

The Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series presents interviews with current African diaspora writers committed to the literature of continental and diasporic Africa (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism) and readings from their written works. Authors include established writers as well as highly talented ‘new’ and emerging writers.

Please forward inquiries to Laverne Page at (202) 707-1979 or email mpag@loc.gov.

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or email ADA@loc.gov.

 

Click here for more information.

 




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The Most Comprehensive Study of Soda Taxes Says a Lot About Consumption, Prices, and the Future of Nudges

For this episode of On the Evidence, we spoke with the principal investigators for the project: Dave Jones, an associate director in the Health Unit at Mathematica, and Dave Frisvold, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Iowa.




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COVID-19 Revealed Longstanding Problems in Our Social Safety Net. It’s Time to Address Them.

The unfortunate truth about crises is that they tend to reveal longstanding problems that we chose to ignore—because we could, or at least thought we could.




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Supporting Families to Foster Children’s Safety and Well-Being

For National Child Abuse Prevention Month, Mathematica researcher Debra Strong and Elaine Stedt, the director of the Office on Child Abuse Neglect, share how the Regional Partnership Grant program is improving the safety, permanency, and well-being of children affected by adults’ substance abuse.




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Agency and media reception: experiencing video games, film, and television / Susanne Eichner

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Portable play in everyday life: the Nintendo DS / Samuel Tobin

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 T63 2013




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The art of failure: an essay on the pain of playing video games / Jesper Juul

Barker Library - GV1469.3.J87 2013




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Understanding Minecraft: essays on play, community and possibilities / edited by Nate Garrelts

Hayden Library - GV1469.35.M535 U73 2014




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Gaming in social, locative, and mobile media / Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson

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What is your quest?: from adventure games to interactive books / Anastasia Salter

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Game love: essays on play and affection / edited by Jessica Enevold and Esther MacCallum-Stewart

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Online game pioneers at work: interviews with some of the top online game pioneers of our times / Morgan Ramsay ; foreword by Richard Bartle

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Players and their pets: gaming communities from Beta to Sunset / Mia Consalvo and Jason Begy

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Translation and localisation in video games: making entertainment software global / Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino

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Game art: art from 40 video games and interviews with their creators / Matt Sainsbury

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Atari to Zelda: Japan's videogames in global contexts / Mia Consalvo

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.C646 2016




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Transactions on edutainment XII / Zhigeng Pan, Adrian David Cheok, Wolfgang Müller, Mingmin Zhang (eds.)

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Network games, control, and optimization: proceedings of NETGCOOP 2016, Avignon, France / Samson Lasaulce, Tania Jimenez, Eilon Solan, editors

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The play versus story divide in game studies: critical essays / edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell

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Video games and the mind: essays on cognition, affect and emotion / edited by Bernard Perron and Felix Schröter

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.P79 V52 2016




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The role-playing society: essays on the cultural influence of RPGs / edited by Andrew Byers and Francesco Crocco

Hayden Library - GV1469.6.R65 2016




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Transactions on edutainment XIII / Zhigeng Pan, Adrian David Cheok, Wolfgang Müller, Mingmin Zhang (eds.)

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Dangerous games: what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / Joseph P. Laycock

Hayden Library - GV1469.6.L395 2015




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Power play: how video games can save the world / Asi Burak and Laura Parker

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 B86 2017




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Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, adventure games, hidden objects / Anastasia Salter

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.S214 2017




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Dungeons & Dragons art & arcana: a visual history / Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, and Sam Witwer ; foreword by Joe Manganiello

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Families at play: connecting and learning through video games / Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee

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Computer games: 7th Workshop, CGW 2018, held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, July 13, 2018, Revised Selected Papers / Tristan Cazenave, Abdallah Saffidine, Nathan Sturtevant

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Digital gaming and the advertising landscape / Teresa de la Hera

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Videogame sciences and arts: 11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27-29, 2019, Proceedings / Nelson Zagalo, Ana Isabel Veloso, Liliana Costa, Óscar Mealha (eds.)

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Real games: what's legitimate and what's not in contemporary videogames / Mia Consalvo and Christopher A. Paul

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Two big trends - local grocer, ecommerce: HUL's Sanjiv Mehta

"There are two big trends emerging. One is the relevance of the humble grocer and people have realised that they are so close to you… proximity, and (that’s) such a big benefit. The second would be on ecommerce. With people becoming more averse to stepping out, they would like to place the order from home and receive it at home. "




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ITC ltd ramps up production to meet demand for sanitisers

Fast-moving consumer goods major ITC Ltd has ramped up personal care production to meet the demand for sanitisers.




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Didn't anticipate India to shut down like this, says Colgate-Palmolive CEO

Over the past few weeks, chief executives of Unilever, Mondelez, Hershey's Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Kimberly Clark have said India’s Covid-19 lockdown protocols had led to severe supply chain disruptions and labour shortages, hurting business in the key market.




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Safer zones running out of non-essentials

More than 250 containers, each with 20 tonne of electronic goods, gadgets, mobile phones and accessories were stuck at various places including ports, wholesalers said.




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Fearing a fall in salon footfalls, Lakme Lever may cut headcount

Top officials close to the development told ET that HUL will train a large set of advisors and beauty consultants, numbering about 1,500, to become entrepreneurs so that they can set up their own businesses.




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[ASAP] Variational Density Fitting with a Krylov Subspace Method

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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[ASAP] Transport and Spectroscopy in Conjugated Molecules: Two Properties and a Single Rationale

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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[ASAP] Screened Range-Separated Hybrid Functional with Polarizable Continuum Model Overcomes Challenges in Describing Triplet Excitations in the Condensed Phase Using TDDFT

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[ASAP] Steering Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Membrane-Associated Proteins with Neutron Reflection Results

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[ASAP] Relativistic Two-Component Multireference Configuration Interaction Method with Tunable Correlation Space

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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[ASAP] Dissecting the Dynamics during Enzyme Catalysis: A Case Study of Pin1 Peptidyl-Prolyl Isomerase

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[ASAP] The ONIOM/PMM Model for Effective Yet Accurate Simulation of Optical and Chiroptical Spectra in Solution: Camphorquinone in Methanol as a Case Study

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[ASAP] Utilizing Essential Symmetry Breaking in Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo: Application to the Spin Gaps of the C<sub>36</sub> Fullerene and an Iron Porphyrin Model Complex

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[ASAP] Insight into the Origin of Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity from a Symmetry Analysis of Electronic Transmission

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[ASAP] <sup>13</sup>C NMR Relaxation Analysis of Protein GB3 for the Assessment of Side Chain Dynamics Predictions by Current AMBER and CHARMM Force Fields

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[ASAP] Bottom-Up Nonempirical Approach To Reducing Search Space in Enzyme Design Guided by Catalytic Fields

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[ASAP] Reduced Common Molecular Orbital Basis for Nonorthogonal Configuration Interaction

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[ASAP] Near-Linear Scaling in DMRG-Based Tailored Coupled Clusters: An Implementation of DLPNO-TCCSD and DLPNO-TCCSD(T)

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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[ASAP] Quantitative Prediction of the Structure and Viscosity of Aqueous Micellar Solutions of Ionic Surfactants: A Combined Approach Based on Coarse-Grained MARTINI Simulations Followed by Reverse-Mapped All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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